As long as the ad companies insist on having the ads hosted on [i]their[/i] servers, this won't happen. Nobody trusts ad companies, but ad companies don't trust their partners to display ads and collect statistics accurately. As long as the splices and scripts come from 3rd-party servers, it should always be possible to block them.
What concerns me more is the increasing trend of blocking content if the ad servers don't return a confirmation. More and more often, I'm seeing pleas from web sites for me to stop blocking their ads, so they can definitely detect that the ads are being blocked.
Is there a particular reason they need to push an OS update that breaks shit, especially seeing how the Shield is still a relatively new product?
It's kind of like Windows 10 being released and people find half of the games released last year don't work. Clearly, there's something wrong with that update, and architectural failings need to be criticized. The Android OS really should be mature at this point.
I'm getting sick of this. There was a time where things would work for 5-10 years with only occasional glitches. Now any update breaks stuff that's only 6 months old.
It might not fit your fancy, and that's perfectly fine. But others prefer that the UI get out of the way instead of always being in your face... evidently they won, this time.
Use a bigger screen or put all the annoying stuff on a toolbar and close it. A UI that takes up a lot of screen space might be a problem, but if a UI is a major distraction, perhaps some people have an aesthetic OCD they need to address.
Say what you will, but I'm really sick to death of every desktop turning into a smartphone... by force. I want menus and buttons. So sue me.
Replace the word "Flash" with any other plugin or technology that geeks don't like. Will it still be okay if we go out of our way to kill it and make sure nobody can use it? Replace "Adobe" with "Free Software Foundation". Is that better? How about we talk about the Unity3D plugin? That's a plugin, too, just like Adobe PDF and Java, so that means it's bad. It's easy to pick on Flash and I can't say I really like the plugin, but when organizations with a large amount of industry influence start talking about killbits, that makes me really nervous.
I'd have no problem with Facebook urging other web sites to stop using Flash, especially if they're willing to support development of an alternative. When they talk about actively killing things for the good of the community, that's going too far. This starts leaning to the direction that it's okay to execute prisoners because nobody likes them.
Sometimes I'm really disturbed by the will of the community. I'm already pissed enough that I can't run certain Java applets anymore because the great Oracle says I'd hurt myself if I tried. Heaven forbid they give me a warning and I make up my own mind. As for grandma's computer, I could just configure the web browser to not use Java or install any other plugin.
IMO, touch has nothing to do with it. It's just fashion. Given another 5-10 years, flat will be passé, and colors, gradients, and actual useful features will return.
My biggest surprise is that all of the control panels have been redesigned to look like "apps", and by association, about 90% of the options are now gone (unless you resort to a command prompt or the registry). Oh yeah, and it's unstable as all hell -- when Edge crashes, it closes all tabs and windows at once, and dumps you to the desktop with no error messages at all.
Fuck 10. I'll wait to see how they turn it up to 11.
Pixel art in games has always been pretty well respected, even before retro became a thing. What's really surprised me has been the decline of pixel art in general outside of gaming.
I've been a long-time fanatic over oekaki art, which is essentially pixel art drawn directly on the web using Java applets or (rarely) Flash. The impromptu nature of the medium means most art will be done in 5-30 minutes, and the applets generally don't allow you to import a canvas, so the art is done from scratch and is all your own work. The communities are fairly small, dedicated, and consist mostly of artists. The most popular Java applets favor the pencil tool over airbrushes, an intentionally limited palette, and have special masking and dithering tools which results in most oekakis having a distinctive look. It's wicked fun, and much more creative and engaging than boards like 4chan.
Oekaki boards are generally hosted as standalone web sites. Since the rise of social networks, oekaki has all but disappeared, both the BBSes and the artwork style. The Java applets rarely work these days due to everyone's (and Oracle's) hateboner over applets, so there's really no way to draw online anymore.
What I find most interesting, though, is that everyone trying to write an HTML5-based paint program these days is trying to make a full-fledged painting application, complete with airbrush tools, transparent layers, and sometimes even trying to integrate complex features like the magic wand (and very badly). Performance and drawing lag is horrible. Why are there no pixel art or oekaki HTML5 apps? Pixel art is wicked fast with HTML5 canvas, so a good pixel art application would be ideal, but apparently nobody has an interest in doing this when they can write a bad Photoshop clone nobody wants. Even DeviantArt, which has a drawing app called Muro, has written their crappy paint app with an airbrush tool, and it's impossible to make even good art with that app, let alone pixel art.
It's getting increasingly difficult to keep my BBS alive due to the death of Java on the web. I may have to hire someone to write an HTML5 program for me.
Yup, my Amiga days were the first thing to come to mind.
Upon reading the headline, my first thought was that the virus was wiping out the firmware, which really kills most devices as hardly anything has a ROM backup. Overwriting system files? Yawn.
Firefox has been rock solid stable for me for years, and I also questioned why people were complaining so much about stability.
That changed in (if I remember correctly) version 33 on Windows. I've had nothing but problems with it ever since, regardless of which plugins or extensions are installed. In particular, I've noticed that if the browser is open overnight, opening any menu will cause an instant crash. Frequently, right-clicks that bring up a context menu will also cause a crash, but only if the browser has been open for a while.
I have multiple installs of the browser for development purposes, including a "stock" profile with no plugins or extensions installed. I'm pretty sure the crashing is not because I'm holding it wrong.
I was wondering why they replaced their wonderful crosshair squeeze tops with normal pop-tops within the last few years. The old bottles were very precise and clean. The new ones just glop the stuff out.
Just the latest round of, "you're holding it wrong," I guess.
As easy as it is to use something like Seamonkey or Palemoon, there's no substitute for critical mass. If Firefox stagnates, Chrome will take over everything.
To me, the move from DVD to Blu-ray is a big deal, since I no longer have to suffer with those horrible compression artifacts. I can't readily see the difference in resolution on my modestly-sized TV, but with DVDs, compression artifacts are extremely noticeable, especially when things are moving quickly on screen. I still buy a lot of DVDs since they are cheaper and I can watch them anywhere, but for the really good movies I get Blu-ray.
4K doesn't appeal to me because the biggest problem with image quality, compression, has been solved.
Aside from performance issues, this is the biggest reason I don't like using antivirus. Most programs are designed for idiots and helpfully take action for you, regardless of the circumstances or your experience. I'm shocked how many anti-virus programs will outright delete files without asking, let alone quarantine, and will not even give you the option to change the default behavior.
My biggest complaint about automatics is they really want to go when you don't want them to. I hate it when a car wants to accelerate like mad without your foot on the fuel pedal, especially when going downhill, and I'll take a handbrake over a hill-holding transmission any day. Even with a drive-by-wire fuel pedal, a manual transmission gives a lot more confidence that you're driving the car and not the other way around.
Despite major changes over the years to improve responsiveness, shifting, and adding more gears, automatics simply don't perform logically. Forget paddle shifters -- if automatics had a "manual mode" which allowed the car to coast downhill or only move when your foot was on the fuel, I'd tolerate them much better (even if I still wouldn't want to own one for way more reasons than I care to list).
I take it you haven't watched cartoons in a while. They usually continue to flaunt old-fashioned technology like some kind of skeuomorphic time machine.
Mr. Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants is something of a technophobe and insists on using an old-fashioned register he calls "Cashy".
I think kids will continue to understand things like cash registers, gramophones, steam engines, and pencil and paper for a long time. Too bad they may not appreciate actual cel animation, though.
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I don't want it to die. I just want most people to stop using it.
Enough with the battle calls to kill Flash. I still want all those cartoons and games I downloaded to work.
As long as the ad companies insist on having the ads hosted on [i]their[/i] servers, this won't happen. Nobody trusts ad companies, but ad companies don't trust their partners to display ads and collect statistics accurately. As long as the splices and scripts come from 3rd-party servers, it should always be possible to block them.
What concerns me more is the increasing trend of blocking content if the ad servers don't return a confirmation. More and more often, I'm seeing pleas from web sites for me to stop blocking their ads, so they can definitely detect that the ads are being blocked.
Is there a particular reason they need to push an OS update that breaks shit, especially seeing how the Shield is still a relatively new product?
It's kind of like Windows 10 being released and people find half of the games released last year don't work. Clearly, there's something wrong with that update, and architectural failings need to be criticized. The Android OS really should be mature at this point.
I'm getting sick of this. There was a time where things would work for 5-10 years with only occasional glitches. Now any update breaks stuff that's only 6 months old.
It might not fit your fancy, and that's perfectly fine. But others prefer that the UI get out of the way instead of always being in your face... evidently they won, this time.
Use a bigger screen or put all the annoying stuff on a toolbar and close it. A UI that takes up a lot of screen space might be a problem, but if a UI is a major distraction, perhaps some people have an aesthetic OCD they need to address.
Say what you will, but I'm really sick to death of every desktop turning into a smartphone... by force. I want menus and buttons. So sue me.
Replace the word "Flash" with any other plugin or technology that geeks don't like. Will it still be okay if we go out of our way to kill it and make sure nobody can use it? Replace "Adobe" with "Free Software Foundation". Is that better? How about we talk about the Unity3D plugin? That's a plugin, too, just like Adobe PDF and Java, so that means it's bad. It's easy to pick on Flash and I can't say I really like the plugin, but when organizations with a large amount of industry influence start talking about killbits, that makes me really nervous.
I'd have no problem with Facebook urging other web sites to stop using Flash, especially if they're willing to support development of an alternative. When they talk about actively killing things for the good of the community, that's going too far. This starts leaning to the direction that it's okay to execute prisoners because nobody likes them.
Sometimes I'm really disturbed by the will of the community. I'm already pissed enough that I can't run certain Java applets anymore because the great Oracle says I'd hurt myself if I tried. Heaven forbid they give me a warning and I make up my own mind. As for grandma's computer, I could just configure the web browser to not use Java or install any other plugin.
IMO, touch has nothing to do with it. It's just fashion. Given another 5-10 years, flat will be passé, and colors, gradients, and actual useful features will return.
My biggest surprise is that all of the control panels have been redesigned to look like "apps", and by association, about 90% of the options are now gone (unless you resort to a command prompt or the registry). Oh yeah, and it's unstable as all hell -- when Edge crashes, it closes all tabs and windows at once, and dumps you to the desktop with no error messages at all.
Fuck 10. I'll wait to see how they turn it up to 11.
Fires and drones? A few strategic phone calls can cause way more social damage, and that's way cheaper.
People buy new cars because they want new cars. People who need cars buy used.
This started happening when web browsers ditched bookmarks, because people are stupid, hate organization, and don't need useful stuff.
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pixel art in games has always been pretty well respected, even before retro became a thing. What's really surprised me has been the decline of pixel art in general outside of gaming.
I've been a long-time fanatic over oekaki art, which is essentially pixel art drawn directly on the web using Java applets or (rarely) Flash. The impromptu nature of the medium means most art will be done in 5-30 minutes, and the applets generally don't allow you to import a canvas, so the art is done from scratch and is all your own work. The communities are fairly small, dedicated, and consist mostly of artists. The most popular Java applets favor the pencil tool over airbrushes, an intentionally limited palette, and have special masking and dithering tools which results in most oekakis having a distinctive look. It's wicked fun, and much more creative and engaging than boards like 4chan.
Oekaki boards are generally hosted as standalone web sites. Since the rise of social networks, oekaki has all but disappeared, both the BBSes and the artwork style. The Java applets rarely work these days due to everyone's (and Oracle's) hateboner over applets, so there's really no way to draw online anymore.
What I find most interesting, though, is that everyone trying to write an HTML5-based paint program these days is trying to make a full-fledged painting application, complete with airbrush tools, transparent layers, and sometimes even trying to integrate complex features like the magic wand (and very badly). Performance and drawing lag is horrible. Why are there no pixel art or oekaki HTML5 apps? Pixel art is wicked fast with HTML5 canvas, so a good pixel art application would be ideal, but apparently nobody has an interest in doing this when they can write a bad Photoshop clone nobody wants. Even DeviantArt, which has a drawing app called Muro, has written their crappy paint app with an airbrush tool, and it's impossible to make even good art with that app, let alone pixel art.
It's getting increasingly difficult to keep my BBS alive due to the death of Java on the web. I may have to hire someone to write an HTML5 program for me.
Yup, my Amiga days were the first thing to come to mind.
Upon reading the headline, my first thought was that the virus was wiping out the firmware, which really kills most devices as hardly anything has a ROM backup. Overwriting system files? Yawn.
Firefox has been rock solid stable for me for years, and I also questioned why people were complaining so much about stability.
That changed in (if I remember correctly) version 33 on Windows. I've had nothing but problems with it ever since, regardless of which plugins or extensions are installed. In particular, I've noticed that if the browser is open overnight, opening any menu will cause an instant crash. Frequently, right-clicks that bring up a context menu will also cause a crash, but only if the browser has been open for a while.
I have multiple installs of the browser for development purposes, including a "stock" profile with no plugins or extensions installed. I'm pretty sure the crashing is not because I'm holding it wrong.
Master Caster. Master Blaster's little-known cousin.
Ask these 20-somethings how they feel about stupid marketing stunts when they are (20+3)-somethings and all the UI standards change yet again.
Or the sacrificial alter on which the good parts of Windows7 were slain.
I was wondering why they replaced their wonderful crosshair squeeze tops with normal pop-tops within the last few years. The old bottles were very precise and clean. The new ones just glop the stuff out.
Just the latest round of, "you're holding it wrong," I guess.
At least it's a better metric than a Library of Congress.
As easy as it is to use something like Seamonkey or Palemoon, there's no substitute for critical mass. If Firefox stagnates, Chrome will take over everything.
To me, the move from DVD to Blu-ray is a big deal, since I no longer have to suffer with those horrible compression artifacts. I can't readily see the difference in resolution on my modestly-sized TV, but with DVDs, compression artifacts are extremely noticeable, especially when things are moving quickly on screen. I still buy a lot of DVDs since they are cheaper and I can watch them anywhere, but for the really good movies I get Blu-ray.
4K doesn't appeal to me because the biggest problem with image quality, compression, has been solved.
Wow. Just the fact the name contains "Mitigation Experience" is enough to make me run for the hills.
Aside from performance issues, this is the biggest reason I don't like using antivirus. Most programs are designed for idiots and helpfully take action for you, regardless of the circumstances or your experience. I'm shocked how many anti-virus programs will outright delete files without asking, let alone quarantine, and will not even give you the option to change the default behavior.
My biggest complaint about automatics is they really want to go when you don't want them to. I hate it when a car wants to accelerate like mad without your foot on the fuel pedal, especially when going downhill, and I'll take a handbrake over a hill-holding transmission any day. Even with a drive-by-wire fuel pedal, a manual transmission gives a lot more confidence that you're driving the car and not the other way around.
Despite major changes over the years to improve responsiveness, shifting, and adding more gears, automatics simply don't perform logically. Forget paddle shifters -- if automatics had a "manual mode" which allowed the car to coast downhill or only move when your foot was on the fuel, I'd tolerate them much better (even if I still wouldn't want to own one for way more reasons than I care to list).
So Lennart wants his own distro.
How about Lendows?
I take it you haven't watched cartoons in a while. They usually continue to flaunt old-fashioned technology like some kind of skeuomorphic time machine.
Mr. Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants is something of a technophobe and insists on using an old-fashioned register he calls "Cashy".
I think kids will continue to understand things like cash registers, gramophones, steam engines, and pencil and paper for a long time. Too bad they may not appreciate actual cel animation, though.