No need for Electrical tape What, is it really expensive where you live?
... a serial port in the back where you can send commands to the LCD... most LG tvs have a SET ID that you can set, hook them up over serial cable and brodcast a command to all of them and they will only anwser if it's there set ID in it... Yeah, because that's easier than using 1/2" of electrical tape. I'm sure there's a joke about engineers in here somewhere but I'm too tired today.
I don't know if there is a plugin, but you can just right-click the page in Fx and select "View Page Info" and then it will either say "Render Mode: Standards compliance mode" or "Render Mode: Quirks mode".
Oddly enough, I had trouble finding a site that renders in quirks mode so I could get the exact message that the dialog displays. I tried about a half dozen sites in my bookmarks and they were all rendered in standards compliant mode. So then I tried microsoft.com and bang, I had a site that rendered in quirks mode.
That's the show of a true your-mom joke artist. The OP already inferred he was plugging GP's mom, so the GP rolled with the joke and turned it back around on OP. That's skillz. Like your-mom judo - using the opponent's joke against him.
Or, "Generation X", "Generation Y", etc. are complete bullshit. There are no cutoff points, it's a rolling scale. You're correct that the difference matters less as you age, but when you're under 30, even 10 years is a huge difference.
The Eee is primarily about portability. Even the 12" "travel" laptops are bulky for really portable use (think carrying around a college campus). The Eee is a unique balance between the portability of a PID and the usability of a laptop. I think it's a needed gap to fill. It'd be nice even to just have a laptop that can actually sit in your lap without weighing down too much and burning you.
My thinkpad, on the other hand, was dropped four feet onto concrete and tumbled down a few stairs and still works fine. No offense, but I don't believe you:)
I can't believe people are still having this discussion. I haven't seen numbers of writes as low as 100,000 in a few years now. The latest numbers I've seen have been in the low millions, like 2-5 million writes. I wish people would stop citing numbers from 2001 like there's been no improvement in the technology. SSD is coming, people. It's here already for specialty applications, is approaching a reasonable level of price/space/performance for consumer applications, and enterprise use won't be far behind. Disk drives certainly won't be completely replaced in the process as their technology will improve as well, but for applications where pure storage space isn't the problem (performance, power) I think rotating disks will lose out very soon. If you seriously think flash deteriorates appreciably with use then I just have three words for you: click, click, click...
It is, actually. Any competent server admin won't let drive space drop below ~30% for performance / fragmentation reasons. For a new system, accounting for growth + free space overhead, I normally shoot for something like 70-80% free space. E.g., if I have 100GB of data to store now, I will allocate 400GB of storage for it and then start looking to add more space or split the data up when it hits the 280-300GB in use ballpark.
RoHS Lead-free Solder
Maybe not hobbyist stuff, but I'm sure you've seen all the RoHS labels on anything electrical you've bought over the past year. That means it has no (or very little) lead, for one. I may have been mistaken about it being on all light bulbs however, looks like there are RoHS bulbs but not all of them.
I had the same problems trying to find the Java installed base percentages, so I really have no idea either way.
Show me how to do a Homestarrunner cartoon in Java, and then come back and tell me how great Java IDEs are for that type of work. I'm not really a graphics guy, and again I've never used the Java Media Framework or it's development tools, so I can't say either way, the point being that it does exist and is possible. In that instance Flash is likely the better tool, in many other instances it is not.
You seem to be utterly ignoring development time as a factor! Do you actually do web design?... you have to concede that this Flash version was developed and deployed in a fraction of the time. My background is more on the web programming side rather than design. I help Flash designers with ActionScript but that's about it. So from my perspective, I would disagree with you completely about development speed. Using DHTML / CSS, I can FTP into any of my sites from any computer connected to the Internet, download a file or two and open them with any text editor, change the navigation / dropdown menus / create a new page or whatever, and upload them again. Done. With Flash I'd need access to the.fla source file and the Flash authoring application, do the changes, output the.swf, upload - not as easy. But now we're just leading down towards the argument of compiled vs. scripted code. I also have ongoing battles with graphic designers about making headings / menus / nav items / etc. in HTML with text vs. graphics. There are of course SEO, compatibility and accessibility concerns with Flash as well which is another advantage to using DHTML for those things.
I'm not specifically telling you it doesn't contain lead, I just said I couldn't find any source that said they do. Modern solder don't contain lead either, and I'm pretty sure soft metal alloys can be made without it too.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll have to do some research as to proper disposal.
BTW, it seems they contain mercury but I didn't see any information suggesting CFL's contain lead. You may also be interested in this:
A June 2007 article calculated that the overall mercury emission by compact fluorescent lamps is less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by coal-fired power generation for series of equivalent incandescent lamps over the same period.[36] Of course, not all electricity is coal-fire generated, but with proper disposal, not all the mercury in spent CFLs will be released into the environment. Check out the graph as well.
No, that's certainly not always the case. There are many times DHTML, Java or some other technology is used instead of Flash. For example, nearly every single web page you visit is HTML based instead of Flash based. It's the correct tool for the job. Flash is capable of building entire websites, is it not? So then why hasn't the web just been completely replaced with Flash? Why do we bother with HTML and standards at all?
So no, I wouldn't agree that "people whose livelihood depend on it use Flash instead". In the context of whatever "it" is.
Google would have found you the answer to my vagueness in about 2.8 seconds. If you type "flash cras" into Google Suggest, "flash crashes firefox" and "flash crashes ie7" are the first two suggestions that pop up, with "flash crashing" as the third result. I suggest you search for those terms and follow relevant links. I even linked to them for you. I personally had a lot of problems with Flash and Firefox around when Fx 2 came out.
Java's over; 90%+ of computers no longer have it installed Talk about a vague stat - since you asked for citations, I must insist as well. I can't find any numbers that even remotely resemble your statement.
we can come back to that point when there's a better, cheaper and easier tool. Right now, there's not. Pretty vague again - that depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Flash is used for many things, and many of the things it's used for are better done with a different tool or better not done at all. Example - flash based navigation. I cringe when I see things like this. There is absolutely no need for that, dynamic menus with DHTML or CSS is a better tool in this case. Agreed? And things like this shouldn't be done at all.
I will concede that Flash is good for some specific things, but none of these things are for general web browsing. I have already said that it's good for video and animations. Of course video CAN and IS done just fine with open source tools, but with Microsoft, Real, etc. in the mix everyone couldn't agree on a standard, so Flash took that opportunity. I'll also expand on that some more and say that some interactive applications using Flash seem to be an interesting way of doing things (though the environment for programmers sucks), and certainly Flex will expand on that with competition from Silverlight, and possibly from "web enabled applications" using XULRunner & Apollo and already with.NET. Again not that any of what these technologies accomplish is new, and again much of this is already possible with Java. And with that, it brings me back to the original reason I replied to your GP post in the first place:
All of this, of course, is assuming that there is an open source package that does what Flash does, and there isn't. There are, in fact, open source packages that do what Flash does. Some are a direct copy, some are more broad, more power tools, and others are more specific, less powerful tools, and some things are already built into web standards. Flash is fine as a technology, but the mis-use of it is very prevalent - that is the problem (or one of them). I wish content creators were more familiar with alternatives, and they're not. To a designer, Flash is a hammer, and so they see every problem as a nail. But there is almost always a better tool for the job.
(Actually, you're stuck in some weird parallel alternate-timeline where Java was open source while it was still relevant on browsers; do people call you The Doctor by chance?) haha, that cracked me up.
Good discussion. A few errors / exaggerations in your response though:
Java is not a 150 MB download. Just checking download sizes for my platform now, Flash player is 3MB and Java is 18MB. Yes, it is much larger (again - it does much more).
Flash player has had its share of browser-crashing, so I don't think the argument that Java crashed browsers is valid. In fact Flash still has crashing / hanging issues on many browsers (recent IE7 and Firefox issues come to mind).
DHTML has been around for a long, long time - animations in web pages using javascript and HTML has been possible since before Flash was a de-facto standard.
I'm not trying to fool anybody that Flash is going away. Merely educating people that it's not the only solution for what it does, and often it's not the best answer for a given end result. Should designers learn another programming language? Honestly I've never used the Java media framework tools so I don't know how big of a deal that is. I do know that designers are a finicky bunch and will stick with Adobe until the world's end even if there are better/cheaper/easier tools out there for some reason.
Just because something is the most popular solution / product, doesn't mean it's the best. Keep an open mind.
Oh and good guess on the name of Gnash. Check it out sometime.
While I'm pretty sure you know that Gnash exists and for some reason you're taking a stab at the open-source implementation for being 1/2 version behind Flash (yes, Gnash supports video), your entire argument is wrong.
All of this, of course, is assuming that there is an open source package that does what Flash does, and there isn't. First of all, excluding Gnash, Java does everything that Flash does and much, much more. Oh yeah and it's open source. Of course it's not made by Adobe so designers have no clue how to do anything with it, but that's a different problem. And much of the animation you see with Flash can be done with standard web technologies like HTML and JavaScript.
The second problem with your argument is inferring that Flash actually does anything useful, that even SHOULD be used on websites. It doesn't.
The only thing Flash ever did right was to have a workable de-facto standard video format for the web. Oh and games / animations, if you're into that. As far as I'm concerned those are the only good uses for Flash.
I'd love to say,"Core 1, you will convert DVDs(or mp3s, or some other processor-intensive task). Core 2, run everything else." You can, with processor affinity. Unless you're saying your processor isn't dual-core. Even still you can just set your process priority / nice level (whatever OS you run) so that it's a lower priority so your other programs run OK.
I don't know, I haven't owned a computer since 2003 where the processor was really a bottleneck anyway. Unless you're doing something specific like converting media files or running a distributed application (seti, folding, etc.) then normally the bottleneck is disk access. Even on servers it's not much of an issue for me, it's pretty easy to throw more CPU horsepower at a machine nowadays, but again disk performance is killer expensive.
I think it depends on the amount of traffic the URL receives. I had the same thing happen to me, but the link farm was just using one of those 7 day trials or whatever and I guess it didn't generate enough traffic to be worth it, so they canceled it and the domain was available for me to re-purchase (not from them, just to register it normally).
Passive is using the already established control connection for data transfer... I wish, but no it doesn't. It's a matter of what side of the connection you're on, I was talking about the person hosting the "server" side of FTP. You're sort of correct (not technically) if your talking about the client side of FTP, but even then Active FTP just uses port 20 - so at least it's a static, known number and thus you don't need a stateful firewall. For Passive FTP, if you're on the server side, you absolutely need a stateful firewall because the client will initiate a data connection back to your server on some random port (that's negotiated over the control connection) - but no, passive FTP does not actually USE the control connection for data transfer. I think some clients might offer that as an option, but it's not very common. And encrypted FTP (FTP over SSL) is even more ridiculous.
You manage 650GB/Day of logs by posting them to a set of SQL servers. That would make the problem worse. You manage 650GB/day by analyzing them quickly / continuously, storing the meta data and deleting the raw logs as quickly as possible. Unless you mean to pull them into SQL Analysis Services and make OLAP cubes of the data (and again delete the raw logs).
Some protocols require stateful inspection for a firewall to even operate properly, like passive FTP where ports need to be dynamically opened up by the firewall based on the control connection's conversation. That's actually the only instance I can think of, but there may be others. Oh, yeah, and FTP sucks.
NLB in this context is "Network Load Balancing", a Microsoft specific technology (part of Windows Server), as opposed to an external / third part Network Load Balancer appliance.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240997
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... a serial port in the back where you can send commands to the LCDI don't know if there is a plugin, but you can just right-click the page in Fx and select "View Page Info" and then it will either say "Render Mode: Standards compliance mode" or "Render Mode: Quirks mode".
Oddly enough, I had trouble finding a site that renders in quirks mode so I could get the exact message that the dialog displays. I tried about a half dozen sites in my bookmarks and they were all rendered in standards compliant mode. So then I tried microsoft.com and bang, I had a site that rendered in quirks mode.
(That one was too easy, you didn't have to throw me a softball like that)
I was looking at the "self recursive" part - isn't that redundantly redundant? I thought they were just recursive acronyms.
That's the show of a true your-mom joke artist. The OP already inferred he was plugging GP's mom, so the GP rolled with the joke and turned it back around on OP. That's skillz. Like your-mom judo - using the opponent's joke against him.
Or, "Generation X", "Generation Y", etc. are complete bullshit. There are no cutoff points, it's a rolling scale. You're correct that the difference matters less as you age, but when you're under 30, even 10 years is a huge difference.
I can't believe people are still having this discussion. I haven't seen numbers of writes as low as 100,000 in a few years now. The latest numbers I've seen have been in the low millions, like 2-5 million writes. I wish people would stop citing numbers from 2001 like there's been no improvement in the technology. SSD is coming, people. It's here already for specialty applications, is approaching a reasonable level of price/space/performance for consumer applications, and enterprise use won't be far behind. Disk drives certainly won't be completely replaced in the process as their technology will improve as well, but for applications where pure storage space isn't the problem (performance, power) I think rotating disks will lose out very soon. If you seriously think flash deteriorates appreciably with use then I just have three words for you: click, click, click...
It is, actually. Any competent server admin won't let drive space drop below ~30% for performance / fragmentation reasons. For a new system, accounting for growth + free space overhead, I normally shoot for something like 70-80% free space. E.g., if I have 100GB of data to store now, I will allocate 400GB of storage for it and then start looking to add more space or split the data up when it hits the 280-300GB in use ballpark.
RoHS
Lead-free Solder
Maybe not hobbyist stuff, but I'm sure you've seen all the RoHS labels on anything electrical you've bought over the past year. That means it has no (or very little) lead, for one. I may have been mistaken about it being on all light bulbs however, looks like there are RoHS bulbs but not all of them.
I'm not specifically telling you it doesn't contain lead, I just said I couldn't find any source that said they do. Modern solder don't contain lead either, and I'm pretty sure soft metal alloys can be made without it too.
BTW, it seems they contain mercury but I didn't see any information suggesting CFL's contain lead. You may also be interested in this: A June 2007 article calculated that the overall mercury emission by compact fluorescent lamps is less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by coal-fired power generation for series of equivalent incandescent lamps over the same period.[36] Of course, not all electricity is coal-fire generated, but with proper disposal, not all the mercury in spent CFLs will be released into the environment. Check out the graph as well.
No, that's certainly not always the case. There are many times DHTML, Java or some other technology is used instead of Flash. For example, nearly every single web page you visit is HTML based instead of Flash based. It's the correct tool for the job. Flash is capable of building entire websites, is it not? So then why hasn't the web just been completely replaced with Flash? Why do we bother with HTML and standards at all?
So no, I wouldn't agree that "people whose livelihood depend on it use Flash instead". In the context of whatever "it" is.
I will concede that Flash is good for some specific things, but none of these things are for general web browsing. I have already said that it's good for video and animations. Of course video CAN and IS done just fine with open source tools, but with Microsoft, Real, etc. in the mix everyone couldn't agree on a standard, so Flash took that opportunity. I'll also expand on that some more and say that some interactive applications using Flash seem to be an interesting way of doing things (though the environment for programmers sucks), and certainly Flex will expand on that with competition from Silverlight, and possibly from "web enabled applications" using XULRunner & Apollo and already with
Good discussion. A few errors / exaggerations in your response though:
Oh and good guess on the name of Gnash. Check it out sometime.
The second problem with your argument is inferring that Flash actually does anything useful, that even SHOULD be used on websites. It doesn't.
The only thing Flash ever did right was to have a workable de-facto standard video format for the web. Oh and games / animations, if you're into that. As far as I'm concerned those are the only good uses for Flash.
I don't know, I haven't owned a computer since 2003 where the processor was really a bottleneck anyway. Unless you're doing something specific like converting media files or running a distributed application (seti, folding, etc.) then normally the bottleneck is disk access. Even on servers it's not much of an issue for me, it's pretty easy to throw more CPU horsepower at a machine nowadays, but again disk performance is killer expensive.
I think it depends on the amount of traffic the URL receives. I had the same thing happen to me, but the link farm was just using one of those 7 day trials or whatever and I guess it didn't generate enough traffic to be worth it, so they canceled it and the domain was available for me to re-purchase (not from them, just to register it normally).
Thanks, I'll look into it.
Some protocols require stateful inspection for a firewall to even operate properly, like passive FTP where ports need to be dynamically opened up by the firewall based on the control connection's conversation. That's actually the only instance I can think of, but there may be others. Oh, yeah, and FTP sucks.
NLB in this context is "Network Load Balancing", a Microsoft specific technology (part of Windows Server), as opposed to an external / third part Network Load Balancer appliance. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240997