Most people do not understand that Hydrogen, due to it's inherent instability and desire to chemically change in a volatile manner, is simply an anergy storing devices. Hydrogen is not very energy dense. Understanding it's role is important to determining whether or not to us it as it essentially acts as a battery. If you have X units of energy (electricity), the key question is how many units will you get back out of the hydrogen. So far most the most advanced systems have show that Energy in (Ei) has an Energy out (Eo) roughly equal to Eo = Ei/10. Not anywhere near as efficient as a lithium ion battery. Even lead acid batteries have better performance.
I guess people are worried that our state of the art igloo geometric designs, dogsled aerodymanics and maple syrup chemistry are in danger if poltical decisions are made without the benefit of science. Luckily there are only 78 of us in the whole country. We can probably sort it out in about a fortnight over a few Molson's beers while watching ice hockey.
duane
"Who won the damn gold medals at the last Olympics anyways?"
Because there are lots of us who work at Adobe who have been very vocal internally about ensuring that Linux is a first class O/S and released at the same time as the other O/S's. That is why Linux is getting the 64 bit Flash Player. More and more of us are using Ubuntu and RHEL on the server (our enterprise ESB uses RHEL/(WebSphere || Weblogic || JBoss) as a reference implementation!).
Now if we could only talk our bosses into CS5 for Linux.....
Agreed. We have been moving in this direction with the open screen project. My goal is to have the SWF format as open as PDF one day but there are a few hurdles. If we did it today, it would break backwards compatibility (bad). Many of us at Adobe believe we should not be a standards development org as we really don't own it (the community owns it). We just filter feature requests and build the reference implementation. Some of the components we open sourced (Tamarin) and many of the specs are published such as RTMP, AMF. I hope we get there one day. THanks for the input. We actually do listen and appreciate this type of feedback.
YOu could say you are also forced to use a browser then. You have a choice. If you want to see certain sites in their entirety, you can choose flash. If you want to experience only the text, use wget. If you want to see something in between, use a browser.
your choice. There are still some old guys who don't even like to load images and only read the alt text. Can't make everyone happy so giving people choice is the only path we can take.
I am lighting fires under the PM's for this every day (I work for Adobe). There are many of us here that want support for 64 bit linux. You guys have every right to be whiny about this. I bitch about it myself. THere are Duane Nickull dartboards on more than one Flash Player engineers door. Keep up the pressure. - DN
Kenja is correct. You do not have to have it. YOu can choose other technologies. Adobe (which I work for) is all about choice. Anyways, I posted a couple of videos showing some of the experiences of Flash on the Android powered Nexus 1 phone. The experience is actually quite amazing.
130 mb of ram while sitting idle? Then it's perfect for windoze and osx....
So what are the alternatives for *nix users now?
dn
grep this: s/$your_beliefs/$common_sense/i;
you are right. The way Flash (the swf format only, not the whole platform) was written circa 2003, it wasn't optimized to go to mobile devices. There were some issues and technical hurdles to get around. Some of them were simple (like stopping FP instances that are not in the visible part of the screen) or simply reducing the frame rates of flash applications that are using battery power when they are not in focus). Some required much more thinking such as form fields receiving focus when the tab is hit from an HTML form element above a flash form element). To scale to mobile was a challenge which has been met with the Flash PLayer 10.1. The Google Nexus 1 phone (which I own) does a great job of running the full version of Flash (not Flash Lite). The FP 10.1 has *huge* technical improvements from previous versions
Adobe is full on excited about HTML 5 too. There are some really cool possibilities about using HTML 5 features side by side with Flash. Serge Jespers did a great job of showing this on his blog late last week:
http://www.webkitchen.be/2010/03/05/the-html5-flash-marriage-geolocation/
The fact is that HTML being updated is not something everyone asked for, but in it's execution, there are some obvious features that I am glad to see such as the Video element. I do share some concerns about how more advanced API's get implemented (such as the document.evaluate(); API) for complex XSLT processing but hope the industry will figure it out.
DN
" any technology can be used for good or for evil. The only question is how you decide to use your coding time in between " - Gandalf
I wonder if this would make some (clearly stupid) people feel that they can now safely disregard looking after the earth with the comfort of a bigger and newer planet so close by?
duane chaos
"chaos is not just a theory!"
An anonymous reader writes "There is a storm brewing in Canada as the prestigious Conference Board of Canada has been caught plagiarizing US copyright lobby group documents in a report on copyright reform. The report was funded by the Canadian copyright lobby as well as by the Ontario government. The Conference Board has acknowledged some errors, but stands by the report, while the Ontario government admits spending thousands of dollars and it now wants some answers."
Oh dang it!! I'm Canadian and I just did it again...
I can see why. Vista sucks. It is the operating system of the mentally deficient. I now have XP installed (I have to have at least one Win machine for work) and refuse to even try Win 7 due to a complete lack of trust with Redmond. It is their own doing and when you stir up a hornets nest, you get stung.
Hilarious idea - get 500/.er's entering an amateur competition to prove of disprove myths for a reality show.
I want to work for Mythbuster's, wake every morning, have a coffee, grab some dynamite and blow shit up!!
I live in Canada. According to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, "15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability."
Also - 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion;
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
d) freedom of association.
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/
http://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Universe-Michael-Talbot/dp/0060922583
Michael Talbot wrote this book years ago. Others have had this theory since 1980-1985. Of course, if it is a hologram, those who created it might want you to read this comment. LOL! THe book itself was written in 1992.
"it is the only living mammal that can actually inject venom into their prey through specialized teeth"
did they invite Steve Ballmer to this contest? At least the shrew cannot throw a chair very far.
and I can see why this would be needed. It was 26 in the winter. I would however worry about the effect of some kid digging into a freon tube with a shovel or a leak. Nevertheless, it would make far more sense to use the natural deep water to pipe up onto the sub-beach level to act as a heat-exchanger.
Duane Nickull
http://technoracle.blogspot.com
I work for Adobe on the ODF Technical Committee. ODF made some great decisions that make the format much more admirable over others (use of RelaxNG Schema, open formats wherever possible etc.). I am happy about the growing use of OO. Jon Bosak also has posted some great thoughts on this. Jon's thoughts on ODF, OOXML and PDF.
C'mon! A dialysis machine built using a breadbox. This doesn't compete with my hommey Ricky-Dean who can build an atomic bomb with a digital timer using only a dead bumble-bee, bits of string and twigs found on the forest floor.
Feh!!!
NBC censors stuff for Americans dude! Do you think you are seeing world news in America from network cable? Try VPNing to Europe then load the same page twice.
Oh wait - they tell you it's not censored. it must be free press.
" - The most trusted name in news your government allows to to see"
Three simple tips:
1. use a bike to get to meetings, go to the store
2. have weights in your office and use them while programs compile, during conference calls etc.
3. walk to get lunch every day.
Why this combination? Weights grow larger muscles. Larger muscles need more calories so your base metabolic rate goes higher and burns more calories on a daily basis. The stronger muscles help avoid injuries if you go skiing, snowboarding etc.
I use to be a world cup mountain bike racer before immersing myself in high tech. It just about killed me the first 3 years. Find balance - be happy - live longer and healthier.
For some reason I thought you meant ISS in the context of the software application that allows all the PCs on a network simultaneous access to the Internet through a single connection and ISP...
www.intel.com/products/glossary/body.htm
Too bad. That would have been fun to banish to another planet.
Only Media Group, 406-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3C 3G8
Got it from their license and terms at:
http://www.jlove.co.il/popterms.aspx
Under Canadian Corporate law, this has to be a physical place, not a virtual place. Any corporate entity has to have their records located at such a place and open for inspection upon legal request. This is the registered and records office of the company in Toronto. YOu can actually go into this address and find someone. Here is a map.
http://maps.google.com/maps?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=Only%20Media%20Group%2C%20406-250%20Ferrand%20Drive%2C%20Toronto%2C%20ON%2C%20Canada%2C%20M3C%203G8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
It is right off Don Mills road. The license does say you can send in a written request. If it bothers you that much, you should just send them a legal letter by registered mail.
We have laws in Canada BTW so you can take legal action.
This isn't really hard to fix so I am not sure why it made Slashdot front page.
In reality, it is probably far more effort than it is worth. CAVEAT - I am not a lawyer and this is not giving you legal advice. See proper legal advice if it bothers you.
Here are some tips:
1. For starters, unless you signed up, your photograph is intellectual property owned by the person who took the photo. They can contact the site owner(s) and demand it be taken down. Most of the scan sites register with godaddy.com as it makes the true owner blind so I doubt you'd actually be able to find the real owner and hold them legally accountable.
2. If you have suffered some kind of damages or embarrassment (example - argument with your spouse), you can actually start a legal action in your own jurisdiction and sue the legal owner. In lack of the legal entities real identification, you can sue domain name holder proxy and force them to respond in your legal jurisdiction. It makes it a big advantage for you as they will have to contract out responses to your claims to a legal firm in your area.
3. Immediately let the site owner know (and document) that you are not okay with your name and photo being used. Give them a reasonable amount of time to bring it down before commencing legal action.
Now on to the not just legal stuff:
1. Find out who they are and show up at their doorstep. For example, there was a guy who regularly spammed me in Vancouyer, claiming it was his right. I stalked him and showed up at a user group meeting and basically stood in front of him asking him to chose one of two sentences to say. His choices were "I will never spam you again" or "please stop beating my head in with a chair". He got the message. I am going to China later this year to confront someone else while there on normal business. Scaring the shit out of someone works well when they make the connection that they cannot just do shit online with no consequence.
2. Point you profile at his competition.(if you have access)
3. Find out who hosts his site and make it very uncomfortable for them to continue doing so. Make it clear that you have been in touch with authorities and will be demanding an audit of their sites they serve.
4. Disrupt their business model.
Your best bet is probably to ignore it completely though as all of these will take you much more time than it will be worth. At the end of the day they have probably been sneaky enough to get around the rules in a way that will require you to pay money, spend time chasing a ghost.
Slashdot Mirror
Most people do not understand that Hydrogen, due to it's inherent instability and desire to chemically change in a volatile manner, is simply an anergy storing devices. Hydrogen is not very energy dense. Understanding it's role is important to determining whether or not to us it as it essentially acts as a battery. If you have X units of energy (electricity), the key question is how many units will you get back out of the hydrogen. So far most the most advanced systems have show that Energy in (Ei) has an Energy out (Eo) roughly equal to Eo = Ei/10. Not anywhere near as efficient as a lithium ion battery. Even lead acid batteries have better performance.
I guess people are worried that our state of the art igloo geometric designs, dogsled aerodymanics and maple syrup chemistry are in danger if poltical decisions are made without the benefit of science. Luckily there are only 78 of us in the whole country. We can probably sort it out in about a fortnight over a few Molson's beers while watching ice hockey. duane "Who won the damn gold medals at the last Olympics anyways?"
Because there are lots of us who work at Adobe who have been very vocal internally about ensuring that Linux is a first class O/S and released at the same time as the other O/S's. That is why Linux is getting the 64 bit Flash Player. More and more of us are using Ubuntu and RHEL on the server (our enterprise ESB uses RHEL/(WebSphere || Weblogic || JBoss) as a reference implementation!). Now if we could only talk our bosses into CS5 for Linux.....
Agreed. We have been moving in this direction with the open screen project. My goal is to have the SWF format as open as PDF one day but there are a few hurdles. If we did it today, it would break backwards compatibility (bad). Many of us at Adobe believe we should not be a standards development org as we really don't own it (the community owns it). We just filter feature requests and build the reference implementation. Some of the components we open sourced (Tamarin) and many of the specs are published such as RTMP, AMF. I hope we get there one day. THanks for the input. We actually do listen and appreciate this type of feedback.
YOu could say you are also forced to use a browser then. You have a choice. If you want to see certain sites in their entirety, you can choose flash. If you want to experience only the text, use wget. If you want to see something in between, use a browser. your choice. There are still some old guys who don't even like to load images and only read the alt text. Can't make everyone happy so giving people choice is the only path we can take.
I am lighting fires under the PM's for this every day (I work for Adobe). There are many of us here that want support for 64 bit linux. You guys have every right to be whiny about this. I bitch about it myself. THere are Duane Nickull dartboards on more than one Flash Player engineers door. Keep up the pressure. - DN
http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2010/06/comparison-full-screen-h264-video-on.html
http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2010_06_06_archive.html
Duane (Disclaimer: I must disclose I do work for Adobe)
130 mb of ram while sitting idle? Then it's perfect for windoze and osx.... So what are the alternatives for *nix users now? dn grep this: s/$your_beliefs/$common_sense/i;
you are right. The way Flash (the swf format only, not the whole platform) was written circa 2003, it wasn't optimized to go to mobile devices. There were some issues and technical hurdles to get around. Some of them were simple (like stopping FP instances that are not in the visible part of the screen) or simply reducing the frame rates of flash applications that are using battery power when they are not in focus). Some required much more thinking such as form fields receiving focus when the tab is hit from an HTML form element above a flash form element). To scale to mobile was a challenge which has been met with the Flash PLayer 10.1. The Google Nexus 1 phone (which I own) does a great job of running the full version of Flash (not Flash Lite). The FP 10.1 has *huge* technical improvements from previous versions Adobe is full on excited about HTML 5 too. There are some really cool possibilities about using HTML 5 features side by side with Flash. Serge Jespers did a great job of showing this on his blog late last week: http://www.webkitchen.be/2010/03/05/the-html5-flash-marriage-geolocation/ The fact is that HTML being updated is not something everyone asked for, but in it's execution, there are some obvious features that I am glad to see such as the Video element. I do share some concerns about how more advanced API's get implemented (such as the document.evaluate(); API) for complex XSLT processing but hope the industry will figure it out. DN " any technology can be used for good or for evil. The only question is how you decide to use your coding time in between " - Gandalf
I wonder if this would make some (clearly stupid) people feel that they can now safely disregard looking after the earth with the comfort of a bigger and newer planet so close by? duane chaos "chaos is not just a theory!"
An anonymous reader writes "There is a storm brewing in Canada as the prestigious Conference Board of Canada has been caught plagiarizing US copyright lobby group documents in a report on copyright reform. The report was funded by the Canadian copyright lobby as well as by the Ontario government. The Conference Board has acknowledged some errors, but stands by the report, while the Ontario government admits spending thousands of dollars and it now wants some answers."
Oh dang it!! I'm Canadian and I just did it again...
I can see why. Vista sucks. It is the operating system of the mentally deficient. I now have XP installed (I have to have at least one Win machine for work) and refuse to even try Win 7 due to a complete lack of trust with Redmond. It is their own doing and when you stir up a hornets nest, you get stung.
Hilarious idea - get 500 /.er's entering an amateur competition to prove of disprove myths for a reality show.
I want to work for Mythbuster's, wake every morning, have a coffee, grab some dynamite and blow shit up!!
I live in Canada. According to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, "15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability." Also - 2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: a) freedom of conscience and religion; b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication; c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and d) freedom of association. http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/
http://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Universe-Michael-Talbot/dp/0060922583 Michael Talbot wrote this book years ago. Others have had this theory since 1980-1985. Of course, if it is a hologram, those who created it might want you to read this comment. LOL! THe book itself was written in 1992.
"it is the only living mammal that can actually inject venom into their prey through specialized teeth" did they invite Steve Ballmer to this contest? At least the shrew cannot throw a chair very far.
and I can see why this would be needed. It was 26 in the winter. I would however worry about the effect of some kid digging into a freon tube with a shovel or a leak. Nevertheless, it would make far more sense to use the natural deep water to pipe up onto the sub-beach level to act as a heat-exchanger. Duane Nickull http://technoracle.blogspot.com
I work for Adobe on the ODF Technical Committee. ODF made some great decisions that make the format much more admirable over others (use of RelaxNG Schema, open formats wherever possible etc.). I am happy about the growing use of OO. Jon Bosak also has posted some great thoughts on this. Jon's thoughts on ODF, OOXML and PDF.
C'mon! A dialysis machine built using a breadbox. This doesn't compete with my hommey Ricky-Dean who can build an atomic bomb with a digital timer using only a dead bumble-bee, bits of string and twigs found on the forest floor. Feh!!!
NBC censors stuff for Americans dude! Do you think you are seeing world news in America from network cable? Try VPNing to Europe then load the same page twice. Oh wait - they tell you it's not censored. it must be free press. " - The most trusted name in news your government allows to to see"
Three simple tips: 1. use a bike to get to meetings, go to the store 2. have weights in your office and use them while programs compile, during conference calls etc. 3. walk to get lunch every day. Why this combination? Weights grow larger muscles. Larger muscles need more calories so your base metabolic rate goes higher and burns more calories on a daily basis. The stronger muscles help avoid injuries if you go skiing, snowboarding etc. I use to be a world cup mountain bike racer before immersing myself in high tech. It just about killed me the first 3 years. Find balance - be happy - live longer and healthier.
That's all I can say about him. The woman and child didn't deserve this.
For some reason I thought you meant ISS in the context of the software application that allows all the PCs on a network simultaneous access to the Internet through a single connection and ISP ...
www.intel.com/products/glossary/body.htm
Too bad. That would have been fun to banish to another planet.
Only Media Group, 406-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, ON, Canada, M3C 3G8 Got it from their license and terms at: http://www.jlove.co.il/popterms.aspx Under Canadian Corporate law, this has to be a physical place, not a virtual place. Any corporate entity has to have their records located at such a place and open for inspection upon legal request. This is the registered and records office of the company in Toronto. YOu can actually go into this address and find someone. Here is a map. http://maps.google.com/maps?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=Only%20Media%20Group%2C%20406-250%20Ferrand%20Drive%2C%20Toronto%2C%20ON%2C%20Canada%2C%20M3C%203G8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl It is right off Don Mills road. The license does say you can send in a written request. If it bothers you that much, you should just send them a legal letter by registered mail. We have laws in Canada BTW so you can take legal action. This isn't really hard to fix so I am not sure why it made Slashdot front page.
Here are some tips:
1. For starters, unless you signed up, your photograph is intellectual property owned by the person who took the photo. They can contact the site owner(s) and demand it be taken down. Most of the scan sites register with godaddy.com as it makes the true owner blind so I doubt you'd actually be able to find the real owner and hold them legally accountable.
2. If you have suffered some kind of damages or embarrassment (example - argument with your spouse), you can actually start a legal action in your own jurisdiction and sue the legal owner. In lack of the legal entities real identification, you can sue domain name holder proxy and force them to respond in your legal jurisdiction. It makes it a big advantage for you as they will have to contract out responses to your claims to a legal firm in your area.
3. Immediately let the site owner know (and document) that you are not okay with your name and photo being used. Give them a reasonable amount of time to bring it down before commencing legal action.
Now on to the not just legal stuff:
1. Find out who they are and show up at their doorstep. For example, there was a guy who regularly spammed me in Vancouyer, claiming it was his right. I stalked him and showed up at a user group meeting and basically stood in front of him asking him to chose one of two sentences to say. His choices were "I will never spam you again" or "please stop beating my head in with a chair". He got the message. I am going to China later this year to confront someone else while there on normal business. Scaring the shit out of someone works well when they make the connection that they cannot just do shit online with no consequence.
2. Point you profile at his competition.(if you have access)
3. Find out who hosts his site and make it very uncomfortable for them to continue doing so. Make it clear that you have been in touch with authorities and will be demanding an audit of their sites they serve.
4. Disrupt their business model.
Your best bet is probably to ignore it completely though as all of these will take you much more time than it will be worth. At the end of the day they have probably been sneaky enough to get around the rules in a way that will require you to pay money, spend time chasing a ghost.
Good luck.