.. which is a silly use of flash anyway, and only necessitated by the lack of a set of a good quality standard video codecs. Still could be done better in applets anyway.
Yea, it's much better apparently to decode with a bytecode decoder written in Java (a 20MB runtime) vs a light binary decoder in Flash (1 MB runtime).
You should jump and do your own YouTube right now.
Apparently some people, erm, slashdot posters, forget that they know fuck all about physics.
Special and general relativity both are built around the very central concept that time is a dimension just as much as the three dimensions of space is.
You're apparently pissed off at my lack of knowledge, why not walk backwards in time and stop me from posting? I mean, it's as much a dimension as the spatial ones.
The reason people get tangled up in 40 dimensional theories is they read on the math behind relativity, and just like you did, they start forgetting that the time dimension is imaginary, or I'll quote Steven Hawking, who knows fuck about physics:
"...we may regard our use of imaginary time and Euclidean space-time as merely a mathematical device (or trick) to calculate answers about real space-time."
In relativity, time and the spatial dimensions share a lot (not ALL) of their properties, but math aside, this is still a manifestation of the properties of the spatial dimensions and interactions occurring within them. Not only isn't time a real dimension, time doesn't exist at all. It's an abstract concept that makes it easier for us to come up with constructs based upon it.
Lots of fallacies form when you forget you created a concept as an instrument to better understand the world we live in.
Unless they plan to port it to Flash, buying this company and its product was a pretty dumb decision. Java applets are a long forgotten archaism from the early days of the web.
First Apple says they don't want their office app to compete with MSOffice, now Google says they don't want to compete with MSOffice. When will someone man up and compete? OpenOffice is nice but it has a HUGE number of flaws still. We NEED competition here.
Because none of them is ready to compete with Office yet. We've seen our share of "Linux takes over Windows this year!" claims, and they've all been forgotten, and lately even laughed at.
It doesn't mean they aren't gearing up to compete with Office.
But we do not yet have the technology to have computers electricute or shoot people who want to use animations in presentations, so the best that the programmers can do is disallow the presentations from being exported to filetypes that allow animations, hence pdf.
The problem isn't in animation, but in poor utility. People say they hate absolutely every site that uses Flash, "Flash garbage!" and then go to watch the latest videos on YouTube.
You're making some huge mistakes. First, the cost of office software is nothing for a corporation, compared to its other expenses (taxes, salaries, hardware, office bills and so on and so on).
Second, those Google Apps are suitable for some purposes, but for heavy or advanced usage, they're totally unfit. So far we're looking at a bunch of online toys trying to pretend they're Office. They will replace Office exactly as the "web OS" sites will replace Windows.
Third, if a company is desperate to save from licensing costs, they can use OpenOffice. As much as OpenOffice lacks certain functionality, it's a desktop app, and ages ahead of Google's apps.
Apparently some people, erm, scientists, forget that time as a dimension is just a metaphor meant to ease explanation of certain mathematical formulas, as found in special and general relativity.
This obsession with throwing in more and more dimension until it appears to make sense is not going to take us anywhere. String theory is already at 12 dimensions in some of its versions. There's talk about more time dimensions, "curled up" dimensions and other such nonsense.
The only fact there are such a multitude of "multidimensional" theories, each one assuming hundreds of untested things in the name of arriving at proper results on the bottom line, says, that most likely none of them hold ground in reality.
Not that you can blame them, science work when you can test and prove/disprove your theory, on quantum level, and trying to create a model for intangible things, this is infuriatingly difficult.
When your stuff works too well, you have to "fix" it. When it doesn't work well enough, you have to fix it. And in the theoretical scenario where you get it to work just right, you'll be hated, and likely out of a job.
Most DRM technology providers so far were clueless idiots capitalizing on the greed of the media companies.
Granted AACS is actually well designed (but due to implementation flaws and nature of DRM, not perfect), but everything else I've inspected is just hack upon hack creating the illusion of protection. No wonder it's failure prone.
As you can see, there's an assload of safeguards against what you say happens all the time, and Microsoft do revoke WMRM certificates for using them to install spyware or trojans.
There's lots of safeguards to obtain a proper license, but ironically if you don't care to obtain a proper license, but just a backdoor, your options are far more. It's the irony of DRM implementation but from the other side (makes it hard for legal users, easy for illegal users).
And there's this other burning question: why allow trojans to be installed via the media player at all, even after a myriad of hoops? There's no need to run downloadable executables on the client OS to implement DRM certificates, is there.
Oh, just like Framemaker. And Premier....and lots of other apps Adobe used to develop for the Mac.
Framemaker is no longer maintained on either OS. Premier has a new MacIntel version. And what are all those "other" apps?
Adobe's got a new strategy where cross platform is crucial. While no huge corporation can be expected to be 100% consistent in every single thing they do, they've shown far, FAR more commitment to supporting crossplatform products that Microsoft.
Even take this: Adobe has Mac version of their authoring tools, Microsoft offers only Windows version, despite the player is crossplatform (for now).
And look at where Photoshop is going...an interface mess that's more Windows-on-MacOS than a Mac application.
The interface of most new Adobe apps isn't native on Windows either. Actually it's a cross-OS GUI platform that allows them to more easily create applications that act consistently for all OS they target.
You'll do yourself a favor to see the new applications by Apple itself. They don't look OSX native either. Dark black matte and gray controls, almost nothing is shared with the OSX look. We're past the point where every app looks the same.
Once we learned to shape our environment to our tastes, rather than change ourselves, the game was over.
I wouldn't agree. The thing is, animals in the wild adapt to a natural environment, which is far more widespread and stable that human created habitats.
We never stop evolving, number of changes indeed doesn't matter much, if we live longer, we evolve less number of times because every generation gets to live longer and generally mates later on in their life. If due to unfitness we start living much shorter lives, we'll see more/faster iterations, as we witness in lower cultures.
The problem is that we become dependant on artificial environment that is fragile. The key word being "fragile" and not "artificial". We depend on makeup/cosmetics for better skin/look, complex/expensive medicines for better health, vehicles for transportation etc etc.
In the event of a massive catastrophe, if this habitat is destroyed, humans will fall first. It's the risk we take for being so "smart". It's a simple progressions were simpler organisms are more and more resilient to hostile environment. The extreme example being the single cell organisms found living in nuclear reactors.
Because the launch price of the cheapest version of Windows Vista whose questionably enforceable EULA allows virtualization is much greater than the launch price of the cheapest version of Windows XP whose questionably enforceable EULA allowed virtualization.
And..? Who the hell says companies should allow virtualization in their licenses for free? Are you coming from Mars?
So, it is not a Mac penalty, it is a VMWare penalty.
Since when is paying for the right license a penalty. The cheaper license doesn't allow VM, the more expensive does.
It's no more penalty that it's a penalty that 10-seat licenses cost more than 5-seat licenses, or that a commercial license costs more than educational.
What's up with these binary comparisons?... [snip]... the market may indeed be screaming for a decent mobile phone, like they were screaming for a decent MP3 player around when the iPod gained in popularity.
If for anything, learn from your own advice. iPhone isn't a second coming of iPod, the dynamics of the cellphone market are totally different, the iPhone price, given the 2-year contract, is outrageous, custom apps are locked.
Another thing: yes a million people inquired about iPhone. I was one of them. I don't want to buy it, I just want to know when it's out and read more about it. I expect mostly "ok, now hype is over and it's not really as good as Jobs made it out" kind of reviews.
Much more delicate than the Internet is the power grid it relies on.
People in IT like to brag how robust and reliable Internet is in the event if a disaster, but I've seen far more interruption of my internet service (at any point on the route), that interruptions of my electricity.
Your observations are too brutally simple to really mean anything.
You're calling my observations brutally simple and then compare scrapping the Internet with Verizon installing fiber in your *town*?
You compare the world with a provider in your town, again?
Also I've the feeling even Verizon in your town didn't "scrap" the modems, but will gradually transition to fiber as it's ready to be deployed, area by area.
The problem with Snipshot is that it will never attain the performance of a desktop app is because it's instructing the server to do all the work and any visual updates require sending another image back to the client after the server has performed them. The browser does zero actual work; it's the only way it can be done within the HTML/JS confines.
Snipshot is Flash application that does all the processing work *IN* your browser. The only thing it sends to the server is the final JPG to send it back to you, and this is done out of necessity, as Flash can't spawn a download on its own (maybe something that will change in the next versions),.
You're close, Vista is a technology release getting ready to "tuck away" Win32 in sandbox mode. Vienna will be built almost entirely around.NET and only look like Windows but actually it won't be Windows at all.
We're at a point where total reboot/scrapping of the Internet is as likely as waking up tommorow and finding all of IPv4 scrapped in favor of new shiny IPv6.
There's more loss in scrapping everything and starting over than it is to improve existing solutions in a compatible manner.
Another example: everybody knows the x86 instruction set and interface sucks. It so sucks, that for quite some time AMD and Intel don't produce x86 chips anymore. Have you felt any revolution or "scrapping" going on"? No because all modern chips will take the x86 instructions and translate them internally, so on the outside the chip works with x86 software.
This is how progress works: if something is used massively world-wide, and something sucks about it, expect slow gradual transition, where the offending problems will be tucked away in a compatibility, emulation, translation layer and earth keeps spinning.
Stop crying about it. This is yesterday's news, as we know all corporations are evil by definition.
The new rage is corporations which are open to how evil they are, such as Microsoft's new slogan for 2008 "We're evil", and Yahoo's campaign "Tell us how we can be evil for you today", trying to tighten Yahoo's communication with their users.
Google is also planning a new PR image, but since it would be quite shocking to their existing fans, the search engine plants a gradual transition, where they will change their slogan every month such as "Evil 5%", "Evil 10%", "Evil 15%" until they reach 100%.
This is not security by obscurity. In security two parties exchange a key and encrypted info. You're not supposed to have access to either party.
What we have here is two parties exchanging encrypted info and then giving you a limited peak at that info for a fee. Given you have full access to one of the parties, and he's constantly teasing you with his knowledge, it's reasonable at some point you'll want to beat him up until he cracks up and gives you the key.
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.. which is a silly use of flash anyway, and only necessitated by the lack of a set of a good quality standard video codecs.
Still could be done better in applets anyway.
Yea, it's much better apparently to decode with a bytecode decoder written in Java (a 20MB runtime) vs a light binary decoder in Flash (1 MB runtime).
You should jump and do your own YouTube right now.
Apparently some people, erm, slashdot posters, forget that they know fuck all about physics.
Special and general relativity both are built around the very central concept that time is a dimension just as much as the three dimensions of space is.
You're apparently pissed off at my lack of knowledge, why not walk backwards in time and stop me from posting? I mean, it's as much a dimension as the spatial ones.
The reason people get tangled up in 40 dimensional theories is they read on the math behind relativity, and just like you did, they start forgetting that the time dimension is imaginary, or I'll quote Steven Hawking, who knows fuck about physics:
"...we may regard our use of imaginary time and Euclidean space-time as merely a mathematical device (or trick) to calculate answers about real space-time."
In relativity, time and the spatial dimensions share a lot (not ALL) of their properties, but math aside, this is still a manifestation of the properties of the spatial dimensions and interactions occurring within them. Not only isn't time a real dimension, time doesn't exist at all. It's an abstract concept that makes it easier for us to come up with constructs based upon it.
Lots of fallacies form when you forget you created a concept as an instrument to better understand the world we live in.
...that provides Java presentation automation products...
Unless they plan to port it to Flash, buying this company and its product was a pretty dumb decision. Java applets are a long forgotten archaism from the early days of the web.
First Apple says they don't want their office app to compete with MSOffice, now Google says they don't want to compete with MSOffice. When will someone man up and compete? OpenOffice is nice but it has a HUGE number of flaws still. We NEED competition here.
Because none of them is ready to compete with Office yet. We've seen our share of "Linux takes over Windows this year!" claims, and they've all been forgotten, and lately even laughed at.
It doesn't mean they aren't gearing up to compete with Office.
But we do not yet have the technology to have computers electricute or shoot people who want to use animations in presentations, so the best that the programmers can do is disallow the presentations from being exported to filetypes that allow animations, hence pdf.
The problem isn't in animation, but in poor utility. People say they hate absolutely every site that uses Flash, "Flash garbage!" and then go to watch the latest videos on YouTube.
You're making some huge mistakes. First, the cost of office software is nothing for a corporation, compared to its other expenses (taxes, salaries, hardware, office bills and so on and so on).
Second, those Google Apps are suitable for some purposes, but for heavy or advanced usage, they're totally unfit. So far we're looking at a bunch of online toys trying to pretend they're Office. They will replace Office exactly as the "web OS" sites will replace Windows.
Third, if a company is desperate to save from licensing costs, they can use OpenOffice. As much as OpenOffice lacks certain functionality, it's a desktop app, and ages ahead of Google's apps.
Apparently some people, erm, scientists, forget that time as a dimension is just a metaphor meant to ease explanation of certain mathematical formulas, as found in special and general relativity.
This obsession with throwing in more and more dimension until it appears to make sense is not going to take us anywhere. String theory is already at 12 dimensions in some of its versions. There's talk about more time dimensions, "curled up" dimensions and other such nonsense.
The only fact there are such a multitude of "multidimensional" theories, each one assuming hundreds of untested things in the name of arriving at proper results on the bottom line, says, that most likely none of them hold ground in reality.
Not that you can blame them, science work when you can test and prove/disprove your theory, on quantum level, and trying to create a model for intangible things, this is infuriatingly difficult.
When your stuff works too well, you have to "fix" it. When it doesn't work well enough, you have to fix it. And in the theoretical scenario where you get it to work just right, you'll be hated, and likely out of a job.
Most DRM technology providers so far were clueless idiots capitalizing on the greed of the media companies.
Granted AACS is actually well designed (but due to implementation flaws and nature of DRM, not perfect), but everything else I've inspected is just hack upon hack creating the illusion of protection. No wonder it's failure prone.
As you can see, there's an assload of safeguards against what you say happens all the time, and Microsoft do revoke WMRM certificates for using them to install spyware or trojans.
There's lots of safeguards to obtain a proper license, but ironically if you don't care to obtain a proper license, but just a backdoor, your options are far more. It's the irony of DRM implementation but from the other side (makes it hard for legal users, easy for illegal users).
And there's this other burning question: why allow trojans to be installed via the media player at all, even after a myriad of hoops? There's no need to run downloadable executables on the client OS to implement DRM certificates, is there.
Oh, just like Framemaker. And Premier. ...and lots of other apps Adobe used to develop for the Mac.
Framemaker is no longer maintained on either OS. Premier has a new MacIntel version. And what are all those "other" apps?
Adobe's got a new strategy where cross platform is crucial. While no huge corporation can be expected to be 100% consistent in every single thing they do, they've shown far, FAR more commitment to supporting crossplatform products that Microsoft.
Even take this: Adobe has Mac version of their authoring tools, Microsoft offers only Windows version, despite the player is crossplatform (for now).
And look at where Photoshop is going...an interface mess that's more Windows-on-MacOS than a Mac application.
The interface of most new Adobe apps isn't native on Windows either. Actually it's a cross-OS GUI platform that allows them to more easily create applications that act consistently for all OS they target.
You'll do yourself a favor to see the new applications by Apple itself. They don't look OSX native either. Dark black matte and gray controls, almost nothing is shared with the OSX look. We're past the point where every app looks the same.
Once we learned to shape our environment to our tastes, rather than change ourselves, the game was over.
I wouldn't agree. The thing is, animals in the wild adapt to a natural environment, which is far more widespread and stable that human created habitats.
We never stop evolving, number of changes indeed doesn't matter much, if we live longer, we evolve less number of times because every generation gets to live longer and generally mates later on in their life. If due to unfitness we start living much shorter lives, we'll see more/faster iterations, as we witness in lower cultures.
The problem is that we become dependant on artificial environment that is fragile. The key word being "fragile" and not "artificial". We depend on makeup/cosmetics for better skin/look, complex/expensive medicines for better health, vehicles for transportation etc etc.
In the event of a massive catastrophe, if this habitat is destroyed, humans will fall first. It's the risk we take for being so "smart". It's a simple progressions were simpler organisms are more and more resilient to hostile environment. The extreme example being the single cell organisms found living in nuclear reactors.
Because the launch price of the cheapest version of Windows Vista whose questionably enforceable EULA allows virtualization is much greater than the launch price of the cheapest version of Windows XP whose questionably enforceable EULA allowed virtualization.
And..? Who the hell says companies should allow virtualization in their licenses for free? Are you coming from Mars?
So, it is not a Mac penalty, it is a VMWare penalty.
Since when is paying for the right license a penalty. The cheaper license doesn't allow VM, the more expensive does.
It's no more penalty that it's a penalty that 10-seat licenses cost more than 5-seat licenses, or that a commercial license costs more than educational.
Quit messing with our minds!
It would be nice to be able to test whether an app works on all versions of Vista without having to have them all on physical boxes.
Same goes for OSX, but alas.
What's up with these binary comparisons? ... [snip] ... the market may indeed be screaming for a decent mobile phone, like they were screaming for a decent MP3 player around when the iPod gained in popularity.
If for anything, learn from your own advice. iPhone isn't a second coming of iPod, the dynamics of the cellphone market are totally different, the iPhone price, given the 2-year contract, is outrageous, custom apps are locked.
Another thing: yes a million people inquired about iPhone. I was one of them. I don't want to buy it, I just want to know when it's out and read more about it. I expect mostly "ok, now hype is over and it's not really as good as Jobs made it out" kind of reviews.
Much more delicate than the Internet is the power grid it relies on.
People in IT like to brag how robust and reliable Internet is in the event if a disaster, but I've seen far more interruption of my internet service (at any point on the route), that interruptions of my electricity.
And that's without any terroristic activity.
Yeah thing is, Apple has already done it.
Done what. Run Windows apps? Because this whole discussion is about backwards compatibility being paramount, in case you missed it.
Your observations are too brutally simple to really mean anything.
You're calling my observations brutally simple and then compare scrapping the Internet with Verizon installing fiber in your *town*?
You compare the world with a provider in your town, again?
Also I've the feeling even Verizon in your town didn't "scrap" the modems, but will gradually transition to fiber as it's ready to be deployed, area by area.
The problem with Snipshot is that it will never attain the performance of a desktop app is because it's instructing the server to do all the work and any visual updates require sending another image back to the client after the server has performed them. The browser does zero actual work; it's the only way it can be done within the HTML/JS confines.
Snipshot is Flash application that does all the processing work *IN* your browser. The only thing it sends to the server is the final JPG to send it back to you, and this is done out of necessity, as Flash can't spawn a download on its own (maybe something that will change in the next versions),.
You're close, Vista is a technology release getting ready to "tuck away" Win32 in sandbox mode. Vienna will be built almost entirely around .NET and only look like Windows but actually it won't be Windows at all.
We're at a point where total reboot/scrapping of the Internet is as likely as waking up tommorow and finding all of IPv4 scrapped in favor of new shiny IPv6.
There's more loss in scrapping everything and starting over than it is to improve existing solutions in a compatible manner.
Another example: everybody knows the x86 instruction set and interface sucks. It so sucks, that for quite some time AMD and Intel don't produce x86 chips anymore. Have you felt any revolution or "scrapping" going on"? No because all modern chips will take the x86 instructions and translate them internally, so on the outside the chip works with x86 software.
This is how progress works: if something is used massively world-wide, and something sucks about it, expect slow gradual transition, where the offending problems will be tucked away in a compatibility, emulation, translation layer and earth keeps spinning.
... "Do no evil?"
Stop crying about it. This is yesterday's news, as we know all corporations are evil by definition.
The new rage is corporations which are open to how evil they are, such as Microsoft's new slogan for 2008 "We're evil", and Yahoo's campaign "Tell us how we can be evil for you today", trying to tighten Yahoo's communication with their users.
Google is also planning a new PR image, but since it would be quite shocking to their existing fans, the search engine plants a gradual transition, where they will change their slogan every month such as "Evil 5%", "Evil 10%", "Evil 15%" until they reach 100%.
Can they? Let's waste our time on discussing this.
Security by obscurity is no security
This is not security by obscurity. In security two parties exchange a key and encrypted info. You're not supposed to have access to either party.
What we have here is two parties exchanging encrypted info and then giving you a limited peak at that info for a fee. Given you have full access to one of the parties, and he's constantly teasing you with his knowledge, it's reasonable at some point you'll want to beat him up until he cracks up and gives you the key.