Free-to-air, Cable, and Satellite never broadcast 1080p, but that doesn't exclude the possibility that your box is upconverting 1080i to 1080p for you.
Perhaps it was the choice of source material you used?
I have compared the DVD vs BluRay of a well-mastered movie and the difference was breathtaking. But I also find that the difference in resolution is much more noticeable when the source comprises of computer graphics or animation.
When properly mastered, the amount of detail that is in 1080p is frankly impossible to reproduce in DVD resolution. But I digress, most of your post is probably correct - just the claim that upscaled DVD can compare with BluRay irked me.
Wow, I havn't seen a rear-projection TV for more than a year, be it DLP, LCD or CRT.
Rear-projection seemed to fade from the consumer market not long after flat-panel (LCD and Plasma) pushed CRT out.
Personally I found DLP always suffered from the horrible rainbow effects, even with the products boasting new colour wheel technology. Maybe my eyes have a faster than normal refresh rate.
For a public site using non-standard ports is an easy method to shoot yourself in the foot - you immediately block all users behind proxies or firewalls that only allow communication on "standard" web ports.
Um, no. It's so that it costs more to index the web, meaning that any competitor to google has to pay more to challenge their dominant position as search engine. Microsoft has to bleed even more money trying to compete. Yahoo might have to abandon search.
TFA explains how Obfuscated TCP is both opportunistic and transparent. Servers will provide encrypted transmission only when the client requests it, and unlike SSL/TLS there is no additional handshaking required to setup the connection.
A car analogy. Suppose you use regular unleaded fuel in your car and it drives fine. High octane fuel then becomes available at a higher cost. Your car continues to drive fine on regular unleaded, but you have the choice to fill up with high octane at any petrol station that serves it.
The Bottom Line is that the game has to be enjoyable enough to keep players interested for them to continue spending on items.
This appears to be the same model that the Korean game PANGYA uses. You play the game for free, but you can buy (or earn) items that improve your play or just make you look unique. It just so happens that it is much easier to pay money for the items than it is to earn them.
PANGYA was released to US Americans a while ago as Albatross18
I would have classed that article as FUD, except that there are too many obvious contradictions.
Instead it just looks like some incoherent disinformation from someone who does not know the difference between a browser and a plugin.
a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms - Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash.
That's where I stopped taking the article seriously. Unfortunately that was also the first paragraph.
It didn't do that the first time I tried, but after installing Chrome it works exactly as you say. Scary indeed.
Perhaps you have installed Google Desktop or some other software app. Those apps add hooks into your browser and can do things like alter pages you view on-the-fly (such as altering the Google homepage).
But in the case of Google a product or service is released to the public as "BETA" and can stay that way for years. I think Google has misused the term "BETA" to the point that it no longer has meaning for users, they are contributing to the case of "perpetual beta". For example look at how many people now rely on GMail for communication, and yes, GMail is still "BETA".
Have a look at all the Google services available. I did a quick grok and more than half are still listed as "BETA".
Infact, give or take a few, these are the only services listed there that are not marked as "BETA":
Desktop Directory Image Search Maps News Notebook Toolbar University Search Code Groups Picassa Youtube
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Free-to-air, Cable, and Satellite never broadcast 1080p, but that doesn't exclude the possibility that your box is upconverting 1080i to 1080p for you.
Technology is my religion, you insensitive clod!
Perhaps it was the choice of source material you used?
I have compared the DVD vs BluRay of a well-mastered movie and the difference was breathtaking. But I also find that the difference in resolution is much more noticeable when the source comprises of computer graphics or animation.
When properly mastered, the amount of detail that is in 1080p is frankly impossible to reproduce in DVD resolution. But I digress, most of your post is probably correct - just the claim that upscaled DVD can compare with BluRay irked me.
Wow, I havn't seen a rear-projection TV for more than a year, be it DLP, LCD or CRT.
Rear-projection seemed to fade from the consumer market not long after flat-panel (LCD and Plasma) pushed CRT out.
Personally I found DLP always suffered from the horrible rainbow effects, even with the products boasting new colour wheel technology. Maybe my eyes have a faster than normal refresh rate.
Jimmy Wales, is that you?
Crunchyroll is a really bad example if you are trying to highlight legitimate uses of bittorrent.
http://firefox.org/news/articles/1296/1/Crunchyroll-streaming-site-raises-ire-of-some-earns-cooperation-of-others/Page1.html
Windows Wü
Following that logic, some fool is going to buy Windows 2000 thinking it is newer or better than Windows 7.
And they might only be half mistaken.
Apparently Flashblock makes websites such as YouTube load much faster.
For a public site using non-standard ports is an easy method to shoot yourself in the foot - you immediately block all users behind proxies or firewalls that only allow communication on "standard" web ports.
Um, no. It's so that it costs more to index the web, meaning that any competitor to google has to pay more to challenge their dominant position as search engine. Microsoft has to bleed even more money trying to compete. Yahoo might have to abandon search.
TFA explains how Obfuscated TCP is both opportunistic and transparent. Servers will provide encrypted transmission only when the client requests it, and unlike SSL/TLS there is no additional handshaking required to setup the connection.
A car analogy. Suppose you use regular unleaded fuel in your car and it drives fine. High octane fuel then becomes available at a higher cost. Your car continues to drive fine on regular unleaded, but you have the choice to fill up with high octane at any petrol station that serves it.
This costs you more, how?
The Bottom Line is that the game has to be enjoyable enough to keep players interested for them to continue spending on items.
This appears to be the same model that the Korean game PANGYA uses. You play the game for free, but you can buy (or earn) items that improve your play or just make you look unique. It just so happens that it is much easier to pay money for the items than it is to earn them.
PANGYA was released to US Americans a while ago as Albatross18
I would have classed that article as FUD, except that there are too many obvious contradictions.
Instead it just looks like some incoherent disinformation from someone who does not know the difference between a browser and a plugin.
a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms - Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash.
That's where I stopped taking the article seriously. Unfortunately that was also the first paragraph.
I think i've already replied to this topic...
Whoosh!
Boom!
The Whoosh! was the humour in the OP apparently flying over your head.
The Boom! when the joke broke the humour barrier and put the mods into a case of shock, apparently causing them to mod you up.
You'd have to be a twisted pair to try that.
You could do the same thing using a .htaccess file (assuming you are running Apache).
php_flag session.cookie_secure on
This way ensures that it is set before any PHP script runs, regardless of what scripts are used.
"The directors of the firm hired to amend the TOS after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked."
It didn't do that the first time I tried, but after installing Chrome it works exactly as you say. Scary indeed.
Perhaps you have installed Google Desktop or some other software app. Those apps add hooks into your browser and can do things like alter pages you view on-the-fly (such as altering the Google homepage).
But in the case of Google a product or service is released to the public as "BETA" and can stay that way for years. I think Google has misused the term "BETA" to the point that it no longer has meaning for users, they are contributing to the case of "perpetual beta". For example look at how many people now rely on GMail for communication, and yes, GMail is still "BETA".
Have a look at all the Google services available. I did a quick grok and more than half are still listed as "BETA".
Infact, give or take a few, these are the only services listed there that are not marked as "BETA":
Desktop
Directory
Image Search
Maps
News
Notebook
Toolbar
University Search
Code
Groups
Picassa
Youtube
So basically... blame UNIX?
I didn't read and just clicked the the reply button anyway.
Someone needs to teach those damn legalese writers to use paragraphs!
Facebook is such a pain to use, and it's so slow. No wonder designers use Flickr instead....
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/virgin-sued-for-using-teens-photo/2007/09/21/1189881735928.html
Try this for overriding an incompatible extension:
Open the .xpi as a zip file and extract install.rdf
Edit the em:maxVersion tag and set to 3.*, or whatever version you want it valid until.
Insert the updated install.rdf into the .xpi and install into Firefox.
Check that it doesn't implode.
Enjoy.
I have successfully used this with several extensions, YMMV.
Bingo, and you can also specify the profile name on the command line to bypass the profile popup (or if you wish to make a shortcut icon to it).
And there we have it, multiple browser processes running with discrete profiles, all without switching users or sudo'ing.
Note, I can't remember my exact command but according to the documentation the -no-remote option has a single preceeding dash: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments