I don't want Adobe focusing on two year old software patches when practically nobody else in the industry does the same for similar software. This isn't an OS that gets used by millions of people. This is not a high target application.
I'm better served as an Adobe customer if Adobe focuses on innovating for the future and stops being held to higher standards than anyone else by bloggers who have an agenda against them.
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You'd be better served as an Adobe shill if you made an ounce of sense.
Actually, you'd be better served after vigorous braising on both sides with garlic butter and a nice red whine.
The problem with this particular approach, if it does turn out to work well commercially, is that GW Bush will then have shown to be prescient in his hyping of the Hydrogen economy.
I, for one, have some very serious issues with this concept. Very serious indeed.
This is not much compared with the Homeland Security debacle. Our little town was essentially forced to by trunking radios because that's what 'everybody else' is using. We have all of 6 VHF channels on the island. We don't need trunking. But now everybody carries these dipshit, overweight Motorola monsters that require a $20K (I kid you not) station to program them. Their only major advantage of the new ones is that they're so heavy they can be used for self defense.
We were forced to get a 'Police boat' to keep us safe from der Terrorists. Fine, we have a large harbor system and we're on an island. But the only ones you could get with DHS money (which had to be spent on the boat) were designed for nice urban harbors that didn't have things like sharp volcanic rocks everywhere and that weren't designed for heavy water.
So the boat sits in the stall with it's side bladder half inflated (another rock) while the old beat up aluminum skiff does the actual work.
All certainly true. However, small libraries don't need all of that functionality. They could probably get by with a WRT56. It's only a cost savings if you need the functions in the first place.
And I don't even think that the argument that all of the routers should be the same makes any sense. When you have libraries ranging from one room to a five story building, there isn't going to be a one size fits all.
I'd perhaps go for a single vendor solution, but not a single device.
Which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with the current problem.
Hint: All of you happy Android devices with their oh so standard batteries can be shipped with the batteries either. So you can have your nice electronic device shipped to you safely. Too bad you can't use it though because the battery had to be sent via camel.
Or do you really think the world would be better off if life consisted of D, C, AA and AAA cells?
This is an issue with International Postal Union and aviation authorities:
MEDIA STATEMENT ON Outbound International Mailing of Lithium Batteries
REACTIVE ONLY — FOR IMMEDIATE USE
Until January 2013, the Postal Service will not be able to accept packages containing lithium batteries and electronic devices containing lithium batteries addressed to international destinations. This includes mail destined to, or from, APO (Army Post Office), FPO (Fleet Post Office) and DPO (Diplomatic Post Office) locations.
This change is required by the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU), both of which currently prohibit lithium batteries in mail shipments that are carried on international commercial air transportation.
So it is a) hopefully temporary b) because the hazardous little bombs are hazardous little bombs and c) everything is complicated these days.
So, just cram those AAA batteries into you iPhones and wait it out.
QNX is the OS of choice for many auto manufacturers for their in dash hardware. Since BB 10 is QNX with a new GUI layer (Kinda reminiscent of another OS X product and its BSD/OpenStep heritage) doesn't that just seem like a logical evolutionary step?
If you're positing cell phones as a replacement for automobile dashboards. Otherwise, not so much.
An additional thought: This sort of transformation was the beginning of the end for Palm. (Although it's pretty clear the beginning of the end for RIM was years ago. What we're seeing now is the beginning of the end of the end of RIM.)
No, this is more the middle of the end of the end of RIM. It will take a while to drain down all of the money and resources of the company. There is simply too much money to be made in consultancy and management for this to be the end of the end.
Of course, you're assuming that test competency is a good thing. That assumes the test is fair, reasonable and actually has something to do with the student's knowledge base. Given what we know about standardized tests, a bit of skepticism is in order.
That said, the bottom feeders being the states we assume to be be bottom feeders when it comes to anything other than actually eating does give one pause.
Here is a classic problem: Right lower quadrant pain and fever in a child or adolescent. The diagnosis that comes to mind is appendicitis, but not every case of right lower quadrant pain and fever is appendicitis. You don't want to miss this diagnosis - if the appendix ruptures it spills bacteria all throughout the abdomen causing a significant amount of morbidity and possibly mortality.
The classic diagnostic method was history, physical examination and a couple of lab tests. In most cases, this worked out pretty well. The missed appendicitis rate was pretty low but the false positive rate - the number of times you operated on somebody who didn't have appendicitis was about 10%. Not the end of the world - it's a simple surgery and the vast majority of times it is uncomplicated but in the best possible world, you would not operate on somebody unless you really needed to.
A CT scan decreases the false positive rate to something like 1 - 2 % and the false negative rate to about the same. Significantly better than before, BUT with the caveat of additional radiation and in the case of women, radiation to the gonadal structures. Ultrasound (no radiation) is another way to do the test but it's results are often quite variable, depending on the skill of the operator and the size of the patient.
And, experience in Europe seems to indicate that a significant number of patients can be treated successfully with just antibiotics and no surgery.
So, the decision on how to proceed in a patient whom you suspect has appendicitis is not simple indeed. What the FDA is doing is waving the radiation flag around and saying 'look at me - look at me carefully'.
Yeah, pagers are one tech who's demise causes me sadness and headaches. When our 1970 era paging system died and supposedly couldn't be fixed, we searched for replacements. It's pretty bleak. Everybody thinks SMS / Cell phones are the modern schnizzles. That's fine except they need a complicated infrastructure to just work and 800 MHz doesn't penetrate buildings well and it's hard getting work done if everybody is standing outside in the rain.
OTOH, I finally got rid of the rest of my pile of SCSI I cables a couple of months ago. Time marches on.
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Except is probably a bug in a library that was first developed for PS 7 when the redid the code base.
This means it's likely in CS1, CS2, CS4 as well as CS5.
Oopsie.
I don't want Adobe focusing on two year old software patches when practically nobody else in the industry does the same for similar software. This isn't an OS that gets used by millions of people. This is not a high target application.
I'm better served as an Adobe customer if Adobe focuses on innovating for the future and stops being held to higher standards than anyone else by bloggers who have an agenda against them.
******
You'd be better served as an Adobe shill if you made an ounce of sense.
Actually, you'd be better served after vigorous braising on both sides with garlic butter and a nice red whine.
You may want to check and see if your geek dues have been paid up.
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I tried to use bitcoins but the only think they would accept was a check.
Yep, in a journey to the stars, the first hundred miles is a real bitch.
Why are you looking at me like that?
We're hungry.
Nuke it from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure.
Bloody hell. Who got an APC? I want one of those.
And a couple of grenade launchers.
We got gypped!
The problem with this particular approach, if it does turn out to work well commercially, is that GW Bush will then have shown to be prescient in his hyping of the Hydrogen economy.
I, for one, have some very serious issues with this concept. Very serious indeed.
This is not much compared with the Homeland Security debacle. Our little town was essentially forced to by trunking radios because that's what 'everybody else' is using. We have all of 6 VHF channels on the island. We don't need trunking. But now everybody carries these dipshit, overweight Motorola monsters that require a $20K (I kid you not) station to program them. Their only major advantage of the new ones is that they're so heavy they can be used for self defense.
We were forced to get a 'Police boat' to keep us safe from der Terrorists. Fine, we have a large harbor system and we're on an island. But the only ones you could get with DHS money (which had to be spent on the boat) were designed for nice urban harbors that didn't have things like sharp volcanic rocks everywhere and that weren't designed for heavy water.
So the boat sits in the stall with it's side bladder half inflated (another rock) while the old beat up aluminum skiff does the actual work.
So, yeah, Standard Operating Procedure.
Probably read it on Maxim or something.
Then just got a little confused about the subject matter at, er, hand.
All certainly true. However, small libraries don't need all of that functionality. They could probably get by with a WRT56. It's only a cost savings if you need the functions in the first place.
And I don't even think that the argument that all of the routers should be the same makes any sense. When you have libraries ranging from one room to a five story building, there isn't going to be a one size fits all.
I'd perhaps go for a single vendor solution, but not a single device.
What, did EFF ask about cats in boxes or something?
What the fuck is being talked about here?
If that's the entirety of discourse you bring to the site, you just might as well go back to 4chan with the rest of the invertebrates.
That's nothing!
I built my last dev box from parts that I picked up off the side of the road as the electronic recycling trucks drove past.
The case comes from old cardboard boxes stolen from underneath the bridge where the homeless folks congregate.
It's powered by making extension cords unwound from burnt out vacuum cleaner motors and running them under high voltage power lines.
I got the software by painstakingly gluing a pile of old AOL CDs back together.
Which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with the current problem.
Hint: All of you happy Android devices with their oh so standard batteries can be shipped with the batteries either. So you can have your nice electronic device shipped to you safely. Too bad you can't use it though because the battery had to be sent via camel.
Or do you really think the world would be better off if life consisted of D, C, AA and AAA cells?
I'm not republican or democrat... but perhaps the data really requires a more careful analysis rather than just pointing fingers to the other side.
Nah, we'd have to go to school to learn how to do all that. Too much work.
This is an issue with International Postal Union and aviation authorities:
MEDIA STATEMENT ON Outbound International Mailing of Lithium Batteries
REACTIVE ONLY — FOR IMMEDIATE USE
Until January 2013, the Postal Service will not be able to accept packages containing lithium batteries and electronic devices containing lithium batteries addressed to international destinations. This includes mail destined to, or from, APO (Army Post Office), FPO (Fleet Post Office) and DPO (Diplomatic Post Office) locations.
This change is required by the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU), both of which currently prohibit lithium batteries in mail shipments that are carried on international commercial air transportation.
So it is a) hopefully temporary b) because the hazardous little bombs are hazardous little bombs and c) everything is complicated these days.
So, just cram those AAA batteries into you iPhones and wait it out.
QNX is the OS of choice for many auto manufacturers for their in dash hardware. Since BB 10 is QNX with a new GUI layer (Kinda reminiscent of another OS X product and its BSD/OpenStep heritage) doesn't that just seem like a logical evolutionary step?
If you're positing cell phones as a replacement for automobile dashboards. Otherwise, not so much.
An additional thought: This sort of transformation was the beginning of the end for Palm. (Although it's pretty clear the beginning of the end for RIM was years ago. What we're seeing now is the beginning of the end of the end of RIM.)
No, this is more the middle of the end of the end of RIM. It will take a while to drain down all of the money and resources of the company. There is simply too much money to be made in consultancy and management for this to be the end of the end.
Of course, you're assuming that test competency is a good thing. That assumes the test is fair, reasonable and actually has something to do with the student's knowledge base. Given what we know about standardized tests, a bit of skepticism is in order.
That said, the bottom feeders being the states we assume to be be bottom feeders when it comes to anything other than actually eating does give one pause.
Here is a classic problem: Right lower quadrant pain and fever in a child or adolescent. The diagnosis that comes to mind is appendicitis, but not every case of right lower quadrant pain and fever is appendicitis. You don't want to miss this diagnosis - if the appendix ruptures it spills bacteria all throughout the abdomen causing a significant amount of morbidity and possibly mortality.
The classic diagnostic method was history, physical examination and a couple of lab tests. In most cases, this worked out pretty well. The missed appendicitis rate was pretty low but the false positive rate - the number of times you operated on somebody who didn't have appendicitis was about 10%. Not the end of the world - it's a simple surgery and the vast majority of times it is uncomplicated but in the best possible world, you would not operate on somebody unless you really needed to.
A CT scan decreases the false positive rate to something like 1 - 2 % and the false negative rate to about the same. Significantly better than before, BUT with the caveat of additional radiation and in the case of women, radiation to the gonadal structures. Ultrasound (no radiation) is another way to do the test but it's results are often quite variable, depending on the skill of the operator and the size of the patient.
And, experience in Europe seems to indicate that a significant number of patients can be treated successfully with just antibiotics and no surgery.
So, the decision on how to proceed in a patient whom you suspect has appendicitis is not simple indeed. What the FDA is doing is waving the radiation flag around and saying 'look at me - look at me carefully'.
Yeah! Go the Battlestar Galactica route and un-network all of this stuff!
Can't you just cross the tachyon beams?
Get a good accountant. You'd be surprised with what you can do.
You spelled Zarcbuklioidien wrong.
Yeah, pagers are one tech who's demise causes me sadness and headaches. When our 1970 era paging system died and supposedly couldn't be fixed, we searched for replacements. It's pretty bleak. Everybody thinks SMS / Cell phones are the modern schnizzles. That's fine except they need a complicated infrastructure to just work and 800 MHz doesn't penetrate buildings well and it's hard getting work done if everybody is standing outside in the rain.
OTOH, I finally got rid of the rest of my pile of SCSI I cables a couple of months ago. Time marches on.