Personally, I can't wait until the major video sites default to HTML5 and we can finally say goodbye to Flash."
Same here. I hate Flash. It's pointless. Between AJAX, PHP, and CSS, there's very little Flash offers beyond video provision.
Yes, Flash does animation. As long as it does animation, Fine. When they began expanding ActionScript because all the Lingo programmers needed a home, that's when it went off the rails, and that was a long time ago.
at least 1 out of 5 times it says "sorry - can't make a list for you" - basically syin I listen to music that is too obscure for them or isn't in iTMS or whatever they use to catalogue stuff.
I disabled Genius and just leave it on Random play. I have 35,654 songs, so I basically listen to the best radio station and rarely hear repeated.
Heck, if I live to be 90, I'll probably only hear each song 7 or 8 more times anyway...
In counterpoint, a friend of mine survived the "special times" in Cuba (basically, a massive powerdown) and said that the first six months pretty much sucked ass. But then you started to smile again, because the water was still warm and inviting, and you still had your friends, and you began to have fun. Only no one drove cars, and you invented things to do that didn't require money, electricity, or petroleum. A year after - you're fine. Different and less comfortable, but fine.
I remember an age before the internet. It was harder to find information and other data, but it wasn't so bad. The things you did have access to you took a bit more seriously. I spent more time at the library then. And I had an extensive cassette tape collection... No Internet != no computers, so rather than DL music, I suspect I would spend more time at LAN parties, which are always fun.
Technical means to manage traffic, such as traffic shaping, should only be employed as a last resort
And in this world, that means FIRST RESORT and STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.
Gutless gutless worthless CRTC.
"Hey CRTC! Thanks for condemning Canada to third rate connectivity. Chintzing on the bandwidth saves the provider money - they have no incentive to provide better access, and since most people are tied into multi-year deals with their phone or cable service, a 30-day notice is fucking bullshit.
FUCK CRTC and FUCK ROGERS and FUCK BELL CANADA. You people suck great steaming tourdes out of my butthole you greedy pathetic scum sucking freaks.
Next question?
What real alternatives are there around here (Canada)?
no shit. Sony dumped a pile into their eReader and went nowhere. B&N can learn from their errors.
Sony just built a machine, but had no books to sell. The profit margin on a digital file is orders of magnitude greater than hardware. B&N, like amazon, has books to sell. If Sony bought Chapters or some similar dealie, then they'd have an angle. As it is, they're just peddling an expensive eReader with nowhere to go.
That said, if I got the B&N Nook, I don't think I'd ever buy a book, as I have hundreds of unread pdf books sitting on my laptop waiting for a better home...
RapidShare will supplant BitTorrent, as the former appear better protected legally.
RS et al is more than happy to take down anything determined to be a violation of copyright. PirateBay et al stood up and said "fuck off". This doesn't jive with the workflow IP capital demands under the DMCA. Yes, the DMCA is a parochial piece of shit that is only enforceable in the states, but given the size and power of the USA system and its networks, it only makes sense to appease the DMCA as it is the more restrictive of the nationalist bullshit rules re: IP copyright.
RS, mediafire, and others will take down stuff when someone complains. Hence, by "killing its own" it becomes much more resilient, as one gets the whack-a-mole effect, but with this major structural difference: with pirate Bay / napster etc. when the system is brought down, resurrecting or building a new network is very time consuming and difficult. with the RS/megaupload/mediafire/etc. model, they own they field on which whack-a-mole is played. So by letting the rights holders chase the pirates, RS et al get to profit on the churn.
The next thing will be blogs dedicated to software with links to DLs of the stuff in RS et al, similar to music blogs now, and then a master system to search it all, similar to chewbone.
People living in the year 4000, will know less about us than we know about ancient Rome.
I totally and completely agree. Our civilisation is Atlantis: we will disappear and the neolithic survivors of the coming die off will spin myths about our vaunted abilities.
Fuck off you pinhead. As noted: go to robot.txt file and add Disallow. Then they won't be able to steal from you. And no one will come to your fascist propaganda machine. don't like it? tough. Welcome to the 21st century.
With storage stupid cheap, and computers continuing to increase in power, I just never saw the advantage to cloud storage. It requires web access. It's slow.
I just bought a terabyte drive for $100 to back up the other terabyte drive I bought several months ago for $160. Now everything is backed up in multiple. And I can access it without getting online. And I don't have to worry about my cloud storage company going out of business and taking all my data with it.
Can the power generated by ONE windmill build, from raw materials, another windmill, assemble it, transport it into place and erect and maintain it. The EROEI / emergy figures on this are obscure and hard to find and deeply contested. The windpower industry says either "yes, over the lifetime of a windmill, it will vastly exceed that value" or they make excuses like "it doesn't matter for () reasons".
The bottom line is if it generates less energy over its lifetime than is required to mine the metals, refine them, cut them into parts, assemble it, transport, erect and maintain it, then the windmill is actually not a source of energy, but an energy sink.
Experiments like the Danish island in TFA are interesting exercises, but there is much more fundamental work to be done. Like ascertaining the true EROEI of wind power.
Personally, if windpower IS positive EROEI, I would cheerfully cover much of the urban landscape with the damn things - people complain about how ugly they are, but acres of hideous shopping malls, towers designed in brutalist architecture aesthetics, and decades of craptasitc cartoon suburban ranches don't seem to raise much ire... It's a big challenge, and it needs to be met NOW.
There were circular based tables that competed with Mendeleev, and some spiral based ones as well. They had problems with the rare earths, as does this one - they are in their own arc and only understood by colour.
They will take the money and use it to plug the holes in their budget. California is nearly bankrupt, and they will do ANYTHING to keep themselves afloat.
Why? Prop 13 and a state full of taxpayers instead of citizens.
I completely agree. Also, people will find it much more efficient to have one electric bike for commuting and an electric Trike pulling a small trailer for shopping. The far flung suburbs will need to be plowed under as farmland - the end of cheap oil is going to have a significant impact on our ability to move fresh food at a low cost. A lot needs to happen, and quickly. This battery system from IBM et al I think it going to be MUCH more useful for trucking companies. Also: keep an eye on Eestor. They're working on an ultracapacitor, which, if it works, will eliminate the slow charging problems of batteries.
For now I think the people who should be worried are not Mozilla, but Adobe. Some of the stuff coming out of HTML5 demos looks extremely nifty, and uses a fraction of the power that flash uses.
And not a moment too soon, because Flash sucks ass.
The only thing I use it for is embedding video. Groovy menus? AJAX and CSS. Flash was a great idea when we all had dial up. We've moved on from there, and we all learned not to build flash based splash pages. This makes Flash a fairly useless application. I look forward to it dying, like its bloated predecessor, Director.
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Same here. I hate Flash. It's pointless. Between AJAX, PHP, and CSS, there's very little Flash offers beyond video provision.
Yes, Flash does animation. As long as it does animation, Fine. When they began expanding ActionScript because all the Lingo programmers needed a home, that's when it went off the rails, and that was a long time ago.
I disabled Genius and just leave it on Random play. I have 35,654 songs, so I basically listen to the best radio station and rarely hear repeated.
Heck, if I live to be 90, I'll probably only hear each song 7 or 8 more times anyway...
Dead simple, and WAY faster than sitting around waiting for Rapishare to stop its 90 second countdown...
Also, the songs come RECOMMENDED by friends whose tastes I think have merit.
Losing the ability to DL music will just make LAN parties and meshnets more common.
RS
is right on time?
She was in Havana. Was able to escape in the late 90s.
In counterpoint, a friend of mine survived the "special times" in Cuba (basically, a massive powerdown) and said that the first six months pretty much sucked ass. But then you started to smile again, because the water was still warm and inviting, and you still had your friends, and you began to have fun. Only no one drove cars, and you invented things to do that didn't require money, electricity, or petroleum. A year after - you're fine. Different and less comfortable, but fine.
RS
I remember an age before the internet. It was harder to find information and other data, but it wasn't so bad. The things you did have access to you took a bit more seriously. I spent more time at the library then. And I had an extensive cassette tape collection... No Internet != no computers, so rather than DL music, I suspect I would spend more time at LAN parties, which are always fun.
if the page still takes a minute to load, and when it does, it's as ugly as home-made sin.
Xenu hates everyone because he's a DOUCHEBAG.
sounds cool. I'm in Tronno...
And in this world, that means FIRST RESORT and STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.
Gutless gutless worthless CRTC.
"Hey CRTC! Thanks for condemning Canada to third rate connectivity. Chintzing on the bandwidth saves the provider money - they have no incentive to provide better access, and since most people are tied into multi-year deals with their phone or cable service, a 30-day notice is fucking bullshit.
FUCK CRTC and FUCK ROGERS and FUCK BELL CANADA. You people suck great steaming tourdes out of my butthole you greedy pathetic scum sucking freaks.
Next question?
What real alternatives are there around here (Canada)?
RS
Sony just built a machine, but had no books to sell. The profit margin on a digital file is orders of magnitude greater than hardware. B&N, like amazon, has books to sell. If Sony bought Chapters or some similar dealie, then they'd have an angle. As it is, they're just peddling an expensive eReader with nowhere to go.
That said, if I got the B&N Nook, I don't think I'd ever buy a book, as I have hundreds of unread pdf books sitting on my laptop waiting for a better home...
RS
RS et al is more than happy to take down anything determined to be a violation of copyright. PirateBay et al stood up and said "fuck off". This doesn't jive with the workflow IP capital demands under the DMCA. Yes, the DMCA is a parochial piece of shit that is only enforceable in the states, but given the size and power of the USA system and its networks, it only makes sense to appease the DMCA as it is the more restrictive of the nationalist bullshit rules re: IP copyright.
RS, mediafire, and others will take down stuff when someone complains. Hence, by "killing its own" it becomes much more resilient, as one gets the whack-a-mole effect, but with this major structural difference: with pirate Bay / napster etc. when the system is brought down, resurrecting or building a new network is very time consuming and difficult. with the RS/megaupload/mediafire/etc. model, they own they field on which whack-a-mole is played. So by letting the rights holders chase the pirates, RS et al get to profit on the churn.
The next thing will be blogs dedicated to software with links to DLs of the stuff in RS et al, similar to music blogs now, and then a master system to search it all, similar to chewbone.
RS
People living in the year 4000, will know less about us than we know about ancient Rome. I totally and completely agree. Our civilisation is Atlantis: we will disappear and the neolithic survivors of the coming die off will spin myths about our vaunted abilities.
Fuck off you pinhead. As noted: go to robot.txt file and add Disallow. Then they won't be able to steal from you. And no one will come to your fascist propaganda machine. don't like it? tough. Welcome to the 21st century.
I just bought a terabyte drive for $100 to back up the other terabyte drive I bought several months ago for $160. Now everything is backed up in multiple. And I can access it without getting online. And I don't have to worry about my cloud storage company going out of business and taking all my data with it.
RS
The bottom line is if it generates less energy over its lifetime than is required to mine the metals, refine them, cut them into parts, assemble it, transport, erect and maintain it, then the windmill is actually not a source of energy, but an energy sink.
Experiments like the Danish island in TFA are interesting exercises, but there is much more fundamental work to be done. Like ascertaining the true EROEI of wind power.
Personally, if windpower IS positive EROEI, I would cheerfully cover much of the urban landscape with the damn things - people complain about how ugly they are, but acres of hideous shopping malls, towers designed in brutalist architecture aesthetics, and decades of craptasitc cartoon suburban ranches don't seem to raise much ire... It's a big challenge, and it needs to be met NOW.
I like it though - it's pretty.
RS
I agree. This only stops when you name names and shame the bastards into transparency.
Running a multiboot system like bootcamp. Yes it is more than $1200. Boo hoo.
Why? Prop 13 and a state full of taxpayers instead of citizens.
RS
I completely agree. Also, people will find it much more efficient to have one electric bike for commuting and an electric Trike pulling a small trailer for shopping. The far flung suburbs will need to be plowed under as farmland - the end of cheap oil is going to have a significant impact on our ability to move fresh food at a low cost. A lot needs to happen, and quickly. This battery system from IBM et al I think it going to be MUCH more useful for trucking companies. Also: keep an eye on Eestor. They're working on an ultracapacitor, which, if it works, will eliminate the slow charging problems of batteries.
Last words? Hmmmmmmm....
Lay low and look nifty.
or...
Don't be cruel.
Yeah. An Elvis quote. Just cuz I roll like that.
RS
Things break in Safari, too.
And not a moment too soon, because Flash sucks ass.
The only thing I use it for is embedding video. Groovy menus? AJAX and CSS. Flash was a great idea when we all had dial up. We've moved on from there, and we all learned not to build flash based splash pages. This makes Flash a fairly useless application. I look forward to it dying, like its bloated predecessor, Director.