It doesn't matter that Firefox uses proprietary DLLs to render web content, because there are no restrictions or fees on its use.
There is no difference between FLASH doing it and a CODEC doing it. They are BOTH proprietary binary DLL's and H.264 carries the same restrictions and fees in both cases.
So when are you going to push to remove all support for FLASH in Firefox?
This idea that a CODEC is somehow different that all the other DLLs that Firefox leverages on a Windows system is laughable. It amazes me how many people don't get that.
Firefox loads *many* proprietary DLL's on Windows systems (and the OS/X equivs) in order to render web content.
You've turned it into a religion ONLY in the case of CODECS. Why are CODECS special?
Repairing bones is often cheaper, especially in the case of the military.
A veterinarian can set and cast a broken dog leg for a few hundred bucks.. getting it done for a human by a doctor and the same procedure cost over ten thousand dollars.
The difference is that there arent a million lawyers fucking it up for everyone.
Not just copy all of memory, but also MODIFY all of memory.
THAT was the essential security problem with Macintosh Firewire. A device which was plugged in could do whatever it damn well pleased with the memory of the device it was connected to (and vice-versa.)
This was because (as someone else noted) that all Firewire devices are considered peers. So the computer has a DMA controller and the device has a DMA controller and either one can initiate a transfer to the other.
The design was fine before devices themselves became trivially programmable.
...IE was still 5.x. I would have replied differently had you explained how the transition from IE 5 to 6 was significantly easier than from IE 6 to 7 or to 8.
It doesnt matter what version IE was. The point being that since 95% of users were using IE thanks to netscapes monumental 4+ year blunder, there was absolutely no incentive to develop web pages that leveraged its particular quirks and non-standard behavior. Literally nobody used it and they had good reason not to.
So we have (A) all browsers had proprietary extensions prior to 2000. (B) netscape use was declining rapidly prior to 2000 because it fell way behind on features (3+ years without a single update!), and then it REALLY took a dive when 6.0 hit in 2000. and finally (C) "web standards" were pointless because no browser even came close to following them, that in fact Internet Explorer was the ONLY standard that mattered since 95% of the market ran it.
Netscape blundered its way into becoming completely irrelevant to developers. It was quite possibly the largest strategic mistake in software development ever made. From dominance to a nobody all because of a single development decision.
It wasn't until Mozilla approached version 1.0 that these was any reasonably standard rendering engine AT ALL that didnt crash all the time. This idea that Microsoft locked developers in is a joke. There wasnt any reasonable alternatives (something that didnt crash on half the pages on the internet) at all that didnt also present the same non-standard surface (such as Netscape 4)
As I understand it, this was true for all of a year: from late 2001, when IE 6 came out, to late 2002, when Mozilla Application Suite 1.2 and Netscape 7 landed. How did this one year come to have such an influence?
Don't be daft. It was already too late for the corporate world to code for Netscape. The key years were from 1997 to 2000 when Netscape fell hopelessly behind in development, the culmination of this delay was a rushed release in late 200 that put the final nail in its own coffin.
Even the hold-outs switched when Netscape 6.0 hit, and it really wasnt until Netscape 7 (late 2002) that the underlying engine was ready for the public. But at that point Netscape had no marketshare left other than AOL users.
What kind of effort would it take, on the part of the would-be bad guys, to ensure that the components in question found their way into machines that were of any consequence?
I'm not sure you understand the goals of blackhats. Even as far back as the early 80's its always been a Law of Large Numbers game.
If you can land a million infections, then there is bound to be some value found somewhere within the set of infected machines. You don't look to achieve a specific goal (such as "infect a DOD network").. instead, you try to infect as much as possible (and if there arent any DOD machines, there still might be FBI machines, SEC machine, etc..)
...and in THIS day and age, usually you would IGNORE those machines and go for the much more massive value of stealing banking info from a million soccer moms instead of the fuck-with-a-government stuff, where the leveraging of which requires all sorts of specialties (and risk.)
You seem to be conveniently forgetting that leading up to IE's dominance, that Netscape was just as broken as Internet Explorer was in regards to "standards", and that furthermore when Netscape 6 was finally released in 2000, it was HORRIBLE and by just about any measure because it was rushed out the door (even though it was many years late to the game.)
In short, IE6 was the ONLY browser that mattered, and the only real competition was a steaming pile of crap that was even worse.
Take a look at my signature. Thats a direct quote from the Apple God, made at their MacWorld Expo, and this quote was immediately prior to introducing BILL MOTHER-FUCKING GATES LIVE ON VIDEO FEED.
You wonder why IE became the standard? It had everything to do with being objectively better than Netscape.
Most people in general are socially liberal, be they republicans or democrats. When the republicans controlled everything for the short period that they did, they did not ban abortions, they did not eliminate welfare programs, and they did not eliminate medicare.
But every time elections come around, the democrats claim that republicans are going to outlaw abortion, as well as eliminate both welfare and medicare. Also, they claim that republicans are racist and so on.
The facts are pretty clear that neither party has been fiscally conservative in recent history, and that both parties lean towards social liberalism. What is also clear is that both parties will say whatever they think they can get away with against their opposition in order to get elected.
In short, all these common views are bullshit created by what their opposition says, rather than what either side does. What the tea party movement has done is co-opted the image of fiscal conservatism from the republicans (which was easy because the republican party has not been fiscally conservative.)
We dont know if they will actually be fiscally conservative in practice, but the current crop of republican and democrat douche bags have proven that collectively that they themselves are not at all fiscally conservative in practice, that instead they are nothing but irresponsible cronies for commercially-backed lobby groups.
I'm sorry, but if we were all going to stop caring about civil liberties and human rights the first time we ran into an asshole, we'd have stopped being liberals the first time we met a conservative.
So how long did it take for the Liberals to convince you that only they care about civil liberties and human rights?
In reply to the specific statement "It in fact HAS to be about distribution", which you quoted.. in fact the only statement you quoted...
..you said "I know you were going for the laughs, but it is important to note that is legally false."
Only after that did you qualify THIS statement with " if they go after someone for distribution and find any sort of logs on that computer, they can sue you."
umm.. distribution.. HELLO?
Either its false or it isn't. Make up your fucking mind, troll boy.
But it isnt 0 people as well, right? Right? What are you trying to insinuate exactly?
The AC who replied to me noted that Win7 was also the largest pre-order in history.
In August, 2009OS/X hit the #1 spot for a Software pre-release on Amazon.
In October, 2009 Win7 hit the #1 spot for any pre-release of any kind on Amazon.
From the pre-order article Millions of computer users will be getting their first taste of Microsoft's latest operating system tomorrow, when Windows 7 goes on sale worldwide.
You have your head in the sand if you think Win7 retail sales dont completely dwarf all forms of (Snow)Leopard sales. Its laughable, and I dont mean laughing at the idea; I mean laughing at the person with the idea. A person with that idea it obviously under the spell of some form a zealotry.
Its OK to hate Microsoft (or love Apple) while also remaining RATIONAL about it. You should give it a try.
"Fastest selling OS ever?" That is news to me. Might well be true
It is hard to imagine you not knowing this since you offer up an opinion so freely. Normally when people go out of their way to offer up their opinion, they are actually somewhat informed on the subject.
Win7 has sold more than a quarter of a billion units since release one year ago.
I bet, at the consumer level, more people have purchased Leopard/Snow Leopard than all versions of Win7
You've got to be joking. Even though you give OS/X a 4:1 time advantage here, its still laughably ridiculous. Clearly the result of delusional thinking caused by (A) not being in any way informed on the subject, and (B) a zealotry of either Pro-Apple or Anti-Microsoft.
Is it too much to ask that you inform yourself at least a little bit?
I know you were going for the laughs, but it is important to note that is legally false.
Shows what you know.
Just to make up a scenario, if they go after someone for distribution and find any sort of logs on that computer, they can sue you.
Logs of what? Distribution, right? But arent you trying to refute the notion that distribution is the crime? Oh yeah, you quoted me saying the phrase "it in fact HAS to be about distribution" and then declared this statement false.
Surely downloading crappy_commercial_music.mp3 from the owners of the copyright, who offered it on a P2P network, is not a crime.. right? right?
Thats why the judge says "case dismissed" unless you distributed it. This is so because the owner of the copyright cannot know that you downloaded the file unless THEY were distributing it
The advantage of P2P's like Limewire was that it did not share crappy_commercial_music.mp3 while you were downloading crappy_commercial_music.mp3, and as such you could not be fingered for the crime of distributing crappy_commercial_music.mp3 since you were in fact not distributing it.
as long as you can get there and survive there due to the hurricanes.
Increasing the total energy in the atmosphere will not result in a well-behaved warming, but in more variable and extreme weather patterns, and there will be more hurricanes and storms at seas.
The science would like to have a word with you. The current theory is that increased warming will increase wind sheer in the atmosphere, decreasing the severity and number of hurricanes.
Unlike your unfounded alarmist (aka bullshit) claims, I am going to provide a source, from the NOAA.. a great friend of the warmers.
Try a thought experiment, does anything useful change in 126 microseconds? Bread get baked? Pizza cooked? House built? Seed planted, if you want to get rural and idyllic?
But isnt that the point?
I would think that an exchange where useful things CANT happen between the decision to buy and the actual fulfillment of the buy would be a desirable one.
$0.50 per GB is still about five times the cost of a magnetic drive.
Thats only true at the low performance end of magnetic drives. A lot of people like to compare these low end 1TB+ drive that are under $100 vs SSD's. There is another camp camp that takes that $/GB figure and combines it with the performance numbers for 10K/15K RPM drives.
Clearly there is a market for 10K and 15K RPM drives, and I am sure quite a few slashdotters own or have owned a Raptor (15K) or VelociRaptor (10K) which were/are the consumer-grade version of high performance HDD's.
These things basically start at over $0.50 per GB right now, and only go up in price from there.
When you move into the enterprise-level performance HDD's, the price really skyrockets and those drives are on par in price with SSD's.
Now, if you head on over to NewEgg, you wont even be able to find a 15K RPM SATA drive at all (unless you count that ONE item they have, which is almost $6/GB) and this is because SSD's have completely taken over the SATA market for high performance drives. Not even Western Digital continues to sell a SATA 15K drive, and they were the king of that market several years ago. SSD's at $2/GB completely rocked that market to the point that HDD makers are giving it up.
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't matter that Firefox uses proprietary DLLs to render web content, because there are no restrictions or fees on its use.
There is no difference between FLASH doing it and a CODEC doing it. They are BOTH proprietary binary DLL's and H.264 carries the same restrictions and fees in both cases.
So when are you going to push to remove all support for FLASH in Firefox?
The whole industry is regulated because of the excessively high barriers to entry for new competitors.
More importantly, the industry is regulated in order to create such excessively high barriers.
This idea that a CODEC is somehow different that all the other DLLs that Firefox leverages on a Windows system is laughable. It amazes me how many people don't get that.
Firefox loads *many* proprietary DLL's on Windows systems (and the OS/X equivs) in order to render web content.
You've turned it into a religion ONLY in the case of CODECS. Why are CODECS special?
I'm pretty sure that my bathtub could hold 4.5 million seeds, and for $9 million thats $2 per seed? What the hell am I missing?
1m x 1m x 1.5m = 1.5m^3 = 1500000cm^3 so my bathtub could store over a million seeds that were 1cm cubes... way larger than the average seed, right?
Repairing bones is often cheaper, especially in the case of the military.
A veterinarian can set and cast a broken dog leg for a few hundred bucks.. getting it done for a human by a doctor and the same procedure cost over ten thousand dollars.
The difference is that there arent a million lawyers fucking it up for everyone.
Not just copy all of memory, but also MODIFY all of memory.
THAT was the essential security problem with Macintosh Firewire. A device which was plugged in could do whatever it damn well pleased with the memory of the device it was connected to (and vice-versa.)
This was because (as someone else noted) that all Firewire devices are considered peers. So the computer has a DMA controller and the device has a DMA controller and either one can initiate a transfer to the other.
The design was fine before devices themselves became trivially programmable.
...IE was still 5.x. I would have replied differently had you explained how the transition from IE 5 to 6 was significantly easier than from IE 6 to 7 or to 8.
It doesnt matter what version IE was. The point being that since 95% of users were using IE thanks to netscapes monumental 4+ year blunder, there was absolutely no incentive to develop web pages that leveraged its particular quirks and non-standard behavior. Literally nobody used it and they had good reason not to.
So we have (A) all browsers had proprietary extensions prior to 2000. (B) netscape use was declining rapidly prior to 2000 because it fell way behind on features (3+ years without a single update!), and then it REALLY took a dive when 6.0 hit in 2000. and finally (C) "web standards" were pointless because no browser even came close to following them, that in fact Internet Explorer was the ONLY standard that mattered since 95% of the market ran it.
Netscape blundered its way into becoming completely irrelevant to developers. It was quite possibly the largest strategic mistake in software development ever made. From dominance to a nobody all because of a single development decision.
It wasn't until Mozilla approached version 1.0 that these was any reasonably standard rendering engine AT ALL that didnt crash all the time. This idea that Microsoft locked developers in is a joke. There wasnt any reasonable alternatives (something that didnt crash on half the pages on the internet) at all that didnt also present the same non-standard surface (such as Netscape 4)
As I understand it, this was true for all of a year: from late 2001, when IE 6 came out, to late 2002, when Mozilla Application Suite 1.2 and Netscape 7 landed. How did this one year come to have such an influence?
Don't be daft. It was already too late for the corporate world to code for Netscape. The key years were from 1997 to 2000 when Netscape fell hopelessly behind in development, the culmination of this delay was a rushed release in late 200 that put the final nail in its own coffin.
Even the hold-outs switched when Netscape 6.0 hit, and it really wasnt until Netscape 7 (late 2002) that the underlying engine was ready for the public. But at that point Netscape had no marketshare left other than AOL users.
This just in: Smaller objects more common than larger ones.
What kind of effort would it take, on the part of the would-be bad guys, to ensure that the components in question found their way into machines that were of any consequence?
I'm not sure you understand the goals of blackhats. Even as far back as the early 80's its always been a Law of Large Numbers game.
.. instead, you try to infect as much as possible (and if there arent any DOD machines, there still might be FBI machines, SEC machine, etc..)
...and in THIS day and age, usually you would IGNORE those machines and go for the much more massive value of stealing banking info from a million soccer moms instead of the fuck-with-a-government stuff, where the leveraging of which requires all sorts of specialties (and risk.)
If you can land a million infections, then there is bound to be some value found somewhere within the set of infected machines. You don't look to achieve a specific goal (such as "infect a DOD network")
You seem to be conveniently forgetting that leading up to IE's dominance, that Netscape was just as broken as Internet Explorer was in regards to "standards", and that furthermore when Netscape 6 was finally released in 2000, it was HORRIBLE and by just about any measure because it was rushed out the door (even though it was many years late to the game.)
In short, IE6 was the ONLY browser that mattered, and the only real competition was a steaming pile of crap that was even worse.
Take a look at my signature. Thats a direct quote from the Apple God, made at their MacWorld Expo, and this quote was immediately prior to introducing BILL MOTHER-FUCKING GATES LIVE ON VIDEO FEED.
You wonder why IE became the standard? It had everything to do with being objectively better than Netscape.
Yes its exactly this isnt it.
Most people in general are socially liberal, be they republicans or democrats. When the republicans controlled everything for the short period that they did, they did not ban abortions, they did not eliminate welfare programs, and they did not eliminate medicare.
But every time elections come around, the democrats claim that republicans are going to outlaw abortion, as well as eliminate both welfare and medicare. Also, they claim that republicans are racist and so on.
The facts are pretty clear that neither party has been fiscally conservative in recent history, and that both parties lean towards social liberalism. What is also clear is that both parties will say whatever they think they can get away with against their opposition in order to get elected.
In short, all these common views are bullshit created by what their opposition says, rather than what either side does. What the tea party movement has done is co-opted the image of fiscal conservatism from the republicans (which was easy because the republican party has not been fiscally conservative.)
We dont know if they will actually be fiscally conservative in practice, but the current crop of republican and democrat douche bags have proven that collectively that they themselves are not at all fiscally conservative in practice, that instead they are nothing but irresponsible cronies for commercially-backed lobby groups.
I'm sorry, but if we were all going to stop caring about civil liberties and human rights the first time we ran into an asshole, we'd have stopped being liberals the first time we met a conservative.
So how long did it take for the Liberals to convince you that only they care about civil liberties and human rights?
In reply to the specific statement "It in fact HAS to be about distribution", which you quoted.. in fact the only statement you quoted...
..you said "I know you were going for the laughs, but it is important to note that is legally false."
Only after that did you qualify THIS statement with " if they go after someone for distribution and find any sort of logs on that computer, they can sue you."
umm.. distribution.. HELLO?
Either its false or it isn't. Make up your fucking mind, troll boy.
But it isnt 0 people as well, right? Right? What are you trying to insinuate exactly?
The AC who replied to me noted that Win7 was also the largest pre-order in history.
In August, 2009OS/X hit the #1 spot for a Software pre-release on Amazon.
In October, 2009 Win7 hit the #1 spot for any pre-release of any kind on Amazon.
From the pre-order article Millions of computer users will be getting their first taste of Microsoft's latest operating system tomorrow, when Windows 7 goes on sale worldwide.
Windows has retained an extremely large retail sales majority
You have your head in the sand if you think Win7 retail sales dont completely dwarf all forms of (Snow)Leopard sales. Its laughable, and I dont mean laughing at the idea; I mean laughing at the person with the idea. A person with that idea it obviously under the spell of some form a zealotry.
Its OK to hate Microsoft (or love Apple) while also remaining RATIONAL about it. You should give it a try.
Obligatory Red Dwarf - Back to Earth
It think the most likely scenario here is that they are chasing profits.
A further delay will push some of the I-want-white holdouts into buying an iPhone 4 now. Some of those same people will purchase a white one later.
"Fastest selling OS ever?" That is news to me. Might well be true
It is hard to imagine you not knowing this since you offer up an opinion so freely. Normally when people go out of their way to offer up their opinion, they are actually somewhat informed on the subject.
Win7 has sold more than a quarter of a billion units since release one year ago.
I bet, at the consumer level, more people have purchased Leopard/Snow Leopard than all versions of Win7
You've got to be joking. Even though you give OS/X a 4:1 time advantage here, its still laughably ridiculous. Clearly the result of delusional thinking caused by (A) not being in any way informed on the subject, and (B) a zealotry of either Pro-Apple or Anti-Microsoft.
Is it too much to ask that you inform yourself at least a little bit?
It in fact HAS to be about distribution.
I know you were going for the laughs, but it is important to note that is legally false.
Shows what you know.
Just to make up a scenario, if they go after someone for distribution and find any sort of logs on that computer, they can sue you.
Logs of what? Distribution, right? But arent you trying to refute the notion that distribution is the crime? Oh yeah, you quoted me saying the phrase "it in fact HAS to be about distribution" and then declared this statement false.
Surely downloading crappy_commercial_music.mp3 from the owners of the copyright, who offered it on a P2P network, is not a crime.. right? right?
Thats why the judge says "case dismissed" unless you distributed it. This is so because the owner of the copyright cannot know that you downloaded the file unless THEY were distributing it
It in fact HAS to be about distribution.
Imagine the scenario where they try to jack you up for downloading crappy_commercial_music.mp3.
Defense: "How do you know I downloaded it?"
Plaintiff: "Its in our logs"
Defense: "How do you have logs of this event?"
Plaintiff: "We were offering crappy_commercial_music.mp3 for download"
Judge: "Case dismissed"
The advantage of P2P's like Limewire was that it did not share crappy_commercial_music.mp3 while you were downloading crappy_commercial_music.mp3, and as such you could not be fingered for the crime of distributing crappy_commercial_music.mp3 since you were in fact not distributing it.
You should have your geek card enlarged.
as long as you can get there and survive there due to the hurricanes.
Increasing the total energy in the atmosphere will not result in a well-behaved warming, but in more variable and extreme weather patterns, and there will be more hurricanes and storms at seas.
The science would like to have a word with you. The current theory is that increased warming will increase wind sheer in the atmosphere, decreasing the severity and number of hurricanes.
Unlike your unfounded alarmist (aka bullshit) claims, I am going to provide a source, from the NOAA.. a great friend of the warmers.
CLIMATE MODELS SUGGEST WARMING-INDUCED WIND SHEAR CHANGES COULD IMPACT HURRICANE DEVELOPMENT, INTENSITY
Try a thought experiment, does anything useful change in 126 microseconds? Bread get baked? Pizza cooked? House built? Seed planted, if you want to get rural and idyllic?
But isnt that the point?
I would think that an exchange where useful things CANT happen between the decision to buy and the actual fulfillment of the buy would be a desirable one.
$0.50 per GB is still about five times the cost of a magnetic drive.
Thats only true at the low performance end of magnetic drives. A lot of people like to compare these low end 1TB+ drive that are under $100 vs SSD's. There is another camp camp that takes that $/GB figure and combines it with the performance numbers for 10K/15K RPM drives.
Clearly there is a market for 10K and 15K RPM drives, and I am sure quite a few slashdotters own or have owned a Raptor (15K) or VelociRaptor (10K) which were/are the consumer-grade version of high performance HDD's.
These things basically start at over $0.50 per GB right now, and only go up in price from there.
When you move into the enterprise-level performance HDD's, the price really skyrockets and those drives are on par in price with SSD's.
Now, if you head on over to NewEgg, you wont even be able to find a 15K RPM SATA drive at all (unless you count that ONE item they have, which is almost $6/GB) and this is because SSD's have completely taken over the SATA market for high performance drives. Not even Western Digital continues to sell a SATA 15K drive, and they were the king of that market several years ago. SSD's at $2/GB completely rocked that market to the point that HDD makers are giving it up.