There's that, but Adobe like Macromedia before them has been dickish in the way that they handled it. The development tools are what makes them money, but they've done a poor job of making the player available beyond 32bit OSes. And if you're wanting something other than Mac, Win or Linux, you're basically completely screwed as far as Adobe is concerned.
Right now the only way that I can see youtube is either by booting into Windows or running Firefox in Wine. That's completely unacceptable for a de facto web standard. Not to mention the tendency of the official plug ins to crash frequently and the tendency of idiot customers to demand Flash only sites.
And don't get me started on shockwave, it was a couple of steps worse.
And just out of curiosity, where does this portion of the budget come from? I'm not saying that I disagree, but IT staff isn't slave labor, chances are they'd be doing that if they were provided with adequate budget to do so.
The proactive stuff tends to be the least funded and hardest to get funding for because the owners aren't being smacked in the face with it all the time. It also tends to not be as obviously time sensitive as most of the rest of the work, like making things run quickly.
That's sort of what I want to know. For FreeBSD, as an example, there's no reason to compile more than a small fraction of those at a given time. I think most users could exist quite well without anything beyond just NTFS, UFS, NFS, ISO9660, ZFS and MSDOSFS. And you can throw out NTFS, NFS and MSDOSFS as often as not.
I'd assume that Linux is similar except subbing one of the EXTFSes in for UFS.
Or make sure the keyboard is at a comfortable height and switch over to Dvorak. Dvorak isn't any faster than QWERTY, but it was designed to minimize unnecessary fatigue and strain while typing. Long periods of time at the keyboard do not cause repetitive stress injury, despite what the medical establishment used to say. It's long periods in poorly laid out surrounds that do.
Google's algorithm works for certain types of queries quite well. But what you're noticing with Japanese does happen all the time with English for certain types of queries.
The deal they made when they created the algorithms was that the computer wouldn't really understand what it was reading so that it could be fast. Unfortunately, it seems to have severe problems comprehending that most users don't want a page where the search terms appear across the entire page. Most of the time we want them to appear relatively close together.
Searching for bug reports and troubleshooting information tends to be extremely hit or miss with Google.
Which surprisingly enough is similar to the competition with the added bonus of having to sift through a larger portion of link farms and spam on Google.
You're probably correct, but by the same token, Google has taken over the search market by competing with incompetence.
I'm not personally convinced that the Google engine is really that good, in fact by design it's all but worthless for certain types of query. Originally it was designed to be fast and to not need to be able to comprehend the content of the page. Over the years they've had to change that because of the gamesmanship that inevitably occurs when you're at the top. And for the queries that I like to make, it doesn't do any better job of finding things than the older MS search did.
It's a sad state of affairs, but right now we should all be cheering on MS in their endeavor this one time, they are the only company right now that's even trying to bring Google into a more reasonable share of search queries.
That's my policy, rip to FLAC or APE, or something else that's lossless. I prefer to rip my discs to images complete with properly formatted and tagged cue sheet, then convert the whole catalog of files to a new format when technology dictates that I need to do so.
Sure it takes time, but I can make my computer do most of that work when I'm not actually at the computer, or focused on other things. With the plus side being that I don't really have to worry about tagging and retagging or file integrity. Just set something like SFV to task to ensure that the copies are still good and rerip the odd disc if I really have to. It really does settle the format and quality decisions.
That's one of the schools of thought, but the other is that if people allow it to go unchallenged it tends to seep into the public consciousness. Sort of like how the 2nd amendment went from protecting the right of militias to possess and bear the weapons necessary to operate to enabling everybody to own machine guns.
Every time somebody misstates the 2nd amendment as the latter rather than the former it just gets that much more ingrained in "truthiness."
Or a more on topic example, every time a troll like that makes a statement like that, ignoring it runs the risk of legitimizing it. Of course responding to it also encourages it, but it's really hard to say what's more problematic in the long term.
Didn't you see the photos of her carrying around large sacks with dollar signs on the side and wearing one of those really, really thing black masks, the ones that just cover the eyes?
Citation please, MS does not have a trademark on that, never did, never even tried. They do however have a trademark on "Microsoft Windows." And other names like "Microsoft Windows XP."
I've been telling my customers to wait until Win7 SP1, preferably SP2. Most have had me build them new XP machines with easy expandability so they can sit out Win7 if it turns out to be another Vista turkey.
You mean, if it generally works well and efficiently? Or do you mean if it results in few complaints from those that know nothing of computers?
For all the whining and bitching about Vista, a contest between Vista and XP tends to be a non-starter when Vista creams XP in pretty much every way, including performance. Vista may not be as fast running at peak speed, but it doesn't bog down the way that XP and previous did when hard disk intensive tasks came up.
Stupid question, but doesn't that miss things which are technically OK, but likely to lead to problems down the road?
Things like poor naming conventions, improperly formatted or under documented code.
Not to mention the incentive that regular reviews provide for concise and well documented code. I can't imagine some of the examples I've seen of comments run amok or code only understandable at the Balmer peek.
Code reviews aren't going to solve that by themselves, but if you're looking at the code as part of a program of review on a reasonable basis, it's harder for bits to fester in odd corners of the repository.
You're missing the point, the post was a matter of avoiding the consequences of the patent. It's a much better solution to just not get a phone with unwanted features than to pay ransom money on a patent for temporarily disabling them if you're needing to call 911.
Personally, that's probably what I'll do, the problem tends to be that there's this huge gulf between full function and basic which isn't very well populated. Which is completely ridiculous considering that only a minority of cell phone users actually use more than a few of the features. A surprising number couldn't figure out how to use the extra functions even if they wanted to.
With that in mind, it makes more sense to me, for manufacturers to just spend more time paying attention to what features people actually use, rather than throwing them in just because.
The obvious argument is that we've had phones that do that, they've just gone out of favor as cell phone companies have largely stopped releasing basic phones.
With the added bonus of not having to pay patent ransom or waste battery with bullshit functions you didn't really want in the first place.
I know what you mean, considering the incompetence of the Broken Steel released and the related MS arrogance, I'm not going to be buying anything from MS again. Which admittedly doesn't mean much since the only thing I've bought from them in the last 5 years was 1 xbox controller and a few things through their store.
It always amazes me the number of MS apologists out there that think that behaving in that sort of thuggish, unprofessional fashion is OK.
The house isn't going to do that, it's not in their best interest to cheat in games that are designed to be in their favor.
Employees on the other hand have been caught scamming, I remember a while back that an employee was fixing games by revealing the opponents hands to his friends. That went on for a while until the house took notice of the unusual winning streak and figured out what was going on.
Actually, that would be a continuation of the policy put forward during the Bush administration years. I know that you like to bash Democrats, but I don't recall President Bush or the Republicans in congress threatening to shut it down.
The uprising is indeed coming, but to assume that it's going to go in favor of fascism is a huge mistake. The people of America are getting pretty sick of being abused so that corporations and moral interests can take their freedom. If you don't like this sort of policy, then you shouldn't vote for Republicans, end of story. They were the main proponents of banning internet gaming, not the Democrats.
Only problem is that this is an aerospace company, they might get lucky finding somebody that's capable and willing to work for peanuts, but I wouldn't count on it. Realistically they may require somebody with technical know how of what the files actually are in order to properly categorize them. A temp might be able to handle reformatting the file names based upon information in the name, but probably not much more than that.
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There's that, but Adobe like Macromedia before them has been dickish in the way that they handled it. The development tools are what makes them money, but they've done a poor job of making the player available beyond 32bit OSes. And if you're wanting something other than Mac, Win or Linux, you're basically completely screwed as far as Adobe is concerned.
Right now the only way that I can see youtube is either by booting into Windows or running Firefox in Wine. That's completely unacceptable for a de facto web standard. Not to mention the tendency of the official plug ins to crash frequently and the tendency of idiot customers to demand Flash only sites.
And don't get me started on shockwave, it was a couple of steps worse.
And just out of curiosity, where does this portion of the budget come from? I'm not saying that I disagree, but IT staff isn't slave labor, chances are they'd be doing that if they were provided with adequate budget to do so.
The proactive stuff tends to be the least funded and hardest to get funding for because the owners aren't being smacked in the face with it all the time. It also tends to not be as obviously time sensitive as most of the rest of the work, like making things run quickly.
We should go all in and just bring in Bruce Campbell, he's only a hundred, I'm sure he can still fight off a horde of IP attorneys and zombies.
But, I don't want summer, can't we go back to worrying about nuclear winter?
That's sort of what I want to know. For FreeBSD, as an example, there's no reason to compile more than a small fraction of those at a given time. I think most users could exist quite well without anything beyond just NTFS, UFS, NFS, ISO9660, ZFS and MSDOSFS. And you can throw out NTFS, NFS and MSDOSFS as often as not.
I'd assume that Linux is similar except subbing one of the EXTFSes in for UFS.
Or make sure the keyboard is at a comfortable height and switch over to Dvorak. Dvorak isn't any faster than QWERTY, but it was designed to minimize unnecessary fatigue and strain while typing. Long periods of time at the keyboard do not cause repetitive stress injury, despite what the medical establishment used to say. It's long periods in poorly laid out surrounds that do.
Google's algorithm works for certain types of queries quite well. But what you're noticing with Japanese does happen all the time with English for certain types of queries.
The deal they made when they created the algorithms was that the computer wouldn't really understand what it was reading so that it could be fast. Unfortunately, it seems to have severe problems comprehending that most users don't want a page where the search terms appear across the entire page. Most of the time we want them to appear relatively close together.
Searching for bug reports and troubleshooting information tends to be extremely hit or miss with Google.
Which surprisingly enough is similar to the competition with the added bonus of having to sift through a larger portion of link farms and spam on Google.
You're probably correct, but by the same token, Google has taken over the search market by competing with incompetence.
I'm not personally convinced that the Google engine is really that good, in fact by design it's all but worthless for certain types of query. Originally it was designed to be fast and to not need to be able to comprehend the content of the page. Over the years they've had to change that because of the gamesmanship that inevitably occurs when you're at the top. And for the queries that I like to make, it doesn't do any better job of finding things than the older MS search did.
It's a sad state of affairs, but right now we should all be cheering on MS in their endeavor this one time, they are the only company right now that's even trying to bring Google into a more reasonable share of search queries.
That's my policy, rip to FLAC or APE, or something else that's lossless. I prefer to rip my discs to images complete with properly formatted and tagged cue sheet, then convert the whole catalog of files to a new format when technology dictates that I need to do so.
Sure it takes time, but I can make my computer do most of that work when I'm not actually at the computer, or focused on other things. With the plus side being that I don't really have to worry about tagging and retagging or file integrity. Just set something like SFV to task to ensure that the copies are still good and rerip the odd disc if I really have to. It really does settle the format and quality decisions.
That's one of the schools of thought, but the other is that if people allow it to go unchallenged it tends to seep into the public consciousness. Sort of like how the 2nd amendment went from protecting the right of militias to possess and bear the weapons necessary to operate to enabling everybody to own machine guns.
Every time somebody misstates the 2nd amendment as the latter rather than the former it just gets that much more ingrained in "truthiness."
Or a more on topic example, every time a troll like that makes a statement like that, ignoring it runs the risk of legitimizing it. Of course responding to it also encourages it, but it's really hard to say what's more problematic in the long term.
Didn't you see the photos of her carrying around large sacks with dollar signs on the side and wearing one of those really, really thing black masks, the ones that just cover the eyes?
Well, they got a trademark on "Windows"
Citation please, MS does not have a trademark on that, never did, never even tried. They do however have a trademark on "Microsoft Windows." And other names like "Microsoft Windows XP."
I've been telling my customers to wait until Win7 SP1, preferably SP2. Most have had me build them new XP machines with easy expandability so they can sit out Win7 if it turns out to be another Vista turkey.
You mean, if it generally works well and efficiently? Or do you mean if it results in few complaints from those that know nothing of computers?
For all the whining and bitching about Vista, a contest between Vista and XP tends to be a non-starter when Vista creams XP in pretty much every way, including performance. Vista may not be as fast running at peak speed, but it doesn't bog down the way that XP and previous did when hard disk intensive tasks came up.
Stupid question, but doesn't that miss things which are technically OK, but likely to lead to problems down the road? Things like poor naming conventions, improperly formatted or under documented code.
Not to mention the incentive that regular reviews provide for concise and well documented code. I can't imagine some of the examples I've seen of comments run amok or code only understandable at the Balmer peek.
Code reviews aren't going to solve that by themselves, but if you're looking at the code as part of a program of review on a reasonable basis, it's harder for bits to fester in odd corners of the repository.
Because they didn't do a code review.
You're missing the point, the post was a matter of avoiding the consequences of the patent. It's a much better solution to just not get a phone with unwanted features than to pay ransom money on a patent for temporarily disabling them if you're needing to call 911.
Personally, that's probably what I'll do, the problem tends to be that there's this huge gulf between full function and basic which isn't very well populated. Which is completely ridiculous considering that only a minority of cell phone users actually use more than a few of the features. A surprising number couldn't figure out how to use the extra functions even if they wanted to.
With that in mind, it makes more sense to me, for manufacturers to just spend more time paying attention to what features people actually use, rather than throwing them in just because.
The obvious argument is that we've had phones that do that, they've just gone out of favor as cell phone companies have largely stopped releasing basic phones.
With the added bonus of not having to pay patent ransom or waste battery with bullshit functions you didn't really want in the first place.
I know what you mean, considering the incompetence of the Broken Steel released and the related MS arrogance, I'm not going to be buying anything from MS again. Which admittedly doesn't mean much since the only thing I've bought from them in the last 5 years was 1 xbox controller and a few things through their store.
It always amazes me the number of MS apologists out there that think that behaving in that sort of thuggish, unprofessional fashion is OK.
Well, that and the fact that it would cause the phone to heat up, shortening the life span of the electronics.
That's not true. That was politically motivated, the WTO was hijacked as a way of getting back at the US for foreign policy disagreements.
Aha, so AC is a chauffeur. I'll add that to the list. A gay chauffeur with a fetish for poop. There can't possibly be that people like that around.
The house isn't going to do that, it's not in their best interest to cheat in games that are designed to be in their favor.
Employees on the other hand have been caught scamming, I remember a while back that an employee was fixing games by revealing the opponents hands to his friends. That went on for a while until the house took notice of the unusual winning streak and figured out what was going on.
Actually, that would be a continuation of the policy put forward during the Bush administration years. I know that you like to bash Democrats, but I don't recall President Bush or the Republicans in congress threatening to shut it down.
The uprising is indeed coming, but to assume that it's going to go in favor of fascism is a huge mistake. The people of America are getting pretty sick of being abused so that corporations and moral interests can take their freedom. If you don't like this sort of policy, then you shouldn't vote for Republicans, end of story. They were the main proponents of banning internet gaming, not the Democrats.
Only problem is that this is an aerospace company, they might get lucky finding somebody that's capable and willing to work for peanuts, but I wouldn't count on it. Realistically they may require somebody with technical know how of what the files actually are in order to properly categorize them. A temp might be able to handle reformatting the file names based upon information in the name, but probably not much more than that.