This makes no sense they had like what 30% of search in China and 600MM a year in revenue. Yahoo Microsoft et al. have much much less than that and they see no need to walk away from China. They are the second largest search provider in China you don't walk away from that lightly and you don't run away when you are GAINING market share. So that's just tripe I can't see why people think this would be insightful at all.
Wait what? He should be modded down because you disagree with him? There is no -1 disagree moderation moderation is not for burying people who's opinions don't line up perfectly or nearly so with yours. Although to be fair that is how most people seem to use it.
I am cubicle Joe and I want to work as a graphics designer. How do I get started? Do I grow a pony tail get a Macbook hang out at a coffee shop all day and act as though I am superior to everyone else? Will that net me a trust fund and a girlfriend in a corduroy skirt?
Lotus Notes is a self corrupting database posing as an email system;-)
Seriously though why not just web forms keep java script in the browser so we only have to worry about the browser as a javascript threat vector. PDF forms seem like a complete duplication and a poor one at that since it's more efficient to send someone a URL to a website that can take the data and then pass it on to the back end system automatically. Only reason I see people doing the adobe forms is because they are too lazy, dumb, or ignorant to either build a simple forms based web app or hire a coder to do it for them.
Adobe gives them a simple tool they can do it themselves without knowing any code. Wait I just had a product idea everyone stop reading this and forget what I have said. I will reinvent Lotus Notes only this time it will work!
Sorry didn't mean to attack you personally for owning an iPhone get over it. I was using an iPhone as of early December you are making apologies for Apples terrible and arbitrary app approval process. Do you have an Apple tattoo or the logo shaved in to the side of your head? Sorry the truth is the truth no matter how much it hurts your inner fanboi.
Android has apps iPhone doesn't like built in voice navigation in google maps, google voice, google goggles, and tethering most of which Apple has outright denied for iPhone store and so will never be on the iPhone. I have both an iPhone 3G and a Moto droid just switched mostly because AT&T sucks big donkey dicks. And In some ways the Droid is better removable battery, upgradeable memory, slide out kb, 5MP camera and some of the apps are really great like Listen (streaming podcatcher). In some ways it's not as good as the iPhone some of the built in apps are only so so like the music app and no iTunes like synching desktop app for seamless integration of playlists and device backup Windows media player does not really count IMO. But overall I would give the nod to the Droid because of the Verizon network as AT&T just blows.
Why is Miguel a fox in the hen house? As I understand it he is making an open source implementation (Moonlight) of a closed source virtual machine for C# (Silverlight). Why does this make him somehow the bad guy. Gnash is an open source implementation of a closed source virtual machine (Flash Player). And yet they are largely held up as heroes because they are making it possible to use a full open source environment and still see flash content. How is this any different from what Miguel is doing with Moonlight?
I would say people are being wholly irrational about this simply because Microsoft is the maker of Silverlight. Because logically speaking it makes no sense hold up Miguel as a villain and the Gnash team as heroes when they are doing the same types of projects. And ultimately they both are allowing a full open source operating environment to be able to run more content. How is that bad?
2. If you choose to stay on Windows then...
A. Get Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender on each host
B. Put an open source untangle firewall at the border turn on the anti virus, anti spyware, anti phishing features of untangle turn on web filtering for malware on untangle use protocol control for torrent if they pirate a lot of stuff becase most torrents also have trojans.
C. Give them Firefox with adblock plus and noscript. Remove the IE icons.
Problem solved and you don't even have to bother them with the details FYI they don't care about the details
Bullshit! try reading known issues on Technet for Vista. I personally saw this little gem a lot http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929762 Pull your head out of your ass Vista pre SP1 was very unstable, slow http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx, and buggy http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/03/vista-capable-lawsuit-paints-picture-of-buggy-nvidia-drivers.ars. How does this horseshit get modded up? Not all of it was Microsoft's fault some of it came from an unprepared Windows ecosystem (nvidia). But since Microsoft largely drives that ecosystem the lack of prep could be laid at their feet as well.
I have been running Windows 7 since RC and it seems much more stable faster etc... (granted that's my anecdotal experience) What Vista should have been.
I am suprised this hasn't been mentioned. But in fact there is a disparity in the regulations as they exist now. Telcos still do have to provide open access to competing DSL providers. Around here for example Front Range Internet is using that open access to sell DSL accounts. Cable companies do not have to abide by the same rules it was decided for whatever asinine reason (payoff) that cable companies would not be held to the same standard as their competitor. Of course Qwest here is pissed about it and as much as I generally despise Qwest they are right about that not being at all fair.
My understanding was that the original Blackberry storm was widely panned as being slow buggy and generally unusable. The Palm pre on the other hand has been said by many reviewers I have read to be solid and the only real competitor to the iPhone. By the way I own neither.
AT&T sucks in pretty much every way. Most likely explanation is they have a crappy network, Sprint has the pre and Verizon has the Blackberry. The latter being incredibly popular and data intensive and their networks don't fold up under the load. News flash AT&T or Cingular or whatever they call themselves this week are super lame. They recently charged me a discount fee I hate them with all my heart.
Maybe you suck at shopping. Just saying but you can have a smoking hot system for 800 these days. And consoles don't age well they start looking like crap compared to the latest PC tech a few years after release. So while you can play the latest on consoles they start to pale when in comparison to the latest PC graphics (not that graphics are all that important anyway). Not to mention even if it was a few dollars more which it's not even really it's worth it for the freedom and openness a more open platform provides. And it's more than worth it not to completely be locked in to one companies corporate store. It's bad enough that if you want to game your stuck with Windows. It's even worse with Xbox because Microsoft owns your whole world and will micro-transact a whole LOT MORE money out of you in the long run your kidding yourself.
The argument that consoles are cheaper is compete bunk. You still need a computer right? So even if you buy a POS computer your going to spend 350-400 and your going top spend another 350-400 on a console too. So now your talking about 700-800 you can build a decent gaming rig for that and it can be upgraded over time for incremental cost. Also as is pointed out consoles are locked down like subsidized cell phones. They try to monetize everything from gamer icons to backgrounds to down-loadable content, to matchmaking and patch service like Xbox live. Oh and lets not forget after you PAY for update service and matchmaking service you get the pleasure of seeing ads that you cannot even disable on said service. It's a complete and total scam and a really bad precedent for gaming if you think about it for five minutes. Consoles are like Mussolini's Italy sure the trains run on time but you have no freedom.
Most work sucks in reality that's why they call it work and not play this is reality get used to it. The number of people that actually have fun interesting jobs are relatively few. You doubt this, really look at peoples faces at street lights and intersection on your next commute to work to a man and woman they all look miserable. Not to be too much of a downer but modern life is for most people is a daily drudgery. Why else would so many be on anti depressants? I would settle for my work being meaningful and yet I don't even get that.
Problem with grouping especially in a pick up group is the greater internet fuckwad theory http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/ comes in to play and people actually ruin the game instead of make it better a lot of the time. I want to group but don't often because ppl just want to power game and "zerg' through the content and ruin it for you.
Yeah not to mention that imageshack is clearly a security website that's in favor of full disclosure and has profited from it what with all the goatse pics WTF?
I am betting this site does not get a lot of traffic as it is and they are talking about spending 9.5 million through this January .
two flash developers for the interactive stuff for one year 250K total one web developer 125K one DBA 125K one sys admin 125K one accountant type 125K 4 kick ass servers with firewall and SAN and load balancer 1MM
Roughly 1.75 million through July of next year and this is a high estimate in my opinion for a site that I bet does not even get 10k hits a day.
I think we are missing some reading comprehension here. He is saying pulse audio is not necessary nor is any other sound server. There are only two low level audio libraries in linux OSS and ALSA. These other sounds servers he says were created to deal with the lack of software mixing on OSS v3. Since there is not a lack of software mixing in OSS v4 or alsa there is no need to have a sound server and in fact it just adds latency and complexity. I think this is a bit eye opening as I never really understood the relationship between sound server and back end sound library. If this is true then the whole concept of a sound server is vestigial.
As far as which is better alsa or OSS v4 that sounds like a flame war ready to happen. I just want something straightforward that works well with low latencies can we get that?
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This makes no sense they had like what 30% of search in China and 600MM a year in revenue. Yahoo Microsoft et al. have much much less than that and they see no need to walk away from China. They are the second largest search provider in China you don't walk away from that lightly and you don't run away when you are GAINING market share. So that's just tripe I can't see why people think this would be insightful at all.
Wait what? He should be modded down because you disagree with him? There is no -1 disagree moderation moderation is not for burying people who's opinions don't line up perfectly or nearly so with yours. Although to be fair that is how most people seem to use it.
I am cubicle Joe and I want to work as a graphics designer. How do I get started? Do I grow a pony tail get a Macbook hang out at a coffee shop all day and act as though I am superior to everyone else? Will that net me a trust fund and a girlfriend in a corduroy skirt?
Lotus Notes is a self corrupting database posing as an email system ;-)
Seriously though why not just web forms keep java script in the browser so we only have to worry about the browser as a javascript threat vector. PDF forms seem like a complete duplication and a poor one at that since it's more efficient to send someone a URL to a website that can take the data and then pass it on to the back end system automatically. Only reason I see people doing the adobe forms is because they are too lazy, dumb, or ignorant to either build a simple forms based web app or hire a coder to do it for them.
Adobe gives them a simple tool they can do it themselves without knowing any code. Wait I just had a product idea everyone stop reading this and forget what I have said. I will reinvent Lotus Notes only this time it will work!
Sorry didn't mean to attack you personally for owning an iPhone get over it. I was using an iPhone as of early December you are making apologies for Apples terrible and arbitrary app approval process. Do you have an Apple tattoo or the logo shaved in to the side of your head? Sorry the truth is the truth no matter how much it hurts your inner fanboi.
Android has apps iPhone doesn't like built in voice navigation in google maps, google voice, google goggles, and tethering most of which Apple has outright denied for iPhone store and so will never be on the iPhone. I have both an iPhone 3G and a Moto droid just switched mostly because AT&T sucks big donkey dicks. And In some ways the Droid is better removable battery, upgradeable memory, slide out kb, 5MP camera and some of the apps are really great like Listen (streaming podcatcher). In some ways it's not as good as the iPhone some of the built in apps are only so so like the music app and no iTunes like synching desktop app for seamless integration of playlists and device backup Windows media player does not really count IMO. But overall I would give the nod to the Droid because of the Verizon network as AT&T just blows.
Why is Miguel a fox in the hen house? As I understand it he is making an open source implementation (Moonlight) of a closed source virtual machine for C# (Silverlight). Why does this make him somehow the bad guy. Gnash is an open source implementation of a closed source virtual machine (Flash Player). And yet they are largely held up as heroes because they are making it possible to use a full open source environment and still see flash content. How is this any different from what Miguel is doing with Moonlight?
I would say people are being wholly irrational about this simply because Microsoft is the maker of Silverlight. Because logically speaking it makes no sense hold up Miguel as a villain and the Gnash team as heroes when they are doing the same types of projects. And ultimately they both are allowing a full open source operating environment to be able to run more content. How is that bad?
1 . get them Macs
2. If you choose to stay on Windows then...
A. Get Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender on each host
B. Put an open source untangle firewall at the border turn on the anti virus, anti spyware, anti phishing features of untangle turn on web filtering for malware on untangle use protocol control for torrent if they pirate a lot of stuff becase most torrents also have trojans.
C. Give them Firefox with adblock plus and noscript. Remove the IE icons.
Problem solved and you don't even have to bother them with the details FYI they don't care about the details
"One of the other things I am very disgusted about"
disgusted much?
Lighten up it's just a three ring circus to which we each have tickets.
Bullshit! try reading known issues on Technet for Vista. I personally saw this little gem a lot http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929762 Pull your head out of your ass Vista pre SP1 was very unstable, slow http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx, and buggy http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/03/vista-capable-lawsuit-paints-picture-of-buggy-nvidia-drivers.ars. How does this horseshit get modded up? Not all of it was Microsoft's fault some of it came from an unprepared Windows ecosystem (nvidia). But since Microsoft largely drives that ecosystem the lack of prep could be laid at their feet as well.
I have been running Windows 7 since RC and it seems much more stable faster etc... (granted that's my anecdotal experience) What Vista should have been.
I am suprised this hasn't been mentioned. But in fact there is a disparity in the regulations as they exist now. Telcos still do have to provide open access to competing DSL providers. Around here for example Front Range Internet is using that open access to sell DSL accounts. Cable companies do not have to abide by the same rules it was decided for whatever asinine reason (payoff) that cable companies would not be held to the same standard as their competitor. Of course Qwest here is pissed about it and as much as I generally despise Qwest they are right about that not being at all fair.
My understanding was that the original Blackberry storm was widely panned as being slow buggy and generally unusable. The Palm pre on the other hand has been said by many reviewers I have read to be solid and the only real competitor to the iPhone. By the way I own neither.
AT&T sucks in pretty much every way. Most likely explanation is they have a crappy network, Sprint has the pre and Verizon has the Blackberry. The latter being incredibly popular and data intensive and their networks don't fold up under the load. News flash AT&T or Cingular or whatever they call themselves this week are super lame. They recently charged me a discount fee I hate them with all my heart.
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Doing business with Nominum is not akin to doing business with grifters and thieves. But people who do so are opening themselves up to problems.
Maybe you suck at shopping. Just saying but you can have a smoking hot system for 800 these days. And consoles don't age well they start looking like crap compared to the latest PC tech a few years after release. So while you can play the latest on consoles they start to pale when in comparison to the latest PC graphics (not that graphics are all that important anyway). Not to mention even if it was a few dollars more which it's not even really it's worth it for the freedom and openness a more open platform provides. And it's more than worth it not to completely be locked in to one companies corporate store. It's bad enough that if you want to game your stuck with Windows. It's even worse with Xbox because Microsoft owns your whole world and will micro-transact a whole LOT MORE money out of you in the long run your kidding yourself.
The argument that consoles are cheaper is compete bunk. You still need a computer right? So even if you buy a POS computer your going to spend 350-400 and your going top spend another 350-400 on a console too. So now your talking about 700-800 you can build a decent gaming rig for that and it can be upgraded over time for incremental cost. Also as is pointed out consoles are locked down like subsidized cell phones. They try to monetize everything from gamer icons to backgrounds to down-loadable content, to matchmaking and patch service like Xbox live. Oh and lets not forget after you PAY for update service and matchmaking service you get the pleasure of seeing ads that you cannot even disable on said service. It's a complete and total scam and a really bad precedent for gaming if you think about it for five minutes. Consoles are like Mussolini's Italy sure the trains run on time but you have no freedom.
Most work sucks in reality that's why they call it work and not play this is reality get used to it. The number of people that actually have fun interesting jobs are relatively few. You doubt this, really look at peoples faces at street lights and intersection on your next commute to work to a man and woman they all look miserable. Not to be too much of a downer but modern life is for most people is a daily drudgery. Why else would so many be on anti depressants? I would settle for my work being meaningful and yet I don't even get that.
Problem with grouping especially in a pick up group is the greater internet fuckwad theory http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/ comes in to play and people actually ruin the game instead of make it better a lot of the time. I want to group but don't often because ppl just want to power game and "zerg' through the content and ruin it for you.
Yeah not to mention that imageshack is clearly a security website that's in favor of full disclosure and has profited from it what with all the goatse pics WTF?
I am betting this site does not get a lot of traffic as it is and they are talking about spending 9.5 million through this January .
two flash developers for the interactive stuff for one year 250K total
one web developer 125K
one DBA 125K
one sys admin 125K
one accountant type 125K
4 kick ass servers with firewall and SAN and load balancer 1MM
Roughly 1.75 million through July of next year and this is a high estimate in my opinion for a site that I bet does not even get 10k hits a day.
57.7% by the way
I think we are missing some reading comprehension here. He is saying pulse audio is not necessary nor is any other sound server. There are only two low level audio libraries in linux OSS and ALSA. These other sounds servers he says were created to deal with the lack of software mixing on OSS v3. Since there is not a lack of software mixing in OSS v4 or alsa there is no need to have a sound server and in fact it just adds latency and complexity. I think this is a bit eye opening as I never really understood the relationship between sound server and back end sound library. If this is true then the whole concept of a sound server is vestigial.
As far as which is better alsa or OSS v4 that sounds like a flame war ready to happen. I just want something straightforward that works well with low latencies can we get that?
It's shopped clearly someone is having a bit of fun and you all fell for it LOL.
Vaporail?