1.5 ghz is a bit low even for standard definition.I beg to differ. I'm playing back a lot 720p x264 on an Intel T2400/Core Duo 1.86 GHz with Ubuntu without any problems. Granted, it's Core Duo, but decoders aren't optimized for multithreading, AFAIK. And I doubt that the speed difference really matters that much, one processor is only about 20-40% used during playback.
People are going to pirate your software, no matter how hard you try to protect it, there was even devices for the original gameboy.
These devices cost a hell of a lot more back then, though. *cough*Someone I know*cough* bought his first flashkit for the GBC for more then 200 EUR. And those devices weren't exactly easy to use, parallel port introduced a lot problems and they were quite picky on the power supply. Today you shell out 5 EUR and you get a device that plays nearly all games without any effort from your side, any idiot can use that.
NoScript, AdBlock (that uses AdBlock Plus Filters) and Cookiesafe would actually be enough for me to change once there is a Linux Version, those three are absolute bare metal necessity nowadays IMO. CustomizeGoogle or another application that disables Google tracking Cookies would be nice and Old Location Bar^W^W^W... ah, there's no Awesome Bar - awesome.:)
All the other Extensions are nice to have, but I could live without them for a while.
TBH, I don't have any idea of the inner workings of TCP and UDP, but what you described pretty much describes the status quo without that uTorrent UDP change already. If you have one client unregulated up and downloading and he's on a torrent that maximises both it effectively slows the net for everyone else and him to a crawl. You already have to throttle your own bandwidth to be able to use your own network while your using any P2P app. About 80% of actual up/download speed has proven to be a good number in the past.
What leads me to this question: has anyone ever *seen* an actual 720p HDTV that's bigger than 30"? I haven't found one yet, only ones available are the odd 1300something*700something resolution TVs. SD looks like crap on them and so does real 720p content, since it has to be stretched to that strange resolution. Picture just isn't as clear anymore as when it would be mapped 1:1 to LCD pixels. And it gets worse, 1080i/p content gets downscaled to 720p and then upscaled again, even though it could be downscaled to a 1:1 pixel mapping. Why are they making such crap LCDs? To convince people that what they really want is a 1080 display?
How do you know the coworker could hear? According to the text, the person who took the call was on mute.
You misunderstood. "Everyone fell silent as I hit the "speaker" and then "mute" buttons on my phone." The speaker was on, the mic was on mute. Otherwise the whole room wouldn't have understood and "The room full of CCIEs laughed for a good three minutes". I'm with the GP, if it would've happened that way it would've been abusive, humiliating and totally unnecessary.
Well, fortunately the OP has already posted a followup, putting this story into perspective a bit. Looks like it wasn't so bad.
What "best and brightest hackers" are you talking about? All the intelligent human beings *I* ever ran across would rather cut their arms off instead of working for the American government, let alone an American intelligence service.
WTF? No way I'm clicking through that. Not even a fig leaf "print this article"-link there. And for what? A huge picture and three lines of text? Abominable.
Apple will not service a Jailbroken phone - but that doesn't mean they will not service a phone that has been restored to the original OS, an operation that takes about five minutes. Once restored Apple cannot tell if it was ever Jailbroken or not.
Dunno about you, but when I require service from a manufacturer my gadgets usually are beyond any state that would allow to repair them myself. It's highly likely that it's impossible to un-jailbreak an iPhone in this state, thus, no warranty for me.:(
Can you easily unjailbreak an iPhone with e.g. a broken touch screen? Without any touch functionality? Or without display?
nope, that one doesn't work anymore. It is rm -rf/* now, as root as usual.
Awww, how awfuly nice of you to share that knowledge with us!:)
I always hoped that some of these Linux wizards programmed something like that, isn't it amazing what they can do? And guess how surprised my network administrators will be, when I show them that our company Linux Server can play rm files!
It's understandable that you don't want to lose the money you invested and the way it looks like you won't - at least not in the next few days. In the long term you *will* pay for that bailout, either by taxes, or by inflation. Most likely by both. My biggest issue is that this bailout let's the people responsible for that mess get away with impunity. That's just not right, IMHO.
Great. So, the banks that issued those faulty credits are free now, because someone else (hint: you) pay their debt. The people who took those loans for ridiculously overpriced houses on the other hand still owe that very same amount now to your government instead of banks. If that's not a bailout for banks, I don't know what is.
Yes, you're right, should've written about that - but on the other hand I hoped for the average slashdotter to *not* have to resort to random websites to get their warez from.
So, if you have a *trusted* source for cracks and keygens, *then* your Anti Virus most likely just stumbled over.exe compression. If, on the other hand, you are fucking random strangers on the street without condom get your Warez from random russian websites... you better forget what I wrote.
'm not completely sure, but i believe that anti-virus makers often classify keygens and cracks as viruses. it's a way of posturing to scare the public away from using these programs despite their innocuous nature.
Not to scare the public and contrary to what other posters here think this doesn't come from them actually being viruses or trojans. The.exe of Keygens, Cracks, etc. usually is just packed and Virus scanners can't unpack it, so they assume that something fishy is going on.
Also, some older virus scanners simply report all compressed executables as viruses because the decompressor stubs share some characteristics with those. Most modern virus scanners can unpack several different executable compression layers to check the actual executable inside, but some popular anti-virus and anti-malware scanners have had troubles with false alarms on compressed executables.
1) What is it in the Coca Cola analogy that you didn't get? Coca Cola = Trademarked and they don't ask you to agree to an EULA.
2) If you have someone installing Ubuntu on a mission critical PC in a nuclear power plant you have some bigger problem than suing the people who made the browser.
If this discussion is turning into some kind of "vote" by participation I just wanted to voice my opinion to state that I'd rather use a unbranded Iceweasel than a EULA'd Firefox.
The Manager, Lawyer and PRolete type that has taken over the Mozilla Foundation can shove their EULA where the sun don't shine, for all I care.
Yeah, all they do is establishing a track record. Cut them some slack!
What could possibly be wrong with a track record of doing the most user unfriendly things ever? If they want this, let them! But all people do here on Slashdot is complain, complain, complain. It's pretty obvious that Apple aims for the evil megacorp tag. They have to think of their shareholders, don't they?
Which part of Germany are you living in where *DNS-lookups* are slow? And what ISP do you use? I am living in NRW and Bavaria, been using Arcor, Alice and T-COM as ISP and I don't have such problems. Are you sure you haven't misconfigured something?
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These devices cost a hell of a lot more back then, though. *cough*Someone I know*cough* bought his first flashkit for the GBC for more then 200 EUR. And those devices weren't exactly easy to use, parallel port introduced a lot problems and they were quite picky on the power supply. Today you shell out 5 EUR and you get a device that plays nearly all games without any effort from your side, any idiot can use that.
NoScript, AdBlock (that uses AdBlock Plus Filters) and Cookiesafe would actually be enough for me to change once there is a Linux Version, those three are absolute bare metal necessity nowadays IMO. CustomizeGoogle or another application that disables Google tracking Cookies would be nice and Old Location Bar^W^W^W... ah, there's no Awesome Bar - awesome. :)
All the other Extensions are nice to have, but I could live without them for a while.
So what, it's not enabled in Firefox by default, either. Or am I a bit out of the loop here?
Why not call him the fraud that he is?
TBH, I don't have any idea of the inner workings of TCP and UDP, but what you described pretty much describes the status quo without that uTorrent UDP change already. If you have one client unregulated up and downloading and he's on a torrent that maximises both it effectively slows the net for everyone else and him to a crawl. You already have to throttle your own bandwidth to be able to use your own network while your using any P2P app. About 80% of actual up/download speed has proven to be a good number in the past.
That's why I call FUD on that article, too, TBH.
What leads me to this question: has anyone ever *seen* an actual 720p HDTV that's bigger than 30"? I haven't found one yet, only ones available are the odd 1300something*700something resolution TVs. SD looks like crap on them and so does real 720p content, since it has to be stretched to that strange resolution. Picture just isn't as clear anymore as when it would be mapped 1:1 to LCD pixels. And it gets worse, 1080i/p content gets downscaled to 720p and then upscaled again, even though it could be downscaled to a 1:1 pixel mapping. Why are they making such crap LCDs? To convince people that what they really want is a 1080 display?
You misunderstood. "Everyone fell silent as I hit the "speaker" and then "mute" buttons on my phone." The speaker was on, the mic was on mute. Otherwise the whole room wouldn't have understood and "The room full of CCIEs laughed for a good three minutes". I'm with the GP, if it would've happened that way it would've been abusive, humiliating and totally unnecessary.
Well, fortunately the OP has already posted a followup, putting this story into perspective a bit. Looks like it wasn't so bad.
What "best and brightest hackers" are you talking about? All the intelligent human beings *I* ever ran across would rather cut their arms off instead of working for the American government, let alone an American intelligence service.
Until someone discovers an exploitable bug in noscript. ;)
WTF? No way I'm clicking through that. Not even a fig leaf "print this article"-link there. And for what? A huge picture and three lines of text? Abominable.
Dunno about you, but when I require service from a manufacturer my gadgets usually are beyond any state that would allow to repair them myself. It's highly likely that it's impossible to un-jailbreak an iPhone in this state, thus, no warranty for me. :(
Can you easily unjailbreak an iPhone with e.g. a broken touch screen? Without any touch functionality? Or without display?
You can download all these radio shows in MP3 format with get_iplayer.
Awww, how awfuly nice of you to share that knowledge with us! :)
I always hoped that some of these Linux wizards programmed something like that, isn't it amazing what they can do? And guess how surprised my network administrators will be, when I show them that our company Linux Server can play rm files!
It's understandable that you don't want to lose the money you invested and the way it looks like you won't - at least not in the next few days. In the long term you *will* pay for that bailout, either by taxes, or by inflation. Most likely by both.
My biggest issue is that this bailout let's the people responsible for that mess get away with impunity. That's just not right, IMHO.
Great. So, the banks that issued those faulty credits are free now, because someone else (hint: you) pay their debt. The people who took those loans for ridiculously overpriced houses on the other hand still owe that very same amount now to your government instead of banks. If that's not a bailout for banks, I don't know what is.
Yes, you're right, should've written about that - but on the other hand I hoped for the average slashdotter to *not* have to resort to random websites to get their warez from.
.exe compression. If, on the other hand, you are fucking random strangers on the street without condom get your Warez from random russian websites... you better forget what I wrote.
So, if you have a *trusted* source for cracks and keygens, *then* your Anti Virus most likely just stumbled over
Not to scare the public and contrary to what other posters here think this doesn't come from them actually being viruses or trojans. The .exe of Keygens, Cracks, etc. usually is just packed and Virus scanners can't unpack it, so they assume that something fishy is going on.
Executable compression
I have to admit that the subject I chose is rather stupid, though. Sorry for that.
They point is, this EULA is completely and utterly useless, period. There's no point at all in forcing Ubuntu to present it to its users.
Not to mention that in the country I'm from such a EULA is non-binding and agreeing with it doesn't mean squat.
1) What is it in the Coca Cola analogy that you didn't get? Coca Cola = Trademarked and they don't ask you to agree to an EULA.
2) If you have someone installing Ubuntu on a mission critical PC in a nuclear power plant you have some bigger problem than suing the people who made the browser.
3) Would you please stop insulting me?
If this discussion is turning into some kind of "vote" by participation I just wanted to voice my opinion to state that I'd rather use a unbranded Iceweasel than a EULA'd Firefox.
The Manager, Lawyer and PRolete type that has taken over the Mozilla Foundation can shove their EULA where the sun don't shine, for all I care.
Yeah, all they do is establishing a track record. Cut them some slack!
What could possibly be wrong with a track record of doing the most user unfriendly things ever? If they want this, let them! But all people do here on Slashdot is complain, complain, complain. It's pretty obvious that Apple aims for the evil megacorp tag. They have to think of their shareholders, don't they?
It should actually look like arcane command line magic to you. Points deducted.
;)
This is what spanish looks like:
"esto parece como español"
Which part of Germany are you living in where *DNS-lookups* are slow? And what ISP do you use? I am living in NRW and Bavaria, been using Arcor, Alice and T-COM as ISP and I don't have such problems. Are you sure you haven't misconfigured something?