sit down at an "app-enabled device" and professionally write software, code a business-class web site, edit video, design a mechanical blueprint, and play WoW, well that might be the end of the PC era.
To do that, I suppose you will need some kind of hand-sized keyboard for typing comfortably, some kind of sufficiently accurate/high-dynamic-range pointing device (mouse or some well sized touch thing), a good screen not to squint at details and some upgradeability to be able to play new games (real time radiosity, subsurface scattering, or whatever is bleeding edge these days) without thrashing the whole thing every 6 months.
To me that's still called a PC, whether it runs on battery or not.
Quality alone will give you nothing. You will have to look into the actual type of the lens setup. And what you need here is a process lens (sorry, no Wikipedia entry on that). But even supposing you get the optical setup in shape, then you need a >10Mpixel screen and you need to align it. Supposing you get it and you align it, then you're left with a nice moiré pattern due to other non-linear distortions like shear and barrel. And you need to find an optical way to compensate for them.
Or, you reverse engineer the software. Or, the hardware.
And, guess what, the two latter options are the most likely to succeed.
Watch yourself from going iPhone DSLR all the way. Optics is though stuff, even if it doesn't look like so.
And MD5 hashes were stored without any kind of seed (you can crack most of them at your nearest md5crack website). The admin password in one of the auth tables was ppp (it's already public in that file, don't hold me responsible for posting it...).
I hope real defense networks are not being managed by the same people...
Now just think of that happening everyday in front of your eyes. On every front page. In every politics news show. Governors avoiding any direct answer to detailed claims. The lack of any constructive process. And the void filled with an unhealty attention to the celebrities' reality show.
What makes VLC more specifically tied to the warez scene than any other video player?
Nothing.
It may be the most used one by the p2p scene tho, given the stability of VLC in opening and seeking broken, badly encoded, incomplete media streams. But this is only the side effect of VLC being a video lan client.
Most people use it as an all-around media player, because it just works. But it isn't. For that purpose there are much better alternatives (i.e., MPC-HC) with serious support for hardware decoding, v-sync, third party propietary codecs, etc...
But people these days don't care, they don't want to mess with things, it just has to work, and good enough is good enough.
So, yes, I agree that p2p and VLC are the perfect match.
It all depends on whether your development cycle can keep up with the competitors or not. And I think Google and Microsoft are giving Mozilla hard times lately.
Good luck with dead pixels... With a given manufacturing process, if you have more pixels you will also have more dead ones. And if you only accept 2-3 of them (virtually, none), the price of that thing goes linearly with the number of pixels, maybe exponentially (given the effort needed to refine the process).
Still, no other company is producing a 13 incher with a non-ULV processor, switchable GPU, better than average screen (16:10), 8 hours battery life and metal body. At least not at that price (>2k for a VAIO Z is just too much).
If it didn't have an apple on the back of the screen, I would buy it. If they're good at something, that is being focused on a goal and calling trade-offs.
And maybe some years from now we will be holding a tablet and thinking of netbooks just like we now think of floppy disks.
Well, actually in 2006 Woz's autobiography he recalls that:
About this time, Jobs suggested that he and Wozniak start a company. Wozniak was never interested in being an entrepreneur, feeling that such would detract from his role as an engineer. However, Jobs convinced him it would be something they could look back on and be proud of, even if it failed. Shortly after this, and toying with several names, he and Jobs settled on "Apple," after Jobs visit to a commune with a similar name.
(Excerpt is taken from wikipedia, but it actually sounds just like the sentence in the book... But I may be wrong.)
Because your eyes field of view is wide rather than tall.
Problem is that industry choose to change the AR from 4:3 to 16:9 keeping the diagonal size constant, while they should've kept constant the height (or, at least, the vertical resolution).
We adjust for solar time because UTC is an astronomical timescale, not a "count of seconds since a specific time." If "computer people" want a timescale that ignores leap seconds, they can use an atomic timescale like TAI (or GPS time, which is a constant offset from TAI).
No, GMT=UT1 is an astronomical timescale, based on astronomical observations.
UTC is based on TAI and it is ajusted with leap seconds to track UT1 with an error less than 0.9 seconds.
August 2, 2010--Titan Gaming acquires Xfire.
Titan will be taking on the Xfire name, with a focus towards ongoing innovation in the gaming space. The Xfire services will continue uninterrupted for its users. Xfire redefined how gamers communicate, Titan intends to build upon this tradition and utilize the Xfire platform to help gaming companies better engage their users. We look forward to continuing and expanding upon the Xfire service.
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sit down at an "app-enabled device" and professionally write software, code a business-class web site, edit video, design a mechanical blueprint, and play WoW, well that might be the end of the PC era.
To do that, I suppose you will need some kind of hand-sized keyboard for typing comfortably, some kind of sufficiently accurate/high-dynamic-range pointing device (mouse or some well sized touch thing), a good screen not to squint at details and some upgradeability to be able to play new games (real time radiosity, subsurface scattering, or whatever is bleeding edge these days) without thrashing the whole thing every 6 months.
To me that's still called a PC, whether it runs on battery or not.
Also all zeros worked. I don't remember if that was Windows 95 OSRA or a contemporary version of Office. Around that era btw.
Risky because of truth about governments or because of the upcoming truth about banks?
using a high-quality lens system.
Quality alone will give you nothing. You will have to look into the actual type of the lens setup. And what you need here is a process lens (sorry, no Wikipedia entry on that). But even supposing you get the optical setup in shape, then you need a >10Mpixel screen and you need to align it. Supposing you get it and you align it, then you're left with a nice moiré pattern due to other non-linear distortions like shear and barrel. And you need to find an optical way to compensate for them.
Or, you reverse engineer the software. Or, the hardware.
And, guess what, the two latter options are the most likely to succeed.
Watch yourself from going iPhone DSLR all the way. Optics is though stuff, even if it doesn't look like so.
I'm just waiting for that, so that they will try to ban batteries from checked-in luggage and it will all fall apart.
Pumping up the volume if you leave the room seems more annoying. Thus more likely.
And MD5 hashes were stored without any kind of seed (you can crack most of them at your nearest md5crack website). The admin password in one of the auth tables was ppp (it's already public in that file, don't hold me responsible for posting it...).
I hope real defense networks are not being managed by the same people...
Now just think of that happening everyday in front of your eyes. On every front page. In every politics news show. Governors avoiding any direct answer to detailed claims. The lack of any constructive process. And the void filled with an unhealty attention to the celebrities' reality show.
Welcome to Italy.
For sure. I was meaning that pretending you can stick to imperial units, like LM did, is not always working.
What makes VLC more specifically tied to the warez scene than any other video player?
Nothing.
It may be the most used one by the p2p scene tho, given the stability of VLC in opening and seeking broken, badly encoded, incomplete media streams. But this is only the side effect of VLC being a video lan client.
Most people use it as an all-around media player, because it just works. But it isn't. For that purpose there are much better alternatives (i.e., MPC-HC) with serious support for hardware decoding, v-sync, third party propietary codecs, etc...
But people these days don't care, they don't want to mess with things, it just has to work, and good enough is good enough.
So, yes, I agree that p2p and VLC are the perfect match.
Imperial units are standardized and work fine.
Sure they do.
Most of the times.
It all depends on whether your development cycle can keep up with the competitors or not. And I think Google and Microsoft are giving Mozilla hard times lately.
Good luck with dead pixels...
With a given manufacturing process, if you have more pixels you will also have more dead ones. And if you only accept 2-3 of them (virtually, none), the price of that thing goes linearly with the number of pixels, maybe exponentially (given the effort needed to refine the process).
That depends on how much energy you need to jump the shuttle one day forward. It may not be zero.
Still, no other company is producing a 13 incher with a non-ULV processor, switchable GPU, better than average screen (16:10), 8 hours battery life and metal body. At least not at that price (>2k for a VAIO Z is just too much).
If it didn't have an apple on the back of the screen, I would buy it. If they're good at something, that is being focused on a goal and calling trade-offs.
And maybe some years from now we will be holding a tablet and thinking of netbooks just like we now think of floppy disks.
The problem is that there's also an implementation.
Well, actually in 2006 Woz's autobiography he recalls that:
About this time, Jobs suggested that he and Wozniak start a company. Wozniak was never interested in being an entrepreneur, feeling that such would detract from his role as an engineer. However, Jobs convinced him it would be something they could look back on and be proud of, even if it failed. Shortly after this, and toying with several names, he and Jobs settled on "Apple," after Jobs visit to a commune with a similar name.
(Excerpt is taken from wikipedia, but it actually sounds just like the sentence in the book... But I may be wrong.)
And Control L for the location bar.
Unless you are one of these guys which type slashdot.org in the search bar and hit the first link... ;-)
was not canvas: absolute-positionned divs with round corners.
Correct. CSS3 feature, animated with ordinary Javascript.
I kludged up some code a while back to create a shim dll that can be used as the basis for selectively replacing functions in dlls...
A slightly more sophisticated solution would've been Detours.
Or, if you didn't feel like coding, WinAPIOverride32.
Original slashdot story where the address was tracked down, archive copy of original article and follow-up slashdot story.
Because your eyes field of view is wide rather than tall.
Problem is that industry choose to change the AR from 4:3 to 16:9 keeping the diagonal size constant, while they should've kept constant the height (or, at least, the vertical resolution).
We adjust for solar time because UTC is an astronomical timescale, not a "count of seconds since a specific time." If "computer people" want a timescale that ignores leap seconds, they can use an atomic timescale like TAI (or GPS time, which is a constant offset from TAI).
No, GMT=UT1 is an astronomical timescale, based on astronomical observations.
UTC is based on TAI and it is ajusted with leap seconds to track UT1 with an error less than 0.9 seconds.
Here.
/. discovers Roman numerals...
Correct.
From TFS:
August 2, 2010--Titan Gaming acquires Xfire.
Titan will be taking on the Xfire name, with a focus towards ongoing innovation in the gaming space. The Xfire services will continue uninterrupted for its users. Xfire redefined how gamers communicate, Titan intends to build upon this tradition and utilize the Xfire platform to help gaming companies better engage their users. We look forward to continuing and expanding upon the Xfire service.