So you're saying that there is only one port. If I had to guess I'd say mini-usb or some slightly modified version of that. Given that have you checked to see if it is charging when you plug it into your USB jack on your computer? If it isn't charging there is likely something wrong with your computer (no power to the usb jack, or it's a USB 1.1 jack). The charger is just a usb power cable being stepped down from your outlet.
Maybe, perhaps, you just shouldn't be reading Slashdot at work. Chances are if your company doesn't want you to have the right to install a new browser they probably don't want you wasting time here.
That wasn't exactly the point of the post. You have no way of knowing right now if google is doing something illegal/unethical. The initial post for this thread mentions specifically that double clicks were being billed twice for several years. It was nice of them to tell us that after they fixed it, but how do we know something equally unethical isn't happening. Again, I would love to hear an ethical argument about why google should not provide detailed billing to its customers. You've provided a single business argument, the customer should be able to discover this information from their own web log. For marketing purposes that is correct, but from a financial perspective it is a completely moronic. If my web logs don't show as many hits as my bill might otherwise suggest what means do I have to prove that, will google listen to me at all?
Google does not pay per impression, they pay per click. This is the reason that click fraud is so frustrating. The parents suggestions are perfectly reasonable. Providing the person creating the add and paying google with a means to audit their bill is perfectly reasonable. Does your mobile phone carrier just sent you a bill at the end of the month with minutes used and a dollar amount? They provide you with a list of phone calls made (at least mine does). Having a bill that you can audit against your records gives the bidder peice of mind. There is no ethical argument against it. As is always the case with business...there is of course a business case against it.
Yeah, I loved my The Remains of the Day action figures when I was a kid. I would play with that thing for hours, serving dinner and speaking. What fun that was.
Well the primary reason to do this is that it's a very cool and interesting project. But the secondary reason is that it could spawn others to think about mass producing the idea. I live in New York City and if every building were using a system like this a huge amount of electricity could be saved. I'm sure a mass market version of this would require a considerable amount of R&D, but this has to be better for the environment than our current "Energy Saver" systems.
You're forgetting that battles fought without a concequence of death are almost always fun. There is a reason we have snowball fights as children and play semi-violent sports as you adults. Neighborhood battles are just one of the many fun things adults do with their time. Or do you just walk around battling your inner deamons?
Yes and no. Java has some applet security issues that require it to connect only to the server the applet was served from. Not a huge issues, but still not ideal. But the bigger problem you are overlooking is that while java and quicktime are quite ubiquitous they are not everywhere. I would argue that Java and Quicktime are still a less common denominator than flash, not to mention the download sizes of each of those. The first time you go to a page that doesn't have flash you are presented with a simple installer in both ie and ff. The download is 1MB and loads without a browser restart. I would also argue that people hate how long java takes to load, and even after it gets fixed in the VM people will have that negative association for quite a long time.
Have you ever stopped to think about why that might be? Let's see, what are the most common video formats:
Windows Media
Quicktime
Real Video
Now, which of these work on the majority of platforms without another plugin to download or better yet lots of dedicated custom streaming servers? Also, which of these provide a simple means to display multiple videos on a single page or can scale to the browser window size automatically? The flash video stuff is used because it's a least common denominator without all of the work associated with managing a true streaming server. Instead the flash client is responsible for pulling the content down dynamically and provides an easier way to provide custom controls to the end user.
I'm not saying this is the best possible solution, it has it's problems. Quality is far worse. CPU requirements go up. People end up downloading an entire video without watching all of it. Genius content providers can require flash 8 and exclude us linux users (despite the fact that google and youtube managed to do it with flash 7). But on the up side there are far more videos I can easily watch from linux using the flash 7 compatible video players than I could with the crash prone mplayer, xine or totem plugins.
Finally if your system is dropping frames it's you. Check your cpu utilization, is it spiking? If so something is wrong with your system. I'm running an Athlon64 3800 on linux running win2k in vmware running flash 8 in firefox and I'm seeing 5-10% cpu utilization for everything and I haven't seen a single dropped frame.
Heh, yeah I had the exact opposite reaction. Damn you only make $60k and you have an 850sqft apt, shit that's amazing. I've got to get out of NYC, my views on the value of things are going completely out of whack. For those not in the know an 850sqft apartment in my neighborhood is $2400-$3200.
Banshee - It uses mono so you might have some other philosophical issues to contend with, but it is generally a pretty good iTunes replacement if you don't have any iTMS purchases.
I work with a lot of large scale telco lines and just thought you would like to know that the incoming caller ID blocking is actually being done by the switched networks. If you get a toll-free T1 line with direct connecting 800 numbers every caller id is retrieved, even if you block it at your cell phone or your carrier. The main reason is that since you (as the owner of an 800#) are paying for the person to call you you reserve the right to know who they are (and possibly reject their call). I always thought that this was interesting.
Am I the only one who thinks that apple will just release a non-yonah based ibook.? I mean they want to have differentiation between the consumer and pro models. Why not release the ibook with "similar" specs to the current powerbooks with celeron or lowend pentium m processors? This will prevent major cannabalization of the current powerbook lines and allow them to release the yonah based powerbooks as the pro model they really are. Remember when the ibooks were g3 and the powerbooks were g4? That kind of product segmentation was the good old days as far as apple was concerned instead of having to make it about the smaller details (materials, graphics card, backlit keyboard).
Try emusic.com (look it's not even a referral link just the url). I like it so much I don't even care about the referral bonus for me! Seriously, even at the cheapest plan ($10/month) you get 40 tracks which is about $3/album depending on the number of tracks. It's largely independent labels so you aren't buying into the BS being shoved down the MTV/Radio tunnel of crap. Oh yeah and you get more tracks per $ with bigger plans and discounts on yearly purchases. God I should just get a job working for them.
I wouldn't complain about KDE/Qt's preferences if I didn't have to deal with them in such pain staking detail. For me the default settings are just not close to what I'm looking for. That being said they have gotten much better out of the box with 3.4/3.5 than they were for the 3.2/3.3 releases. I haven't felt restricted by the amount of flexibility in Gnome's preferences, do you have any examples about what you needed to go into the gconf editor for? Also, the settings that should be modified often have descriptions about what they do in gconf. I'm just curious to see what I'm missing in my preferences dialog.
Actually it has everything to do the KDE and Gnome. I run gentoo (I know I know), the default software stack is the one dictated by each of these desktops. I do not find the Gnome software stack to be overwhelming even with the extra web/email clients I install and so I have never had to edit it's menu. KDE has very much a kitchen sink approach to the default software stack and I feel completely overwhelmed by the amount of software in each section. The scary thing is that most other KDE and Gnome based distros have even more stuff installed by default than a normal KDE install which is completely insane to me. The only normal distro that I have seen that doesn't install everything in the world is Ubuntu.
Gnome isn't perfect neither is KDE. I personally find that I don't like the default settings for either desktop. The thing that turns me off of KDE as a whole is that even knowing already what I'm going to want to change it takes me forever to step through the mess that is kcontrol and to remove the mess that is every application under the sun from kicker. As a desktop I prefer Gnome, it does everything I need it to do without causing me much pain to get it to the point that I like. However, I still install KDE simply for konsole and kate the two apps I could not live without.
As a follow up to this, the secret to my success has been using the "fish" protocol in Kate for browsing/editing remote files. All of my work is balanced between web programming and C/C++ application development. Since neither of these tasks were meant to run on my fairly tweaked desktop system it helps to be able to edit remote files. I no longer worry about any kind of network lag that plagued my remote X emacs windows. For the record I actually run a GNOME desktop but for the reason stated above I use kate and for performance reasons I use konsole as my default terminal.
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So you're saying that there is only one port. If I had to guess I'd say mini-usb or some slightly modified version of that. Given that have you checked to see if it is charging when you plug it into your USB jack on your computer? If it isn't charging there is likely something wrong with your computer (no power to the usb jack, or it's a USB 1.1 jack). The charger is just a usb power cable being stepped down from your outlet.
Maybe, perhaps, you just shouldn't be reading Slashdot at work. Chances are if your company doesn't want you to have the right to install a new browser they probably don't want you wasting time here.
That wasn't exactly the point of the post. You have no way of knowing right now if google is doing something illegal/unethical. The initial post for this thread mentions specifically that double clicks were being billed twice for several years. It was nice of them to tell us that after they fixed it, but how do we know something equally unethical isn't happening. Again, I would love to hear an ethical argument about why google should not provide detailed billing to its customers. You've provided a single business argument, the customer should be able to discover this information from their own web log. For marketing purposes that is correct, but from a financial perspective it is a completely moronic. If my web logs don't show as many hits as my bill might otherwise suggest what means do I have to prove that, will google listen to me at all?
Google does not pay per impression, they pay per click. This is the reason that click fraud is so frustrating. The parents suggestions are perfectly reasonable. Providing the person creating the add and paying google with a means to audit their bill is perfectly reasonable. Does your mobile phone carrier just sent you a bill at the end of the month with minutes used and a dollar amount? They provide you with a list of phone calls made (at least mine does). Having a bill that you can audit against your records gives the bidder peice of mind. There is no ethical argument against it. As is always the case with business...there is of course a business case against it.
Yeah, I loved my The Remains of the Day action figures when I was a kid. I would play with that thing for hours, serving dinner and speaking. What fun that was.
Well the primary reason to do this is that it's a very cool and interesting project. But the secondary reason is that it could spawn others to think about mass producing the idea. I live in New York City and if every building were using a system like this a huge amount of electricity could be saved. I'm sure a mass market version of this would require a considerable amount of R&D, but this has to be better for the environment than our current "Energy Saver" systems.
You're forgetting that battles fought without a concequence of death are almost always fun. There is a reason we have snowball fights as children and play semi-violent sports as you adults. Neighborhood battles are just one of the many fun things adults do with their time. Or do you just walk around battling your inner deamons?
Yes and no. Java has some applet security issues that require it to connect only to the server the applet was served from. Not a huge issues, but still not ideal. But the bigger problem you are overlooking is that while java and quicktime are quite ubiquitous they are not everywhere. I would argue that Java and Quicktime are still a less common denominator than flash, not to mention the download sizes of each of those. The first time you go to a page that doesn't have flash you are presented with a simple installer in both ie and ff. The download is 1MB and loads without a browser restart. I would also argue that people hate how long java takes to load, and even after it gets fixed in the VM people will have that negative association for quite a long time.
- Windows Media
- Quicktime
- Real Video
Now, which of these work on the majority of platforms without another plugin to download or better yet lots of dedicated custom streaming servers? Also, which of these provide a simple means to display multiple videos on a single page or can scale to the browser window size automatically? The flash video stuff is used because it's a least common denominator without all of the work associated with managing a true streaming server. Instead the flash client is responsible for pulling the content down dynamically and provides an easier way to provide custom controls to the end user.I'm not saying this is the best possible solution, it has it's problems. Quality is far worse. CPU requirements go up. People end up downloading an entire video without watching all of it. Genius content providers can require flash 8 and exclude us linux users (despite the fact that google and youtube managed to do it with flash 7). But on the up side there are far more videos I can easily watch from linux using the flash 7 compatible video players than I could with the crash prone mplayer, xine or totem plugins.
Finally if your system is dropping frames it's you. Check your cpu utilization, is it spiking? If so something is wrong with your system. I'm running an Athlon64 3800 on linux running win2k in vmware running flash 8 in firefox and I'm seeing 5-10% cpu utilization for everything and I haven't seen a single dropped frame.
Heh, yeah I had the exact opposite reaction. Damn you only make $60k and you have an 850sqft apt, shit that's amazing. I've got to get out of NYC, my views on the value of things are going completely out of whack. For those not in the know an 850sqft apartment in my neighborhood is $2400-$3200.
Banshee - It uses mono so you might have some other philosophical issues to contend with, but it is generally a pretty good iTunes replacement if you don't have any iTMS purchases.
you just made my friends list.
What is your religious background again?
50% of the time it works every time.
I work with a lot of large scale telco lines and just thought you would like to know that the incoming caller ID blocking is actually being done by the switched networks. If you get a toll-free T1 line with direct connecting 800 numbers every caller id is retrieved, even if you block it at your cell phone or your carrier. The main reason is that since you (as the owner of an 800#) are paying for the person to call you you reserve the right to know who they are (and possibly reject their call). I always thought that this was interesting.
Sure they do. It's called the xbox 360, and man is that thing rock solid.
Am I the only one who thinks that apple will just release a non-yonah based ibook.? I mean they want to have differentiation between the consumer and pro models. Why not release the ibook with "similar" specs to the current powerbooks with celeron or lowend pentium m processors? This will prevent major cannabalization of the current powerbook lines and allow them to release the yonah based powerbooks as the pro model they really are. Remember when the ibooks were g3 and the powerbooks were g4? That kind of product segmentation was the good old days as far as apple was concerned instead of having to make it about the smaller details (materials, graphics card, backlit keyboard).
Try emusic.com (look it's not even a referral link just the url). I like it so much I don't even care about the referral bonus for me! Seriously, even at the cheapest plan ($10/month) you get 40 tracks which is about $3/album depending on the number of tracks. It's largely independent labels so you aren't buying into the BS being shoved down the MTV/Radio tunnel of crap. Oh yeah and you get more tracks per $ with bigger plans and discounts on yearly purchases. God I should just get a job working for them.
copycat's don't admit that it was someone else's idea.
I wouldn't complain about KDE/Qt's preferences if I didn't have to deal with them in such pain staking detail. For me the default settings are just not close to what I'm looking for. That being said they have gotten much better out of the box with 3.4/3.5 than they were for the 3.2/3.3 releases. I haven't felt restricted by the amount of flexibility in Gnome's preferences, do you have any examples about what you needed to go into the gconf editor for? Also, the settings that should be modified often have descriptions about what they do in gconf. I'm just curious to see what I'm missing in my preferences dialog.
Actually it has everything to do the KDE and Gnome. I run gentoo (I know I know), the default software stack is the one dictated by each of these desktops. I do not find the Gnome software stack to be overwhelming even with the extra web/email clients I install and so I have never had to edit it's menu. KDE has very much a kitchen sink approach to the default software stack and I feel completely overwhelmed by the amount of software in each section. The scary thing is that most other KDE and Gnome based distros have even more stuff installed by default than a normal KDE install which is completely insane to me. The only normal distro that I have seen that doesn't install everything in the world is Ubuntu.
http://betterdesktop.org/ - an ongoing and very recent usibility study.
Gnome isn't perfect neither is KDE. I personally find that I don't like the default settings for either desktop. The thing that turns me off of KDE as a whole is that even knowing already what I'm going to want to change it takes me forever to step through the mess that is kcontrol and to remove the mess that is every application under the sun from kicker. As a desktop I prefer Gnome, it does everything I need it to do without causing me much pain to get it to the point that I like. However, I still install KDE simply for konsole and kate the two apps I could not live without.
As a follow up to this, the secret to my success has been using the "fish" protocol in Kate for browsing/editing remote files. All of my work is balanced between web programming and C/C++ application development. Since neither of these tasks were meant to run on my fairly tweaked desktop system it helps to be able to edit remote files. I no longer worry about any kind of network lag that plagued my remote X emacs windows. For the record I actually run a GNOME desktop but for the reason stated above I use kate and for performance reasons I use konsole as my default terminal.
nvidia?
That's too funny, I read it completely differently. I was under the impression that:
I'm surprised he didn't end up dead
as:
I'm surprised I they didn't find him conveniently stabbed to death
As in people selling treatments making a lot of money don't like young doctors coming up and taking those profits away.