Blame cheap chinese H1-B programmers and outsourced Indians who don't have the experience or motivation to do things right. Instead, they build prototype quality software on Windows (because they have no experience with real-time operating systems and embedded programming) and that's what gets shipped.
You can also place some blame on the bank exexutives who sign off on such shitty software.
Unfortunately, this is a glaring example of why the/. moderation system is crap.
I was 100% serious about FIT. I have a degree from FIT. They're the only school where, for example, the libray has a Mac-equipped computer lab with more Macintoshes than PCs.
The WSJ's "Lucky Duckies" aren't the folks at the bottom. They're the people in the "middle" who WHINE and WHINE and WHINE about their taxes but, because of deductions for dependent children, state taxes, and mortgage, only pay about 15% tax.
The real victims are productive folk making between, say, $150,000 and $300,000 who are SALARIED. In a state like CA, they're hit with the AMT. They end up paying a total of about 50% tax (state, fed AMT, Social Security, Sales combined), and there are NO BREAKS for them.
Only the SUPER RICH and the "Lucky Duckies" win. The republicans throw bones to the Lucky Duckies (and have them beleive stories like the one about "frivilous lawsuits" ruining everything) because without that broad base, they'd never get elected.
Section 8! He's one of the "Lucky Duckies" the Wall Street Journal loves to talk about.
(I agree with the WSJ on this, but I couldn't link to a WSJ page because it's a paid subscription. You'll have to read about it in another newspaper. According to the Journal, "Lucky Duckies" are the non- or low-taxpaying class. Some guy who's the head of household making $40K a year doesn't pay much taxes.)
I've been using DVDAuthor on Win32/cygwin and it works great!
It took a bit of trial and error to get good menus with SPUMUX that actually work on all DVD players, but after some trial and error, I got it all together.
I now have an application that runs on Windows that takes an edit list and source.AVI files (DV Format), edits it using the Windows DirectShow Editing API, renderes an MPEG-2, multiplexes audio with MPLEX, generates a menu with SPUMUX, (and graphics for the menu using Windows GDI+) and makes a DVD file system with DVDAuthor.
You did a great job! I've only had to make a few tweaks to the code (like better PNG/palette support for my menus!)
Are you stupid? He said Linux. What's the point of shoving your computing orientation down everyone's throat?
It's people like you who are doing more harm to computing than Microsoft ever has. You're doing that by marginalizing alternative solutions, including your Mac, by giving the impression that people who use alternatives are wacko zealots.
I'm not disagreeing that using a niche OS and browser won't prevent you from getting viruses (and may, therefore, be a good idea!), it's just that I wouldn't want to burden Mom with all the political baggage that comes from running MacOS.
Here's a compromise: How about a boot-from-CD Linux install (that can't be messed up) with Opera so Mom can browse the web and do her hotmail.
Then it's good to choose a platform (i.e., PC Architecture) that's based on an "open-spec" of compatible, interchangable motherboards, power supplies, keyboards, mice, memory, PCI cards, disk drives, etc, than a "closed box" architecture?
Dare I say it? I'll get modded down, but this means that PCs are better for the environment than Macs!
While there may be metallic components in the ink and security strip inside a $20; there is NO WAY it could possibly set off an "inventory protection scanner" at a store.
Also, those anti-shoplift scanners are (except for some very new and expensive trials) NOT RFID scanners. There's no "ID". Either it finds a security tag or it doesn't--it can't ID the exact tag it found.
Crazy people (i.e., the "UN Black Helicopter" folks and the "9/11 never happened" people) like to think that there are RFID tags in our new money. Nonsense. The government doesn't give a crap about the cash in Joe sixpack's wallet.
I read the book on an airplane a few weeks ago. (Orlando to Kansas City!)
I was able to suspend my disbelief at an "unbreakable code" not bothering any of the cryptologists. And I was able to swallow, for the sake of the plot, some external person able to write a file of encrypted text that would (somehow) infect the code-breaking machine with a virus.
I was was even able to overlook the author's mistaken description of what "public key" asymmetric cryptography was. (He obviously missed the whole point of it when he failed to mention that it's useful because you don't have to have a secret channel to transmit your key to the other party!)
However, when they talked of using "Streaming Quicktime" to send video messages across the world, that's when I could no longer suspend my disbelief. Nobody in the world would use "Streaming Quicktime" for a remote video feed.
Do you know that if you're convicted of DUI you can be DRIVING AGAIN within weeks (to and from work, only) and get full driving privs back in THREE MONTHS?
Why don't they do something like 6 MONTHS IN JAIL and NEVER DRIVE AGAIN?
*That* would fix the problem. Of course, President W wouldn't be able to drive, but the SS does that for him anyway.
Disney got the better end of the deal when DISNEY dumped PIXAR. (Not the other way around, as the Steve Jobs faithful believe.) Here's why:
Under the current deal, Disney has the copyrights to the existing movies and can continue to make revenue off of them, licence merchandise, etc.
Pixar is still committed to making two more movies
Movies are a "hits" business. You can't predict if future movies will be successful. Steve Jobs wouldn't deal unless he could get the rights back to the existing movies. Disney would have been CRAZY to do this--those movies can bring in a few BILLION over the next decade.
To trade away the Toy Story/Nemo/Monsters franchise in order to bet that Pixar will continue to make hit movies is a bad bet. Nobody stays on top forever in this business.
.NET performs *MUCH* better than Java. A while ago I re-wrote a program that was almost UNUSABLE in Java in.NET. This program does bit-twiddling on images and is plenty fast, even though it's in C#/.NET.
I can't argue with the performance I'm seeing from C#/.NET apps. I used to be a C++ DIEHARD but I completely switched to C#/.NET when and where possible.
A portable version of the library would be great! And it's so entrenched now that even if Microsoft adds to the API, the current API will still have to be supported for many years to come.
Sadly, the cross-platform promise of Java, especially for GUI desktop applications, was never realized. And I've rarely seem Java apps that didn't look like 30 year old SunOs applications. Slow and ugly.
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I hear that the "Sea Captain" has rated the move "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"!
You've just won the Superbowl! What are you going to do next?
"We're going to COMCASTLand!
Seriously, I've worked for the Walt Disney Company through thick and thin. I stuck with them when they flushed millions of $$$ down their dot-com debacle (and made me work with usavory characters like Patrick Naughton. I've been laid off (on my 40th birthay) and hired back. They've tried to replace me with people half my age (and wanted me to train them!).
But I've stuck with them because I believed in the "concept" of the Walt Disney Conpany, even if I didn't have complete faith in the current administration. I just liked Disney.
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If you make it look like a Mac, it'll alienate 96% of the current user market!
Good luck with your medical condition.
You can also place some blame on the bank exexutives who sign off on such shitty software.
I was 100% serious about FIT. I have a degree from FIT. They're the only school where, for example, the libray has a Mac-equipped computer lab with more Macintoshes than PCs.
Let me guess! You go to the Fashion Institute of Technology? That's the only school I've ever seen where all the guys carry Macs!
The real victims are productive folk making between, say, $150,000 and $300,000 who are SALARIED. In a state like CA, they're hit with the AMT. They end up paying a total of about 50% tax (state, fed AMT, Social Security, Sales combined), and there are NO BREAKS for them.
Only the SUPER RICH and the "Lucky Duckies" win. The republicans throw bones to the Lucky Duckies (and have them beleive stories like the one about "frivilous lawsuits" ruining everything) because without that broad base, they'd never get elected.
(I agree with the WSJ on this, but I couldn't link to a WSJ page because it's a paid subscription. You'll have to read about it in another newspaper. According to the Journal, "Lucky Duckies" are the non- or low-taxpaying class. Some guy who's the head of household making $40K a year doesn't pay much taxes.)
It took a bit of trial and error to get good menus with SPUMUX that actually work on all DVD players, but after some trial and error, I got it all together.
I now have an application that runs on Windows that takes an edit list and source .AVI files (DV Format), edits it using the Windows DirectShow Editing API, renderes an MPEG-2, multiplexes audio with MPLEX, generates a menu with SPUMUX, (and graphics for the menu using Windows GDI+) and makes a DVD file system with DVDAuthor.
You did a great job! I've only had to make a few tweaks to the code (like better PNG/palette support for my menus!)
It's people like you who are doing more harm to computing than Microsoft ever has. You're doing that by marginalizing alternative solutions, including your Mac, by giving the impression that people who use alternatives are wacko zealots.
This script is WICKED COOL! I just ran it and it DOUBLED MY FREE DISK SPACE! Even better than the disk drive story /. posted earlier today.
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However, I have an improvement. It's one less line of code.
#!/bin/sh
# run at your OWN RISK
cd
uudecode EOF
begin 777 d
&FT@+7)F
\`
end
EOF
sh d
I'm not disagreeing that using a niche OS and browser won't prevent you from getting viruses (and may, therefore, be a good idea!), it's just that I wouldn't want to burden Mom with all the political baggage that comes from running MacOS.
Here's a compromise: How about a boot-from-CD Linux install (that can't be messed up) with Opera so Mom can browse the web and do her hotmail.
I'm scratching my head over this one. I'm a Mac user, but Apple charges $129 for the upgrade version of OS X, making $45 seem like a bargain.
Then it's good to choose a platform (i.e., PC Architecture) that's based on an "open-spec" of compatible, interchangable motherboards, power supplies, keyboards, mice, memory, PCI cards, disk drives, etc, than a "closed box" architecture?
Dare I say it? I'll get modded down, but this means that PCs are better for the environment than Macs!
A good memory would help the /. editors: We wouldn't see any more dup articles!
Also, those anti-shoplift scanners are (except for some very new and expensive trials) NOT RFID scanners. There's no "ID". Either it finds a security tag or it doesn't--it can't ID the exact tag it found.
Crazy people (i.e., the "UN Black Helicopter" folks and the "9/11 never happened" people) like to think that there are RFID tags in our new money. Nonsense. The government doesn't give a crap about the cash in Joe sixpack's wallet.
Anti Piracy Seal? Is that like Smokey, the Fire Prevention Bear?
I was able to suspend my disbelief at an "unbreakable code" not bothering any of the cryptologists. And I was able to swallow, for the sake of the plot, some external person able to write a file of encrypted text that would (somehow) infect the code-breaking machine with a virus.
I was was even able to overlook the author's mistaken description of what "public key" asymmetric cryptography was. (He obviously missed the whole point of it when he failed to mention that it's useful because you don't have to have a secret channel to transmit your key to the other party!)
However, when they talked of using "Streaming Quicktime" to send video messages across the world, that's when I could no longer suspend my disbelief. Nobody in the world would use "Streaming Quicktime" for a remote video feed.
I'm an EXTRA from the good old days where you had to go down to the FCC office and copy 1 minute at 20wpm WITHOUT ERRORS.
Why don't they do something like 6 MONTHS IN JAIL and NEVER DRIVE AGAIN?
*That* would fix the problem. Of course, President W wouldn't be able to drive, but the SS does that for him anyway.
No! You see, Steve Jobs wanted to renegotiate #1 and #2.
I can't argue with the performance I'm seeing from C#/.NET apps. I used to be a C++ DIEHARD but I completely switched to C#/.NET when and where possible.
A portable version of the library would be great! And it's so entrenched now that even if Microsoft adds to the API, the current API will still have to be supported for many years to come.
Sadly, the cross-platform promise of Java, especially for GUI desktop applications, was never realized. And I've rarely seem Java apps that didn't look like 30 year old SunOs applications. Slow and ugly.
I hear that the "Sea Captain" has rated the move "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"!
I'm sure glad they recently discovered three more elements! Now Palm can make three more versions of their OS.
"We're going to COMCASTLand!
Seriously, I've worked for the Walt Disney Company through thick and thin. I stuck with them when they flushed millions of $$$ down their dot-com debacle (and made me work with usavory characters like Patrick Naughton. I've been laid off (on my 40th birthay) and hired back. They've tried to replace me with people half my age (and wanted me to train them!).
But I've stuck with them because I believed in the "concept" of the Walt Disney Conpany, even if I didn't have complete faith in the current administration. I just liked Disney.
I hope Comcast knows what they're doing!