I've had a terrible time with flash on a 64 bit OS. (To counter your works *NOW* point) Every flash movie crashes within seconds. At least java doesn't crash. Though I wouldn't run a java game as you said above. But I *cant* run a flash game, video, web page, etc anyway. Used to love Hulu, but now I can't even view it. No idea what they did to flash in the last update or two, but they completely broke it for me. I went to Adobe forums and boy am I not alone.
So without Hulu I had nowhere else really good to go, except netflix. And now Ill never leave netflix. And it's funny because I swore to never use Silverlight, but bottom line is that it works and its 100x better than flash will ever be. If only I didn't resent MS.
There is no winning on the web, it's a choice between a douche and turd sandwich no matter which way you turn. Flash tries to hard to be all things to all people, and falls short on almost all of them as a result. It's like the CD tape deck of yesteryear, works for a bit, then never again.
I think that any military personnel with brains will give the canned and approved excuse for anything. Training exercise isn't really a new one. I'm not saying they did anything wrong necessarily but it's a fairly common cop out, almost to the point of cliche.
Anywho this article is about driving grades up. Whenever they say they are removing D, that means that they are making it easier to get a C. Because they *cant* fail people anymore. They either won't get funding (k-12) or they will cut the program because it makes them look bad (for profit, post k-12). It's those 'successful' people at the top that view an education for others as a commodity, that lower the pay of teachers so you get any yahoo that will work for peanuts, and that threaten to fire teachers that don't pass enough students.
Welcome to the system created by the successful and driven, where profits mean more than knowledge, where a person isn't a student, they are a future loan payment with insane interest. Where kids get diplomas for majors that don't even exist in the real world. Where school districts get money based on test score averages instead of necessity.
Everything is shit these days. Hell even console games need patching anymore... it was *never* like that until the MBAs starting running the show. So your Wharton types (you know, the successful and driven) do a damn good job of sucking whats good out of a system in the name of "increased shareholder value".
Mark my words, this will not mean more failing students. It will mean more student with a C average, which makes them more eligible for "for profit" colleges. It will help the state get better funding because what used to be D averages will now be C averages. I don't care what the article says, I don't care what they say they are doing, *this* is the real effect here and it's primary purpose.
I'm seeing this happen. I quit my last job because under no uncertain terms they said to us all, "If you fail students you will no longer be able to teach that class." It's not the educational department heads saying it, it's the suit at the top running the show cutting corners. You know, the driven and successful guy. Successful because he can increase profits at the cost of quality. In other words, the American way. You better get used to it bucko, because it *is* the present *and* the future and it's not going to stop until people like yourself see the world for what it is, a giant whirlwind of bullshit, with no calming eye at the center.
You are confusing cause and effect. You think making things easier for people causes the driven to be dragged down, but it's the driven who want the lower people to do better so they can get bigger bonuses, win more loan money, and steal the futures of millions of young Americans by "preparing" them for jobs that don't exist, all for top dollar.
Given your immature sig and how you present your case, I would seem you've done a good job of dragging the discussion down to your level. By your own logic, we must now kill ourselves for participating in such a bone headed discussion. Good bye cruel world.
For many of us non-programmers (but techies anyways) Flash is a glorified codec. I use flash for:
A) Watching video online and B) Nothing else.
Hell, if a site has a flash splash page I close it instantly, no matter what's behind it. Flash based slideshow? Close window. Flash based games? You kidding me? What am I... nine? Close window.
I very much look forward to the day that I don't have to use Flash anymore to watch videos, I'll uninstall it at that point and never look back.
Adobe is in a backwards slide currently. Flash is the icon/mascot for what Adobe is becoming. HTML 5 may have problems from a web programmer standpoint, but for the rest of us as long as it plays video it's far superior to what I have to use now, at least for my purposes.
I can't help but think we deserve this. We outsource important jobs for machine that make up the lifeblood of our society and then act all surprised when they come back as spying tools.
Duh!
The russians used to put this kind of thing in copy machines, but that was a lot harder than just mass producing rootkits.
We exported our jobs to save a few bucks, and this is what we get for it. There *may* just be a lesson to be learned here...
On the flip side I don't think the illiterate employees had anything to do with it. Even if they did, it really doesn't matter. These things are getting built in another country, with terrible human rights records, for pennies on the dollar, by a totalitarian government... and we expect them to be fine? Wish I lived in that world. I'd ride my rainbow cloud to work every day...
We'll keep doing it though because an extra $5M a year and stock options for the highest execs for saving all that money is a hell of a lot more important than the safety and security of a country they can afford to leave behind when the shit hits the fan.
I've seldom worked at a place that didn't pirate software. From fortune 500 to mom and pop shop, they all do it. The annoying part is I actually purchase mine, and in 3D that's not cheap. Ive spent easily 30K in the past 3 years keeping 'legal' with my software only to be underbid by these pirate shops. Now I am contracting at one because I can't win a bid against these pirates as their overhead is much lower than mine because of this.
My favorite part is negotiating my rate for a contract and I stipulate that it's cheaper if I can work from home because I have full support of my fully paid for software. They almost never get it at first, but when I mention my one caveat of not supporting or bug fixing/debugging scenes made with pirated versions. That wakes them up every time. Mostly because the first two weeks are at a preset lower rate while we get used to eachother. Only after those two weeks I am privy to all sorts of info (such as pirating) and then they are often afraid not to hire me in case I rat them out. It's a shitty system with a couple perks.
I've got a Nokia N95, which is a decent enough phone I guess, but the symbian OS is easily the 2nd clumsiest one I have ever used (first being windows mobile). It's like no one there cares at all about usability, almost like a Dilbert strip. My sound recorder is in office tools, for whatever reason, and it's like 7 clicks deep. I can't customize my appearance in terms of where buttons go or which do or don't show up very well, so whatever background image I am using is obscured by loads of useless crap I'll never need. Like the phone, hate the OS.
Wait a minute... cost of living? Or cost of entertainment? My gas company raised the rates for the 2nd time in 3 months, but they are here. My rent is going up, my landlord lives in the US. My insurance rates are going up, and my insurance company is in the US. My local grocer has increased prices at least 20% in the past 3 years, they are local. Those are costs of living...
A 2nd router so you can have wireless wii is not a cost of living, it's a cost of entertainment.
So in reality, it would seem that the cost of living does nothing but increase as the workers here earn less and less. The cost of arbitrary unnecessary goods are going down, but they are unnecessary.
Actually, I've never seen the prices of anything ever go down in the US when it comes to costs of needed living utilities and items. My salary doesn't even keep up with inflation.
When the number 1 search on google is "How Do I delete my facebook account" you know that facebook is hurting.
You can test this by typing "How Do I" on google.
I'd say that these privacy concerns are hurting them, especially since the whole point of facebook was originally privacy. The bait and switch just doesn't work these days.
Hopefully your wife can easily find another job in this economy if the company doesn't respect her opinions.
Seems silly to even talk about it or say anything out of order when in reality they cannot verify anything and rah-rah'ing for the team just makes you look good, regardless of what you actually did in private.
It's one thing to have principles, but another thing entirely to apply them foolishly.
There are a few places you don't do 'civil discourse'. Parties, public transportation, and work are a few I can think of right away.
I CAN do 80 MPH all the time because I love to go fast, that doesn't make it a good idea.
But that's not what was said. He didn't say he loved it above all others, it was that it was loved instead of all others. It was fuck the world, we're number 1.
That's not patriotism, it's a sign of xenophobia. Loving one thing doesn't mean you have to be apathetic to everything else.
If the US is a melting pot of people from all over the world, then we should at least care about the other countries because they make up our country and the social and cultural norms come with them. Best to understand it with an extended hand than a flipped finger.
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Try netflix, you can get rid of both.
I've had a terrible time with flash on a 64 bit OS. (To counter your works *NOW* point) Every flash movie crashes within seconds. At least java doesn't crash. Though I wouldn't run a java game as you said above. But I *cant* run a flash game, video, web page, etc anyway. Used to love Hulu, but now I can't even view it. No idea what they did to flash in the last update or two, but they completely broke it for me. I went to Adobe forums and boy am I not alone.
So without Hulu I had nowhere else really good to go, except netflix. And now Ill never leave netflix. And it's funny because I swore to never use Silverlight, but bottom line is that it works and its 100x better than flash will ever be. If only I didn't resent MS.
There is no winning on the web, it's a choice between a douche and turd sandwich no matter which way you turn. Flash tries to hard to be all things to all people, and falls short on almost all of them as a result. It's like the CD tape deck of yesteryear, works for a bit, then never again.
I think that any military personnel with brains will give the canned and approved excuse for anything. Training exercise isn't really a new one. I'm not saying they did anything wrong necessarily but it's a fairly common cop out, almost to the point of cliche.
Anywho this article is about driving grades up. Whenever they say they are removing D, that means that they are making it easier to get a C. Because they *cant* fail people anymore. They either won't get funding (k-12) or they will cut the program because it makes them look bad (for profit, post k-12). It's those 'successful' people at the top that view an education for others as a commodity, that lower the pay of teachers so you get any yahoo that will work for peanuts, and that threaten to fire teachers that don't pass enough students.
Welcome to the system created by the successful and driven, where profits mean more than knowledge, where a person isn't a student, they are a future loan payment with insane interest. Where kids get diplomas for majors that don't even exist in the real world. Where school districts get money based on test score averages instead of necessity.
Everything is shit these days. Hell even console games need patching anymore... it was *never* like that until the MBAs starting running the show. So your Wharton types (you know, the successful and driven) do a damn good job of sucking whats good out of a system in the name of "increased shareholder value".
Mark my words, this will not mean more failing students. It will mean more student with a C average, which makes them more eligible for "for profit" colleges. It will help the state get better funding because what used to be D averages will now be C averages. I don't care what the article says, I don't care what they say they are doing, *this* is the real effect here and it's primary purpose.
I'm seeing this happen. I quit my last job because under no uncertain terms they said to us all, "If you fail students you will no longer be able to teach that class." It's not the educational department heads saying it, it's the suit at the top running the show cutting corners. You know, the driven and successful guy. Successful because he can increase profits at the cost of quality. In other words, the American way. You better get used to it bucko, because it *is* the present *and* the future and it's not going to stop until people like yourself see the world for what it is, a giant whirlwind of bullshit, with no calming eye at the center.
You are confusing cause and effect. You think making things easier for people causes the driven to be dragged down, but it's the driven who want the lower people to do better so they can get bigger bonuses, win more loan money, and steal the futures of millions of young Americans by "preparing" them for jobs that don't exist, all for top dollar.
Given your immature sig and how you present your case, I would seem you've done a good job of dragging the discussion down to your level. By your own logic, we must now kill ourselves for participating in such a bone headed discussion. Good bye cruel world.
For many of us non-programmers (but techies anyways) Flash is a glorified codec. I use flash for:
A) Watching video online
and
B) Nothing else.
Hell, if a site has a flash splash page I close it instantly, no matter what's behind it. Flash based slideshow? Close window. Flash based games? You kidding me? What am I... nine? Close window.
I very much look forward to the day that I don't have to use Flash anymore to watch videos, I'll uninstall it at that point and never look back.
Adobe is in a backwards slide currently. Flash is the icon/mascot for what Adobe is becoming. HTML 5 may have problems from a web programmer standpoint, but for the rest of us as long as it plays video it's far superior to what I have to use now, at least for my purposes.
All 3 of them are considered abandonware at this point, you can (legally) download them here if you can handle sprites in this day and age.
The above link might have it too but I found the page a bit garish and figured I'd save others some time.
Duh!
The russians used to put this kind of thing in copy machines, but that was a lot harder than just mass producing rootkits.
We exported our jobs to save a few bucks, and this is what we get for it. There *may* just be a lesson to be learned here...
On the flip side I don't think the illiterate employees had anything to do with it. Even if they did, it really doesn't matter. These things are getting built in another country, with terrible human rights records, for pennies on the dollar, by a totalitarian government... and we expect them to be fine? Wish I lived in that world. I'd ride my rainbow cloud to work every day...
We'll keep doing it though because an extra $5M a year and stock options for the highest execs for saving all that money is a hell of a lot more important than the safety and security of a country they can afford to leave behind when the shit hits the fan.
I've seldom worked at a place that didn't pirate software. From fortune 500 to mom and pop shop, they all do it. The annoying part is I actually purchase mine, and in 3D that's not cheap. Ive spent easily 30K in the past 3 years keeping 'legal' with my software only to be underbid by these pirate shops. Now I am contracting at one because I can't win a bid against these pirates as their overhead is much lower than mine because of this.
My favorite part is negotiating my rate for a contract and I stipulate that it's cheaper if I can work from home because I have full support of my fully paid for software. They almost never get it at first, but when I mention my one caveat of not supporting or bug fixing/debugging scenes made with pirated versions. That wakes them up every time. Mostly because the first two weeks are at a preset lower rate while we get used to eachother. Only after those two weeks I am privy to all sorts of info (such as pirating) and then they are often afraid not to hire me in case I rat them out. It's a shitty system with a couple perks.
I've got a Nokia N95, which is a decent enough phone I guess, but the symbian OS is easily the 2nd clumsiest one I have ever used (first being windows mobile). It's like no one there cares at all about usability, almost like a Dilbert strip. My sound recorder is in office tools, for whatever reason, and it's like 7 clicks deep. I can't customize my appearance in terms of where buttons go or which do or don't show up very well, so whatever background image I am using is obscured by loads of useless crap I'll never need. Like the phone, hate the OS.
Wait a minute... cost of living? Or cost of entertainment? My gas company raised the rates for the 2nd time in 3 months, but they are here. My rent is going up, my landlord lives in the US. My insurance rates are going up, and my insurance company is in the US. My local grocer has increased prices at least 20% in the past 3 years, they are local. Those are costs of living...
A 2nd router so you can have wireless wii is not a cost of living, it's a cost of entertainment.
So in reality, it would seem that the cost of living does nothing but increase as the workers here earn less and less. The cost of arbitrary unnecessary goods are going down, but they are unnecessary.
Actually, I've never seen the prices of anything ever go down in the US when it comes to costs of needed living utilities and items. My salary doesn't even keep up with inflation.
Or more likely, another excuse to raise tuition again.
When the number 1 search on google is "How Do I delete my facebook account" you know that facebook is hurting.
You can test this by typing "How Do I" on google.
I'd say that these privacy concerns are hurting them, especially since the whole point of facebook was originally privacy. The bait and switch just doesn't work these days.
I'm glad I never opened a facebook account...
All too often the parents give the kids money so they'll leave the house and here we are....
Only way a kid has access to the games is if the parents enabled them.
And then those same people cut the education budget year after year after year... It's depressing.
I think you give 'the rest of human society' too much credit.
Legal in PA and OR
I dont have that installed but chances are it can be turned of in the services area for windows os. A reboot would probably be required.
It's like they don't know their asses from a dead horse.
Only because its captain would evolve into a snow blower.
we could duct tape 5 cruise missiles together and take out even more tents.
Hopefully your wife can easily find another job in this economy if the company doesn't respect her opinions.
Seems silly to even talk about it or say anything out of order when in reality they cannot verify anything and rah-rah'ing for the team just makes you look good, regardless of what you actually did in private.
It's one thing to have principles, but another thing entirely to apply them foolishly.
There are a few places you don't do 'civil discourse'. Parties, public transportation, and work are a few I can think of right away.
I CAN do 80 MPH all the time because I love to go fast, that doesn't make it a good idea.
But that's not what was said. He didn't say he loved it above all others, it was that it was loved instead of all others. It was fuck the world, we're number 1.
That's not patriotism, it's a sign of xenophobia. Loving one thing doesn't mean you have to be apathetic to everything else.
If the US is a melting pot of people from all over the world, then we should at least care about the other countries because they make up our country and the social and cultural norms come with them. Best to understand it with an extended hand than a flipped finger.
I voted for a Commodore 64 because it most closely resembles my skin color, and I'm not going AC to hide my obvious bigotry towards ,8,1
Holy crap, what happened there. Sigh...
When the cost of living, health care, and inflation far outpace income increases, what choice did we have?
When the cost of living, healthcinflation far outpace income increases.... what choice did we have?