Neither the summary nor TFA says if this is global or limited to a particular region or one country. At a guess because TFA comes from a.au domain and says nothing about the extent of the issue this only impacts Australian customers of Vodafone?
I saw the tearing, I haven't seen it since the upgrade which brought in the fixes which specifically said they repaired the tearing. Just for fun before I posted I went and loaded up a 1080p h264 video file and went to a very aggressive section of it just to see if I could spot any visual glitches and I didn't. I detest digital artifacts in video and regard myself as overly sensitive to them, but I haven't noticed anything not in the source footage since said tear fixing upgrade.
I've a 785g based motherboard with an energy efficient X2 5050e, running the stock Debian sid free radeon xserver (though I do have the non-free firmware) and have had no problems (or artifacts) playing back anything so far (up to and including 1080p h264). Maybe it's taking up more cpu load then it might if I used fglrx (or the non-free nvidia driver with a suitable card) but on the other hand I don;t have to worry about the non-free kernel-module conflicting/failing with updates to the kernel or x.org.
What's so different about this Samsung compared to the range of Archos Android devices like the 43it (I don't care about Android myself so at a guess there are plenty of other devices out there)? Is the "virtually unchallenged" moniker in any way warranted?
Even the most cynical reality show (or perhaps especially the most cynical reality show) would have great trouble maintaining viewer interest past a few seasons.
Pop Idol, began 2001 on UK TV and still going there "rebranded", running in the USA since 2002. Big Brother stopped after 11 seasons in the UK and is going into it's 13th in the USA. Do you want to stick with your claim?
Of course any real Martian Reality TV won't actually have the draw of my tongue in cheek postulation as there is no way they will be throwing contestants out of airlocks in space or on the surface. Having said all of that I have no doubt that any colonisation mission to Mars could easily have massive viewing figures even if it is more like the Truman Show then Big Brother. My doubts over it's ability to be used in that way to fund itself would be the cuts taken by all the hands between the public and the mission.
So you don't think "Big Brother on Mars" will draw enough advertising? What if they let people vote (by premium sms subscription service) to choose the next colonist to evict? Series one could evict all but one would be colonist on route with the winner getting to be the first person on Mars. Series 2 could have them competing with the next set of arrivals not to be evicted on the surface.
I tried it when it first came out and it sucked, and when I started hearing that it was much improved in the latest versions, that's around the time they removed the feature.
Makes you wonder if it was the security of the game development licensing model which they were protecting rather then attempts to stop copyright infringement on licensed games. Around the time of the Sony Fools day announcement Gallium3D only supported a handful of environments and one of them was the cell, though I never ran it myself as the xserver with relatively trivial video acceleration from the spu's was enough for me. My PS3 has been quite idle since they removed OtherOS as they cut off my interest in the platform, including my interest in buying any games.
Please be assured that SCE is committed to continue
the support for previously sold models that have the
"Install Other OS" feature and that this feature will
not be disabled in future firmware releases.
A couple of days over a month later it was removed. One of these days I'll get around to trying the new Linux bootloader though, that or I'll find a SCE management head to cave in with it.
Are you that sure that nobody you know has given them your email address or in any other way shared information about you with them? Tagging photos of you seems to be the next most popular way to give them information about you but there may be more.
If you could install an app, or adjust the system as a user, then maybe you wouldn't provide as much data to Google. Google do not make money from computers or operating systems, they make it from the information they extract from you.
I did forget about their DNS but I don't regard it as being the same sort of issue. With the others you will find many sites using various forms of embedding in their pages to try to have you make requests to google, but the end-user must proactively choose to use google's DNS.
Support for new hardware. New features. Easier to contribute to development. Less obsolete versions of software. No need to wait months or years (or resort to compiling) to see stable released improvements on your system.
That's the advantages in it's own right, there's a load more if you start to compare it to the reality of most "stable" distributions. For example, nothing forced in to make some arbitrary freeze, things appear as they are ready.
TFA says the videos were from a core i7 but the sentence before that says:
This patch has been working out extremely great on all of the test systems I tried it out on so far from quad-core AMD Phenom CPUs systems to Intel Atom netbooks.
Why were people running a "flash player update" from a third party web site they got to from Facebook?
They are used to seeing the "you need the latest flash to view this content, click here to install it now". Sure when it's done the "normal" way the executable they randomly install will come from Adobe, but the entire process is begging for this tomfoolery.
To those who can't guess, I use Linux, won't install anything from Adobe and use noscript in the browser so forgive me if the "official" process has changed from the above idiotic implementation.
Ever heard of the Opteron, particularly the 6100 series released in March? 12 cores from 1.9GHz to 2.2GHz with 115W TDP or you can go up to 137W TDP and 2.3GHz or drop to 1.7GHz and closer to 65W TDP.
The WIPO treaty: There have been a variety of criticisms of this treaty, including that it is overbroad (for example in its prohibition of circumvention of technical protection measures, even where such circumvention is used in the pursuit of legal and fair use rights).
The European Directive: Article 6 of the Directive provides protection for "technological measures", any technology device or component which is designed to restrict or prevent certain acts which are not authorised by the rightholder
There may be no DMCA outside the US as the DMCA is an American law, but the WIPO Copyright Treaty upon which it is based has been enacted in many other countries. For example there is the EU Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC
It still does as long as you didn't update the firmware from "Sony Fools" day onward. However if it runs Linux you can't use PSN, play new games, watch new blu-ray or see any of this 3d stuff.
I wonder what it would take to get Ireland to join in the ban craze. Once upon a time simply providing abortion information would have done it, but now I guess abuse of the allegedly never to be enforced blasphemy law might be required. Thanks to Pakistan and Bangladesh for the inspiration.
And saying that it "cost" $4.8 million just isn't understanding humanity.
It says 4.8 million hours and $120 million. Not that I think there can be any real validity to their guesstimate, but they could well be closer then 25x out.
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Neither the summary nor TFA says if this is global or limited to a particular region or one country. At a guess because TFA comes from a .au domain and says nothing about the extent of the issue this only impacts Australian customers of Vodafone?
I saw the tearing, I haven't seen it since the upgrade which brought in the fixes which specifically said they repaired the tearing. Just for fun before I posted I went and loaded up a 1080p h264 video file and went to a very aggressive section of it just to see if I could spot any visual glitches and I didn't. I detest digital artifacts in video and regard myself as overly sensitive to them, but I haven't noticed anything not in the source footage since said tear fixing upgrade.
non-free firmware, or non-free driver
You could just have re-read what I said ... non-free FIRMWARE, I sure as hell won't let the non-free "drivers" touch my systems.
I've a 785g based motherboard with an energy efficient X2 5050e, running the stock Debian sid free radeon xserver (though I do have the non-free firmware) and have had no problems (or artifacts) playing back anything so far (up to and including 1080p h264). Maybe it's taking up more cpu load then it might if I used fglrx (or the non-free nvidia driver with a suitable card) but on the other hand I don;t have to worry about the non-free kernel-module conflicting/failing with updates to the kernel or x.org.
I was going to reply that the Galaxy Tab is a phone ... but according to wikipedia that's only true everywhere except in the USA.
What's so different about this Samsung compared to the range of Archos Android devices like the 43it (I don't care about Android myself so at a guess there are plenty of other devices out there)? Is the "virtually unchallenged" moniker in any way warranted?
Even the most cynical reality show (or perhaps especially the most cynical reality show) would have great trouble maintaining viewer interest past a few seasons.
Pop Idol, began 2001 on UK TV and still going there "rebranded", running in the USA since 2002. Big Brother stopped after 11 seasons in the UK and is going into it's 13th in the USA. Do you want to stick with your claim?
Of course any real Martian Reality TV won't actually have the draw of my tongue in cheek postulation as there is no way they will be throwing contestants out of airlocks in space or on the surface. Having said all of that I have no doubt that any colonisation mission to Mars could easily have massive viewing figures even if it is more like the Truman Show then Big Brother. My doubts over it's ability to be used in that way to fund itself would be the cuts taken by all the hands between the public and the mission.
So you don't think "Big Brother on Mars" will draw enough advertising? What if they let people vote (by premium sms subscription service) to choose the next colonist to evict? Series one could evict all but one would be colonist on route with the winner getting to be the first person on Mars. Series 2 could have them competing with the next set of arrivals not to be evicted on the surface.
You can never go back
I tried it when it first came out and it sucked, and when I started hearing that it was much improved in the latest versions, that's around the time they removed the feature.
Makes you wonder if it was the security of the game development licensing model which they were protecting rather then attempts to stop copyright infringement on licensed games. Around the time of the Sony Fools day announcement Gallium3D only supported a handful of environments and one of them was the cell, though I never ran it myself as the xserver with relatively trivial video acceleration from the spu's was enough for me. My PS3 has been quite idle since they removed OtherOS as they cut off my interest in the platform, including my interest in buying any games.
What really annoyed me was the fact that after the Slim had OtherOS removed, the main Sony PS3 Linux developer publically released the statement from SCE management including:
Please be assured that SCE is committed to continue the support for previously sold models that have the "Install Other OS" feature and that this feature will not be disabled in future firmware releases.
A couple of days over a month later it was removed. One of these days I'll get around to trying the new Linux bootloader though, that or I'll find a SCE management head to cave in with it.
Facebook knows nothing about me.
Are you that sure that nobody you know has given them your email address or in any other way shared information about you with them? Tagging photos of you seems to be the next most popular way to give them information about you but there may be more.
If you could install an app, or adjust the system as a user, then maybe you wouldn't provide as much data to Google. Google do not make money from computers or operating systems, they make it from the information they extract from you.
I did forget about their DNS but I don't regard it as being the same sort of issue. With the others you will find many sites using various forms of embedding in their pages to try to have you make requests to google, but the end-user must proactively choose to use google's DNS.
Ads, analytics, apis, search, youtube. Between them a staggering percentage of page views attempt to hit a Google server.
Support for new hardware. New features. Easier to contribute to development. Less obsolete versions of software. No need to wait months or years (or resort to compiling) to see stable released improvements on your system.
That's the advantages in it's own right, there's a load more if you start to compare it to the reality of most "stable" distributions. For example, nothing forced in to make some arbitrary freeze, things appear as they are ready.
Why were people running a "flash player update" from a third party web site they got to from Facebook?
They are used to seeing the "you need the latest flash to view this content, click here to install it now". Sure when it's done the "normal" way the executable they randomly install will come from Adobe, but the entire process is begging for this tomfoolery.
To those who can't guess, I use Linux, won't install anything from Adobe and use noscript in the browser so forgive me if the "official" process has changed from the above idiotic implementation.
AMD have no high end
Ever heard of the Opteron, particularly the 6100 series released in March? 12 cores from 1.9GHz to 2.2GHz with 115W TDP or you can go up to 137W TDP and 2.3GHz or drop to 1.7GHz and closer to 65W TDP.
The WIPO treaty: There have been a variety of criticisms of this treaty, including that it is overbroad (for example in its prohibition of circumvention of technical protection measures, even where such circumvention is used in the pursuit of legal and fair use rights).
The European Directive: Article 6 of the Directive provides protection for "technological measures", any technology device or component which is designed to restrict or prevent certain acts which are not authorised by the rightholder
There may be no DMCA outside the US as the DMCA is an American law, but the WIPO Copyright Treaty upon which it is based has been enacted in many other countries. For example there is the EU Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC
Any Android tablet with 2GB of ram would be very interesting, but of course this this has 2GB of storage not ram.
It still does as long as you didn't update the firmware from "Sony Fools" day onward. However if it runs Linux you can't use PSN, play new games, watch new blu-ray or see any of this 3d stuff.
I wonder what it would take to get Ireland to join in the ban craze. Once upon a time simply providing abortion information would have done it, but now I guess abuse of the allegedly never to be enforced blasphemy law might be required. Thanks to Pakistan and Bangladesh for the inspiration.
And saying that it "cost" $4.8 million just isn't understanding humanity.
It says 4.8 million hours and $120 million. Not that I think there can be any real validity to their guesstimate, but they could well be closer then 25x out.