It is far more locked down and proprietary than the BIOS has ever been
Why do you think Apple has been using it for years ?
It's just another for hardware vendors to bundle their own software (ala USB keydisks that insist on loading their own crapware services) together with the hardware.
And we'll end up having to write BIOS emulators to lay on top of all the proprietary UEFI versions just to get our bootloaders' INT13h calls to work.
If you could stop being assholes for one minute as you are BOTH wrong.
You always drive at the speed of the prevailing traffic... i.e. whatever speed everyone else is going is ALSO the speed YOU should be going.
Drive over prevailing, you tailgate people and cause slower drivers to panic. Drive under prevailing, you end up getting tailgated, and cause faster traffic to swerve.
A lot could be learnt also about using the correct fucking lane... which means if you want to drive slow, you're on the left (trucks, busses, Sunday drivers, old people etc), and if you want to drive fast, your in the middle (normal people in normal vehicles). The right lane is always for overtaking only then get the fuck back in the middle lane, the right lane is not your personal speedway.
(Disclaimer - If you're in UK, of course reverse the above to avoid mass confusion and panic).
People who download the game to a flashcard don't want to pay $29.95 or even more for plastic, circuitry, manuals and packaging they don't get.
They just want to pay a reasonable price for a game, which in these days of online gaming where even $5 can give you a full month of gameplay (more than probably any cartridge), and with ongoing updates to the game, who in their right mind will pay 29.95 for a fixed game, not online, that might turn out to have 3 hours of playability.
Imagine if those $41.5 billion losses (*cough* numbers, ass, *cough*), could have been REAL genuine online sales at a price that the prevailing market will bear.
The days of selling you physical items loaded with preconditions and expectations are gone, adapt or die is the name of the game now.
If they've been fighting to be compensated for "nearly a decade and a half", then why are they only filing NOW ?
Could it be that perhaps they wanted every manufacturer to adopt / steal their IP, so they'd have more targets to sue ?
Come clean ffs... if they'd licenced their IP in 1997, the manufacturers might have thought "oh shit, this is going to cost a fortune in licences, maybe we should do our own R&D and make a better alternative, it'll cost us less in the long run".
What they did is equivalent to a drug dealer handing out free samples, then once he's got 6 billion people addicted, saying "now it's gonna cost you big money".
And really... we're talking about a wifi spec... it's hardly original, just some applying a "new and improved" method to an already existing technology. It's not big pharma that costs anywhere between 200 and 400 million in trials and approvals. All they did was add a few bits of circuitry and boosted the speed of existing tech. R&D costs, hmm... coupla hundred thousand max ?
Because like everything else, the days of "being a good neighbour" are long gone.
Example that happened to my own brother years ago... We were out on the town one Friday, and my brother spotted something amiss further up the avenue. A guy beating the crap out of (presumably) his girlfriend. My brother runs up and punches the guy out. Next thing the police arrive, immediately get the wrong end of the stick (helped in part by the stupid girl who then defended her boyfriend's actions and said my brother had been the instigator of the violence), end result being my brother gets jailed overnight and faced an assault charge. Luckily due to the testimony of me and my friends who'd also witnessed the incident, at least the judge had the common sense to let him off with a caution.
But the fact remains, these days you DO NOT get involved. There's so many ways you end up getting bitten in the ass by trying to be a good citizen.
yes, this broadband monitoring MIGHT be for the good of the people, and it might just as easily end up in the hands of the RIAA or christ knows who, and you facing a day in court arguing a P2P "illegality", with the big boys holding evidence obtained using a government based monitoring system. Tell me, who's going to win ?
Go visit http://www.surfacestations.org/ and see how many US stations are classified as poor or bad... 69%, or two thirds of the stations have an error >= 2 degrees celcius, and 8% have an error >= 5 degrees celcius.
I'm the dunce ? If that means I'm not willing to accept everything assholes like Al Gore would have us believe, then yes, I'm a dunce.
Ergo, the sun is very very cold right now, and it's those bloody apes with their carbon dioxide that are causing the hurricanes, flood, tsunamis, oh my.
See, you don't argue with the sunspot scientists, they've been PEER REVIEWED, you have not. You are NOT fit to have an opinion, you denialist crank !
Perhaps a tad over the top with the sarcasm, but this is what people who dare to question the establishment have to put up with.
Except for the fact, ironic though it seems, the people who use the word "nigger" the most these day are in fact coloured people. It has gone from being an insult to a term of endearment within the very group it was supposed to denigrate.
So, it's okay for one black guy to say "what's up nigger", when chatting with his black friend, but when a (presumed) white person uses the same term, it's a political correctness "no-no".
I thought that phosphorus was one of those elements that is never present in atomic form, it's so reactive it immediately oxidizes to form phosphorus compounds.
Does this mean the 7 atom transistor has to remain in a vacuum ?
Not sure what that is supposed to prove, it's a set of DIVs with PNG images that get switched in and out at specific intervals. Not a canvas tag to be found.
Ohhh look, there's an audio + source tag at the bottom... so much better than that clunky old object + source tag we had to use in the old specs.
Show me, say, a rendition of Farmville in HTML5 that plays at the same speed as the original. That will prove that HTML5 is a worthy successor to Flash.
Now I will wait patiently for the first response of "only idiots play Facebook games", as I formulate my response "those 21 million daily idiots ARE your userbase, they ARE the internet".
Once finalized, HTML5 and CSS3 will be good enough and Flash will have had another 10 years to add even more features.
FTFY
It's the sad truth that HTML will never keep up with other technologies such as Flash / Silverlight, because they take the committee approach to defining requirements (where the committee members can number into the 10,000s), and have to bend to a number of big players who all want to leverage their ideas at the expense of the others. The end result is a mish-mash of ill-defined half-finished ideas that are always 5 to 10 years BEHIND what proprietary players like Adobe can produce.
It's called progress, hell new ideas and technologies come along every 6 months nowadays, and we're expected to wait years to get the "equivalent" or "good enough" for the sake of openness, when you know damn well the DOM / Javascript models for HTML5 will be just as fucked up as all the previous versions have been.
Agreed, frames are the scourge of the web, obliterate them from the universe immediately.
Whereas a DIV that floats annoyingly around your page with content loaded from an external source is perfectly okay, because it's... ? In the HTML spec ?
Come on, the excuse was great "in case you missed the useful information the first time". Come to think of that, this excuses all dupes, since they all have some use. I publicly apologize for all the times I've criticized dupes. They really did have a good purpose. I eagerly await a dupe of this dupe on Friday.
And you'll still swear blind that changes made over a period of 2000 years ago can be "corrected" by a guy named Webster.
In 200 something years, you've bastardised the language, alienated the world, and run up a debt so big, every person on the entire planet could chip in $1940 and still wouldn't pay it all off.
I'm somewhat scared as to what you'll "achieve" in the next 200 years (but very relieved I won't be here to see it).
and the show lost what little originality it had years ago.
This from the person whose posts seem to consist mainly of tired memes, inflamatory comments, liberal use of the word "fuck", and a journal so stunningly verbose you could barely call is a complete sentence.
How about fuck you and your wire-coathanger sense of humour.
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It is far more locked down and proprietary than the BIOS has ever been
Why do you think Apple has been using it for years ?
It's just another for hardware vendors to bundle their own software (ala USB keydisks that insist on loading their own crapware services) together with the hardware.
And we'll end up having to write BIOS emulators to lay on top of all the proprietary UEFI versions just to get our bootloaders' INT13h calls to work.
If you could stop being assholes for one minute as you are BOTH wrong.
You always drive at the speed of the prevailing traffic ... i.e. whatever speed everyone else is going is ALSO the speed YOU should be going.
Drive over prevailing, you tailgate people and cause slower drivers to panic.
Drive under prevailing, you end up getting tailgated, and cause faster traffic to swerve.
A lot could be learnt also about using the correct fucking lane ... which means if you want to drive slow, you're on the left (trucks, busses, Sunday drivers, old people etc), and if you want to drive fast, your in the middle (normal people in normal vehicles). The right lane is always for overtaking only then get the fuck back in the middle lane, the right lane is not your personal speedway.
(Disclaimer - If you're in UK, of course reverse the above to avoid mass confusion and panic).
I'll see your Iranian Reals, and raise you "Pre-1996" Zimbawean Dollars
Hello, Mr Ebagum Trebor, we'd like 559,950,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of your terrorist "Pre-1996" Zimbawean Dollars.
People who download the game to a flashcard don't want to pay $29.95 or even more for plastic, circuitry, manuals and packaging they don't get.
They just want to pay a reasonable price for a game, which in these days of online gaming where even $5 can give you a full month of gameplay (more than probably any cartridge), and with ongoing updates to the game, who in their right mind will pay 29.95 for a fixed game, not online, that might turn out to have 3 hours of playability.
Imagine if those $41.5 billion losses (*cough* numbers, ass, *cough*), could have been REAL genuine online sales at a price that the prevailing market will bear.
The days of selling you physical items loaded with preconditions and expectations are gone, adapt or die is the name of the game now.
Send any wheeled vehicle down a 1 in 4 decline and for sure, it'll go faster than the opposite blowing wind ...
If they've been fighting to be compensated for "nearly a decade and a half", then why are they only filing NOW ?
Could it be that perhaps they wanted every manufacturer to adopt / steal their IP, so they'd have more targets to sue ?
Come clean ffs ... if they'd licenced their IP in 1997, the manufacturers might have thought "oh shit, this is going to cost a fortune in licences, maybe we should do our own R&D and make a better alternative, it'll cost us less in the long run".
What they did is equivalent to a drug dealer handing out free samples, then once he's got 6 billion people addicted, saying "now it's gonna cost you big money".
And really ... we're talking about a wifi spec ... it's hardly original, just some applying a "new and improved" method to an already existing technology. It's not big pharma that costs anywhere between 200 and 400 million in trials and approvals. All they did was add a few bits of circuitry and boosted the speed of existing tech. R&D costs, hmm ... coupla hundred thousand max ?
Because like everything else, the days of "being a good neighbour" are long gone.
Example that happened to my own brother years ago ... We were out on the town one Friday, and my brother spotted something amiss further up the avenue. A guy beating the crap out of (presumably) his girlfriend. My brother runs up and punches the guy out. Next thing the police arrive, immediately get the wrong end of the stick (helped in part by the stupid girl who then defended her boyfriend's actions and said my brother had been the instigator of the violence), end result being my brother gets jailed overnight and faced an assault charge. Luckily due to the testimony of me and my friends who'd also witnessed the incident, at least the judge had the common sense to let him off with a caution.
But the fact remains, these days you DO NOT get involved. There's so many ways you end up getting bitten in the ass by trying to be a good citizen.
yes, this broadband monitoring MIGHT be for the good of the people, and it might just as easily end up in the hands of the RIAA or christ knows who, and you facing a day in court arguing a P2P "illegality", with the big boys holding evidence obtained using a government based monitoring system. Tell me, who's going to win ?
Fuck it, better to be safe than sorry ...
More likely she has had common-sense blocker installed from birth, like so many of today's numptys.
Go visit http://www.surfacestations.org/ and see how many US stations are classified as poor or bad ... 69%, or two thirds of the stations have an error >= 2 degrees celcius, and 8% have an error >= 5 degrees celcius.
I'm the dunce ? If that means I'm not willing to accept everything assholes like Al Gore would have us believe, then yes, I'm a dunce.
They did NOT forge the sunspot records !
They simply corrected the sunspots' temperatures based on the alignment of the planets (and proximity to air conditioning outlets and barbecue pits).
(Sun Temp. + Neptune Temp + Typical 25oC Aircon + Robert Rainford Grill Temp) / 4 = -17oC
Ergo, the sun is very very cold right now, and it's those bloody apes with their carbon dioxide that are causing the hurricanes, flood, tsunamis, oh my.
See, you don't argue with the sunspot scientists, they've been PEER REVIEWED, you have not. You are NOT fit to have an opinion, you denialist crank !
Perhaps a tad over the top with the sarcasm, but this is what people who dare to question the establishment have to put up with.
Yes, but Apple haven't solved the problem, they've merely given the user one avenue that is "probably" safer.
Anyone who has a jailbroken phone can essentially install software from anywhere, thus making them JUST as vulnerable as any Windows or Nix user.
You might as well say Apple has cured the problem of AIDs by not allowing people to have sex.
What about hardware support for animated GIFs, if today is "ridiculous uses for an FPGA day" ?
Except for the fact, ironic though it seems, the people who use the word "nigger" the most these day are in fact coloured people. It has gone from being an insult to a term of endearment within the very group it was supposed to denigrate.
So, it's okay for one black guy to say "what's up nigger", when chatting with his black friend, but when a (presumed) white person uses the same term, it's a political correctness "no-no".
What a fucked up world we live in.
I thought that phosphorus was one of those elements that is never present in atomic form, it's so reactive it immediately oxidizes to form phosphorus compounds.
Does this mean the 7 atom transistor has to remain in a vacuum ?
Partially condensed water vapour is not actually a good storage medium for digital information.
All these data centers (the "cloud" as you call it), actually contain lots and lots of servers with, get this, hot-swappable removable storage.
Unlike frames, the XMLHttpRequest to get the content into the DIV is restricted by the Same Origin Policy.
This could be bypassed as far back as 2008 using jQuery.
http://frinity.blogspot.com/2008/06/load-remote-content-into-div-element.html
Look Ma, 0.2 FPS !
Not sure what that is supposed to prove, it's a set of DIVs with PNG images that get switched in and out at specific intervals. Not a canvas tag to be found.
Ohhh look, there's an audio + source tag at the bottom ... so much better than that clunky old object + source tag we had to use in the old specs.
Show me, say, a rendition of Farmville in HTML5 that plays at the same speed as the original. That will prove that HTML5 is a worthy successor to Flash.
Now I will wait patiently for the first response of "only idiots play Facebook games", as I formulate my response "those 21 million daily idiots ARE your userbase, they ARE the internet".
Once finalized, HTML5 and CSS3 will be good enough and Flash will have had another 10 years to add even more features.
FTFY
It's the sad truth that HTML will never keep up with other technologies such as Flash / Silverlight, because they take the committee approach to defining requirements (where the committee members can number into the 10,000s), and have to bend to a number of big players who all want to leverage their ideas at the expense of the others. The end result is a mish-mash of ill-defined half-finished ideas that are always 5 to 10 years BEHIND what proprietary players like Adobe can produce.
It's called progress, hell new ideas and technologies come along every 6 months nowadays, and we're expected to wait years to get the "equivalent" or "good enough" for the sake of openness, when you know damn well the DOM / Javascript models for HTML5 will be just as fucked up as all the previous versions have been.
Agreed, frames are the scourge of the web, obliterate them from the universe immediately.
Whereas a DIV that floats annoyingly around your page with content loaded from an external source is perfectly okay, because it's ... ? In the HTML spec ?
A "study" that determines that disabling Javascript will not allow you to execute Javascript.
I wish *I* could get paid obscene amounts of money to make "studies" like these.
Are these people so repressed that even the suggestion of a "naughty word" is enough to get them complaining ?
Have they really got nothing better to do with their time ?
I thought the Puritan movement died out in the 17th century, obviously I was wrong.
Why wait until Friday ???
Come on, the excuse was great "in case you missed the useful information the first time". Come to think of that, this excuses all dupes, since they all have some use. I publicly apologize for all the times I've criticized dupes. They really did have a good purpose. I eagerly await a dupe of this dupe on Friday.
it can be spelled multiple ways
Yes, the US way, and the correct way.
And you'll still swear blind that changes made over a period of 2000 years ago can be "corrected" by a guy named Webster.
In 200 something years, you've bastardised the language, alienated the world, and run up a debt so big, every person on the entire planet could chip in $1940 and still wouldn't pay it all off.
I'm somewhat scared as to what you'll "achieve" in the next 200 years (but very relieved I won't be here to see it).
Slashdot began offering an dupe-free option for Web searchers on Friday (and then repeated the offer on Saturday) ... *facepalm*
How about we just rename the site to Reddit ... I mean, every other story, we already reddit.
No, your a towel.
and the show lost what little originality it had years ago.
This from the person whose posts seem to consist mainly of tired memes, inflamatory comments, liberal use of the word "fuck", and a journal so stunningly verbose you could barely call is a complete sentence.
How about fuck you and your wire-coathanger sense of humour.