You seem to be arguing against a point I never tried to make. But for content providers the video streaming framework is still more mature than for HTML5 video. That is why people still use it. My point was only about addressing the complaint of getting rid of Flash meant it was being replaced by H.264, but this is silly since Flash video IS H.264 in almost every case nowadays.
Didn't mean to sound argumentative... was more exuberant. Flash, however, was never needed for what it was used for 99% of the time. Another thread mentioned Black and Tans... so I thought of a terrible metaphor. Flash is like Harp... a decent pale lager, but it becomes exceptional when mixed properly, wrapped, as it were, around Guinness... which unfortunately for this metaphor can only be vector animation or a web game. So... Adobe says "Hey! What's good for Guiness is good for EVERYTHING! Mix it with your gin! It's a better vermouth! Mix it with your whiskey, it's a better sour!" Trouble is, Harp doesn't mix that well with anything but Guinness, no matter what the bartender says. And eventually, people will start hating Harp... because its just awful when it's used improperly, and unless it's by itself or with Guinness, it's being used improperly. Flash was never intended to be a video wrapper... that was just something that it could do but only did well during the very earliest part of the last decade under special circumstances, before bandwidth was taken for granted. Adobe kept leveraging it for video, however, long after it was reasonable to do so. Eventually, everyone hates Flash and forgets that its actually a decent app platform and wonderful for vector animation. Had Adobe stepped back off pushing it as a video wrapper, for which it is terrible for the extra processing overhead, and left it to find it's true usefulness, perhaps most web users wouldn't despise it.
You do realize that Flash videos are just H.264 in MP4, right? It's been this way for years. Almost no one uses Sorenson for Flash video anymore.
Right. So exactly why do we need Flash for web video? We don't. It's superfluous. Now it's gone from mobile, we just need to clear it off the rest of the internets.
idk, but to me this seems like another case of a "news outlet" (to use the phrase loosely) creating news... like that one site did a while back with antennagate.
PS3s took almost five years to get cracked, and new PS3s are immune to any holes in them that were used by GeoHot to bust the thing open in the first place.
you do realize that Geohot wasn't slaving away at jailbreaking the PS3 for 5 years, right? Likely it took him less than 5 weeks, if not 5 days.
The only catch all, fool proof and totally fair fix for this is the simplest of all: get rid of men's and women's events, and let both compete
That has serious problems....
better idea... If it's going to be about sex, let's make it about sex.
If you can or once could produce viable sperm (and no other genetic material) that can fertilize an ovum = Olympic Man
If you can or once could produce a viable ovum (and no other genetic material) that can be fertilized = Olympic Woman
Then do not label but still disqualify everyone else. After all, if Olympians can't contribute to the human gene pool (or haven't already) what good are they even if they are the best at what they do? The Olympics is about human excellence, not evolutionary or mutant excellence.
what is a race? Is it to see who has the fastest reaction time, or who runs the fastest, or both?
Obviously both are a part of this type of race. Previously due to necessity, but now in the ages of high speed cameras and other tech, just due to tradition. If they simply wanted to see who could do the fastest 100m from a flying start, they could just let everyone start whenever they want, and measure their performance from 10m to 100m.
If they don't all start at the same time and run against each other, then they're racing a clock rather than competing against one another.
Except now you're introducing the elements of inertia, mechanics, engineering, etc into the race. Thanks for adding more moving parts and complexity.
Not to mention that there is no way to gently dissipate the inertial force of when that clutch is disengaged. The runner is running full speed in a controlled "hamster wheel". When the clutch releases, there will be an initial jerk as the wheel is no longer free floating but instead contacting the track surface. Imagine running on a tread mill and suddenly the platform stops. You don't just step off gently, you proper forward violently, stumbling, and most likely crashing.
of course, you're right... the mechanism needs a series of smaller wheels... and a continuously variable transmission...
How about placing runners in some kind of human-sized hamster wheels with clutch mechanisms, so that all runners can already be running at top speed for some short period prior to the actual start of the race, at which time all of the clutches are simultaneously disengaged, so all runners start at full their full stride and their full speed at the same time? This would change the dynamics of racing because it would remove reaction time as a competitive element from the race. But what is a race? Is it to see who has the fastest reaction time, or who runs the fastest, or both?
Stealth technology certainly did something advantageous in that instance... we effectively landed at least two helicopters right next to a major military installation in the middle of Pakistan without anyone but Osama and his immediate neighbors realizing it until it was all over. I know I wasn't the only one quite impressed with that implementation of stealth technology. Honestly, I'm still having trouble believing it's possible... but it happened.
And ultimately it was meaningless, as non-stealth Chinooks were right behind them and made a big racket. Stealth helicopters really don't make much tactical (or budget) sense.
Your comment is ultimately meaningless as it is wildly innaccurate at best. The Chinooks didn't participate in the raid and remained in deserted areas until after the sucessful stealth raid on the compound. When the single Chinook arrived at bin Ladin's compound, stealth was no longer essential to the mission.
The Chinooks kept on standby were on the ground "in a deserted area roughly two-thirds of the way" between Jalalabad and Abbottabad, with two additional SEAL teams consisting of approximately 24 DEVGRU operators for a "quick reaction force" (QRF)....Their mission was to interdict any Pakistani military attempts to interfere with the raid. Other Chinooks, holding 25 more SEALs from DEVGRU, were stationed just across the border in Afghanistan in case reinforcements were needed during the raid..... Since the SEAL team now had only one helicopter, one of the two Chinook held in reserve was dispatched to carry part of the team and bin Laden's body out of Pakistan.
That's sort of my point. Getting rid of Linux would leave only Solaris as a place for all of us Linux admins to go. Sure there is AIX but we all know IBM is a fickle mistress. Hell, I didn't even bring up IBM which is the other major DB vendor out there. And they've invested a huge amount in Linux on their systems. My real point is that Oracle is in one of the few positions to go after Linux in the enterprise space. And their tact could well be weakening Linux by weakening RedHat.
(my emphasis) Interesting... probably true, but I think they listen to their users. Remember a decade ago when IBM pulled AIX in favor of Linux and the greybeards in the field complained... and AIX returned, and has stayed. And your point is well received... Oracle weakens everything they touch. Oracle... makes people sad. So I shouldn't have implied the current Oracle "Solaris" was superior or even equal, not after Oracle has offended so many important contributors. I should have bumped illumos and it's brethren such as my fav flav, OpenIndiana. Dump Oracle for PostgreSQL and one of these is the way to a happy backend with DBA's and sysadmins living in harmony.;-)
As they hovered above the target, however, the first helicopter experienced a hazardous airflow condition known as a vortex ring state. This was aggravated by higher than expected air temperature ("a so-called 'hot and high' environment") and the high compound walls, which stopped the rotor downwash from diffusing. The helicopter's tail grazed one of the compound's walls, damaging its tail rotor, and the helicopter rolled onto its side. The pilot quickly buried the aircraft's nose to keep it from tipping over. None of the SEALs, crew and pilots on the helicopter were seriously injured in the soft crash landing, which ended with it pitched at a forty-five-degree angle resting against the wall. The other helicopter then landed outside the compound and the SEALs scaled the walls to get inside.
79 commandos and a dog flew in pitch black for 200 miles from Jalalabad, mostly inside Pakistan, and the loss of the helicopter had nothing to do with the stealth technology, nor did it prevent the mission's success... there were no US casualties and they were gone before anyone knew what happened.
Yes, right. And crashing one in the process. I call that a major fail.
Wow, you take slashdot snearing to new heights. Just wtf does it take to impress you?
Stealth technology certainly did something advantageous in that instance... we effectively landed at least two helicopters right next to a major military installation in the middle of Pakistan without anyone but Osama and his immediate neighbors realizing it until it was all over. I know I wasn't the only one quite impressed with that implementation of stealth technology. Honestly, I'm still having trouble believing it's possible... but it happened.
but in general you need to have a graduate degree (heavy on math and physics) involving actual meteorological research to be called a meteorologist
Actually it's a sub discipline or specialization of Geology, along with some other atmospheric sciences like climatology. You don't need to be a physicist or have any advanced math degrees to be competant in meteorology (like you might for atmospheric physics and fluid dynamics).
Not only that, a cat uses its tail to turn over in mid-air...
False. Even a tailess cat lands feet first. Cats use their tails for balance. They turn over in mid-air by twisting their bodies... has nothing to do with their tail.
You cannot use something that is completely fake like that as "prior art".
Correct, as it is even so with design patents, which is limited to the ornamental design of a functional item. Theatrical props can never be prior art unless they are functional.
Aye I meant to say that the mac was a derivative of the work at PARC
Not really true... a few concepts came from Xerox, the mouse, pop up menus, and windows... sure... and that's about it... most of the good stuff was originally designed by the folks at Apple. Here's the truth, if you really care about truth and aren't just pilling on trolls.
What I'm curious about is why you never hear about people being robbed on the streets of their guns, or of armed people being robbed.
I see what you're trying to say there. Most who carry don't have a Wild West-style quick draw holster... so even if you carry a gun and are surprised by a robber at gun point, your gun isn't that much use if the 3 seconds it takes you to pull your weapon, flip the safety, and chamber a round is coincidentally the same time it takes for you to be shot dead 6 times. Contrary to the belief of those that carry, the chances of ever being able to use a gun successfully to defend against a crime is exceptionally rare. Statistically, it's on the order of ten times more likely your gun will accidentally hurt or kill you or a loved one than ever getting the opportunity to be used to defend against crime, let alone successfully.
That being stated, I believe the answer to your question is that, hopefully, those that carry are already concerned about crime and are more aware of their surroundings. Wisdom and mindfulness is far more beneficial to avoiding becoming a victim of crime than a gun. If your circumstances are that you must often be alone on dark city streets after midnight... consider learning the responsibility of and carrying a gun for protection. But if you are wise enough not to tempt fate, understand that nothing good ever happens after midnight, and consciously avoid putting yourself in vulnerable situations, you'll more than likely never need to worry about being victimized.
There is no technical reason why you shouldn't use OLE over SL/CENT/RHEL. This is all about their sun acquisition.
How did you write all that without ever mentioning Solaris? There is no technical reason why you should use Linux over Solaris... unless it is free. If you already have the license, if you're already running Oracle on Solaris... why would you switch? Oracle Linux was around before the Sun acquisition... it was Oracle's attempt to divorce Sun, ironically enough. But once Oracle has acquired Sun and Solaris along with it... what is the point of their continued development on and pushing Oracle Linux over Solaris? Even today it'd be a hard sell to say Linux is somehow better than a fully matured BSD.
teach kids how to handle the gun so that you take away the mystery
I find your anacdote quaint, but your logic quite flawed, being that most gun owners with more than three guns are adults and have these weapons for no good reason other than simply because they like guns. The "mystery" is still there. Nearly all gun accidents happen to people just like you, and if you can believe it, even to those far better trained than you and your father or any gun owners you or your father know.
No, I'm afraid the only trick to preventing gun accidents in the home is to not have them there. Worried about crime? Gun owners have a far far far better chance of injuring or killing themselves or someone they love than ever having the opportunity to effectively protect themselves against crime. You like to hunt? Well, there is a strong minority that like to kill things just for fun... though I'm unaware or any valid reasons for it. We have these things now called "supermarkets" so that the inefficient method of feeding yourself by hunting for your own food is completely unnecessary. My moderation score will be reflective of whether the search for civilization, or even responsible maturity, continues.
idk... so I'm asking. Say I purchase hw with Windows 8 preinstalled... and I don't want to fuck with any of this BIOS key bullshit, nor run Windows 8, nor any Windows on bare iron (because I am, in fact, sane), but only free software: can I simply reflash the OEM placed SecureBoot with another non-SecureBoot BIOS? What of coreboot (LinuxBIOS)? Can I still use that? If so, why doesn't Canonical, RedHat and the BSDs make something along these lines as an option in their plans? Who forced the top Linux distros to whiddle down options to a single non-choice option?
The NRA is 4.3 million Americans who care enough about their rights to put their hard-earned money to work (via dues) protecting those rights.
And apparently the NRA is also a political lobby, and effectively a religion that preaches for gun owners to avoid at all costs their duty as clearly defined by the 2nd Amendment: to regulate themselves and protect the public against tyranny. It is not so much these days that the government dare violate the rights of the gun owner so much as it is the gun owners themselves shirking their responsibilities as given in the Constitution, selfishly risking the safety of and violating the rights of the public by insisting on a new interpretation of the 2nd to mean "self-defense," which was never its intended meaning until 2003 (D.C. v. Heller), rather than the true mandate that gives the right to bear arms, which is specifically and exclusively intended by the authors to mean common defense against tyranny (and not crime).
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You seem to be arguing against a point I never tried to make. But for content providers the video streaming framework is still more mature than for HTML5 video. That is why people still use it. My point was only about addressing the complaint of getting rid of Flash meant it was being replaced by H.264, but this is silly since Flash video IS H.264 in almost every case nowadays.
Didn't mean to sound argumentative... was more exuberant. Flash, however, was never needed for what it was used for 99% of the time. Another thread mentioned Black and Tans... so I thought of a terrible metaphor. Flash is like Harp... a decent pale lager, but it becomes exceptional when mixed properly, wrapped, as it were, around Guinness ... which unfortunately for this metaphor can only be vector animation or a web game. So... Adobe says "Hey! What's good for Guiness is good for EVERYTHING! Mix it with your gin! It's a better vermouth! Mix it with your whiskey, it's a better sour!" Trouble is, Harp doesn't mix that well with anything but Guinness, no matter what the bartender says. And eventually, people will start hating Harp... because its just awful when it's used improperly, and unless it's by itself or with Guinness, it's being used improperly. Flash was never intended to be a video wrapper... that was just something that it could do but only did well during the very earliest part of the last decade under special circumstances, before bandwidth was taken for granted. Adobe kept leveraging it for video, however, long after it was reasonable to do so. Eventually, everyone hates Flash and forgets that its actually a decent app platform and wonderful for vector animation. Had Adobe stepped back off pushing it as a video wrapper, for which it is terrible for the extra processing overhead, and left it to find it's true usefulness, perhaps most web users wouldn't despise it.
You do realize that Flash videos are just H.264 in MP4, right? It's been this way for years. Almost no one uses Sorenson for Flash video anymore.
Right. So exactly why do we need Flash for web video? We don't. It's superfluous. Now it's gone from mobile, we just need to clear it off the rest of the internets.
idk, but to me this seems like another case of a "news outlet" (to use the phrase loosely) creating news... like that one site did a while back with antennagate.
PS3s took almost five years to get cracked, and new PS3s are immune to any holes in them that were used by GeoHot to bust the thing open in the first place.
you do realize that Geohot wasn't slaving away at jailbreaking the PS3 for 5 years, right? Likely it took him less than 5 weeks, if not 5 days.
The only catch all, fool proof and totally fair fix for this is the simplest of all: get rid of men's and women's events, and let both compete
That has serious problems....
better idea... If it's going to be about sex, let's make it about sex.
If you can or once could produce viable sperm (and no other genetic material) that can fertilize an ovum = Olympic Man
If you can or once could produce a viable ovum (and no other genetic material) that can be fertilized = Olympic Woman
Then do not label but still disqualify everyone else. After all, if Olympians can't contribute to the human gene pool (or haven't already) what good are they even if they are the best at what they do? The Olympics is about human excellence, not evolutionary or mutant excellence.
what is a race? Is it to see who has the fastest reaction time, or who runs the fastest, or both?
Obviously both are a part of this type of race. Previously due to necessity, but now in the ages of high speed cameras and other tech, just due to tradition. If they simply wanted to see who could do the fastest 100m from a flying start, they could just let everyone start whenever they want, and measure their performance from 10m to 100m.
If they don't all start at the same time and run against each other, then they're racing a clock rather than competing against one another.
Except now you're introducing the elements of inertia, mechanics, engineering, etc into the race. Thanks for adding more moving parts and complexity.
Not to mention that there is no way to gently dissipate the inertial force of when that clutch is disengaged. The runner is running full speed in a controlled "hamster wheel". When the clutch releases, there will be an initial jerk as the wheel is no longer free floating but instead contacting the track surface. Imagine running on a tread mill and suddenly the platform stops. You don't just step off gently, you proper forward violently, stumbling, and most likely crashing.
of course, you're right... the mechanism needs a series of smaller wheels... and a continuously variable transmission...
No, emulators don't cut it.
I respectfully disagree... there is one emulator to rule them all
Back in my track days, we were taught to go by the smoke of the pistol, not the bang.
For that to even be remotely effective, your track team must have smelled really really fast.
How about placing runners in some kind of human-sized hamster wheels with clutch mechanisms, so that all runners can already be running at top speed for some short period prior to the actual start of the race, at which time all of the clutches are simultaneously disengaged, so all runners start at full their full stride and their full speed at the same time? This would change the dynamics of racing because it would remove reaction time as a competitive element from the race. But what is a race? Is it to see who has the fastest reaction time, or who runs the fastest, or both?
Stealth technology certainly did something advantageous in that instance... we effectively landed at least two helicopters right next to a major military installation in the middle of Pakistan without anyone but Osama and his immediate neighbors realizing it until it was all over. I know I wasn't the only one quite impressed with that implementation of stealth technology. Honestly, I'm still having trouble believing it's possible... but it happened.
And ultimately it was meaningless, as non-stealth Chinooks were right behind them and made a big racket. Stealth helicopters really don't make much tactical (or budget) sense.
Your comment is ultimately meaningless as it is wildly innaccurate at best. The Chinooks didn't participate in the raid and remained in deserted areas until after the sucessful stealth raid on the compound. When the single Chinook arrived at bin Ladin's compound, stealth was no longer essential to the mission.
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That's sort of my point. Getting rid of Linux would leave only Solaris as a place for all of us Linux admins to go. Sure there is AIX but we all know IBM is a fickle mistress. Hell, I didn't even bring up IBM which is the other major DB vendor out there. And they've invested a huge amount in Linux on their systems. My real point is that Oracle is in one of the few positions to go after Linux in the enterprise space. And their tact could well be weakening Linux by weakening RedHat.
(my emphasis) Interesting... probably true, but I think they listen to their users. Remember a decade ago when IBM pulled AIX in favor of Linux and the greybeards in the field complained... and AIX returned, and has stayed. And your point is well received... Oracle weakens everything they touch. Oracle... makes people sad. So I shouldn't have implied the current Oracle "Solaris" was superior or even equal, not after Oracle has offended so many important contributors. I should have bumped illumos and it's brethren such as my fav flav, OpenIndiana. Dump Oracle for PostgreSQL and one of these is the way to a happy backend with DBA's and sysadmins living in harmony. ;-)
Thank you. I sit corrected.
too nice! too gracious! (you must be new here). No! I THANK YOU!!
We need software, not bombs.
FTFY
make install, not war
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79 commandos and a dog flew in pitch black for 200 miles from Jalalabad, mostly inside Pakistan, and the loss of the helicopter had nothing to do with the stealth technology, nor did it prevent the mission's success... there were no US casualties and they were gone before anyone knew what happened.
Yes, right. And crashing one in the process. I call that a major fail.
Wow, you take slashdot snearing to new heights. Just wtf does it take to impress you?
Stealth technology certainly did something advantageous in that instance... we effectively landed at least two helicopters right next to a major military installation in the middle of Pakistan without anyone but Osama and his immediate neighbors realizing it until it was all over. I know I wasn't the only one quite impressed with that implementation of stealth technology. Honestly, I'm still having trouble believing it's possible... but it happened.
but in general you need to have a graduate degree (heavy on math and physics) involving actual meteorological research to be called a meteorologist
Actually it's a sub discipline or specialization of Geology, along with some other atmospheric sciences like climatology. You don't need to be a physicist or have any advanced math degrees to be competant in meteorology (like you might for atmospheric physics and fluid dynamics).
Not only that, a cat uses its tail to turn over in mid-air ...
False. Even a tailess cat lands feet first. Cats use their tails for balance. They turn over in mid-air by twisting their bodies... has nothing to do with their tail.
You cannot use something that is completely fake like that as "prior art".
Correct, as it is even so with design patents, which is limited to the ornamental design of a functional item. Theatrical props can never be prior art unless they are functional.
Aye I meant to say that the mac was a derivative of the work at PARC
Not really true... a few concepts came from Xerox, the mouse, pop up menus, and windows... sure... and that's about it... most of the good stuff was originally designed by the folks at Apple. Here's the truth, if you really care about truth and aren't just pilling on trolls.
What I'm curious about is why you never hear about people being robbed on the streets of their guns, or of armed people being robbed.
I see what you're trying to say there. Most who carry don't have a Wild West-style quick draw holster... so even if you carry a gun and are surprised by a robber at gun point, your gun isn't that much use if the 3 seconds it takes you to pull your weapon, flip the safety, and chamber a round is coincidentally the same time it takes for you to be shot dead 6 times. Contrary to the belief of those that carry, the chances of ever being able to use a gun successfully to defend against a crime is exceptionally rare. Statistically, it's on the order of ten times more likely your gun will accidentally hurt or kill you or a loved one than ever getting the opportunity to be used to defend against crime, let alone successfully.
That being stated, I believe the answer to your question is that, hopefully, those that carry are already concerned about crime and are more aware of their surroundings. Wisdom and mindfulness is far more beneficial to avoiding becoming a victim of crime than a gun. If your circumstances are that you must often be alone on dark city streets after midnight... consider learning the responsibility of and carrying a gun for protection. But if you are wise enough not to tempt fate, understand that nothing good ever happens after midnight, and consciously avoid putting yourself in vulnerable situations, you'll more than likely never need to worry about being victimized.
There is no technical reason why you shouldn't use OLE over SL/CENT/RHEL. This is all about their sun acquisition.
How did you write all that without ever mentioning Solaris? There is no technical reason why you should use Linux over Solaris... unless it is free. If you already have the license, if you're already running Oracle on Solaris... why would you switch? Oracle Linux was around before the Sun acquisition... it was Oracle's attempt to divorce Sun, ironically enough. But once Oracle has acquired Sun and Solaris along with it... what is the point of their continued development on and pushing Oracle Linux over Solaris? Even today it'd be a hard sell to say Linux is somehow better than a fully matured BSD.
teach kids how to handle the gun so that you take away the mystery
I find your anacdote quaint, but your logic quite flawed, being that most gun owners with more than three guns are adults and have these weapons for no good reason other than simply because they like guns. The "mystery" is still there. Nearly all gun accidents happen to people just like you, and if you can believe it, even to those far better trained than you and your father or any gun owners you or your father know.
No, I'm afraid the only trick to preventing gun accidents in the home is to not have them there. Worried about crime? Gun owners have a far far far better chance of injuring or killing themselves or someone they love than ever having the opportunity to effectively protect themselves against crime. You like to hunt? Well, there is a strong minority that like to kill things just for fun... though I'm unaware or any valid reasons for it. We have these things now called "supermarkets" so that the inefficient method of feeding yourself by hunting for your own food is completely unnecessary. My moderation score will be reflective of whether the search for civilization, or even responsible maturity, continues.
idk... so I'm asking. Say I purchase hw with Windows 8 preinstalled... and I don't want to fuck with any of this BIOS key bullshit, nor run Windows 8, nor any Windows on bare iron (because I am, in fact, sane), but only free software: can I simply reflash the OEM placed SecureBoot with another non-SecureBoot BIOS? What of coreboot (LinuxBIOS)? Can I still use that? If so, why doesn't Canonical, RedHat and the BSDs make something along these lines as an option in their plans? Who forced the top Linux distros to whiddle down options to a single non-choice option?
The NRA is 4.3 million Americans who care enough about their rights to put their hard-earned money to work (via dues) protecting those rights.
And apparently the NRA is also a political lobby, and effectively a religion that preaches for gun owners to avoid at all costs their duty as clearly defined by the 2nd Amendment: to regulate themselves and protect the public against tyranny. It is not so much these days that the government dare violate the rights of the gun owner so much as it is the gun owners themselves shirking their responsibilities as given in the Constitution, selfishly risking the safety of and violating the rights of the public by insisting on a new interpretation of the 2nd to mean "self-defense," which was never its intended meaning until 2003 (D.C. v. Heller), rather than the true mandate that gives the right to bear arms, which is specifically and exclusively intended by the authors to mean common defense against tyranny (and not crime).