Yes, HTML5 works wonderfully for video made of pixels. But for video made of vectors (e.g. almost everything on Weebl's Stuff or Newgrounds), Flash still way outperforms animated SVG in rendering speed, and it outperforms rasterization and compression with H.264 by a factor of about ten in bitrate.
And Flash is the way to go for anything that's frameless, has a variable framerate, is interactive in anyway, or is an interface/application that can't be handled by HTML5+Javascript. Flash is a LOT more than "video". The fact that 90% of the time it's used for video doesn't change that.
If you are so worried about security why are you accessing the internet at all? For that matter why do you even have a computer? Do you also not use a credit card or check card? It was pointed out quite eloquently above. "we can't let potential vulnerabilities get in the way of advancing technology."
You are selling you crotchless pants, and telling people it'll take less time to take a piss. They say "Seems unnecessarily risky for very little benefit. I don't want to get raped.". You respond "If you're so worried about rape, why do you have genitals?".
Last year, RealVNC teamed up with Intel to incorporate a bona fide VNC server (using hardware encryption native to vPro chipsets)
I don't know why I read the comments on this site anymore. Once upon a time it was 80% morons and maybe 10% of posters had read the article. If only I knew how much I'd wind up missing those days....
And the encryption protects you against what, exactly? 1: Snopping. 2: MITM.
* primarily uses Exchange, which is (in its online/prevailant incarnation of bpos/office365) incompatible with anything but MS clients * has a mobile MS Office built-in (some call that a feature, and I'll admit, OneNote is sweet.) * does not release their source code
Android: * can use a myriad of mail services, including gmail, from which I can export all my mail from any client, of which there are several. I can also export my contacts in any format I please (literally) * has a number of available word processor type things. * releases their source code (for the most recent phone release, which I think is 2.3.4 at this point) for everything not dealing directly with their infrastructure * allows 3rd party software to be installed w/o boostrapping to their market (hmm, you weren't thinking winmo6.5 were you?)
Primarily uses exchange? So does the world. Incompatible? Nope.
A free mobile version of office IS a feature. You can add whatever other programs you want if you don't like it.
Doesn't release their source code, and never made promises to that effect. Apple, MS, and Google (starting from 3.0) are now all on the same playing field here.
WP7 can use all those same services. All you need is a program to do it, and with 99.9999% of all Google services, that program is a browser. And I don't see how you can list this as a pro for Android without listing all the Live / SkyDrive / MSN / etc. features that WP7 has as pros for MS. A number of available word processor type things? None that are as robust as Office, and so what? WP7 has a number of avaialable word processor type things. Google will no longer be releasing source code for Android. Google is also playing the "Swear to integrate all the Google shit or get no source code!" with the manufacturers.
And you can install anything onto WP7 without going through the market as well. A simple mod is all you need. And yeah - many manufacturers lock down Android phones to prevent you from installing 3rd party apps. Amazon threw a fit when it found Tmobile and AT&T phones couldn't use the Amazon AppStore.
By any practical objective analysis WP7 is less of a "fuck you" to the user.
"Even though the Android phones of today are considerably less bad than Apple or Windows smartphones..."
Written like someone who has never actually looked into WP7 phones. MS far is less evil than both Apple and Google now when it comes down to anything that matters with your phone.
I currently have an Android phone, and my next phone (which I don't expect to buy for at least another year), will be a WP8 phone if Google doesn't clean up their act.
If the world trusted Ron Paul, everything that mattered would be fixed, people would be left with freedom and responsibility, and the media wouldn't have anything to bitch about. Can't have that.
well, you don't actually HAVE to do that, because a clause like this is illegal in the first place. you can't waive your legal rights. this will never hold up in court.
The Supreme Court of the United States on April 27th, 2011, said it was legal in a 5-4 decision.
All it takes is one good judge to declare that crap unconscionable and unenforcable. ESPECIALLY since it's blatantly a try to protect their asses after setting off multiple class-action suits that are already on the books in which the only possible outcome is Sony getting their asses handed to them in court.
One good judge? Nope, it'll take 5 of them. And they'll have to sit on the Supreme Court. Because on April 27th 2011, five trolls on that bench decided that contractual clauses saying you won't join a class action lawsuit trump your rights, even if your state specifically says that such rights can't be tossed aside by some corporate fuck.
It also had some API shit for turning on DEP even if the system preference was set to OFF or "Only those programs I derp here". And then minor updates to authentication scheme bullshit no one cares about.
SP2 is the last XP version that could be called "new" in any practical sense of the word. And that's over 7 years old.
He won't even have GPUs initally. CPU mining is about as productive as mining for (physical) gold with a toothpick. GPU mining is slowly becoming less viable since people have rolled out FPGA miners.
And if anyone ever decides to go full-blown ASIC, mining will be dead for 99.9999999% of people.
More on point: This seems like a retarded cluster if you haven't built it with GPU shit initially in mind. It's not like CUDA/STREAM/DirectCompute/OpenCL are hard if you've already got the highly parallel algorithms and workloads in the first place. Dude's got 1200 boxen that could be outdone by 40 GPUs in 10 boxen for the vast vast vast majority of workloads. The time saved in setup and management, as well as the cost with regards to the communication backplane, power delivery, etc., could easily pay for a few programmers to rewrite any legacy code to be GPU-ready.
Cells burst during normal charging of Li-Ion batteries. When cells start bursting the charging circuitry notices that an array of cells isn't holding a charge anymore, and then stops charging that array.
I'm not talking about the "cell" in the sense that manufacturers advertise them (6 cell vs 9 cell battery), I'm talking about the tiny cells, of which there are thousands and thousands.
These cells are DESIGNED with bursting in mind - when charging and sometimes when discharging. That's why there's a substrate material in the battery, typically a plastic or metal. It contains the burst to a single cell or small group of cells. This is why so many batteries were recalled a few years ago - the Chinese manufacturers used PAPER as the substrate.
Please don't talk about shit you odn't understand. As far as density, common NiMH batteries have the same energy density as good Li-Ion and Li-Poly batteries. Good Ni-MH cells have higher energy densities.
The only real drawback is the specific power / energy - Ni-MH batteries weigh more than Li-Ions of similar capacity. Though if we were to scale up Ni-MH batteries to laptop size, that gap would diminish greatly (volume vs surface area, you know).
Ni-MH > Li-Ion > Li-Poly
What, you thought Li-Poly was the new hotness? It's got worse performance than Li-Ion, it's slightly cheaper, and you can make weird shapes out of it so Steve Jobs can say he squeezed more battery in the nooks and crannies even though that was basically a lie.
if we see this tech hit the streets, it would be one thing. but how long have we been hearing about stuff like this? it been years since we really had any real boost in battery tech. the laptop battery that i got with my 4 month old laptop is the same tech as the old toshiba battery i got in 1996. lithium ion tech is way out dated. we should have had a real break thru by now. but no, any real advance like this promises the sky and the moon, but we will never see a damn thing from this. life as normal. nothing to see. please move along.
Li-Ion is a fundamentally shitty design.
Li-Ion cells explode when you charge them too much, and die when drained completely. Li-Ion charging circuitry basically charges a bank of cells to about 80%, thn trickle charges to about 90%, then tops off. The charger knows the array is "full" when it sees it's not holding any more juice. This happens when some of the cells burst. So every charge is actually decreasing your Li-Ion's capacity.
Ni-MH is a much better battery design for capacity and durability. But people want fast charging (which damages their shit) more than they want an actual good battery. And manufacturers want cheap. So Li-Ion wins. And when they want to charge you more they upsell to Li-Poly which is the same old shit.
The courts should rule first of all that the guilds have no standing with respect to works of authors they do not represent... which, despite their name, is a lot of them.
The courts should first hit Google with the maximum penalty for copyright infringement, for each case of infringement they've committed. Because that's kind of what the whole case is about. If I can't photocopy a book and put it on my public website / private computer without permission of the copyright owner, then Google can't scan millions of books and put them into a university's public / semi-public library, nor can they index them on their public web site.
It's flagrant violation of copyright law, yet if you put a video of your birthday party on youtube, it's only a matter of time before the copyright bots block your video because it triggered on the performance of the copyrighted "Happy Birthday" song.
One day my cousins were in the basement at the old farm poking around. They found a crate with large white blocks. Salt licks from when we had horses. They also found a bunch of those old 6-volt lantern cells.
Apparently they though it's be a good idea to toss them in sacks and swing them around at each other. I wasn't around at the time. When I got there, the cops had already left. Little Jimmy was busted up pretty bad and was crying because he was the only one to get in trouble, and his brothers were acting like it was no big deal and were laughing for hours.
He was hit a salt and batteries, but they weren't charged.
You want backups. 7zip does this. You want encrypted backups. 7zip does this. You want sequential/differential/whatever backup files instead of full backups each time. 7zip does this.
You want to store the backup on a network drive. SFTP/SSH/Whatever does this. You want to sync the drive contents to another drive on the internet. SFTP/SSH/Whatever does this. You want the transfer to be secure. SFTP/SSH/Whatever does this.
You want to schedule the jobs to run automatically. Thinking For 5 Seconds reveals how. You want to transfer only the changes. Thinking For 5 Seconds reveals how. You want a network drive that is NAT accessible and port-designatable. Thinking For 5 Seconds finds you one.
A simple 7z line will handle all your backup needs. A simple xcopy/rsync/robocopy/whatever line will handle all the file moving. A simple sftp/ssh/whatever line will handle the transfer to the remote drive. A simple batch/cron job will schedule it to run automagically.
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These are the only OTC rescue inhalers on the market. People will die from this bullshit.
In the US, maybe. In the UK, I've never even seen an epinephrine inhaler, salbutamol (albuterol) is the standard.
In the Canada, maybe. In the US, I've never even seen an epinephrine inhaler, salbutamol (albuterol) is the standard.
And I have asthma!
Easy. Just build a huge dirigible to keep it in.
Might want to stay away from New Jersey with it, however.
You should stay away from New Jersey in general.
Yahoo Mail users outnumber Hotmail/Live users, and both FAR outnumber Gmail users.
Deal with it.
Yes, HTML5 works wonderfully for video made of pixels. But for video made of vectors (e.g. almost everything on Weebl's Stuff or Newgrounds), Flash still way outperforms animated SVG in rendering speed, and it outperforms rasterization and compression with H.264 by a factor of about ten in bitrate.
And Flash is the way to go for anything that's frameless, has a variable framerate, is interactive in anyway, or is an interface/application that can't be handled by HTML5+Javascript. Flash is a LOT more than "video". The fact that 90% of the time it's used for video doesn't change that.
If you are so worried about security why are you accessing the internet at all? For that matter why do you even have a computer? Do you also not use a credit card or check card? It was pointed out quite eloquently above. "we can't let potential vulnerabilities get in the way of advancing technology."
You are selling you crotchless pants, and telling people it'll take less time to take a piss.
They say "Seems unnecessarily risky for very little benefit. I don't want to get raped.".
You respond "If you're so worried about rape, why do you have genitals?".
Absurd.
From TFA:
Last year, RealVNC teamed up with Intel to incorporate a bona fide VNC server (using hardware encryption native to vPro chipsets)
I don't know why I read the comments on this site anymore. Once upon a time it was 80% morons and maybe 10% of posters had read the article. If only I knew how much I'd wind up missing those days....
And the encryption protects you against what, exactly?
1: Snopping.
2: MITM.
If there's a vulnerability, you're still fucked.
Oh really?
Just off the top of my head:
WP7:
* primarily uses Exchange, which is (in its online/prevailant incarnation of bpos/office365) incompatible with anything but MS clients
* has a mobile MS Office built-in (some call that a feature, and I'll admit, OneNote is sweet.)
* does not release their source code
Android:
* can use a myriad of mail services, including gmail, from which I can export all my mail from any client, of which there are several. I can also export my contacts in any format I please (literally)
* has a number of available word processor type things.
* releases their source code (for the most recent phone release, which I think is 2.3.4 at this point) for everything not dealing directly with their infrastructure
* allows 3rd party software to be installed w/o boostrapping to their market (hmm, you weren't thinking winmo6.5 were you?)
Primarily uses exchange? So does the world.
Incompatible? Nope.
A free mobile version of office IS a feature. You can add whatever other programs you want if you don't like it.
Doesn't release their source code, and never made promises to that effect. Apple, MS, and Google (starting from 3.0) are now all on the same playing field here.
WP7 can use all those same services. All you need is a program to do it, and with 99.9999% of all Google services, that program is a browser.
And I don't see how you can list this as a pro for Android without listing all the Live / SkyDrive / MSN / etc. features that WP7 has as pros for MS.
A number of available word processor type things? None that are as robust as Office, and so what? WP7 has a number of avaialable word processor type things.
Google will no longer be releasing source code for Android.
Google is also playing the "Swear to integrate all the Google shit or get no source code!" with the manufacturers.
And you can install anything onto WP7 without going through the market as well. A simple mod is all you need. And yeah - many manufacturers lock down Android phones to prevent you from installing 3rd party apps. Amazon threw a fit when it found Tmobile and AT&T phones couldn't use the Amazon AppStore.
By any practical objective analysis WP7 is less of a "fuck you" to the user.
"Even though the Android phones of today are considerably less bad than Apple or Windows smartphones ..."
Written like someone who has never actually looked into WP7 phones.
MS far is less evil than both Apple and Google now when it comes down to anything that matters with your phone.
I currently have an Android phone, and my next phone (which I don't expect to buy for at least another year), will be a WP8 phone if Google doesn't clean up their act.
If the world trusted Ron Paul, everything that mattered would be fixed, people would be left with freedom and responsibility, and the media wouldn't have anything to bitch about.
Can't have that.
Hah! Fair enough... I should have specified "Federal" contractor.
Ma Bell
They don't need to.
Any junior attorney can walk in and say "Hurr Durr SCOTUS" and the judge will not allow the class action.
Supreme Court.
April 27th 2011.
"We don't give a shit about your rights. Binding arbitration and anti-class action clauses are fine, EVEN IF YOUR STATE SAYS OTHERWISE."
well, you don't actually HAVE to do that, because a clause like this is illegal in the first place. you can't waive your legal rights. this will never hold up in court.
The Supreme Court of the United States on April 27th, 2011, said it was legal in a 5-4 decision.
All it takes is one good judge to declare that crap unconscionable and unenforcable. ESPECIALLY since it's blatantly a try to protect their asses after setting off multiple class-action suits that are already on the books in which the only possible outcome is Sony getting their asses handed to them in court.
One good judge? Nope, it'll take 5 of them. And they'll have to sit on the Supreme Court.
Because on April 27th 2011, five trolls on that bench decided that contractual clauses saying you won't join a class action lawsuit trump your rights, even if your state specifically says that such rights can't be tossed aside by some corporate fuck.
SP3 was basically just a patch roll-up.
It also had some API shit for turning on DEP even if the system preference was set to OFF or "Only those programs I derp here".
And then minor updates to authentication scheme bullshit no one cares about.
SP2 is the last XP version that could be called "new" in any practical sense of the word. And that's over 7 years old.
He won't even have GPUs initally.
CPU mining is about as productive as mining for (physical) gold with a toothpick.
GPU mining is slowly becoming less viable since people have rolled out FPGA miners.
And if anyone ever decides to go full-blown ASIC, mining will be dead for 99.9999999% of people.
More on point: This seems like a retarded cluster if you haven't built it with GPU shit initially in mind. It's not like CUDA/STREAM/DirectCompute/OpenCL are hard if you've already got the highly parallel algorithms and workloads in the first place. Dude's got 1200 boxen that could be outdone by 40 GPUs in 10 boxen for the vast vast vast majority of workloads. The time saved in setup and management, as well as the cost with regards to the communication backplane, power delivery, etc., could easily pay for a few programmers to rewrite any legacy code to be GPU-ready.
And with AMDs 7000 series coming out, the energy cost / performance would be a trifle. A trifle!
http://lenzfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/AMD-Radeon-7000-22.jpg
Look at that shit! LOOK AT IT!
Cells burst during normal charging of Li-Ion batteries.
When cells start bursting the charging circuitry notices that an array of cells isn't holding a charge anymore, and then stops charging that array.
I'm not talking about the "cell" in the sense that manufacturers advertise them (6 cell vs 9 cell battery), I'm talking about the tiny cells, of which there are thousands and thousands.
These cells are DESIGNED with bursting in mind - when charging and sometimes when discharging. That's why there's a substrate material in the battery, typically a plastic or metal. It contains the burst to a single cell or small group of cells. This is why so many batteries were recalled a few years ago - the Chinese manufacturers used PAPER as the substrate.
Please don't talk about shit you odn't understand.
As far as density, common NiMH batteries have the same energy density as good Li-Ion and Li-Poly batteries. Good Ni-MH cells have higher energy densities.
The only real drawback is the specific power / energy - Ni-MH batteries weigh more than Li-Ions of similar capacity.
Though if we were to scale up Ni-MH batteries to laptop size, that gap would diminish greatly (volume vs surface area, you know).
Ni-MH > Li-Ion > Li-Poly
What, you thought Li-Poly was the new hotness? It's got worse performance than Li-Ion, it's slightly cheaper, and you can make weird shapes out of it so Steve Jobs can say he squeezed more battery in the nooks and crannies even though that was basically a lie.
if we see this tech hit the streets, it would be one thing. but how long have we been hearing about stuff like this? it been years since we really had any real boost in battery tech. the laptop battery that i got with my 4 month old laptop is the same tech as the old toshiba battery i got in 1996. lithium ion tech is way out dated. we should have had a real break thru by now. but no, any real advance like this promises the sky and the moon, but we will never see a damn thing from this. life as normal. nothing to see. please move along.
Li-Ion is a fundamentally shitty design.
Li-Ion cells explode when you charge them too much, and die when drained completely. Li-Ion charging circuitry basically charges a bank of cells to about 80%, thn trickle charges to about 90%, then tops off. The charger knows the array is "full" when it sees it's not holding any more juice. This happens when some of the cells burst. So every charge is actually decreasing your Li-Ion's capacity.
Ni-MH is a much better battery design for capacity and durability. But people want fast charging (which damages their shit) more than they want an actual good battery. And manufacturers want cheap. So Li-Ion wins. And when they want to charge you more they upsell to Li-Poly which is the same old shit.
The courts should rule first of all that the guilds have no standing with respect to works of authors they do not represent... which, despite their name, is a lot of them.
The courts should first hit Google with the maximum penalty for copyright infringement, for each case of infringement they've committed. Because that's kind of what the whole case is about. If I can't photocopy a book and put it on my public website / private computer without permission of the copyright owner, then Google can't scan millions of books and put them into a university's public / semi-public library, nor can they index them on their public web site.
It's flagrant violation of copyright law, yet if you put a video of your birthday party on youtube, it's only a matter of time before the copyright bots block your video because it triggered on the performance of the copyrighted "Happy Birthday" song.
it's -> it'd
"was hit a" -> "was hit with a"
One day my cousins were in the basement at the old farm poking around.
They found a crate with large white blocks. Salt licks from when we had horses.
They also found a bunch of those old 6-volt lantern cells.
Apparently they though it's be a good idea to toss them in sacks and swing them around at each other.
I wasn't around at the time. When I got there, the cops had already left.
Little Jimmy was busted up pretty bad and was crying because he was the only one to get in trouble, and his brothers were acting like it was no big deal and were laughing for hours.
He was hit a salt and batteries, but they weren't charged.
You want backups. 7zip does this.
You want encrypted backups. 7zip does this.
You want sequential/differential/whatever backup files instead of full backups each time. 7zip does this.
You want to store the backup on a network drive. SFTP/SSH/Whatever does this.
You want to sync the drive contents to another drive on the internet. SFTP/SSH/Whatever does this.
You want the transfer to be secure. SFTP/SSH/Whatever does this.
You want to schedule the jobs to run automatically. Thinking For 5 Seconds reveals how.
You want to transfer only the changes. Thinking For 5 Seconds reveals how.
You want a network drive that is NAT accessible and port-designatable. Thinking For 5 Seconds finds you one.
A simple 7z line will handle all your backup needs.
A simple xcopy/rsync/robocopy/whatever line will handle all the file moving.
A simple sftp/ssh/whatever line will handle the transfer to the remote drive.
A simple batch/cron job will schedule it to run automagically.
Too desktop oriented. To keep up with current trends, windows 8 needs to feel like a tablet on your desktop. Man.
Fucking tablets. Fucking phones. Fucking trends.
Full desktop, with full keyboard, with real monitor, or nothing.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000RKABHU/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B001BF70LA&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=072R2NAWYWXWHJMR9QAR
That's a two-fer.
In big boy politics NEITHER side cares about a few dead guys. Anyone not getting this needs to grow up.
Jihadists kill their enemies, anti-Jihadists kill their enemies, and anti-anti-Jihadists HELP Jihadists kill anti-Jihadists.
There is no "neutral way to participate".
Tell my wife I said "Hello.".