virtually all ham radios, even the new ones with the tiny pitch SMT soldered components, come with schematics. I'm on a mailing list for the Yaesu FT-817and people have broken it open to swap out resistors to improve performance. Ham radio operators complain that nowadays we are just 'appliance operators': computer users haven't been experimentalists/hobbyists for the most part for 20+ years, although a few still do tinker. I wonder if it will come full circle someday and computers will be more of a hobbyist build, with schematics and more possibilities. Giving malnourished children a cheap laptop seems strange, but I'm all for it. Give them at least a chance to participate. Others are already trying too feed them.
But your ham radio idea, while interesting, would end up doing neither. (Radio is obselete technology, and solder is distinctly non-edible.
I'm buying a RFID reader and going to start scanning everything I buy or receive as a gift. I don't want strangers knowing what I wear/own. That 5-10 cents will also prevent a sale in my case anyway.
"Curmudgeon"? more of a "Luddite", but let me try and clarify my post.
"Without flash I would miss out on lots of content that has no reason to require flash; but not as much as you think. VideoDownloader is a nice extension for FireFox that opens the videos without flash. As far as true flash content on the web, it generally sucks and I would prefer to give it up."
Saying that flash content generally sucks was over the top I guess. Once and a while I come across something cool, but my point is that if I gave up that stuff in preference to open source software, or because I can't be bothered installing it, there's no reason I shouldn't be able to play video files. I should have said "I would prefer to be able to choose to give it up without losing access to a simple video file."
"I only installed flash for a couple video sites. They inexplicably sacrificed some of my loyalty to them to get me to install an Adobe/Macromedia product."
If I installed flash to access flash games on a website I would have no point. But I installed flash to play videos, which is silly.
"Flash developers push their skills as somehow beneficial to the web. It's BS and I hope your employers realize it."
Wow, I am a dick. Here's what you said,
"...furthermore, you live in your parent's basement, while we're making baseless personal attacks such as someone's employer's abilities."
my own apartment, and a Boston Research Lab (entry level IT) and there's nothing personal in attacking someone's employer's abilities. I'm dismissive due to a musician friend's "website" that consists of flash animations and little html. That's detrimental to her and the web.
and you said, "You know what games most people play? That's right, web based games" I am glad to hear that my fellow Linux users and I can now play all the games most people play on computer's! Thanks Adobe!! (does that include console systems too?)
Novell wanted to hedge their bets and offer protection from "alien abduction," if you will, for their customers. The customers more than likely demanded as much. How about "Robot Insurance" while they're at it?
However, I would obtain my car insurance from someone else if Geicko said I should only use their software in case robots really did attack.
Oh, and if Geicko was also trying to actually build robots that run on seniors' medication.
- Flash has better penetration than native MPEG players and native embedded players. You think more people have flash than have either Windows Media Player or Quicktime?
- Gives a more consistent user experience regardless of OS/browser Is your video less good if they can tell which player is running? It'd look the same Fullscreen anyway, which is one of the annoyances with some flash videos.
- It is guaranteed that most users will be able to work out how to play the video, even if they don't understand downloading or what an mpg is. mpg is associated with an app on generally any system.
- Guarantees that that the user can stay on the site and easily navigate elsewhere. Most video players do not close your browser on running and certainly won't somehow automatically redirect the browser to http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/
- Gives less annoying advertising options than post/pre-roll ads. I prefer post-roll like on TED http://www.ted.com/
Good point though, because others may agree with you. (It's kind of funny that my example uses flash despite using post-roll ads. Oh well.)
- Works even if the.mpg browser association or content-type mapping is out of date or wrong. I would guess that this is less common than users who don't have flash, but I can't be certain. Someone would have to have installed another video app and allowed it to install its own browser plugin, and then uninstalled the app. I'm sure it happens.
- Works even if the native.mpg player is in a state where it is unable to play videos. You should be able to run multiple instances of a player, but may not get sound on some systems, however flash might also not offer sound. This could use up resources I guess, but so would a flash video. Some people don't deserve to see your video.
I would hazard a guess that there are more users of video sites who don't understand what MPEG or a native video player is, than geeks who want to access the underlying video stream. They wouldn't need to know either and I just want videos to play in my video player, not my browser.
To me "custom-brand"-ing the video would be most served by inserting your brand into the video content, not by reinventing the wheel and bypassing the controls on my preferred media-player.
Without flash I would miss out on lots of content that has no reason to require flash; but not as much as you think. VideoDownloader is a nice extension for FireFox that opens the videos without flash. As far as true flash content on the web, it generally sucks and I would prefer to give it up.
I only installed flash for a couple video sites. They inexplicably sacrificed some of my loyalty to them to get me to install an Adobe/Macromedia product.
Flash developers push their skills as somehow beneficial to the web. It's BS and I hope your employers realize it.
Unfortunately when a talented lawyer helps a client skirt a bad law using a technicality, that prevents the law from being tested in the courts. It's also why settling a case is sometimes "bad".
They can put unfair laws on the books and if nothing gets appealed then the law just sits there oppressing people.
You misunderstood, the ATI drivers are better for current cards I hear, but I like nVidia due to their legacy support. I influenced purchases that were pricier than my 6600, and I purchased the 6600 quite a while ago for $180. I have gone longer than usual replacing it, but I wouldn't have so many cards if I didn't keep buying them. Every card was purchased for my current (at the time) PC.
And you refer to the 6600 as an older card and then say I want them to work on current drivers!
That's funny, because it sure feels like you're paying $399 and getting one laptop. It won't feel like that at all if you remember to not buy it. Plenty of people will buy it and probably give away the 2nd one too. I might, I don't have to decide 'til 11/12. If you can't afford it or don't want to that's fine, but it's really annoying that people keep calling this a $399 laptop.
you should never generalize (except in this sentence;) "Only a Sith deals in absolutes." Seriously though, I agree with you about closed source drivers showing gaming is still very weak on Linux, but OSS drivers will allow distros to include accelerated 3d by default and installing a game or 3d effects will be much easier. If only that was the obstacle to gaming on Linux!
ATI could win be back from nVidia, in fact I'm holding off replacing my 6600GT to see how quickly these OSS drivers take to be somewhat stable and 3d.
But with 4 nVidia cards (one as old as the mx400) and only one ATI it's obvious that nVidia has my business right now. One brother has had a nv card for ~1year and the other just bought one. At least 2 friends of mine purchased nv cards within the last 2 years based almost exclusively on my opinions.
In the 3 year period you quote (btw I can't wait to quadruple the performance of my Pentium D in ~ 6months!) I'll easily make or influence 5 or more video card purchases, probably less time if it's because I fall in love with ATI.
I think this is the reason nv and ati care at all about linux drivers, and not because of the miniscule market share we have.
And no, I don't dual boot or even play Windows games except an old one under wine
While they still upgrade 7.10 to whatever, enterprise folks still get 7.04LTS, which is entirely different than what MS is doing to their customers who are *relatively* better off with XP, but not given enterprise suppport.
I thought this was a joke and then looked it up and it's actually true: The post-Vista version of Windows in development has been dubbed Windows 7. So it's really true -- the Windows OS is finally catching up to that revolutionary MacOS from 1991, System 7 But that would imply it was somehow ahead of System V. Ridiculous.
Including the XP disc will not show in their numbers when figuring their deployment of Vista. They will claim every downgrade as a Vista sale because the Vista sale already happened. They will be much happier than if a PC shipped with XP installed. It's just about apparent market share. That's why Linux advocates who dual boot are probably fairly ineffective as the footprint of Windows is much more visible on the web.
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But your ham radio idea, while interesting, would end up doing neither.
(Radio is obselete technology, and solder is distinctly non-edible.
I'm buying a RFID reader and going to start scanning everything I buy or receive as a gift. I don't want strangers knowing what I wear/own. That 5-10 cents will also prevent a sale in my case anyway.
"Curmudgeon"? more of a "Luddite", but let me try and clarify my post.
"Without flash I would miss out on lots of content that has no reason to require flash; but not as much as you think. VideoDownloader is a nice extension for FireFox that opens the videos without flash. As far as true flash content on the web, it generally sucks and I would prefer to give it up."
Saying that flash content generally sucks was over the top I guess. Once and a while I come across something cool, but my point is that if I gave up that stuff in preference to open source software, or because I can't be bothered installing it, there's no reason I shouldn't be able to play video files. I should have said "I would prefer to be able to choose to give it up without losing access to a simple video file."
"I only installed flash for a couple video sites. They inexplicably sacrificed some of my loyalty to them to get me to install an Adobe/Macromedia product."
If I installed flash to access flash games on a website I would have no point. But I installed flash to play videos, which is silly.
"Flash developers push their skills as somehow beneficial to the web. It's BS and I hope your employers realize it."
Wow, I am a dick. Here's what you said,
"...furthermore, you live in your parent's basement, while we're making baseless personal attacks such as someone's employer's abilities."
my own apartment, and a Boston Research Lab (entry level IT) and there's nothing personal in attacking someone's employer's abilities. I'm dismissive due to a musician friend's "website" that consists of flash animations and little html. That's detrimental to her and the web.
and you said,
"You know what games most people play? That's right, web based games"
I am glad to hear that my fellow Linux users and I can now play all the games most people play on computer's!
Thanks Adobe!!
(does that include console systems too?)
At least he wasn't playing "Ride of the Valkyries" on the bass guitar, just to prove it could be done.
However, I would obtain my car insurance from someone else if Geicko said I should only use their software in case robots really did attack.
Oh, and if Geicko was also trying to actually build robots that run on seniors' medication.
Call 1.
Eu falo Portugese. Eu sou de Brasil.
Hang up.
Call 2.
Hablo español. Soy de Venezuela.
Excuse me but I'd like the person supporting the product to at least be in the country where it's made. Call me crazy.
Flashblock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
and while I'm at it I mentioned Video Downloader in a previous post
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390
It downloads the videos for you.
Not affiliated with either...
Flashblock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
and while I'm at it I mentioned Video Downloader in a previous post
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390
It downloads the videos for you.
Not affiliated with either...
To me "custom-brand"-ing the video would be most served by inserting your brand into the video content, not by reinventing the wheel and bypassing the controls on my preferred media-player.
Without flash I would miss out on lots of content that has no reason to require flash; but not as much as you think. VideoDownloader is a nice extension for FireFox that opens the videos without flash. As far as true flash content on the web, it generally sucks and I would prefer to give it up.
I only installed flash for a couple video sites. They inexplicably sacrificed some of my loyalty to them to get me to install an Adobe/Macromedia product.
Flash developers push their skills as somehow beneficial to the web. It's BS and I hope your employers realize it.
Actually, the examiner found it not non-obvious
Unfortunately when a talented lawyer helps a client skirt a bad law using a technicality, that prevents the law from being tested in the courts. It's also why settling a case is sometimes "bad".
They can put unfair laws on the books and if nothing gets appealed then the law just sits there oppressing people.
You misunderstood, the ATI drivers are better for current cards I hear, but I like nVidia due to their legacy support. I influenced purchases that were pricier than my 6600, and I purchased the 6600 quite a while ago for $180. I have gone longer than usual replacing it, but I wouldn't have so many cards if I didn't keep buying them. Every card was purchased for my current (at the time) PC.
And you refer to the 6600 as an older card and then say I want them to work on current drivers!
That's funny, because it sure feels like you're paying $399 and getting one laptop. It won't feel like that at all if you remember to not buy it. Plenty of people will buy it and probably give away the 2nd one too. I might, I don't have to decide 'til 11/12. If you can't afford it or don't want to that's fine, but it's really annoying that people keep calling this a $399 laptop.
We could base our money standard on OLPCs. It's not like their price fluctuates!
Seriously though, I agree with you about closed source drivers showing gaming is still very weak on Linux, but OSS drivers will allow distros to include accelerated 3d by default and installing a game or 3d effects will be much easier. If only that was the obstacle to gaming on Linux!
That flies in the face of my own experiences.
ATI could win be back from nVidia, in fact I'm holding off replacing my 6600GT to see how quickly these OSS drivers take to be somewhat stable and 3d.
But with 4 nVidia cards (one as old as the mx400) and only one ATI it's obvious that nVidia has my business right now. One brother has had a nv card for ~1year and the other just bought one. At least 2 friends of mine purchased nv cards within the last 2 years based almost exclusively on my opinions.
In the 3 year period you quote (btw I can't wait to quadruple the performance of my Pentium D in ~ 6months!) I'll easily make or influence 5 or more video card purchases, probably less time if it's because I fall in love with ATI.
I think this is the reason nv and ati care at all about linux drivers, and not because of the miniscule market share we have.
And no, I don't dual boot or even play Windows games except an old one under wine
I thought you made a good point and weren't trolling.
Marketing people have different groups of information and they cherry pick whatever puts their company in a good light. Not exclusively MS either.
And you're right that WGA will show lower #'s after people install XP.
MS marketing will still use whatever figures are most impressive even if the implications are dishonest.
Oops, I should've been more careful.
With Ubuntu they sell 7.04 as long term support
While they still upgrade 7.10 to whatever, enterprise folks still get 7.04LTS, which is entirely different than what MS is doing to their customers who are *relatively* better off with XP, but not given enterprise suppport.
nice photo
No link provided, should be common knowledge.
and i did like system 7, btw
Including the XP disc will not show in their numbers when figuring their deployment of Vista. They will claim every downgrade as a Vista sale because the Vista sale already happened. They will be much happier than if a PC shipped with XP installed. It's just about apparent market share. That's why Linux advocates who dual boot are probably fairly ineffective as the footprint of Windows is much more visible on the web.