Even the "cell phones cause cancer" camp isn't going to give them up. My friend who believes in the cancer theory also says that using a headset is fine as long as the phone is about a foot or two away from your head. Furthermore, so many people prefer low-bandwidth text messages over holding a phone to the head. In short, even if phones DO cause cancer, we'll figure out a safe way to use them.
The InfoWorld article misses the point. It is for me the consumer to decide, and I believe the Apple crowd has overwhelmingly already done so, and new the new directions like HTML5's capabilities are a reflection of that (note I'm not saying Apple is responsible for HTML5 or anything of the sort, but their refusal to 'sign on' to Flash due to it's very obvious shortcomings are being answered by new standards to address those concerns).
You're right. I'm on my second iPhone, and I don't want Flash. I like my phone the way it is; and I only "miss" Flash when I stumble across poorly designed Flash sites that I'd just close on a desktop computer. That being said, I don't play a lot of Flash games like other people do. I do think TFA really misses the point that the iPhone is popular because, in my (consumer) viewpoint, it just works. If developers have to rewrite their applications and go through a tyrannical approval process, so be it; because the market is saturated with apps that work well.
But the performance problem is legit. My biggest gripe with Flash is that every so often a web page's ad starts gobbling up a core. Prior to Chrome isolating Flash in a helper process, my only recourse was to figure out which tab was gobbling my CPU and close it. I even had problems with ads on Slashdot gobbling my CPU. What's worse are ads that start playing annoying sounds, but I rarely visit sites that use these ads, and complain loudly when other sites do.
The point I can agree with is that Adobe needs to submit Flash as an open standard. The runtimes need improvements, like the ability to mute loud ads, or throttle back resource-hungry ads. These improvements can't all come from Adobe.
I'm actually rather shocked that Flash's downfall is so tantalizing close considering it was an almost impossible 'ball' to fumble given the unbelievable good fortune Adobe has had and squandered.
I disagree. Prior to trying to push Flex as a proprietary alternative to HTML + Javascript; Adobe was focused on publishing tools. Flash originally was a multimedia publishing tool for the web. Adobe recently announced HTML 5 tools. Adapting their Flash tools to HTML 5, as opposed to trying to push Flex, is a great way for them to hedge their bets and stay relevant with publishers who built careers around good ol' Flash. Besides, HTML 5 is much more difficult then the point & click Flash tools.
Contrary to popular opinion, it's okay to be abrasive from time to time. It's important that you time your abrasiveness well, and that you produce results that significantly outweigh the pain of dealing with your abrasiveness. What this creates is a situation where people will go through great pains to stay on your good side, and will only argue with you when they have a factual leg to stand on.
Anyway, it worked for Bill Gates, and it works for Steve Jobs. Learn from the best!
The tone of this article isn't like the summary states. TFA doesn't portray the TV as some magical device; because the article is actually somewhat critical of the TV.
I think the thing that a lot of us don't realize, because we spend so much time looking at TV and computer screens, is that colored light isn't really a combination of red, green, and blue. The reality is that light gets its color from its wavelength; and we can get a very close approximation by combining light we perceive as red, green, and blue.
The question is, can we get a more accurate picture by using light that's closer to the original wavelength? Clearly, the information isn't lost, as the original wavelength can be inferred by digitally processing the original RGB levels.
Something to consider is that the original NTSC (American Color) TV standards didn't just include Red, Green, and Blue, but also included Yellow and Orange. These parts were essentially deprecated, but the concept of TVs displaying yellow isn't new.
I keep a spare key for my car in my wallet. I also have a spare house key in a desk drawer. If I loose my keys, I can still make it home and find someone to get me in.
Can ARM run Java /.Net / CLI / mono? Will JIT-ing Java or.Net result in comparable performance? I always thought that part of Microsoft's strategy for.Net was to allow their programs to run on computers with different instruction sets?
I've realized it's no longer economical to print. Every time I print, I need to spend $50 for a new set of ink cartridges. In contrast, it's cheaper to pay to overnight concert tickets and e-file taxes. In short, there needs to be a printer that can run forever on a $10 ink cartridge in order to get me to print again.
My employer recently implemented the best productivity improvement ever. We replaced all of our desk chairs with toilets. Now, we get about an extra hour of work from people a day because no one needs to get up from their desks for bathroom breaks. It took some time to get used to, because the foul smells and rude noises were distracting at first; however, management solved the problem by installing large oder-proof and noise-proof rubber gaskets on everyone's toilet seats.
After the success of everyone getting their own toilet, we realized that too much time was being wasted finding food and coffee. Thus, we implemented a system that delivers coffee and liquified nourishment to everyone's desk on tap. It also gave us another additional hour of labor per day.
Now that no one has to get up from their desks, my employer boasts that it has the most productive workforce in the world!
VMware's Capacity Planner will find all of the computers on your network and tell you what's inside of them. While it won't inventory UPSes, it can help you inventory your servers. http://www.vmware.com/products/capacity-planner/
But in this case you are just using the legal system in the worst possible way: To screw someone out of a legitimate outcome. If you were fighting an illegal ticket, or something the company legitimately did wrong it would make more sense.
Paying private companies to enforce a law is fascism and not legitimate income.
Normally, I use Chrome, but I "go back" to FireFox for the following features:
The "Error Console," which is a fast way to debug misbehaving Javascript. Chrome's way of identifying misbehaving Javascript just isn't as good.
Prism, the plugin that turns web sites into applications. Specifically, I have two prism apps for different GMail accounts, and a prism app for Bitbucket. I find web applications easier with Prism; especially on Mac.
However, it's worth noting why I switched to Chrome:
I can drag tabs into different windows.
The multi-process system means that a misbehaving page or plugin no longer closes every window I have open.
Now, I know that Firefox added the ability to drag tabs into new Windows; but the multi-process system is what got me to switch to Chrome the day it was released openly for Mac. I like the fact that if a Flash plugin starts gobbling my CPU, I can kill the Flash process and keep all my pages open. Firefox just doesn't do this; but if it did, I'd consider switching back.
So is there any console or other electronic gadget you can buy nowadays which does not include forced locked own firmware updates that has the possibility of breaking it?
Back in the 90's we tried this at my old university. We networked all our computers and put all our apps on a central server.
That's the point of local storage in HTML 5. Applications that make good use of it can run without a network connection, or when the server suffers a 30-minute "glitch."
On a PC you have to program for 20 different levels of hardware capability and try to scale the graphics up/down accordingly. It never really works properly and programmers hate doing it.
I never got into PC gaming because, when I went out and built an up-to-date computer, all the various incompatibilities and driver issues made me miss the reliability (and price) of a console.
Besides, who cares if I'm playing on the latest and greatest hardware if it crashes every 20 minutes, or requires two hours of tweaking? Why spend $700 on a risky graphics card when I know that a console will, without a doubt, run every game that I throw at it?
Let's face it, high-performance PC games are truly failing in the market place. (Flash games are another story.)
Get a $400 laptop with HDMI, and then pick up a $100 wireless keyboard + mouse combo with a range that's at least 30 feet. If you can wait a few years, this price will drop even more. Personally, I use a Mac Mini because, when I bought it, Windows 7 wasn't out.
In which case it may be that they have realized that it's a bad idea from business perspective, and put that code back in (and brought it up to date) with that patch.
Or it could be that they needed to keep V1 simple, so software virtualization was delayed until V2. That always happens. Move along, nothing to see here.
When I saw Avatar on 3D IMAX using the older 70mm projector with the ultra-bright lamp; the picture was plenty bright enough. Then, when I saw it in a multiplex IMAX with a digital projector and the picture was much darker. So, IMO, 3D on a 70mm IMAX is really the best way to do it; until the digital projectors get better.
Some NoSQL databases are much better when it comes to the Object/Relational impedance mismatch. This is why I'm a huge fan of MongoDB. Even though it's not intended to be embedded, I find that it's much easier to work with then SQLite.
Slashdot Mirror
Even the "cell phones cause cancer" camp isn't going to give them up. My friend who believes in the cancer theory also says that using a headset is fine as long as the phone is about a foot or two away from your head. Furthermore, so many people prefer low-bandwidth text messages over holding a phone to the head. In short, even if phones DO cause cancer, we'll figure out a safe way to use them.
External SATA. You can also find little connectors to turn internal SATA ports into external SATA ports.
The InfoWorld article misses the point. It is for me the consumer to decide, and I believe the Apple crowd has overwhelmingly already done so, and new the new directions like HTML5's capabilities are a reflection of that (note I'm not saying Apple is responsible for HTML5 or anything of the sort, but their refusal to 'sign on' to Flash due to it's very obvious shortcomings are being answered by new standards to address those concerns).
You're right. I'm on my second iPhone, and I don't want Flash. I like my phone the way it is; and I only "miss" Flash when I stumble across poorly designed Flash sites that I'd just close on a desktop computer. That being said, I don't play a lot of Flash games like other people do. I do think TFA really misses the point that the iPhone is popular because, in my (consumer) viewpoint, it just works. If developers have to rewrite their applications and go through a tyrannical approval process, so be it; because the market is saturated with apps that work well.
But the performance problem is legit. My biggest gripe with Flash is that every so often a web page's ad starts gobbling up a core. Prior to Chrome isolating Flash in a helper process, my only recourse was to figure out which tab was gobbling my CPU and close it. I even had problems with ads on Slashdot gobbling my CPU. What's worse are ads that start playing annoying sounds, but I rarely visit sites that use these ads, and complain loudly when other sites do.
The point I can agree with is that Adobe needs to submit Flash as an open standard. The runtimes need improvements, like the ability to mute loud ads, or throttle back resource-hungry ads. These improvements can't all come from Adobe.
I'm actually rather shocked that Flash's downfall is so tantalizing close considering it was an almost impossible 'ball' to fumble given the unbelievable good fortune Adobe has had and squandered.
I disagree. Prior to trying to push Flex as a proprietary alternative to HTML + Javascript; Adobe was focused on publishing tools. Flash originally was a multimedia publishing tool for the web. Adobe recently announced HTML 5 tools. Adapting their Flash tools to HTML 5, as opposed to trying to push Flex, is a great way for them to hedge their bets and stay relevant with publishers who built careers around good ol' Flash. Besides, HTML 5 is much more difficult then the point & click Flash tools.
Contrary to popular opinion, it's okay to be abrasive from time to time. It's important that you time your abrasiveness well, and that you produce results that significantly outweigh the pain of dealing with your abrasiveness. What this creates is a situation where people will go through great pains to stay on your good side, and will only argue with you when they have a factual leg to stand on.
Anyway, it worked for Bill Gates, and it works for Steve Jobs. Learn from the best!
The tone of this article isn't like the summary states. TFA doesn't portray the TV as some magical device; because the article is actually somewhat critical of the TV.
I think the thing that a lot of us don't realize, because we spend so much time looking at TV and computer screens, is that colored light isn't really a combination of red, green, and blue. The reality is that light gets its color from its wavelength; and we can get a very close approximation by combining light we perceive as red, green, and blue.
The question is, can we get a more accurate picture by using light that's closer to the original wavelength? Clearly, the information isn't lost, as the original wavelength can be inferred by digitally processing the original RGB levels.
Something to consider is that the original NTSC (American Color) TV standards didn't just include Red, Green, and Blue, but also included Yellow and Orange. These parts were essentially deprecated, but the concept of TVs displaying yellow isn't new.
I keep a spare key for my car in my wallet. I also have a spare house key in a desk drawer. If I loose my keys, I can still make it home and find someone to get me in.
Can ARM run Java / .Net / CLI / mono? Will JIT-ing Java or .Net result in comparable performance? I always thought that part of Microsoft's strategy for .Net was to allow their programs to run on computers with different instruction sets?
as Lala was a much better music service, offering songs in straight MP3 format
iTunes offers 256kbs DRM-Free AAC. AAC is a much, much, much better format then MP3.
I've realized it's no longer economical to print. Every time I print, I need to spend $50 for a new set of ink cartridges. In contrast, it's cheaper to pay to overnight concert tickets and e-file taxes. In short, there needs to be a printer that can run forever on a $10 ink cartridge in order to get me to print again.
Call me when I can buy pot without having to figure out an excuse for getting a "perscription."
My employer recently implemented the best productivity improvement ever. We replaced all of our desk chairs with toilets. Now, we get about an extra hour of work from people a day because no one needs to get up from their desks for bathroom breaks. It took some time to get used to, because the foul smells and rude noises were distracting at first; however, management solved the problem by installing large oder-proof and noise-proof rubber gaskets on everyone's toilet seats.
After the success of everyone getting their own toilet, we realized that too much time was being wasted finding food and coffee. Thus, we implemented a system that delivers coffee and liquified nourishment to everyone's desk on tap. It also gave us another additional hour of labor per day.
Now that no one has to get up from their desks, my employer boasts that it has the most productive workforce in the world!
VMware's Capacity Planner will find all of the computers on your network and tell you what's inside of them. While it won't inventory UPSes, it can help you inventory your servers. http://www.vmware.com/products/capacity-planner/
But in this case you are just using the legal system in the worst possible way: To screw someone out of a legitimate outcome. If you were fighting an illegal ticket, or something the company legitimately did wrong it would make more sense.
Paying private companies to enforce a law is fascism and not legitimate income.
However, it's worth noting why I switched to Chrome:
Now, I know that Firefox added the ability to drag tabs into new Windows; but the multi-process system is what got me to switch to Chrome the day it was released openly for Mac. I like the fact that if a Flash plugin starts gobbling my CPU, I can kill the Flash process and keep all my pages open. Firefox just doesn't do this; but if it did, I'd consider switching back.
But my point is that once you get to a high enough resolution, you won't see the jaggies.
So is there any console or other electronic gadget you can buy nowadays which does not include forced locked own firmware updates that has the possibility of breaking it?
Mac mini
Can't you emulate high quality vector graphics on a super-high resolution like 1080p?
Uhm, so what's the big deal? .Net's garbage collector runs in its own thread.
Back in the 90's we tried this at my old university. We networked all our computers and put all our apps on a central server.
That's the point of local storage in HTML 5. Applications that make good use of it can run without a network connection, or when the server suffers a 30-minute "glitch."
I've been pretty happy with MongoDB. Why? The document architecture makes ORM a lot easier.
On a PC you have to program for 20 different levels of hardware capability and try to scale the graphics up/down accordingly. It never really works properly and programmers hate doing it.
I never got into PC gaming because, when I went out and built an up-to-date computer, all the various incompatibilities and driver issues made me miss the reliability (and price) of a console.
Besides, who cares if I'm playing on the latest and greatest hardware if it crashes every 20 minutes, or requires two hours of tweaking? Why spend $700 on a risky graphics card when I know that a console will, without a doubt, run every game that I throw at it?
Let's face it, high-performance PC games are truly failing in the market place. (Flash games are another story.)
Get a $400 laptop with HDMI, and then pick up a $100 wireless keyboard + mouse combo with a range that's at least 30 feet. If you can wait a few years, this price will drop even more. Personally, I use a Mac Mini because, when I bought it, Windows 7 wasn't out.
In which case it may be that they have realized that it's a bad idea from business perspective, and put that code back in (and brought it up to date) with that patch.
Or it could be that they needed to keep V1 simple, so software virtualization was delayed until V2. That always happens. Move along, nothing to see here.
When I saw Avatar on 3D IMAX using the older 70mm projector with the ultra-bright lamp; the picture was plenty bright enough. Then, when I saw it in a multiplex IMAX with a digital projector and the picture was much darker. So, IMO, 3D on a 70mm IMAX is really the best way to do it; until the digital projectors get better.
make an RDBMs the best choice for almost any job
Some NoSQL databases are much better when it comes to the Object/Relational impedance mismatch. This is why I'm a huge fan of MongoDB. Even though it's not intended to be embedded, I find that it's much easier to work with then SQLite.