Yeah, and as we all know, everybody is still running on 56K modems and 10GB hard drives so we really need incredibly compact files. Oh, and all the babe pictures I download have to be 10K or smaller.
Put a sock in it. Web developers - and their teachers - need to stop emphasizing "small and fast" - most people are on DSL or cable these days and the Internet needn't be limited by the concerns of the Nigerians. If streaming full video puts pressure on the Net backbone, fix the goddamn thing.
Flash videos suck rocks.
The real problem are cheap bastards who don't buy enough bandwidth and don't buy enough or powerful enough servers. THAT'S why I spend hours a day waiting for some asshole's Web site to load a page. It's like being back in the 1970's with green screen monitors attached to mainframes - except I have color.
"If there's a band you love, don't pass up on the chance to see them live - before it's too late!"
I agree with you. My favorite band is The Corrs, and I totally by accident found out they were playing in San Francisco during their 2004 tour. I got tickets and saw the concert. Since then, they've gone on hiatus and it's not certain they will be back - and even less certain they will ever tour the US again. So I'm glad I got to see them at least once live.
Andrea Corr & Brian May performing "Is This The World We Created?" at the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Concert at Hyde Park on June 27th 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amG-3BiiEu8
Didn't I just say the other day their chipset drivers - at least the IDE ones - were crap? I spent a fair amount of time reinstalling Windows XP for a client on a box with the NForce chipsets, and it was the IDE drivers that were hosing the install.
Stick to graphics, Nvidia, maybe you know how to do that.
I just had to reinstall a Windows box the other day. It had an NForce chipset motherboard. I installed the NVidia IDE drivers and all hell broke lose. Windows would freeze up within two minutes of booting. A Google search showed numerous people with problems.
NVidia drivers are crap. Bastards need to get out of the chipset business and stick to graphics - where their drivers are also frequently crap.
I don't think testing is done by anyone - commercial company or OSS - on anything any more.
I updated to Firefox 3 from the openSUSE repositories, and have been using it for the last week. I had to uninstall it yesterday when the frustration got too great.
Firefox 3 has a serious right-click menu bug, wherein any right click you do may select any item on the right click context menu without bringing up the menu. Hard to believe this wouldn't have been caught in testing.
Also Firefox 3 locks up or crashes on about every third Web site, including sites I have no trouble with in Firefox 2. Can you say "LOUSY JavaScript support"?
For all the hype over Firefox 3, I knew there would be issues when I saw how compressed the time frame was from beta to release candidate to final release.
They simply didn't test the thing. I mean, some Windows users are complaining they can't open Gmail! Gmail! Probably the most heavily used Webmail service - and Mozilla couldn't test Firefox 3 with it?
Pathetic.
Since I had upgraded Firefox 2 to 3, I read where somebody suggested wiping the old profile and reinstalling. I did that - no change.
Firefox 3 is not read for prime time. I will not reinstall it until they get to Firefox 3.1 at least.
Never install a point 0 release of anything. The entire industry simply is incapable of producing a solid product on a zero point release.
First he needs to admit that he glossed over the My Lai massacre in Vietnam decades ago.
Then he needs to admit he was a "house nigger" for George Bush for lying to the world at the UN.
Once he's made enough mea culpas, he needs to denounce McCain as being "McBush 2.0", denounce the war in Iraq, distance himself from Obama on Iran, and then MAYBE - MAYBE - somebody should consider him as VP material.
In other words, if he'd grow some balls and stop being an enabler for war mongers, he might be suitable.
Naah...never happen.
And Obama wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, anyway. TWO black candidates for Prez and VP? They'd be nuts. Obama has a decent chance to be the country's first black President - but running another black for VP would be too much for even the liberals in this country. Obama's not that stupid.
Back in the 1960's, IIRC, neuroscientist Gray Walter hooked a guy up to an EEG that could control a TV set. The guy was ordered to turn the set on or off. The set turned on BEFORE the guy made the conscious decision to do so.
This is nothing new.
Your "conscious mind" is like your computer monitor. All it does is show you what your REAL "mind" decided to do, just like the monitor just shows you what your CPU is doing.
HP needs to kill HP/UX, IBM needs to kill AIX, and anybody else with a proprietary UNIX needs to kill it, and donate the source code to Linux. Including Sun with Solaris.
Had they done this ten years ago, Linux would be running the show now, instead of Microsoft.
The big companies have utterly no need for a proprietary UNIX that does nothing but jack up their development costs. Donate the existing code to Linux, wait until what fits and makes Linux sufficiently enterprise-level is adopted, then adopt Linux as their unified platform. Then they can devote development expenses to differentiating themselves with system management software, which is the sort of software open source tends to lag in producing.
By sitting on their asses, all they've done is give Microsoft an opening into the server market. Eventually the server market will be either dominated by Windows or shared equally with Linux, anyway. Nobody's going to care if the proprietary UNIXes go away as long as the necessary features from them are available in Linux.
"Firms will no longer need to own/maintain the boxes that they use to run their firm's apps. With no need to touch a box, there will be no need to have the IT staff co-located with the boxes."
How do you access the "cloud" without a computer next to you?
You have DSL embedded in your brain?
Get a clue. Companies may not have conventional desktop PCs in their offices, but they're going to have to have SOME sort of computing device - if nothing but a thin client or even just a flat screen terminal or a BlackBerry - to access the computing resources.
And those devices need servicing - if not much servicing.
Anybody who thinks computers are leaving offices is so frickin' deluded I don't know what to say.
Not to mention that your IT staff exists mostly to solve the problems with the SOFTWARE - not the hardware. And software problems aren't going away regardless of whether it's on the desk, on a server, or in the cloud.
Who deals with those problems may change. Companies may very well outsource their IT support - I am the outsource for my clients - but all that means is they'll pay more for less (except in my case, 'cause I'm cheap.) Their overall cost may go down, but in many cases they'll get poorer service because the IT staff servicing their problems isn't a member of the company or on site and thus has less comprehension of the company's needs. There's nothing like being on site and in daily contact with the staff to see what a company's problems are.
I'm curious - would that 30MHz be fast enough to run a Linux diskette firewall distro? Would seem to me if all it was doing was handling packets, it might be fast enough.
I've got an old Compaq Deskpro 4000 which is my "emergency backup" machine if my main machine goes down. I got it from a Veterans Administration donation from Macy's. It was probably seven years old when I got it, and it's been another seven years since I got it. I upgraded the 266MhZ CPU to a 400MHz Evergreen upgrade, added another 256MB of memory, and installed another hard drive. It still runs, dual-booting Windows 98 on one disk and Slackware 10.1 on the other. The Slackware is pretty slow, but it runs and is WAY more powerful than Windows 98. Puppy would probably do fine. When I get a new machine this year, my current machine will become my backup and the old Compaq will get retired for parts as it's too damn big to leave laying around.
"The U.S. will perform the same target preparation as for traditional targets and respect the law of armed conflict as Defense Department policy requires by analyzing necessity, proportionality and distinction among military, dual-use or civilian targets."
An estimated three hundred thousand Iraqi civilians directly killed by US military operations shows how wonderfully good the US military is at preventing "collateral damage".
I think the important part of the ending that explains it is when Avon accuses Blake of "betraying us - betraying me". That was the key. He thought Blake had sold them out. He had turned from a cynical selfish criminal into a revolutionary and follower of Blake. Then when he thought Blake had sold them out, his world collapsed. So he killed Blake in anger and disappointment.
It was then revealed that it was all a ploy of Blake's to recruit new members - but it might not have been entirely clear to Avon. But the smile and the over the credits gun shots indicated that he chose to go down fighting the Federation troops as either penance for killing Blake or for having failed altogether.
As you can see in the scene, Blake never made it totally clear TO AVON that he was still on the side of the Federation, although both the resistance fellow who gets shot and the Federation officer who was posing as a revolutionary knew. Blake was trying by telling Avon he was "waiting for you". And I think from the eye contact with Avon when he was dying that Avon realized the truth.
In any event, standing over Blake's body and raising his gun while VERY closely surrounded by Federation troops seems to make it clear that he deliberately killed himself by resisting.
You missed the point of the last episode. Blake didn't sell out the crew. He was faking that to recruit new members for his revolution.
It was Avon's equal misunderstanding of this that caused him to shoot Blake in the last episode. And I think Avon at that point realized everything was over, which is why he apparently committed suicide by pointing his gun at the surrounding troops.
Of course, it would be nice if they could rescue that whole scene in a new version, but probably best to let it lay and ret-con the whole series.
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On Linux, Firefox 3 randomly executes one of the right click menu items when you right click on an image to do a "Save As".
Since I download a lot of images, this makes Firefox 3 utterly useless for me. Until they fix it, fuck 'em, I'm not upgrading.
Yeah, and as we all know, everybody is still running on 56K modems and 10GB hard drives so we really need incredibly compact files. Oh, and all the babe pictures I download have to be 10K or smaller.
Put a sock in it. Web developers - and their teachers - need to stop emphasizing "small and fast" - most people are on DSL or cable these days and the Internet needn't be limited by the concerns of the Nigerians. If streaming full video puts pressure on the Net backbone, fix the goddamn thing.
Flash videos suck rocks.
The real problem are cheap bastards who don't buy enough bandwidth and don't buy enough or powerful enough servers. THAT'S why I spend hours a day waiting for some asshole's Web site to load a page. It's like being back in the 1970's with green screen monitors attached to mainframes - except I have color.
"If there's a band you love, don't pass up on the chance to see them live - before it's too late!"
I agree with you. My favorite band is The Corrs, and I totally by accident found out they were playing in San Francisco during their 2004 tour. I got tickets and saw the concert. Since then, they've gone on hiatus and it's not certain they will be back - and even less certain they will ever tour the US again. So I'm glad I got to see them at least once live.
Andrea Corr & Brian May performing "Is This The World We Created?" at the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Concert at Hyde Park on June 27th 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amG-3BiiEu8
the White House will be blown to smithereens.
Result: Martians hailed as liberators and greeted with flowers by a grateful Earth citizenry.
Meanwhile, Martians issue a deck of cards with the faces of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld on them as the hunt begins.
Then all they would have had to do is wait for Tuesday.
Didn't I just say the other day their chipset drivers - at least the IDE ones - were crap? I spent a fair amount of time reinstalling Windows XP for a client on a box with the NForce chipsets, and it was the IDE drivers that were hosing the install.
Stick to graphics, Nvidia, maybe you know how to do that.
I just had to reinstall a Windows box the other day. It had an NForce chipset motherboard. I installed the NVidia IDE drivers and all hell broke lose. Windows would freeze up within two minutes of booting. A Google search showed numerous people with problems.
NVidia drivers are crap. Bastards need to get out of the chipset business and stick to graphics - where their drivers are also frequently crap.
I don't think testing is done by anyone - commercial company or OSS - on anything any more.
I updated to Firefox 3 from the openSUSE repositories, and have been using it for the last week. I had to uninstall it yesterday when the frustration got too great.
Firefox 3 has a serious right-click menu bug, wherein any right click you do may select any item on the right click context menu without bringing up the menu. Hard to believe this wouldn't have been caught in testing.
Also Firefox 3 locks up or crashes on about every third Web site, including sites I have no trouble with in Firefox 2. Can you say "LOUSY JavaScript support"?
For all the hype over Firefox 3, I knew there would be issues when I saw how compressed the time frame was from beta to release candidate to final release.
They simply didn't test the thing. I mean, some Windows users are complaining they can't open Gmail! Gmail! Probably the most heavily used Webmail service - and Mozilla couldn't test Firefox 3 with it?
Pathetic.
Since I had upgraded Firefox 2 to 3, I read where somebody suggested wiping the old profile and reinstalling. I did that - no change.
Firefox 3 is not read for prime time. I will not reinstall it until they get to Firefox 3.1 at least.
Never install a point 0 release of anything. The entire industry simply is incapable of producing a solid product on a zero point release.
"Google as an organization is not geared -- culturally -- to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications."
And Microsoft is?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!
Now there's a fucking moron!
First he needs to admit that he glossed over the My Lai massacre in Vietnam decades ago.
Then he needs to admit he was a "house nigger" for George Bush for lying to the world at the UN.
Once he's made enough mea culpas, he needs to denounce McCain as being "McBush 2.0", denounce the war in Iraq, distance himself from Obama on Iran, and then MAYBE - MAYBE - somebody should consider him as VP material.
In other words, if he'd grow some balls and stop being an enabler for war mongers, he might be suitable.
Naah...never happen.
And Obama wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, anyway. TWO black candidates for Prez and VP? They'd be nuts. Obama has a decent chance to be the country's first black President - but running another black for VP would be too much for even the liberals in this country. Obama's not that stupid.
Back in the 1960's, IIRC, neuroscientist Gray Walter hooked a guy up to an EEG that could control a TV set. The guy was ordered to turn the set on or off. The set turned on BEFORE the guy made the conscious decision to do so.
This is nothing new.
Your "conscious mind" is like your computer monitor. All it does is show you what your REAL "mind" decided to do, just like the monitor just shows you what your CPU is doing.
That email alone destroys any credibility Microsoft ever had or ever will have.
If the CEO of the company can't use the goddamn thing, then nobody can.
I've said it here and elsewhere for years, and I'll say it again.
Windows is CRAP!
Linux is ALSO CRAP!
BUT Linux is FREE CRAP!
But it doesn't go nearly far enough.
HP needs to kill HP/UX, IBM needs to kill AIX, and anybody else with a proprietary UNIX needs to kill it, and donate the source code to Linux. Including Sun with Solaris.
Had they done this ten years ago, Linux would be running the show now, instead of Microsoft.
The big companies have utterly no need for a proprietary UNIX that does nothing but jack up their development costs. Donate the existing code to Linux, wait until what fits and makes Linux sufficiently enterprise-level is adopted, then adopt Linux as their unified platform. Then they can devote development expenses to differentiating themselves with system management software, which is the sort of software open source tends to lag in producing.
By sitting on their asses, all they've done is give Microsoft an opening into the server market. Eventually the server market will be either dominated by Windows or shared equally with Linux, anyway. Nobody's going to care if the proprietary UNIXes go away as long as the necessary features from them are available in Linux.
Don't break your wrist patting yourself on the back...
you fucking asshole.
Windows is unmitigated shit - and so is your company - and so are you.
Have a nice day.
"he thinks 'it certainly would spell the end of human life.'""
You say that like it's bad thing.
"Firms will no longer need to own/maintain the boxes that they use to run their firm's apps. With no need to touch a box, there will be no need to have the IT staff co-located with the boxes."
How do you access the "cloud" without a computer next to you?
You have DSL embedded in your brain?
Get a clue. Companies may not have conventional desktop PCs in their offices, but they're going to have to have SOME sort of computing device - if nothing but a thin client or even just a flat screen terminal or a BlackBerry - to access the computing resources.
And those devices need servicing - if not much servicing.
Anybody who thinks computers are leaving offices is so frickin' deluded I don't know what to say.
Not to mention that your IT staff exists mostly to solve the problems with the SOFTWARE - not the hardware. And software problems aren't going away regardless of whether it's on the desk, on a server, or in the cloud.
Who deals with those problems may change. Companies may very well outsource their IT support - I am the outsource for my clients - but all that means is they'll pay more for less (except in my case, 'cause I'm cheap.) Their overall cost may go down, but in many cases they'll get poorer service because the IT staff servicing their problems isn't a member of the company or on site and thus has less comprehension of the company's needs. There's nothing like being on site and in daily contact with the staff to see what a company's problems are.
I'm curious - would that 30MHz be fast enough to run a Linux diskette firewall distro? Would seem to me if all it was doing was handling packets, it might be fast enough.
I've got an old Compaq Deskpro 4000 which is my "emergency backup" machine if my main machine goes down. I got it from a Veterans Administration donation from Macy's. It was probably seven years old when I got it, and it's been another seven years since I got it. I upgraded the 266MhZ CPU to a 400MHz Evergreen upgrade, added another 256MB of memory, and installed another hard drive. It still runs, dual-booting Windows 98 on one disk and Slackware 10.1 on the other. The Slackware is pretty slow, but it runs and is WAY more powerful than Windows 98. Puppy would probably do fine. When I get a new machine this year, my current machine will become my backup and the old Compaq will get retired for parts as it's too damn big to leave laying around.
"The U.S. will perform the same target preparation as for traditional targets and respect the law of armed conflict as Defense Department policy requires by analyzing necessity, proportionality and distinction among military, dual-use or civilian targets."
An estimated three hundred thousand Iraqi civilians directly killed by US military operations shows how wonderfully good the US military is at preventing "collateral damage".
You can see the final scene here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY10pMsq3N8
I think the important part of the ending that explains it is when Avon accuses Blake of "betraying us - betraying me". That was the key. He thought Blake had sold them out. He had turned from a cynical selfish criminal into a revolutionary and follower of Blake. Then when he thought Blake had sold them out, his world collapsed. So he killed Blake in anger and disappointment.
It was then revealed that it was all a ploy of Blake's to recruit new members - but it might not have been entirely clear to Avon. But the smile and the over the credits gun shots indicated that he chose to go down fighting the Federation troops as either penance for killing Blake or for having failed altogether.
As you can see in the scene, Blake never made it totally clear TO AVON that he was still on the side of the Federation, although both the resistance fellow who gets shot and the Federation officer who was posing as a revolutionary knew. Blake was trying by telling Avon he was "waiting for you". And I think from the eye contact with Avon when he was dying that Avon realized the truth.
In any event, standing over Blake's body and raising his gun while VERY closely surrounded by Federation troops seems to make it clear that he deliberately killed himself by resisting.
for a second season. In case anyone didn't know.
It will be in the fall lineup, not the mid-season lineup next year. Day and time will probably change.
Cameron will be back!
You missed the point of the last episode. Blake didn't sell out the crew. He was faking that to recruit new members for his revolution.
It was Avon's equal misunderstanding of this that caused him to shoot Blake in the last episode. And I think Avon at that point realized everything was over, which is why he apparently committed suicide by pointing his gun at the surrounding troops.
Of course, it would be nice if they could rescue that whole scene in a new version, but probably best to let it lay and ret-con the whole series.
Who cares? The pig didn't like us anyway for calling him a pig.
Fuck him.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
When Transhumans come into the picture, you chimps are history.
And Transhumans don't care about history.
And good riddance.
This will accelerate the move to Internet video produced by independents and broadcast over the Net.
Let broadcast television continue its race to the bottom with reality shows, sports, and biased news.