Not really... they serve similar goals, but its really MS's way of getting the (MUCH more powerful).NET development environment in the hands of rich client content web developers.
The uptake is slow, but IMO its really a better technology than Flash. It gives far better language tools to the programmers and provides much better separation of design, interface and code where doing larger projects with bigger teams will be easier.
Silverlight 1.0 was very flash-like -- the framework wasn't fully fleshed out as far as what you could present to the user, but the newer releases provide full GUI toolkits.
Lets put it this way -- you wouldn't (no matter what Adobe thinks) build an enterprise application with Flash. Some smaller teams may play around with it, but it wouldn't happen successfully in the broad market. I personally don't believe the same can be said about Silverlight.
Wait, how exactly are these teachers exposing their students to HIV?
I may be in the minority, and of course I grew up in the US, but I didn't have unprotected sex (or any sex), shoot up with needles or have ritualistic blood letting ceremonies with my teachers in school.
Somehow I doubt things are THAT different in Africa.
I bunch of people said the same thing but I don't want to reply to all of them.
From the customers standpoint, the different doesn't really matter except as an inbound DNS address, however managing static IPs via DHCP is still complicated because you can't easily move machines around subnets as the leaves of your network change in terms of device concentration and data load.
You pay more for a static IP address because once you have it, they have to adjust the network around you.
(FWIW, I built out a number of large telco dial-up infrastructures as well as hosting environments in the last 15 years, so while I'm sure the reasons vary by company, I can say with certainty that this is the reason for an increase in price... the actual amount will be obviously adjusted for the market based on maximizing profit, but this is the core reason for it)
IP changes, in my experience from both Comcast and Verizon FIOS, are so rare that they effectively don't happen. I've never had a change with FIOS from the day the service was fired up, and although I can't recall ever having my previous Comcast one change except when I physically moved, its possible it did once or twice.
If they want to block servers, they'd block inbound ports.
Dynamic IP addresses are used because its the only possible way to do it without having techs setting up every joe six pack or grandmothers computer.
The scanning electron beam is exciting phosphors that continue to glow long after the beam has passed by.
With a laser on a standard surface, it has to be bright enough to overwhelm the receptors in your eye so your eye still thinks it sees it until the beam gets back to that spot again.
I actually wonder if its an XBL problem or a software problem. I installed the winter update and it rebooted and lost most of the menus. A few hours later it seemed to resolve itself but has been hit or miss since then.
No, its not called geothermal heating or a heat pump... thats something entirely different.
These are systems initially installed for the express purpose of keeping a large parking area and driveway clear of snow, which some more innovative people have taken to using for production of hot water as well during the summer.
Its not uncommon for some very high end houses to do this during the summer and reverse the process (to keep the driveway ice/snow free) during the winter.
Libraries suck these days. Budgets are cut and unless you're looking for an old book, the odds are unless you're in a particularly forward thinking or wealthy town they're not going to have what you're looking for.
I was at my towns Library maybe a dozen times in 2007 -- and while it may be close, I'm fairly certain I donated more new books than I checked out books there.
Unless the books you read are VERY mainstream (ie, your reading is dictated by talkshow hosts), libraries just won't work anymore.
If you think that SDK will allow 1/4 of the apps that currently exist to work, and if you think joe-freeware-developer will be able to get the apps onto the phone, you're nuts.
Apple has stated clearly that its an iPhone SDK to allow authorized (read: bought from iTunes) apps to be run securely (read: sandboxed with limited APIs) on the iPhone.
That means no apps for sharing media, no apps for doing free ringtones, no apps for theming, no SSH, no Apache, no scripting evironments, no streaming media if ATT doesn't like it, no file sharing.
40 lumen -- thats not really even enough to read by... a 100w bulb is almost 20x brighter than that. Thats my point, there are novelty dimmable LED bulbs, and dimmable special use LED fixtures (which dim via control lines, not input voltage), but I've never seen a high output dimmable bulb that works in a standard fixture.
Flouros etc are fine in a lounge room, but for a toilet where you turn it on for 60 seconds and then turn it off, the good old fashion light bulb is the only real solution. I don't think they should be getting rid of them. Heh, I suppose it depends on the person. I think the bathroom is the best place for them -- I put cheap ones in my bathroom so it takes a few seconds to get to full brightness. Its nice when its 2am and you gotta take a leak. Gives the eyes a moment to adjust.
You are making a few bad assumptions -- 1) that dimmable CFL bumbs are new (they're not) or 2) that they have higher material cost (they don't) or that there is a difference in production cost (there isn't)
The only difference between a dimmable bulb and a non-dimmable is the ballast electronics. While there may be a small difference in cost when you compare a quality dimmable to a cheap made-in-china CFL that'll last a year if you're lucky, the difference disappears when you compare apples-to-apples.
Its a sign of the vendor inflation of the costs of a dimmable bulb when you can find the identical bulb for $8 online, $12 at some stores and $30 at others. (Which are prices I've found the R30 bulbs I have in all my can lights...)
You bought lousy bulbs then. The tubes in my garage will light instantly well below freezing, and I have three R30 CFLs outside my house which will light instantly at zero (F).
With CFL, unlike incandescent, you get what you pay for. If you are going to put a bulb outside, get ones meant for being outside. If you need ones that dim, buy the ones that dim.
The biggest problem I've had in switching my whole house to CFL is the lack of non-cold-cathode candelabra lights. They are all cold cathode and tend to be 4w or so, whereas a lot of light fixtures that need them expect 30w bulbs (so more like 8-9w in CFL terms)... so you just don't get enough light unless you are using full-size bulbs.
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Worth also mentioning that its not only open and being implemented as part of Mono, its being directly supported by MS and the Silverlight team.
Not really... they serve similar goals, but its really MS's way of getting the (MUCH more powerful) .NET development environment in the hands of rich client content web developers.
The uptake is slow, but IMO its really a better technology than Flash. It gives far better language tools to the programmers and provides much better separation of design, interface and code where doing larger projects with bigger teams will be easier.
Silverlight 1.0 was very flash-like -- the framework wasn't fully fleshed out as far as what you could present to the user, but the newer releases provide full GUI toolkits.
Lets put it this way -- you wouldn't (no matter what Adobe thinks) build an enterprise application with Flash. Some smaller teams may play around with it, but it wouldn't happen successfully in the broad market. I personally don't believe the same can be said about Silverlight.
These problems started two weeks before the Christmas holidays. In my case on the first reboot after the winter software update was installed.
They're making excuses. It has nothing to do with Christmas gifts.
You should learn how to read a patent before declaring something dead because of prior art on early claims.
You just look like a fool in public, particularly on a site like Slashdot which has a lot of people who work with patents all the time.
Wait, how exactly are these teachers exposing their students to HIV?
I may be in the minority, and of course I grew up in the US, but I didn't have unprotected sex (or any sex), shoot up with needles or have ritualistic blood letting ceremonies with my teachers in school.
Somehow I doubt things are THAT different in Africa.
I bunch of people said the same thing but I don't want to reply to all of them.
From the customers standpoint, the different doesn't really matter except as an inbound DNS address, however managing static IPs via DHCP is still complicated because you can't easily move machines around subnets as the leaves of your network change in terms of device concentration and data load.
You pay more for a static IP address because once you have it, they have to adjust the network around you.
(FWIW, I built out a number of large telco dial-up infrastructures as well as hosting environments in the last 15 years, so while I'm sure the reasons vary by company, I can say with certainty that this is the reason for an increase in price... the actual amount will be obviously adjusted for the market based on maximizing profit, but this is the core reason for it)
No... if that was the case, your IP would change.
IP changes, in my experience from both Comcast and Verizon FIOS, are so rare that they effectively don't happen. I've never had a change with FIOS from the day the service was fired up, and although I can't recall ever having my previous Comcast one change except when I physically moved, its possible it did once or twice.
If they want to block servers, they'd block inbound ports.
Dynamic IP addresses are used because its the only possible way to do it without having techs setting up every joe six pack or grandmothers computer.
I pick the line with the female screener and just stare at her tits the whole time.
The scanning electron beam is exciting phosphors that continue to glow long after the beam has passed by.
With a laser on a standard surface, it has to be bright enough to overwhelm the receptors in your eye so your eye still thinks it sees it until the beam gets back to that spot again.
Not even remotely similar.
I love the display. There's some slight banding to the color, but it looks very sharp in color mode and absolutely razor sharp in B&W mode.
I actually wonder if its an XBL problem or a software problem. I installed the winter update and it rebooted and lost most of the menus. A few hours later it seemed to resolve itself but has been hit or miss since then.
This was probably a week or two before Christmas.
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I may just have an idea here...
No, its not called geothermal heating or a heat pump... thats something entirely different.
These are systems initially installed for the express purpose of keeping a large parking area and driveway clear of snow, which some more innovative people have taken to using for production of hot water as well during the summer.
Its not uncommon for some very high end houses to do this during the summer and reverse the process (to keep the driveway ice/snow free) during the winter.
Were you calling yourself gen-X? Because the cutoff I've always seen was 1975, sometimes 1972. I've never seen anyone claim 1980 as the Gen-X cutoff.
Libraries suck these days. Budgets are cut and unless you're looking for an old book, the odds are unless you're in a particularly forward thinking or wealthy town they're not going to have what you're looking for.
I was at my towns Library maybe a dozen times in 2007 -- and while it may be close, I'm fairly certain I donated more new books than I checked out books there.
Unless the books you read are VERY mainstream (ie, your reading is dictated by talkshow hosts), libraries just won't work anymore.
So many things wrong there...
I'm going to just assume it was a bad attempt at funny moderation, not a serious post.
I just watched a video this morning of a woman profiling DNA from what seemed like 20 guys, does that count?
If you think that SDK will allow 1/4 of the apps that currently exist to work, and if you think joe-freeware-developer will be able to get the apps onto the phone, you're nuts.
Apple has stated clearly that its an iPhone SDK to allow authorized (read: bought from iTunes) apps to be run securely (read: sandboxed with limited APIs) on the iPhone.
That means no apps for sharing media, no apps for doing free ringtones, no apps for theming, no SSH, no Apache, no scripting evironments, no streaming media if ATT doesn't like it, no file sharing.
Not even remotely the same thing.
Apps Apple chooses to let you install, which use a limited set of sandboxed APIs.
Don't count on SSH, AFPd or any of the really cool programs you have now working on there.
Keep in mind, there's an iPod SDK, too. How many 3rd party apps do you have on your iPod?
40 lumen -- thats not really even enough to read by... a 100w bulb is almost 20x brighter than that. Thats my point, there are novelty dimmable LED bulbs, and dimmable special use LED fixtures (which dim via control lines, not input voltage), but I've never seen a high output dimmable bulb that works in a standard fixture.
You are making a few bad assumptions -- 1) that dimmable CFL bumbs are new (they're not) or 2) that they have higher material cost (they don't) or that there is a difference in production cost (there isn't)
The only difference between a dimmable bulb and a non-dimmable is the ballast electronics. While there may be a small difference in cost when you compare a quality dimmable to a cheap made-in-china CFL that'll last a year if you're lucky, the difference disappears when you compare apples-to-apples.
Its a sign of the vendor inflation of the costs of a dimmable bulb when you can find the identical bulb for $8 online, $12 at some stores and $30 at others. (Which are prices I've found the R30 bulbs I have in all my can lights...)
Have you found standard-fitting LED bulbs that can dim?
Its not easy to find (at least locally) dimmable CFLs but I can't remember ever finding a high-lumen (700+) LED bulb that can dim at all.
You bought lousy bulbs then. The tubes in my garage will light instantly well below freezing, and I have three R30 CFLs outside my house which will light instantly at zero (F).
With CFL, unlike incandescent, you get what you pay for. If you are going to put a bulb outside, get ones meant for being outside. If you need ones that dim, buy the ones that dim.
The biggest problem I've had in switching my whole house to CFL is the lack of non-cold-cathode candelabra lights. They are all cold cathode and tend to be 4w or so, whereas a lot of light fixtures that need them expect 30w bulbs (so more like 8-9w in CFL terms)... so you just don't get enough light unless you are using full-size bulbs.