Or the Science Channel or the History Channel? Can you say Toba? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_eruption The show, which has been on several times on one of these channels, associates this narrowing of our species genetic lineage with this super volcanic event.
Forget asteroids, it is Yellowstone or something like Toba that is going to do us in.
I like flash. Our company (XP Java, etc, etc) has been considering using Flex to deliver some content to our "extranet" clients using the Flash client. But here is the thing. The clients use ie on windows. They will not likely install Flash through an activex install as it will be corporate IT guys who do the installing. We will have to say to them "You need to have Flash to use the rich internet application we are providing". Their IT guys will then go to the macromedia website to get Flash. The default install optiojn will be to download the Yahoo toolbar as well. Our CEO, knowing this, will kill our push to use Flash to deliver our service to clients (200 current corporate clients, gorwing rapidly). We will thus not be buying Flex or anything else to do so. We will not be using Flash to deliver our internet application. For those of us considering using Flash to deliver content to corporate clients, this is a serious impediment to doing so. Probably a deal killer. Too bad.
i have seen but one comment discussing the real issue here, which is that gm/hughes decided that michael powell and the fcc could go screw themselves after the echostar merger failed to gain approval.
i guess the millions who have tv service get more consideration than the hundreds of thousands who have dsl, ie they didnt want to have tv subscribers face a loss of competition in the satellite tv market (they incorrectly defined the market for antitrust purposes as directv obviously competes with cable tv providers as well, but att and comcast can merge?), and if dtv wanted to cut off a few internet users if they couldnt find alternate provisioning for them, oh well, michael powell gets to say he stopped something from happening, obtaining political capital for other battles, and rupert murdoch is happy.
i just pray i get a static ip without any down time for my email server as i have put my email address on all the resumes i have sent out in my quest to get into an industry other than IT.
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Or the Science Channel or the History Channel? Can you say Toba? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_eruption The show, which has been on several times on one of these channels, associates this narrowing of our species genetic lineage with this super volcanic event. Forget asteroids, it is Yellowstone or something like Toba that is going to do us in.
I like flash. Our company (XP Java, etc, etc) has been considering using Flex to deliver some content to our "extranet" clients using the Flash client. But here is the thing. The clients use ie on windows. They will not likely install Flash through an activex install as it will be corporate IT guys who do the installing. We will have to say to them "You need to have Flash to use the rich internet application we are providing". Their IT guys will then go to the macromedia website to get Flash. The default install optiojn will be to download the Yahoo toolbar as well. Our CEO, knowing this, will kill our push to use Flash to deliver our service to clients (200 current corporate clients, gorwing rapidly). We will thus not be buying Flex or anything else to do so. We will not be using Flash to deliver our internet application. For those of us considering using Flash to deliver content to corporate clients, this is a serious impediment to doing so. Probably a deal killer. Too bad.
i have seen but one comment discussing the real issue here, which is that gm/hughes decided that michael powell and the fcc could go screw themselves after the echostar merger failed to gain approval.
i guess the millions who have tv service get more consideration than the hundreds of thousands who have dsl, ie they didnt want to have tv subscribers face a loss of competition in the satellite tv market (they incorrectly defined the market for antitrust purposes as directv obviously competes with cable tv providers as well, but att and comcast can merge?), and if dtv wanted to cut off a few internet users if they couldnt find alternate provisioning for them, oh well, michael powell gets to say he stopped something from happening, obtaining political capital for other battles, and rupert murdoch is happy.
i just pray i get a static ip without any down time for my email server as i have put my email address on all the resumes i have sent out in my quest to get into an industry other than IT.