Without those you have an incomplete implementation of Flash, because Flash uses those (well, technically a variation of ECMAScript, but it's very similar anyway).
The problem is, there is so much Flash content, especially in the area of entertainment, that throwing it away just like that means you throw away all that entertainment. Sure, it probably doesn't matter to everyone, but there are some online cartoons, animations and sometimes even games that require Flash that I'd love to be able to play on , which I may or may not own.
Of course, you could also limit it to just being a desktop application. But it's still inconvenient especially because some entire websites actually use it for their entire site too (yeah, that's bad, but it happens).
(...) the sprawling new web standard may favor functionality over security, enabling a new generation of powerful web-based attacks.
Well, duh. But does that mean that we should keep all development at a standstill, just because that means that there won't be any more new attacks? Of course not.
Aren't the video problems related to the video drivers rather than Ubuntu specifically? Granted, they're still problems, but you're naming problems now that will be like that on any Linux distro using your hardware (unless something has been fixed in the drivers at this point, in which case one of your problems would be fixed too).
If ureadahead fails, it will just use the old boot method. If that somehow doesn't work for you, you should consider filing a bug about this at Canonical. Stability depends for a large part on user feedback.
Is there any particular advantage to having a new OS every half-year (versus Apple's two year cycle or Microsoft's 3-4 year cycle)?
In Linux's case, better hardware support for the people who don't compile their own kernel.
I mean, I bought a USB network device that apparently works in a newer kernel version only, so it'll "just work" once I install the next version. Cool beans.
Considering how they're 4 weeks ahead of schedule, I'm confident that it will come out on time, and it will be more polished than previous, sometimes rushed releases.
Well, it's picked up by a different studio now, instead of 3DR, which seemed to have been slacking rather than really making the game. I give it some hope.
...Are older video cards similar enough for the open-source community to be able to add backwards support to video cards like, say, the Mobility Radeon 4xxx series? Or is this generation of video cards too new/different for that to happen? I'd love to see fully working open-source drivers for my card. (Yes, yes, personal interest, I know.)
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perhaps don't start playing (or loading) a video/audio/canvas element until the user explicitly clicks play
This is actually easily implementable, and actually already mostly implemented in the form of userscripts. No problem.
It's funny that you mention this when a lot of companies seem to be unable to switch away from IE6 at the exact same time.
Newsflash: smart people can crack the platform and find insecurities at that level.
It seems like this stuff is a solution in search of a real problem.
If it wasn't a problem to at least some people, this wouldn't exist.
no JavaScript, no H.264
Without those you have an incomplete implementation of Flash, because Flash uses those (well, technically a variation of ECMAScript, but it's very similar anyway).
The problem is, there is so much Flash content, especially in the area of entertainment, that throwing it away just like that means you throw away all that entertainment. Sure, it probably doesn't matter to everyone, but there are some online cartoons, animations and sometimes even games that require Flash that I'd love to be able to play on , which I may or may not own.
Of course, you could also limit it to just being a desktop application. But it's still inconvenient especially because some entire websites actually use it for their entire site too (yeah, that's bad, but it happens).
(...) the sprawling new web standard may favor functionality over security, enabling a new generation of powerful web-based attacks.
Well, duh. But does that mean that we should keep all development at a standstill, just because that means that there won't be any more new attacks? Of course not.
Free speech.
Come on, it wasn't even a threatening email or anything.
I was thoroughly confused by this article until the end of it, when I realized they meant "new" 3D (aka glasses 3D). Sigh.
Yeah, every single one of them!
Aren't the video problems related to the video drivers rather than Ubuntu specifically? Granted, they're still problems, but you're naming problems now that will be like that on any Linux distro using your hardware (unless something has been fixed in the drivers at this point, in which case one of your problems would be fixed too).
If ureadahead fails, it will just use the old boot method. If that somehow doesn't work for you, you should consider filing a bug about this at Canonical. Stability depends for a large part on user feedback.
Is there any particular advantage to having a new OS every half-year (versus Apple's two year cycle or Microsoft's 3-4 year cycle)?
In Linux's case, better hardware support for the people who don't compile their own kernel.
I mean, I bought a USB network device that apparently works in a newer kernel version only, so it'll "just work" once I install the next version. Cool beans.
Considering how they're 4 weeks ahead of schedule, I'm confident that it will come out on time, and it will be more polished than previous, sometimes rushed releases.
gconf-editor is a graphical settings editor.
Well, it's picked up by a different studio now, instead of 3DR, which seemed to have been slacking rather than really making the game. I give it some hope.
seems like it's finally going to be released by Gearbox Software sometime within the next year.
The game is currently expected to ship in 2010
Contradictions in the release date already!
The way things have been going, it seems like it'd be more like: until Google buys a better codec.
You mean: Google buys a codec, makes it better.
And I guess we'll have to forgive the whole midichlorians explanation next.
...that lawyers are simply bored out of their minds, trying to find something to do to pass the time.
the iPad is on the verge of doing the same to circa-2010 netbooks.
Not it isn't. A tablet is quite a different beast. Me, personally, I couldn't manage without a proper keyboard.
Because they didn't get the money.
You didn't download the latest ATI drivers, did you? Because those no longer have this delay problem (or at least not for me).
...Are older video cards similar enough for the open-source community to be able to add backwards support to video cards like, say, the Mobility Radeon 4xxx series? Or is this generation of video cards too new/different for that to happen? I'd love to see fully working open-source drivers for my card. (Yes, yes, personal interest, I know.)
Should've said frigging, then, not fucking.