...how the world has changed in recent 150 years. U.S. corporations push draconian laws and European countries are praised for standing up to protect freedoms and privacy.
That’s you. Consumerist of the finest grade. Buying and buying. Because old products break down after a ridiculous 5 years (make that 2, realistically). Because you buy them anyway.
You don't own a car, do you? You need to replace some parts every year, or even twice a year, if you use your car a lot. This is called "maintainance".
In 2-3 years you can get much faster drives then those we have today, you buy one of them and you toss out the old one. I like them always having the top performance, this saves my time which costs more than some HDD or SSD.
Does it count as fulfilling the obligations required by the GPL if you make your source code freely available and downloadable but your entire country is behind a firewall and no one can access it?:)
As long as the source is accessible to the OS users - they comply with the GPL. GPL doesn't force you to distribute the source to the whole world. It requires you to make it available to your users.
I've developed my recent client-server Flex commercial application on Linux only, using Intellij IDEA + Flex SDK. It looks consistent across all tested platforms, including MacOS and Windows, all fonts, controls etc have exactly the same L&F, everything works on all platforms exactly as it meant to work. So yes, it's cross-platform. Finished it in less then a month - I hate to think about the development time it would take to repeat it in DHTML, with all those browser-dependent JS issues, different font rendering and so on. And I don't give a f*ck about iPhone, actually. If Apple tries to force a developer into using their SDK, it's not my problem.
Oh — and the Fermi Paradox applies especially well. Assume that it takes even ten thousand years to colonize a remote solar system, and the entire galaxy would have been overrun by now if a colonizing civilization had started in the terrestrial Jurassic period.
There is no sign that it hasn't been colonized at some point either - we just don't know. Civilizations rise and die, their parts unite and then they fall into pieces. We, humans, could be remnants of some ancient aliens colony too.
If you annoy your visitors to the point they start looking for ad-blocking/skipping solutions - there's something wrong with your business model. Either you fix it or you leave the business, it's just that's easy. Whining about your customers not liking some part of your business doesn't make sense. Google was probably the first to realize there is no point in annoying the hell out of surfers - that's why their ads are text-only and quite modest.
Does HTML5 provides for the same level of rich client platform development as Flash/Flex? With numerous widgets just like in Motif/MFC, just easier to use? (MXML just shines in GUI development, far beyond of what Motif/MFC/AWT/Swing offer).
Does HTML5 allows you to play video with some advertisement in a running text over it?
Does HTML5 protects your video site from hotlinking? I.E. can you make sure that nobody can embed your videos into their pages and make sales while you pay for the bandwidth?
Sorry, HTML5 'video', 'audio' tags and other dings and wistles... you have your place (probably on YouTube), but you ain't gonna replace Flash anytime soon. Especially not on commercial sites (like pr0n tubes), not for RCP development either. World needs a full-blown rich client platform for the browsers and so far Adobe has been the only one who were able to provide a cross-platform, browser-independent solution. And they did it quite well, despite of some quirks. Sun with JavaFX has failed... would you like MS to take over with their Windows-only Silverlight technology?
I develop Flex application on Linux right now, using Intellij IDEA + Flex SDK from Adobe.
Quite complex GUI application, with numerous connected graphs, grids, sliders - one that would be just impossible to develop using AJAX or whatnot.
Zero problems so far. Everything works properly, including Flash debugging in 32-bit SeaMonkey (there is no 64-bit debug version of Flash on neither platform, so 64 bit is for usual browsing). The app is working, I'm going to release it today or tomorrow - yes, Flash application + server part on Perl with JSON bindings, developed 100% on Linux. It would be masochistic to develop it using "HTML5" or whatever buzzword you wanted to use as a replacement for Flash. Flash is here and it works - I don't care what your theories say
Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of mosquitos suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Yeah... then they shoot them with laser guns and tell you that "swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus".
So if aliens invade, it will be for solely their own entertainment, not for economic reasons.
Life reproduces itself not for economic reasons either.
Expansion is one of the basic principles of any life form. That's how humans populated the Earth, that's why we are dreaming of populating other planets. Populate as many niches as you can so if a part of you population is being exterminated by some catastrophe, your specie would not extinct.
Probably from the POV of even more advanced civilization radio is too archaic (like smoke signals for us) and for interstellar communications they use something we just didn't discover yet.
Since Commies as a big threat are gone, public needs another enemy to stay under control.
That's how you get war on terrorism, pedophilia witch hunt and so on.
If I draw a cartoon child being shot, is this now 'cartoon child murder'?
If a violence would be treated the same way as sex in the western culture - yes, it would be a 'cartoon child murder'. But sex is much, much worse and sinful.
Right... Because if the gov't didn't do anything, this would somehow be better?
Without a fat, invasive, corrupted government the problem of RIAA and MPAA changing laws according to their interests would not exist in the first place.
PHP is wonderful for web development, but has more than a few annoying quirks with regard to consistency
Uh... no. PHP is the Windows of www programming. It's a mediocrity of web languages. It's a something that "everyone uses". It's a broken language that teaches everyone broken patterns of programming (like mixing HTML and code), but it's easy to start and it's everywhere.
That's why it's widespread. Not because it's "wonderful" for something.
It's in-process so there's no startup overhead like with CGI.
It's funny you mention it, since the best (performance-wise) way to handle PHP is FastCGI. mod_php is not thread-safe so it can't be used with Worker or Event Apache MPM's. Prefork MPM - the only one that works with mod_php and its multiple extensions - just sucks in terms of performance.
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...how the world has changed in recent 150 years. U.S. corporations push draconian laws and European countries are praised for standing up to protect freedoms and privacy.
That’s you. Consumerist of the finest grade. Buying and buying. Because old products break down after a ridiculous 5 years (make that 2, realistically). Because you buy them anyway.
You don't own a car, do you? You need to replace some parts every year, or even twice a year, if you use your car a lot. This is called "maintainance".
In 2-3 years you can get much faster drives then those we have today, you buy one of them and you toss out the old one. I like them always having the top performance, this saves my time which costs more than some HDD or SSD.
Does it count as fulfilling the obligations required by the GPL if you make your source code freely available and downloadable but your entire country is behind a firewall and no one can access it? :)
As long as the source is accessible to the OS users - they comply with the GPL. GPL doesn't force you to distribute the source to the whole world. It requires you to make it available to your users.
Like this one or any other application with 3 stars rating on ntcompatible.com?
I've developed my recent client-server Flex commercial application on Linux only, using Intellij IDEA + Flex SDK. It looks consistent across all tested platforms, including MacOS and Windows, all fonts, controls etc have exactly the same L&F, everything works on all platforms exactly as it meant to work. So yes, it's cross-platform. Finished it in less then a month - I hate to think about the development time it would take to repeat it in DHTML, with all those browser-dependent JS issues, different font rendering and so on. And I don't give a f*ck about iPhone, actually. If Apple tries to force a developer into using their SDK, it's not my problem.
Oh — and the Fermi Paradox applies especially well. Assume that it takes even ten thousand years to colonize a remote solar system, and the entire galaxy would have been overrun by now if a colonizing civilization had started in the terrestrial Jurassic period.
There is no sign that it hasn't been colonized at some point either - we just don't know. Civilizations rise and die, their parts unite and then they fall into pieces. We, humans, could be remnants of some ancient aliens colony too.
If you annoy your visitors to the point they start looking for ad-blocking/skipping solutions - there's something wrong with your business model. Either you fix it or you leave the business, it's just that's easy. Whining about your customers not liking some part of your business doesn't make sense. Google was probably the first to realize there is no point in annoying the hell out of surfers - that's why their ads are text-only and quite modest.
Does HTML5 provides for the same level of rich client platform development as Flash/Flex? With numerous widgets just like in Motif/MFC, just easier to use? (MXML just shines in GUI development, far beyond of what Motif/MFC/AWT/Swing offer).
Does HTML5 allows you to play video with some advertisement in a running text over it?
Does HTML5 protects your video site from hotlinking? I.E. can you make sure that nobody can embed your videos into their pages and make sales while you pay for the bandwidth?
Sorry, HTML5 'video', 'audio' tags and other dings and wistles... you have your place (probably on YouTube), but you ain't gonna replace Flash anytime soon. Especially not on commercial sites (like pr0n tubes), not for RCP development either. World needs a full-blown rich client platform for the browsers and so far Adobe has been the only one who were able to provide a cross-platform, browser-independent solution. And they did it quite well, despite of some quirks. Sun with JavaFX has failed... would you like MS to take over with their Windows-only Silverlight technology?
I develop Flex application on Linux right now, using Intellij IDEA + Flex SDK from Adobe.
Quite complex GUI application, with numerous connected graphs, grids, sliders - one that would be just impossible to develop using AJAX or whatnot.
Zero problems so far. Everything works properly, including Flash debugging in 32-bit SeaMonkey (there is no 64-bit debug version of Flash on neither platform, so 64 bit is for usual browsing). The app is working, I'm going to release it today or tomorrow - yes, Flash application + server part on Perl with JSON bindings, developed 100% on Linux. It would be masochistic to develop it using "HTML5" or whatever buzzword you wanted to use as a replacement for Flash. Flash is here and it works - I don't care what your theories say
Obi-Wan: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of mosquitos suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Yeah... then they shoot them with laser guns and tell you that "swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus".
However do we wants to find aliens?
Call it a fantasy. It's a fact that many women, for example, have rape fantasies. OTOH they do not want to be actually raped.
So if aliens invade, it will be for solely their own entertainment, not for economic reasons.
Life reproduces itself not for economic reasons either.
Expansion is one of the basic principles of any life form. That's how humans populated the Earth, that's why we are dreaming of populating other planets. Populate as many niches as you can so if a part of you population is being exterminated by some catastrophe, your specie would not extinct.
Probably from the POV of even more advanced civilization radio is too archaic (like smoke signals for us) and for interstellar communications they use something we just didn't discover yet.
Since Commies as a big threat are gone, public needs another enemy to stay under control.
That's how you get war on terrorism, pedophilia witch hunt and so on.
How exactly do you exploit a cartoon child?
If I draw a cartoon child being shot, is this now 'cartoon child murder'?
If a violence would be treated the same way as sex in the western culture - yes, it would be a 'cartoon child murder'. But sex is much, much worse and sinful.
Right... Because if the gov't didn't do anything, this would somehow be better?
Without a fat, invasive, corrupted government the problem of RIAA and MPAA changing laws according to their interests would not exist in the first place.
Now we can see the first open conflict between private corporation and a government.
Just wait for the first armed one.
So how does security check help in this case? Is it supposed to make the rifle he carries safer... or what?
Q: How to teach a 12-year-old to program?
A: It's easy. Just tell them they shouldn't do it.
Or perhaps create a game that occurred in the 20th century and shows how atheists persecuted millions of Christians and Jews in the Soviet Union.
That was Communists. And Communism is just another kind of religion if you give it a closer look.
PHP is wonderful for web development, but has more than a few annoying quirks with regard to consistency
Uh... no. PHP is the Windows of www programming. It's a mediocrity of web languages. It's a something that "everyone uses". It's a broken language that teaches everyone broken patterns of programming (like mixing HTML and code), but it's easy to start and it's everywhere.
That's why it's widespread. Not because it's "wonderful" for something.
It's in-process so there's no startup overhead like with CGI.
It's funny you mention it, since the best (performance-wise) way to handle PHP is FastCGI. mod_php is not thread-safe so it can't be used with Worker or Event Apache MPM's. Prefork MPM - the only one that works with mod_php and its multiple extensions - just sucks in terms of performance.
If you're referring to Afghanistan, the US didn't pick that fight.
Sure. Everyone knows that it was Afghanistan attacking and invading US.
Advertisers using flash because it's not as easily blockable
Uh... FlashBlock? Available now for the Chrome as well.