you could also build your own repo and redirect the common cdn subdomains to it.. a bit of work but could be worth it in the long run for some.... have actually been looking for some way to automate at least the fetching and organization of all those files, but haven't found anything yet (and not quite to the point of rolling my own)
as for cdn's that host libraries... google isn't the only game in town...
I just think that about 95% of the people who have them don't need really need them. It is a luxury/toy
that's exactly what the i-whatevers are for my sister.. toys. diversions while she's waiting around for her good-for-nothing-ex to bring the kid around.
we have four phones.. all dumber than a doorstop but they work and work well. we pay less for service for all four of them than my sister pays for just her iphone plan... the cheapest is a prepay, less than $3 per month, *including taxes* for more minutes than we use on it. the other three are combined on one post-paid contract.. a grandfathered plan you can't get anymore since vzn took over alltel -- switching to a vzn plan would be $30+ more for something comparable (and that's still for ''dumb'' phones with no smart phone or data surcharges). we have no plans or desires to switch or upgrade any of them.
there will be some "disaster" (flood, fire, war, etc) in a far (or not-so-far) away place that will have an immediate and/or long term adverse effect on the price of something (or many somethings).
this last round of buyouts in the hdd business has left the industry with too few global players... just two in most market segments: seagate and western digital (toshiba does make 3.5in drives via their fujitsu acquisition but market share is tiny)
no competition means the companies can get away with whatever they want. the last time the industry went down to 1 year warranties, it didn't stay that way for very long.. it was pressure from competition that got warranties back up on consumer drives.. no such competition now.
just another example of how big buyouts and mergers hurt consumers.
I think Microsoft is going to find plenty of issues trying to roll this out in the US.
those companies that absolutely must remain on ie6 have likely already taken steps to keep ie7 and ie8 off their workstations. instructions and tools have been out for years to do just that.
but just as there are some companies that may not like this move by microsoft.. web developers the world over (except on the pirate ship 'china') will rejoice as they can now, once and for all, tell ie6 users to sod off. and as a special bonus, they don't have to screw around with ie7 either.
the real possibility of bogus and malicious ads is why adblock should be an all or nothing approach..
if a malicious ad is approved by abp, that would have otherwise been blocked, should they then be liable for any damage caused?
then you have the whole issue of ad content and editorial decisions over approving or not approving them.
the claimed reason for allowing 'acceptable' ads is to allow users the ability to support specific sites that they choose to by having ads displayed on them.. this doesn't do that, it allows *abp developers* to support their own chosen sites by ''approving'' those sites' ads.. the *already existing features* in abp that allows users to disable per page or per domain, or to create specific exclusions does do what was intended, however.
i can see no other reason for this change other than money... example: why else would ads on sedo domain parking pages be approved? who wants to see that crap? nobody except those who benefit directly from those clicks-for-cash.
no.... not for attention to himself but for attention to the huge problem at hand... the old ''i have nothing to hide'' excuse for ignorance won't fly here.. everybody should be worried, and not just facebook users.
agreed. just a cash grab for yukerberg & co.. time to cash in before it (not "if it") implodes.
i'd rather they stay private but facebook is in the same situation as google was before their ipo.. large enough that they were facing additional reporting requirements, similar to a public company so some of the benefits of being private were gone.
they better at least have a *plan* even if implementation hasn't started yet....
doomsday (which is april 8th, 2014, btw) is not *that* far off, especially for a 'larger corporation' that has no current plan at all..... are all your IT guys gonna retire before then or something, so they consider it SEP?
take your project to school to demonstrate it, don't put (and keep) a copy of your entire hdd online. that's just pointless.
hosting that much data for a one-off project not intended to remain online is a lot of wasted bits transferred and a lot of wasted time/effort.
also consider upload times for 500gb data.... 384k upstream = 126 days, 10m upstream = 5 days might be able to half those using a transfer scheme with compression, but still, that's a hell of a long time.
(and don't forget about any usage caps enforced by your isp)
foxit is a little safer, imho, for windows, but doesn't support everything adobe reader does. not that 99% of the people need those extras, though...
we have run across a few instances where adobe reader (even latest version at the time) would have problems opening up certain files (electronic bank statements were the biggest problem here.. ever since the bank talked dad into going with online-only statements, he'd have problems every month).. while any version of foxit we tried opened them up just fine.
however, foxit is also getting bigger and bigger. the installer for the current version is 8x larger than it was 4 1/2 years ago (the version i use on our winxp system), and 5 1/2 years ago the exe needed to run it would fit on a floppy disk. and i dont think the feature set has added that much to justify the differences. lightweight it may be still -- compared to adobe reader.. but not compared to itself.
add &dlm=0 to the end of the 'your download is starting' page url..
1 go to a program's page 2. click download now 3. do not download the file that starts cnet_ or cnet2_ (if it doesn't start with cnet it's ok) 4. add the &dlm=0 to the url in the address bar after the spi=whatever junk
enjoy the direct download.. and go to the source next time..or try filehippo or softpedia (either one with your adblocker running)
centurylink won't happen.. they just took on over 10 billion in debt (overall debt now is 20+ billion) from the quest buyout....... and you wouldn't want it to, either. they suck.
besides, they were in the wireless game.. but the clueless morons that run the company sold that part off back in 2002 (to what was then, alltel).. idiots.. friggin idiots
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about time the government puts their foot down on these mega mergers... everybody wins.. especially tmobile. 4 billion in cash and spectrum is a pretty sweet haul.
you don't pay SALES tax on out of state purchases... your state (michigan) and most (all?) others, that have a state sales tax, have a USE TAX that applies to out-of-state purchases that would have been taxed if purchased in-state.
sales and use taxes are very similar but they are still different.
for michigan residents, it's right on the form MI-1040 . also note that michigan is one of the states that taxes shipping charges. ____
the loss of sales tax revenue due to growth of online retail (at the expense of local retailers), combined with the extremely low compliance rate for paying use tax, is one of the reasons many states have a budget crisis..
if more people would pay their state use tax obligation, the states wouldn't be pushing this issue so hard.
ya no kidding. wtf. we're still working on upgrading to firefox 4 here.. so basically we get to start the whole process over again (of internally validating a major version change) so soon simply because of this asinine artificial ramp-up of major version numbers. just call the bloody thing what it is.. firefox 4.1
incompatibility with existing applications will be the driving force of the inevitable "windows 8 arm edition app store" and the pile of money microsoft expects to make from it.
we've gone past serial numbers and cd checks to online activations and DLC...
now it won't be long until the one-time-use nature of DLC codes makes it over to the activation codes used for the game itself.....
one-time-use activation codes for the actual game, along with continued migration to non-transferable digital-only product delivery will destroy the used game market... even for consoles.... turning any physical media into nothing more than marketing tools and demos, and the occasional rootkit installer.
there's enough of the clueless masses out there giving money hand-over-fist to game publishers that the relatively small percentage of gamers that do speak up about this won't matter any to the publishers, and they will just continue to stomp out rights customers once had until there are none left.
the sound and smell of a 30 year old semi tractor with the pedal-to-the-metal ought to put the fear-of-everything into some schmuck (blind or not) waiting to cross the street. too bad a little hybrid hatchback can't duplicate the rumbling ground effect, too.
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agreed. just another way for godaddy to profit from the clueless or too-lazy-to-read-what-they're-doing... which is a pretty large percentage of their customer base.
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to minimize google's already too-effective data gathering... there's things like the refcontrol addon for firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/
you could also build your own repo and redirect the common cdn subdomains to it.. a bit of work but could be worth it in the long run for some.... have actually been looking for some way to automate at least the fetching and organization of all those files, but haven't found anything yet (and not quite to the point of rolling my own)
as for cdn's that host libraries... google isn't the only game in town...
http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx
http://code.jquery.com/
we use the last one (hosted by mediatemple) for the sites that we use a cdn for libraries.
that's exactly what the i-whatevers are for my sister.. toys. diversions while she's waiting around for her good-for-nothing-ex to bring the kid around.
we have four phones.. all dumber than a doorstop but they work and work well. we pay less for service for all four of them than my sister pays for just her iphone plan... the cheapest is a prepay, less than $3 per month, *including taxes* for more minutes than we use on it. the other three are combined on one post-paid contract.. a grandfathered plan you can't get anymore since vzn took over alltel -- switching to a vzn plan would be $30+ more for something comparable (and that's still for ''dumb'' phones with no smart phone or data surcharges). we have no plans or desires to switch or upgrade any of them.
unfortunately, web "developers" are following in the same footsteps as software developers. sloppy, bloated code and bad practices.
our own corporate home page comes in at:
23 KB (31 KB uncompressed)
we know what we're doing.. too bad others don't.. or don't care... really feel for those with slow internet connections.
there will be some "disaster" (flood, fire, war, etc) in a far (or not-so-far) away place that will have an immediate and/or long term adverse effect on the price of something (or many somethings).
this last round of buyouts in the hdd business has left the industry with too few global players... just two in most market segments: seagate and western digital (toshiba does make 3.5in drives via their fujitsu acquisition but market share is tiny)
no competition means the companies can get away with whatever they want. the last time the industry went down to 1 year warranties, it didn't stay that way for very long.. it was pressure from competition that got warranties back up on consumer drives.. no such competition now.
just another example of how big buyouts and mergers hurt consumers.
those companies that absolutely must remain on ie6 have likely already taken steps to keep ie7 and ie8 off their workstations. instructions and tools have been out for years to do just that.
but just as there are some companies that may not like this move by microsoft.. web developers the world over (except on the pirate ship 'china') will rejoice as they can now, once and for all, tell ie6 users to sod off. and as a special bonus, they don't have to screw around with ie7 either.
the real possibility of bogus and malicious ads is why adblock should be an all or nothing approach..
if a malicious ad is approved by abp, that would have otherwise been blocked, should they then be liable for any damage caused?
then you have the whole issue of ad content and editorial decisions over approving or not approving them.
the claimed reason for allowing 'acceptable' ads is to allow users the ability to support specific sites that they choose to by having ads displayed on them.. this doesn't do that, it allows *abp developers* to support their own chosen sites by ''approving'' those sites' ads.. the *already existing features* in abp that allows users to disable per page or per domain, or to create specific exclusions does do what was intended, however.
i can see no other reason for this change other than money... example: why else would ads on sedo domain parking pages be approved? who wants to see that crap? nobody except those who benefit directly from those clicks-for-cash.
no.... not for attention to himself but for attention to the huge problem at hand... the old ''i have nothing to hide'' excuse for ignorance won't fly here.. everybody should be worried, and not just facebook users.
i wonder.... can he also do the same with google?
agreed. just a cash grab for yukerberg & co.. time to cash in before it (not "if it") implodes.
i'd rather they stay private but facebook is in the same situation as google was before their ipo.. large enough that they were facing additional reporting requirements, similar to a public company so some of the benefits of being private were gone.
they better at least have a *plan* even if implementation hasn't started yet....
doomsday (which is april 8th, 2014, btw) is not *that* far off, especially for a 'larger corporation' that has no current plan at all..... are all your IT guys gonna retire before then or something, so they consider it SEP?
take your project to school to demonstrate it, don't put (and keep) a copy of your entire hdd online. that's just pointless.
hosting that much data for a one-off project not intended to remain online is a lot of wasted bits transferred and a lot of wasted time/effort.
also consider upload times for 500gb data....
384k upstream = 126 days, 10m upstream = 5 days
might be able to half those using a transfer scheme with compression, but still, that's a hell of a long time.
(and don't forget about any usage caps enforced by your isp)
foxit is a little safer, imho, for windows, but doesn't support everything adobe reader does. not that 99% of the people need those extras, though...
we have run across a few instances where adobe reader (even latest version at the time) would have problems opening up certain files (electronic bank statements were the biggest problem here.. ever since the bank talked dad into going with online-only statements, he'd have problems every month).. while any version of foxit we tried opened them up just fine.
however, foxit is also getting bigger and bigger. the installer for the current version is 8x larger than it was 4 1/2 years ago (the version i use on our winxp system), and 5 1/2 years ago the exe needed to run it would fit on a floppy disk. and i dont think the feature set has added that much to justify the differences. lightweight it may be still -- compared to adobe reader.. but not compared to itself.
avast hosts the download off their site too but you have to know where to look....
http://www.avast.com/en-us/free-antivirus-download#tab4
avg is the same way.. their offline installer is here...
http://free.avg.com/ww-en/download.prd-afh
(these are links for en-us)
add &dlm=0 to the end of the 'your download is starting' page url..
1 go to a program's page
2. click download now
3. do not download the file that starts cnet_ or cnet2_ (if it doesn't start with cnet it's ok)
4. add the &dlm=0 to the url in the address bar after the spi=whatever junk
enjoy the direct download.. and go to the source next time..or try filehippo or softpedia (either one with your adblocker running)
centurylink won't happen.. they just took on over 10 billion in debt (overall debt now is 20+ billion) from the quest buyout... .... and you wouldn't want it to, either. they suck.
besides, they were in the wireless game.. but the clueless morons that run the company sold that part off back in 2002 (to what was then, alltel).. idiots.. friggin idiots
_____
about time the government puts their foot down on these mega mergers... everybody wins.. especially tmobile. 4 billion in cash and spectrum is a pretty sweet haul.
you don't pay SALES tax on out of state purchases... your state (michigan) and most (all?) others, that have a state sales tax, have a USE TAX that applies to out-of-state purchases that would have been taxed if purchased in-state.
sales and use taxes are very similar but they are still different.
for michigan residents, it's right on the form MI-1040 . also note that michigan is one of the states that taxes shipping charges.
____
the loss of sales tax revenue due to growth of online retail (at the expense of local retailers), combined with the extremely low compliance rate for paying use tax, is one of the reasons many states have a budget crisis..
if more people would pay their state use tax obligation, the states wouldn't be pushing this issue so hard.
ya no kidding. wtf. we're still working on upgrading to firefox 4 here.. so basically we get to start the whole process over again (of internally validating a major version change) so soon simply because of this asinine artificial ramp-up of major version numbers. just call the bloody thing what it is.. firefox 4.1
incompatibility with existing applications will be the driving force of the inevitable "windows 8 arm edition app store" and the pile of money microsoft expects to make from it.
we've gone past serial numbers and cd checks to online activations and DLC...
now it won't be long until the one-time-use nature of DLC codes makes it over to the activation codes used for the game itself.....
one-time-use activation codes for the actual game, along with continued migration to non-transferable digital-only product delivery will destroy the used game market... even for consoles.... turning any physical media into nothing more than marketing tools and demos, and the occasional rootkit installer.
there's enough of the clueless masses out there giving money hand-over-fist to game publishers that the relatively small percentage of gamers that do speak up about this won't matter any to the publishers, and they will just continue to stomp out rights customers once had until there are none left.
that investors will never, ever see again.
Here come the "Facebook optimization" services ("FBO") charging $999 for more friends, guaranteed !!
block the transaction. concessions or not. comcast buying nbc SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED.
the sound and smell of a 30 year old semi tractor with the pedal-to-the-metal ought to put the fear-of-everything into some schmuck (blind or not) waiting to cross the street. too bad a little hybrid hatchback can't duplicate the rumbling ground effect, too.
agreed. just another way for godaddy to profit from the clueless or too-lazy-to-read-what-they're-doing... which is a pretty large percentage of their customer base.
only a matter of time. now if they could just get the hardware costs down a bit.
i really like regular books over staring at a screen, but even i might be tempted to try an e-reader if the price was right.