When Google announced Google Video, I naturally checked it out. I was impressed with a wide array of titles. But what dissappinted me most was the inability to adjust the brightness/contrast of the videos. Some titles are just too dark!
At first I thought it was my version of flash. But even after getting the latest, those videos are still too dark. To make matters worse, there does not seem to be an effort to sort this issue out. We need some common video controls on some these videos for sure.
On Kubuntu' Konqueror browser, the controls that at least appear on Windows2k with Firefox 1.5 do not appear at all!
Well, AOL are joking. I first came into the locus of email in 1997 with Hotmail. When Microsoft bought them off, I found myself recieving tones of spam and junk. Out went Microsoft's hotmail and in came Yahoo!
Over the years, I became bored with Yahoo since they could not offer their Launchcast service on anything other than Internet Explorer and Windows. I dumped them in and now GMAIL is the answer.
The point is, there are many providers willing to provide email sevices for "free". If a provider "fools arround", folks (myself at the forefront), are very much willing to jump ship!
> EETimes is reporting that some Microsoft employees are calling for the termination of several top managers Including Brian Valentine, Jim Allchin, and Steve Ballmer for the delay debacle.
Is that why Ballmer has been reported to have said that Microsoft will "sue Linux?"
Not until there is reported improvement in load times. For God's sake, how can one be expected to wait for 47 seconds for OpenOffice.orgs's writer to load a 1.7Mb document with 23 pages and 6 images? It's insane! I will not say what the other application takes but I'm sure every slashdotter knows what I am talking about.
I beg the Linux zealots not to do their thing right away. GoDaddy will come back sooner or later. Nothing can hide a fact, nothing! We've seen this before. They will come back. May be this is part of the incompetence I have seen in US companies lately. I hope I am wrong.
Oracle should take care...! Why? Because OSS databases are improving by the day. Time will come when there will not be a compelling reason to pay those outrageous prices for databases.
I wonder what the situation would be if the likes of MySQL, PostGreSQL and other OSS DBs were not around. I guess Microsoft and IBM would be laughing their way to the bank every year.
Well, what I have done and continue to do is to make sure none of my president's cronys ever gets re-elected. Heck, the same fools wanted to out-source our port operations! Imagine that for second. They were infact onceding that America does not have the manpower to run ports that its workforce built!
After that, they talk of terrorism yet our borders remain open to anyone...this is 4 years after 9/11. What kills me most is the fact that....Nothing substantial is being done about this - NOTHING!
What amazes me is its incredible speed. I wonder why Firefox programmers have not been able to make Firefox at least closer to Opera's speed. When it comes to memory, I wouldn't mind that much since memory itself is very cheap these days.
Does it have to be water to cool these GPUs? Is it water because of its relative hight Specific Heat Capacity, or because it's cheap and readily available?
I can see slashdotters increasing the capacity of the "tank" that stores water on these GPUs to make sure the GPU stays cool.
>...the acquisition of Writely was not meant to create a competitor to Microsoft Office...
This is how they denied the Gmail in the first place. They even denied working on Google video at first...what haven't they denied in the past and then lived to defend when products came to the market?
This is one situation where I do not belive what the CEO says.
They (Google), could sell a Google Appliance (with Writely installed), that wirelessly allows users to access Writely and other services. This can be a very useful thing for medium sized companies in that they will not have to install any software on their individual systems. Now, when it comes to Writely, I wish there was a way I could move a table to anywhere in the document being edited. Google should improve on this and solve other bugs too.
The Firefox browser has got some work to be done on it too.
In my view, the guys at Mozilla should grade the extensions in relation to how stable or otherwise they leave the base Firefox installation. The FoxyTunes extension for example, while being touted as completely compatible with Firefox 1.5.0.x, still makes the tab browsing interface completely inconsistent.
I also feel that at this point in time, the Firefox interface looks ancient. It's time for a revamp. How about that guys?
>..."The FCC proposed a record $3.6 million fine against a single TV show, penalizing CBS and its affiliates for an episode of 'Without a Trace' that suggested a teenage sexual orgy, in the first batch of indecency fines proposed in more than a year, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Can the USA still be regarded as the land of the free, where any citizen san say whatever they like?
Talking of indecency, why don't the authorities shut down the Jerry Springer Show? I have seen a level of indecency I'd never imagined! Can anyone figure how a mother could compete with a daughter for a man? I watched on such episode on Jerry Springer. To say the truth, I almost fell sick!
With all the incompetence being displayed in my government's administration, I many times wonder whether I live in a developed country. Should the meaning of "developed country" be re-defined? Remember, nothing seems to get done right in these United States of America these days.
> "...One can speculate that many of the reasons for not considering its adoption tend to be based on either outdated or misinformed sources."
Well, in my case, I dismiss PostgreSQL because in fact remains true: -
It does not have a programmable front-end with which a novice like me can program business logic into! Don't mention the likes of Navicat, PhpMyAdmin and others for they do not cut it! And by the way I do not use MySQL either.
For sure Microsoft's Jet Engine with Access as the front end, has and continues to do wonders on this front. My recent project was to have the largest tables with no more than 8,700 records and to have no more than 11 tables in all. Putting business logic to the database in anything other than MS-Access was very very tough for me. In Access, it took me just three weeks.
Nine months on, the application is still running fine.
What to demand is simple. This would be to guarantee that my actions on the PCs can never be traced. Sometimes, I want to do my stuff on company time, but fear that my activity could be monitored!
The other thing to demand would be to allow me attach my [K]ubuntu desktop onto the company network, and use it instead of what is currently available.
> Success, government criticism, freedom of religion, and hygene are pretty much unknown in the Arab or African worlds also.
It depends on what you define success as. On the other hand freedom in America has brought about cases in which mothers compete with daughters for men! Hello Jerry Springer!
I agree with you on this. One thing I know is that these societies have no food additives in their diets. In some cases, they are too poor to even afford fertilizer! I have lived in America and Canada and while there, I failed to find any natural cow milk with NO additives. By the way, milk with additives was linked to heart attacks in kids in one study done in Canada.
The patient should be taken to a society that tolerates no such behavior. In these societies, such behavior is met with punishment. Over time, the so called ADHD is made to get extinct. Has anyone asked themselves why ADHD and other disorders are unknown in the Arab or [black] African worlds?
Ohh NCR! I thought this company died ages ago! I guess I was wrong. In the mid-nineties, I worked with their computers and liked them a lot. They were compact, light and quiet. Their system units were also easy to open for me as a technician then.
Back to the subject:
This is the more reason why a monopoly MUST not be accepted under any circumstances. What would happen if Microsoft threatened the same action? I understand they're yet to solve their differences with the EU. Right?
There are other reasons as to why terror funding is hard to fight. One of them is our (USA) incompetence. We simply do not get it. You still hear folks wondering why an individual would offer himself as a sacrifice in suicide bombing.
The other reason is that our leaders who might themselves be inept, think that the way America works is the way other societies work and think. In areas where terror is cultivated, folks are willing to do stuff for free...all in the hope that some divine power will reward them sometime in future.
The other case to consider is the fact that societies cultivating terror do their thing in the crude way. Messages are sent by horse-back and pigeons. Worse still these messages are encrypted...talk of a cold winter might mean the delivery of some important ingredients for some project. In this case, our folks at NSA simply get lost or ignore stuff like this. We also do not understand the cultures of others and are too willing to think we're the best!
To conclude, I'd like to pose a question:
Can any slashdotter tell me why despite the fact that Katrina was known to be coming, and that it would be huge, there was so much devastation amid confusion without clear leadership? This is all part of the incompetence I mentioned above.
That's my question too! Why RedHat? SuSE, in my opinion, is better than RedHat both on the server and desktop. This is not to say it (SuSE) has no issues at all. I find that its YaST is too slow and looks ancient, not to mention the fact that it will run through all those config scripts even when no configuration is changed at all!
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At first I thought it was my version of flash. But even after getting the latest, those videos are still too dark. To make matters worse, there does not seem to be an effort to sort this issue out. We need some common video controls on some these videos for sure.
On Kubuntu' Konqueror browser, the controls that at least appear on Windows2k with Firefox 1.5 do not appear at all!
Over the years, I became bored with Yahoo since they could not offer their Launchcast service on anything other than Internet Explorer and Windows. I dumped them in and now GMAIL is the answer.
The point is, there are many providers willing to provide email sevices for "free". If a provider "fools arround", folks (myself at the forefront), are very much willing to jump ship!
Is that why Ballmer has been reported to have said that Microsoft will "sue Linux?"
Take a look over here: http://www.no-lobbyists-as-such.com/florian-muelle r-blog/ballmer-linux/
But I am sure you enjoy that fact that Microsoft Office loads quite faster than Openoffice.org. This feature, I am sure, you appreciate. Right?
Not until there is reported improvement in load times. For God's sake, how can one be expected to wait for 47 seconds for OpenOffice.orgs's writer to load a 1.7Mb document with 23 pages and 6 images? It's insane! I will not say what the other application takes but I'm sure every slashdotter knows what I am talking about.
I beg the Linux zealots not to do their thing right away. GoDaddy will come back sooner or later. Nothing can hide a fact, nothing! We've seen this before. They will come back. May be this is part of the incompetence I have seen in US companies lately. I hope I am wrong.
I wonder what the situation would be if the likes of MySQL, PostGreSQL and other OSS DBs were not around. I guess Microsoft and IBM would be laughing their way to the bank every year.
Well, what I have done and continue to do is to make sure none of my president's cronys ever gets re-elected. Heck, the same fools wanted to out-source our port operations! Imagine that for second. They were infact onceding that America does not have the manpower to run ports that its workforce built!
After that, they talk of terrorism yet our borders remain open to anyone...this is 4 years after 9/11. What kills me most is the fact that....Nothing substantial is being done about this - NOTHING!
This does not suprise me at all, after all, we as Americans are quickly proving that we're becoming the bastion of incompetence. From NASA,
to the war in IRAQ,
irregularities in elections,
collapsing health care system,
cronyism in government,
out-sourcing out of hand,
the massive trade deficit,
the fact that communist China, Japan and the UK now help us with our balance of payments,
failing education system,
Katrina,....one wonders whether we as a nation can ever do anything right.
Question is: Is there eanything really?
What amazes me is its incredible speed. I wonder why Firefox programmers have not been able to make Firefox at least closer to Opera's speed. When it comes to memory, I wouldn't mind that much since memory itself is very cheap these days.
Does it have to be water to cool these GPUs? Is it water because of its relative hight Specific Heat Capacity, or because it's cheap and readily available?
I can see slashdotters increasing the capacity of the "tank" that stores water on these GPUs to make sure the GPU stays cool.
This is how they denied the Gmail in the first place. They even denied working on Google video at first...what haven't they denied in the past and then lived to defend when products came to the market?
This is one situation where I do not belive what the CEO says.
They (Google), could sell a Google Appliance (with Writely installed), that wirelessly allows users to access Writely and other services. This can be a very useful thing for medium sized companies in that they will not have to install any software on their individual systems. Now, when it comes to Writely, I wish there was a way I could move a table to anywhere in the document being edited. Google should improve on this and solve other bugs too.
In my view, the guys at Mozilla should grade the extensions in relation to how stable or otherwise they leave the base Firefox installation. The FoxyTunes extension for example, while being touted as completely compatible with Firefox 1.5.0.x, still makes the tab browsing interface completely inconsistent.
I also feel that at this point in time, the Firefox interface looks ancient. It's time for a revamp. How about that guys?
Can the USA still be regarded as the land of the free, where any citizen san say whatever they like?
Talking of indecency, why don't the authorities shut down the Jerry Springer Show? I have seen a level of indecency I'd never imagined! Can anyone figure how a mother could compete with a daughter for a man? I watched on such episode on Jerry Springer. To say the truth, I almost fell sick!
I guess it's all about the money.
With all the incompetence being displayed in my government's administration, I many times wonder whether I live in a developed country. Should the meaning of "developed country" be re-defined? Remember, nothing seems to get done right in these United States of America these days.
Well, in my case, I dismiss PostgreSQL because in fact remains true: -
It does not have a programmable front-end with which a novice like me can program business logic into! Don't mention the likes of Navicat, PhpMyAdmin and others for they do not cut it! And by the way I do not use MySQL either.
For sure Microsoft's Jet Engine with Access as the front end, has and continues to do wonders on this front. My recent project was to have the largest tables with no more than 8,700 records and to have no more than 11 tables in all. Putting business logic to the database in anything other than MS-Access was very very tough for me. In Access, it took me just three weeks.
Nine months on, the application is still running fine.
The other thing to demand would be to allow me attach my [K]ubuntu desktop onto the company network, and use it instead of what is currently available.
It depends on what you define success as. On the other hand freedom in America has brought about cases in which mothers compete with daughters for men! Hello Jerry Springer!
I agree with you on this. One thing I know is that these societies have no food additives in their diets. In some cases, they are too poor to even afford fertilizer! I have lived in America and Canada and while there, I failed to find any natural cow milk with NO additives. By the way, milk with additives was linked to heart attacks in kids in one study done in Canada.
The patient should be taken to a society that tolerates no such behavior. In these societies, such behavior is met with punishment. Over time, the so called ADHD is made to get extinct. Has anyone asked themselves why ADHD and other disorders are unknown in the Arab or [black] African worlds?
Back to the subject:
This is the more reason why a monopoly MUST not be accepted under any circumstances. What would happen if Microsoft threatened the same action? I understand they're yet to solve their differences with the EU. Right?
No wonder we have to ask a company, owned by a foreign government, that had links to Bin Laden to run our ports.
This begs the question:
Doesn't the USA have any competent manpower to run these ports? This kind of action by the Bush administration simply confirms incompetence.
The other reason is that our leaders who might themselves be inept, think that the way America works is the way other societies work and think. In areas where terror is cultivated, folks are willing to do stuff for free...all in the hope that some divine power will reward them sometime in future.
The other case to consider is the fact that societies cultivating terror do their thing in the crude way. Messages are sent by horse-back and pigeons. Worse still these messages are encrypted...talk of a cold winter might mean the delivery of some important ingredients for some project. In this case, our folks at NSA simply get lost or ignore stuff like this. We also do not understand the cultures of others and are too willing to think we're the best!
To conclude, I'd like to pose a question:
Can any slashdotter tell me why despite the fact that Katrina was known to be coming, and that it would be huge, there was so much devastation amid confusion without clear leadership? This is all part of the incompetence I mentioned above.
That's my question too! Why RedHat? SuSE, in my opinion, is better than RedHat both on the server and desktop. This is not to say it (SuSE) has no issues at all. I find that its YaST is too slow and looks ancient, not to mention the fact that it will run through all those config scripts even when no configuration is changed at all!