Adobe expects a Linux version of the AIR runtime to be completed in the coming months.
Adobe's always limped along when it came to linux development. From what I've seen of their flash support, I'm not expecting anything much when it comes to air compatibility. Flash 9 for linux has been in beta how long now, and this is after a huge wait with no flash 8 and a buggy flash 7. Given that air's already available for windows and osx, but not linux, I don't see much reason to believe anything's changed.
Agreed. Audio/Video presentations of what could be run through much faster as a simple webpage or pdf is becoming increasingly common and annoying. Hearing people talk about code is like listening to the audio of a person making balloon animals.
I don't care too much if we're around, or dolphins for that matter. What I do care about is sentient life, animals able to contemplate their own consciousness. It's taken a really long time for that to evolve, and I'm not so certain that the planet has enough time left to get it into a tool using state, and off planet. Right now sentience has us as a representative. There might be more in space, but I do care that the only species we're a 100% sure of lives on. Dolphins, too, I care about for their place as a second tier species in regards to ourselves. They're very different, and not likely to ever get into advanced tool use due to their water bound state. But they're still a nice look into the mirror as far as language using mammals go.
Because they're immensely important to studying how consciousness works. We don't have a lot of ape species to experiment on, but the second tier on the cognitive spectrum is dolphins. Most significant in this aspect are the species which have diverged from the main lines long ago. This one in particular was very unique in that aspect, and we've never gotten around to properly studying it in that regard. Data on how consciousness both functions, and more importantly how it evolves, is now potentially unavailable.
If openmoko runs on something wifi, and gets the ability to use skype, I'm buying a device which supports it in a second. Both are deal breakers for me though, and I have to imagine a lot of other people. Not that the iphone meets the latter, but this device seems to meet the criteria.
CPanel? I can't even imagine the horror if cpanel tried to implement that as a default. I remember that thing used to run kicking and screaming through the servers on even the most minor upgrades at times, overturning services and overwriting files on a whim. Don't know if their developers have improved since I left the hosting game, but I recall 9/10 times something seriously screwed up on a clients vps it would be from them upgrading cpanel.
And those closed stores mean closed online accounts as well. The online experience with them was always subpar for me compared to netflix, with their only advantage the onsite extra rentals. We don't have a blockbuster in town anymore, so tossed our online account as well.
they can be repaired only for a fraction of the cost of a surgical operation.
I think the idea is that traditionally, the soldier would just die instead of being able to be kept alive long enough for an operation. With the end effect of a disposable soldier being much cheaper than the robot. This war has been the exception that showed just how costly our new ability to keep people alive actually is.
I respect older people who are technologically knowledgeable more and more every time an article like this comes down the pipes. Listening to Dawkins talk about how much fun he had anonymously watching and speaking to people, who were watching a recorded speech from him, online was literally awe inspiring. At a fairly high age as far as what the world was like in his youth, he's still seeing more to it than most of the western world's youth. And then, on the other hand, here we have someone so terrified of the new that he wants to tear it all down rather than figure out ways of letting it serve as a medium to further develop his craft.
And I think that's exactly what a lot of people are terrified about. I've bought a fairly large amount from itunes, and none of it's been from a riaa label. Pandora, lastfm, and word of mouth over the internet actually give me the chance to discover new music that would have been locked in a garage or small town ten years back. And itunes, and similar, the chance to purchase from them. It's a win for the consumer, but a huge loss for both the labels and the select few they decide to favor.
And it doesn't even have to be one or the other. We moved into a new town fairly recently, and it only took a few weeks for my wife to join a band here. Nor did that fact stop her from continuing to market her solo stuff online. Much in the same way that I can use a telephone on occasion, and yet the scary technology doesn't in any way prevent me from talking to people in person. I'm just hoping that I don't wind up like so many old people when I reach that age, railing against technologies I don't understand.
Are we not fawning over "celebs" enough? Not constructing enough temple record stores, to be preached to in a condescending manner if we pick up the wrong album? Are we actually daring to put their music in the same store as a lesser known artist? Or, perhaps his music might even be sharing the same server on itunes as one of us common ruffians?
What's been lost is trivial to what's been gained. I had a grin a mile wide when I realized that some of my favorite artists, talented but not at all well known or mainstream enough to get a label's attention, could be purchased from the same itunes interface as the latest plastic pop idol.
Aren't going to happen until artists in the medium, 'good' artists rather, decide to start working for free the same way coders do. Some artists will work for publicity alone, bu they seem to be by far in the minority. On a technical level, I've not seen much problem with linux. Ogre, for example, runs quite smoothly for me.
5/5 for the "Mac-like" marketing etoile often gets, 0/5 for their not capitalizing on it by actually getting some artists on board. Keeping everything so square and gray will continue to ensure that few people will use it. Dislike for the look is one of the few things I've ever seen both kde and gnome folks agree about when it comes to aesthetics.
a family of lawyers, I'd caution anyone tempted to think of this as an Us Vs. Them scenario. This kind of shit happens everywhere, and it's really only by having the protection of the guns of any particular country that you gain any measure of freedom past the average level that the man on the street considers the lowest possible. It sucks, but this is the reality of the situation. You've only got as much freedom as isn't either explicitly protected, or passed by when politicians make their rounds in "protecting" you against harming yourself.
Sometimes I dream of our country rising up and demanding that formal logic, or at least the top x logical fallacies, be taught around 5th grade. I suspect it'd make a huge difference in the world if the average person on the street had a solid background in the subject on graduation from highschool. As it is now, just as you say, someone's only going to get it at university level - if even then.
When I vote, it's usually to try to keep as much yelling as possible, and as little ability to actually do anything, as possible. It's sad we've reached that point, but it seems like the two evils are just too evil now.
Transforming like of bad food to not like, transforming not like of good food to like, transforming not like of physical exertion to like, transforming like of sedentary activity to not like. But at every turn, the brain itself resists change and makes this a very difficult struggle.
Strongly agreed on that. I decided to finally get myself in shape about...four years back now I think. Trying to set up conditioning for myself was one of the single most important parts. The bad food still tasted awesome but I stopped having a desire for it once I managed to feel disgust for eating it to a point where just looking at it would trigger those feelings.
Out of curiosity, how do you reconcile that belief with the studies which show only marginal differences in high fructose corn syrup consumption? I'll agree it looks good as a theory, and I was actually placing bets on it as well. None of the studies really seem to be panning out though.
Probably. Google's been unique in both its hiring practices, and business model which is heavily based on a perception of not being part of the old-boys club. It won't prevent them from joining such, but it should act as a painful barrier to contemplate walking through.
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Adobe expects a Linux version of the AIR runtime to be completed in the coming months.
Adobe's always limped along when it came to linux development. From what I've seen of their flash support, I'm not expecting anything much when it comes to air compatibility. Flash 9 for linux has been in beta how long now, and this is after a huge wait with no flash 8 and a buggy flash 7. Given that air's already available for windows and osx, but not linux, I don't see much reason to believe anything's changed.
Agreed. Audio/Video presentations of what could be run through much faster as a simple webpage or pdf is becoming increasingly common and annoying. Hearing people talk about code is like listening to the audio of a person making balloon animals.
I don't care too much if we're around, or dolphins for that matter. What I do care about is sentient life, animals able to contemplate their own consciousness. It's taken a really long time for that to evolve, and I'm not so certain that the planet has enough time left to get it into a tool using state, and off planet. Right now sentience has us as a representative. There might be more in space, but I do care that the only species we're a 100% sure of lives on. Dolphins, too, I care about for their place as a second tier species in regards to ourselves. They're very different, and not likely to ever get into advanced tool use due to their water bound state. But they're still a nice look into the mirror as far as language using mammals go.
Because they're immensely important to studying how consciousness works. We don't have a lot of ape species to experiment on, but the second tier on the cognitive spectrum is dolphins. Most significant in this aspect are the species which have diverged from the main lines long ago. This one in particular was very unique in that aspect, and we've never gotten around to properly studying it in that regard. Data on how consciousness both functions, and more importantly how it evolves, is now potentially unavailable.
If openmoko runs on something wifi, and gets the ability to use skype, I'm buying a device which supports it in a second. Both are deal breakers for me though, and I have to imagine a lot of other people. Not that the iphone meets the latter, but this device seems to meet the criteria.
I thought of killdozer.
CPanel? I can't even imagine the horror if cpanel tried to implement that as a default. I remember that thing used to run kicking and screaming through the servers on even the most minor upgrades at times, overturning services and overwriting files on a whim. Don't know if their developers have improved since I left the hosting game, but I recall 9/10 times something seriously screwed up on a clients vps it would be from them upgrading cpanel.
And those closed stores mean closed online accounts as well. The online experience with them was always subpar for me compared to netflix, with their only advantage the onsite extra rentals. We don't have a blockbuster in town anymore, so tossed our online account as well.
Oh no! Must, buy , dog! Or curtains, with a dog on them.
they can be repaired only for a fraction of the cost of a surgical operation.
I think the idea is that traditionally, the soldier would just die instead of being able to be kept alive long enough for an operation. With the end effect of a disposable soldier being much cheaper than the robot. This war has been the exception that showed just how costly our new ability to keep people alive actually is.
I respect older people who are technologically knowledgeable more and more every time an article like this comes down the pipes. Listening to Dawkins talk about how much fun he had anonymously watching and speaking to people, who were watching a recorded speech from him, online was literally awe inspiring. At a fairly high age as far as what the world was like in his youth, he's still seeing more to it than most of the western world's youth. And then, on the other hand, here we have someone so terrified of the new that he wants to tear it all down rather than figure out ways of letting it serve as a medium to further develop his craft.
And I think that's exactly what a lot of people are terrified about. I've bought a fairly large amount from itunes, and none of it's been from a riaa label. Pandora, lastfm, and word of mouth over the internet actually give me the chance to discover new music that would have been locked in a garage or small town ten years back. And itunes, and similar, the chance to purchase from them. It's a win for the consumer, but a huge loss for both the labels and the select few they decide to favor.
And it doesn't even have to be one or the other. We moved into a new town fairly recently, and it only took a few weeks for my wife to join a band here. Nor did that fact stop her from continuing to market her solo stuff online. Much in the same way that I can use a telephone on occasion, and yet the scary technology doesn't in any way prevent me from talking to people in person. I'm just hoping that I don't wind up like so many old people when I reach that age, railing against technologies I don't understand.
Are we not fawning over "celebs" enough? Not constructing enough temple record stores, to be preached to in a condescending manner if we pick up the wrong album? Are we actually daring to put their music in the same store as a lesser known artist? Or, perhaps his music might even be sharing the same server on itunes as one of us common ruffians?
What's been lost is trivial to what's been gained. I had a grin a mile wide when I realized that some of my favorite artists, talented but not at all well known or mainstream enough to get a label's attention, could be purchased from the same itunes interface as the latest plastic pop idol.
That, and the segment on electrolytes.
It's really odd how often that happens on slashdot. I mean common to the point where it doesn't even surprise me anymore.
Aren't going to happen until artists in the medium, 'good' artists rather, decide to start working for free the same way coders do. Some artists will work for publicity alone, bu they seem to be by far in the minority. On a technical level, I've not seen much problem with linux. Ogre, for example, runs quite smoothly for me.
I'd say he's in the clear. The patent office, on the other hand, needs a good kick.
5/5 for the "Mac-like" marketing etoile often gets, 0/5 for their not capitalizing on it by actually getting some artists on board. Keeping everything so square and gray will continue to ensure that few people will use it. Dislike for the look is one of the few things I've ever seen both kde and gnome folks agree about when it comes to aesthetics.
a family of lawyers, I'd caution anyone tempted to think of this as an Us Vs. Them scenario. This kind of shit happens everywhere, and it's really only by having the protection of the guns of any particular country that you gain any measure of freedom past the average level that the man on the street considers the lowest possible. It sucks, but this is the reality of the situation. You've only got as much freedom as isn't either explicitly protected, or passed by when politicians make their rounds in "protecting" you against harming yourself.
Sometimes I dream of our country rising up and demanding that formal logic, or at least the top x logical fallacies, be taught around 5th grade. I suspect it'd make a huge difference in the world if the average person on the street had a solid background in the subject on graduation from highschool. As it is now, just as you say, someone's only going to get it at university level - if even then.
When I vote, it's usually to try to keep as much yelling as possible, and as little ability to actually do anything, as possible. It's sad we've reached that point, but it seems like the two evils are just too evil now.
Transforming like of bad food to not like, transforming not like of good food to like, transforming not like of physical exertion to like, transforming like of sedentary activity to not like. But at every turn, the brain itself resists change and makes this a very difficult struggle.
Strongly agreed on that. I decided to finally get myself in shape about...four years back now I think. Trying to set up conditioning for myself was one of the single most important parts. The bad food still tasted awesome but I stopped having a desire for it once I managed to feel disgust for eating it to a point where just looking at it would trigger those feelings.
Out of curiosity, how do you reconcile that belief with the studies which show only marginal differences in high fructose corn syrup consumption? I'll agree it looks good as a theory, and I was actually placing bets on it as well. None of the studies really seem to be panning out though.
Probably. Google's been unique in both its hiring practices, and business model which is heavily based on a perception of not being part of the old-boys club. It won't prevent them from joining such, but it should act as a painful barrier to contemplate walking through.