You didn't look very hard. Flex SDK includes a free Datagrid component, along with 90% of the other components which are also free & open source. The difference is the Advanced Datagrid is in the separate addon package. The Datagrid is good for almost all use cases, the 'advanced' one is sort of this weird mashup of a Datagrid and a Tree, not all that useful IMO.
No...the Datagrid is free, including almost all the other components. There's an addon pack of a few advanced components that cost money. Advanced Datagrid is basically a combination of a Tree and a Datagrid component...it doesn't have a whole lot of uses, most of the time you really just want to use the Datagrid component.
Huh? I think you have Adobe and Sun confused. Flash is the one that loads instantly, Java is the one that locks up your entire browser for 5-10 seconds with the Java splashscreen while you wait for the JVM to load.
Yes. Not only that, but all a business needs to initiate a withdrawal from someone else's account is their account & routing number. Something conveniently printed on every single check you write. I guess not really any worse than a credit card, except I can choose to not pay my CC bill, and they'll fight me for it, but if the money is taken out of my checking account, it's gone, and I have to fight to get it back.
Ever heard of skyfire? Technically it's a horrible hack, but it does work fairly well for a lot of things, and it does allow full flash support in a mobile phone browser.
Actually, high drive temperature doesn't really hurt that much. Being too cold is much worse than being too hot. Google has crunched the numbers on tens of thousands of HDDs running at different temperatures, and they found that drives that were kept coolest actually had higher failure rates. The 'sweet spot' of most stable temperatures is actually 35-45 C (95-113 F). Drives running in the 15-25 C range experienced massively higher failures than even the drives running at 50C.
Yeah, no kidding...I have had linux on my home desktop for about 6 years, and I got hacked once about 5 years ago (before I really knew what I was doing, I was running an old version of Samba on a port open to the world). Since then I've had no problems.
Then I got a new PC, it came with Vista, I decided to give it a go for a while, catch up on some of the latest games, and use my old linux desktop as a home server.
Within about a week I got a nasty spyware infection, it would redirect 1 in 3 google searches to a random site instead of the actual result I clicked on. The whole rootkit deal, invisible files, deleting them in safe mode and they magically respawn on rebooting. I probably spent about 20-30 hours trying to get it cleaned out, mostly because I didn't want to have to reformat (looking back, reformatting and reinstalling all my apps would have been quicker). I finally was able to do it, a combination of 3 or 4 different (highly-praised, not one of those anti-spyware-thats-really-spyware apps) running off a windows live CD (which I had to build myself, that took some work as well) finally got it cleaned out. Half the tools I tried couldn't detect the infection, and most of the others could detect it, but not completely remove it...they'd remove some bits, but it would come back after a reboot.
Depends on what is 'expensive' to you. To me, the cost of above device is expensive, since it runs around $3,000 according to a quick google search (the range was about $2600-$3600). $3,000 will buy a heck of a lot of pre-made cables which presumably are manufactured to a standard such that you don't need to test them before using them.
PG&E (my electric company) gave me one for free, and even stopped by to hook it up. Not only that, but I can set the thermostat via the internet.
Anyway, $20 is probably the low end of the price, but it's pretty close. Check out froogle for example.
Well, maybe you don't mind having to reboot your phone, but having my phone crash and having to wait to restart it pisses the heck out of me. I don't want FooCorp's CoolUtility to be able to crash my phone causing me to drop my call in the middle of talking to my boss or something.
The problem is that mobile phone apps pretty much have to be sandboxed, and that's a lot harder to do with C/C++ than it is with something like Java.
The tools available on modern PC's for sandboxing applications don't even work all that well most of the time (see Vista). Now imagine that instead of a full-powered PC with all sorts of extensions and opcodes and so on, you're running on a much more limited platform.
(sidenote: technically Android isn't pure Java, they've created their own bytecode, so they aren't beholden to Sun's iron grasp)
Check out SRWare's Iron...they basically took the Chrome source code, stripped out all the features that report back to google (including the GoogleUpdate.exe service), and actually added an AdBlock clone, something every firefox user has been missing from Chrome! I'm not sure why this hasn't gotten more press, I know every time there's a slashdot story about Chrome, a bunch of people pop up to whine about the lack of an ad blocker.
All that can be done in Flash too. Fire/plasma is old hat, tons of flash demos out there do that. dissolves/wipes/transitions are child's play. Doing a lightsaber might be trickier, but may be still possible. Not sure if it could be done automatically or not, as far as I know in SFX it's usually done by hand (but I'm no SFX master).
And yeah, maybe the browsers of a year or two from now might be able to accomplish more than the Flash of today, but that's assuming Flash doesn't continue to grow & add more capabilities. Also that's assuming IE also adds support for these new features...why write code that only works on (lets be generous) say 50% of browsers (Firefox, Opera, etc), but not IE, when you could write for Flash and work on 95%+ of browsers?
Uhh...real-time chroma-key replacement in flash has been possible since Flash 8 introduced color replacement functions three and a half years ago.
You just load up a video (or any content really), and apply a bitmap filter to it that basically says something like "replace any pixels from 0x00DD00 to 0x22FF22 with an alpha=0 pixel". (I think the actual API used is BitmapData.threshold())
I guess it's nice to see Firefox catching up to what Flash could do in 2005:)
He said 'piracy rate' which I assume he meant to mean "% of pirated/stolen copies versus % of legally purchased copies". In that case, you can't just look at total numbers of sales or total numbers of pirated games, it's a bit harder to calculate.
Doesn't using a motor to modify the swinging of the pendulum defeat the whole purpose? I thought the point was to have it seem like it was magically rotating...having a motor modify the swing, takes away from that magic.
I usually make a small partition, say 20-50GB, for the system files, and run that in RAID-1 (mirroring) across all 3 disks. I also store any super important documents on this volume, because it essentially has 3 copies. Then I combine the other 90% of the space in a RAID-5, which is much less wasteful than mirroring.
Give him a break, that acquisition was only announced three and a half years ago, he may not have heard about it yet. I mean, he's just now hearing about the "flash cookies" which have been around for like six years.
Check out the MOTOFONE - it's super slim, very simple UI that only makes calls, and it's got a super-low power e-ink display that gives a battery life of like a week. Also it's super cheap, you can get it for like $30-$50 unlocked with no contract.
Yes, either use gmail for your own apps (Google Apps for domains is fine for home use, there's no restrictions), or just forward your work email address to gmail. You can change the From: address in gmail to be your work email address, so the people you talk to wont even know it's being forwarded
1. This is not a "custom firmware". It is a hacked copy of an official IOS. IOS is the code which runs on one of the sub processors on the wii, it has nothing to do with the main firmware you see that shows channels, launches games, etc 2. You still CANNOT read dvdr's on an unmodified Wii. On an unmodified Wii, this modified IOS lets you only do one thing: dump commercial wii discs. 3. To read dvdr's in wii homebrew, you need a drivechip (a modchip attached to the DVD drive in the wii)
Conclusion: This is pretty much useless for homebrew, unless you are in the small minority who installed a modchip for piracy, but are still interested in homebrew. Even then, burning DVDR's is much more hassle than using SD's.
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You didn't look very hard. Flex SDK includes a free Datagrid component, along with 90% of the other components which are also free & open source. The difference is the Advanced Datagrid is in the separate addon package. The Datagrid is good for almost all use cases, the 'advanced' one is sort of this weird mashup of a Datagrid and a Tree, not all that useful IMO.
No...the Datagrid is free, including almost all the other components. There's an addon pack of a few advanced components that cost money. Advanced Datagrid is basically a combination of a Tree and a Datagrid component...it doesn't have a whole lot of uses, most of the time you really just want to use the Datagrid component.
Huh? I think you have Adobe and Sun confused. Flash is the one that loads instantly, Java is the one that locks up your entire browser for 5-10 seconds with the Java splashscreen while you wait for the JVM to load.
Yes. Not only that, but all a business needs to initiate a withdrawal from someone else's account is their account & routing number. Something conveniently printed on every single check you write. I guess not really any worse than a credit card, except I can choose to not pay my CC bill, and they'll fight me for it, but if the money is taken out of my checking account, it's gone, and I have to fight to get it back.
Ever heard of skyfire? Technically it's a horrible hack, but it does work fairly well for a lot of things, and it does allow full flash support in a mobile phone browser.
Actually, high drive temperature doesn't really hurt that much. Being too cold is much worse than being too hot. Google has crunched the numbers on tens of thousands of HDDs running at different temperatures, and they found that drives that were kept coolest actually had higher failure rates. The 'sweet spot' of most stable temperatures is actually 35-45 C (95-113 F). Drives running in the 15-25 C range experienced massively higher failures than even the drives running at 50C.
Yeah, no kidding...I have had linux on my home desktop for about 6 years, and I got hacked once about 5 years ago (before I really knew what I was doing, I was running an old version of Samba on a port open to the world). Since then I've had no problems. Then I got a new PC, it came with Vista, I decided to give it a go for a while, catch up on some of the latest games, and use my old linux desktop as a home server. Within about a week I got a nasty spyware infection, it would redirect 1 in 3 google searches to a random site instead of the actual result I clicked on. The whole rootkit deal, invisible files, deleting them in safe mode and they magically respawn on rebooting. I probably spent about 20-30 hours trying to get it cleaned out, mostly because I didn't want to have to reformat (looking back, reformatting and reinstalling all my apps would have been quicker). I finally was able to do it, a combination of 3 or 4 different (highly-praised, not one of those anti-spyware-thats-really-spyware apps) running off a windows live CD (which I had to build myself, that took some work as well) finally got it cleaned out. Half the tools I tried couldn't detect the infection, and most of the others could detect it, but not completely remove it...they'd remove some bits, but it would come back after a reboot.
Depends on what is 'expensive' to you. To me, the cost of above device is expensive, since it runs around $3,000 according to a quick google search (the range was about $2600-$3600). $3,000 will buy a heck of a lot of pre-made cables which presumably are manufactured to a standard such that you don't need to test them before using them.
PG&E (my electric company) gave me one for free, and even stopped by to hook it up. Not only that, but I can set the thermostat via the internet. Anyway, $20 is probably the low end of the price, but it's pretty close. Check out froogle for example.
Well, maybe you don't mind having to reboot your phone, but having my phone crash and having to wait to restart it pisses the heck out of me. I don't want FooCorp's CoolUtility to be able to crash my phone causing me to drop my call in the middle of talking to my boss or something.
The problem is that mobile phone apps pretty much have to be sandboxed, and that's a lot harder to do with C/C++ than it is with something like Java. The tools available on modern PC's for sandboxing applications don't even work all that well most of the time (see Vista). Now imagine that instead of a full-powered PC with all sorts of extensions and opcodes and so on, you're running on a much more limited platform. (sidenote: technically Android isn't pure Java, they've created their own bytecode, so they aren't beholden to Sun's iron grasp)
Check out SRWare's Iron...they basically took the Chrome source code, stripped out all the features that report back to google (including the GoogleUpdate.exe service), and actually added an AdBlock clone, something every firefox user has been missing from Chrome! I'm not sure why this hasn't gotten more press, I know every time there's a slashdot story about Chrome, a bunch of people pop up to whine about the lack of an ad blocker.
All that can be done in Flash too. Fire/plasma is old hat, tons of flash demos out there do that. dissolves/wipes/transitions are child's play. Doing a lightsaber might be trickier, but may be still possible. Not sure if it could be done automatically or not, as far as I know in SFX it's usually done by hand (but I'm no SFX master).
And yeah, maybe the browsers of a year or two from now might be able to accomplish more than the Flash of today, but that's assuming Flash doesn't continue to grow & add more capabilities. Also that's assuming IE also adds support for these new features...why write code that only works on (lets be generous) say 50% of browsers (Firefox, Opera, etc), but not IE, when you could write for Flash and work on 95%+ of browsers?
Yeah, that's one downside to flash, if you're using one of the bottom 0.2% or so least popular OS's, you can't use the latest flash player.
Uhh...real-time chroma-key replacement in flash has been possible since Flash 8 introduced color replacement functions three and a half years ago.
:)
You just load up a video (or any content really), and apply a bitmap filter to it that basically says something like "replace any pixels from 0x00DD00 to 0x22FF22 with an alpha=0 pixel". (I think the actual API used is BitmapData.threshold())
I guess it's nice to see Firefox catching up to what Flash could do in 2005
He said 'piracy rate' which I assume he meant to mean "% of pirated/stolen copies versus % of legally purchased copies". In that case, you can't just look at total numbers of sales or total numbers of pirated games, it's a bit harder to calculate.
this has been proven false, it's only "blocked" for developers that haven't upgraded their firmware yet (older firmware doesn't support paid apps)
Doesn't using a motor to modify the swinging of the pendulum defeat the whole purpose? I thought the point was to have it seem like it was magically rotating...having a motor modify the swing, takes away from that magic.
I usually make a small partition, say 20-50GB, for the system files, and run that in RAID-1 (mirroring) across all 3 disks. I also store any super important documents on this volume, because it essentially has 3 copies. Then I combine the other 90% of the space in a RAID-5, which is much less wasteful than mirroring.
I wouldn't be so sure. As of now, CNN reports he's ahead by 3353 votes, or roughly 1.5%. They say it's still too close to call.
Give him a break, that acquisition was only announced three and a half years ago, he may not have heard about it yet. I mean, he's just now hearing about the "flash cookies" which have been around for like six years.
Check out the MOTOFONE - it's super slim, very simple UI that only makes calls, and it's got a super-low power e-ink display that gives a battery life of like a week. Also it's super cheap, you can get it for like $30-$50 unlocked with no contract.
Yes, either use gmail for your own apps (Google Apps for domains is fine for home use, there's no restrictions), or just forward your work email address to gmail. You can change the From: address in gmail to be your work email address, so the people you talk to wont even know it's being forwarded
1. This is not a "custom firmware". It is a hacked copy of an official IOS. IOS is the code which runs on one of the sub processors on the wii, it has nothing to do with the main firmware you see that shows channels, launches games, etc
2. You still CANNOT read dvdr's on an unmodified Wii. On an unmodified Wii, this modified IOS lets you only do one thing: dump commercial wii discs.
3. To read dvdr's in wii homebrew, you need a drivechip (a modchip attached to the DVD drive in the wii)
Conclusion: This is pretty much useless for homebrew, unless you are in the small minority who installed a modchip for piracy, but are still interested in homebrew. Even then, burning DVDR's is much more hassle than using SD's.
It actually happens in real life conferences, not just teleconferences!
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