From what I've been reading lately from the few Luddites who watch broadcast TV, HD signals are more likely to require a roof-top antenna. Analog signals give the illusion of reaching farther because you can still watch TV if the the signal isn't perfect and you're willing to put up with a little static. With digital TV, if you're missing bits of the signal, there's simply no picture.
If you're trying to avoid the perception that you purchase devices based on their 'cool factor' then HTC is the way to go. HTC stands for High Tech Computer. That is so uncool. That sounds like the name of a company that produces beeping keychain toys for the dollar stores.
Add Windows Mobile, and no one will ever accuse you of using style as a deciding factor.
When this story first broke a couple of weeks ago, they suggested a far more serious abuse than just taking someone's transponder ID as your own.
It was suggested that the reading and reprogramming could be accomplished so quickly that one could set up an antenna near a busy highway and read IDs from vehicles while assigning them the ID of the previous vehicle.
This would result in a huge shuffling of IDs that would be a bureaucratic nightmare for the state and a huge pain for FastTrac's customers. The state is trying to get as many people as possible to adopt this system, and a major hack like that could possibly reverse their momentum.
Why are people shielded from the law when they start a company? Find out who broke the law and punish that person. Penalizing a company just makes its customers have to pay more.
Yeah, but it's not going to do you much good to photoshop your ex out of all your photos once they've been uploaded to all your social networking sites and archived across the interwebs.
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There are a great deal of bugs remaining in mobileMe's web interface.
For instance:
Open mail in a Safari window, then open mail in another Safari window. When you switch back to the first window, you'll get an error message: The requested action cannot be completed because this folder has been moved or deleted
Now open iWeb, upload a website to mobileMe, then try to delete it with the web interface. You can't. But notice how, even though the delete button is ghosted out, you can use the keyboard shortcut to access the delete dialog - which doesn't work.
I have a lot more of these, should I keep going?
These may not be the fault of the framework, but it doesn't do it any favors.
Anyway, offering a JavaScript framework as a suggestion for a replacement for JavaScript kinda misses the point.
This thread is a perfect example of two things:
1. Why application developers put linux at the bottom of their list. How many different flavors can one company support? Adequate QA on one version of an OS is challenging enough.
2. Why linux is not "gaining acceptance as a viable desktop OS." While I love tinkering with multiple tools that share the same aim, when I just want to run an application and not "play with my computer," I grab my Mac. Now, granted, my Mac is built on a system of taking things that catch on in the linux community (like spaces, for example) and bringing them mainstream, the way Madonna did in the 80s, much to the chagrin of everyone at CBGBs. What I'm saying is that linux's real challenge is carrying on as the developer playground that brings joy to millions who enjoy optimizing and configuring and just generally changing their computers, while still being stable and monolithic enough to become a mainstream desktop OS.
Personally, I think desktop linux has been around long enough and has substantial numbers that it doesn't _need_ to become mainstream. Let the OS stay free to try new, outrageous ideas, and let the mainstream OS's adopt the good ones after they've been proven.
" It has occurred to me that Flash on Linux is the one major entry barrier controlling acceptance of Linux as a viable desktop operating system. "
Ha ha ha ha ha.
HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Are you serious? A lot of people using Macs and Windows intentionally disable the Flash Player because they're not that fond of punching dancing monkeys to save on their insurance bills.
How about these barriers: * The fact that the phrase "recompile your kernel" still exists * The numerous settings that still require you to edit a conf file to change * The lack of any marketing or retail presence (you know, the stuff that let Apple triumph over the superior hardware of the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga and the slew of other 16 bit contenders?)
Do you really _want_ linux to go mainstream, anyway? Don't you remember what happened to the Internet when AOL caught on?
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Yes, sproutcore, because mobileMe is such a success.
I highly recommend Tripadvisor's blog: http://tripadvisor.typepad.com/
I strongly feel that the support staff of all organizations should be able to post their favorite missives, for all the world to see.
If you're not using chemicals to make meth, you're not using them to make explosives, and you're not using them to make everybody have a permanent smile, you're doing something wrong.
As long as you're yanking things, will you please yank Silverlight from NBC? The use of the color silver no doubt infringes on some IOC trademark somewhere.
Flash gives you the same experience on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Silverlight adds special features for Vista users. Things like a menu to select which events to watch. This is both anticompetitive and lame.
It really won't matter which proprietary player you choose to install once HTML 5 takes hold, but until then, I'm more comfortable with the one that's geared towards being a useful product, not the one that's trying to sucker me into buying Vista.
Will my privacy be protected, as per HIPAA, when then they stream video of me lying in a hospital bed, being less than articulate, across the interwebs?
Slashdot Mirror
Meh.
Soon it will race the captain of the ski team to save the mountain from the giant corporation and get the fembot.
"you get what you pay for" is why I use a Mac. :)
"He was instrumental in defeating key escrow, back in the day."
Another way to say that is that RIck is never going to give you up, never going to let you down.
From what I've been reading lately from the few Luddites who watch broadcast TV, HD signals are more likely to require a roof-top antenna. Analog signals give the illusion of reaching farther because you can still watch TV if the the signal isn't perfect and you're willing to put up with a little static. With digital TV, if you're missing bits of the signal, there's simply no picture.
This is great news! Here's how this will work:
1. Get every device manufacturer and studio to agree on a common DRM.
2. Crack the single DRM scheme.
3. ???
4. Pilfer!
Of course, why do you think Best Buy is stocking the Wii Fit?
If you're trying to avoid the perception that you purchase devices based on their 'cool factor' then HTC is the way to go. HTC stands for High Tech Computer. That is so uncool. That sounds like the name of a company that produces beeping keychain toys for the dollar stores.
Add Windows Mobile, and no one will ever accuse you of using style as a deciding factor.
When this story first broke a couple of weeks ago, they suggested a far more serious abuse than just taking someone's transponder ID as your own.
It was suggested that the reading and reprogramming could be accomplished so quickly that one could set up an antenna near a busy highway and read IDs from vehicles while assigning them the ID of the previous vehicle.
This would result in a huge shuffling of IDs that would be a bureaucratic nightmare for the state and a huge pain for FastTrac's customers. The state is trying to get as many people as possible to adopt this system, and a major hack like that could possibly reverse their momentum.
Why are people shielded from the law when they start a company? Find out who broke the law and punish that person. Penalizing a company just makes its customers have to pay more.
NERD! That is why you are not on the basketball team.
Yeah, but it's not going to do you much good to photoshop your ex out of all your photos once they've been uploaded to all your social networking sites and archived across the interwebs.
There are a great deal of bugs remaining in mobileMe's web interface.
For instance:
Open mail in a Safari window, then open mail in another Safari window. When you switch back to the first window, you'll get an error message: The requested action cannot be completed because this folder has been moved or deleted
Now open iWeb, upload a website to mobileMe, then try to delete it with the web interface. You can't. But notice how, even though the delete button is ghosted out, you can use the keyboard shortcut to access the delete dialog - which doesn't work.
I have a lot more of these, should I keep going?
These may not be the fault of the framework, but it doesn't do it any favors.
Anyway, offering a JavaScript framework as a suggestion for a replacement for JavaScript kinda misses the point.
I can't wait to meet the evil me and see how I look with a pointy beard.
This thread is a perfect example of two things:
1. Why application developers put linux at the bottom of their list. How many different flavors can one company support? Adequate QA on one version of an OS is challenging enough.
2. Why linux is not "gaining acceptance as a viable desktop OS." While I love tinkering with multiple tools that share the same aim, when I just want to run an application and not "play with my computer," I grab my Mac. Now, granted, my Mac is built on a system of taking things that catch on in the linux community (like spaces, for example) and bringing them mainstream, the way Madonna did in the 80s, much to the chagrin of everyone at CBGBs. What I'm saying is that linux's real challenge is carrying on as the developer playground that brings joy to millions who enjoy optimizing and configuring and just generally changing their computers, while still being stable and monolithic enough to become a mainstream desktop OS.
Personally, I think desktop linux has been around long enough and has substantial numbers that it doesn't _need_ to become mainstream. Let the OS stay free to try new, outrageous ideas, and let the mainstream OS's adopt the good ones after they've been proven.
" It has occurred to me that Flash on Linux is the one major entry barrier controlling acceptance of Linux as a viable desktop operating system. "
Ha ha ha ha ha.
HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Are you serious? A lot of people using Macs and Windows intentionally disable the Flash Player because they're not that fond of punching dancing monkeys to save on their insurance bills.
How about these barriers:
* The fact that the phrase "recompile your kernel" still exists
* The numerous settings that still require you to edit a conf file to change
* The lack of any marketing or retail presence (you know, the stuff that let Apple triumph over the superior hardware of the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga and the slew of other 16 bit contenders?)
Do you really _want_ linux to go mainstream, anyway? Don't you remember what happened to the Internet when AOL caught on?
Yes, sproutcore, because mobileMe is such a success.
Sproutcore is yet another javaScript framework.
I highly recommend Tripadvisor's blog: http://tripadvisor.typepad.com/ I strongly feel that the support staff of all organizations should be able to post their favorite missives, for all the world to see.
If you're not using chemicals to make meth, you're not using them to make explosives, and you're not using them to make everybody have a permanent smile, you're doing something wrong.
Users of Microsoft operating system who use Microsoft's browser may be at risk from malware served by infected Microsoft servers.
As long as you're yanking things, will you please yank Silverlight from NBC? The use of the color silver no doubt infringes on some IOC trademark somewhere.
Please?
Flash gives you the same experience on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Silverlight adds special features for Vista users. Things like a menu to select which events to watch. This is both anticompetitive and lame.
It really won't matter which proprietary player you choose to install once HTML 5 takes hold, but until then, I'm more comfortable with the one that's geared towards being a useful product, not the one that's trying to sucker me into buying Vista.
Will my privacy be protected, as per HIPAA, when then they stream video of me lying in a hospital bed, being less than articulate, across the interwebs?
Everybody knows that the third wish is supposed to be for three more wishes. Now hand over the lamp.
I'll just unplug the console when nobody's looking.