Macromedia is serious about making Flash a "real" programming platform.
I don't believe this any more. Studio MX was the last real release of the toolset, and since then Macromedia releases have been DRM encrusted garbage. MX2004 was buggy on release and seemed have been rushed out solely to introduce product activation. I'm still embarrassed to admit that I was dumb enough to pay for that one.
From what I've seen as an ex Devnet subscriber, Macromedia has successfully made the transition from a cool tech company to a customer harassing, buzzword spewing, marketing company. Just the sort of scummy organization you'd expect to embed spyware in a flagship product, in fact.
There really ins't much else you can do with the calendar.
There may not be much more that you can do with a calendar, but there are plenty of us out here who'd like a lot more. A calendar which indexed all events in an area and made them available for searches like
"On Wednesday night I want a Korean barbecue meal at starting at 7:30, followed by [name of movie], then live funk music until 1am, then tapas bar for an hour or two, then karaoke till dawn and catch a train home when everyone else is going to work"
...and which would then find the events I wanted, put them into my schedule and give me an optimized map showing how to get to each location, would suit my lifestyle right down to the ground.
We already know we have way more than six senses. The idea that we only have six is one of those enduring fictions which we've inherited as part of our cultural mix.
Just try closing your eyes and touching your fingertips together. That's your sense of location working. Ever fly in an aerobatic aircraft? That strange feeling in your stomach is your sense of acceleration telling you which direction you're being shoved in. There are plenty more, if you care to think about them.
The headline is misleading though. The activity being measured in the tests;
"an early warning system -- one that monitors environmental cues, weighs possible consequences and helps us adjust our behavior to avoid dangerous situations."
is a consequence of analysis, not sensation. It looks like we have mechanism in brains which can reflexively assess and respond to novel dangers. Quelle surprise...
Even the relatively low speeds and high cost of broadband in Australia don't seem to be hampering the downloads.
That could be because it's not that slow and not that expensive any more. I have an 8 m/sec ADSL2 line which costs me A$50 per month. That seems competitive with what I've seen elsewhere in the world.
But usually, from an engineering point of view, is usually not a good thing to replace a fairly sophisticated system with problems with a system with even higher dergee of complexity.
True enough, but from a railways point of view, GPS is less complicated. The GPS units used on the locos integrate with systems like the Digitrac as transparently as transponders or track circuit systems do, but whereas the transponders require a large outlay in location boxes, power supplies, wired and wireless networking and so on, to get the data back to train control, the GPS solution is one cheap black box, cheap enough for considerable redundancy. The technology behind GPS may be considerably more exotic than the transpoder, but for the rail operator, it's much simpler.
Why do fools insist on going to high tech solutions when they can't even get the low tech stuff right?
Because they can't even get the low tech stuff right. The key failure points on rail systems are the switches & signals that control which section of rail the train is on, and the locomotives themselves which can stop, speed up or slow down.
Knowing precisely where a loco is on the track is the single most important aspect of rail safety, so that train control can switch a train onto another section of track, or into a siding to avoid collision, or can warn the driver to speed up or slow down to achieve the same result. In non-gps systems is this is done with trackside transponders and dead reckoning. A modern positive train separation (PTS) system based on GPS is simpler and more reliable than the transponders it replaces, and allows for more sophisticated controls such as automatic speed limiting.
It's also far from uncommon. Similar systems have been available for years.
They will offer variants of those scenarios. XP buyers will get a crippled version which will offer basic protection for Outlook and Explorer only and will probably do something unpleasant such as calling home (MS) every hour or so and disconnecting your internets if it misses a few connects.
There will be stern warnings embedded into the OS for home users who chose to use "unprotected" email clients or web browsers so that average users are scared off switching.
There will be a full version for sale which will work with other email clients/web browsers and will drop whatever anti-social behaviour is coded into the free version. It will avoid anti-trust issues by being priced as a premium product for enterprise users.
End result is more lock-in for MS and not too big a scare for the existing AV sellers. A win-win for everyone but the alternative email and browser makers, which makes it a big win for MS.
If they're having trouble finding a "gee whiz" selling point to entice buyers to the new system, this might be it. It would also be a good answer to the pirates - a solid reason why your OS would phone home and reactivate itself every few hours.
Just a quick heads up on this, the symptoms you're describing point to a condition called nasal polyps. They're a benign tumour and are faily common, so your doc should have checked for them.
If that's what you've had here (and even if its not), you should get to a decent doctor and get them to have a look. Polyps commonly recur even after the proper surgery, so its unlikely you've fixed the problem for long.
"...yet, be patient my pretty ones. Har ha ha ha har."
appended to it in bloood red letters that faded as I watched...
I wonder what it means?
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While there is some development going on, nothing really matches the quality of Cubase 3 or Logic Pro. And that's not to say that similar things can't be done with inferior software, but not with the same ease of use, quality, and precision.
It depends on your experiences I suppose, but Wired, Ardour, and Rosegarden do well enough for me when I'm using Linux. Audio is mostly a side-issue for my work, and I never really took to Cubase for some reason, so its not something I miss.
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The examples I am most familiar with are animation (as far as I know, no Linux program exists to create Flash animation, and the only 3d animation program I'm aware of is Blender), professional audio (fun with ALSA, anyone?), and graphics (aside from the GIMP issue, what about vector graphics and publishing?).
Flash for Linux, DrawSWF, Spalah Flash, SWF Tools gAnim8, and OpenOffice all do swf with varying degrees of utility.
I won't even try to list the 3d tools - there are hundreds, from POVRay frontends to full-on commercial packages like Maya. I find it hard to believe anyone seriously involved with 3D animation could fail to be aware the role of Linux within the industry. It's Dreamworks, ILM, Disney, Weta and Pixar's main platform, for fuck's sake.
There are plenty of pro level audio tools for Linux too. Just have a look on Sourceforge or Freshmeat.
Look mate, not knowing something is not a problem, but parading your ignorance when a couple of minutes with google would have enlightened you is just FUD-spreading. Give it a break, please.
Depends on how many engines you had to begin with, and how muuch overkill redundancy they built in really.
Hang on, lemme check... [looks left] hmmm two there [looks right] yep, another two there.
If I put those numbers into this here calculator thingy, thats... four, yep four engines on a 747.
Now, where's the owner's manual for this thing... yup here it is...
Well, wudda ya know, they reckon these here Boeings can maintan altitude with any two engines out. Who'd a thunk it ay?
Just subpoena the names of the people that the penis enlargement pill wholesaler has hired to advertise for them (force their cooperation with the threat of an accessory charge), and then prosecute the spammers into the dirt.
No, that's wrong. What you need is to follow the money trail to the people who are benefiting from the spam. That is, those who commission it.
If you make spamming a misdemeanour offence, but receiving income from the activities of spammers a criminal offence, just as receiving stolen goods warrants a more severe punishment than theft, then you will begin to have an effect.
It is not the idiots who buy from spammers you have to control. It is not the senders of bulk email you have to control (although I'd like to see some serious jail time for them, sending spam is too easy, and there will always be more who'll do it). It is the companies that pay for the spam and which derive the most benefit from the spam that must be charged and severely punished.
How about the forest fires that seem to regularly hit the west?
Off the top of my head, Australian firefighters have often volunteered to help in the fight against your forest fires. Cuban citizens volunteered to donate blood after 911.
The US probably doesn't need the sort of financial assistance most small countries could afford, but other help has always been there if it's needed.
You can keep your sarcasm. There are plenty of people and plenty of nations in this world who don't deserve your insults.
Yep, Grass doesn't have the cleanest interface out there, but since the OP had said nobody could use the data without an expensive app, I thought it would be worth mentioning a free (GPL) one.
There are a couple of other FOSS GIS projects out there (QGIS, KGIS?) as well, but I don't know what their current status is. As you say, they're unlikely to be able to compete with ESRI or Mapinfo.
Why not just put it into.hlp files like it used to be? I don't recall any security issues with those.
Not since December 27 2004, anyway...
"XFocus also reported a hole in winhlp32.exe, the Windows.hlp file parsing program. The vulnerability is forged from a decoding error within the.hlp header. A perpetrator can exploit the flaw by triggering a heap-based buffer overflow." http://www.esecurityplanet.com/patches/article.php/11778_3452081
plus how many people will actually download It or have teh software to open up the data anyways... that software aint cheap just check out http://www.esri.com/.
Here's part of the reason why they're having problems building decent software.
Todd: One of the things I do when I run a project is I never use the word "I." Even if you went back through every piece of mail I wrote for Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP SP2, you'll never see the word "I" in any of those emails, unless there was a specific reason for it. I'm just a believer in that if you want to get things done, the best way to do it is as a team. As part of XP SP2, we just assembled a virtual team.
Count the number of "I"s in this statement. If you're a manager who has a particular goal to achieve, there's no problem with showing leadership and taking personal responsibility for a project. When the culture of an organisation forces you to make delusional statememts like this one, you can be pretty certain accurate project metrics and reporting aren't high on their list of priorities.
There's a good chance that most, if not all of them will be too small to survive and even if some hit, it will be a number of small smacks, not one big WHAM
I think the problems will be caused by energy being imparted to the earth by millions of tonnes of rock at high velocities rather than the impacts with the ground.
What do you think the result of flash-heating the upper atmosphere to several thousand degrees for several hours is likely to be?
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Macromedia is serious about making Flash a "real" programming platform.
I don't believe this any more. Studio MX was the last real release of the toolset, and since then Macromedia releases have been DRM encrusted garbage. MX2004 was buggy on release and seemed have been rushed out solely to introduce product activation. I'm still embarrassed to admit that I was dumb enough to pay for that one.
From what I've seen as an ex Devnet subscriber, Macromedia has successfully made the transition from a cool tech company to a customer harassing, buzzword spewing, marketing company. Just the sort of scummy organization you'd expect to embed spyware in a flagship product, in fact.
There really ins't much else you can do with the calendar.
...and which would then find the events I wanted, put them into my schedule and give me an optimized map showing how to get to each location, would suit my lifestyle right down to the ground.
There may not be much more that you can do with a calendar, but there are plenty of us out here who'd like a lot more. A calendar which indexed all events in an area and made them available for searches like
"On Wednesday night I want a Korean barbecue meal at starting at 7:30, followed by [name of movie], then live funk music until 1am, then tapas bar for an hour or two, then karaoke till dawn and catch a train home when everyone else is going to work"
How hard would it be to chuck a Knoppix disk in your CD drive and boot from it?
Nice troll otherwise though.
Just try closing your eyes and touching your fingertips together. That's your sense of location working. Ever fly in an aerobatic aircraft? That strange feeling in your stomach is your sense of acceleration telling you which direction you're being shoved in. There are plenty more, if you care to think about them.
The headline is misleading though. The activity being measured in the tests;
is a consequence of analysis, not sensation. It looks like we have mechanism in brains which can reflexively assess and respond to novel dangers.
Quelle surprise...
Does anyone know of a CD distro that offers Tripwire or similar MD5 based integrity utility standard?
PHLAK linux has AIDE, which is similar to Tripwire. It's also a fairly handy diagnostic distro. Tool list here; PHLAK tools
Even the relatively low speeds and high cost of broadband in Australia don't seem to be hampering the downloads.
That could be because it's not that slow and not that expensive any more. I have an 8 m/sec ADSL2 line which costs me A$50 per month. That seems competitive with what I've seen elsewhere in the world.
But usually, from an engineering point of view, is usually not a good thing to replace a fairly sophisticated system with problems with a system with even higher dergee of complexity.
True enough, but from a railways point of view, GPS is less complicated. The GPS units used on the locos integrate with systems like the Digitrac as transparently as transponders or track circuit systems do, but whereas the transponders require a large outlay in location boxes, power supplies, wired and wireless networking and so on, to get the data back to train control, the GPS solution is one cheap black box, cheap enough for considerable redundancy. The technology behind GPS may be considerably more exotic than the transpoder, but for the rail operator, it's much simpler.
Why do fools insist on going to high tech solutions when they can't even get the low tech stuff right?
Because they can't even get the low tech stuff right. The key failure points on rail systems are the switches & signals that control which section of rail the train is on, and the locomotives themselves which can stop, speed up or slow down.
Knowing precisely where a loco is on the track is the single most important aspect of rail safety, so that train control can switch a train onto another section of track, or into a siding to avoid collision, or can warn the driver to speed up or slow down to achieve the same result. In non-gps systems is this is done with trackside transponders and dead reckoning. A modern positive train separation (PTS) system based on GPS is simpler and more reliable than the transponders it replaces, and allows for more sophisticated controls such as automatic speed limiting.
It's also far from uncommon. Similar systems have been available for years.
They will offer variants of those scenarios. XP buyers will get a crippled version which will offer basic protection for Outlook and Explorer only and will probably do something unpleasant such as calling home (MS) every hour or so and disconnecting your internets if it misses a few connects.
There will be stern warnings embedded into the OS for home users who chose to use "unprotected" email clients or web browsers so that average users are scared off switching.
There will be a full version for sale which will work with other email clients/web browsers and will drop whatever anti-social behaviour is coded into the free version. It will avoid anti-trust issues by being priced as a premium product for enterprise users.
End result is more lock-in for MS and not too big a scare for the existing AV sellers. A win-win for everyone but the alternative email and browser makers, which makes it a big win for MS.
I wonder if it will have antivirus and anti-spyware bundled in the default install. They bought Giant not so long ago, and now they're getting Sybari. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/08/yourmoney/m sft.html
If they're having trouble finding a "gee whiz" selling point to entice buyers to the new system, this might be it. It would also be a good answer to the pirates - a solid reason why your OS would phone home and reactivate itself every few hours.
So, tell me again how granting someone broadband wifi access is like giving them a loaded gun in an unlocked home?
So if a few million phish spams were traced back to your open access point, you'd cheerfully reimburse the victims for the cost of dealing with it?
You can't just say spammers shouldn't do things like that, because there's millions of inboxes full of evidence that they do do things like that.
There's your smoking gun.
Just a quick heads up on this, the symptoms you're describing point to a condition called nasal polyps. They're a benign tumour and are faily common, so your doc should have checked for them.
If that's what you've had here (and even if its not), you should get to a decent doctor and get them to have a look. Polyps commonly recur even after the proper surgery, so its unlikely you've fixed the problem for long.
I for one welcome our new Chinese half human scorpion pillaging parachutist overlords, if only for their entertainment value.
Yes, in fact I just checked their site, and their
"Do no evil"
slogan had
"...yet, be patient my pretty ones. Har ha ha ha har."
appended to it in bloood red letters that faded as I watched...
I wonder what it means?
While there is some development going on, nothing really matches the quality of Cubase 3 or Logic Pro. And that's not to say that similar things can't be done with inferior software, but not with the same ease of use, quality, and precision.
It depends on your experiences I suppose, but Wired, Ardour, and Rosegarden do well enough for me when I'm using Linux. Audio is mostly a side-issue for my work, and I never really took to Cubase for some reason, so its not something I miss.
There's a fairly comprehensive list of Linux audio here http://linux-sound.org/one-page.html if anyone's interested.
The examples I am most familiar with are animation (as far as I know, no Linux program exists to create Flash animation, and the only 3d animation program I'm aware of is Blender), professional audio (fun with ALSA, anyone?), and graphics (aside from the GIMP issue, what about vector graphics and publishing?).
Flash for Linux, DrawSWF, Spalah Flash, SWF Tools gAnim8, and OpenOffice all do swf with varying degrees of utility.
I won't even try to list the 3d tools - there are hundreds, from POVRay frontends to full-on commercial packages like Maya. I find it hard to believe anyone seriously involved with 3D animation could fail to be aware the role of Linux within the industry. It's Dreamworks, ILM, Disney, Weta and Pixar's main platform, for fuck's sake.
There are plenty of pro level audio tools for Linux too. Just have a look on Sourceforge or Freshmeat.
Look mate, not knowing something is not a problem, but parading your ignorance when a couple of minutes with google would have enlightened you is just FUD-spreading. Give it a break, please.
Depends on how many engines you had to begin with, and how muuch overkill redundancy they built in really.
Hang on, lemme check... [looks left] hmmm two there [looks right] yep, another two there.
If I put those numbers into this here calculator thingy, thats... four, yep four engines on a 747.
Now, where's the owner's manual for this thing... yup here it is...
Well, wudda ya know, they reckon these here Boeings can maintan altitude with any two engines out. Who'd a thunk it ay?
it is exactly half way through Melbourne's 3 month summer season now
3 Months? Melbourne has all four seasons in a day, then it rains for the rest of the year...
You're better off migrating to one of the more sensible parts of Australia where we experience climate rather than weather.
Just subpoena the names of the people that the penis enlargement pill wholesaler has hired to advertise for them (force their cooperation with the threat of an accessory charge), and then prosecute the spammers into the dirt.
No, that's wrong. What you need is to follow the money trail to the people who are benefiting from the spam. That is, those who commission it.
If you make spamming a misdemeanour offence, but receiving income from the activities of spammers a criminal offence, just as receiving stolen goods warrants a more severe punishment than theft, then you will begin to have an effect.
It is not the idiots who buy from spammers you have to control. It is not the senders of bulk email you have to control (although I'd like to see some serious jail time for them, sending spam is too easy, and there will always be more who'll do it). It is the companies that pay for the spam and which derive the most benefit from the spam that must be charged and severely punished.
How about the forest fires that seem to regularly hit the west?
Off the top of my head, Australian firefighters have often volunteered to help in the fight against your forest fires. Cuban citizens volunteered to donate blood after 911.
The US probably doesn't need the sort of financial assistance most small countries could afford, but other help has always been there if it's needed.
You can keep your sarcasm. There are plenty of people and plenty of nations in this world who don't deserve your insults.
Yep, Grass doesn't have the cleanest interface out there, but since the OP had said nobody could use the data without an expensive app, I thought it would be worth mentioning a free (GPL) one.
There are a couple of other FOSS GIS projects out there (QGIS, KGIS?) as well, but I don't know what their current status is. As you say, they're unlikely to be able to compete with ESRI or Mapinfo.
Why not just put it into .hlp files like it used to be? I don't recall any security issues with those.
.hlp file parsing program. The vulnerability is forged from a decoding error within the .hlp header. A perpetrator can exploit the flaw by triggering a heap-based buffer overflow."p /11778_3452081
Not since December 27 2004, anyway...
"XFocus also reported a hole in winhlp32.exe, the Windows
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/patches/article.ph
plus how many people will actually download It or have teh software to open up the data anyways... that software aint cheap just check out http://www.esri.com/.
It aint just cheap, it's free (as in beer). Check out http://grass.itc.it/index.php
Here's part of the reason why they're having problems building decent software.
Todd:
One of the things I do when I run a project is I never use the word "I." Even if you went back through every piece of mail I wrote for Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP SP2, you'll never see the word "I" in any of those emails, unless there was a specific reason for it. I'm just a believer in that if you want to get things done, the best way to do it is as a team. As part of XP SP2, we just assembled a virtual team.
Count the number of "I"s in this statement. If you're a manager who has a particular goal to achieve, there's no problem with showing leadership and taking personal responsibility for a project. When the culture of an organisation forces you to make delusional statememts like this one, you can be pretty certain accurate project metrics and reporting aren't high on their list of priorities.
There's a good chance that most, if not all of them will be too small to survive and even if some hit, it will be a number of small smacks, not one big WHAM
I think the problems will be caused by energy being imparted to the earth by millions of tonnes of rock at high velocities rather than the impacts with the ground.
What do you think the result of flash-heating the upper atmosphere to several thousand degrees for several hours is likely to be?