Like Theora? The problem with that codec is that its based on pretty old technology. Google probably isnt interested in paying a bandwidth premium. It looks like this move is Google telling the rest of the industry to standardize on H.264 via licensing deals.
>the last thing people need during a disaster is Deanna Troi.
The story has nothing to do with disasters. Just volunteering.
Visit volunteermatch.com and see how much IT help non-profits need. Its quite a bit. The alternative for a lot of non-profits is to pay a consulting firm 200 dollars and hour to boot up a Windows 2003 machine and setup a domain or setup a basic website.
>I still gotta say I'm kinda smirking at you for thinking it's NOT part of your job as a sysadmin to find a way to do it yourself and instead whining about your lack of skills on the internet instead.
Oh I can do it, and can so many others. And No, Mozilla as an organization is not interested in my solutions because they dont want to support GPOs and central management.
Secondly, presenting a solution that involves a hackey script or three to my bosses doesnt inspire confidence. Presenting something that is built-in, is well tested, and has Mozilla-level polish not to mention some things that I might not have the time/resources to do like proper security auditing, testing on oddball systems and configs, etc.
Again, Im using my situation as an example because its fairly universal. You cant wring your hands over lack of marketshare while at the same time calling people who want x feature for corporate acceptance incompetent or lazy. If you want to beat IE, then you must court the world central administration. If Mozilla was a corporation that had to turn a profit then you'd be seeing these features in a week.
>Oh wait, that's how you must like it since you're afraid of a challenge.
Youre a real prick. I hope youre not in some position of prominance in the OSS community because attitudes like yours are just fucking horrible and show a kiddie mentality and a level of ignorance of business that makes all your opinions null and void.
Whats wrong with Mozilla opening its purse for some MOM/GPO integration and suddenly making life easier on a million or so admins and putting smiles on the faces of the bosses skeptical of OSS in business because "its home software and not corporate friendly?" I mean, they have an annual budget of 80 million dollars. If they can pay their CEO 500k, then can certainly fund some basic GPO integration to compete with IE integration.
Instead, a million admins have to replicate the work of their own homebrew hacks for their own environment, which doesnt exactly translate into a product worth sharing. Heck, even if they did, Mozilla wouldnt allow them to patch their browser.
Every day we're reminded about IE6 on intranets and whatnot. Some integration and an official MSI with IE Tab would change everything.
>Maybe you need to think about changing careers. What, if MOM can't do it, you can't do it? It's open-source, I'm sure you can find a way to do what you need.
Its exactly this attitude that loses marketshare to a very inferior browser. Enjoy your high horse. Obviously helping FF make inroads into corporate isnt as cool as being a dismissive prick on slashdot.
Point is, that even comfortable upper middle class people cant handle 3x change in price. For what? To subsidize jobs that can be gotten by high school drop outs? What incentive to go to school, innovate, and start a business, etc if you can make an easy 60k turning the lathe?
Bullshit. What kind of house or rental will you get for 1/3rd the price? What neighborhood? How can you afford health insurance at 3x the price? How can you afford gasoline at 3x the price? How can you afford food at 3x the price? How many jobs will artificial inflation of prices via wage subsidy cost?
I call fallacy of idealizing the past here. China has been a manufacturing powerhouse since the 1970s. So 40 years now. So you are saying you want to bring back American factories and conditions from the 1960s? That time in manufacturing was best known for lawsuits, strikes, poor quality control, union corruption, and overall fucktardness.
The reality is our economy (or any for that matter) doesnt work if we paid factory workers 55k a year with benefits. As far as "exploiting" the workforce: Are you willing to pay 2 to 3x the price of your goods for the sake of a factory worker's wellbeing? Well, what do you expect to pay them? Their wages are competitive for the demand of their skills. The guy in the US making 10 dollars an hour on the lathe isnt too different than the guy making 2 dollars an hour in China, when you compare purchasing power of that money in those countries.
Look, Im not some super free-market guy, but using loaded language like "exploited" and pretending that manufacturing in the past was some kind of ideal job is just being disingenuous. The invisible hand of the market controls a lot of this and the largest part of that hand is you and me demanding cheap prices for good like cars, computers, phones, etc. The boogeyman is you and me, not necessarily some big government entity holding everyone down.
>Or they would do one of two things: Either upgrade their infrastructure, or stop overselling!
Wont make any difference. Lets say Im downloading at 5mbps with my torrents and you cant make a VOIP call.
Now they double. Now I download at 10mbps and you still cant make a call.
Overselling is the only way youre not paying T3 fracs or multiple T1 prices for your home connection. Or paying the telco company 20 grand to drag some fiber to your home.
There's no way an ISP will survive without basic QoS/throttling. The FCC recommendations from last month reflect this and echo my sentiments about technical reasons to maintain a network, but no "payola" deals with providers.
>Look, I can guarantee you that ReactOS will never make it. It really has no meaningful audience, and when we get Samba 4, whatever audience it does have will walk away.
Maybe they'll shimmy in Samba4 too.
I agree, this is at best a curiosity. ReactOS was started back when virtualization was exotic and expensive. Now any Joe can run one with VirtualBox or VMware or whatever. Im sure most geeks have an old copy of windows 2000. Even after MS gives up on it, you can secure it with firewall rules and disabling various services (server, remote reg, etc). Id rather just boot up an old win2000 or XP VM and be done with it.
Regardless, WINE works well enough right now. I dont see why anyone would wait for ReactOS to mature. It never will.
>If it doesn't mean the end of QoS at the ISP level, it's not network neutrality.
Then your network would become unusable for many applications as VOIP would time out, videos would stutter, etc because bulk applications are in contention for the same bandwidth. The ISP would go out of business from all the complaints.
NN generally doesnt mean the end of QoS and throttling for technical reasons (putting priority on VOIP and gaming and putting torrents and ftp to bulk). Instead, it means ending throttling and QoS for BUSINESS REASONS. That is to say, Comcast isnt going to put Vonage VOIP into the bulk category because Vonage competes with their own VOIP service.
Perhaps in daytime TV advertising, but I see this attitude for things like cars and other things not traditionally the realm of the woman. Not to mention sitcom watchers are 50/50 yet all the major ones use the "dumb husband" formula.
I dont think you can write it up to the business of selling things. I think its become part of our cultural dialogue because showing a dumb women is seen as sexist but showing a dumb man isnt. Its a real double standard.
>The cynical among us might say that we're finally catching up...
Why is shit like this tolerated? If this was said about women then it would be sexist and marked as a troll. But when its about men, its "Interesting." Sadly, making fun of boys and men is standard fare in American society. Every sitcom and commercial has the smart wife and the idiot husband dynamic where the husband cant do something simple but the wife can.
As an adult this doesnt bother me, I just feel sorry for kids growing up today believing this garbage and we wonder why so many of our boys end up as dropouts and criminals. Perhaps society shouldnt be painting them as morons 24/7 and let them develop some self-esteem.
A prominent use of uranium from mining is as fuel for nuclear power plants. As of 2008, known uranium ore resources which can be mined at about current costs are estimated to be sufficient to produce fuel for about a century, based on current consumption rates.[2]
100 years at current load. All non-renewables will peak. Switching from one peak crisis to another is not a solution. Right now, demand for Uranium exceeds supply by a real margin.
Im all for applicances without clocks, but if youre going to put a clock on there that cant be shut off then you must provide some type of network functionality for NTP or whatever the radio version of that is called.
A part of me wonders why electric companies arent broadcasting time over a basic data scheme over power. It would solve all these problems. Just broadcast UTC and let the appliance do the conversion. Perhaps this will be part of the smart power initiative thats becoming popular.
Bullshit. Techies should know these basic commands. Even low level phone techs should at least know ipconfig. Its easier to ask the user to type that into a run/search box than to guide them through 4 or 5 layers of GUI.
Windows techs who only know the GUI are not techs, theyre power users. The GUI is made for the end user. It has very simple categories in 7 because end users have no idea what anything is in there. They simply choose "oh, this is my home network" and it gives them a network connection with DHCP and allows the firewall exception for the local subnet for file/print sharing. This is done automatically. Theyre not going to sit there and configure network adapters, selecting dhcp, and managing their own firewalls.
>but I'd be happy if Microsoft fixed the bug where my search indexing daemon crashes in Vista before they started on the Windows 7 bugs.
Pretty sure they have two teams here. Its not one one guy in a basement being horsewhipped by Balmer and Gates. Fixing one thing in 7 doesnt mean something doesnt get fixed in Vista.
It already has a clock and its the main clock of my kitchen and pretty much my place. Dont put a clock in if you dont offer some kind of autoset option. Id rather them not put one in if they cant give me NTP.
"Plenty" of a non-renewable resource is still limited and eventually you will be in the same situation with oil. Nuclear is at best a stop gap measure to get off oil and to move to 100% renewables.
A lot of these are pretty good ideas. I would love if my appliances were net enabled. Android on a microwave? Thats perfect. Maybe I can see how much power its used that month or, heaven forbid, it friggin talk to NTP so it can set its own time. Sorry naysayers but this is great.
The buzzing earbuds? I tried a demo of these about three or four years ago. Its an old idea. I actually like them. Its a gimmick, but the suggested retail price was only a few dollars more than Apple's bottom of the barrel quality ipod/iphone headsets. They're no more silly than most audio applications and much less sillier than the people who pay hundreds of dollars for "audiophile" quality headphones.
Teddy Ruxbin? Kids love technology like this. A net enabled doll that could tell stories downloaded from the interent or created from parents sounds like the next xmas hot toy.
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>The three most annoying features of YouTube won't display? Where do I sign?
Im sure the HTML video tag will be wrapped within a flash box to produce ads and stupid annotations.
Like Theora? The problem with that codec is that its based on pretty old technology. Google probably isnt interested in paying a bandwidth premium. It looks like this move is Google telling the rest of the industry to standardize on H.264 via licensing deals.
>the last thing people need during a disaster is Deanna Troi.
The story has nothing to do with disasters. Just volunteering.
Visit volunteermatch.com and see how much IT help non-profits need. Its quite a bit. The alternative for a lot of non-profits is to pay a consulting firm 200 dollars and hour to boot up a Windows 2003 machine and setup a domain or setup a basic website.
>I still gotta say I'm kinda smirking at you for thinking it's NOT part of your job as a sysadmin to find a way to do it yourself and instead whining about your lack of skills on the internet instead.
Oh I can do it, and can so many others. And No, Mozilla as an organization is not interested in my solutions because they dont want to support GPOs and central management.
Secondly, presenting a solution that involves a hackey script or three to my bosses doesnt inspire confidence. Presenting something that is built-in, is well tested, and has Mozilla-level polish not to mention some things that I might not have the time/resources to do like proper security auditing, testing on oddball systems and configs, etc.
Again, Im using my situation as an example because its fairly universal. You cant wring your hands over lack of marketshare while at the same time calling people who want x feature for corporate acceptance incompetent or lazy. If you want to beat IE, then you must court the world central administration. If Mozilla was a corporation that had to turn a profit then you'd be seeing these features in a week.
>Oh wait, that's how you must like it since you're afraid of a challenge.
Youre a real prick. I hope youre not in some position of prominance in the OSS community because attitudes like yours are just fucking horrible and show a kiddie mentality and a level of ignorance of business that makes all your opinions null and void.
Whats wrong with Mozilla opening its purse for some MOM/GPO integration and suddenly making life easier on a million or so admins and putting smiles on the faces of the bosses skeptical of OSS in business because "its home software and not corporate friendly?" I mean, they have an annual budget of 80 million dollars. If they can pay their CEO 500k, then can certainly fund some basic GPO integration to compete with IE integration.
Instead, a million admins have to replicate the work of their own homebrew hacks for their own environment, which doesnt exactly translate into a product worth sharing. Heck, even if they did, Mozilla wouldnt allow them to patch their browser.
Every day we're reminded about IE6 on intranets and whatnot. Some integration and an official MSI with IE Tab would change everything.
>Maybe you need to think about changing careers. What, if MOM can't do it, you can't do it? It's open-source, I'm sure you can find a way to do what you need.
Its exactly this attitude that loses marketshare to a very inferior browser. Enjoy your high horse. Obviously helping FF make inroads into corporate isnt as cool as being a dismissive prick on slashdot.
Err, house/rental for 3x the price, not 1/3rd.
Point is, that even comfortable upper middle class people cant handle 3x change in price. For what? To subsidize jobs that can be gotten by high school drop outs? What incentive to go to school, innovate, and start a business, etc if you can make an easy 60k turning the lathe?
>Actually, yes, I am.
Bullshit. What kind of house or rental will you get for 1/3rd the price? What neighborhood? How can you afford health insurance at 3x the price? How can you afford gasoline at 3x the price? How can you afford food at 3x the price? How many jobs will artificial inflation of prices via wage subsidy cost?
I call fallacy of idealizing the past here. China has been a manufacturing powerhouse since the 1970s. So 40 years now. So you are saying you want to bring back American factories and conditions from the 1960s? That time in manufacturing was best known for lawsuits, strikes, poor quality control, union corruption, and overall fucktardness.
The reality is our economy (or any for that matter) doesnt work if we paid factory workers 55k a year with benefits. As far as "exploiting" the workforce: Are you willing to pay 2 to 3x the price of your goods for the sake of a factory worker's wellbeing? Well, what do you expect to pay them? Their wages are competitive for the demand of their skills. The guy in the US making 10 dollars an hour on the lathe isnt too different than the guy making 2 dollars an hour in China, when you compare purchasing power of that money in those countries.
Look, Im not some super free-market guy, but using loaded language like "exploited" and pretending that manufacturing in the past was some kind of ideal job is just being disingenuous. The invisible hand of the market controls a lot of this and the largest part of that hand is you and me demanding cheap prices for good like cars, computers, phones, etc. The boogeyman is you and me, not necessarily some big government entity holding everyone down.
>I've never understood the draw and allure that WoW provides,
Its called a skinner box. Works pretty well on mice and humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
>Maybe I am one of the few people that is lucky and doesn't require simulation from an online fake environment to further foster my own mind.
Climb down from your high horse and join us in the "some people have flaws and get addicted to things" world. Thanks.
>Or they would do one of two things: Either upgrade their infrastructure, or stop overselling!
Wont make any difference. Lets say Im downloading at 5mbps with my torrents and you cant make a VOIP call.
Now they double. Now I download at 10mbps and you still cant make a call.
Overselling is the only way youre not paying T3 fracs or multiple T1 prices for your home connection. Or paying the telco company 20 grand to drag some fiber to your home.
There's no way an ISP will survive without basic QoS/throttling. The FCC recommendations from last month reflect this and echo my sentiments about technical reasons to maintain a network, but no "payola" deals with providers.
>Look, I can guarantee you that ReactOS will never make it. It really has no meaningful audience, and when we get Samba 4, whatever audience it does have will walk away.
Maybe they'll shimmy in Samba4 too.
I agree, this is at best a curiosity. ReactOS was started back when virtualization was exotic and expensive. Now any Joe can run one with VirtualBox or VMware or whatever. Im sure most geeks have an old copy of windows 2000. Even after MS gives up on it, you can secure it with firewall rules and disabling various services (server, remote reg, etc). Id rather just boot up an old win2000 or XP VM and be done with it.
Regardless, WINE works well enough right now. I dont see why anyone would wait for ReactOS to mature. It never will.
>If it doesn't mean the end of QoS at the ISP level, it's not network neutrality.
Then your network would become unusable for many applications as VOIP would time out, videos would stutter, etc because bulk applications are in contention for the same bandwidth. The ISP would go out of business from all the complaints.
NN generally doesnt mean the end of QoS and throttling for technical reasons (putting priority on VOIP and gaming and putting torrents and ftp to bulk). Instead, it means ending throttling and QoS for BUSINESS REASONS. That is to say, Comcast isnt going to put Vonage VOIP into the bulk category because Vonage competes with their own VOIP service.
Perhaps in daytime TV advertising, but I see this attitude for things like cars and other things not traditionally the realm of the woman. Not to mention sitcom watchers are 50/50 yet all the major ones use the "dumb husband" formula.
I dont think you can write it up to the business of selling things. I think its become part of our cultural dialogue because showing a dumb women is seen as sexist but showing a dumb man isnt. Its a real double standard.
>The cynical among us might say that we're finally catching up...
Why is shit like this tolerated? If this was said about women then it would be sexist and marked as a troll. But when its about men, its "Interesting." Sadly, making fun of boys and men is standard fare in American society. Every sitcom and commercial has the smart wife and the idiot husband dynamic where the husband cant do something simple but the wife can.
As an adult this doesnt bother me, I just feel sorry for kids growing up today believing this garbage and we wonder why so many of our boys end up as dropouts and criminals. Perhaps society shouldnt be painting them as morons 24/7 and let them develop some self-esteem.
My gf has a clock radio that works with WWV. Only works when parked right next to a window. Im not sure thats the solution here.
Wiki:
100 years at current load. All non-renewables will peak. Switching from one peak crisis to another is not a solution. Right now, demand for Uranium exceeds supply by a real margin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium
Im all for applicances without clocks, but if youre going to put a clock on there that cant be shut off then you must provide some type of network functionality for NTP or whatever the radio version of that is called.
A part of me wonders why electric companies arent broadcasting time over a basic data scheme over power. It would solve all these problems. Just broadcast UTC and let the appliance do the conversion. Perhaps this will be part of the smart power initiative thats becoming popular.
Bullshit. Techies should know these basic commands. Even low level phone techs should at least know ipconfig. Its easier to ask the user to type that into a run/search box than to guide them through 4 or 5 layers of GUI.
Windows techs who only know the GUI are not techs, theyre power users. The GUI is made for the end user. It has very simple categories in 7 because end users have no idea what anything is in there. They simply choose "oh, this is my home network" and it gives them a network connection with DHCP and allows the firewall exception for the local subnet for file/print sharing. This is done automatically. Theyre not going to sit there and configure network adapters, selecting dhcp, and managing their own firewalls.
>but I'd be happy if Microsoft fixed the bug where my search indexing daemon crashes in Vista before they started on the Windows 7 bugs.
Pretty sure they have two teams here. Its not one one guy in a basement being horsewhipped by Balmer and Gates. Fixing one thing in 7 doesnt mean something doesnt get fixed in Vista.
>Windows 7 easily has the most confusing, difficult to configure network properties of any Windows.
Techies should know how to use ipconfig and netsh.
It already has a clock and its the main clock of my kitchen and pretty much my place. Dont put a clock in if you dont offer some kind of autoset option. Id rather them not put one in if they cant give me NTP.
"Plenty" of a non-renewable resource is still limited and eventually you will be in the same situation with oil. Nuclear is at best a stop gap measure to get off oil and to move to 100% renewables.
A lot of these are pretty good ideas. I would love if my appliances were net enabled. Android on a microwave? Thats perfect. Maybe I can see how much power its used that month or, heaven forbid, it friggin talk to NTP so it can set its own time. Sorry naysayers but this is great.
The buzzing earbuds? I tried a demo of these about three or four years ago. Its an old idea. I actually like them. Its a gimmick, but the suggested retail price was only a few dollars more than Apple's bottom of the barrel quality ipod/iphone headsets. They're no more silly than most audio applications and much less sillier than the people who pay hundreds of dollars for "audiophile" quality headphones.
Teddy Ruxbin? Kids love technology like this. A net enabled doll that could tell stories downloaded from the interent or created from parents sounds like the next xmas hot toy.
Havent decided on throttling. Might just set dd-wrt to only allow 5mbps per port and be done with it. 3 people , 5mbps each, 30 bucks.