I hate to say it, but the placement of the Fukushima reactor, and its lack of ongoing maintenance, the overloading of spent fuel rods, etc, were all done by or approved by scientists.
Science is not some magic religion that will same us all, and it can and has been subverted many times in the past, to present a political fiction.
Color TV was useful, but HDTV is not very useful. Reception simply won't happen with marginal signals (whereas analog TV will at least allow you to get some information) and most people sit too far back from the TV to distinguish any additional detail.
For a 42" TV you should sit no more than 6' away or else you can not see the fine details that you paid for in the first place. Who sits closer than 6' from the TV?
It's pretty obvious to me when applications are using Flash on the iOS. For one flash font rendering still sucks, especially compared to Apple's work there.
On my platforms HTML5 video is using the GPU. Then again I am using OS X and iOS 5. Flash won't even run on any of my machines because thankfully Steve said no on iOS and I uninstalled it on OS X. So, it doesn't get acceleration there.
I just uninstalled Flash a few months ago. Really, it's no big deal for me now. If I see a site with a big blank space that says "you must install Flash to see this content" I say in return "tough shit for you" and close the tab, and move on.
It is the same treatment I'd give a business that would tell me that "negros and tattooed people not allowed."
This comment is full of so much shit that you turned my screen brown.
Let's take it apart piece by piece. Your first point is about native apps being the only ones in the playground. I'm not so sure what you meanby that - you an install anything you wish on Windows and OS X. Phones are a different matter, but most folks are fine with that. Those who aren't can find another solution.
Apple made a "closed" system but anybody can play in there. Does the Justice Dept have it in for Disneyland simply because you have to buy a ticket to get in? You have mistaken a monopoly from a business. Apple has no monopolies on anything. At least, you could argue that Nintendo has a monopoly on producing Wiis and on the Wii store, but again that would only be possible if you didn't know what a monopoly was in the first place. Why aren't you pissing under Nintendo's tree about how you can't play Xbox 360 games on the Wii?
Then you say that Adobe doesn't make money on Flash, but on the tools. Isn't that true of just about any plugin manufacturer? Nobody buys plugins, so you saturate the market and then make the money on the toolset. Clearly if Flash cost them more money than they were making from it they would be dropping it.
Apple takes a 1/3rd cut for their applications on the app store, but this beats the pants off the old arrangement, where applications cost $29.99 and up and the actual coder typically didn't get a share in the the profits at all! Now a coder has a large market available, and all he has to do it wait for the money to roll in. In the old days he would merely sigh and hope he still had a job with his large, heartless publisher.
In short, for every person like you lamenting the inevitable fall of Flash, there are thousands who are saying "good riddance."
Flash and Silverlight represent the mid-1990s way of doing things with third party browser addons. Back when we needed crutches like these, they were useful. The leg has healed, though, so it's time to throw the crutches under a bus.
Content producers should just suck up and use non-DRM video streams. They should all know by now that both Flash and Silverlight video "protections" have been circumvented just like Blu-Ray, DVD, etc and that there is really no technological recourse against this.
You're missing the difference between a server and a component of a datacenter.
Apple's server offerings, going all the way back, have been targeted at offering a smaller organization looking for something easy to use and familiar for their small to mid sized operation. We're talking schools here with maybe several hundred students, small to medium businesses with less than say, 100 employees, that sort of thing. These types of customers typically don't even own an equipment rack, and if they do it's populated entirely by commodity-grade D-Link switches and wifi routers. There's literally no need there for out of band management, SANs, or anything else that you seem to be thinking about. These organizations typically don't want to employ a full-time system administrator - they have an IT guy who runs the servers, fixes desktops, and offers user support, and does any and everything else the organization needs done. This guy doesn't want to fuck around with getting a "proper" environment going - he just wants to plug something in that will handle storage, mail, blogs, jabber, and a wiki. You know, the stuff that is so easy on OS X server that all you need to know how to do is slam your forehead into the space bar.
Contrary to what you may have heard, Apple isn't interested in the low margin, high support cost market that Dell and HP are fighting for. The profit per unit is just too small for them to bother with. They are going where their customers are - graphics design shops, small schools and offices, etc.
With the amount of computing ability that you get with a newer model Mac Pro, or hell even a Mac Mini, you can run one of these operations with one box tucked in a closet, sitting on top of a UPS, and it will just sit there happily plugging away doing everything they need to do without any need for somebody like yourself.
It becomes clearer every day that people hate Gnome 3, and yet even as the soft noise builds to a roar, some people think it's merely a few haters bellyaching.
Listen, people hate the *shit* out of Gnome 3. It seems obvious that what started out as an attempt to create some sort of tablet-compatible UI which is also palatable on the desktop has now become a large liability. Gnome 3 has nothing that users asked for - it has been funded and driven by corporate interests (ahem INTEL) that wish to eventually provide some competition to Android's current domination in the Linux tablet market.
People hate Gnome 3. Developers hate Gnome 3. Gnome 3 is simply one of the worst abortions of a window manager to ever appear on Linux, and the situation is not going to get any better until people start fleeing and distributions leave it in the dust.
The writing's on the wall, but just because you avoid glancing in that direction that does not mean you can expect us all to swallow your fantasy about Gnome 3's awesome suitability.
I don't buy this. I think it's quite probable that Carbonite has been rooting around through its customers' data and picking out email addresses. If this is the case, then the idea of handing out a list of "don't mail" addresses for the spammers to subtract from Carbonite's theoretical list of emails sucked out of their customers' files makes sense.
If they didn't hoover out a bunch of emails addresses from their customers' files, why bother sending the additional addresses? No spam house has every address, and it seems obvious that giving these away would result in spam.
The third possibility is that this is all a lie, and they sold ALL the addresses they managed to steal from their customers, and then created the list excuse as a way of covering their asses. This is the most likely scenario, because it is the simplest. They picked out every email address and spammed the crap out of them all, and when they got caught they invented this mythical third party spam house and then claimed to be dealing privately with the issue.
For my money, I wouldn't trust any two-bit operation which is presided over by somebody with links to the intelligence field in a foreign country. Do a little digging and you might get worried.
Wait, you're implying that Ziff-Davis isn't a Windows centric shill shop?
It's difficult to interpret your comment, however it sounds as if you are familiar enough with Ed Bott to make statements for him about people who use operating systems that aren't Windows.
Perhaps you are part of some fan club. That's great. However, comparing the situation with Windows and that of Linux is ironic considering that remote exploits in Windows have been responsible for countless problems in the past, and even though Windows Server 2008 may (at this time) have fewer vulnerabilities that will change I'm sure.
Anyway, why do you assume I am a fan of Linux anyway? Is it because I won't swallow the poison pill from Microsoft any more?
HP found out nothing. The TouchPad was never profitable even when they were shoveling them out at 1/3rd their MSRP.
I know exactly what I'm talking about here. Why don't you check how much money Nintendo and Sony are making off their handhelds? They pull in the same cash per month as Apple does in a day.
Now, looking at the Fire, it appears most everything actually happens on some server in the cloud, including web browsing, so that is not a promising sign. If they can't fit a browser in there and make it run well, what are the chances that they can put any decent video up or a game?
The Fire is even more of a walled garden toy than the iPad was made out to be.
The iPad was probably made in its form factor so you can actually type on it. It's as wide as a keyboard. I am skeptical of using something that has less than half the screen size being credible in that regard.
By the way, you may never buy a tablet to create content, but I wouldn't scoff at the idea. Musicians have taken to the iPad like it's made of orgasms.
My question is, where does Carbonite get their marketing list of emails? Are they sucking down all the email of their customers and puling email addresses out of their backed up documents? To me this seems like an obvious possibility - they simply grep all the documents they have for valid email addresses and send it away to the spammers they have contracted.
Then a day later you get an email saying "Wouldn't you love to become protected like your pal bob@super.com? His data is backed up, why isn't yours?"
Maemo is dead because it has no point. It was designed to be a broad stroke at making a base layer (like Apple's Darwin) that had some compatibility, with the idea that vendors would cook up their own UI and branding on the OS.
My buddy has worked on Maemo and Moblin and Meego for the past couple of years, and while he liked it he could never answer my question - "Why choose Maemo when I can just use Debian or Ubuntu or Ret Hat instead? After all *THEY ARE ALREADY HERE!!!!*"
The M trio are all now dead systems because the only people working on them were corporate partners. There was absolutely no open source ecosystem to support the efforts commercially, and Android is good enough for most companies because it's here and it works already.
Initially the M trio was to work only on Intel, as Intel was the actual initiator of the effort. Once that exclusivity was gone, they got quite a bit cooler on the M OS's and pretty much every major partner dropped out one after another.
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Lack of example? Why don't you google around a bit.
This is a well known IT issue, likely predating your birth.
PETA is also campaigning against the use of pigs in insulin production but their chairwoman uses it...
It's societal pressure. Same thing that keeps many unfortunate Hindus from tasting steak.
I hate to say it, but the placement of the Fukushima reactor, and its lack of ongoing maintenance, the overloading of spent fuel rods, etc, were all done by or approved by scientists.
Science is not some magic religion that will same us all, and it can and has been subverted many times in the past, to present a political fiction.
Color TV was useful, but HDTV is not very useful. Reception simply won't happen with marginal signals (whereas analog TV will at least allow you to get some information) and most people sit too far back from the TV to distinguish any additional detail.
For a 42" TV you should sit no more than 6' away or else you can not see the fine details that you paid for in the first place. Who sits closer than 6' from the TV?
Yes, because there are poisonous things in nature this somehow proves this new Teflon analog to be safe.
Is this the Wikipedia? I have noticed this ever since the modern graphical desktop OS was first invented.
People store their files on the desktop.
It's pretty obvious to me when applications are using Flash on the iOS. For one flash font rendering still sucks, especially compared to Apple's work there.
On my platforms HTML5 video is using the GPU. Then again I am using OS X and iOS 5. Flash won't even run on any of my machines because thankfully Steve said no on iOS and I uninstalled it on OS X. So, it doesn't get acceleration there.
I just uninstalled Flash a few months ago. Really, it's no big deal for me now. If I see a site with a big blank space that says "you must install Flash to see this content" I say in return "tough shit for you" and close the tab, and move on.
It is the same treatment I'd give a business that would tell me that "negros and tattooed people not allowed."
This comment is full of so much shit that you turned my screen brown.
Let's take it apart piece by piece. Your first point is about native apps being the only ones in the playground. I'm not so sure what you meanby that - you an install anything you wish on Windows and OS X. Phones are a different matter, but most folks are fine with that. Those who aren't can find another solution.
Apple made a "closed" system but anybody can play in there. Does the Justice Dept have it in for Disneyland simply because you have to buy a ticket to get in? You have mistaken a monopoly from a business. Apple has no monopolies on anything. At least, you could argue that Nintendo has a monopoly on producing Wiis and on the Wii store, but again that would only be possible if you didn't know what a monopoly was in the first place. Why aren't you pissing under Nintendo's tree about how you can't play Xbox 360 games on the Wii?
Then you say that Adobe doesn't make money on Flash, but on the tools. Isn't that true of just about any plugin manufacturer? Nobody buys plugins, so you saturate the market and then make the money on the toolset. Clearly if Flash cost them more money than they were making from it they would be dropping it.
Apple takes a 1/3rd cut for their applications on the app store, but this beats the pants off the old arrangement, where applications cost $29.99 and up and the actual coder typically didn't get a share in the the profits at all! Now a coder has a large market available, and all he has to do it wait for the money to roll in. In the old days he would merely sigh and hope he still had a job with his large, heartless publisher.
In short, for every person like you lamenting the inevitable fall of Flash, there are thousands who are saying "good riddance."
Flash and Silverlight represent the mid-1990s way of doing things with third party browser addons. Back when we needed crutches like these, they were useful. The leg has healed, though, so it's time to throw the crutches under a bus.
Content producers should just suck up and use non-DRM video streams. They should all know by now that both Flash and Silverlight video "protections" have been circumvented just like Blu-Ray, DVD, etc and that there is really no technological recourse against this.
You're missing the difference between a server and a component of a datacenter.
Apple's server offerings, going all the way back, have been targeted at offering a smaller organization looking for something easy to use and familiar for their small to mid sized operation. We're talking schools here with maybe several hundred students, small to medium businesses with less than say, 100 employees, that sort of thing. These types of customers typically don't even own an equipment rack, and if they do it's populated entirely by commodity-grade D-Link switches and wifi routers. There's literally no need there for out of band management, SANs, or anything else that you seem to be thinking about. These organizations typically don't want to employ a full-time system administrator - they have an IT guy who runs the servers, fixes desktops, and offers user support, and does any and everything else the organization needs done. This guy doesn't want to fuck around with getting a "proper" environment going - he just wants to plug something in that will handle storage, mail, blogs, jabber, and a wiki. You know, the stuff that is so easy on OS X server that all you need to know how to do is slam your forehead into the space bar.
Contrary to what you may have heard, Apple isn't interested in the low margin, high support cost market that Dell and HP are fighting for. The profit per unit is just too small for them to bother with. They are going where their customers are - graphics design shops, small schools and offices, etc.
With the amount of computing ability that you get with a newer model Mac Pro, or hell even a Mac Mini, you can run one of these operations with one box tucked in a closet, sitting on top of a UPS, and it will just sit there happily plugging away doing everything they need to do without any need for somebody like yourself.
None. Not any.
It becomes clearer every day that people hate Gnome 3, and yet even as the soft noise builds to a roar, some people think it's merely a few haters bellyaching.
Listen, people hate the *shit* out of Gnome 3. It seems obvious that what started out as an attempt to create some sort of tablet-compatible UI which is also palatable on the desktop has now become a large liability. Gnome 3 has nothing that users asked for - it has been funded and driven by corporate interests (ahem INTEL) that wish to eventually provide some competition to Android's current domination in the Linux tablet market.
People hate Gnome 3. Developers hate Gnome 3. Gnome 3 is simply one of the worst abortions of a window manager to ever appear on Linux, and the situation is not going to get any better until people start fleeing and distributions leave it in the dust.
The writing's on the wall, but just because you avoid glancing in that direction that does not mean you can expect us all to swallow your fantasy about Gnome 3's awesome suitability.
The Confederate Veterans Society hasn't been active in over a century.
The last time I burned a CD was years and years ago. With a USB key drive (4 GB) going for $5 now, who would?
I don't buy this. I think it's quite probable that Carbonite has been rooting around through its customers' data and picking out email addresses. If this is the case, then the idea of handing out a list of "don't mail" addresses for the spammers to subtract from Carbonite's theoretical list of emails sucked out of their customers' files makes sense.
If they didn't hoover out a bunch of emails addresses from their customers' files, why bother sending the additional addresses? No spam house has every address, and it seems obvious that giving these away would result in spam.
The third possibility is that this is all a lie, and they sold ALL the addresses they managed to steal from their customers, and then created the list excuse as a way of covering their asses. This is the most likely scenario, because it is the simplest. They picked out every email address and spammed the crap out of them all, and when they got caught they invented this mythical third party spam house and then claimed to be dealing privately with the issue.
For my money, I wouldn't trust any two-bit operation which is presided over by somebody with links to the intelligence field in a foreign country. Do a little digging and you might get worried.
Wait, you're implying that Ziff-Davis isn't a Windows centric shill shop?
It's difficult to interpret your comment, however it sounds as if you are familiar enough with Ed Bott to make statements for him about people who use operating systems that aren't Windows.
Perhaps you are part of some fan club. That's great. However, comparing the situation with Windows and that of Linux is ironic considering that remote exploits in Windows have been responsible for countless problems in the past, and even though Windows Server 2008 may (at this time) have fewer vulnerabilities that will change I'm sure.
Anyway, why do you assume I am a fan of Linux anyway? Is it because I won't swallow the poison pill from Microsoft any more?
He implied that ZD isn't a MS shill op. They are.
It's telling that you didn't even have the courage to respond under your user name here slick.
And you were down boated.
Oh, sorry, they just paid an assload of money to get licenses for every bit of tech Nokia has, and to get Nokia to drop everything but Windows.
You fucking halfwit retread.
HP found out nothing. The TouchPad was never profitable even when they were shoveling them out at 1/3rd their MSRP.
I know exactly what I'm talking about here. Why don't you check how much money Nintendo and Sony are making off their handhelds? They pull in the same cash per month as Apple does in a day.
Now, looking at the Fire, it appears most everything actually happens on some server in the cloud, including web browsing, so that is not a promising sign. If they can't fit a browser in there and make it run well, what are the chances that they can put any decent video up or a game?
The Fire is even more of a walled garden toy than the iPad was made out to be.
The iPad was probably made in its form factor so you can actually type on it. It's as wide as a keyboard. I am skeptical of using something that has less than half the screen size being credible in that regard.
By the way, you may never buy a tablet to create content, but I wouldn't scoff at the idea. Musicians have taken to the iPad like it's made of orgasms.
Nokia was purchased in all but name. They took some cash from MS in exchange for every technology they have.
Wake up.
My question is, where does Carbonite get their marketing list of emails? Are they sucking down all the email of their customers and puling email addresses out of their backed up documents? To me this seems like an obvious possibility - they simply grep all the documents they have for valid email addresses and send it away to the spammers they have contracted.
Then a day later you get an email saying "Wouldn't you love to become protected like your pal bob@super.com? His data is backed up, why isn't yours?"
Maemo is dead because it has no point. It was designed to be a broad stroke at making a base layer (like Apple's Darwin) that had some compatibility, with the idea that vendors would cook up their own UI and branding on the OS.
My buddy has worked on Maemo and Moblin and Meego for the past couple of years, and while he liked it he could never answer my question - "Why choose Maemo when I can just use Debian or Ubuntu or Ret Hat instead? After all *THEY ARE ALREADY HERE!!!!*"
The M trio are all now dead systems because the only people working on them were corporate partners. There was absolutely no open source ecosystem to support the efforts commercially, and Android is good enough for most companies because it's here and it works already.
Initially the M trio was to work only on Intel, as Intel was the actual initiator of the effort. Once that exclusivity was gone, they got quite a bit cooler on the M OS's and pretty much every major partner dropped out one after another.