That PIE crap is some lingo talk invented by someone recently. They're refering to shared objects, which is the technology behind Flash players that enables clients to save local information that can later be retrieved only if it's by the same client file. It works a lot like cookies.
The linked macromedia page has all about it and you can list the sites that have stored information on your players by there or delete it. Everything's there, don't blame the page just because someone chose to give the tech a different gimmick name.
Rather poorly? It's no C++, but it can be used for a hell of a lot that SVG will never touch.
It's funny that people say 'flash == evil' because of annyoing intro ads and banners then add that people should use SVG for annoying intro ads and banners instead. I, for one, can't wait for the SVG intro ads and banners overlords. Maybe then people will realize it's not the technology that's at fault, but the developers of crappy websites and advertisements that chose to do crap in the first place.
Are you talking us$? It's the same thing around here. Basically we get the USA prices + 20%-50% if we buy through smugglers channels or + 100%-200% if we buy through 'normal' stores (pretty rare, if you have a Dell or any other brand computer around here you're an abomination).
Ultra expensive hardware is the biggest problem to 'informatization' in Brazil.
It's not the biggest one (it's hard for everyone who lives here to believe that, since it's so easy to buy pirated software), but recent researches have shown that Asia leads on all pirate penetration stats.
Oh yeah. A common grill entry fee around here is R$ 27 - around us$ 7 on the best ones. It's anough to eat (remember what I call 'a grill' is the 'Rodízio' where you eat a lot paying only the entrance). Add a few drinks (covered separately), and viola, us$ 10.
Also, because of the size of the country, bovine meat production is pretty easy here (as it is on Argentina), so it's *probably* why you won't see restaurants like that on Venezuela. Economically wise, I think both countries are a lot similar though.
1400 is a lot of money, but a real bargain when you consider the hardware costs here (on a nutshell: nothing is made here / everything is imported / we pay 60% of federal fees for imports / final local price for pc hardware is usually 2x the original USA price). So even if you have the channels to get computer hardware through smugglers (not hard actually), you'd pay like $2500 for a decent computer, sans monitor.
Something more to think about: Microsoft Office XP Standard costs $479.95.
$479.95 isn't that much in USA. I bet most of the people here make *at least* this over a week - probably much more. However, right here, getting that much money *a month* is considered more than average. The minimum wage is like 1/10th of that.
This is not to say 'the country is a poor country, boo-hoo sell us cheap software' (although it *is* a poor country). The thing is, values here are different; a software like that is *too expensive*. You can buy food here for a tiny fraction of how you'd pay for in on USA. Wages here are also a lot cheaper than they are in the States - even for the same job with the same qualifications. It's just that not only the country is poor, but living cost is also low; the values and the scales are different. You can get to a really good grill restaurant and get totally wasted with so much good food - and spending less than us$ 10. The same thing would cost around us$ 150 on USA - with the same restaurant chain! (Fogo de Chão - there's one around Detroit I think).
When selling software, people don't think "ho well, I'll use one third/half/quarter of my salary to pay for this software..".. they usually think "ho well, I'll use 1/2/3 months worth of salary to pay for this software.. well nevermind, I'll just buy a copy next corner for $3".
There are lots of wrong stuff going on the government of this country. And one of them is the coice for Microsoft Software. My dad used to work for the state a while ago.. Basically the entire office ran on pirated win95 with microsoft office, and of course, they had no 'central' support or IT management so I used to go there fix their computers. Switching to some linux based solution with open office (or whatever) would pose an obstacle at first but would be just as it was before on the long run. With less virus and trojans, that is (I remember I spent an entire weekend getting the entire office rid of macro template virii - man that was fucked up).
I, for one, commend them on this choice. On the long run, this will prove to be the best choice, contrary to the FUD the local Microsoft is spreading.
Of course, money saved from going to Microsoft's pockets will end up going to some politician's bank account, so who am I fooling. Nothing of this matters.
I don't know if the name will be the new product name, but the registration is true. Both mandriva.com and.net were registered around 1 month ago by some company (registrar names doesn't say much), and mandriva.com.br has been registered by Conectiva just a week ago. Try it out:
I'd like to announce that I've patented the following technologies, and everybody who makes use of such concepts must now pay me an annual fee starting ar $500,000 per year.
WLOG (TM) A whining blog. Log in, bitch all day about traffic/technology/your boyfriend/your tatoo/your parents/your friends/school. Under this new concept, users will be able to whine more fast and more effectivelly than ever, thanks to our Instant-Whine(TM) technology that allows for up-to-the-second bitching about the upcoming issues.
SLOG (TM) The server blog. With this breakthrough concept, now servers (and other applications) themselves can write blogs about what's happening to them. We find this kind of blog will be most interesting to system administrators and aficcionados alike. You'll fully understand the advantages of this system when you read your server's SLOG (TM) and find entries such as "I'm feeling bored today. I took 10.6231 seconds to process the last data backup. I had to rewrite 12731312kb of old files in the process. Those people can't create new files or what?".
DLOG (TM) The dead blog. Create once, never post anymore. We think we can make big bucks with this tech, as most blogs effectively become a DLOG sooner or later. With our post lock feature, you can force your own blog to become a DLOG (TM) and never be able to post on it anymore.
SPLOG (TM) The spam fest blog. This is actually an improved version of DLOG (TM); it not only makes your blog dead, but also leave comments open for comment spammers so they can build up their google rankings. Enjoy having thousands of posts about free onl1ne poker, v1agra and pen1s enlargement on your 6-words "I'm feeling bored" post.
This is just a preview of the many technologies we're creating that enable YOU - the user - to blog more effectively than ever. Stay tooned for several new exciting releases in the future.
No voip software is blocked - at least not yet. We can use teamspeak, messenger, or whatever we want -- it works fine. Skype is getting specially popular around here for example. But the weird fact remains that it is 'illegal' so the ISP can sue you if they discover you do it.
This is funny, but brazilian ISPs have beaten everyone to it: voip is just illegal in brazil. You're not allowed to use your connection to carry any kind of voice data -- it's on their EULA. When I play UT2k4 and use Teamspeak to talk to my teammates, I'm violating the agreement. That's because the ISPs aren't allowed to 'compete' with the phone companies.
Pretty funny. But it's just one of the *many* idiosyncrasies present on the ISPs business in Brazil.. they make Microsoft (or any other company with an ironf ist) look like Miss Simpathy.
Well, of course, there are several scenes. Demo coders and trackers call the demo scene 'the scene'. Warez monkeys call the warez scene 'the scene'. I am an ANSi artist and call the ansi scene 'the scene'. Believe me, there's a clothing shop on a shopping mall near me called 'The Scene'. So I guess everybody has their own 'scene'. Heck, there's a crappy vectorial tv show created to sell dolls called "My Scene".
Also, it's funny to think that the warez/cracking scene was born with the demo scene, at a certain time they were the same thing. So I guess you could call it 'the scene family', from which demos, warez, ansi, ascii, tracking and whatever are the children who have already left home and are calling themselves 'the scene'.
CoLinux is also a very handy package for running linux on windows. It installs linux on a single file on your HD, then runs linux on it, and you can access it throught VNC. So you can have windows and linux sharing the same machine and HD, running at the same time, on different windows. Pretty handy.
On part queues, before getting a part from a server peer that has the file, the client peer should favor the less popular part; it downloads it then start sharing immediatelly. This helps the entire network.
I don't know which client you've been using to reach this conclusion, but it must be a real crappy one, or you have no knowledge of the protocol at all. Most (all?) BT clients download the parts by a seemingly random order (again, most rare to most popular), so I have *never* seen any of my downloads start at the first part of a file and end at the last of it. This kind of order would be pretty bad in more than one way and thankfully it's not what BT clients do.
I think that the thing is, there are lots of legal uses that torrent is suitable to, but people don't use it simply because it's still seen as something only pirates use. Companies like to stay away from P2P without even considering it.
There are already several good uses for torrent. Linux and other open source/free software project distributions is the most obvious; game videos/trailers/patches/demos is another, I use filerush.com for that all the time. Also, take id Software's SDK release: they had an official torrent for it and it helped a lot (their ftp/htt[ server usually gets slashdotteded just a few minutes after they release any file, but that didn't happen this time).
You don't have to be slave to bloat subscription monsters like fileplanet anymore. Just download a torrent from a server with lesser bandwidth and let other downloaders help you while you also help other people. It's also great for people who doesn't live in the US and doesn't have nearby http/ftp servers for huge downloads (like me). Torrent clients will end up downloading from other clients that are near me and the whole interweb traffic gains with my shortened download hops.
I can't wait for people to realize that torrent is a great way to distribute huge files and that whole "p2p == piracy" crap ends.
In a shocker announcement, Common Sense LLC announced today that HTTP, FTP, TELNET, email and other protocols can also be used for piracy.
MPAA has already announced it plans to sue the creators and maintainers of such protocols and its clients. Other associations are expected to follow suit shortly.
Have they even considered OpenOffice and their open formats? They could save all that money in buying software and spend it on training and deployment (or even contributing to the project). Or trivial stuff like, you know, medicare.
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News flash: javascript exists and is ran client-side.
That PIE crap is some lingo talk invented by someone recently. They're refering to shared objects, which is the technology behind Flash players that enables clients to save local information that can later be retrieved only if it's by the same client file. It works a lot like cookies.
The linked macromedia page has all about it and you can list the sites that have stored information on your players by there or delete it. Everything's there, don't blame the page just because someone chose to give the tech a different gimmick name.
There's a global option for that. Just select the "always deny" option.
Rather poorly? It's no C++, but it can be used for a hell of a lot that SVG will never touch.
It's funny that people say 'flash == evil' because of annyoing intro ads and banners then add that people should use SVG for annoying intro ads and banners instead. I, for one, can't wait for the SVG intro ads and banners overlords. Maybe then people will realize it's not the technology that's at fault, but the developers of crappy websites and advertisements that chose to do crap in the first place.
You can get a list of all sites that use SharedObjects (the feature that works like cookies) into on your computer here.
n /flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html#117645
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/e
It lists how much it uses, and you can delete what you want.
Are you talking us$? It's the same thing around here. Basically we get the USA prices + 20%-50% if we buy through smugglers channels or + 100%-200% if we buy through 'normal' stores (pretty rare, if you have a Dell or any other brand computer around here you're an abomination).
Ultra expensive hardware is the biggest problem to 'informatization' in Brazil.
It's not the biggest one (it's hard for everyone who lives here to believe that, since it's so easy to buy pirated software), but recent researches have shown that Asia leads on all pirate penetration stats.
Oh yeah. A common grill entry fee around here is R$ 27 - around us$ 7 on the best ones. It's anough to eat (remember what I call 'a grill' is the 'Rodízio' where you eat a lot paying only the entrance). Add a few drinks (covered separately), and viola, us$ 10.
Also, because of the size of the country, bovine meat production is pretty easy here (as it is on Argentina), so it's *probably* why you won't see restaurants like that on Venezuela. Economically wise, I think both countries are a lot similar though.
Somebody should tell them that you can also kill white males on the game.
Sorry, I forgot about that. My reply was a semi-joke regarding the recent conectiva/mandrake merge and the creation of Mandriva.
1400 is a lot of money, but a real bargain when you consider the hardware costs here (on a nutshell: nothing is made here / everything is imported / we pay 60% of federal fees for imports / final local price for pc hardware is usually 2x the original USA price). So even if you have the channels to get computer hardware through smugglers (not hard actually), you'd pay like $2500 for a decent computer, sans monitor.
Something more to think about: Microsoft Office XP Standard costs $479.95.
$479.95 isn't that much in USA. I bet most of the people here make *at least* this over a week - probably much more. However, right here, getting that much money *a month* is considered more than average. The minimum wage is like 1/10th of that.
This is not to say 'the country is a poor country, boo-hoo sell us cheap software' (although it *is* a poor country). The thing is, values here are different; a software like that is *too expensive*. You can buy food here for a tiny fraction of how you'd pay for in on USA. Wages here are also a lot cheaper than they are in the States - even for the same job with the same qualifications. It's just that not only the country is poor, but living cost is also low; the values and the scales are different. You can get to a really good grill restaurant and get totally wasted with so much good food - and spending less than us$ 10. The same thing would cost around us$ 150 on USA - with the same restaurant chain! (Fogo de Chão - there's one around Detroit I think).
When selling software, people don't think "ho well, I'll use one third/half/quarter of my salary to pay for this software..".. they usually think "ho well, I'll use 1/2/3 months worth of salary to pay for this software.. well nevermind, I'll just buy a copy next corner for $3".
There are lots of wrong stuff going on the government of this country. And one of them is the coice for Microsoft Software. My dad used to work for the state a while ago.. Basically the entire office ran on pirated win95 with microsoft office, and of course, they had no 'central' support or IT management so I used to go there fix their computers. Switching to some linux based solution with open office (or whatever) would pose an obstacle at first but would be just as it was before on the long run. With less virus and trojans, that is (I remember I spent an entire weekend getting the entire office rid of macro template virii - man that was fucked up).
I, for one, commend them on this choice. On the long run, this will prove to be the best choice, contrary to the FUD the local Microsoft is spreading.
Of course, money saved from going to Microsoft's pockets will end up going to some politician's bank account, so who am I fooling. Nothing of this matters.
Why, Conectiva/Mandriva/Mandrake of course!
You do realize that
1. Photoshop is a bitmap editing program, not like Inkscape, which is a vector editing program and would be better compared to Illustrator and
2. Illustrator already has a similar set of features than most on your link
Right?
I kind of second that. I clicked the link (from my RSS list) just to find out what the heck was that title about.
I don't know if the name will be the new product name, but the registration is true. Both mandriva.com and .net were registered around 1 month ago by some company (registrar names doesn't say much), and mandriva.com.br has been registered by Conectiva just a week ago. Try it out:
http://registro.br/
I'd like to announce that I've patented the following technologies, and everybody who makes use of such concepts must now pay me an annual fee starting ar $500,000 per year.
WLOG (TM)
A whining blog. Log in, bitch all day about traffic/technology/your boyfriend/your tatoo/your parents/your friends/school. Under this new concept, users will be able to whine more fast and more effectivelly than ever, thanks to our Instant-Whine(TM) technology that allows for up-to-the-second bitching about the upcoming issues.
SLOG (TM)
The server blog. With this breakthrough concept, now servers (and other applications) themselves can write blogs about what's happening to them. We find this kind of blog will be most interesting to system administrators and aficcionados alike. You'll fully understand the advantages of this system when you read your server's SLOG (TM) and find entries such as "I'm feeling bored today. I took 10.6231 seconds to process the last data backup. I had to rewrite 12731312kb of old files in the process. Those people can't create new files or what?".
DLOG (TM)
The dead blog. Create once, never post anymore. We think we can make big bucks with this tech, as most blogs effectively become a DLOG sooner or later. With our post lock feature, you can force your own blog to become a DLOG (TM) and never be able to post on it anymore.
SPLOG (TM)
The spam fest blog. This is actually an improved version of DLOG (TM); it not only makes your blog dead, but also leave comments open for comment spammers so they can build up their google rankings. Enjoy having thousands of posts about free onl1ne poker, v1agra and pen1s enlargement on your 6-words "I'm feeling bored" post.
This is just a preview of the many technologies we're creating that enable YOU - the user - to blog more effectively than ever. Stay tooned for several new exciting releases in the future.
No voip software is blocked - at least not yet. We can use teamspeak, messenger, or whatever we want -- it works fine. Skype is getting specially popular around here for example. But the weird fact remains that it is 'illegal' so the ISP can sue you if they discover you do it.
This is funny, but brazilian ISPs have beaten everyone to it: voip is just illegal in brazil. You're not allowed to use your connection to carry any kind of voice data -- it's on their EULA. When I play UT2k4 and use Teamspeak to talk to my teammates, I'm violating the agreement. That's because the ISPs aren't allowed to 'compete' with the phone companies.
Pretty funny. But it's just one of the *many* idiosyncrasies present on the ISPs business in Brazil.. they make Microsoft (or any other company with an ironf ist) look like Miss Simpathy.
Well, of course, there are several scenes. Demo coders and trackers call the demo scene 'the scene'. Warez monkeys call the warez scene 'the scene'. I am an ANSi artist and call the ansi scene 'the scene'. Believe me, there's a clothing shop on a shopping mall near me called 'The Scene'. So I guess everybody has their own 'scene'. Heck, there's a crappy vectorial tv show created to sell dolls called "My Scene".
Also, it's funny to think that the warez/cracking scene was born with the demo scene, at a certain time they were the same thing. So I guess you could call it 'the scene family', from which demos, warez, ansi, ascii, tracking and whatever are the children who have already left home and are calling themselves 'the scene'.
CoLinux is also a very handy package for running linux on windows. It installs linux on a single file on your HD, then runs linux on it, and you can access it throught VNC. So you can have windows and linux sharing the same machine and HD, running at the same time, on different windows. Pretty handy.
http://www.colinux.org
You can use it to run linux from some other partition too. It comes with a version of debian built it, but there are other packages for other distros.
You can also try topologilinux.
http://wwwtopologilinux.com
It's a bundled installation of coLinux and slackware with all bells and whistles.
On part queues, before getting a part from a server peer that has the file, the client peer should favor the less popular part; it downloads it then start sharing immediatelly. This helps the entire network.
I don't know which client you've been using to reach this conclusion, but it must be a real crappy one, or you have no knowledge of the protocol at all. Most (all?) BT clients download the parts by a seemingly random order (again, most rare to most popular), so I have *never* seen any of my downloads start at the first part of a file and end at the last of it. This kind of order would be pretty bad in more than one way and thankfully it's not what BT clients do.
I think that the thing is, there are lots of legal uses that torrent is suitable to, but people don't use it simply because it's still seen as something only pirates use. Companies like to stay away from P2P without even considering it.
There are already several good uses for torrent. Linux and other open source/free software project distributions is the most obvious; game videos/trailers/patches/demos is another, I use filerush.com for that all the time. Also, take id Software's SDK release: they had an official torrent for it and it helped a lot (their ftp/htt[ server usually gets slashdotteded just a few minutes after they release any file, but that didn't happen this time).
You don't have to be slave to bloat subscription monsters like fileplanet anymore. Just download a torrent from a server with lesser bandwidth and let other downloaders help you while you also help other people. It's also great for people who doesn't live in the US and doesn't have nearby http/ftp servers for huge downloads (like me). Torrent clients will end up downloading from other clients that are near me and the whole interweb traffic gains with my shortened download hops.
I can't wait for people to realize that torrent is a great way to distribute huge files and that whole "p2p == piracy" crap ends.
In a shocker announcement, Common Sense LLC announced today that HTTP, FTP, TELNET, email and other protocols can also be used for piracy.
MPAA has already announced it plans to sue the creators and maintainers of such protocols and its clients. Other associations are expected to follow suit shortly.
Have they even considered OpenOffice and their open formats? They could save all that money in buying software and spend it on training and deployment (or even contributing to the project). Or trivial stuff like, you know, medicare.