After Mayor Daley shut down Meigs Field, I basically lost all respect for the government running the city. Then you look at the more recent Parking Meter deal that went into effect and you wonder how the city still operates.
I'd like to second that motion. The same thing goes for encryption used for wireless routers. When a non-tech friend is setting up a new wireless router and is setting up the encryption part, they just see a list of 3 and 4 letter words they don't understand. And the only reason I know which is the best to pick is reading around the web to know which are easy to crack.
I'd agree with you on this one. If I remember correctly, the US only accounts for 20% (maybe less) of all iPhones in the world. And seeing that iTunes Stores vary per country/region, varying the iPhone apps for those regions should be just as easy.
I think it's more about letting another company handle your company's email. There is so much critical information about a company in their email, why would they trust it to any external company, even if it is Google. Also, I'm unfamiliar with how Google handles data retention of email. Outlook allows some backup of emails at the IT level of all company emails (included deleted ones).
I know I wouldn't want to have my company give up control of it's email to Google (5000 person company).
One of the server techs from Twitter was at SXSW 2 years and gave some details about how their backend servers worked. If I remember correctly (there were 4 sites on the panel, so I may be confusing them with someone else), the original code was written in Ruby on Rails which did not scale well to the multi-server systems that they had setup. They have spent a lot of time improving their code over the years, but from what I could tell, their initial implementation wasn't the most thought out thing in the world.
I actually love it for work. The amount I search email and documents, it does a great job. You have to remember that it isn't just a plain txt file search, but it indexes doc and your outlook information. Being able to type in my last name and get a list of 68000 items in 1-2 seconds is pretty sweet.
I've tried Google Desktop as well, but just wasn't as much of a fan. I had a harder time getting it to index properly and do what I wanted. WS4 gives you some pretty fine grain control over what and where it indexes.
I think this is a push for people that don't understand you can whitelist sites. I suggest Adblock Plus to a lot of my friends, some of which aren't the most computer literate people. I can understand the need behind this feature.
He misses one key point in the analogy. So vux984 lets his friend put his endorsement on his friends product. The one key part is that vux984 will make money on every system his friend sells. vux984 has a vested interest in having his friend sell as many systems as possible.
I did the the old fashion way, and went home for a bit and watched on my TV. It's times like this where the internet just isn't setup to handle. TV is great at distributing the same stream to million and millions of people. While the Internet is built around the concept of everyone having a unique connection to services.
There are many ways to download Youtube videos. Standalone programs, Greasemonkey scripts, Firefox addons. Though, I wish they would add a "download" button. But I doubt they will do that so they can keep attracting people back to their site.
The codec that flash uses to play is playable outside of flash. The VLC player has the ability to play.flv files. But you are correct that it is not a totally open-source format. It should also noted that some of the high-quality videos you download from Youtube will be H.264 (mp4) rather than FLV.
I wish I had mod points for you. People on here and digg seem to think the solution to the problem yesterday would have been to release it on BitTorrent, when the bottleneck was the registration servers, not the download servers.
BitTorrent is a cool technology and everything, but people need to stop being so blind as to think it will solve all problems.
I'm thinking Microsoft has wised up after the Vista debacle with hardware support. Once Windows 7 hits beta, MS will do their best to keep the APIs the same. My company does some driver development and support for some MS Server services and we like to start at least testing with new OSes as soon as possible so we have an idea of what kind of work is going to be needed to get our stuff to work with the next version of windows.
Also, for everyone that bitches about Windows changing their API so regularly, you should look at your little child called Linux. If you are a hardware or software vendor that writes drivers for the Linux kernel and do not have your driver integrated into the kernel, it is extremely painful to maintain. Much more so than Windows ever has been. I did a year of driver development support SUSE and Redhat releases with our out-of-box driver, and the amount of API changes in some of the base level kernel interfaces is down right sickening. Sure you can say "why not submit the driver as a patch"... well, if you designed your driver in a way that doesn't fit the model the Linux bigwigs want, there is little to no way it will be accepted.
As much as people give Microsoft shit for their OS, I find them to be much more friendly and easy to work with when it comes to writing device drivers for their OS.
To Tigole: New dances and emotes, are we ever going to get them for World of Warcraft? Blizzard collected feedback for additional emotes back in fall 2006 and we have yet to see a slue of new ones added. As for dances, it was mentioned in the initial press released for Wrath of the Lich King and then went silent.
Sure it's a public process, but there is a lot of money to be made with each and every vote that states have. It could possibly give their competitors an advantage, so it seems someone reasonable. Until State or Federal Congress passes a law requiring voting systems to be open, I would expect judges to rule the way we saw in this case.
I've been playing WotLK on and off for 4 months now (alpha/beta) and seen it come a long ways in that time. When they first made it "public" only a few classes had new talents and abilities, some of which did not even work. Much of the landscape was unfinished (Dalaran barely even existed in the early patches).
They need to clean up some talents/abilities, finish some content, but there really isn't a whole lot to finish. At this point it will be a lot of tweaking of all the changes they made. They know they can't get it right the first time so they will try to make it as balanced as possible with 3.0.2. Within a week or 2, 3.0.3 will be out to fix the critical issues. They are close, and I think it will be ready to go.
Or you're just caught up in the hype and think it's faster? Do you have any benchmarks or data that show Chrome is performing better than FF3.1 alpha2?
I've had Netflix for almost 2 years now and still love the service. I went without cable TV for a little over a year by substituting in Netflix and video games (it was pretty nice). I'm sorry that you are under a trial account at just the wrong time. In the 2 years I've had the service, there has been a 2 total service interruptions (this being the second). Both seem to only last a day or 2 and they refund you for that one or 2 days where you were not being provided DVDs as expected.
They have a decent selection of movies, and I've found the recommendation algorithm they use works rather well. I've found some amazing movies, TV shows and Animes that I did not know about, but they were recommended to me and I loved them after renting them.
I've been running 64-bit Vista Business for 2 months or so now (I installed right when I was able to get my hands on SP1). I haven't had any real problems with the system. I'm actually starting to like it more than Windows XP (I still use XP at work).
Sure, you don't need to buy it for existing PCs, but after using it for a while, I don't see why people have so much against Vista. It really had a rough start, but MS has smoothed out the edges from what I can see.
Almost all this info is coming from MMOwned Forum from what I've seen. Almost all of it is from data mining the data files, so it is no real indication of what is really active in the game. Many times, spells and items are in the data files that are never really included, this is even more true for WotLK.
The screenshots and models are probably near final versions, but spells and the like are questionable.
It can be very useful for finding the final destination in a trip. A friend gave me a link to his new place using StreetView, with the "camera" pointed directly at which house was his. With this, I knew what to look for when I got into the area (as it was near impossible to see the markings on the houses at night.
StreetView has its purpose, it's really a matter of how follow directions.
Also, I've been using it for house hunting in the city I live in. I'm able to see what kind of homes are in the different neighborhoods around town without driving all over the place. Once I find some neighborhoods that I like I drive there myself just to get a feel for the area in person.
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After Mayor Daley shut down Meigs Field, I basically lost all respect for the government running the city. Then you look at the more recent Parking Meter deal that went into effect and you wonder how the city still operates.
I'd like to second that motion. The same thing goes for encryption used for wireless routers. When a non-tech friend is setting up a new wireless router and is setting up the encryption part, they just see a list of 3 and 4 letter words they don't understand. And the only reason I know which is the best to pick is reading around the web to know which are easy to crack.
I'd agree with you on this one. If I remember correctly, the US only accounts for 20% (maybe less) of all iPhones in the world. And seeing that iTunes Stores vary per country/region, varying the iPhone apps for those regions should be just as easy.
I think it's more about letting another company handle your company's email. There is so much critical information about a company in their email, why would they trust it to any external company, even if it is Google. Also, I'm unfamiliar with how Google handles data retention of email. Outlook allows some backup of emails at the IT level of all company emails (included deleted ones).
I know I wouldn't want to have my company give up control of it's email to Google (5000 person company).
One of the server techs from Twitter was at SXSW 2 years and gave some details about how their backend servers worked. If I remember correctly (there were 4 sites on the panel, so I may be confusing them with someone else), the original code was written in Ruby on Rails which did not scale well to the multi-server systems that they had setup. They have spent a lot of time improving their code over the years, but from what I could tell, their initial implementation wasn't the most thought out thing in the world.
I actually love it for work. The amount I search email and documents, it does a great job. You have to remember that it isn't just a plain txt file search, but it indexes doc and your outlook information. Being able to type in my last name and get a list of 68000 items in 1-2 seconds is pretty sweet.
I've tried Google Desktop as well, but just wasn't as much of a fan. I had a harder time getting it to index properly and do what I wanted. WS4 gives you some pretty fine grain control over what and where it indexes.
Uhh, I'm guessing he means the movie: http://www.angelsanddemons.com/
I think this is a push for people that don't understand you can whitelist sites. I suggest Adblock Plus to a lot of my friends, some of which aren't the most computer literate people. I can understand the need behind this feature.
But I also understand bribery.
Agreed. This is frustrating.
He misses one key point in the analogy. So vux984 lets his friend put his endorsement on his friends product. The one key part is that vux984 will make money on every system his friend sells. vux984 has a vested interest in having his friend sell as many systems as possible.
I did the the old fashion way, and went home for a bit and watched on my TV. It's times like this where the internet just isn't setup to handle. TV is great at distributing the same stream to million and millions of people. While the Internet is built around the concept of everyone having a unique connection to services.
The play had a line that many believe is a coded apology for Cloud & Squall.
What was the line? Or a link to a discussion about it?
I wish I had mod points for you. People on here and digg seem to think the solution to the problem yesterday would have been to release it on BitTorrent, when the bottleneck was the registration servers, not the download servers.
BitTorrent is a cool technology and everything, but people need to stop being so blind as to think it will solve all problems.
I'm thinking Microsoft has wised up after the Vista debacle with hardware support. Once Windows 7 hits beta, MS will do their best to keep the APIs the same. My company does some driver development and support for some MS Server services and we like to start at least testing with new OSes as soon as possible so we have an idea of what kind of work is going to be needed to get our stuff to work with the next version of windows.
Also, for everyone that bitches about Windows changing their API so regularly, you should look at your little child called Linux. If you are a hardware or software vendor that writes drivers for the Linux kernel and do not have your driver integrated into the kernel, it is extremely painful to maintain. Much more so than Windows ever has been. I did a year of driver development support SUSE and Redhat releases with our out-of-box driver, and the amount of API changes in some of the base level kernel interfaces is down right sickening. Sure you can say "why not submit the driver as a patch"... well, if you designed your driver in a way that doesn't fit the model the Linux bigwigs want, there is little to no way it will be accepted.
As much as people give Microsoft shit for their OS, I find them to be much more friendly and easy to work with when it comes to writing device drivers for their OS.
To Tigole: New dances and emotes, are we ever going to get them for World of Warcraft? Blizzard collected feedback for additional emotes back in fall 2006 and we have yet to see a slue of new ones added. As for dances, it was mentioned in the initial press released for Wrath of the Lich King and then went silent.
Sure it's a public process, but there is a lot of money to be made with each and every vote that states have. It could possibly give their competitors an advantage, so it seems someone reasonable. Until State or Federal Congress passes a law requiring voting systems to be open, I would expect judges to rule the way we saw in this case.
I've been playing WotLK on and off for 4 months now (alpha/beta) and seen it come a long ways in that time. When they first made it "public" only a few classes had new talents and abilities, some of which did not even work. Much of the landscape was unfinished (Dalaran barely even existed in the early patches).
They need to clean up some talents/abilities, finish some content, but there really isn't a whole lot to finish. At this point it will be a lot of tweaking of all the changes they made. They know they can't get it right the first time so they will try to make it as balanced as possible with 3.0.2. Within a week or 2, 3.0.3 will be out to fix the critical issues. They are close, and I think it will be ready to go.
Same. Vista x64 Business with a 1st gen iPhone AND a iPod Shuffle, no problems here.
Or you're just caught up in the hype and think it's faster? Do you have any benchmarks or data that show Chrome is performing better than FF3.1 alpha2?
I've had Netflix for almost 2 years now and still love the service. I went without cable TV for a little over a year by substituting in Netflix and video games (it was pretty nice). I'm sorry that you are under a trial account at just the wrong time. In the 2 years I've had the service, there has been a 2 total service interruptions (this being the second). Both seem to only last a day or 2 and they refund you for that one or 2 days where you were not being provided DVDs as expected.
They have a decent selection of movies, and I've found the recommendation algorithm they use works rather well. I've found some amazing movies, TV shows and Animes that I did not know about, but they were recommended to me and I loved them after renting them.
I've been running 64-bit Vista Business for 2 months or so now (I installed right when I was able to get my hands on SP1). I haven't had any real problems with the system. I'm actually starting to like it more than Windows XP (I still use XP at work).
Sure, you don't need to buy it for existing PCs, but after using it for a while, I don't see why people have so much against Vista. It really had a rough start, but MS has smoothed out the edges from what I can see.
Almost all this info is coming from MMOwned Forum from what I've seen. Almost all of it is from data mining the data files, so it is no real indication of what is really active in the game. Many times, spells and items are in the data files that are never really included, this is even more true for WotLK.
The screenshots and models are probably near final versions, but spells and the like are questionable.
It can be very useful for finding the final destination in a trip. A friend gave me a link to his new place using StreetView, with the "camera" pointed directly at which house was his. With this, I knew what to look for when I got into the area (as it was near impossible to see the markings on the houses at night.
StreetView has its purpose, it's really a matter of how follow directions.
Also, I've been using it for house hunting in the city I live in. I'm able to see what kind of homes are in the different neighborhoods around town without driving all over the place. Once I find some neighborhoods that I like I drive there myself just to get a feel for the area in person.