For Flash 9 on Ubuntu, you just need to "apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree". And that's it. It'll install nspluginwrapper and everything for you. Much easier. Haven't worried about 10 though.
I can only see video on the first link. There's no working implementation for the second one that I can download and get working (I even tried their official site), and either way, all the other people here in the office would have to download a plugin to get that one working, too. It does show a video, but that's with the embedded mplayer video player, which I don't think was your point? There's no Mac within throwing distance, but unless you have a new Intel-based Mac, it doesn't work there, either (Flash will work).
64bit Java works fine under Linux. The 64bit Java browser plugin is AWOL from my understanding. Gotta use either nsplugin with a 64bit browser, or a 32bit browser, and either way install a 32bit Java implementation alongside your 64bit Java. Pain in the ass both ways. But 64bit Java in general works quite well, and I use it daily.
I can see people living without cable. I can also see people living in a shack in the woods with no running water or electricity. Either way, they've retreated from the shared culture of our society, so they have no right to comment about what happens in that shared culture.
Seconded. I pirate shows to watch on my MythTV box. MythTV is a great media frontend;)
I pay through the ass for cable, and their shitty DVR doesn't record shows properly. As in, it'll record, but not play back, but only some shows like Top Gear. WTF? I'm ready to get rid of them entirely now that they started blocking incoming port 25. Again, WTF? INCOMING port 25?
Anyway, the cable companies have a government sponsored monopoly as the source of culturally important information, and since they have lock-in to free money, why would they actually do anything for their customers?
The baseball stadium is private property. They are perfectly within their rights to deny you entry if you do something they don't want you to do.
And there's often a police officer there because most cities usually legislate that gatherings of over a certain number of people need to have a police presence in line with that, in case there's trouble. The police acted like douchebags, but they didn't do anything legally wrong. You aren't entitled to take pictures of a sporting event. Just like you aren't entitled to go to one. But enough people put up with those bullshit rules that they're ok with keeping them in place. What would change things is if more people stopped going to the games because they didn't agree with those policies.
But I'll see that when me shit turns purple and smells of rainbows.
So you are also a fan of the phone company not allowing you to own your own phone, right? Things were so much better when AT&T owned all phones, and you couldn't hook up anything neat like, say, an answering machine to the network.
Get a clue. This is purely a consumer-hostile move by the cable companies to keep a higher revenue stream coming in, built on the back of their government-granted (aka granted by you) rights of way to provide service.
Would you be happy if you let your neighbor park his car in your driveway from time to time, and he took that agreement to start selling parking there? Would you be happy if you had no legal recourse to it?
Really? I installed Kubuntu on my T60, and everything is just working. Admittedly it's the "crappy" X3100 integrated graphics, but it's not horrible. It automatically detected my video, my sound, the wireless, the bluetooth, everything. Even all the keyboard buttons.
I think you're using the wrong distro of Linux if things don't "just work" for you with a Thinkpad.
Seconded. At least take a couple courses on C or C++. My friend started with Java, but a lot of the stuff he was doing finally "made sense" when he learned about C. Java hides too much of the actual machine's operation to make it a good learning language. Learn memory management. Even if you don't use it much, learn what it is and why it's important. Even Java needs hints from time to time. And that alone will make you a better programmer than 90% of them out there.
Thanks for posting this. I now have something to point to when I tell people why I'm slightly paranoid about my information and people collecting data on me they don't need.
How hard is it to try to fit it in, and if it doesn't go, turn the plug 180 degrees? Really, you never have to use enough force to break it to fit it in, so there's no real reason to worry too much about it.
Do you really think they've gone to enough trouble to actually work those numbers out? Because it seems to me like they're all like Tarkin, and more and more star systems are slipping through their fingers. Consumers are PEOPLE, first and foremost. They have a sense of right and wrong, and most importantly, fairness. There are outliers, but the majority of people want to play fair. If a lot of people are pirating your stuff, more than about 5%, then you're doing SOMETHING to make them feel that they aren't being treated fairly. You aren't entitled to obscene profits. You aren't entitled to ANY profit. As a business owner, your raison d'etre is to make a product at a price you can sell it at and still make a profit. If people feel taken advantage of by the only gas station in town selling it at $10/gallon, you can bet your ass thefts will go up.
Develop things properly in the first place, and it's not hard to support multiple OS's. The hardware is going to be identical, and a lot of the API's are at least comparable. You follow proper coding practices, and it's hard to NOT make an application trivially portable. Besides, most Linux users don't want too much tech support. They just want support of their choices. I don't use Linux because I'm too cheap to buy Windows... I use Linux because it just does what I want better, and doesn't get in my way of doing it. I think the same could be said of many Linux users. Some people will steal ANYTHING they can get. But that's not the majority, and it's not enough to worry about. The majority of people feel that the right thing is to reward people for their work in a fair manner. You give people an option for rewarding you in a manner that EVERYONE agrees is fair, and they will.
Just FYI, average life expectancy was low because lots of children died. Means (which is what is typically meant by average) are a pain in the ass like that... they don't take into account the shape of the curve. If you made it past childhood, you stood a fair chance of hitting 45-50. Then it started going downhill again.
Try another service provider. Oh, wait... you bought a phone that was locked to a specific service. Serves you right.
I can't believe you're paying that much per month for service and can't make a call, and you're WILLING TO KEEP DOING SO. WTF? I'd be getting a full refund since they aren't keeping up their end of the bargain, and finding another carrier. One who doesn't ass-rape you. Well, at least not as much.
Sounds like it's time for a new battery. Or if it's a Motorola Q, just throw the piece of shit out. You'll thank me later. My wife had one of those damn things, and she replaced it with a T-Mobile Dash. The only thing she misses about it is that Verizon's data is a bit faster than the EDGE service on T-Mobile.
Distribution refers to 3rd parties. A corporation's end users (it's employees) are still 1st parties, and thus not required to disclose the source to anyone outside of it's organization. Distribution is different in the legal world, just like many other terms.
I didn't mean to intimate that ALL copyright was bad. Just the current length and breadth that it affords a well-financed creator is stifling to society in general. Rowling and others have construed copyright to control whether or not other people can mention or even significantly reference their works, which is WELL outside the bounds of what was intended by copyright. She sued the Harry Potter Lexicon because she INTENDED to make another encyclopedia of Harry Potter stuff. And the law, as it is, has to take her seriously. How fucked up is that?
I shall make my livelihood masturbating into a cup.
What, no one pays me for that? Perhaps I chose the wrong business model.
To make it clearer: No one has a RIGHT to make a livelihood in anything they do. They have a right to pursue it, and that's it. If they can't make money making copies of things (because it costs nothing to do it, and is therefore infinitely available), they should make money getting people to pay them to make it in the first place (their time and skill is the scarce resource, and therefore what's valuable).
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For Flash 9 on Ubuntu, you just need to "apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree". And that's it. It'll install nspluginwrapper and everything for you. Much easier. Haven't worried about 10 though.
I can only see video on the first link. There's no working implementation for the second one that I can download and get working (I even tried their official site), and either way, all the other people here in the office would have to download a plugin to get that one working, too. It does show a video, but that's with the embedded mplayer video player, which I don't think was your point? There's no Mac within throwing distance, but unless you have a new Intel-based Mac, it doesn't work there, either (Flash will work).
64bit Java works fine under Linux. The 64bit Java browser plugin is AWOL from my understanding. Gotta use either nsplugin with a 64bit browser, or a 32bit browser, and either way install a 32bit Java implementation alongside your 64bit Java. Pain in the ass both ways. But 64bit Java in general works quite well, and I use it daily.
I can see people living without cable. I can also see people living in a shack in the woods with no running water or electricity. Either way, they've retreated from the shared culture of our society, so they have no right to comment about what happens in that shared culture.
Seconded. I pirate shows to watch on my MythTV box. MythTV is a great media frontend ;)
I pay through the ass for cable, and their shitty DVR doesn't record shows properly. As in, it'll record, but not play back, but only some shows like Top Gear. WTF? I'm ready to get rid of them entirely now that they started blocking incoming port 25. Again, WTF? INCOMING port 25?
Anyway, the cable companies have a government sponsored monopoly as the source of culturally important information, and since they have lock-in to free money, why would they actually do anything for their customers?
Screw theft. It's robbery. They're taking it through force and intimidation, they're not just taking it from you.
The baseball stadium is private property. They are perfectly within their rights to deny you entry if you do something they don't want you to do.
And there's often a police officer there because most cities usually legislate that gatherings of over a certain number of people need to have a police presence in line with that, in case there's trouble. The police acted like douchebags, but they didn't do anything legally wrong. You aren't entitled to take pictures of a sporting event. Just like you aren't entitled to go to one. But enough people put up with those bullshit rules that they're ok with keeping them in place. What would change things is if more people stopped going to the games because they didn't agree with those policies.
But I'll see that when me shit turns purple and smells of rainbows.
So you are also a fan of the phone company not allowing you to own your own phone, right? Things were so much better when AT&T owned all phones, and you couldn't hook up anything neat like, say, an answering machine to the network.
Get a clue. This is purely a consumer-hostile move by the cable companies to keep a higher revenue stream coming in, built on the back of their government-granted (aka granted by you) rights of way to provide service.
Would you be happy if you let your neighbor park his car in your driveway from time to time, and he took that agreement to start selling parking there? Would you be happy if you had no legal recourse to it?
Really? I installed Kubuntu on my T60, and everything is just working. Admittedly it's the "crappy" X3100 integrated graphics, but it's not horrible. It automatically detected my video, my sound, the wireless, the bluetooth, everything. Even all the keyboard buttons.
I think you're using the wrong distro of Linux if things don't "just work" for you with a Thinkpad.
Seconded. At least take a couple courses on C or C++. My friend started with Java, but a lot of the stuff he was doing finally "made sense" when he learned about C. Java hides too much of the actual machine's operation to make it a good learning language. Learn memory management. Even if you don't use it much, learn what it is and why it's important. Even Java needs hints from time to time. And that alone will make you a better programmer than 90% of them out there.
Thanks for posting this. I now have something to point to when I tell people why I'm slightly paranoid about my information and people collecting data on me they don't need.
You should really just use any address at example.com, .org or .net. invalid.com is a valid server, and you don't want to subject them to the spam, now do you?
How hard is it to try to fit it in, and if it doesn't go, turn the plug 180 degrees? Really, you never have to use enough force to break it to fit it in, so there's no real reason to worry too much about it.
Do you really think they've gone to enough trouble to actually work those numbers out? Because it seems to me like they're all like Tarkin, and more and more star systems are slipping through their fingers. Consumers are PEOPLE, first and foremost. They have a sense of right and wrong, and most importantly, fairness. There are outliers, but the majority of people want to play fair. If a lot of people are pirating your stuff, more than about 5%, then you're doing SOMETHING to make them feel that they aren't being treated fairly. You aren't entitled to obscene profits. You aren't entitled to ANY profit. As a business owner, your raison d'etre is to make a product at a price you can sell it at and still make a profit. If people feel taken advantage of by the only gas station in town selling it at $10/gallon, you can bet your ass thefts will go up.
What a troll.
Develop things properly in the first place, and it's not hard to support multiple OS's. The hardware is going to be identical, and a lot of the API's are at least comparable. You follow proper coding practices, and it's hard to NOT make an application trivially portable. Besides, most Linux users don't want too much tech support. They just want support of their choices. I don't use Linux because I'm too cheap to buy Windows... I use Linux because it just does what I want better, and doesn't get in my way of doing it. I think the same could be said of many Linux users. Some people will steal ANYTHING they can get. But that's not the majority, and it's not enough to worry about. The majority of people feel that the right thing is to reward people for their work in a fair manner. You give people an option for rewarding you in a manner that EVERYONE agrees is fair, and they will.
Mike Judge was struck with the inspiration of a prophet when he wrote Idiocracy. It's what plants crave!
If your DBA can't be used as a resource for optimizing and properly designing queries and stored procedures, you need to find another DBA.
Just FYI, average life expectancy was low because lots of children died. Means (which is what is typically meant by average) are a pain in the ass like that... they don't take into account the shape of the curve. If you made it past childhood, you stood a fair chance of hitting 45-50. Then it started going downhill again.
As for well done... Let's just say you shouldn't order it.
Fixed that for you ;)
Too bad you'll have a relatively short lifespan ;)
Try another service provider. Oh, wait... you bought a phone that was locked to a specific service. Serves you right.
I can't believe you're paying that much per month for service and can't make a call, and you're WILLING TO KEEP DOING SO. WTF? I'd be getting a full refund since they aren't keeping up their end of the bargain, and finding another carrier. One who doesn't ass-rape you. Well, at least not as much.
Sounds like it's time for a new battery. Or if it's a Motorola Q, just throw the piece of shit out. You'll thank me later. My wife had one of those damn things, and she replaced it with a T-Mobile Dash. The only thing she misses about it is that Verizon's data is a bit faster than the EDGE service on T-Mobile.
Distribution refers to 3rd parties. A corporation's end users (it's employees) are still 1st parties, and thus not required to disclose the source to anyone outside of it's organization. Distribution is different in the legal world, just like many other terms.
I didn't mean to intimate that ALL copyright was bad. Just the current length and breadth that it affords a well-financed creator is stifling to society in general. Rowling and others have construed copyright to control whether or not other people can mention or even significantly reference their works, which is WELL outside the bounds of what was intended by copyright. She sued the Harry Potter Lexicon because she INTENDED to make another encyclopedia of Harry Potter stuff. And the law, as it is, has to take her seriously. How fucked up is that?
I shall make my livelihood masturbating into a cup.
What, no one pays me for that? Perhaps I chose the wrong business model.
To make it clearer: No one has a RIGHT to make a livelihood in anything they do. They have a right to pursue it, and that's it. If they can't make money making copies of things (because it costs nothing to do it, and is therefore infinitely available), they should make money getting people to pay them to make it in the first place (their time and skill is the scarce resource, and therefore what's valuable).