There is some truth to the saying that boredom is a prerequisite for creativity. Designers are not paid by the number of pixels drawn, lines coded, calls answered, or cupcakes baked.
You are misinformed. Regulation and its subsequent abuses lead give a false sense of security and entitlement, which then makes the misfortunes worse. It is a fantasy to try to make markets into safe, fair, and predictable money-printing machines where no one is harmed, or where everyone is harmed equally. You can regulate endlessly until you finally kill the market you are observing and gradually make all of the participants lives miserable. The real market will move elsewhere. Read some history.
Android with FLAC support would be amazing. It's been done through 3rd party mods. There is some interesting info in this thread, including more informed observations about processor issues: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1461
and what, exactly, do you need with a 64 bit flash player? Downloading some 20GB animations, are we?
It has nothing to do with the size of the file.
64bit would help with rendering video and multimedia of any size. Used youtube lately?
I suspect the reason Adobe is slow to provide 64bit support is that the flash player is made up of closed source code from a variety of 3rd party companies. It could be that Adobe is too cheap to pay those companies to port their code to 64bit. This is too bad, because new Linux desktop installations are more likely to be 64bit than Windows. Nearly all Linux software can be compiled to run on amd64 (x86-64). Why not flash player?
you must be a shill. glossy screens stink. everyone knows this except for the people who sell them and who apparently have never found the need to concentrate on their displays for any amount of time. this was a horrible decision by apple.
cultural expression can have life/death implications just like any engineering task. culture is what we live for. it's why the infrastructure is there.
the operations of ethernet switches or servers is also a grey area or an art form. neither a designer or an engineer can make a switch 100% reliable. like art, engineering is not about perfection. it works / doesn't work is a simplistic measurement. how do they work? why are the servers doing what they are doing?
why do you assume a chef couldn't do brain surgery? They may be rare, but this chef is more likely to exist than an engineer who understands the cultural aspects behind good visual design.
Gapminder appears to be made from mostly open source code:
"mtasc, hamtasc, swfmill, eclipse, swftools, Flash Javascript Integration kit (right now using SWFObject) are some of the tools we've used." The design solutions are unique but the code that was developed seems trivial. Why not open source it? Perhaps the university calculated that selling to google for a small(?) sum was worth more in publicity than open sourcing the project. too bad.
Sun will probably not provide drive sleds for empty drive slots.
It's ridiculous to have to buy the exact same Seagate part for 2x or 3x more. No Sun warranty is going to replace lost data. Besides, the whole point of ZFS is to provide fault tolerance and recovery.
there's something pathetic about watching live sports in a tight, cramped, smelly, dark space. theatre owners will have change their layouts if this is to work.
stadium seating has more space between rows than theatre seating. the floor angle is steeper, and your knees usually clear the seat in front of you. in a theatre, the guy bouncing up and down in front of you is practically in your lap, or bouncing off your knees.
after the inital techy cool factor wears off, most people will go back to watching games in bars, restaurants, sports books, or other less confining venues. this idea is a gadget like 3d glasses and imax.
i can imagine watching ice capades this way (dark room, stadium seating) but not competitive sports.
how are you supposed to watch sport in a movie theatre? are you supposed to be loud? order drinks? heckle the other fans? get up to the bathroom, step on someone's toes and block their view? it seems very awkward, formal, and not very relaxing.
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There is some truth to the saying that boredom is a prerequisite for creativity. Designers are not paid by the number of pixels drawn, lines coded, calls answered, or cupcakes baked.
You are misinformed. Regulation and its subsequent abuses lead give a false sense of security and entitlement, which then makes the misfortunes worse. It is a fantasy to try to make markets into safe, fair, and predictable money-printing machines where no one is harmed, or where everyone is harmed equally. You can regulate endlessly until you finally kill the market you are observing and gradually make all of the participants lives miserable. The real market will move elsewhere. Read some history.
Who cares about the Nobel Peace Prize? Would Linus feel honored or embarrassed to be in that company?
The HTC Hero that Sprint released in the US has a cheaper looking design and is hardly an object of any sort of lust.
Android with FLAC support would be amazing. It's been done through 3rd party mods. There is some interesting info in this thread, including more informed observations about processor issues:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1461
Songbird has had FLAC support for years.
I really need a player with FLAC support. What are the best options?
I switched to OpenWRT as soon as I realized what DD-WRT is about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT#Controversy
The OpenWRT community is a bit more technical and far more competent.
And it's not clear that he has achieved anything himself (other than in business, perhaps).
I wouldn't touch his API even if it can measure a 10 foot pole.
and what, exactly, do you need with a 64 bit flash player? Downloading some 20GB animations, are we?
It has nothing to do with the size of the file.
64bit would help with rendering video and multimedia of any size. Used youtube lately?
I suspect the reason Adobe is slow to provide 64bit support is that the flash player is made up of closed source code from a variety of 3rd party companies. It could be that Adobe is too cheap to pay those companies to port their code to 64bit. This is too bad, because new Linux desktop installations are more likely to be 64bit than Windows. Nearly all Linux software can be compiled to run on amd64 (x86-64). Why not flash player?
you must be a shill. glossy screens stink. everyone knows this except for the people who sell them and who apparently have never found the need to concentrate on their displays for any amount of time. this was a horrible decision by apple.
cultural expression can have life/death implications just like any engineering task. culture is what we live for. it's why the infrastructure is there.
the operations of ethernet switches or servers is also a grey area or an art form. neither a designer or an engineer can make a switch 100% reliable. like art, engineering is not about perfection. it works / doesn't work is a simplistic measurement. how do they work? why are the servers doing what they are doing?
why do you assume a chef couldn't do brain surgery? They may be rare, but this chef is more likely to exist than an engineer who understands the cultural aspects behind good visual design.
It is more worthwhile to defend liberty than the fringe interests of geeks.
How are the hypertransport links arranged?
ifawn is missing stereo bluetooth headset support (i think)
http://osflash.org/pipermail/osflash_osflash.org/
Gapminder appears to be made from mostly open source code: "mtasc, hamtasc, swfmill, eclipse, swftools, Flash Javascript Integration kit (right now using SWFObject) are some of the tools we've used." The design solutions are unique but the code that was developed seems trivial. Why not open source it? Perhaps the university calculated that selling to google for a small(?) sum was worth more in publicity than open sourcing the project. too bad.
Tapioca, Gtalk, and Gizmo do not support true SIP connections on the Nokia 770, even though they are "based on SIP"?
2 006-July/thread.html#1175
minisip is trying to update their client for maemo 2.0 (nokia 770):
http://lists.minisip.org/pipermail/minisip-users/
i plan replace my office phone with a nokia 770 once a SIP client is available.
or here:
/ satabeast.html
http://www.nexsan.com/products/products/satabeast
(only 42 drives. but it's a 4U and the drives appear to be more evenly spaced than in the generic 5u rackmount.)
i'd rather take an extra week of vacation than pay an extra $10K for Sun stickers on Seagate hard drives.
Sun will probably not provide drive sleds for empty drive slots.
It's ridiculous to have to buy the exact same Seagate part for 2x or 3x more. No Sun warranty is going to replace lost data. Besides, the whole point of ZFS is to provide fault tolerance and recovery.
Also, the same storage concept has been on the market for over a year, albeit with 42 drives:
http://www.nexsan.com/products/ATAbeastlow.pdf
Anyone know why?
I have an IP starting with 7 and skypeout calls still consume credits.
there's something pathetic about watching live sports in a tight, cramped, smelly, dark space. theatre owners will have change their layouts if this is to work.
stadium seating has more space between rows than theatre seating. the floor angle is steeper, and your knees usually clear the seat in front of you. in a theatre, the guy bouncing up and down in front of you is practically in your lap, or bouncing off your knees.
after the inital techy cool factor wears off, most people will go back to watching games in bars, restaurants, sports books, or other less confining venues. this idea is a gadget like 3d glasses and imax.
i can imagine watching ice capades this way (dark room, stadium seating) but not competitive sports.
how are you supposed to watch sport in a movie theatre? are you supposed to be loud? order drinks? heckle the other fans? get up to the bathroom, step on someone's toes and block their view? it seems very awkward, formal, and not very relaxing.