That's a rather wide definition of 'free' you've got there.
It's like saying that a chinese citizen is free to stand in tianemen square and hurl insults at the government, as long as they are able to face the consequences.
Why? Most people don't care. Programmers are creative people and will write all sorts of colourful remarks. There's no language there that you won't hear walking down the street.
No, you simply quoted the article in an attempt to say how good it was.
It's hype. More the the point it's poor hype. They haven't release anything that could be described as a spec anyway.
The technology isn't new, it was first demoed in 1993 and mitsubishi produced working prototypes last year. This company has no product. Definately no patents (there's prior art) and it'd be madness to invest in them, but people like you will jump up and down excited because they managed to write something that sounded good.
"Half the weight and size of a plasma TV. Uses a quarter of the power to the same effect. Increases the range of colours displayed from 30% of what we are able to conceive to 90%. Costs half the price of a plasma screen."
What, and you believe that?
It costs half the price of a plasma? Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it. You really think if this tech actually works they'll sell it that level? No. Better picture - more expensive. Smaller/lighter - more expensive. Combine the two.. get ready to mortgage your house for small one. Manufacturing cost has nothing to do with it - things are *not* sold for what they cost to produce. They are sold for what people are prepared to pay.
and you could see the gold foil crinkles in the cargo bay
What, and you couldn't see them on the plasma? Was the plasma at 320x200 resolution or something?
I'm always sceptical of the idea that adding more 'x' leads to 'I can see the trees in the background! Honestly they weren't there before!'. HD seems rife with it.
Probably a regional thing.. everyone I know uses google video.
Part of the problem with youtube is its unreliability - someone posts a youtube link and about 80% of the time you bring it up and the play button doesn't work or it plays for 5 seconds and gives up.
There's no other way to make web apps that are that interactive
That's because they're not web apps. They're *native code* which means they're no different to downloading an executable, except it happens automatically (hence why IE is so virus ridden).
4 years for some companies is about the time they start the *rollout*.
If take a sample of random customers the majority of Windows users are on Windows 2000 (6 years old!).. a sizable chunk of 2003 now as people begin to roll it out, very little XP (that was skipped for the most part).
We still have NT4 customers.
4 years is nothing.
(You get the same with other OSs - nobody is running Solaris 10 yet (only 1 query about it in the last year), lots of Solaris 8 and Solaris 9.. Even other stuff.. Oracle 8 is predominant even though Oracle themselves don't support it any more).
Oh they'll know what vista is. MS will buy the headlines again just like they did for XP. If MS is good at one thing it's marketing.
It's true that many/most home users will never have downloaded a service pack and won't even know what one is. eg. my mother is on XP. She has dialup, and logs for an hour in maybe once a month if then... her XP has never even been patched let alone been on long enough for a service pack.
OTOH for her the lack of support isn't something she'd know or care about. If XP breaks the 'computer' is broken and she gets a repair person out (usually me) to fix it.
Nowhere near 100 things and 99% of those are already in XP (*including* volume shadow copy, which is another thing most people will never use.. do you even know what it's for? I do, and I don't see what the song and dance is for since nobody noticed it previously...). I mean.. wireless networking? IPV6? BITS? NX? The article reads like it was written by someone who last used Windows with Windows 95.
Like most people I don't give a crap about the new directx version. Directx hasn't mattered since DX6 unless you're a hardcore gamer.
As far as the ordinary user is concerned vista offers a new UI, and that's it. It's not even a very good UI.. It looks better than XP (but it'd have to be a complete fuckup to look any worse) but they've gone out of their way to make it hard to actually do anything...
Google made a complete dogs breakfast of unifying the accounts on blogspot. For a long period it was impossible for people whos accounts had been 'upgraded' to 'blogger beta' to post on non-beta blogs *at all*.
They're still basically running two sites in parallel and it's a bit of a mess, but at least you can generally post (although you have to register for a google account to post to a 'beta' blog, which many are unwilling to do).
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The point is they realize it too... if they cave into the US courts once they'll have to do it again.. and again...
Leading very shortly to the end of ICANN as an international body as Europe, China, etc. all setup their own root servers.
That's a rather wide definition of 'free' you've got there.
It's like saying that a chinese citizen is free to stand in tianemen square and hurl insults at the government, as long as they are able to face the consequences.
Which is why they won't do it - they'll push the responsibility onto tucows.
Even the perception that the root DNS is controlled by the US court system is bad news.
Why? Most people don't care. Programmers are creative people and will write all sorts of colourful remarks. There's no language there that you won't hear walking down the street.
And the top one is in mysql.
Nice wide open buffer overrun error there...
eeeewww!!!
I'm going to have to wash my eyes out after seeing that...
The linux-atm and mozilla calendar ones are clearly wrong, some are actually correct.
Or dynamically allocated ones... it's either big enough or it isn't. If you're not sure then make sure your validation guarantees it.
No, you simply quoted the article in an attempt to say how good it was.
It's hype. More the the point it's poor hype. They haven't release anything that could be described as a spec anyway.
The technology isn't new, it was first demoed in 1993 and mitsubishi produced working prototypes last year. This company has no product. Definately no patents (there's prior art) and it'd be madness to invest in them, but people like you will jump up and down excited because they managed to write something that sounded good.
Not to mention they were actually invented in 1993...
"Half the weight and size of a plasma TV. Uses a quarter of the power to the same effect. Increases the range of colours displayed from 30% of what we are able to conceive to 90%. Costs half the price of a plasma screen."
What, and you believe that?
It costs half the price of a plasma? Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it. You really think if this tech actually works they'll sell it that level? No. Better picture - more expensive. Smaller/lighter - more expensive. Combine the two.. get ready to mortgage your house for small one. Manufacturing cost has nothing to do with it - things are *not* sold for what they cost to produce. They are sold for what people are prepared to pay.
and you could see the gold foil crinkles in the cargo bay
What, and you couldn't see them on the plasma? Was the plasma at 320x200 resolution or something?
I'm always sceptical of the idea that adding more 'x' leads to 'I can see the trees in the background! Honestly they weren't there before!'. HD seems rife with it.
No, but it's entirely possible to configure a plasma to look worse than the TV next to it.
Look at the TVs in shops - they look awful, but it's the same technology, just setup poorly.
Probably a regional thing.. everyone I know uses google video.
Part of the problem with youtube is its unreliability - someone posts a youtube link and about 80% of the time you bring it up and the play button doesn't work or it plays for 5 seconds and gives up.
Garbage collecting languages leak too - I've had to debug serious memory leaks in both Java and c# - garbage collectors are easy to fool.
There's no other way to make web apps that are that interactive
That's because they're not web apps. They're *native code* which means they're no different to downloading an executable, except it happens automatically (hence why IE is so virus ridden).
You haven't worked in corporate IT have you?
4 years for some companies is about the time they start the *rollout*.
If take a sample of random customers the majority of Windows users are on Windows 2000 (6 years old!).. a sizable chunk of 2003 now as people begin to roll it out, very little XP (that was skipped for the most part).
We still have NT4 customers.
4 years is nothing.
(You get the same with other OSs - nobody is running Solaris 10 yet (only 1 query about it in the last year), lots of Solaris 8 and Solaris 9.. Even other stuff.. Oracle 8 is predominant even though Oracle themselves don't support it any more).
Oh they'll know what vista is. MS will buy the headlines again just like they did for XP. If MS is good at one thing it's marketing.
It's true that many/most home users will never have downloaded a service pack and won't even know what one is. eg. my mother is on XP. She has dialup, and logs for an hour in maybe once a month if then... her XP has never even been patched let alone been on long enough for a service pack.
OTOH for her the lack of support isn't something she'd know or care about. If XP breaks the 'computer' is broken and she gets a repair person out (usually me) to fix it.
Not really... mainstream support was retired in 2005. They're on extended support - which mean paid support vital security updates only.
If you call MS with a problem with Windows 2000 you're out of luck, unless you have a good credit card.
The MSDN copies have had pre-slipstreamed SP2 for a while now.
Nowhere near 100 things and 99% of those are already in XP (*including* volume shadow copy, which is another thing most people will never use.. do you even know what it's for? I do, and I don't see what the song and dance is for since nobody noticed it previously...). I mean.. wireless networking? IPV6? BITS? NX? The article reads like it was written by someone who last used Windows with Windows 95.
Like most people I don't give a crap about the new directx version. Directx hasn't mattered since DX6 unless you're a hardcore gamer.
As far as the ordinary user is concerned vista offers a new UI, and that's it. It's not even a very good UI.. It looks better than XP (but it'd have to be a complete fuckup to look any worse) but they've gone out of their way to make it hard to actually do anything...
Cool idea...
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Those laptops can get damned hot though.. might not be safe.
I can't find any definition of 'buff' that makes sense in the headlines context: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Abuf
Get yellowish-brown whilst geeking out?
Gotta love slashdot.. invent new terms just for fun.
Heck, they pretty much started by buying dejanews...
Google made a complete dogs breakfast of unifying the accounts on blogspot. For a long period it was impossible for people whos accounts had been 'upgraded' to 'blogger beta' to post on non-beta blogs *at all*.
They're still basically running two sites in parallel and it's a bit of a mess, but at least you can generally post (although you have to register for a google account to post to a 'beta' blog, which many are unwilling to do).
I'll take two!
Anything that makes the fundies crap themselves is OK by me!