I'm a cablevision subscriber. Your comment exposes the irony of "on demand" programming. If I can get a movie streamed, why not a channel?
Cablevision has entirely too much influence on downstate NY. If you ever want to see a real turd, get a copy of Newsday, the paper they own. Utter dreck.
"If my 3 year old N95 runs Flash and can display content reasonably"
But most of that the content is broken by your own definition.
There's always a money angle, we do live in a capitalist society after all. If Apple doesn't want to fix it (and why should they? broken is broken), why should they open themselves up to having to answer support questions about something that's not going to be fixed?
Anybody that thinks this is all on Apple is a Macromedia apologist/fanboy.
You're missing the point. There is a tremendous amount of inertia to overcome. Content costs money to provide and while programmers would delight in all the extra work, the reality is nobody is going to fund what amounts to porting all the existing flash content to a new input paradigm.
BlindingFlash... Hey.. wait a minute... it could be Obama's WPA for programmers!
Oh sh*t. Sorry, programmers don't take handouts. Nevermind
At least the company _let_him_know_ they were gonna cut him out. There is nothing stopping them from going ahead with production and marketing. As in the music business: if there's a profit, then there's a problem. If the lawyers can't feed it's moot.
Imagine where we'd be if all the energy that goes into masturbatory effects went into defining and working on real problems. It would just suck the entertainment value out of computing and kill the industry.
Experience suggest Linus will be switching back to KDE shortly after:P
He so fickle... Or is it practical?
It works like this, new major version $Competing_Desktops comes out,it lacks the polish, he goes back to the one that's had the polishing. Just the pendulum swinging and not needing to be ahead of the curve, but still fun to watch the flames.
RAID is here to stay for a while no doubt, but it's a response to a series of problems that has problems of it's own. You can take 5+1 drives make an array where one bad chassis slot can indeed take the whole thing out, or you make a bunch of mirrors at the expense of capacity, or you can stripe one scary large fragile volume.In production it's about performance & availability. Realize that the whole data integrity thing is relative and merely an illusion. It's kinda like on Futurama when they had the tanker with 1k hulls. The only solution to the first case is double the hardware, which is a major investment and recurring cost (rack space/electricity, stamps). Murphy's law tell's us that indeed "shit happens", so there are no guarantees.
Although I didn't read the article I suspect it's promoting the cloud paradigm, which is the current ultimate expression of redundancy.
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Peak oil is nonsense. Why are there hydrocarbons in space?
Gee, are you sure?
A kiloton nuke is a lot safe to transport than a kiloton of TNT. It's also a lot more portable.
It's true, but what's your point? Are you somehow above it all?
Or do you use the other 'net (powered by moonbeams and unicorn farts) ?
I'm a cablevision subscriber. Your comment exposes the irony of "on demand" programming.
If I can get a movie streamed, why not a channel?
Cablevision has entirely too much influence on downstate NY. If you ever want to see
a real turd, get a copy of Newsday, the paper they own. Utter dreck.
They _really_ oughta put these things on every landfill and use the methane from decomposition for fuel.
Especially good for parks built on a decommissioned landfill. Now you got cheap electricity for the park that only gets
cheaper as time goes on.
Clarification: The decision to not allow Flash is on Apple, but the problems with Flash are not.
"If my 3 year old N95 runs Flash and can display content reasonably"
But most of that the content is broken by your own definition.
There's always a money angle, we do live in a capitalist society after all.
If Apple doesn't want to fix it (and why should they? broken is broken), why should they
open themselves up to having to answer support questions about something that's not going to be fixed?
Anybody that thinks this is all on Apple is a Macromedia apologist/fanboy.
You're missing the point. There is a tremendous amount of inertia to overcome. Content costs
money to provide and while programmers would delight in all the extra work, the reality is nobody
is going to fund what amounts to porting all the existing flash content to a new input paradigm.
BlindingFlash... Hey.. wait a minute... it could be Obama's WPA for programmers!
Oh sh*t. Sorry, programmers don't take handouts. Nevermind
Rydia sez: "it took me seconds to cobble together"
You are _goood_
I'm not seeing a problem.
Not to mention Ford and Chrysler...
The format isn't dead. Germany and Japan and probably a few other places are still producing V8's.
At least the company _let_him_know_ they were gonna cut him out.
There is nothing stopping them from going ahead with production and marketing.
As in the music business: if there's a profit, then there's a problem.
If the lawyers can't feed it's moot.
Imagine where we'd be if all the energy that goes into masturbatory effects went into defining and working on
real problems. It would just suck the entertainment value out of computing and kill the industry.
Not to mention they keep doing it with every major release.
Experience suggest Linus will be switching back to KDE shortly after :P
He so fickle... Or is it practical?
It works like this, new major version $Competing_Desktops comes out,it lacks the polish, he goes back to the one that's had the polishing.
Just the pendulum swinging and not needing to be ahead of the curve, but still fun to watch the flames.
Bloomberg is the guy to nail. It all started with his magic box.
Why should girls get a pass? Harrassment is harrassment.
Felony is kinda harsh, but then again teenage girls can be
pretty brutal.
20,000 Light Years Into Space
Deceptively simple yet highly addictive and very low hardware requirements
Or for something more ambitious: Warzone 2100
If history tells us anything, it is that there _will_ be a failure.
Yeah, but shit still happens. You need to use _multiple_ storage clouds :)
Too true, but are liars and cheater really peers then?
Just saying
Ah, youth. Eventually you'll find out that you
do indeed need to CYA, because shit happens. You are not special.
RAID is here to stay for a while no doubt, but it's a response to a series of problems that has problems of it's own. You can take 5+1 drives make an array where one bad chassis slot can indeed take the whole thing out, or you make a bunch of mirrors at the expense of capacity, or you can stripe one scary large fragile volume.In production it's about performance & availability. Realize that the whole data integrity thing is relative and merely an illusion. It's kinda like on Futurama when they had the tanker with 1k hulls. The only solution to the first case is double the hardware, which is a major investment and recurring cost (rack space/electricity, stamps). Murphy's law tell's us that indeed "shit happens", so there are no guarantees.
Although I didn't read the article I suspect it's promoting the cloud paradigm, which is the current ultimate expression of redundancy.