Proxomitron, the ad blocker software, can identify any browser you have as anything you like. The default is Space Bison. (Unfortunately, I don't think there is a Linux version.)
Yes, a big, old technology heat sink would be necessary to draw away the heat just a short distance from the cooling area. The heat is moved only a short distance, even if you believe the article. At that short distance, you would have the same problem of the heat you started with, plus that introduced by the inefficiency of the device, and you've paid someone some money.
It surprises me to read the comments above. Most readers don't seem to have much understanding of the basic issues of science.
This is a hoax. Maybe the press release is the result of someone hacking the Boeing web site. Maybe someone paid a Boeing employee to post it. Maybe some evauluator at Boeing was genuinely fooled.
Note the date of the press release: SEAL BEACH, Nov. 30, 2001. If this were real, we'd be seeing it on TV news stories.
File this story with super-efficient data compression, a story that appeared last year on Slashdot.
The moderation is becoming ridiculous!!!!!! How can you call the parent post to this one off topic!!! There are at least 10 posts above about french fries that are not marked off topic!!
This is on topic! It sensibly points out that local cooling of semiconductors has difficulties, so don't expect an efficient cooler, like the one in the story, to make a huge difference!!!!!!!
Re:Support, Support, Support
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Interesting. I can imagine that would make a difference if you have a lot of employees. It doesn't take very many hassles to cost a company more than the cost of Star Office.
It doesn't seem like much, does it? If you need a database, use Postgres. I've never used clipart, and I have a library of 14 CDs of clipart. I don't need Asian fonts, or Asian sorting. And, "certain file filters" is "uncertain file filters" until it is explained. (I understand that there are WP8 filters.) That's it? That's the only differences?
Except that Microsoft would probably obfuscate that, also.
I don't understand the difference, either.
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I don't understand the difference, either.
From the Star Office web site, "A single-user license lets you load the StarOffice office suite onto as many as five individual workstations or PCs..."
Nice licensing, but it doesn't compare with Open Office's unlimited multiple-user licenses for free.
Also, from the Star Office web site, "Through the OpenOffice.org Project, Sun has made full use of feedback from highly talented open source programmers. The StarOffice 6.0 suite shares a codebase with the OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite, future enhancement to the base source code are planned to be available, providing the best of both worlds to users."
Sun has certainly done everyone in the world community a great service by open sourcing Star Office, but it has not explained the difference between its version and Open Office.
I just hate glib marketing writing like this. Certainly the web site writer knew what we wanted to know. Why not just tell us?
What we have now: "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway
where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a
negative side." -- Hunter S Thompson
Compulsory licensing is a great idea. We have that now with radio play and with some kinds of patents. We would apply directly to the artist, or to the artist's designated representative, for a license. Instead of a band making 2 cents an album, it would get all the money.
I agree. One problem with Flash is that web designers are rarely good
cinemetographers.
Another is that web designers rarely take the time to consider all the
programming issues of making Flash actually work in the real world.
A third problem is that, even if a web designer is an extremely knowledgeable
programmer, and a great cinematographer, there are browsers that deliberately
mis-identify themselves. Opera can be one of them. There is a menu option to
identify Opera as anything you like. And Opera is arguably the world's most
convenient browser.
The excellent free ad removal tool, The
Proxomitron (or here, The
Proxomitron), identifies whatever browser you use as "Space Bison". It is
a woolly world out there, and we should not pretend that we are ready for
a particular technology when we aren't.
This is the issue: Do you want some of your customers to get error messages,
or bad displays? If you don't want to make this sacrifice, then Flash
technology is not quite there yet.
You aren't taking a view different than yours sufficiently seriously, in my
opinion.
You said, "I would give you a list of names, many of whom you would know if
you had a life - but I won't, because I don't think your even qualified to
make judgement on them."
I make the statements I make because I have been following the issues, not
because I haven't. If I had not been following the issues, I would not know
enough to care.
I have, for example, followed the careers of Roger Black (DaniloBlack.com) and
Hillman Curtis (HillmanCurtis.com). Both of them have used Flash in a way that
I think were poor marketing.
One of the biggest problems with Flash is not Flash itself, but the poor
abilities of people who try to author motion pictures for the first time.
Here is an example of some fairly good work in Flash by Hillman Curtis:
HP Ad The biggest problem with Flash is that people use it for unncessary
motion. In this case Hillman Curtis made a fairly good movie. But it still
looks amateur compared to the images we see on television every day. That's a
huge problem: Customers unconsciously compare Flash moving pictures with
regular moving pictures, and Flash often looks, comparatively, dorky.
You said, "Thats makes complete business sense doesnt it. Good thinking
sherlock ! Macromedia realy wants to piss off its developmet comunities - the
comunitys that use and are passionate about they're products. You realy do
have so little understanding of the web.
"
You are missing the point. Macromedia is collecting your customer's web site
addresses for some reason. What is the reason? What would the company do if it
fell in financial hard times, and the survival of the company depended on
selling the web addresses? The sale could be hidden. AOL had disloyal
employees who sold AOL customer information and company proprietary
information. This could happen at Macromedia. The fact that they collect this
information suggests that they can conceive of using it.
100 Kilobytes is a lot just to "save the state of the user's computer". There is indeed something fishy in the story Slashdot calls "Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features". If you are a programmer, it is easy to guess that something is being planned that is not being discussed on the Macromedia web site.
Cookies are not a problem in themselves, but when they are used by determined organizations to cross-reference computer use, can be used to discover information far more extensive than any one cookie stores.
Most people are honest, and have difficulty thinking like the crooks, and don't have the technical knowledge to understand the issues. So, they have difficulty imagining the way that cookies are actually used sometimes.
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You pay $20 per month. He is talking about $20 per year.
Proxomitron, the ad blocker software, can identify any browser you have as anything you like. The default is Space Bison. (Unfortunately, I don't think there is a Linux version.)
A supercooler ain't nothing! The same company has a revolutionary new motor.
Can a lightweight Brooklyn Bridge be far behind? Investors wanted!
Sounds interesting? That ain't nothing! The same company has a revolutionary new motor.
Can a lightweight Brooklyn Bridge be far behind? Investors wanted!
Yes, a big, old technology heat sink would be necessary to draw away the heat just a short distance from the cooling area. The heat is moved only a short distance, even if you believe the article. At that short distance, you would have the same problem of the heat you started with, plus that introduced by the inefficiency of the device, and you've paid someone some money.
It surprises me to read the comments above. Most readers don't seem to have much understanding of the basic issues of science.
This is a hoax. Maybe the press release is the result of someone hacking the Boeing web site. Maybe someone paid a Boeing employee to post it. Maybe some evauluator at Boeing was genuinely fooled.
Note the date of the press release: SEAL BEACH, Nov. 30, 2001. If this were real, we'd be seeing it on TV news stories.
File this story with super-efficient data compression, a story that appeared last year on Slashdot.
The moderation is becoming ridiculous!!!!!! How can you call the parent post to this one off topic!!! There are at least 10 posts above about french fries that are not marked off topic!!
This is on topic! It sensibly points out that local cooling of semiconductors has difficulties, so don't expect an efficient cooler, like the one in the story, to make a huge difference!!!!!!!
Interesting. I can imagine that would make a difference if you have a lot of employees. It doesn't take very many hassles to cost a company more than the cost of Star Office.
It doesn't seem like much, does it? If you need a database, use Postgres. I've never used clipart, and I have a library of 14 CDs of clipart. I don't need Asian fonts, or Asian sorting. And, "certain file filters" is "uncertain file filters" until it is explained. (I understand that there are WP8 filters.) That's it? That's the only differences?
If you use FTP, try FileZilla. It's open source and better than commercial products.
Look at Preferences/Your Info. Your karma has probably just reached 30.
I've heard that, but I looked in several places on their web site, and didn't find it.
Except that Microsoft would probably obfuscate that, also.
I don't understand the difference, either.
From the Star Office web site, "A single-user license lets you load the StarOffice office suite onto as many as five individual workstations or PCs..."
Nice licensing, but it doesn't compare with Open Office's unlimited multiple-user licenses for free.
Also, from the Star Office web site, "Through the OpenOffice.org Project, Sun has made full use of feedback from highly talented open source programmers. The StarOffice 6.0 suite shares a codebase with the OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite, future enhancement to the base source code are planned to be available, providing the best of both worlds to users."
Sun has certainly done everyone in the world community a great service by open sourcing Star Office, but it has not explained the difference between its version and Open Office.
I just hate glib marketing writing like this. Certainly the web site writer knew what we wanted to know. Why not just tell us?
Thanks for the link to the correction.
Thanks.
What we have now: "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter S Thompson
Compulsory licensing is a great idea. We have that now with radio play and with some kinds of patents. We would apply directly to the artist, or to the artist's designated representative, for a license. Instead of a band making 2 cents an album, it would get all the money.
Remember, SCSI may actually be slower on a single-user system. SCSI is faster in systems with simultaneous requests from many users.
Well written story.
I agree. One problem with Flash is that web designers are rarely good cinemetographers.
Another is that web designers rarely take the time to consider all the programming issues of making Flash actually work in the real world.
A third problem is that, even if a web designer is an extremely knowledgeable programmer, and a great cinematographer, there are browsers that deliberately mis-identify themselves. Opera can be one of them. There is a menu option to identify Opera as anything you like. And Opera is arguably the world's most convenient browser.
The excellent free ad removal tool, The Proxomitron (or here, The Proxomitron), identifies whatever browser you use as "Space Bison". It is a woolly world out there, and we should not pretend that we are ready for a particular technology when we aren't.
This is the issue: Do you want some of your customers to get error messages, or bad displays? If you don't want to make this sacrifice, then Flash technology is not quite there yet.
You aren't taking a view different than yours sufficiently seriously, in my opinion.
You said, "I would give you a list of names, many of whom you would know if you had a life - but I won't, because I don't think your even qualified to make judgement on them."
I make the statements I make because I have been following the issues, not because I haven't. If I had not been following the issues, I would not know enough to care.
I have, for example, followed the careers of Roger Black (DaniloBlack.com) and Hillman Curtis (HillmanCurtis.com). Both of them have used Flash in a way that I think were poor marketing.
One of the biggest problems with Flash is not Flash itself, but the poor abilities of people who try to author motion pictures for the first time.
Here is an example of some fairly good work in Flash by Hillman Curtis: HP Ad The biggest problem with Flash is that people use it for unncessary motion. In this case Hillman Curtis made a fairly good movie. But it still looks amateur compared to the images we see on television every day. That's a huge problem: Customers unconsciously compare Flash moving pictures with regular moving pictures, and Flash often looks, comparatively, dorky.
You said, "Thats makes complete business sense doesnt it. Good thinking sherlock ! Macromedia realy wants to piss off its developmet comunities - the comunitys that use and are passionate about they're products. You realy do have so little understanding of the web. "
You are missing the point. Macromedia is collecting your customer's web site addresses for some reason. What is the reason? What would the company do if it fell in financial hard times, and the survival of the company depended on selling the web addresses? The sale could be hidden. AOL had disloyal employees who sold AOL customer information and company proprietary information. This could happen at Macromedia. The fact that they collect this information suggests that they can conceive of using it.
100 Kilobytes is a lot just to "save the state of the user's computer". There is indeed something fishy in the story Slashdot calls "Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features". If you are a programmer, it is easy to guess that something is being planned that is not being discussed on the Macromedia web site.
Cookies are not a problem in themselves, but when they are used by determined organizations to cross-reference computer use, can be used to discover information far more extensive than any one cookie stores.
Most people are honest, and have difficulty thinking like the crooks, and don't have the technical knowledge to understand the issues. So, they have difficulty imagining the way that cookies are actually used sometimes.
The Slashdot software is failing. Please read the entire thread to see my answer to your most recent comment.
My comment below your comment should have been posted as a reply to your comment.
The Slashdot software has been a bit buggy lately. It has also been eliminating recent comments from the list of old comments, and keeping old ones.
My comment below your comment should have been posted as a reply to your comment.
The Slashdot software has been a bit buggy lately. It has also been eliminating recent comments from the list of old comments, and keeping old ones.