I tried chrome last week. I was appalled to see all the animated adds that, thanks to noscript, I didn't even know existed on many of the sites I routinely visit.
That, and not being able to search the text by typing '/' made me go back to FireFox.
Do a bit of research yourself and you will find many valid, well-informed professors thrown out of universities for presenting or even researching on the side aspects that did not agree with the status quo.
Can you point out some examples?
I believe it is much more ignorant to just flat out silence opposing views rather than actually investigate them for real merit.
Seriously, these "opposing views" aren't silenced or ignored so much as they are disqualified because they fail to pass simple theoretical tests. Why would we want to spend time and resources to "investigate the merits" of something that fails even casual theoretical examination?
Google's apps all target a web platform. As long as the browsers are sufficiently standards compliant, testing on windows could be limited to QA and to the browser developers.
You must be a manager who doesn't get his hands dirty doing actual coding.
I'm not a manager. I write code for a living (or help others write code, depending on what hat I'm wearing).
Anyone who actually works with software knows that the idea of "reusable components" is a load of bullshit. Libraries are about as close as you'll ever get to that, but even those aren't really "components".
I didn't say "reuse components", I said "replace components". Maybe the word "component" has special meaning to you, but around here, a component is any chunk of code that can be treated as a black box by the rest of the code. Replace the internals with whatever you like as long as the inputs and outputs are unchanged.
I also never said it would be easy. The difficulty is entirely determined by the constraints of the current implementation and the constraints imposed by the new implementation.
Replace problem components with corrected components built using the desired platform. With as buggy as slashcode seems to be, eventually they'll have replaced almost all of it (and why would you bother to replace the parts that don't have issues?).
The trick is to get components to play nicely with components on the other platform until you can consolidate on the final(?) platform.
I was under the impression that the dropped calls were the fault of the iPhone itself and not AT&T's network.
I don't have an iPhone, but I do have AT&T as my provider. I do not experience a 30% dropped call rate (or whatever the rate people are claiming).
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As long as there's content available in VP8 format, phone makers will consider including VP8 support just as a way of distinguishing their phone from the others (especially if adding VP8 has little incremental cost). Once one manufacturer does it, by the next generation all manufacturers will do it.
Look how many audio formats are available for you portable music player.
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VP8 infringes on numerous h.264 patents and the mpeg la is not going to allow this.
From what I've read, it sounds like the VP8 designers went to great lengths to make sure that VP8 was not encumbered by the MPEGLA pool of patents.
Do you have evidence that they failed in that goal?
Cause, face it, no doctor is going to sit down for hours reading through studies and reports to figure out what could possibly ail one single patient.
Every night, my wife comes home and replays her day in front of the computer. Any decision that she made regarding a patient's treatment that she isn't 100% sure about, she researches. Any test results that seem out of the ordinary, she searches for explanations. Any condition she saw (or suspects she saw), she researches to make sure that the correct details are fresh in her mind when dealing with the patients and teaching her team the next morning.
She expects the same of the residents and med students on her team. If the team has a patient with a particular condition, she expects everyone on her team to read up on the condition and to know the relevant details of diagnosis, treatment, and related conditions. If they don't, then how can they possibly give the patient the appropriate care?
Maybe the doctors you've known were different. Perhaps the expectations at a teaching hospital are different. Perhaps my wife and her colleagues are unusually conscientous about their patient care. But whatever the reason, if your doctor doesn't take an interest in your condition and attempt to understand what's going on with you, get a new doctor.
Based on the doctors I know (and I know quite a few, as you might expect, since I'm married to one), your cynicism is misplaced.
Doctors are taking the easy way out and handing out boner pills instead of scheduling tests to see how long is is before the patient goes in for the "last roundup".
That's simply not true of any good doctor.
If you have erectile dysfunction and your doctor hasn't shown any interest in determining why you have erectile dysfunction, get a new doctor.
The growth of netbook sales has slowed, but it's still positive growth. That means that netbook sales are still increasing. Not at all a "freefall".
It's not your reading comprehension skills that failed you since you understood exactly what the previous article intended for you to understand (read: you were misled). Instead, it was your critical thinking skills that failed you when you didn't pick up on the deception.
Google can push whatever format they want just by making the youtube experience the best (or even just the default) in that format. Google's release of VP8, I think, should be interpretted as foreshadowing for their intentions.
If Mozilla doesn't support h264, then their almost 50% market penetration in Europe will motivate sites to support at least one format that Mozilla does support. Again, VP8 will likely play a large part in their plans.
In the end, there will probably be no clear winner, just a number of formats that are widely supported by websites and tools for easily moving content from one format to another.
Sure, the manager might not be qualified to use that information, but he certainly requires it to do his job, even if his job is to merely provide that information to the next person they hire.
Any information an underling needs to do his job should be available to the underling's boss if only so that the underling can be replaced if required (on the event that the underling is fired, quits, or gets hit by a bus or something).
If an underling is authorized to use a corporate resource, why wouldn't you also expect the underling's boss (or boss's boss, in this case) to also be authorized for that resource?
Seriously, what was the argument for concluding that his boss or boss's boss didn't qualify as an authorized user?
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I tried chrome last week. I was appalled to see all the animated adds that, thanks to noscript, I didn't even know existed on many of the sites I routinely visit.
That, and not being able to search the text by typing '/' made me go back to FireFox.
Do a bit of research yourself and you will find many valid, well-informed professors thrown out of universities for presenting or even researching on the side aspects that did not agree with the status quo.
Can you point out some examples?
I believe it is much more ignorant to just flat out silence opposing views rather than actually investigate them for real merit.
Seriously, these "opposing views" aren't silenced or ignored so much as they are disqualified because they fail to pass simple theoretical tests. Why would we want to spend time and resources to "investigate the merits" of something that fails even casual theoretical examination?
Google's apps all target a web platform. As long as the browsers are sufficiently standards compliant, testing on windows could be limited to QA and to the browser developers.
Does anyone have corroborating stories?
This sounds like a serious (and intentional) abuse by Google, if true.
You must be a manager who doesn't get his hands dirty doing actual coding.
I'm not a manager. I write code for a living (or help others write code, depending on what hat I'm wearing).
Anyone who actually works with software knows that the idea of "reusable components" is a load of bullshit. Libraries are about as close as you'll ever get to that, but even those aren't really "components".
I didn't say "reuse components", I said "replace components". Maybe the word "component" has special meaning to you, but around here, a component is any chunk of code that can be treated as a black box by the rest of the code. Replace the internals with whatever you like as long as the inputs and outputs are unchanged.
I also never said it would be easy. The difficulty is entirely determined by the constraints of the current implementation and the constraints imposed by the new implementation.
Replace problem components with corrected components built using the desired platform. With as buggy as slashcode seems to be, eventually they'll have replaced almost all of it (and why would you bother to replace the parts that don't have issues?).
The trick is to get components to play nicely with components on the other platform until you can consolidate on the final(?) platform.
Really? I was a CS/EE double-major. Even the books that I bought once and used for 2 or 3 related courses were still less than $120 each.
The most expensive book I was forced to purchase was, perhaps $120. Most were between $50 and $80.
Was my experience atypical?
I was under the impression that the dropped calls were the fault of the iPhone itself and not AT&T's network.
I don't have an iPhone, but I do have AT&T as my provider. I do not experience a 30% dropped call rate (or whatever the rate people are claiming).
As long as there's content available in VP8 format, phone makers will consider including VP8 support just as a way of distinguishing their phone from the others (especially if adding VP8 has little incremental cost). Once one manufacturer does it, by the next generation all manufacturers will do it.
Look how many audio formats are available for you portable music player.
VP8 infringes on numerous h.264 patents and the mpeg la is not going to allow this.
From what I've read, it sounds like the VP8 designers went to great lengths to make sure that VP8 was not encumbered by the MPEGLA pool of patents.
Do you have evidence that they failed in that goal?
Thanks for your excellent reply.
Out of curiosity, if VP8 does turn out to be patent encumbered, how likely is it that VP3 won't be encumbered by the exact same patents?
(and yet it still manages to come up significantly inferior by lacking some of the most important bits).
Such as?
So give us an example of a $10 countermeasure that would defeat an ABM that destroys it's target before the target reenters the atmosphere.
Doctors look at a situation, generate testable hypothesis, test those hypothesis, and monitor the results.
If you don't think that's applied science, you are mistaken.
Cause, face it, no doctor is going to sit down for hours reading through studies and reports to figure out what could possibly ail one single patient.
Every night, my wife comes home and replays her day in front of the computer. Any decision that she made regarding a patient's treatment that she isn't 100% sure about, she researches. Any test results that seem out of the ordinary, she searches for explanations. Any condition she saw (or suspects she saw), she researches to make sure that the correct details are fresh in her mind when dealing with the patients and teaching her team the next morning.
She expects the same of the residents and med students on her team. If the team has a patient with a particular condition, she expects everyone on her team to read up on the condition and to know the relevant details of diagnosis, treatment, and related conditions. If they don't, then how can they possibly give the patient the appropriate care?
Maybe the doctors you've known were different. Perhaps the expectations at a teaching hospital are different. Perhaps my wife and her colleagues are unusually conscientous about their patient care. But whatever the reason, if your doctor doesn't take an interest in your condition and attempt to understand what's going on with you, get a new doctor.
Based on the doctors I know (and I know quite a few, as you might expect, since I'm married to one), your cynicism is misplaced.
Doctors are taking the easy way out and handing out boner pills instead of scheduling tests to see how long is is before the patient goes in for the "last roundup".
That's simply not true of any good doctor.
If you have erectile dysfunction and your doctor hasn't shown any interest in determining why you have erectile dysfunction, get a new doctor.
Netbooks sales are in freefall
The growth of netbook sales has slowed, but it's still positive growth. That means that netbook sales are still increasing. Not at all a "freefall".
It's not your reading comprehension skills that failed you since you understood exactly what the previous article intended for you to understand (read: you were misled). Instead, it was your critical thinking skills that failed you when you didn't pick up on the deception.
Would that still work if the partition was mounted as noexec?
Google can push whatever format they want just by making the youtube experience the best (or even just the default) in that format. Google's release of VP8, I think, should be interpretted as foreshadowing for their intentions.
If Mozilla doesn't support h264, then their almost 50% market penetration in Europe will motivate sites to support at least one format that Mozilla does support. Again, VP8 will likely play a large part in their plans.
In the end, there will probably be no clear winner, just a number of formats that are widely supported by websites and tools for easily moving content from one format to another.
Sure, the manager might not be qualified to use that information, but he certainly requires it to do his job, even if his job is to merely provide that information to the next person they hire.
Any information an underling needs to do his job should be available to the underling's boss if only so that the underling can be replaced if required (on the event that the underling is fired, quits, or gets hit by a bus or something).
Is this true?
Seems like it should be part of the public record and thus available for a small fee that covers the costs of preparing the copy.
If an underling is authorized to use a corporate resource, why wouldn't you also expect the underling's boss (or boss's boss, in this case) to also be authorized for that resource?
Seriously, what was the argument for concluding that his boss or boss's boss didn't qualify as an authorized user?
A previous responder to your earlier post explained that ffmpeg puts a bogus value in the OGG header which causes the entire OGG vid to be parsed.
If that's true, then you're using a broken tool to create your OGG vids. File a bug report or switch tools.
You seem to think that religion is about truth.
It's like any other bureaucracy. Once established, it only seeks to perpetuate itself.