Apparently the rest of the world disagrees considering the widespread nature of flash video that has always used proprietary audio and video codecs.
And that will be fine so long as Adobe is always around to maintain and develop Flash, and people are always willing to use it. Personally, I can't see being married to one av format simply because it works, world opinion be damned, but it is what everyone uses. Until HTML 5 gets wider adoption, perhaps. Frankly, if I were Adoba I'd be getting out of the "Chief bottle washer and Flash maintainer" business myself, I hope for their sake they've poured money into something new that they've kept the wraps on, as I would hate to have as large a percentage of my business as they have based on 15 year old technology. I'd do that then just before I trotted the new stuff out let Flash wander out into the open source pasture.
Sounds like business as usual to me. I've written about this on/. before; I've had personal dealings with people associated with GoDaddy and a few of their own employees. Jay Westerdahl (google the jerk) runs (ran?) a company that was very tight with GoDaddy. I never got a very warm feeling from the man and heard interesting thing from his associates about the people who run GoDaddy. All I can do is makes accusations; but if you ever find yourself looking for work or isp partnerships in Seattle don't do them with GoDaddy or Name Intelligence. Not even sure NI is still in business. What I can say about Westerdahl is he started domaintools.com in his garage or something and hit it big with a website giving its subscribers access to tools commonly available on any unix system. Can't argue with success, but then to work the kid, he makes you feel every inch of his economic superiority over you. Of course, if your a possible business partner, he will ask you if he can s*** your d***. And Ray King (aboutus.com); idiot.
...I don't quite get; isn't it conceivable to these Penn. school admins that kids eat candy, and that a lot of candy is the same approximate size and shape as many pills? How in the world did that particular school admin make the immediate leap to dealing drugs from a video of a student eating candy while using the notebook? Is this particular "scholar" so out of touch that he had no way to imagine the kid was eating candy? Like "I would never eat while using school equipment, so obviously that student is using drugs, and from there he's obviously dealing"? It boggles my mind that these people, who are supposed to be intelligent, would embark on a so completely unconstitutional (public school == county agency, and the Constitution blankets any such agency in all American jurisdictions) procedure, and then top it off by using this illegally obtained evidence to accuse a student (who has now gone from "student" to "victim") of dealing drugs. I mean, you have to really be off your rocker to believe this chain of stupidity would make sense to any sane judge.
I'm guessing there was some problem with drugs, or truancy, or something in this school system and a new teacher or young, idiot admin fresh out of liberal arts school with a goal to fight problems in public schools but completely ignorant of the law (but spent many hours playing video games in high school; Ms. Pac Man all time winnah) thought this might be a good idea. Its the only way I can make sense of the story...
Yeah, that's an idiot's savings plan. Best policy is to do your level best to balance your owe & their withholding to zero and put that extra money in a real savings plan; buy gold.
10Base2 w/ BNU connectors is not the way to go in a big house, aside from the 10 Mbits/second bandwidth limitation you have a limit on the length of a 10Base2 coax (forget off hand what it is, goes to show ME anyway how long ago this stuff mattered to me) and all endpoints need to be terminated. Plus whatever else issues I'm forgetting. Forget 10Base2. A wireless solution is a lot easier. After I bought my house I was looking at ways of wiring up the place for a lan, and landed on a nice wireless router solution with security using any crypto I want with Soekris hardware and openbsd. Anyway, it works for me.
"When you're a sheep, I don't respect your opinion."
Well said. I also don't see the need to upend our economic system based on the cry of alarmists using data little more than a decade or two old. Perhaps the global warming crowd has another motive...?
"Illegal" is just a word. If an angry mob lynches you, you're ultimately just as dead as if a state-appointed executioner pulled the switch.
You're over-simplifying the situation. If that were the case then we'd be living in anarchy and I would be able, were I charming enough, to mount a violent defense against that death, even to create my own set of laws, etc, No, the only way to mount a violent defense against this government would be to be as big as it is, and that takes resources beyond any one man, any one city, any one state smaller in capitol and resources than this one. Yes, illegal is just a word. But if enough people agree it is so, what you say is meaningless.
It's not just governments. Governments just reflect and codify the desire of people to spy on other people...
The only difference is people can't make it illegal for you to mount a proper defense against their tyranny. That's a pretty big difference in my book.
What am I going to do for email now? Who knew they had the power to shut down Gmail? I'm in awe. Maybe there's something to this "direct line" to God claim the mullahs in Tehran have...
why the heck is the built in text editor so completely and utterly lame?
Agreed. I get frustrated that every time I want to open a flat file that isn't suffixed with ".txt" I have to flip the little filter doo-dad to "*.*". Its the height of arrogance to assume that any flat file that notepad is capable of opening should be suffixed with "*.txt". DOS' own batch files have to be un-filtered to pick them. What a pain in the ass.
Grep and wget. Anyone who discovers these two, really simple to use command line (well, shell, lets get politically correct here) utilities, whether Windows nubes or not, are usually shocked by their complete and utter lack on said platform. Linux gurus can't understand why the DOS shell doesn't have them, and nubes wonder how in the world they never found out about them. After I install windows ports on their systems they say they have started using the DOS shell to use these two utils all the time. I've seen this reaction over and over again.
Its a fax machine bolted to a lazy susan. As soon as a fax comes in, if fax is printed "upside down", all a tech has to do is rotate the lazy susan. So I went and filed this great new invention, but apparently it was rejected as the patent office received it upside down.
and is willing to sell the corporate soul to obtain it.
I agree, except to say that Microsoft has no soul to sell, making the sale that much easier. I think Krupp had the same easy path to collusion with the Nazis.
I wouldn't ever want any kind of spy drones and I think most people feel the same way.
That's the first Brit I ever heard make any kind of sense with regard to this topic. These governmental types are using YOUR money to spy on you in the name of national security. Watch for more of this type of nonsense. When Oceania finally announces it has arrived and stamps out individual freedoms and any kind of individuality it will be like this; death by a thousand little cuts, not one large chop.
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I got rated "Insightful" for that...?
You mention Macromedia today people go "Huh"? You mention Adobe, people go "Oh yeah, Flash." You tell me who's got the brand.
In N. Korea, you don't operate system; system operates YOU.
Apparently the rest of the world disagrees considering the widespread nature of flash video that has always used proprietary audio and video codecs.
And that will be fine so long as Adobe is always around to maintain and develop Flash, and people are always willing to use it. Personally, I can't see being married to one av format simply because it works, world opinion be damned, but it is what everyone uses. Until HTML 5 gets wider adoption, perhaps. Frankly, if I were Adoba I'd be getting out of the "Chief bottle washer and Flash maintainer" business myself, I hope for their sake they've poured money into something new that they've kept the wraps on, as I would hate to have as large a percentage of my business as they have based on 15 year old technology. I'd do that then just before I trotted the new stuff out let Flash wander out into the open source pasture.
Sounds like business as usual to me. I've written about this on /. before; I've had personal dealings with people associated with GoDaddy and a few of their own employees. Jay Westerdahl (google the jerk) runs (ran?) a company that was very tight with GoDaddy. I never got a very warm feeling from the man and heard interesting thing from his associates about the people who run GoDaddy. All I can do is makes accusations; but if you ever find yourself looking for work or isp partnerships in Seattle don't do them with GoDaddy or Name Intelligence. Not even sure NI is still in business. What I can say about Westerdahl is he started domaintools.com in his garage or something and hit it big with a website giving its subscribers access to tools commonly available on any unix system. Can't argue with success, but then to work the kid, he makes you feel every inch of his economic superiority over you. Of course, if your a possible business partner, he will ask you if he can s*** your d***. And Ray King (aboutus.com); idiot.
...I don't quite get; isn't it conceivable to these Penn. school admins that kids eat candy, and that a lot of candy is the same approximate size and shape as many pills? How in the world did that particular school admin make the immediate leap to dealing drugs from a video of a student eating candy while using the notebook? Is this particular "scholar" so out of touch that he had no way to imagine the kid was eating candy? Like "I would never eat while using school equipment, so obviously that student is using drugs, and from there he's obviously dealing"? It boggles my mind that these people, who are supposed to be intelligent, would embark on a so completely unconstitutional (public school == county agency, and the Constitution blankets any such agency in all American jurisdictions) procedure, and then top it off by using this illegally obtained evidence to accuse a student (who has now gone from "student" to "victim") of dealing drugs. I mean, you have to really be off your rocker to believe this chain of stupidity would make sense to any sane judge.
I'm guessing there was some problem with drugs, or truancy, or something in this school system and a new teacher or young, idiot admin fresh out of liberal arts school with a goal to fight problems in public schools but completely ignorant of the law (but spent many hours playing video games in high school; Ms. Pac Man all time winnah) thought this might be a good idea. Its the only way I can make sense of the story...
If you put 0 for your allowances on your W-4...
Yeah, that's an idiot's savings plan. Best policy is to do your level best to balance your owe & their withholding to zero and put that extra money in a real savings plan; buy gold.
HOW ABOUT YOURSELF??????? Feels REAL GOOD when that ability is taken away from you. NEXT QUESTION?
And we really need this huge, bloated, self-justifying, all-powerful organism to run our health care system because...?
Oh, you're right. 10base2 should be used for all modern installations.
10Base2 w/ BNU connectors is not the way to go in a big house, aside from the 10 Mbits/second bandwidth limitation you have a limit on the length of a 10Base2 coax (forget off hand what it is, goes to show ME anyway how long ago this stuff mattered to me) and all endpoints need to be terminated. Plus whatever else issues I'm forgetting. Forget 10Base2. A wireless solution is a lot easier. After I bought my house I was looking at ways of wiring up the place for a lan, and landed on a nice wireless router solution with security using any crypto I want with Soekris hardware and openbsd. Anyway, it works for me.
Its not like Google bought a controlling interest in wp, it was a donation. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
"When you're a sheep, I don't respect your opinion."
Well said. I also don't see the need to upend our economic system based on the cry of alarmists using data little more than a decade or two old. Perhaps the global warming crowd has another motive...?
"Illegal" is just a word. If an angry mob lynches you, you're ultimately just as dead as if a state-appointed executioner pulled the switch.
You're over-simplifying the situation. If that were the case then we'd be living in anarchy and I would be able, were I charming enough, to mount a violent defense against that death, even to create my own set of laws, etc, No, the only way to mount a violent defense against this government would be to be as big as it is, and that takes resources beyond any one man, any one city, any one state smaller in capitol and resources than this one. Yes, illegal is just a word. But if enough people agree it is so, what you say is meaningless.
It's not just governments. Governments just reflect and codify the desire of people to spy on other people...
The only difference is people can't make it illegal for you to mount a proper defense against their tyranny. That's a pretty big difference in my book.
Iran Suspends Google's Email Service
What am I going to do for email now? Who knew they had the power to shut down Gmail? I'm in awe. Maybe there's something to this "direct line" to God claim the mullahs in Tehran have...
As for WGet, I'm surprised you selected that; I am a heavy user of both Linux and Windows + Cygwin and I use wget no more than once in a blue moon.
Well, speak for yourself, and, of course I'm not going to make comments that everyone will agree with. But you agree with the gist of what I'm saying?
why the heck is the built in text editor so completely and utterly lame?
Agreed. I get frustrated that every time I want to open a flat file that isn't suffixed with ".txt" I have to flip the little filter doo-dad to "*.*". Its the height of arrogance to assume that any flat file that notepad is capable of opening should be suffixed with "*.txt". DOS' own batch files have to be un-filtered to pick them. What a pain in the ass.
Why? Most people won't use them.
Grep and wget. Anyone who discovers these two, really simple to use command line (well, shell, lets get politically correct here) utilities, whether Windows nubes or not, are usually shocked by their complete and utter lack on said platform. Linux gurus can't understand why the DOS shell doesn't have them, and nubes wonder how in the world they never found out about them. After I install windows ports on their systems they say they have started using the DOS shell to use these two utils all the time. I've seen this reaction over and over again.
Its a fax machine bolted to a lazy susan. As soon as a fax comes in, if fax is printed "upside down", all a tech has to do is rotate the lazy susan. So I went and filed this great new invention, but apparently it was rejected as the patent office received it upside down.
Nickodeemus is kind of right though, the moral of this story, as is the moral of all stories of this type; CHANGE THOSE DEFAULT SETTINGS.
Cheap, ARM and Linux is the one combination they absolutely MUST discredit.
Yep. Note how much Jobs HATES netbooks:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/22/apple-steve-jobs-technology-enterprise-tech-apple.html
There's only one reason for this: they're too cheap. Apple can't make any money off them. If Apple had invented the netbook, then maybe. Of course we'd be paying up over a grand for 'em...
Use a different phone/media player.
And I do.
and is willing to sell the corporate soul to obtain it.
I agree, except to say that Microsoft has no soul to sell, making the sale that much easier. I think Krupp had the same easy path to collusion with the Nazis.
I wouldn't ever want any kind of spy drones and I think most people feel the same way.
That's the first Brit I ever heard make any kind of sense with regard to this topic. These governmental types are using YOUR money to spy on you in the name of national security. Watch for more of this type of nonsense. When Oceania finally announces it has arrived and stamps out individual freedoms and any kind of individuality it will be like this; death by a thousand little cuts, not one large chop.