I was going to say the same thing, but it doesn't matter.
The warp drive will not be used down on earth, and will probably not even be constructed planetside (and if it is, it is more likely to be built in Chana than the US anyways), so it will be outside the USPTOs jurisdiction.
And of course nobody mentions that Listerine can, because of its 21% alcohol content, cause mouth and throat cancer. And that "tingly taste" from toothpaste is from chloroform - so don't swallow your toothpaste - it'll cause stomach cancer.
Don't be too sure. As the article points out in the last lines:
Meet the old boss, same as the new boss
... also, it mentions that Windws Media Player is being redone... again... so we won't know until the final product ships, and maybe not even then (the article also states that updating is aso being changed - its no longer browser-based, so maybe DRM will be a "drive-by" install when you first go online).
The simple fact is we don't know, so to say that it won't is BS, especially since Microsoft HAS been making a lot of noise - they want their own iTunes-style franchise. (I know, another case of Windows Mac Envy)
BTW, for those looking at the parent posters'.sig - yes her hosting service is definitely worth a look-see. I'm happy enough with it to use my 8,000th post to say so in a -1 Off-Topic but +1 Informative way, mods be darned:-)
And for those who have.sigs turned off... shame on you - you're missing a LOT of stuff, not just links to good deals on hosting. Its not all "click on this link and help some jerk get a free iPod".
All the studies I've seen show that static ads get more viewer reads than flash ads.
The only thing most people notice about a flash ad is that its annoying. They rarely go beyond that to actually LOOK at the content. So flash ads not only suck more bandwidth, they also suck, period.
I agree... it's not the tool, but the user who is the problem. When you say
but a tool such as Dreamweaver being put into the hands of unskilled people that makes bloated code.
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It's not the tool that's the problem; it's the people who don't know what to do with it
... you've pointed out that's the problem... people who haven't taken the time to learn the basics just want to rush in and make overly-bulky sites with all sorts of "stuff", and a page that should weigh nothing (because, really, it does nothing) ends up with a ton of crap added to it "because they can." Its like some of them can't resist trying out every option. Sort of like using 20 different fonts on one page in a text document - it looks like a ransom note.
The biggest culprits are the "colleges" that advertise on late-night TV offereng to "help you get a better job" by "teaching you web programming".
As I pointed out, there are a few good things made with, for example, flash, but a page with 20 blocks of flash, each one doing their own thing, and no alternate navigation, is dumb; some of the people putting *those* pages together are using dreamweaver to do it, because its easy to do it that way. If it was a bit harder, maybe they could be more easily discouraged.
... and lets *not* get started on coldfusion... we'll save that one for Tuesday:-)
Hey, I love the "9 coronas" and "foamy rants" swf as much as the next person. Unfortunately, too much flash is devoted to aweful ads or really aweful sites. You know what I'm talking about - overly complicated stuff that is supposed to "shock and awe" us about how wonderful your site, and by extension, your product are supposed to be. In those cases, it should be renamed from "flash" to "clash".
Since those three conditions are only ever met under the best of circumstances, I suggest your favorite text editor as a replacement for it. Seriously. Hand coding your pages is just as fast as creating them in Dreamweaver, albeit with a higher learning curve, and what you can craft with the pure code is fantastic.
Finally, someone who "gets it." Especially since most work IS maintenance work, and its a lot easier to write a perl script and make file to regenerate 100 pages than to load each one and change it.
Dreamweaver makes BLOATED code. Its also crap to maintain - click on this, click on that., yadda yada yadda. Only for people who don't know how to write their own scripts to generate web pages that don't suck.
Add in the need for proprietary extensions for database access.
Also, there is nothing to imply that any Linux version of any of these products has to be either open or free.
I used KDE for years before the dual-monitor fiasco... switched to Gnome, and was surprised that I can have a ton of stuff open and it works much better than KDE did... heck, I even stopped ranting against the UI in the GIMP and the "backwards" placement of the dialg box buttons...
The BIGGEST change when switching to Gnome - I no longer have to close firefox every 6 hours or so to reclaim memory. Now I'm not knocking KDE - even with its weirdnes, I' still using Kmail to poll 11 email accounts every few minutes.
I hate using the mouse. Period. Mice are for wimps (pardon the pun:-)
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The parent asked for you to be specific...You could have saved a whole lot time on your post if you just wrote one word: "No.":)
How about the stupid kwallet and multiple email accounts? Add some account settings and kwallet doesn't know about it because you've closed it? Oops, can't get email for that account. Quit kwallet - can't get email for all the accounts. AND the passwords are all permanently gone. Nice "feature."
Or in kontact - try to change the folders so that it saves mail to another folder with the same name but somewhere else in the folder hierarchy - for example, instead if/accountname/inbox/sucker to/inbox/accountname, and the changes take effect.... sort of... (if you don't delete the previous folder, you now end up with multiple copies of your mail... and what's worse, those copies both end up in the same folder... which is either the old one or the new one, at random.
Not as bad as the showstopper in ThunderTurd - manually select part of a message to quote, and if the quote goes all the way to the last character, and you do a Ctl+C for copy, it quits. Cute.
Or the KDE su dialog - checking the "keep password" box doesn't.
Or how, when you select one multi-screen method (stretch across screens) and try to change it to something else (dual screens) it craps out, over and over, for weeks at a time. Finally, give up, use gnome, check KDE every few weeks... nope, still crapped ut, nope, nope... hey it "fixed itself". Guess another bug got scotched.
These aren't big problems in the scheme of things, since we have options (unlike certain other people), and KDE has its uses. But you did ask for specifics... so here are a few.
The real problem is it's slow... even in comparison to Gnome.
I don't know about US Senate, but I received an SPAM from a senator from my country and the email came from the senate.gov domain. Then I searched for a place to complain in the senate website I found an 'ethics commission' and I did a formal complain about that spam. Some time later the senator wrote to me telling it was not spam because was not commercial.
He or she is an idiot.
Suggestion:
Use a mail2news gateway (offshore, please) to post to a couple hundred usenet groups in the alt newsgroup hierarchy. Make sure their name and email addy are in the post.
Wait a month or two
Email them back, and ask them if they still feel the same way.
hmm... I doubt a political spam could be construed as a business relationship.
FTFA:
Apparently so-called 'political speech' e-mails do not fit the legal definition of spam
So, send him back his spam 100 times - its political speech, not spam. And if you send it back 100 times, its definitely a political statement, and protected speech to boot!
Better yet, turn his spam into a bmp (a jpg or png won't be big enough) with a big "F. U." on it, and make his ingox go over quota. Better yet, a Word doc with an embedded pdf with multiple embedded bmps - really bloat the sucker up.
And burning out his fax machine is likely to cause him to buy another. Paid for by your taxes.
He has a certain budget for his office operations. If he has to start dipping into his "discretionary funds" instead, that's not so fun - those "discretionary funds" are one of the perks of the job. Spending it on actual expenses, instead of self-indulgence, would be a bummer.
Political comunications are exempt - remember? So sending him back his political communication is exempt from the law. As for the "burn out the fax" by everyone faxing back a hard copy - its been done quite successfully by other lobby groups, and you want to be SURE he gets the message. Send back a negative =- uses up a LOT more toner.
r do like one of my friends did - he sent it back via one of those manual-feed faxes, and as the top came out of the machine, he taped it to the bottom of the page, so it became a roll - it was an endless loop fax...
That's one of the reasons why people are going all-digital.
mp4 / h264 gives a good image and sound, random access, quick search, compact storage, easy backup in real time, remote viewing, simplified printing and emailing of the videos or pics, and no more "Mr. Roboto" bad '70s disco flashbacks like you get viewing timelapse tapes.
A VHS tape is 7.375 inches long x 4.0625 inches wide x 1 inch thick. Each tape can hold up to 36 hours of footage on a special security time-lapse VCR. Let's be conservative and say that you'll run the cameras into a quad split, enabling you to record four cameras per tape. That means you need two tapes to store 36 hours of footage from eight cameras.
Sorry, but most of the images from those tapes run through time-lapse vcrs don't stand up in court. Heck, they aren't even useful enough to identify the SEX of the person in many cases, the image quality is so poor. They're the absolute crap. Poor resolution, and no audio, and even with image enhancement you can't tell squat. Running the cameras on quad split, as yu call it, is worse - the image resolution is only 160x120. Time-lapse that, and you're REALLY screwed.
I know because I spent 2 years developing a replacement for them to be marketed locally - DVRs that record up to 64 channels of live audio and video at up to 30 fps. And those give you pictures, unenhanced, that the cops CAN use. I was at a customers' on Friday - someone had stolen a mirror from a car in the parking lot. So, thanks to continuous (not time-lapse) coverage, he had the thiefs face, his cars make and model and color (a lot of those time-lapses are monochrome), etc. So, hit the print button and there's your guy. MUCH better.
Even in 2-hour mode, with no time-lapse, a VCR isn't going to give you the same 705x480 recording from 1 camera, never mind 8, 16, 32, or 64, and it won't be nearly as searchable.
So, to do something remotely equivalent to a DVR for 8 camersa would require 12 tapes per day x 8 (1 per camera) x 30 days per month - in just 1 month you will have gone through 288 tapes. Now, instead of 8 cameras, make it 64. 2,304 tapes per month, plus you have to manually load, unload, label, log, and manually walk them to storage. If it takes 2 minutes to do each one, this will require 2 people, 24 hours a day (because 1 person, at 2 minutes per, would need a minimum of 128 minutes an hour, not counting pee and lunch breaks). The tapes can't be the dollar-store variety either, so even at $2/tape, your tape budget alone is $4,608, plus the cost of 2 employees x 3 shifts x 7 days... even at minimum wage, they would be more expensive than just buying a couple of terrabyes of cheap raid (6 x 300 gig == 1 month storage for 64 cameras at 25 fps, for under a grand.)
Plus, you can't just stack these tapes one on top of the other to the ceiling - you have to shelve them. That takes space, and climate control. 1 year's worth of tapes (27,648 tapes) takes up a LOT of room, compared to 72 hard disks, that can all fit in a single fireproof storage cabinet.
And if you want to be doubly secure, you can mirror the hd offsite every day and still be well within your budget. A days recordings fit in your pocket on a single hd, or you can even send them over the net in real time for critical stuff. Try doing that with tape.
The chips are cloneable, so there is ot much in the way of security enhancements there... plus, its to access the video tapes from their surveillance system. Guess they're not too confident in their video-tape surveillance system. Seems to me it would have been better to just upgrade to DVRs like any modern survaillance system. You can store a year's sound and video from 8 cameras in a box on a 4x250 gig raid. Once a year, swap out the drives for new ones. Do you have ANY idea how much space a year's worth of video tapes takes up?
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The warp drive will not be used down on earth, and will probably not even be constructed planetside (and if it is, it is more likely to be built in Chana than the US anyways), so it will be outside the USPTOs jurisdiction.
And of course nobody mentions that Listerine can, because of its 21% alcohol content, cause mouth and throat cancer. And that "tingly taste" from toothpaste is from chloroform - so don't swallow your toothpaste - it'll cause stomach cancer.
Don't be too sure. As the article points out in the last lines:
The simple fact is we don't know, so to say that it won't is BS, especially since Microsoft HAS been making a lot of noise - they want their own iTunes-style franchise. (I know, another case of Windows Mac Envy)
BTW, for those looking at the parent posters' .sig - yes her hosting service is definitely worth a look-see. I'm happy enough with it to use my 8,000th post to say so in a -1 Off-Topic but +1 Informative way, mods be darned :-)
And for those who have .sigs turned off ... shame on you - you're missing a LOT of stuff, not just links to good deals on hosting. Its not all "click on this link and help some jerk get a free iPod".
All the studies I've seen show that static ads get more viewer reads than flash ads.
The only thing most people notice about a flash ad is that its annoying. They rarely go beyond that to actually LOOK at the content. So flash ads not only suck more bandwidth, they also suck, period.
The biggest culprits are the "colleges" that advertise on late-night TV offereng to "help you get a better job" by "teaching you web programming".
As I pointed out, there are a few good things made with, for example, flash, but a page with 20 blocks of flash, each one doing their own thing, and no alternate navigation, is dumb; some of the people putting *those* pages together are using dreamweaver to do it, because its easy to do it that way. If it was a bit harder, maybe they could be more easily discouraged.
That's what happens when you don't get enough coffee.
Hey, I love the "9 coronas" and "foamy rants" swf as much as the next person. Unfortunately, too much flash is devoted to aweful ads or really aweful sites. You know what I'm talking about - overly complicated stuff that is supposed to "shock and awe" us about how wonderful your site, and by extension, your product are supposed to be. In those cases, it should be renamed from "flash" to "clash".
Finally, someone who "gets it." Especially since most work IS maintenance work, and its a lot easier to write a perl script and make file to regenerate 100 pages than to load each one and change it.
Add in the need for proprietary extensions for database access.
Also, there is nothing to imply that any Linux version of any of these products has to be either open or free.
Because then we linux fans can also churn out web pages that are an eyesore, full of bloat, proprietary ...
Yeah ,,, whatever.
I used KDE for years before the dual-monitor fiasco ... switched to Gnome, and was surprised that I can have a ton of stuff open and it works much better than KDE did ... heck, I even stopped ranting against the UI in the GIMP and the "backwards" placement of the dialg box buttons ...
The BIGGEST change when switching to Gnome - I no longer have to close firefox every 6 hours or so to reclaim memory. Now I'm not knocking KDE - even with its weirdnes, I' still using Kmail to poll 11 email accounts every few minutes.
When on X use the middle mouse button.
I hate using the mouse. Period. Mice are for wimps (pardon the pun :-)
How about the stupid kwallet and multiple email accounts? Add some account settings and kwallet doesn't know about it because you've closed it? Oops, can't get email for that account. Quit kwallet - can't get email for all the accounts. AND the passwords are all permanently gone. Nice "feature."
Or in kontact - try to change the folders so that it saves mail to another folder with the same name but somewhere else in the folder hierarchy - for example, instead if /accountname/inbox/sucker to /inbox/accountname, and the changes take effect .... sort of ... (if you don't delete the previous folder, you now end up with multiple copies of your mail ... and what's worse, those copies both end up in the same folder ... which is either the old one or the new one, at random.
Not as bad as the showstopper in ThunderTurd - manually select part of a message to quote, and if the quote goes all the way to the last character, and you do a Ctl+C for copy, it quits. Cute.
Or the KDE su dialog - checking the "keep password" box doesn't.
Or how, when you select one multi-screen method (stretch across screens) and try to change it to something else (dual screens) it craps out, over and over, for weeks at a time. Finally, give up, use gnome, check KDE every few weeks ... nope, still crapped ut, nope, nope ... hey it "fixed itself". Guess another bug got scotched.
These aren't big problems in the scheme of things, since we have options (unlike certain other people), and KDE has its uses. But you did ask for specifics ... so here are a few.
The real problem is it's slow ... even in comparison to Gnome.
He or she is an idiot.
Suggestion:
I'm sure a lot of us would be happy to offer up CmdrTaco's organs for one of these things, too. Now where's that bathtub full of ice cubes :-)
Poster wrote:
FTFA:
So, send him back his spam 100 times - its political speech, not spam. And if you send it back 100 times, its definitely a political statement, and protected speech to boot!
Better yet, turn his spam into a bmp (a jpg or png won't be big enough) with a big "F. U." on it, and make his ingox go over quota. Better yet, a Word doc with an embedded pdf with multiple embedded bmps - really bloat the sucker up.
r do like one of my friends did - he sent it back via one of those manual-feed faxes, and as the top came out of the machine, he taped it to the bottom of the page, so it became a roll - it was an endless loop fax ...
He'll get the message.
No, its like, you know, he was just chillin'' with the California Raisins. No sour grapes :-)
mp4 / h264 gives a good image and sound, random access, quick search, compact storage, easy backup in real time, remote viewing, simplified printing and emailing of the videos or pics, and no more "Mr. Roboto" bad '70s disco flashbacks like you get viewing timelapse tapes.
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So much for saying "No" to the Eecutable Internet. "They" must have gotten him.
I know because I spent 2 years developing a replacement for them to be marketed locally - DVRs that record up to 64 channels of live audio and video at up to 30 fps. And those give you pictures, unenhanced, that the cops CAN use. I was at a customers' on Friday - someone had stolen a mirror from a car in the parking lot. So, thanks to continuous (not time-lapse) coverage, he had the thiefs face, his cars make and model and color (a lot of those time-lapses are monochrome), etc. So, hit the print button and there's your guy. MUCH better.
Even in 2-hour mode, with no time-lapse, a VCR isn't going to give you the same 705x480 recording from 1 camera, never mind 8, 16, 32, or 64, and it won't be nearly as searchable.
So, to do something remotely equivalent to a DVR for 8 camersa would require 12 tapes per day x 8 (1 per camera) x 30 days per month - in just 1 month you will have gone through 288 tapes. Now, instead of 8 cameras, make it 64. 2,304 tapes per month, plus you have to manually load, unload, label, log, and manually walk them to storage. If it takes 2 minutes to do each one, this will require 2 people, 24 hours a day (because 1 person, at 2 minutes per, would need a minimum of 128 minutes an hour, not counting pee and lunch breaks). The tapes can't be the dollar-store variety either, so even at $2/tape, your tape budget alone is $4,608, plus the cost of 2 employees x 3 shifts x 7 days ... even at minimum wage, they would be more expensive than just buying a couple of terrabyes of cheap raid (6 x 300 gig == 1 month storage for 64 cameras at 25 fps, for under a grand.)
Plus, you can't just stack these tapes one on top of the other to the ceiling - you have to shelve them. That takes space, and climate control. 1 year's worth of tapes (27,648 tapes) takes up a LOT of room, compared to 72 hard disks, that can all fit in a single fireproof storage cabinet.
And if you want to be doubly secure, you can mirror the hd offsite every day and still be well within your budget. A days recordings fit in your pocket on a single hd, or you can even send them over the net in real time for critical stuff. Try doing that with tape.
The chips are cloneable, so there is ot much in the way of security enhancements there ... plus, its to access the video tapes from their surveillance system. Guess they're not too confident in their video-tape surveillance system. Seems to me it would have been better to just upgrade to DVRs like any modern survaillance system. You can store a year's sound and video from 8 cameras in a box on a 4x250 gig raid. Once a year, swap out the drives for new ones. Do you have ANY idea how much space a year's worth of video tapes takes up?