In the latest local elections, the first since that law was passed, Sarko's party got disastrous results in the younger demographics. His MPs were freaked out by this, an insider reported. Now they're not exactly the most highly voting demo, but since Sarkozy's core constituency is the 65+, and they tend to eventually die, it does not bode well for 2012.
The loophole they're using is not actually a loophole. It's been repeatedly affirmed by the courts that when the gov't has to pay private companies when it passes laws requiring them to do work for them, if what is required of them is not part of their business. Example: wiretaps. Since they're not getting paid, they argue they don't have to do it. It's not just they're not getting paid yet, but the executive order outlining how they should get paid and how it should be calculated hasn't been passed yet. And there are precedents according to which that means this part of the law isn't applicable because of it.
I have to use it at work and it's a pain in the ass. The markup language is horrible, but it's a question of taste I guess. However some basic functions are missing; I couldn't find a way to list another user's contributions for instance. The ACL management is a pain in the ass. It lacks user-generated templates. The UI is rather bad.
Is there a good reason to pay that much money for such bad software?
Until recently (and probably today still) there was no mechanism to allow a IPv4 host to talk to a IPv6 machine, even if there is address space reserved for the former in IPv6. NAT64 was not being seriously worked on until recently, yet it's obviously absolutely needed; without it, IPv6 hosts need to be dual stacked, ergo have an IPv4 address. What happens when you have both? If IPv4 gets broken for some reason, nothing useful works, so it gets fixed. If IPv6 gets borked, you probably won't even notice because everything is still using IPv4. So in the end many theoretically dual stacked machines are actually single stacked.
Their software's so buggy and poorly designed, it's gotta be written by complete retards.
There is good reason not to review EMC -- so that people stop buying those piece of shit and sysadmin like myself don't have to endure the misery of having to make those monstrosity work.
I have to use that shit and it's obviously designed by complete morons. Seriously, I have to work with a spanking new SAN worth hundreds of thousands and it's so full of bug I can't imagine why people buy that crap. Oh wait I do know but I can't tell.
EMC's software is the most buggy, unintuitive, poorly documented and abysmally supported piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure to use. It is simply revolting. Considering how much it costs, it's mind boggling.
(Well, what could I expect from an appliance that runs on Windows 95?)
That's why the story sounds fishy, on an airliner you'd put that in the checked luggage; but what is checked luggage in a private plane? It doesn't make any sense.
It's pretty much out there as a scientific hypothesis, but even if it turns out to be true, it's pretty much irrelevant. What matters is not how oil is created, what matters is how fast it is, and where.
How fast, because we're using it up REALLY fast. The earth is billions of years old, and your hypothetical abiotic oil has been accumulating for that long, and we've depleted much of the easily accessible oil in 100 years. In other words, we're using it at least tens of millions of times faster than it's being created, if it's being created at all.
Then there is the where; the hypothesis implies that it's happening deep inside the crust, and basically all over the place. I.E. it's not in a convenient location, nor is it concentrated. It's not that we have to drill a few very deep wells, which is already extremely hard to do, but that we would have to drill millions of them.
Now there probably is a fraction of the oil that is of abiotic origin, but you have to be seriously deluded to believe that it's going to save us from peak oil, even in the best case scenario.
Reading magazines and books, browsing the web and casual email using while sitting on your couch, waiting at the doctor, flying, or in a train, or at a café. For 10h at a stretch.
Wait, are you saying I don't have a right to say it sucks because I haven't bought one, and don't want one?
Are you implying that I don't have a right to say you shouldn't pull uninformed nonsense out of your ass? Aren't you a little confused about the difference between "a right" and "being right"?
Works well enough for me, but if I wanted a portable device for book-reading, I'd start by looking for something with e-ink, at least
You clearly haven't tried both. E-ink is slightly better for novels (and I've read novels on the iPad, it's just fine), but it blows for anything with formatting / color / pictures. The iPad is awesome for reading PDFs. You can hold it with one hand while standing, it's just like holding a book; try that with your laptop. See how awkward it is.
There are things you can do with a laptop that you can't do with an iPad. That's not really a surprise considering the iPad is not and was not meant to be a laptop.
Similarly there are things you can do with a desktop PC that you can't do with a laptop. Who'd have thunk?
Anyway, don't buy one if you don't want one but don't go around claiming you know it sucks. It fills a very specific role very well. I tried reading books on a laptop -- it's not convenient. It works very well on an iPad, and the 10h battery life makes it very usable.
Have you/tried/ an iPad? There's nothing else like it right now, and for the next few months at least. Those that claim to be are complete crap (Archos), and/or have disastrous battery life (Windows-based tablet laptops), or do not exist yet (Android).
10h in full use is what I get. When the screen's turned off, like if I'm using it as an ipod with a bluetooth headset, I've had it run for 3h and stay at 99% battery.
Examine your own motives -- I wouldn't be terribly surprised that you're justifying the lack of Flash furiously only as a kind of Stockholm Syndrome because you want to justify your truly, truly crippled tablet computer purchase.
No. I hate Flash, always have. Use Flashblock. And before having an iPad I got an N900, and it proved without a doubt that Jobs is right, it's disastrous on mobile, esp. for battery life. And if you don't understand that battery life is one of the most important factors for mobile applications, it's no surprise you keep rehashing irrelevant nonsense.
Where the wine was produced makes a lot of difference to the taste
Well that might or might not be true, but that's not quite the purpose of AOC. They're very much like Trade Marks, which don't guarantee that Coca Cola(TM) will taste good but that it's really made by Coca Cola, inc. Here we're not talking about one company owning one trade mark, it's more of a collective ownership and responsibility, between the producers and people living in the area. You can't buy that "trade mark", except in as much that you can buy a property there. Just like a trade mark, if bad Champagne is sold it impacts all of them and risks ruinig their investment, so they an incentive to get their shit together.
Calling "Champagne" something that's not from there is similar to trademark infringement, trying to cash in on someone else's popularity, while endagering their reputation for your benefit.
You can't make cola and call it Coca Cola if you're not Coca Cola. That's even true if you happen to live in a town called Coca del Cola. You just pick another name instead of trying to trick the customer.
But sometimes you have to step back from the computer, and realize that much of what you do requires extensive expertise.
Installing Flash block? Installing an alternative browser? Knowing what Flash is? What Flash block is? What a browser is? Most people don't know. And therefore, most people will get their battery drained by that POS Flash.
And btw, I'm surprised at the number of Linux users here supporting this utmost POS Flash. And before you point out I have an iPad, that's my only piece of proprietary equipment, and I bought it because there is no similar product from anyone. until at least 6 months in the future.
Part of Sarkonazy's merry band of big content bitches propaganda was that it would not be costly to the taxpayer. This will make them look bad. Plus the more that shit is delayed the better the chances that it get quashed by the EU before it starts doing damage.
They're not walling off their web browser, they're walling off the apps. I don't like the latter. But Flash is much worse, because it's forced on you by stupid web designers (such as web sites you HAVE to use, like your bank's or a gov't org or airline), nobody's forcing you to buy apps.
That's what it feels when browsing a web site with flash on it on my N900.
And you don't always know that there's flash somewhere.
On the other hand, I'm glad I know I can trust my iPad to last for 10h of full use on a single full charge, even if that means that I can't see annoying ads or poorly designed websites.
If people have a poor experience with it, they'll simply turn it off. And that's a big part of why people are upset.
I don't see anyone upset here but Adobe astroturfers. Flash is a piece of shit on mobile. On my N900 it drains the battery in half an hour, while my iPad works for 10h of *full* use. Asking the user to "disable a plugin" is not user-friendly. And if it wasn't for Apple doing away with Flash, you wouldn't even be able to to "disable the plugin" without being able to use half the web.
And people are not upset, they're buying millions of iPod and iPad. They're also buying millions of Android devices, but certainly not because of Flash.
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In the latest local elections, the first since that law was passed, Sarko's party got disastrous results in the younger demographics. His MPs were freaked out by this, an insider reported. Now they're not exactly the most highly voting demo, but since Sarkozy's core constituency is the 65+, and they tend to eventually die, it does not bode well for 2012.
The loophole they're using is not actually a loophole. It's been repeatedly affirmed by the courts that when the gov't has to pay private companies when it passes laws requiring them to do work for them, if what is required of them is not part of their business. Example: wiretaps. Since they're not getting paid, they argue they don't have to do it. It's not just they're not getting paid yet, but the executive order outlining how they should get paid and how it should be calculated hasn't been passed yet. And there are precedents according to which that means this part of the law isn't applicable because of it.
I have to use it at work and it's a pain in the ass. The markup language is horrible, but it's a question of taste I guess. However some basic functions are missing; I couldn't find a way to list another user's contributions for instance. The ACL management is a pain in the ass. It lacks user-generated templates. The UI is rather bad.
Is there a good reason to pay that much money for such bad software?
Until recently (and probably today still) there was no mechanism to allow a IPv4 host to talk to a IPv6 machine, even if there is address space reserved for the former in IPv6. NAT64 was not being seriously worked on until recently, yet it's obviously absolutely needed; without it, IPv6 hosts need to be dual stacked, ergo have an IPv4 address. What happens when you have both? If IPv4 gets broken for some reason, nothing useful works, so it gets fixed. If IPv6 gets borked, you probably won't even notice because everything is still using IPv4. So in the end many theoretically dual stacked machines are actually single stacked.
Their software's so buggy and poorly designed, it's gotta be written by complete retards.
There is good reason not to review EMC -- so that people stop buying those piece of shit and sysadmin like myself don't have to endure the misery of having to make those monstrosity work.
Navisphere, I curse you.
I have to use that shit and it's obviously designed by complete morons. Seriously, I have to work with a spanking new SAN worth hundreds of thousands and it's so full of bug I can't imagine why people buy that crap. Oh wait I do know but I can't tell.
EMC's software is the most buggy, unintuitive, poorly documented and abysmally supported piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure to use. It is simply revolting. Considering how much it costs, it's mind boggling.
(Well, what could I expect from an appliance that runs on Windows 95?)
That's why the story sounds fishy, on an airliner you'd put that in the checked luggage; but what is checked luggage in a private plane? It doesn't make any sense.
It's pretty much out there as a scientific hypothesis, but even if it turns out to be true, it's pretty much irrelevant. What matters is not how oil is created, what matters is how fast it is, and where.
How fast, because we're using it up REALLY fast. The earth is billions of years old, and your hypothetical abiotic oil has been accumulating for that long, and we've depleted much of the easily accessible oil in 100 years. In other words, we're using it at least tens of millions of times faster than it's being created, if it's being created at all.
Then there is the where; the hypothesis implies that it's happening deep inside the crust, and basically all over the place. I.E. it's not in a convenient location, nor is it concentrated. It's not that we have to drill a few very deep wells, which is already extremely hard to do, but that we would have to drill millions of them.
Now there probably is a fraction of the oil that is of abiotic origin, but you have to be seriously deluded to believe that it's going to save us from peak oil, even in the best case scenario.
Then what, exactly, is it meant to be?
Reading magazines and books, browsing the web and casual email using while sitting on your couch, waiting at the doctor, flying, or in a train, or at a café. For 10h at a stretch.
Wait, are you saying I don't have a right to say it sucks because I haven't bought one, and don't want one?
Are you implying that I don't have a right to say you shouldn't pull uninformed nonsense out of your ass? Aren't you a little confused about the difference between "a right" and "being right"?
Works well enough for me, but if I wanted a portable device for book-reading, I'd start by looking for something with e-ink, at least
You clearly haven't tried both. E-ink is slightly better for novels (and I've read novels on the iPad, it's just fine), but it blows for anything with formatting / color / pictures. The iPad is awesome for reading PDFs. You can hold it with one hand while standing, it's just like holding a book; try that with your laptop. See how awkward it is.
Actually I did, ordered from a reseller in Hong Kong (not the dongle though)
Where can I find that?
I've been toying with an analog RX/TX camera, it costs about $60, plus I had to buy a $50 composite to USB dongle, which I then view on a netbook.
There are things you can do with a laptop that you can't do with an iPad. That's not really a surprise considering the iPad is not and was not meant to be a laptop.
Similarly there are things you can do with a desktop PC that you can't do with a laptop. Who'd have thunk?
Anyway, don't buy one if you don't want one but don't go around claiming you know it sucks. It fills a very specific role very well. I tried reading books on a laptop -- it's not convenient. It works very well on an iPad, and the 10h battery life makes it very usable.
Erm... Have you heard of tablet computers?
Have you /tried/ an iPad? There's nothing else like it right now, and for the next few months at least. Those that claim to be are complete crap (Archos), and/or have disastrous battery life (Windows-based tablet laptops), or do not exist yet (Android).
10h in full use is what I get. When the screen's turned off, like if I'm using it as an ipod with a bluetooth headset, I've had it run for 3h and stay at 99% battery.
Examine your own motives -- I wouldn't be terribly surprised that you're justifying the lack of Flash furiously only as a kind of Stockholm Syndrome because you want to justify your truly, truly crippled tablet computer purchase.
No. I hate Flash, always have. Use Flashblock. And before having an iPad I got an N900, and it proved without a doubt that Jobs is right, it's disastrous on mobile, esp. for battery life. And if you don't understand that battery life is one of the most important factors for mobile applications, it's no surprise you keep rehashing irrelevant nonsense.
not for the benefit of the customer (as in trademark law) and instead is for the benefit of the producer
Trademark law, for the benefit of the customer???
nt
Where the wine was produced makes a lot of difference to the taste
Well that might or might not be true, but that's not quite the purpose of AOC. They're very much like Trade Marks, which don't guarantee that Coca Cola(TM) will taste good but that it's really made by Coca Cola, inc. Here we're not talking about one company owning one trade mark, it's more of a collective ownership and responsibility, between the producers and people living in the area. You can't buy that "trade mark", except in as much that you can buy a property there. Just like a trade mark, if bad Champagne is sold it impacts all of them and risks ruinig their investment, so they an incentive to get their shit together.
Calling "Champagne" something that's not from there is similar to trademark infringement, trying to cash in on someone else's popularity, while endagering their reputation for your benefit.
You can't make cola and call it Coca Cola if you're not Coca Cola. That's even true if you happen to live in a town called Coca del Cola.
You just pick another name instead of trying to trick the customer.
But sometimes you have to step back from the computer, and realize that much of what you do requires extensive expertise.
Installing Flash block? Installing an alternative browser? Knowing what Flash is? What Flash block is? What a browser is? Most people don't know. And therefore, most people will get their battery drained by that POS Flash.
And btw, I'm surprised at the number of Linux users here supporting this utmost POS Flash. And before you point out I have an iPad, that's my only piece of proprietary equipment, and I bought it because there is no similar product from anyone. until at least 6 months in the future.
Part of Sarkonazy's merry band of big content bitches propaganda was that it would not be costly to the taxpayer. This will make them look bad. Plus the more that shit is delayed the better the chances that it get quashed by the EU before it starts doing damage.
when using the gstreamer-based libraries included, because it's hardware optimized.
Flash does not use them because otherwise they couldn't get to push DRM down your throat.
They're not walling off their web browser, they're walling off the apps. I don't like the latter. But Flash is much worse, because it's forced on you by stupid web designers (such as web sites you HAVE to use, like your bank's or a gov't org or airline), nobody's forcing you to buy apps.
That's what it feels when browsing a web site with flash on it on my N900.
And you don't always know that there's flash somewhere.
On the other hand, I'm glad I know I can trust my iPad to last for 10h of full use on a single full charge, even if that means that I can't see annoying ads or poorly designed websites.
If people have a poor experience with it, they'll simply turn it off. And that's a big part of why people are upset.
I don't see anyone upset here but Adobe astroturfers. Flash is a piece of shit on mobile. On my N900 it drains the battery in half an hour, while my iPad works for 10h of *full* use. Asking the user to "disable a plugin" is not user-friendly. And if it wasn't for Apple doing away with Flash, you wouldn't even be able to to "disable the plugin" without being able to use half the web.
And people are not upset, they're buying millions of iPod and iPad. They're also buying millions of Android devices, but certainly not because of Flash.
It's a plugin, and it's incompatible with the open web. Without the iPhone and its lack of Flash, we would see even more sites requiring Flash.