Wow just what I always wanted, DVDs that crash and lock up the system or that keep records of things. Oh hey why not that need you to insert a patch CD first before going through some moronic high tech looking idiot made interface so that you can do stupid things, I liked the old days when you just put the things into the things and the moving pictures showed up in the magic box!
This is a disaster waiting to happen.
No this isn't a shot at Java this is a shot at over building things. What's next Java in my car?
No but I bet it would only take it a day or two to compile it!
Ever wonder how much processing power Google has between all of their systems and all of the Google tool bars running around?
Has anyone ever wondered if MS or Yahoo has tried or is currently using their various browser bars to provide distributed computing?
Has anyone ever wondered if they buy insurance on these things for stuff like faulty processor design? Like the Pentium bug? I mean how'd you like to build this thing and the find out all of the processors have a bug?
Has anyone wondered if you have software on your machine that fouled a browser bar's data somehow if you're responsible?
I was forced into a computerized math class in the 9th grade and subsequently failed (had to take twice) math 10 and only barley passed math 20 and 30 (grades 11 and 12) I wholy blame technology. The teacher used it as a way to foist of responsability and sit back and play solitair and tell students to do it over if they didn't get it.
Then I was in what's called Pure math for 10 and 20 (that's academic math) and buying a TI-83 was mandatory which first of all ways way expensive and 2nd of all allowed me to program my way out of any mathmatical hole. Now I'm hobbled and can't do most higher math on paper when I have to and I then turn to my trusty Python interpriter to do it. It's a bugger really.
I hope that this is the case. Then maybe people will stop viewing computers as toys and there will be more industry research into decent things rather than pretty graphics.
Also the average price of a computer might start going down even more if the OEMs are no longer expected to be able to play the latest games.
Sure there will always be games, sol.exe isn't going away any time soon and neither is HL2, people will be playing games forever, however the epic monsters like HL2 will eventualy run on the most basic computer.
Not only does Moore's "Law" not apply to storage media, it's not based on quartars.
Originaly it was based on years, however that was shown to be less correct than the now widly accepted 18 month cycle, which Gordon Moore has given his "blessing" to.
Also, competition is nothing new to the world of Flash memory which is nothing new, flash memory is ancient technology and the technology you see in your devices these days is no where near the cutting edge of solid state storage.
Slashdot has finaly broken. Yup they used a 32 bit Int for the IDs of comments and recently passed the 4,294,967,296 mark, since Slashdot hasn't seen a single code update in the last 8 years it's just randomly started replacing quotes.
So how about tracking people convicted of copyright infringement or breaking the DMCA to make sure they don't go near anything with speakers or a screen?
The clients that I have that use OSS tend to do so not because it saves money, for most of them it's of little matter if software costs $0 or $1000 it's a write off anyways.
They use it because they don't want vendor lock in and they like being able to hire people to customize it when they need to.
Their happy, I'm happy, we're all happy. OSS all around!
Although I must say some of my more financialy concerned clients avoid OSS like the black death for some reason. I still haven't figured that one out.
I've got 3.6Mbit to my home and my parents have 5.6mbit, I can't imagine many people in China get that kind of service, and not for 193 Yuan a month either.
Also if you want your bagged microwave popcorn to pop better unfold the bag and spread the oil gobbed seeds away from each other to all corners of the bag evenly and then reduce the cooking time by about 10% and you'll have a great bag every time with almost no unpopped seeds.
If you really like light fluffy popcorn you could build a microwave with an air pump in it, if you reduce the air pressure to a near vacuum they pop considerably larger. Keep in mind your average microwave is not, and was never meant to be used as a low pressure vessel.
I feel Adobe is not interested in a lot of what they bought. They just bought market share and security.
There is really little overlap with Macromedia, Adobe isn't interested in blending Fireworks and GoLive and their not interested in blending FreeHand and Illustrator. The fact is the code bases aren't going to be compatable, I love FreeHand don't get me wrong, but it would be a lot easier to build up things like multi page documents into Illustrator than move it from FreeHand. However that would greatly saw off their market for selling InDesign and PageMaker. Lots of small shops buy the suits and thus Adobe makes more.
I imagine that Adobe is interested in propagating only a few of Macromedia's products. ColdFusion, which will become a PDF centric wonderland. They may also keep some of Macromedia's enterprise products but their probably going to either drop most of them, keep Macromedia running as a mostly independant company or just leave the products and peter them out.
We're not going to see fancy hybrids here. Adobe pushes PDF and Macromedia doesn't. End of story, adobe isn't going to become any less PDF crazy because they've got a bunch of hackish tools.
Take everything from the plug_ins folder and move them to the "optional" folder.
You can still use any of them whenever you want, they just load on the fly.
Funny what happens when you read the docs that come with a program. My Adobe Reader 7.0 loads in well under 2 seconds on my 1.8Ghz.
So here's the deal, this merger will only increase the amount of software for stupid wanabe hacks out there chargin $200 to make a web page. Some unholy child will be born that will use sliced images for everything, a sea of poorly named styles and 200kb of javascript to print Hello World in a blue box. It will then try and sell you webhosting, ask you to upgrade, crash while doing it and forget how to load it's own template files.
I've been using DW since the very first beta, why? Frankly I started because I didn't know my right hand from my left and Javascript, or rather ECMA-262 was scarry and I didn't understand it and I thought CSS was bad and tables were the way to go. Tools like DW keep users in the dark making crap for people who deserve better.
Heres a clue kids, go download the GNU editor Crimson Editor and learn to write your own code. You'll be faster, more efficient and make better pages. Just give it time.
Crimson Editor is as good as the likes of EditPlus etc. Learn to make meanigful data to define your meaningful content.
I live north, way north, so far north in the summer we have days with no real night.
Just get up with the sun and go to bed when it's late, learn to deal with a world where work starts at 10am not 8am. It's stupid. China does pretty good with only one time zone and no daylight savings time. People will get used to it. Stupid daylight savings time.
While I'm on the topic how about metric time? I propose 1 day length days and decimal time so noon would be 0.5!
I'd guess it's more like 99% of companies are not delivering *some number of projects* on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive.
It's not just IT, when do projects ever come in on time and on budget and to spec? Never. Well not never but outside of a 7th grade history class, almost never.
On paper you have "On Time", "On Budget", "To Spec" for everything, that's why you set them, however in reality 99.9% of the time you can only actually have 2 of them and most companies care about it being on budget, and as a result of scope creap it's usually way over due or crappy.
Happens all the time, my advice to consultants, always do one of the following
double the price (so you can add help) double the timeline (so you can do it with what you have)
Avoid halving the specs becausse they will assume it's a result of inability. Plus for most companies they like to cry poverty but in the end they can afford a lot more than you think and still feel they got a bargain.
You'll actually end up with happier clients, most of the time.
Not to mention they have share holders who would sue them silly.
No one would pay for support. Next to no one pays for Linux support, they pay for boxed version that come with support, ie Red Hat but they very seldom take up that support, vs looking to other sources and they almost never pay for by the minute support or by the call support. They can get free support, or call a local person for less.
Windows would be even worse because if 90% of the world were now using it, there would be oodles of free support.
No to mention to open the source would open them up to all kinds of legal troubles. I highly suspect that patent infringement cases would come out of the wood work, people would sue for a million knowing MS would just settle rather than go to court. Where as with Linux it's like trying to get blood from a stone.
Ass pirat n. Vulgar
The act of stealing and pounding booty.....damn pirates always want the booty. Roman (the ass pirate in steeb) just [deleted] brad's ass
Given the considerations of this law, I'd say a very large hosts file is in order.
Of the kind that brings Windows to a crawl. This huge hosts file will direct people away from the site to one explaining what the hosts file is and why their computer is now so slow.
It can also explain that it was neccisary because law makers pass laws trying to govern things they don't understand.
It would also be good to provide info on how to support groups like the EFF and even more importantly so how to write their elected officials.
Sounds like a good excuse to get the average Utah net user involved.
Slashdot Mirror
They did, they made an Indy portable, it bombed...
Wow just what I always wanted, DVDs that crash and lock up the system or that keep records of things. Oh hey why not that need you to insert a patch CD first before going through some moronic high tech looking idiot made interface so that you can do stupid things, I liked the old days when you just put the things into the things and the moving pictures showed up in the magic box!
This is a disaster waiting to happen.
No this isn't a shot at Java this is a shot at over building things. What's next Java in my car?
No but I bet it would only take it a day or two to compile it!
Ever wonder how much processing power Google has between all of their systems and all of the Google tool bars running around?
Has anyone ever wondered if MS or Yahoo has tried or is currently using their various browser bars to provide distributed computing?
Has anyone ever wondered if they buy insurance on these things for stuff like faulty processor design? Like the Pentium bug? I mean how'd you like to build this thing and the find out all of the processors have a bug?
Has anyone wondered if you have software on your machine that fouled a browser bar's data somehow if you're responsible?
I was forced into a computerized math class in the 9th grade and subsequently failed (had to take twice) math 10 and only barley passed math 20 and 30 (grades 11 and 12) I wholy blame technology. The teacher used it as a way to foist of responsability and sit back and play solitair and tell students to do it over if they didn't get it.
Then I was in what's called Pure math for 10 and 20 (that's academic math) and buying a TI-83 was mandatory which first of all ways way expensive and 2nd of all allowed me to program my way out of any mathmatical hole. Now I'm hobbled and can't do most higher math on paper when I have to and I then turn to my trusty Python interpriter to do it. It's a bugger really.
I truley blame technology
tho not for my bad spelling
I hope that this is the case. Then maybe people will stop viewing computers as toys and there will be more industry research into decent things rather than pretty graphics.
Also the average price of a computer might start going down even more if the OEMs are no longer expected to be able to play the latest games.
Sure there will always be games, sol.exe isn't going away any time soon and neither is HL2, people will be playing games forever, however the epic monsters like HL2 will eventualy run on the most basic computer.
I generaly don't like games
Not only does Moore's "Law" not apply to storage media, it's not based on quartars.
Originaly it was based on years, however that was shown to be less correct than the now widly accepted 18 month cycle, which Gordon Moore has given his "blessing" to.
Also, competition is nothing new to the world of Flash memory which is nothing new, flash memory is ancient technology and the technology you see in your devices these days is no where near the cutting edge of solid state storage.
How long until some autocratic judge declares that you have to keep all voice mails and record all phone conversations in some ruling?
Why is it judges can make "laws" with no checks or balances?
Slashdot has finaly broken. Yup they used a 32 bit Int for the IDs of comments and recently passed the 4,294,967,296 mark, since Slashdot hasn't seen a single code update in the last 8 years it's just randomly started replacing quotes.
No I'm totally full of crap.
I think it's just incompetent people and trolls
I like BBQ Monkey personaly,
but BBQ Microsoft Developer would also do
I'm resonably sure I'll never be black....
I JEST I JEST! sheesh calm down.
So how about tracking people convicted of copyright infringement or breaking the DMCA to make sure they don't go near anything with speakers or a screen?
I would have worked that into something more poetic.
Perhaps
"Which is easier to carry? A spare battery for your apple, or a spare apple for a battery"
These aren't good at all. I can't tell weather the people are pissed off at Firefox or Something else.
Hell it doesn't even tell people what Firefox does.
I should hope these don't end up on TV, wow look people, use Firefox and you'll feel like crap.
In as far as promotional video goes this is awful.
I hope they didn't pay for these
The clients that I have that use OSS tend to do so not because it saves money, for most of them it's of little matter if software costs $0 or $1000 it's a write off anyways.
They use it because they don't want vendor lock in and they like being able to hire people to customize it when they need to.
Their happy, I'm happy, we're all happy. OSS all around!
Although I must say some of my more financialy concerned clients avoid OSS like the black death for some reason. I still haven't figured that one out.
I've got 3.6Mbit to my home and my parents have 5.6mbit, I can't imagine many people in China get that kind of service, and not for 193 Yuan a month either.
This has nothing on an 18 wheeler full 300GB hard drives clipping down the highway. Or atleast a camel with some hard drives taped to it...
I've known this for YEARS.
Also if you want your bagged microwave popcorn to pop better unfold the bag and spread the oil gobbed seeds away from each other to all corners of the bag evenly and then reduce the cooking time by about 10% and you'll have a great bag every time with almost no unpopped seeds.
If you really like light fluffy popcorn you could build a microwave with an air pump in it, if you reduce the air pressure to a near vacuum they pop considerably larger. Keep in mind your average microwave is not, and was never meant to be used as a low pressure vessel.
I feel Adobe is not interested in a lot of what they bought. They just bought market share and security.
There is really little overlap with Macromedia, Adobe isn't interested in blending Fireworks and GoLive and their not interested in blending FreeHand and Illustrator. The fact is the code bases aren't going to be compatable, I love FreeHand don't get me wrong, but it would be a lot easier to build up things like multi page documents into Illustrator than move it from FreeHand. However that would greatly saw off their market for selling InDesign and PageMaker. Lots of small shops buy the suits and thus Adobe makes more.
I imagine that Adobe is interested in propagating only a few of Macromedia's products. ColdFusion, which will become a PDF centric wonderland. They may also keep some of Macromedia's enterprise products but their probably going to either drop most of them, keep Macromedia running as a mostly independant company or just leave the products and peter them out.
We're not going to see fancy hybrids here. Adobe pushes PDF and Macromedia doesn't. End of story, adobe isn't going to become any less PDF crazy because they've got a bunch of hackish tools.
Take everything from the plug_ins folder and move them to the "optional" folder.
You can still use any of them whenever you want, they just load on the fly.
Funny what happens when you read the docs that come with a program. My Adobe Reader 7.0 loads in well under 2 seconds on my 1.8Ghz.
So here's the deal, this merger will only increase the amount of software for stupid wanabe hacks out there chargin $200 to make a web page. Some unholy child will be born that will use sliced images for everything, a sea of poorly named styles and 200kb of javascript to print Hello World in a blue box. It will then try and sell you webhosting, ask you to upgrade, crash while doing it and forget how to load it's own template files.
I've been using DW since the very first beta, why? Frankly I started because I didn't know my right hand from my left and Javascript, or rather ECMA-262 was scarry and I didn't understand it and I thought CSS was bad and tables were the way to go. Tools like DW keep users in the dark making crap for people who deserve better.
Heres a clue kids, go download the GNU editor Crimson Editor and learn to write your own code. You'll be faster, more efficient and make better pages. Just give it time.
Crimson Editor is as good as the likes of EditPlus etc. Learn to make meanigful data to define your meaningful content.
I live north, way north, so far north in the summer we have days with no real night.
Just get up with the sun and go to bed when it's late, learn to deal with a world where work starts at 10am not 8am. It's stupid. China does pretty good with only one time zone and no daylight savings time. People will get used to it. Stupid daylight savings time.
While I'm on the topic how about metric time? I propose 1 day length days and decimal time so noon would be 0.5!
mwahahaha
ok I'll shut up now
I'd guess it's more like 99% of companies are not delivering *some number of projects* on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive.
It's not just IT, when do projects ever come in on time and on budget and to spec? Never. Well not never but outside of a 7th grade history class, almost never.
On paper you have "On Time", "On Budget", "To Spec" for everything, that's why you set them, however in reality 99.9% of the time you can only actually have 2 of them and most companies care about it being on budget, and as a result of scope creap it's usually way over due or crappy.
Happens all the time, my advice to consultants, always do one of the following
double the price (so you can add help)
double the timeline (so you can do it with what you have)
Avoid halving the specs becausse they will assume it's a result of inability. Plus for most companies they like to cry poverty but in the end they can afford a lot more than you think and still feel they got a bargain.
You'll actually end up with happier clients, most of the time.
Let them hate us so long as they fear us.
Oh I was just being funny, yes there are lots of them. Most people don't even know about the sodomy.
I was just trying to get a laugh.
Because they spend billions too.
They need to make billions.
Not to mention they have share holders who would sue them silly.
No one would pay for support. Next to no one pays for Linux support, they pay for boxed version that come with support, ie Red Hat but they very seldom take up that support, vs looking to other sources and they almost never pay for by the minute support or by the call support. They can get free support, or call a local person for less.
Windows would be even worse because if 90% of the world were now using it, there would be oodles of free support.
No to mention to open the source would open them up to all kinds of legal troubles. I highly suspect that patent infringement cases would come out of the wood work, people would sue for a million knowing MS would just settle rather than go to court. Where as with Linux it's like trying to get blood from a stone.
That's why people use it, ya ass pirate.
buggery
n. Vulgar
Sodomy.
bugger
n.
Vulgar Slang. A sodomite.
Ass pirat
n. Vulgar
The act of stealing and pounding booty.....damn pirates always want the booty.
Roman (the ass pirate in steeb) just [deleted] brad's ass
Given the considerations of this law, I'd say a very large hosts file is in order.
Of the kind that brings Windows to a crawl. This huge hosts file will direct people away from the site to one explaining what the hosts file is and why their computer is now so slow.
It can also explain that it was neccisary because law makers pass laws trying to govern things they don't understand.
It would also be good to provide info on how to support groups like the EFF and even more importantly so how to write their elected officials.
Sounds like a good excuse to get the average Utah net user involved.