This is really the root of the problem though. I mean, Slashdot won't have much impact on places currently running IE6, but as long as "We're stuck with IE6 so you should code for us" is prevalent at the business level, then it's not going to end. The problem will basically only end at this point when businesses can't use IE6 any more.
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That would be nice, but the difference is if there is only one DRM free shop, but all publishers go DRM free, then we can buy everything from that one shop. Conversely if all shops offer DRM free, but only one publisher, we still can only get that publisher's books, no matter where we look. So the publishers are the more important factor here I'd say.
The best change I can imagine for eBooks would be more DRM-free publishers. The only reason I even buy eBooks is that I discovered Fictionwise legitimately sold many of their eBooks DRM-free. But many publishers still don't allow it, and that is what I'd like to see change.
Did a little poking around and found this is in fact true (at least basically so). Here's a listing with "Text-to-Speech: Not enabled" marked on it, and the drop down explanation being "The publisher has requested not to enable Text-to-Speech for this title."
It's frustrating to see something like this, when we also see articles about innocent teachers being fired or prosecuted due to kids in their class sexting them.:\
To experiment the first thing I decided to do was to install Ubuntu (Hardy at the time) on a 4GB flash drive. For the most part this went well, but for one thing: this being my first try with Linux, I skipped the "Advanced" button on the review step of the install. Turns out that's where you tell the installer where to put grub, and that it defaults to hd0 even if installing to a flash drive.
This resulted in my hard drive having GRUB on the MBR, but/boot being (correctly) on the flash drive. Of couse, with only half of GRUB on each, neither would boot. After some time, it finally occurred to me to run fixmbr off the Windows XP disc (it was late, I was tired), and with my system working I later got Ubuntu correctly installed to the flash drive after asking a friend who knew about that option to choose where to put GRUB.
BTW, it worked well off the USB, except FireFox, which ran like tar and locked up a lot (multiple times loading a single page in many cases). Opera worked well though, and I was even able to rig it up to install the correct graphics card driver prior to loading X, since I ran it from multiple PCs for a while. Since swap on a flash drive is a bad idea, I put a 2GB swap on the HDD of a low-end PC I used it on, and on the ones with good RAM simply used no swap at all.
I work best usually in the late evening through the night. Less distractions. I prefer it to be cool, and like to have a mug of coffee or hot chocolate. If there's talking or noise around me I'll listen to music to drown it out.
In my exprience though, a significant number of problems that occur in my Windows box end up unfixable short of a format, regardless of how documented they are. (Not most, mind, but enough to be frustrating.) In many cases error codes are generic and meaningless.
With open-source software at least, error messages and info are more intuitive, and while fixes are sometimes more complex (one personal example was having to recompile mplayer from source to work around a bug in Ubuntu 8.10), fixes have also existed much more often on my Linux box than Windows.
It got 70% of the portion of the votes that the four preset names had. In other words, it had 70% of the non-write-in votes. Colbert got over 40,000 more votes than Serenity did.
That said, they may still go with Serenity just to not call it Colbert.
It may just be one of those cases where they have it in writing so they have the right to do it if they choose to. All the same, I think it should be removed from the contract in the interest of fairness.
...my opinion of them drops more and more. I think my opinion of them can't get worse, but they always manage to come up with some way.:\
I only hope that the devs are all quickly made aware of this and decide to do something to fix it, be that changing platforms, harassing Apple for a change, or whatever else works for them. There's no cause at all for devs to risk a loss of 30% of their initial charge per sale.
It's not mentioned in the article, but what brought this all up in the first place was the fact that "Xenu" was winning the write-in vote before he asked viewers on his show to write in his own name instead. Xenu is the galactic overlord from Scientology myth. Colbert asked his viewers to write in his own name, and the following day he had already passed Xenu on the write-ins. The show that evening, he declared himself the new galactic overlord.
Incidentally, NASA reserved the write to call it whatever they want; they don't have to go with the vote.
This is a problem, but one specific only to certain programs. Pull up task manager, and take a look at the processes list. Odds are unless you're running something big in the back ground, you won't see any process taking up more than 50% CPU on your dual-core, or 25% CPU on your quad core. In fact, odds are none will be even close to that.
Multi-threading can offer little speed increase there (there is theoretically some as code is executed simultaneously, but it's negligible and probably unnoticeable); its value is only truly seen is when a program can actually make use of more processor power than any single core has. Video conversion is a good example -- on my dual core at home, most of my video conversion tools hit 50% CPU and run at that until done. It's programs like this that can take advantage of multi-threading and therefore having access to more raw processing power at once (double, in fact).
I agree that it would be nice to see more tools out there to add ease to coding for multi-core processors, and to see those few, CPU intense programs suddenly see double the processing power. But given that only a very specific selection of software requires it, and moreover a lot of the time that is not software the "average joe" would be using, it's probably just not vital enough to hit the priority lists yet (especially given that there are a few programs out there that do successfully implement multi-threading, and others that mimic it to a lesser extent).
It's just conjecture of course, but from poking around a couple wow-specific boards and discussions going on there, it looks like the only two well-used add-ons this will affect are Carbonite and QuestHelper. QH apparently had a minor request for donation in-game that they will likely just remove. Carbonite however has full-on subscription plans they require for their "full" version. I looked around their site and forums but couldn't find anything official as to what they're planning to do.
Possibly impacted by this also is the bejeweled add-on; I don't believe this was open source?
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No, they don't know more often than not. Ignorant, perhaps, would be the better term.
You should go for the best: a site where you can do anything. Anything at all.
Remember, the only limit is yourself.
You're welcome.
This is really the root of the problem though. I mean, Slashdot won't have much impact on places currently running IE6, but as long as "We're stuck with IE6 so you should code for us" is prevalent at the business level, then it's not going to end. The problem will basically only end at this point when businesses can't use IE6 any more.
I still remember L-Block winning the 2008 GameFAQs Character Battle.
That would be nice, but the difference is if there is only one DRM free shop, but all publishers go DRM free, then we can buy everything from that one shop. Conversely if all shops offer DRM free, but only one publisher, we still can only get that publisher's books, no matter where we look. So the publishers are the more important factor here I'd say.
The best change I can imagine for eBooks would be more DRM-free publishers. The only reason I even buy eBooks is that I discovered Fictionwise legitimately sold many of their eBooks DRM-free. But many publishers still don't allow it, and that is what I'd like to see change.
MS has instructions here for the extension's manual removal, for any who want them:
.NET Framework Assistant for Firefox
How to manually remove the
Hockey is our national sport.
Actually, it's Lacrosse.
We all know that's just to confuse the Americans.
Did a little poking around and found this is in fact true (at least basically so). Here's a listing with "Text-to-Speech: Not enabled" marked on it, and the drop down explanation being "The publisher has requested not to enable Text-to-Speech for this title."
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ANURFO/
It's frustrating to see something like this, when we also see articles about innocent teachers being fired or prosecuted due to kids in their class sexting them. :\
Please, PLEASE tell me that "to mesh with social networks" does not mean twittering Sims...
To experiment the first thing I decided to do was to install Ubuntu (Hardy at the time) on a 4GB flash drive. For the most part this went well, but for one thing: this being my first try with Linux, I skipped the "Advanced" button on the review step of the install. Turns out that's where you tell the installer where to put grub, and that it defaults to hd0 even if installing to a flash drive.
This resulted in my hard drive having GRUB on the MBR, but /boot being (correctly) on the flash drive. Of couse, with only half of GRUB on each, neither would boot. After some time, it finally occurred to me to run fixmbr off the Windows XP disc (it was late, I was tired), and with my system working I later got Ubuntu correctly installed to the flash drive after asking a friend who knew about that option to choose where to put GRUB.
BTW, it worked well off the USB, except FireFox, which ran like tar and locked up a lot (multiple times loading a single page in many cases). Opera worked well though, and I was even able to rig it up to install the correct graphics card driver prior to loading X, since I ran it from multiple PCs for a while. Since swap on a flash drive is a bad idea, I put a 2GB swap on the HDD of a low-end PC I used it on, and on the ones with good RAM simply used no swap at all.
I work best usually in the late evening through the night. Less distractions. I prefer it to be cool, and like to have a mug of coffee or hot chocolate. If there's talking or noise around me I'll listen to music to drown it out.
In my exprience though, a significant number of problems that occur in my Windows box end up unfixable short of a format, regardless of how documented they are. (Not most, mind, but enough to be frustrating.) In many cases error codes are generic and meaningless.
With open-source software at least, error messages and info are more intuitive, and while fixes are sometimes more complex (one personal example was having to recompile mplayer from source to work around a bug in Ubuntu 8.10), fixes have also existed much more often on my Linux box than Windows.
Unfortunately, /b/ is already self aware.
Fortunately, all it did was crawl under a bridge and demand porn from passers-by.
Sadly, there's nothing new about it.
If the user is falling asleep, load up the hamster dance at full volume!
A new Firefox extension appears!
What? FireFox Extension is evolving!
Congratulations! Your FireFox Extension evolved into IE8 Extension!
It got 70% of the portion of the votes that the four preset names had. In other words, it had 70% of the non-write-in votes. Colbert got over 40,000 more votes than Serenity did.
That said, they may still go with Serenity just to not call it Colbert.
I would be more concerned if they forged an alliance, personally.
It may just be one of those cases where they have it in writing so they have the right to do it if they choose to. All the same, I think it should be removed from the contract in the interest of fairness.
...my opinion of them drops more and more. I think my opinion of them can't get worse, but they always manage to come up with some way. :\
I only hope that the devs are all quickly made aware of this and decide to do something to fix it, be that changing platforms, harassing Apple for a change, or whatever else works for them. There's no cause at all for devs to risk a loss of 30% of their initial charge per sale.
It's not mentioned in the article, but what brought this all up in the first place was the fact that "Xenu" was winning the write-in vote before he asked viewers on his show to write in his own name instead. Xenu is the galactic overlord from Scientology myth. Colbert asked his viewers to write in his own name, and the following day he had already passed Xenu on the write-ins. The show that evening, he declared himself the new galactic overlord.
Incidentally, NASA reserved the write to call it whatever they want; they don't have to go with the vote.
This is a problem, but one specific only to certain programs. Pull up task manager, and take a look at the processes list. Odds are unless you're running something big in the back ground, you won't see any process taking up more than 50% CPU on your dual-core, or 25% CPU on your quad core. In fact, odds are none will be even close to that.
Multi-threading can offer little speed increase there (there is theoretically some as code is executed simultaneously, but it's negligible and probably unnoticeable); its value is only truly seen is when a program can actually make use of more processor power than any single core has. Video conversion is a good example -- on my dual core at home, most of my video conversion tools hit 50% CPU and run at that until done. It's programs like this that can take advantage of multi-threading and therefore having access to more raw processing power at once (double, in fact).
I agree that it would be nice to see more tools out there to add ease to coding for multi-core processors, and to see those few, CPU intense programs suddenly see double the processing power. But given that only a very specific selection of software requires it, and moreover a lot of the time that is not software the "average joe" would be using, it's probably just not vital enough to hit the priority lists yet (especially given that there are a few programs out there that do successfully implement multi-threading, and others that mimic it to a lesser extent).
It's just conjecture of course, but from poking around a couple wow-specific boards and discussions going on there, it looks like the only two well-used add-ons this will affect are Carbonite and QuestHelper. QH apparently had a minor request for donation in-game that they will likely just remove. Carbonite however has full-on subscription plans they require for their "full" version. I looked around their site and forums but couldn't find anything official as to what they're planning to do.
Possibly impacted by this also is the bejeweled add-on; I don't believe this was open source?