The reason why drugs like pot are so game changing to alcohol companies is because its a very similar high, with a lot less side effects from an herb you can grow on your own easily.
If making money off writing books was your livelyhood - how is that not a life and death issue? Most of us need money to live:/.
Yes I know a lot of authors have a day job (or are successful on previous books/novels) and have to make a living outside that realm, but I really do fail to see how the internet changes the rules of "thou shalt not steal" and how publishers of any material just need to learn to adapt if your business is making content and everyone just wants to pirate everything you make.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8Iyvn7nKI - he never badgered some poor cashier - they badgered some pr executive at the corporate office - and guess what? They are paid well for that abuse.
I thought it was a good way to illustrate how rediculous it was that some kids (high school kids) managed to buy enough ammo for several 30+ round magazines for a Tek-9 semi-automatic handgun (which is a liberal description at best) at a freaking k-mart.
As someone who used to actually hunt (last time I ever went hunting was out in Langlois Oregon in some apple orchard) - I always found handguns an interesting dilemma. 9mm bullets and handguns in general are pretty useless for anything but assault and self defense.
The problem with geostationary satellites is multi-faceted - they have to be built to better standards than leo satellites (they have booster rockets, more sophisticated ihu systems etc).
The big problem however is that you need high gain antennas here on earth to use them - no more using them on the move or quickly/easily.
Best of luck with that. The only time I ever had any interaction with this stuff it was checking EDI batches for a series of customers/clients I supported at a small software company in Portland Oregon. All these transactions were literally sent over leased telephone lines and fractional T1's to a clearing house system that weren't even on the public exchange or connected to the internet in any way (maybe through a VPN to a private network - but that was on the client reader side). It reminded me an awful lot like fidonet to be honest - the way it all worked.
Thinking about how the network worked I really can't think of any way to DDOS that - since its essentially a bunch of
Spoken like someone who never had a N97... (for the record - my N95 was a wonderful phone!)
Only phone I've had that seems to forget everything (basically reset itself to factory defaults) if I let the battery die on it...
No threaded SMS (I can forgive the N95 for not having this, but this was inexcusable on the N97 - even as an option for the Nokia apologists who don't want it), no core memory to speak of (ooh - 128 megs!), tons of tools (that Nokia makes - like OVI Maps) that only install to c:\ and hardly any space on c:\
You could pay me to have another Nokia smartphone but I'd never use it. Even the N1 (with its horribly buggy touch screen) was light years ahead of anything Nokia has built in terms of quality, performance and use. And my Droid X is even better than the N1.
I seriously don't miss the stability problems, lack of performance and out of memory errors and general quality assurance problems Nokia has:).
All Android phones that have a "Google" logo on them use the same exact marketplace. I should know - I've had 3 and all my apps synced perfectly between them.
The UI is just a personal preference. Stop drinking the cool aid;).
It is open - you can download Android right now - and spend all day long porting drivers/software to your device. People have done this with iPhone's, desktop PC's and laptops - and it doesn't require any special permission from Google.
Well you can't overlay a form field on a scanned form in HTML with exact positioning (you might be able to now, I have no idea).
Also you have to remember in 95 - html forms were primitive at best. A lot of these solutions were developed a long time ago and still have to be supported.
Its a very similar situation with Flash vs. HTML-5. Flash solved a problem HTML could not at the time so it had a lot of adoption in places HTML-5 is slowly catching up on now (if that makes sense).
Also another big thing - the developer tools for Acrobat forms were better than HTML tools.
But I totally agree - there are plenty of places PDF forms have been used that HTML forms would have been better served.
Hardly;) - my main job was to triage enterprise support issues (which meant writing and analyzing bugs, debugging problems, sometimes even traveling on site etc). As such - I worked closely with the developers on the product itself (a lot of fixed bugs, new features - stuff like that I owned the process on:)).
Reader 9 is 90 megs, not 200... The actual viewer itself is about 20 megabytes - the rest are plugins which you don't need to view pdf files.
You could roll your own Adobe Reader lite - all the plugins are windows installer components - you could actually build your own reader lite and roll it out to your own organization - patches will still work like normal.
On my Dell Optiplex 980 - cold start of reader 9 is instantaneous so not sure what to say there. They really do measure start performance of the app in testing. Reader/Acrobat 9 only load the modules they need on the fly - with version 8 and before yes I'd agree it was a startup mess.
Why is it so big? Sumatra PDF just views PDF files - it doesn't support annotations, it doesn't support secure PDF files (windows/mac crypto intergration) it doesn't support 3d annotations, it doesn't support forms (no 3rd party viewer supports XFA forms yet), it doesn't have any connectivity options etc etc etc - I could literally go on for pages.
Yes all these things were at one point customer requirements - some were rather big customers.
I know people want a smaller viewer - you can roll your own easily, but as to why Adobe doesn't do it? No clue - haven't worked there in many years but I suspect it comes down to the amount of testing time. The test matrix for Reader is already 25 languages on well over 60 different platforms (3-4 different versions of linux, every distribution of Windows 32/64 - including server OS's back to Windows 2000, and every version of OSX - including PPC - for 9 since its a hybrid app).
I don't get this - seriously. Foxit often has the exact same exploits as Reader does - remember that postscript font bug/exploit Reader had? Foxit had it too, they fixed it a whopping 3 days faster than Adobe, and Adobe has to support about 24 more languages than Foxit does.
Having worked on Adobe Acrobat (and Reader) for the last 8 or so years (my name is in a good chunk of all the release credits since version 5 or 6) the feature to add form support was added in version 3 (which came out in the mid 90's) as an addon.
It was added for the same reason a lot of features were added - to extend the product compete in a specific marketplace - specifically places where forms are displayed. Same reason a lot of features in a lot of products are added - to make more money in another market.
Where I work now they use a development kit from Datatel called Colleague - most of what it does is display forms from a pick database and read or save these fields (it has scheduling, accounting/ap/ar etc as well built in). You could in fact use Acrobat to display these same forms. And if your migrating from a paper based workflow - you can in fact scan all these forms in, add a bunch of fields with whatever logic JS provides (and in turn hook that into whatever logic livecycle server provides) and you have an electronic version of the paper form you used to file away.
That was in fact (as I recall it was a while back) the marketing pitch.
It does work too - there's even support for SAP. At one point the IRS had grand visions of filing all your taxes electronically with it (but since we can't have nice things in this country that got canned) - so it does have a lot of potential. Since something like 90% of all PC's have some version of Reader - it's an excellent target platform if you want to display paper like forms on the net.
But like ANYTHING that has any kind of outside connectivity it's vulnerable to attack. People on here always herald other technologies as they would save us from whatever we use now, but its just a matter of what is and isn't the target. Acrobat 4 and 5 had massive vulnerabilities, but no-one ever complained about rogue pdf files because it wasn't a target. I remember the first big vulnerability on Acrobat 7 - it wasn't sanitizing inputs (it does now!) and allowed a PDF to execute commands on the PC (very similar to the bobby tables comic). After that exploit - the blood was in the water and everyone and their sister wanted to poke away at the code to find new ones (and being a very old product it has plenty of them...).
The original posters best bet would be to find a local store that builds PCs, tell them exactly what he wants and tell them the quantity, they will only attract a small premium on the cost and likely save a lot of headaches in RMA and shipping (personally if I was ordering for such a deal, I would order 1050 PCs worth of hardware (cases, motherboards, everything), what is not used immediately for DOA parts will be used over the lifespan of the boxes for spares.
Having actually done this at a community college I work at I'd really recommend against this.
The biggest reason is that the local computer shop will be so elated with the business you are generating for them they will skip on quality/components. They also aren't very equipped to handle the workload it takes to support all that stuff either.
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The reason why drugs like pot are so game changing to alcohol companies is because its a very similar high, with a lot less side effects from an herb you can grow on your own easily.
If making money off writing books was your livelyhood - how is that not a life and death issue? Most of us need money to live :/.
Yes I know a lot of authors have a day job (or are successful on previous books/novels) and have to make a living outside that realm, but I really do fail to see how the internet changes the rules of "thou shalt not steal" and how publishers of any material just need to learn to adapt if your business is making content and everyone just wants to pirate everything you make.
Oh I agree fully! Though the ATF still considers it a handgun in a quick google search ;).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8Iyvn7nKI - he never badgered some poor cashier - they badgered some pr executive at the corporate office - and guess what? They are paid well for that abuse.
I thought it was a good way to illustrate how rediculous it was that some kids (high school kids) managed to buy enough ammo for several 30+ round magazines for a Tek-9 semi-automatic handgun (which is a liberal description at best) at a freaking k-mart.
As someone who used to actually hunt (last time I ever went hunting was out in Langlois Oregon in some apple orchard) - I always found handguns an interesting dilemma. 9mm bullets and handguns in general are pretty useless for anything but assault and self defense.
The problem with geostationary satellites is multi-faceted - they have to be built to better standards than leo satellites (they have booster rockets, more sophisticated ihu systems etc).
The big problem however is that you need high gain antennas here on earth to use them - no more using them on the move or quickly/easily.
Best of luck with that. The only time I ever had any interaction with this stuff it was checking EDI batches for a series of customers/clients I supported at a small software company in Portland Oregon. All these transactions were literally sent over leased telephone lines and fractional T1's to a clearing house system that weren't even on the public exchange or connected to the internet in any way (maybe through a VPN to a private network - but that was on the client reader side). It reminded me an awful lot like fidonet to be honest - the way it all worked.
Thinking about how the network worked I really can't think of any way to DDOS that - since its essentially a bunch of
Please enlighten me then - I have a Droid X - how do I sync my contacts/email and calendar events with hotmail on it?
All I can do is email.
I can't even sync my hotmail contact list, calendar or email with my phone... Google lets me do this ;).
A lot of the vulnerabilities that affect "Reader" also affect (or have affected) web "Browsers".
It actually (not even kidding) worked for me ;).
Message threads? Basically it breaks down all your text messages by who sent stuff to you.
The N97 just dumped every single text message into a single folder. Fun ehh?
Spoken like someone who never had a N97... (for the record - my N95 was a wonderful phone!)
Only phone I've had that seems to forget everything (basically reset itself to factory defaults) if I let the battery die on it...
No threaded SMS (I can forgive the N95 for not having this, but this was inexcusable on the N97 - even as an option for the Nokia apologists who don't want it), no core memory to speak of (ooh - 128 megs!), tons of tools (that Nokia makes - like OVI Maps) that only install to c:\ and hardly any space on c:\
You could pay me to have another Nokia smartphone but I'd never use it. Even the N1 (with its horribly buggy touch screen) was light years ahead of anything Nokia has built in terms of quality, performance and use. And my Droid X is even better than the N1.
I seriously don't miss the stability problems, lack of performance and out of memory errors and general quality assurance problems Nokia has :).
All Android phones that have a "Google" logo on them use the same exact marketplace. I should know - I've had 3 and all my apps synced perfectly between them.
The UI is just a personal preference. Stop drinking the cool aid ;).
You are missing the point - choice is bad for apple.
The future isn't good for their sales if things keep going the way they are right now.
It is open - you can download Android right now - and spend all day long porting drivers/software to your device. People have done this with iPhone's, desktop PC's and laptops - and it doesn't require any special permission from Google.
I've installed stuff on my android phone iphone users can only dream about - Flash, nintendo/c64/amiga/sega emulators, 3rd party music sync tools etc.
And its not a rooted phone - its stock out of the box and already on Verizon's wonderful network.
Well you can't overlay a form field on a scanned form in HTML with exact positioning (you might be able to now, I have no idea).
Also you have to remember in 95 - html forms were primitive at best. A lot of these solutions were developed a long time ago and still have to be supported.
Its a very similar situation with Flash vs. HTML-5. Flash solved a problem HTML could not at the time so it had a lot of adoption in places HTML-5 is slowly catching up on now (if that makes sense).
Also another big thing - the developer tools for Acrobat forms were better than HTML tools.
But I totally agree - there are plenty of places PDF forms have been used that HTML forms would have been better served.
Hardly ;) - my main job was to triage enterprise support issues (which meant writing and analyzing bugs, debugging problems, sometimes even traveling on site etc). As such - I worked closely with the developers on the product itself (a lot of fixed bugs, new features - stuff like that I owned the process on :)).
Reader 9 is 90 megs, not 200... The actual viewer itself is about 20 megabytes - the rest are plugins which you don't need to view pdf files.
You could roll your own Adobe Reader lite - all the plugins are windows installer components - you could actually build your own reader lite and roll it out to your own organization - patches will still work like normal.
On my Dell Optiplex 980 - cold start of reader 9 is instantaneous so not sure what to say there. They really do measure start performance of the app in testing. Reader/Acrobat 9 only load the modules they need on the fly - with version 8 and before yes I'd agree it was a startup mess.
Why is it so big? Sumatra PDF just views PDF files - it doesn't support annotations, it doesn't support secure PDF files (windows/mac crypto intergration) it doesn't support 3d annotations, it doesn't support forms (no 3rd party viewer supports XFA forms yet), it doesn't have any connectivity options etc etc etc - I could literally go on for pages.
Yes all these things were at one point customer requirements - some were rather big customers.
I know people want a smaller viewer - you can roll your own easily, but as to why Adobe doesn't do it? No clue - haven't worked there in many years but I suspect it comes down to the amount of testing time. The test matrix for Reader is already 25 languages on well over 60 different platforms (3-4 different versions of linux, every distribution of Windows 32/64 - including server OS's back to Windows 2000, and every version of OSX - including PPC - for 9 since its a hybrid app).
I don't get this - seriously. Foxit often has the exact same exploits as Reader does - remember that postscript font bug/exploit Reader had? Foxit had it too, they fixed it a whopping 3 days faster than Adobe, and Adobe has to support about 24 more languages than Foxit does.
Wow seriously? How about Adobe Reader for Linux?
Having worked on Adobe Acrobat (and Reader) for the last 8 or so years (my name is in a good chunk of all the release credits since version 5 or 6) the feature to add form support was added in version 3 (which came out in the mid 90's) as an addon.
It was added for the same reason a lot of features were added - to extend the product compete in a specific marketplace - specifically places where forms are displayed. Same reason a lot of features in a lot of products are added - to make more money in another market.
Where I work now they use a development kit from Datatel called Colleague - most of what it does is display forms from a pick database and read or save these fields (it has scheduling, accounting/ap/ar etc as well built in). You could in fact use Acrobat to display these same forms. And if your migrating from a paper based workflow - you can in fact scan all these forms in, add a bunch of fields with whatever logic JS provides (and in turn hook that into whatever logic livecycle server provides) and you have an electronic version of the paper form you used to file away.
That was in fact (as I recall it was a while back) the marketing pitch.
It does work too - there's even support for SAP. At one point the IRS had grand visions of filing all your taxes electronically with it (but since we can't have nice things in this country that got canned) - so it does have a lot of potential. Since something like 90% of all PC's have some version of Reader - it's an excellent target platform if you want to display paper like forms on the net.
But like ANYTHING that has any kind of outside connectivity it's vulnerable to attack. People on here always herald other technologies as they would save us from whatever we use now, but its just a matter of what is and isn't the target. Acrobat 4 and 5 had massive vulnerabilities, but no-one ever complained about rogue pdf files because it wasn't a target. I remember the first big vulnerability on Acrobat 7 - it wasn't sanitizing inputs (it does now!) and allowed a PDF to execute commands on the PC (very similar to the bobby tables comic). After that exploit - the blood was in the water and everyone and their sister wanted to poke away at the code to find new ones (and being a very old product it has plenty of them...).
If that part is off shelf no - you'll have to deal with tech support for hours and hours trying to fix it on your end...
Dell is one of the few companies where if you are trained you can jump right in and ask for a new part and they will send it out no questions asked.
Having actually done this at a community college I work at I'd really recommend against this.
The biggest reason is that the local computer shop will be so elated with the business you are generating for them they will skip on quality/components. They also aren't very equipped to handle the workload it takes to support all that stuff either.
Too true - typing this on an Optiplex 980 with a core i7 that cost about 800 dollars.