Actually, jQuery's only 55KB and goes down to 19KB if the browser supports gzipping if the server's configured to compress stuff, but I get your point. The difference there is that jQuery, unlike Flash, makes everything easier for the developer (creating a Flash document is easier than an img tag how?), and more importantly, takes care of discrepancies between JavaScript interpreters in different browsers (providing you use pure jQuery). Also, it doesn't require any extras from the browser's perspective: you were going to do it in JavaScript anyway, so all jQuery adds is (a potentially significant amount of) page load time. With Flash, you're also adding a dependency on the Flash plugin. They're both evil, but jQuery is definitely the lesser.
Why is this modded funny? Apparently someone's forgotten that IE6 was released in August 2001; it's taken just over eight years for its market share to be superseded by another browser, and it's still firmly entrenched in some corporate environments.
...it's always nice to see another OC ReMix release. Some of the artists on there do some really great stuff, and I've always enjoyed previous albums. Chrono Symphonic was fantastic and even though I don't know the original Xenogears soundtrack, I'll probably take a listen to this anyway just to see how it is.
It's a bit embarrassing, actually, but my experience is that Acer's laptops take a licking and keep on ticking.
That's funny, because my experience on the frontlines of consumer tech support has mostly taught me that Acer laptops in general take a licking, and then the casing breaks, and random components start dying, and then the motherboard fails, same as HP. Are these consumer- or business-class machines we're talking about, here? And are these perhaps not North American models?
Then: have it continue to work, without crappy performance, randomly rebooting itself, freezing, or slowly grinding to a halt over the course of a day or so.
That's interesting, because I've found that all the routers I've flashed with DD-WRT (at least half-a-dozen WRT54GL's, a WRT150N, WRT300N, and five WRT54G2's, and maybe one or two others I'm forgetting) saw increased stability and reliability after flashing compared to the stock firmware. Mind you, I didn't attempt to get Wireless-N working with either of the two N routers.
I try to make a point of getting only Valve games via Steam, no matter how good the deal is (unless it's free, of course).
Actually, that's not as hard as it might sound, because being on dial-up, Steam is massively inconvenient - it takes a long time to connect to one's account due to what seems to be very bandwidth-intensive authentication, and starting games can take a while too because it likes to reauthenticate your account and game information when you start a game. Offline mode, which would be incredibly useful, doesn't work anything like advertised, often not working at all - Steam often hangs while restarting itself on machines with low-bandwidth connections for some reason - or starting, but with few or no games actually working (presumably due to Steam incorrectly/incompletely caching permissions).
In contrast, GOG.com, apart from the massive amounts of bandwidth required to download the games (no different from Steam; huzzah for laptops and friends with highspeed!), is almost completely headache-free and has so far been incredibly easy to use and make use of. Valve, take note: this is how online game distribution should work.
Rather pathetic that they didn't account for the removal by implementing the option to log in with your normal username (I'm talking about in the recovery mode shell-login here)
Boot to the root recovery shell, then just su username.
iTunes and the App store have indeed also meant the end of the bargain bin...
Not an Apple fanboi by any means at all, but I don't understand it when people say this about iTunes. Sure, you may be less likely to peruse it, but as long as you have an optical drive in your computer that can read CD's, the bargain bin is still a valid source of music.
I totally agree with you from the software aspect of this, though. I think iTunes and Steam are two of the worst software distribution systems ever, because they so completely restrict what you can do with games (and other software, in the case of the App Store) you've purchased once you're done with them.
Agreed. Until very recently, I worked in a computer service shop, and MBAM proved so useful that I purchased a license for the full version just to support Malwarebytes (I wasn't running Windows at the time, so the license was essentially useless to me). Well, now I'm back running Windows (I installed 7 on my laptop Tuesday night to get a good look at it before people start bugging me with questions about it), and I must say, the real-time scanner is nice - it's very lightweight (the service is currently consuming just over 25MB memory; about half of what AVG 8.5 usually grabs), and it's successfully detected a few test cases I threw at it.
Interesting; my i7 920 only goes from 2.66 to just a shade under 2.8. I'd be somewhat jealous were it not for the fact that the 920 is already more processing power than my hard drive and video card can keep up with;)
On desktop i7's, Turbo Boost still only gives an extra ~200MHz (albeit to all cores). I'm not sure if they actually mean the Turbo Boost on the mobile i7 chips will upclock by up to 1.33GHz, or if they just mean that the chip will be available with base clock speeds in that range.
My brother mashed the D-pad on his Game Boy Advance so severely that the up and left directions barely work at all any more. That's after several years of use, though, and he's insanely rough on controllers in general.
"/r9k/", or ROBOT9000, is a board on 4chan (like "/b/"), which centres around a script written by Randall Munroe of xkcd (basically, something can only be said once). Male users of said board often refer to each others as "robots", while the comparatively few female users of/r9k/ are generally called "fembots".
See, this is what I don't get - why does everyone think HDMI is so awesome? It's just DVI with a couple extra pins for audio. It's not inherently higher-quality; does it have a sufficiently higher bandwidth capacity than DVI + TOSLINK that it makes an impact in real-world environments (24fps 1080p video/5.1 surround sound)? And how is having your video card double as a sound card a good idea? Isn't that just asking for aural interference from the video components?
Eh? I just paid CA$310 for an i7 920 and around the same for an LGA 1366 motherboard. I'd love to know what fly-by-night retailer you're getting stuff from...
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Not even with the workarounds? Wow, that sucks.
BTW, if you can use the workarounds but don't want to deal with setting it all up, I've written two documents that may be of use.
--- Mr. DOS
Actually, jQuery's only 55KB and goes down to 19KB if the browser supports gzipping if the server's configured to compress stuff, but I get your point. The difference there is that jQuery, unlike Flash, makes everything easier for the developer (creating a Flash document is easier than an img tag how?), and more importantly, takes care of discrepancies between JavaScript interpreters in different browsers (providing you use pure jQuery). Also, it doesn't require any extras from the browser's perspective: you were going to do it in JavaScript anyway, so all jQuery adds is (a potentially significant amount of) page load time. With Flash, you're also adding a dependency on the Flash plugin. They're both evil, but jQuery is definitely the lesser.
--- Mr. DOS
Why is this modded funny? Apparently someone's forgotten that IE6 was released in August 2001; it's taken just over eight years for its market share to be superseded by another browser, and it's still firmly entrenched in some corporate environments.
--- Mr. DOS
...it's always nice to see another OC ReMix release. Some of the artists on there do some really great stuff, and I've always enjoyed previous albums. Chrono Symphonic was fantastic and even though I don't know the original Xenogears soundtrack, I'll probably take a listen to this anyway just to see how it is.
--- Mr. DOS
My brother was given an Arcade for Christmas last year and it came with a puny 256MB memory card.
--- Mr. DOS
That's funny, because my experience on the frontlines of consumer tech support has mostly taught me that Acer laptops in general take a licking, and then the casing breaks, and random components start dying, and then the motherboard fails, same as HP. Are these consumer- or business-class machines we're talking about, here? And are these perhaps not North American models?
--- Samuel
Or one gaming machine running Crysis on Vista.
--- Mr. DOS
4chan is almost exactly the same after 6 years. Can't think of any other examples, though.
--- Mr. DOS
Dreamcast. Windows CE looks like ponies and sunshine compared to all this, dunnit?
--- Mr. DOS
That's interesting, because I've found that all the routers I've flashed with DD-WRT (at least half-a-dozen WRT54GL's, a WRT150N, WRT300N, and five WRT54G2's, and maybe one or two others I'm forgetting) saw increased stability and reliability after flashing compared to the stock firmware. Mind you, I didn't attempt to get Wireless-N working with either of the two N routers.
--- Mr. DOS
I try to make a point of getting only Valve games via Steam, no matter how good the deal is (unless it's free, of course).
Actually, that's not as hard as it might sound, because being on dial-up, Steam is massively inconvenient - it takes a long time to connect to one's account due to what seems to be very bandwidth-intensive authentication, and starting games can take a while too because it likes to reauthenticate your account and game information when you start a game. Offline mode, which would be incredibly useful, doesn't work anything like advertised, often not working at all - Steam often hangs while restarting itself on machines with low-bandwidth connections for some reason - or starting, but with few or no games actually working (presumably due to Steam incorrectly/incompletely caching permissions).
In contrast, GOG.com, apart from the massive amounts of bandwidth required to download the games (no different from Steam; huzzah for laptops and friends with highspeed!), is almost completely headache-free and has so far been incredibly easy to use and make use of. Valve, take note: this is how online game distribution should work.
--- Mr. DOS
Rather pathetic that they didn't account for the removal by implementing the option to log in with your normal username (I'm talking about in the recovery mode shell-login here)
Boot to the root recovery shell, then just su username .
--- Mr. DOS
Pardon me? Some (most?) just wanted homebrew, or to play emulated games from other consoles.
Disclaimer: I have no PSP.
--- Mr. DOS
Not an Apple fanboi by any means at all, but I don't understand it when people say this about iTunes. Sure, you may be less likely to peruse it, but as long as you have an optical drive in your computer that can read CD's, the bargain bin is still a valid source of music.
I totally agree with you from the software aspect of this, though. I think iTunes and Steam are two of the worst software distribution systems ever, because they so completely restrict what you can do with games (and other software, in the case of the App Store) you've purchased once you're done with them.
--- Mr. DOS
Agreed. Until very recently, I worked in a computer service shop, and MBAM proved so useful that I purchased a license for the full version just to support Malwarebytes (I wasn't running Windows at the time, so the license was essentially useless to me). Well, now I'm back running Windows (I installed 7 on my laptop Tuesday night to get a good look at it before people start bugging me with questions about it), and I must say, the real-time scanner is nice - it's very lightweight (the service is currently consuming just over 25MB memory; about half of what AVG 8.5 usually grabs), and it's successfully detected a few test cases I threw at it.
--- Mr. DOS
Perhaps this TDWTF article is what you were thinking of?
--- Mr. DOS
Thanks, now me and all the other people stuck on dial-up are crying. We'd just gotten over the last time someone said that.
--- Mr. DOS
Interesting; my i7 920 only goes from 2.66 to just a shade under 2.8. I'd be somewhat jealous were it not for the fact that the 920 is already more processing power than my hard drive and video card can keep up with ;)
There's no overclocking involved, I assume?
--- Mr. DOS
On desktop i7's, Turbo Boost still only gives an extra ~200MHz (albeit to all cores). I'm not sure if they actually mean the Turbo Boost on the mobile i7 chips will upclock by up to 1.33GHz, or if they just mean that the chip will be available with base clock speeds in that range.
--- Mr. DOS
My brother mashed the D-pad on his Game Boy Advance so severely that the up and left directions barely work at all any more. That's after several years of use, though, and he's insanely rough on controllers in general.
--- Mr. DOS
"/r9k/", or ROBOT9000, is a board on 4chan (like "/b/"), which centres around a script written by Randall Munroe of xkcd (basically, something can only be said once). Male users of said board often refer to each others as "robots", while the comparatively few female users of /r9k/ are generally called "fembots".
--- Mr. DOS
See, this is what I don't get - why does everyone think HDMI is so awesome? It's just DVI with a couple extra pins for audio. It's not inherently higher-quality; does it have a sufficiently higher bandwidth capacity than DVI + TOSLINK that it makes an impact in real-world environments (24fps 1080p video/5.1 surround sound)? And how is having your video card double as a sound card a good idea? Isn't that just asking for aural interference from the video components?
--- Mr. DOS
Eh? I just paid CA$310 for an i7 920 and around the same for an LGA 1366 motherboard. I'd love to know what fly-by-night retailer you're getting stuff from...
--- Mr. DOS
Sad thing is... I am from Ontario and I understood it perfectly.
--- Mr. DOS
So... Gentoo users are screwed?
--- Mr. DOS