For each 1 site which does use flash for something which absolutely needs an animated illustration of how something works, there'll be no less than 99 sites which:
Sure, but you could make a statement of the same form for the use of just about any new tool: HTML frames, the verdammt <blink> tag, animated GIF logos, Photoshop lens flares in comics, freeze-action-and-move-the-camera effects in film, Java mouse-trailers, etc. Hell, nothing pisses me off more than seeing the aesthetically inept misusing Flash instead of hiring me (or even some other qualified graphic designer) to do it right, but that's not the fault of the tool.
I certainly hope this Flash-on-Linux experiment works out. It's not a show-stopper for me dumping Windows, because I've already moved all my Flash work to OS X, but it'd definitely be nice to be able to use it on my Linux box as well. Seeing Dreamweaver on Linux would be welcome, but I'm really more eager to see Fireworks ported; I'd even pay the money to have a better alternative to the GIMP.
The company's technological innovation may be questionable, but Michael Dell was a visionary, in terms of the marketing and distribution of computers. Back when I was schlepping my fresh college transcript to possible employers asking for a job (Dell and I are the same age), he was taking out ads in computer trade magazines for built-to-order "PC's Limited Turbo XT" clones, sold through the mail or over the phone, with competent phone tech support and on-site service available. No storefront. No sales force. And affordable prices, because you were buying directly from the manufacturer (assembly plant, actually).
I wish I could say that I liked the idea so much I bought the company, but all I could afford at the time was to buy one of the machines. (Heck, that's about all my current budget could afford, either.) It's how everyone does this stuff today (with order-placing over the net instead of by phone/mail), but it was considered a kinda crazy business model in the mid-1980's, and he made a go of it... and made it work.
All else being on the up-and-up (e.g. not obtained by illegal search) I'd expect it to be admissable, but the defense would have the opportunity to question its authenticity ("this document could have been created by a clever hacker") or meaningfulness ("he was only joking/writing fiction"). Assuming the deleted text was genuinely incriminating (just writing - as in your example - nice stuff about Adolf isn't criminal, of course), the defendant's apparent effort to delete that evidence wouldn't render it inadmissable.
Your VHS recorder (at least the current one, with marginal - if any - copy protection built into it) doesn't know that any of the these flags exist, so it presumably wouldn't honor them.
Which means that the indy DSL providers (do we still call them CLECs?) have hit a "copper ceiling", stuck using pairs of old copper wire while the Bells get exclusive use of whatever new stuff (e.g. fiber) they pull through those municipally-granted rights of way.
I still call SBC by their pre-merger name of "Ameritech". In weak moments, I call them by the name engraved on their office building downtown: "Michigan Bell". Or "the phone company".
I did this (sort of) seven years ago. I was unemployed from a sysadmin job, and was faced with the choice of A) accepting a job doing similar work for an accounting firm, with a nice compensation package but long hours, or B) going back to school to study graphic design and illustration, while piecing together an income from freelancing/consulting.
I won't kid you: It hasn't been a blissfest. And the work opportunities for someone with a BS in Comp Sci, a BFA in Digital Media, and an odd assortment of work experience are a lot more limited than I anticipated. But when I think about how I would've spent the last seven years of my life if I'd chosen the other path (i.e. wearing a tie in a cubicle ranch and still just wondering idly if could ever learn to paint), I feel a lot better about my choice.
And if you would pull your head out of your ass, you'd understand that public opinion is determined by a lot more than what some dork in a black robe decides. SCO can lose the case and we (fans of open-source software) could still lose badly because of their PR campaign.
Pardon my unclear wording. By "before testing" I didn't mean to imply that they had tested it there, only that this question was a prerequisite to testing it. Kind of like you might say, "The king tested his wine for poison before drinking it," without implying that the king actually drank the wine, regardless. (The English language really could benefit from a clearer indication of subjunctive mood.)
Whether Netcraft's web server stats are meaningful or not is off-topic; give it a rest. My point was simply that their probe identifies that this particular company (AutoZone) uses at least one non-SCO commercial Unix (Solaris), in at least one non-trivial application (online sales). Given the focus on their use of Linux, I think it's interesting that there's more to the picture.
Being in a different industry doesn't mean AutoZone is technologically unsophisticated. They're a big corporation with (I have little doubt, given their very-successful migration to Linux) some good technologists at (or just below) the executive level.
According to Netcraft, Autozone.com runs on Solaris, using an IBM-modified version of Apache. I wonder if their "disloyalty" to SCO's Unix (in addition to using Linux) factored into their choice of which customer to sue.
Please God let there be one more tech boom, I promise not to piss it all away this time.
I promise not to spend the next one going back to school. I'm going to actually get one of those well-paying jobs doing neat stuff, and enjoy it while it lasts.
I'm an atheist, but I know modern Christian theology pretty well. The possibility of extraterrestrial life doesn't invalidate anything in it.
Even fundamentalist Christians don't claim that the Bible is a complete account of the creation of the Universe, only that what it does say is literally true. The creation of Mars, with its water, and (perhaps) lifeforms would be just like the creation of the Australia, with its water, and its lifeforms: something that simply didn't get mentioned by name in either of the creation accounts in Genesis. Big deal.
Where Christian theology stands a good chance of buckling will be when/if we discover intelligent life elsewhere, i.e. "people" who (arguably) have souls. That would raise much larger questions about Adam and Eve's Original Sin and its supposed corruption of Creation (especially if they've demonstrably been around longer than humans have), and the scope of Jesus's crucifiction in saving souls (including theirs?) from damnation.
Remember the PS/2's? I remember looking forward to them!
Perhaps the kid with his 2-year-old PS2 will have a greater appreciation for a functioning 20-year-old satellite when he has some gear of that age himself.
If there's life on Mars are we supposed to leave it alone?
If we have any interest in studying it, yes. Since the only biological system we have available to study is the one on this planet, it'd be scientifically invaluable to have another - one affected as little as possible by contamination from ours - to compare it to.
Discovering evidence suggesting that there is life on Mars could be a serious stumbling block to further exploration, and definitely to exploitation.
Remember when Chekov was scanning Ceti Alpha 5 for life before testing the Genesis device there, and his captain said that even a microbe meant the test would be a no-go? Remember what happened to the invading Martians at Grover's Mill NJ: they're highly vulnerable to Terran bacteria.
But seriously, a dead, sterile Mars is one we could start sending people to, and eventually set up a permanent settlement (with waste products and all). But one with actual life would - for scientific, and arguably for moral reasons - have to be quarantined.
Would you settle for Several Usually True Packages? Even with the multitude of distros out there, you can accomodate the majority of installations and the typical profiles, without too much difficulty. Look at apps like OpenOffice or Firefox, which have a single "Linux x86" distribution package that apparently works on most of the most popular distros. Granted, they don't work if I try to install them on my X-less server, but that's no more a realistic expectation than trying to install MS Office XP on a Win31 box.
Granted, that closed-source tax-prep app is probably going to have be compiled for the least common denominator (e.g. 386), and maybe have a few add-on options available in case you're missing, say, a PDF viewer. But the same is true of similar Windows apps, which are typically written to the common Win32 API that'll run on Win98 or XP, and ask you to install MFC32.DLL (or whatever) if you're missing it.
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Sure, but you could make a statement of the same form for the use of just about any new tool: HTML frames, the verdammt <blink> tag, animated GIF logos, Photoshop lens flares in comics, freeze-action-and-move-the-camera effects in film, Java mouse-trailers, etc. Hell, nothing pisses me off more than seeing the aesthetically inept misusing Flash instead of hiring me (or even some other qualified graphic designer) to do it right, but that's not the fault of the tool.
I certainly hope this Flash-on-Linux experiment works out. It's not a show-stopper for me dumping Windows, because I've already moved all my Flash work to OS X, but it'd definitely be nice to be able to use it on my Linux box as well. Seeing Dreamweaver on Linux would be welcome, but I'm really more eager to see Fireworks ported; I'd even pay the money to have a better alternative to the GIMP.
I wish I could say that I liked the idea so much I bought the company, but all I could afford at the time was to buy one of the machines. (Heck, that's about all my current budget could afford, either.) It's how everyone does this stuff today (with order-placing over the net instead of by phone/mail), but it was considered a kinda crazy business model in the mid-1980's, and he made a go of it... and made it work.
All else being on the up-and-up (e.g. not obtained by illegal search) I'd expect it to be admissable, but the defense would have the opportunity to question its authenticity ("this document could have been created by a clever hacker") or meaningfulness ("he was only joking/writing fiction"). Assuming the deleted text was genuinely incriminating (just writing - as in your example - nice stuff about Adolf isn't criminal, of course), the defendant's apparent effort to delete that evidence wouldn't render it inadmissable.
Well I am, and I enjoyed Dharma and Greg. (Dharma reminds me a lot of my ex-boyfriend.)
Your VHS recorder (at least the current one, with marginal - if any - copy protection built into it) doesn't know that any of the these flags exist, so it presumably wouldn't honor them.
Which means that the indy DSL providers (do we still call them CLECs?) have hit a "copper ceiling", stuck using pairs of old copper wire while the Bells get exclusive use of whatever new stuff (e.g. fiber) they pull through those municipally-granted rights of way.
I still call SBC by their pre-merger name of "Ameritech". In weak moments, I call them by the name engraved on their office building downtown: "Michigan Bell". Or "the phone company".
That's probably just somebody's paying MS or spoofing variables to insert visitors' search terms into their adverts, to make them look more relevant.
I won't kid you: It hasn't been a blissfest. And the work opportunities for someone with a BS in Comp Sci, a BFA in Digital Media, and an odd assortment of work experience are a lot more limited than I anticipated. But when I think about how I would've spent the last seven years of my life if I'd chosen the other path (i.e. wearing a tie in a cubicle ranch and still just wondering idly if could ever learn to paint), I feel a lot better about my choice.
Tell that to the folks at Compaq, whose original "Portable" model weighed about 30 pounds.
And if you would pull your head out of your ass, you'd understand that public opinion is determined by a lot more than what some dork in a black robe decides. SCO can lose the case and we (fans of open-source software) could still lose badly because of their PR campaign.
Pardon my unclear wording. By "before testing" I didn't mean to imply that they had tested it there, only that this question was a prerequisite to testing it. Kind of like you might say, "The king tested his wine for poison before drinking it," without implying that the king actually drank the wine, regardless. (The English language really could benefit from a clearer indication of subjunctive mood.)
Whether Netcraft's web server stats are meaningful or not is off-topic; give it a rest. My point was simply that their probe identifies that this particular company (AutoZone) uses at least one non-SCO commercial Unix (Solaris), in at least one non-trivial application (online sales). Given the focus on their use of Linux, I think it's interesting that there's more to the picture.
Being in a different industry doesn't mean AutoZone is technologically unsophisticated. They're a big corporation with (I have little doubt, given their very-successful migration to Linux) some good technologists at (or just below) the executive level.
Or perhaps SCO hopes to take on Sun as well?
I promise not to spend the next one going back to school. I'm going to actually get one of those well-paying jobs doing neat stuff, and enjoy it while it lasts.
Quality Team -> Q.T. -> Qt (the graphics toolkit used by KDE)
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Even fundamentalist Christians don't claim that the Bible is a complete account of the creation of the Universe, only that what it does say is literally true. The creation of Mars, with its water, and (perhaps) lifeforms would be just like the creation of the Australia, with its water, and its lifeforms: something that simply didn't get mentioned by name in either of the creation accounts in Genesis. Big deal.
Where Christian theology stands a good chance of buckling will be when/if we discover intelligent life elsewhere, i.e. "people" who (arguably) have souls. That would raise much larger questions about Adam and Eve's Original Sin and its supposed corruption of Creation (especially if they've demonstrably been around longer than humans have), and the scope of Jesus's crucifiction in saving souls (including theirs?) from damnation.
Because he needs a reserve of 'cash' on him in case the UN breaks into his trailer and steals his 'mattress'.
I'm wondering what kind of 'wallet' a stack of nearly 50 'bills' fits into, and how he could 'sit' comfortably with it in his pocket.
Perhaps the kid with his 2-year-old PS2 will have a greater appreciation for a functioning 20-year-old satellite when he has some gear of that age himself.
One can use examples from popular entertainment to illustrate an idea for discussion purposes without relying on them as "gospels".
Just because ...[irrelevant ad hominem deleted]... doesn't mean that ... is an acceptable debating tactic.
I don't think I'll be taking lessons from you.
If we have any interest in studying it, yes. Since the only biological system we have available to study is the one on this planet, it'd be scientifically invaluable to have another - one affected as little as possible by contamination from ours - to compare it to.
Remember when Chekov was scanning Ceti Alpha 5 for life before testing the Genesis device there, and his captain said that even a microbe meant the test would be a no-go? Remember what happened to the invading Martians at Grover's Mill NJ: they're highly vulnerable to Terran bacteria.
But seriously, a dead, sterile Mars is one we could start sending people to, and eventually set up a permanent settlement (with waste products and all). But one with actual life would - for scientific, and arguably for moral reasons - have to be quarantined.
Granted, that closed-source tax-prep app is probably going to have be compiled for the least common denominator (e.g. 386), and maybe have a few add-on options available in case you're missing, say, a PDF viewer. But the same is true of similar Windows apps, which are typically written to the common Win32 API that'll run on Win98 or XP, and ask you to install MFC32.DLL (or whatever) if you're missing it.