DisplayPort is more compatible and extensible. Check the specs. I was actually wondering whether you can extend its micro-packet protocol to carry HyperTransport data flows. Anybody know the specs well enough to answer?
Why doesn't Slashdot cache pages linked to in the summary? And export a Wave interface, so anybody can federate a server to take part of the load and make say a new section?
Here's an anecdotal report from a teen psychiatric patient and hobby neurochemist: absolutely true. SSRI and SNRI make my sexual dysfunction (premature ejaculation and ejaculatory anorgasmia) much worse. They make me lethargic and tired of life. Anti-psychotics turned my anger in debilitating panic and made me impotent. Methylphenidate doesn't have any effect. But benzos (Xanax) fix my anger problems like a magic stick: I'm like a fucking Zen Buddhist. And both amphetamine and weed fix depression, but the white stuff makes me a master fucker, though I'm virgin. As a bonus, the attention deficit goes away. Now I'm thinking of switching to bupropion to replace the amphetamine. PS:I pretty much came up with the same theory a year ago.
Biological weapons are more to my tastes. Much more damage, more pain, to more people, with minimal effort in the final step. And, yes, I'm a coward with anger problems that got bullied a lot.
Get AS3 running on GC, FF and Safari, implement the Flash API in pure AS3, maybe JS - mapping to CSS, canvas and svg, and make a Flash vector/bitmap to svg/canvas compiler integrated with Eclipse, and you are pretty much rid of Flash. NB:Safari's JS engine is FOSS, AFAIK, so unless Apple objects, fixing Safari is going to be just as easy.
Sorry for double posting. Just had a brainstorm. What if there is an open source implementation of h.264, specifically routing around MPEG-LA patents, and then use a special extended (LLVM?) JIT compiler to transform the algorithms used into something with higher performance, even if it infringes on any nuber of patents? That way, neither the decoder, nor the compiler are patent encumbered, and the only infringers are people who actually run the package, i.e. the end users. What, the MPEG-LA are gonna go wasting money RIAA style to get negligible patent fees from every Joe Shmoe? Not worth it. They'll have to settle with patent fees for encoding only.
The only fraking browsers that don't support Theora are IE and Safari. IE has just gotten top notch Theora support, and Safari has always had the option to use an installed, non-shady system codec. So I don't really see the point in retaining h.264 format videos. Mobile devices?
On a related note - has anybody thought of adding AS3 support to Chrome/FF, and make some sort of Flash vector graphics -> SVG compiler, so we can at least relegate Flash to Opera (sorry guys) and IE and Safari (screw 'em). That way you can use Flash development tools and make relatively open websites. AS3 is an open spec with an open source compiler and nobody said that browsers need to support only JS, and I hear AS ain't that bad. To top it off, Apple isn't gonna be happy being left behind, so they are probably going to incorporate AS support as well, which, combined with h.264 support makes flash completely pointless in Safari. Opera is major only in mobile devices, so we can leave them out the picture. So, Flash is unnecessary for apps in everything but IE. IE+Silverlight has Theora support as a given. So if everyone switches to theora, they'll only screw over Safari users too lazy to install proper codecs. Big loss. Wow. And only fuctards or people working for such using IE will only use both Flash and Silverlight to get what everyone has pretty much out of the box. Now if they release Theora for Flash, Silverlight becomes pointless, and using Flash will be relegated to IE. Perfect. And Adobe still gets to sell dev kits. Someone get working on that compiler and AS3 support quick, please!
I wish there was at least one country with reasonable protections from patents, so companies can publish the source there and give everyone in the US the finger while the users are downloading their new FOSS edition drivers. Or maybe tax breaks for fully FOSS stack devices. Or, if the manufacturer is tight-lipped about specs, something along the lines of Open Firmware, with virtualized devices exported, and get the driver problem out the kernel.
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Can somebody do a Prolog version?
Oblig. xkcd
Don't you?
SQL in the query string? FAIL
I love how this got modded insightful. Only on slashdot. But rock on dude.
DisplayPort is more compatible and extensible. Check the specs. I was actually wondering whether you can extend its micro-packet protocol to carry HyperTransport data flows. Anybody know the specs well enough to answer?
I can see GOOG counter-suing.
I don't think so. I hope.
Clone the system on a test rig, reboot, if there are issues, hotpatch them as well.
Sounds like Grand Central Dispatch for .NET.
Why doesn't Slashdot cache pages linked to in the summary? And export a Wave interface, so anybody can federate a server to take part of the load and make say a new section?
Here's an anecdotal report from a teen psychiatric patient and hobby neurochemist: absolutely true. SSRI and SNRI make my sexual dysfunction (premature ejaculation and ejaculatory anorgasmia) much worse. They make me lethargic and tired of life. Anti-psychotics turned my anger in debilitating panic and made me impotent. Methylphenidate doesn't have any effect. But benzos (Xanax) fix my anger problems like a magic stick: I'm like a fucking Zen Buddhist. And both amphetamine and weed fix depression, but the white stuff makes me a master fucker, though I'm virgin. As a bonus, the attention deficit goes away. Now I'm thinking of switching to bupropion to replace the amphetamine.
PS:I pretty much came up with the same theory a year ago.
Sad thing is that if this wasn't Slashdot, this would get modded Insightful.
*sigh*
No true Scotsman.
Set your Uzi to fully automatic.
Pretty similar situation here. I'm a coward and a weakling. I have no heart, and don't mind killing anyone, but I can't seem to get the chance.
I'd give 'em a gun. Much more effective. Not with bullets that kill, just the sort that are really painful.
Biological weapons are more to my tastes. Much more damage, more pain, to more people, with minimal effort in the final step. And, yes, I'm a coward with anger problems that got bullied a lot.
Get AS3 running on GC, FF and Safari, implement the Flash API in pure AS3, maybe JS - mapping to CSS, canvas and svg, and make a Flash vector/bitmap to svg/canvas compiler integrated with Eclipse, and you are pretty much rid of Flash.
NB:Safari's JS engine is FOSS, AFAIK, so unless Apple objects, fixing Safari is going to be just as easy.
I think so.
Sorry for double posting.
Just had a brainstorm. What if there is an open source implementation of h.264, specifically routing around MPEG-LA patents, and then use a special extended (LLVM?) JIT compiler to transform the algorithms used into something with higher performance, even if it infringes on any nuber of patents? That way, neither the decoder, nor the compiler are patent encumbered, and the only infringers are people who actually run the package, i.e. the end users. What, the MPEG-LA are gonna go wasting money RIAA style to get negligible patent fees from every Joe Shmoe? Not worth it. They'll have to settle with patent fees for encoding only.
Gecko/Safari? Safari is WebKit.
The only fraking browsers that don't support Theora are IE and Safari. IE has just gotten top notch Theora support, and Safari has always had the option to use an installed, non-shady system codec. So I don't really see the point in retaining h.264 format videos. Mobile devices?
On a related note - has anybody thought of adding AS3 support to Chrome/FF, and make some sort of Flash vector graphics -> SVG compiler, so we can at least relegate Flash to Opera (sorry guys) and IE and Safari (screw 'em). That way you can use Flash development tools and make relatively open websites. AS3 is an open spec with an open source compiler and nobody said that browsers need to support only JS, and I hear AS ain't that bad. To top it off, Apple isn't gonna be happy being left behind, so they are probably going to incorporate AS support as well, which, combined with h.264 support makes flash completely pointless in Safari. Opera is major only in mobile devices, so we can leave them out the picture. So, Flash is unnecessary for apps in everything but IE. IE+Silverlight has Theora support as a given. So if everyone switches to theora, they'll only screw over Safari users too lazy to install proper codecs. Big loss. Wow. And only fuctards or people working for such using IE will only use both Flash and Silverlight to get what everyone has pretty much out of the box. Now if they release Theora for Flash, Silverlight becomes pointless, and using Flash will be relegated to IE. Perfect. And Adobe still gets to sell dev kits. Someone get working on that compiler and AS3 support quick, please!
I wish there was at least one country with reasonable protections from patents, so companies can publish the source there and give everyone in the US the finger while the users are downloading their new FOSS edition drivers. Or maybe tax breaks for fully FOSS stack devices. Or, if the manufacturer is tight-lipped about specs, something along the lines of Open Firmware, with virtualized devices exported, and get the driver problem out the kernel.