Yes, but you can't customize Chrome, Opera, Safari, IE, etc. to the extent that you can Firefox.
I dont know about the others, but I know that you are wrong about Opera. Customize -> Appearance, and then drag-and-drop UI elements, enable and disable, etc..
How about we just get rid of these government granted monopolies (franchise agreements) and let whoever wants to and can get right of way permits provide cable service?
It isnt just the permits. Literally everyone (aka current and future competition) can cost the project time/money with lawsuits, which is why towns and especially cities often go with the force-of-law franchise method. Otherwise it seems to never get done.
Which, just like a basic debit card, lacks a credit card's "protections and guarantees" that you mentioned.
sigh.. yes it does.
You know what happens if my bank informs me that I used my debit card and drained my account when I didn't? I point out that I was never issued a debit card. Period and full stop. We can meet up in small claims court if they want to press the issue, where I will win.
You know what happens if my bank informs me that I used a check to drain my account when I didn't? I show them the real check with that #, or point out that I was never issued a check with that number. We can again meet up in small claims court if they want to press the issue, where I will win.
You know what happens if I have a debit card and someone counterfeits it? I am defenseless. Merely claiming that I did not perform the transaction will leave me with nothing, or worse. I can go to small claims court, but I will lose.
You really havent thought this debit card thing through. They are not credit cards. You can't do charge backs, there are no federal regulations that protect you, and you cant convincingly dispute any charges or withdrawls made with them unless it happened on the other side of the planet... and even then you need to bring in witnesses to court.
The scorched-earth policy of MPEG-LA's anti-lawsuit scheme applies to members only. If Google has patents that apply, then MPEG-LA already doesnt have the rights to use the bits covered by googles patents.
It may not be helping, but the situation here is interesting because this isnt Grandma's codec. This is Googles codec, and as such, MPEG-LA would have to actually fight for their rights. Even if MPEG-LA has an honest-to-goodness valid claim, they might still fail!
All-in-all tho, H.264 is here to stay. Too much hardware support to choose anything else.
You deposit money at ATMs? You realize that there is no guarantee that you will ever have that money deposited, and that you dont even have a receipt that you can use in small claims court?
Another reason not to use ATM's is because these days every ATM card is also a debit card, and debit cards are bad news. There is no place that a debit card works that a credit card doesnt, but a credit card has protections and guarantees. You cant do a charge back on your debit card, and there is no fancy gimmicks a credit card company can use to force you into an overdraw penalty...
Note that one of AMD's 12-core Opterons is cheaper than Intel's top-of-the-line "consumer grade" 4-core i7 extreme, and THAT wouldn't kick the snot out of any i7 in I/O
Well as far as GPU's and Gaming, there are two segments of the population: Those with "low resolution" rigs such as 1280x1024 (most common group according to steam), and those with "high resolution" rigs such as 1920x1200.
An $80 video card enables high/ultra settings at 60+ FPS on nearly all games for the "low resolution" group, but not the "high resolution" group.
AMD just isnt doing well in the high end consumer-grade space, but then again the chips that Intel is ruling with in that segment are priced well above consumer budgets.
Just to be clear, those same memory reorganizations are required for the GPU. That being specifically the Structure-of-Arrays strategy instead of the Array-of-Structures strategy.
Its certainly true that most programmers reach for the later style, but mainly because they arent planning on using any SIMD.
I'll bet almost anything that you are at fault. Did you mess with the configuration, for example, to not save logon information... because of your DRM paranoia? Yeah, that would break offline mode. DUH.
Because Amdahl's Law, surprisingly enough, also applies to people. You can't, for instance, ask somebody to write half an algorithm and another person the other half, well technically you can but the work needed to keep it orderly so it works (same variable names, etc) would be far more than it'd take just one programmer to write the entire thing himself.
Exactly. So this idea that you can just throw more developers at porting isnt substantiated. The answer is "it depends".. mythical man month. Just because it takes X man-months doesnt mean that you can throw more men at it to reduce the time required to complete it.
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OK now that your two claims about Opera have been refuted, do you care to retract them?
Are you man enough to admit that you dont have a clue what you are talking about?
Ok, so you can customize the UI. Show me the equivalent tool of about:config in Opera, it just doesn't exist.
Are you suggesting that yet another feature that FireFox copied from Opera, doesnt exist in Opera?
You think you would get a tech to come out if you have only ever purchased 1 machine from them?
Yeah, its easy to get serviced when you are an important customer that does regular business.
When most of the base is cruft, thats not so easy.
Yes, but you can't customize Chrome, Opera, Safari, IE, etc. to the extent that you can Firefox.
I dont know about the others, but I know that you are wrong about Opera. Customize -> Appearance, and then drag-and-drop UI elements, enable and disable, etc..
I bet if they rewrite the whole thing, they could finally get rid of all the crashing and memory leak problems! ..oh, wait...
Yes,
How about we just get rid of these government granted monopolies (franchise agreements) and let whoever wants to and can get right of way permits provide cable service?
It isnt just the permits. Literally everyone (aka current and future competition) can cost the project time/money with lawsuits, which is why towns and especially cities often go with the force-of-law franchise method. Otherwise it seems to never get done.
I think all content producers are generally looking forward to moving to HTML5 video.
Without DRM, most content producers arent even entertaining the thought.
Because without my number tattooed onto my body, I cant convince the horsemen to start riding.
Which, just like a basic debit card, lacks a credit card's "protections and guarantees" that you mentioned.
sigh.. yes it does.
You know what happens if my bank informs me that I used my debit card and drained my account when I didn't? I point out that I was never issued a debit card. Period and full stop. We can meet up in small claims court if they want to press the issue, where I will win.
You know what happens if my bank informs me that I used a check to drain my account when I didn't? I show them the real check with that #, or point out that I was never issued a check with that number. We can again meet up in small claims court if they want to press the issue, where I will win.
You know what happens if I have a debit card and someone counterfeits it? I am defenseless. Merely claiming that I did not perform the transaction will leave me with nothing, or worse. I can go to small claims court, but I will lose.
You really havent thought this debit card thing through. They are not credit cards. You can't do charge backs, there are no federal regulations that protect you, and you cant convincingly dispute any charges or withdrawls made with them unless it happened on the other side of the planet... and even then you need to bring in witnesses to court.
Google is not a member of MPEG-LA
The scorched-earth policy of MPEG-LA's anti-lawsuit scheme applies to members only. If Google has patents that apply, then MPEG-LA already doesnt have the rights to use the bits covered by googles patents.
Paying for a H.264 MPEG-LA license in no way gives them a free pass to release a different codec that uses MPEG-LA patented algorithms.
Say you have $5,000 in a checking account and a $1,500 limit credit card, and you want to buy something costing $1,995. Which card do you use?
I write a check.
Why do you have such a crappy credit limit?
It may not be helping, but the situation here is interesting because this isnt Grandma's codec. This is Googles codec, and as such, MPEG-LA would have to actually fight for their rights. Even if MPEG-LA has an honest-to-goodness valid claim, they might still fail!
All-in-all tho, H.264 is here to stay. Too much hardware support to choose anything else.
You deposit money at ATMs? You realize that there is no guarantee that you will ever have that money deposited, and that you dont even have a receipt that you can use in small claims court?
Another reason not to use ATM's is because these days every ATM card is also a debit card, and debit cards are bad news. There is no place that a debit card works that a credit card doesnt, but a credit card has protections and guarantees. You cant do a charge back on your debit card, and there is no fancy gimmicks a credit card company can use to force you into an overdraw penalty...
Note that one of AMD's 12-core Opterons is cheaper than Intel's top-of-the-line "consumer grade" 4-core i7 extreme, and THAT wouldn't kick the snot out of any i7 in I/O
Well as far as GPU's and Gaming, there are two segments of the population: Those with "low resolution" rigs such as 1280x1024 (most common group according to steam), and those with "high resolution" rigs such as 1920x1200.
An $80 video card enables high/ultra settings at 60+ FPS on nearly all games for the "low resolution" group, but not the "high resolution" group.
..they have products in both segments.
..and for the record, AMD is still ruling the very high end multi-CPU (aka server) benchmarks and of course, we all know that their GPU's are top notch.
AMD just isnt doing well in the high end consumer-grade space, but then again the chips that Intel is ruling with in that segment are priced well above consumer budgets.
Just to be clear, those same memory reorganizations are required for the GPU. That being specifically the Structure-of-Arrays strategy instead of the Array-of-Structures strategy.
Its certainly true that most programmers reach for the later style, but mainly because they arent planning on using any SIMD.
Uh huh, and because you had that experience
Me and most other people.
So basically, citation needed for your claims.
I'll bet almost anything that you are at fault. Did you mess with the configuration, for example, to not save logon information... because of your DRM paranoia? Yeah, that would break offline mode. DUH.
Because Amdahl's Law, surprisingly enough, also applies to people. You can't, for instance, ask somebody to write half an algorithm and another person the other half, well technically you can but the work needed to keep it orderly so it works (same variable names, etc) would be far more than it'd take just one programmer to write the entire thing himself.
Exactly. So this idea that you can just throw more developers at porting isnt substantiated. The answer is "it depends" .. mythical man month. Just because it takes X man-months doesnt mean that you can throw more men at it to reduce the time required to complete it.
If a Linux port would take 5 manyears you don't need one man for five years, with some planning you can have 10 people working on it for six months.
Why not 100 people for 18 days? or 1000 people for 2 days?
Humoring you, I just disconnected from my router and launched several steam games.
You must be dumb or something. I literally didnt have to do anything special: they just launched.
So just stack man-months as if they werent mythical?