Can't you see?! So much great music has come out in the previous year but there's only been a 3% jump in sales! If you people weren't all dirty rotten smelly pirates, sales would be up 10 fold! The artists would be raking it in and thus could afford to produce more albums! Now, because of you dirty pirates, the artists are going to starve despite sales increases and you'll all suffer.
Yeah, they did get complaints, probably from a bunch of whiney bitches. One day, I may get together with a bunch of mates and see if we can make enough complaints between ourselves to get an advert pulled.
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I remember reading Firefly cost $2,000,000 per episode. So, at $2 a pop, it would only take a million people paying to break even. Hell, let's say 2 million for overheads. Would you really get that many? I imagine it wouldn't be that hard if you kept in mind the global nature of the internet.
If people stopped their $30/month cable plan, that's 15 weekly episodes they could subscribe to for the same price. Doesn't sound too bad, does it?
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Pot Noodle ran an ad campaign where they were calling themselves the "slag of all snacks." People complained to the ASA and Pot Noodle had to pull the advert, despite arguing that it wasn't offensive because they were slagging themselves off.
The major flaw in that proposal is the "Tarrent" part.
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I like a clever and witty advert, but to say lots of British people like watching adverts is a bit of an overgeneralisation. The problem is that for every advert that's witty and clever, there's 10 that are complete shit. Plus you have the problem that the clever and witty adverts get overplayed and thus become irritating.
If I want to watch something, I want to use MY player, the player I chose. Besides, if they bundled a player, what's the bet that it would be Windows only?
I wasn't talking in the context of an everyday user, I was pointing out that if I tell IE to display a list in a certain place, it better damn well put it there.
I've got a test-case whereby setting the left-padding CSS property on an h1 which is inside a banner's div will make an absolutely positioned sidebar disappear. I've got a situation where
test
will not show a list item marker. Care to tell my why those two occur?
Anyhow, I'm happy with Firefox. The Javascript debugger and DOM inspector blow IE's tools out of the water.
Early adopters typically set the trend for this sort of thing. My mother didn't discover Firefox by herself, I installed it for her. The company I work for now uses Firefox and Thunderbird as standard issue because of me and the staff are installing them at home out of their own free will.
System layers for retards: 1) Kernel. Can do anything it wants to the computer. 2) User. All (for the most part) hardware interaction must go through the kernel.
The kernel team believe there is a separation between user-mode and kernel-mode. Thus, maintaining a strict interface is important. Kernel modules can do anything they want with the kernel, so there is no strict separation and thus the kernel developers see no need to support broken interfaces.
No kernel is stable everywhere. I've seen systems where Linux would kernel panic within minutes, along with Windows 2000 and XP machines that wouldn't last seconds between blue screens.
Some of us are having very few problems with 2.6: (from my server) darren@rooter(~)> uname -r 2.6.8.1 darren@rooter(~)> uptime
18:08:06 up 18 days, 20:43, 1 user, load average: 1.13, 0.97, 0.78
People do all sorts of dirty tricks with APIs all the time, just look at Raymond Chen's blog. The NVIDIA kernel module itself did some funky shit that wasn't guaranteed to work, it just did.
So, now, what do you do when you fix a bug or add an optimisation that then causes the NVIDIA module to stop working? What NVIDIA were doing wasn't guranteed to work, you're not breaking any promises by changing behaviour, but it still makes some things break. In that situation, it's lose-lose, except the kernel developers always err on the side of correctness rather than backwards compatibility when it comes to kernel-mode.
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Can't you see?! So much great music has come out in the previous year but there's only been a 3% jump in sales! If you people weren't all dirty rotten smelly pirates, sales would be up 10 fold! The artists would be raking it in and thus could afford to produce more albums! Now, because of you dirty pirates, the artists are going to starve despite sales increases and you'll all suffer.
You people disgust me.
Yeah, they did get complaints, probably from a bunch of whiney bitches. One day, I may get together with a bunch of mates and see if we can make enough complaints between ourselves to get an advert pulled.
Go to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
I remember reading Firefly cost $2,000,000 per episode. So, at $2 a pop, it would only take a million people paying to break even. Hell, let's say 2 million for overheads. Would you really get that many? I imagine it wouldn't be that hard if you kept in mind the global nature of the internet.
If people stopped their $30/month cable plan, that's 15 weekly episodes they could subscribe to for the same price. Doesn't sound too bad, does it?
Pot Noodle ran an ad campaign where they were calling themselves the "slag of all snacks." People complained to the ASA and Pot Noodle had to pull the advert, despite arguing that it wasn't offensive because they were slagging themselves off.
The major flaw in that proposal is the "Tarrent" part.
I like a clever and witty advert, but to say lots of British people like watching adverts is a bit of an overgeneralisation. The problem is that for every advert that's witty and clever, there's 10 that are complete shit. Plus you have the problem that the clever and witty adverts get overplayed and thus become irritating.
If I want to watch something, I want to use MY player, the player I chose. Besides, if they bundled a player, what's the bet that it would be Windows only?
Crap, I forgot "position: absolute;"
.content {
left: 10%;
right: 10%;
}
What does that do?
I wasn't talking in the context of an everyday user, I was pointing out that if I tell IE to display a list in a certain place, it better damn well put it there.
- test
will not show a list item marker. Care to tell my why those two occur?Anyhow, I'm happy with Firefox. The Javascript debugger and DOM inspector blow IE's tools out of the water.
As a web developer, I want a browser that does what I tell it to, not what it thinks I want to do.
IE5 is a damn site more stable than NS4 and its rendering engine is considerably better to boot.
Early adopters typically set the trend for this sort of thing. My mother didn't discover Firefox by herself, I installed it for her. The company I work for now uses Firefox and Thunderbird as standard issue because of me and the staff are installing them at home out of their own free will.
Oh please, 2.4.28-rc1 fixes at least on Oops condition from a brief scan of the changelog, thus it's clearly not 100% stable everywhere.
I don't know, I don't use 2.4 any more and I haven't used 2.2 in years.
System layers for retards:
1) Kernel. Can do anything it wants to the computer.
2) User. All (for the most part) hardware interaction must go through the kernel.
The kernel team believe there is a separation between user-mode and kernel-mode. Thus, maintaining a strict interface is important. Kernel modules can do anything they want with the kernel, so there is no strict separation and thus the kernel developers see no need to support broken interfaces.
UI modules?! Do you have any idea what the separation between user-mode and kernel-mode is?
As for drivers, you've chosen a bad example in network cards, since I've not ever used one that wasn't supported by the current stable kernel.
No kernel is stable everywhere. I've seen systems where Linux would kernel panic within minutes, along with Windows 2000 and XP machines that wouldn't last seconds between blue screens.
Some of us are having very few problems with 2.6:
(from my server)
darren@rooter(~)> uname -r
2.6.8.1
darren@rooter(~)> uptime
18:08:06 up 18 days, 20:43, 1 user, load average: 1.13, 0.97, 0.78
People do all sorts of dirty tricks with APIs all the time, just look at Raymond Chen's blog. The NVIDIA kernel module itself did some funky shit that wasn't guaranteed to work, it just did.
So, now, what do you do when you fix a bug or add an optimisation that then causes the NVIDIA module to stop working? What NVIDIA were doing wasn't guranteed to work, you're not breaking any promises by changing behaviour, but it still makes some things break. In that situation, it's lose-lose, except the kernel developers always err on the side of correctness rather than backwards compatibility when it comes to kernel-mode.
NVIDIA do rather well with their kernel module wrapper.
In at least one of those cases, the NVIDIA kernel module itself was broken, it's just that it happened to work prior to the change that "broke" it.
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