I wonder what percent of Slashdot Google owns?? Whatever it is, they should consider dumping more money into it after days like today. Stories like this plus hundreds of nitpicking-nerds have created one-hell of QA department for (BETA!!) Google web apps.
Even if they don't tell you personally, I'm sure Google really appreciates all of your flames. Every "Not ready for prime-time yet" comment on this site should read: "I love your app, here's a list of what's broke, hope this helps".
I know I really shouldn't be taking the bait, but...
I just re-built my Myth box from scratch. Gentoo stage3, PVR-250 (ivtv), 400G LVM (3 physical drives), etc etc, and the entire install and setup only took about 4 hours. It was extremely painless and I did not encounter any road blocks. Guess I just want others to realize it isn't as bad as some people make it seem.
Note: I have been running Gentoo and MythTV for a few years, so, I know my hardware and installation process pretty well by now.
True, but when your software runs on ~90% of all desktops, how much growth do you really need.
MS does not need growth, they need to maintain their current position. I am very hopeful that they will fallout, but, right now, it would require a major turn-around in industry to do so.
Yes, if everything is running in true 64bit mode and is using the optimizations, it will run faster. However, many optimizations must be implemented at a very low level and many programs are not utilizing the full potential. One such program that is, is MPlayer, a good portion of the code is implemented in Assembly specifically taking advantage of the 64bit architecture. But, if you install a x86 version of Linux or Windows on this hardware, you won't actually see an increase in speed.
I haven't encounter a single driver that does not work on my Gentoo AMD64 platform, but, everything runs very fast.
Seriously, Gentoo has incredible support for AMD64 right now and many people working to make it even better.
Cue Gentoo-haters... NOW.
And for users that don't want to spend alot of time compiling (is that an oxy-moron on AMD64?), use a Stage3 base install and install all other programs using emerge -k switch for binary packages only.
I'm running Linux on a AMD64 (x86_64) platform. There is not a flash player available for me that will run the "One-Time CC number" app the OP is talking about. And don't even say x86_64 is an unusual architecture, it currently looks like the future of desktop computing (the way HP/Compaq/etc are pumping these chips out), but perhaps I'm just a little a head of the curve.
So, no, I'm not being lazy, quite the contrary, I've been searching everywhere for the same answer as the OP for months now.
Nope. Your 100% wrong. I have communicated to web guy how bad DW mangles html, and continue to explain this every day. Have also explained to managers. It just doesn't help. People don't care. Whatever is easiest for them, they'll do. Web guy sees DW as easiest, managers see avoiding situation as easiest.
Wow. That is a great post!!
I develop business class web apps all day long (I'm the programmer) and our "web guy" uses DreamWeaver and passes the presentation part of the webpage to me... and, I think I can speak for all programmers in a similar situation as me when I say that DreamWeaver makes my daily job a living hell.
I did not RTA, but since you ask ...but does anyone have experience with the cards in MythTV?, I thought I'd throw in my two cents: I have been running MythTV on Gentoo w/ a AMD 2400 and the Hauppauge PVR 250 and the hardware encoding is great quality and fast. Overall the system runs very smoothly. If I was gonna rebuild the system, the only thing I'd do differently is choose a different filesystem, I'm currently using Reiser and while it is generally a fast filesystem, it is very sluggish when deleting files larger than a few gigabytes (a very common task with MythTV).
I don't get a ton of PDF documents (mostly MS Office documents from the executive types at work...grrr), but I personally like gv. It has a nice, easy, clean interface and loads quickly.
What are it's drawbacks that make Adobe's Reader so much better?
Yes, as I read this post, I thought the meaning of the word "graph" was intended as the the data structure, however, most of the replies seem to inquire about a visual display.
I agree.
The browser still very much supports this feature, but turns it off by default.
IMHO, when I first read "...drops support...", I thought the feature was completely removed from the browser implementation. Obviously, I was very surprised and read more to find that it was really only disabled by default.
My question is: Should a student that is behind (whether it be elevated or just over the shoulder) a teacher peering at answers on a paper exam key be treated the same? Should this student, which also spied on a teacher's "private" information, by means of incompetence on the teachers part, also be charged with a felony? (Yes, I realize this premise is unlikely, but this kind of stuff actually DOES happen)
I do not think people are looking at the actual crime, but are focusing on the means in which the crime was commited.
It seems that one way or another all these frivilous computer crime charges have impacted the basic reasoning of individuals throughout society.
IMHO, minors should receive much easier penalties, but still receive penalties. I believe that if a child that was raised correctly commits a crime, that child will learn of his/her wrong doings and make the correct decisions thereafter. A child that was raised poorly, may still learn to make the correct decisions, it all depends on many various factors (attitude, enviroment, etc), but has a slightly better chance at following the wrong path.
He is not going to be able to code a FPS as a high school student with beginner or intermediate level programming skills. The games suggested by the grandparent probably would not be sufficient by themselves for an independant study, but a package of 6 - 10 of these small games written in a very clean, creative, or 3D interface would probably be received well. Especially if the package was written very modular where plugins and addition games were easily integrated.
I just wanted to add one other element that usually gets left out of this debate...service charge.
I built my MythTV system for the experience, not because I thought it would save me money or be a superior DVR.
That being said, I've been happily using my homebrew DVR for about 1.5 years now. I'm not exactly sure (so please correct me if I'm wrong), but I believe TiVo's service charge is approximately $12.00/month.
This would mean my current savings on service charge alone is 12 * 18 = $216 and grows with every passing month.
I run normal CS via Steam w/o any serious problems. There is still too much lag to be as competitive as I once was on Windoze, but, when I need my CS fix, it gets the job done;)
Yes! This guy is right on....almost. Right now GMail does not offer IMAP or POP, but they `say` they plan to in the future probably when GMail is out of beta), but then, yes, forget the tunnel vision view of scraping HTML, and just use the standard protocols of IMAP and/or POP to capture the data. I haven't looked at the TOS in detail, but it seems as long as you are using standard methods of retrieving messages, there would be no problems.
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I wonder what percent of Slashdot Google owns?? Whatever it is, they should consider dumping more money into it after days like today. Stories like this plus hundreds of nitpicking-nerds have created one-hell of QA department for (BETA!!) Google web apps.
Even if they don't tell you personally, I'm sure Google really appreciates all of your flames. Every "Not ready for prime-time yet" comment on this site should read: "I love your app, here's a list of what's broke, hope this helps".
I know I really shouldn't be taking the bait, but...
I just re-built my Myth box from scratch. Gentoo stage3, PVR-250 (ivtv), 400G LVM (3 physical drives), etc etc, and the entire install and setup only took about 4 hours. It was extremely painless and I did not encounter any road blocks. Guess I just want others to realize it isn't as bad as some people make it seem.
Note: I have been running Gentoo and MythTV for a few years, so, I know my hardware and installation process pretty well by now.
But there won't be any growth
True, but when your software runs on ~90% of all desktops, how much growth do you really need.
MS does not need growth, they need to maintain their current position. I am very hopeful that they will fallout, but, right now, it would require a major turn-around in industry to do so.
Yes, if everything is running in true 64bit mode and is using the optimizations, it will run faster. However, many optimizations must be implemented at a very low level and many programs are not utilizing the full potential. One such program that is, is MPlayer, a good portion of the code is implemented in Assembly specifically taking advantage of the 64bit architecture. But, if you install a x86 version of Linux or Windows on this hardware, you won't actually see an increase in speed.
I haven't encounter a single driver that does not work on my Gentoo AMD64 platform, but, everything runs very fast.
Seriously, Gentoo has incredible support for AMD64 right now and many people working to make it even better.
Cue Gentoo-haters... NOW.
And for users that don't want to spend alot of time compiling (is that an oxy-moron on AMD64?), use a Stage3 base install and install all other programs using emerge -k switch for binary packages only.
HTPC/DVR ... MythTV
Boot into Safe-Mode first, then... ...do everything else that will be suggested here.
Have you ever considered that possibly the OP is running x86_64? To date, there is no Linux Flash player.
I'm running Linux on a AMD64 (x86_64) platform. There is not a flash player available for me that will run the "One-Time CC number" app the OP is talking about. And don't even say x86_64 is an unusual architecture, it currently looks like the future of desktop computing (the way HP/Compaq/etc are pumping these chips out), but perhaps I'm just a little a head of the curve.
So, no, I'm not being lazy, quite the contrary, I've been searching everywhere for the same answer as the OP for months now.
The reference here has tremendous potential, but you really dropped the ball on the "funny" part.
Nope. Your 100% wrong. I have communicated to web guy how bad DW mangles html, and continue to explain this every day. Have also explained to managers. It just doesn't help. People don't care. Whatever is easiest for them, they'll do. Web guy sees DW as easiest, managers see avoiding situation as easiest.
Wow. That is a great post!!
I develop business class web apps all day long (I'm the programmer) and our "web guy" uses DreamWeaver and passes the presentation part of the webpage to me... and, I think I can speak for all programmers in a similar situation as me when I say that DreamWeaver makes my daily job a living hell.
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Drexel University did this same thing two years ago. However, Drexel's distro of choice is/was Mandrake.
I did not RTA, but since you ask ...but does anyone have experience with the cards in MythTV? , I thought I'd throw in my two cents: I have been running MythTV on Gentoo w/ a AMD 2400 and the Hauppauge PVR 250 and the hardware encoding is great quality and fast. Overall the system runs very smoothly. If I was gonna rebuild the system, the only thing I'd do differently is choose a different filesystem, I'm currently using Reiser and while it is generally a fast filesystem, it is very sluggish when deleting files larger than a few gigabytes (a very common task with MythTV).
I don't get a ton of PDF documents (mostly MS Office documents from the executive types at work...grrr), but I personally like gv. It has a nice, easy, clean interface and loads quickly.
What are it's drawbacks that make Adobe's Reader so much better?
Yes, as I read this post, I thought the meaning of the word "graph" was intended as the the data structure, however, most of the replies seem to inquire about a visual display.
In fact, it is a felony stated in: U.S. Code: Title 15, Chapter 1, Section 2
Now do you understand why people get all worked up over it?
I agree.
The browser still very much supports this feature, but turns it off by default.
IMHO, when I first read "...drops support...", I thought the feature was completely removed from the browser implementation. Obviously, I was very surprised and read more to find that it was really only disabled by default.
My question is: Should a student that is behind (whether it be elevated or just over the shoulder) a teacher peering at answers on a paper exam key be treated the same? Should this student, which also spied on a teacher's "private" information, by means of incompetence on the teachers part, also be charged with a felony? (Yes, I realize this premise is unlikely, but this kind of stuff actually DOES happen)
I do not think people are looking at the actual crime, but are focusing on the means in which the crime was commited.
It seems that one way or another all these frivilous computer crime charges have impacted the basic reasoning of individuals throughout society.
IMHO, minors should receive much easier penalties, but still receive penalties. I believe that if a child that was raised correctly commits a crime, that child will learn of his/her wrong doings and make the correct decisions thereafter. A child that was raised poorly, may still learn to make the correct decisions, it all depends on many various factors (attitude, enviroment, etc), but has a slightly better chance at following the wrong path.
I'm somewhat new to programming - from OP
He is not going to be able to code a FPS as a high school student with beginner or intermediate level programming skills. The games suggested by the grandparent probably would not be sufficient by themselves for an independant study, but a package of 6 - 10 of these small games written in a very clean, creative, or 3D interface would probably be received well. Especially if the package was written very modular where plugins and addition games were easily integrated.
I just wanted to add one other element that usually gets left out of this debate...service charge.
I built my MythTV system for the experience, not because I thought it would save me money or be a superior DVR.
That being said, I've been happily using my homebrew DVR for about 1.5 years now. I'm not exactly sure (so please correct me if I'm wrong), but I believe TiVo's service charge is approximately $12.00/month. This would mean my current savings on service charge alone is 12 * 18 = $216 and grows with every passing month.
zap2it.com
...Insanity Later.
I run normal CS via Steam w/o any serious problems. There is still too much lag to be as competitive as I once was on Windoze, but, when I need my CS fix, it gets the job done ;)
Yes! This guy is right on....almost. Right now GMail does not offer IMAP or POP, but they `say` they plan to in the future probably when GMail is out of beta), but then, yes, forget the tunnel vision view of scraping HTML, and just use the standard protocols of IMAP and/or POP to capture the data. I haven't looked at the TOS in detail, but it seems as long as you are using standard methods of retrieving messages, there would be no problems.