Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9.
But does it actually work now? I try Gnash once in awhile only to realize it still doesn't work whatsoever. The only foss flash player I'd ever had *any* luck with was swfdec, and development on that project appears dead now. I mean, don't get me wrong, swfdec worked like crap, but I could still watch videos on YouTube and Google Video with it at the very least.
Why are you being so nice to these almost as bad as progressive liberals?
YES! PROGRESS SUCKS!
I want to regress all the way back to barbaric cavemen time, just because progress blows.
I think the next step for Texas is to reform the system of government to having a King and Queen, and then a Pharaoh, and then eventually hopefully they'll all be eaten by dinosaurs.
Or asking the students to evaluate the impact of global organizations on US sovereignty
As long as the impact of the US on the sovereignty of many other (generally smaller and/or poorer) countries in the world is evaluated too. But of course, that won't be in the textbooks.
Why the heck don't we just make more stuff in the US. I mean really!
Because it costs more to treat people more humanely, which you are required to do in the US. That's literally the only reason. It's also the reason why there's hostility and vilification toward labor unions/movements in the US, because they fight against poor working conditions and dirt wages (which ends up costing corporations money, and we can't have that!). For more things to be made in the US, the US's labor system would have to become more like China's, or China's labor system would have to be made at least as humane as the US's. And don't believe for a second that corporations wouldn't prefer the former over the latter.
If you are going to fire off blame put it first on China. China needs to put in labor laws to protect it's own people. Second lay the blame on Foxconn for exploiting those people. Then put the blame on all the companies listed.
Finally lets all take a little blame for not caring where we get our toys from.
I am glad to say that when I went shopping for a lawn mower I worked hard to find one that was not made in China. It was made in Canada.
Everyone doing business with the Chinese government/system (legitimizing and empowering them) is to blame.
I'd like to apologize on behalf of the people in my country, the United States. We're extremely paranoid, uneducated, and religious, and our entire every day consists of being endlessly pummeled by sophisticated government and corporate public relations/propaganda, making us impressively easy to manipulate. We do indeed have the mindset that we (as a country) have an inherent, God-given right to allow or disallow Venezuela (or anyone else in the world, for that matter) to do anything, and there's no real sign that we'll cease acting on that mindset anytime soon.
I guess what I'm really not getting is, if Joe Schmo gets caught using his 1979 Impala to haul illegal copies of Free Willy DVDs, will the RIAA/MPAA sue Chevrolet?
The only reason that doesn't happen is because way too many people, even the dimmest of us, would realize how hilariously absurd and irrational that would be. Everyone can relate to it.
But the RIAA/MPAA can be just as hilariously absurd and irrational (if not moreso) when it comes to copyright and filesharing because the populace don't understand the subject(s)/technology. And what they do hear is exclusively RIAA/MPAA propaganda which puts them further away from understanding.
You are an asshat, if only for the style of your post.
Viacom (and other media companies) are being unreasonable because they issue DMCA takedown notices for things they don't even own, as well as parodies and other protected speech. Youtube is already going above and beyond what they're legally required to do (which is obey DMCA notices), and they've got various pieces of software to help automate looking for copyright infringements. The media is damn lucky Google has chosen to do what it has. Doing more would just be ridiculous for Google/Youtube.
Doing what they're doing now with the automated stuff is already beyond ridiculous.
Personally, I'd rather have the browser go faster than look faster.
Personally, I'd rather have a stable browser with useful features that I use than a browser that can render a page 0.1 second faster. I really don't understand this obsession over the speed of the browser.
Try a browser that isn't turd-slow and you'll understand. You're mistaken if you think it's about loading a page 0.1 seconds faster.
GNOME Shell doesn't just require compositing (which almost all computers support - compositing works fine with the generic VESA drivers), it requires OpenGL which (effectively) means it requires accelerated 3D. Computers which don't have accelerated 3D will have to stick with metacity and the panel, I think, which will still be in GNOME 3.
And it's written mostly in javascript.
If that isn't bad enough, the javascript engine used is Firefox's. (Last I heard.)
If this solution is similar to all the other adblock solutions for Chrome it still downloads all the ads and associated drive-by rogue malware, it just hides it so you don't see it.
That's correct (and unfortunate) with regard to the extension alone, which is why an adblocking hosts file is needed.
So then what is a good browser? I do value privacy so I don't use Chrome (I figure google can have either my search history or web browsing history but not both, and adblock for Chrome really sucks). I hate ads so I don't use Opera (the adblock solution also sucks). I don't care about bloat, but I do care about speed, and firefox is the slowest of the main browsers I use (I do not use IE8). The four things I care about are security, ad-blocking, speed, and privacy. It looks like this is another case of "choose 3 out of 4".
Did you not read TFA at all ?
You can not only choose which search provider to use the search suggestions, you can also turn off search suggestions in chrome !!
All of these settings are hidden in the advanced settings dialog
Blast them for hiding the Settings in the Settings menu!
This article points out that while the PC has returned to favor as a gaming platform, consoles are still the target for most developers, and still provide the major limitations on the technological sophistication of game graphics.
All I can say is: good. A couple of the reasons PC games blow are the constant hardware churn and the emphasis on graphics and not gameplay.
Let's just go with how the conversation with any non-geek person/friend/spouse/family member would both start and end: Wait, Facebook already is free. I don't get it.
And watch them uncomfortably smile and nod and say "ah" when you come off sounding like a lunatic trying to explain the four freedoms of free software. Make sure you refer to them as freedoms 0-3 too. And when they don't get that clever joke, you can explain arrays to them.
That's because Windows 7 with 1GB of RAM is like crawling through a tar pit... the additional performance hit from MSE won't really be noticable.
I'm running two systems with Win7, one with 2GB of RAM (ran on 1GB for a while... that was horrible) and one with 4GB, and both of them take a noticable performance hit with MSE running actively in the background. However, that performance hit is neglible compared to programs like AVG or Avira...
My desktop runs Windows 7 with 1 GB RAM and I've never, ever had any performance issues. Even WoW plays smooth as butter on it.
Not sure how or why we could have such different experiences. The only thing I've done is disabled a few Windows services I don't need, and the antivirus I use is Clamwin. It's FOSS and doesn't do realtime scanning (which is fine for me since I'm generally the only person that uses my desktop and I don't download a lot of questionable things to begin with) which surely keeps its resources down significantly.
I'm not sure why this is modded down. The Democratic party in the US is at best moderate-right.
I'm a "Troll" for saying this? Oh well - I suppose no moderation system can be fool-proof. If you're under the delusion that somehow the Democratic party or Obama is in any way, shape, or form significantly and consistently "leftist," I advise and challenge you to learn about real liberal politics.
Only liberals are allowed to complain about their leaders, is that right?
As long as the other crazies do nothing but walk around with picket signs of Heith Ledger's face as the Joker with a Hitler mustache painted on it, yes.
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Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Flash is an animation file format pioneered by Macromedia which continues to be supported by their successor company, Adobe. Flash has been extended to include audio and video content, and programs written in ActionScript, an ECMAScript-compatible language. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9.
But does it actually work now? I try Gnash once in awhile only to realize it still doesn't work whatsoever. The only foss flash player I'd ever had *any* luck with was swfdec, and development on that project appears dead now. I mean, don't get me wrong, swfdec worked like crap, but I could still watch videos on YouTube and Google Video with it at the very least.
Why are you being so nice to these almost as bad as progressive liberals?
YES! PROGRESS SUCKS!
I want to regress all the way back to barbaric cavemen time, just because progress blows.
I think the next step for Texas is to reform the system of government to having a King and Queen, and then a Pharaoh, and then eventually hopefully they'll all be eaten by dinosaurs.
Thank you for grouping everyone in an entire state into one neat little category.
You can always move away from your complete disaster of a state and all the retards you're surrounded by.
Or asking the students to evaluate the impact of global organizations on US sovereignty
As long as the impact of the US on the sovereignty of many other (generally smaller and/or poorer) countries in the world is evaluated too. But of course, that won't be in the textbooks.
Why the heck don't we just make more stuff in the US. I mean really!
Because it costs more to treat people more humanely, which you are required to do in the US. That's literally the only reason. It's also the reason why there's hostility and vilification toward labor unions/movements in the US, because they fight against poor working conditions and dirt wages (which ends up costing corporations money, and we can't have that!). For more things to be made in the US, the US's labor system would have to become more like China's, or China's labor system would have to be made at least as humane as the US's. And don't believe for a second that corporations wouldn't prefer the former over the latter.
If you are going to fire off blame put it first on China. China needs to put in labor laws to protect it's own people. Second lay the blame on Foxconn for exploiting those people. Then put the blame on all the companies listed. Finally lets all take a little blame for not caring where we get our toys from. I am glad to say that when I went shopping for a lawn mower I worked hard to find one that was not made in China. It was made in Canada.
Everyone doing business with the Chinese government/system (legitimizing and empowering them) is to blame.
If we allow Venezuela
Fuck off
I'd like to apologize on behalf of the people in my country, the United States. We're extremely paranoid, uneducated, and religious, and our entire every day consists of being endlessly pummeled by sophisticated government and corporate public relations/propaganda, making us impressively easy to manipulate. We do indeed have the mindset that we (as a country) have an inherent, God-given right to allow or disallow Venezuela (or anyone else in the world, for that matter) to do anything, and there's no real sign that we'll cease acting on that mindset anytime soon.
When Reagan broke the ATC union, he was standing up to the Big Bad Union. When Chavez did it, he was being an autocratic commie.
Kind of like when the US bombs someone, they're being heroes, but if anyone tries to bomb the US, they're being terrorists.
No more mixed declarations and code
A definite plus.
I guess what I'm really not getting is, if Joe Schmo gets caught using his 1979 Impala to haul illegal copies of Free Willy DVDs, will the RIAA/MPAA sue Chevrolet?
The only reason that doesn't happen is because way too many people, even the dimmest of us, would realize how hilariously absurd and irrational that would be. Everyone can relate to it.
But the RIAA/MPAA can be just as hilariously absurd and irrational (if not moreso) when it comes to copyright and filesharing because the populace don't understand the subject(s)/technology. And what they do hear is exclusively RIAA/MPAA propaganda which puts them further away from understanding.
You are an asshat, if only for the style of your post. Viacom (and other media companies) are being unreasonable because they issue DMCA takedown notices for things they don't even own, as well as parodies and other protected speech. Youtube is already going above and beyond what they're legally required to do (which is obey DMCA notices), and they've got various pieces of software to help automate looking for copyright infringements. The media is damn lucky Google has chosen to do what it has. Doing more would just be ridiculous for Google/Youtube.
Doing what they're doing now with the automated stuff is already beyond ridiculous.
Personally, I'd rather have the browser go faster than look faster.
Personally, I'd rather have a stable browser with useful features that I use than a browser that can render a page 0.1 second faster. I really don't understand this obsession over the speed of the browser.
Try a browser that isn't turd-slow and you'll understand. You're mistaken if you think it's about loading a page 0.1 seconds faster.
GNOME Shell doesn't just require compositing (which almost all computers support - compositing works fine with the generic VESA drivers), it requires OpenGL which (effectively) means it requires accelerated 3D. Computers which don't have accelerated 3D will have to stick with metacity and the panel, I think, which will still be in GNOME 3.
And it's written mostly in javascript. If that isn't bad enough, the javascript engine used is Firefox's. (Last I heard.)
It took me five minutes on http://www.bing-vs-google.com/ one day to realize how bad Bing is compared to Google.
If this solution is similar to all the other adblock solutions for Chrome it still downloads all the ads and associated drive-by rogue malware, it just hides it so you don't see it.
That's correct (and unfortunate) with regard to the extension alone, which is why an adblocking hosts file is needed.
But it is based on an older version of Chrome (which might not be a huge deal), and last time I checked the adblocker only worked on Windows.
So then what is a good browser? I do value privacy so I don't use Chrome (I figure google can have either my search history or web browsing history but not both, and adblock for Chrome really sucks). I hate ads so I don't use Opera (the adblock solution also sucks). I don't care about bloat, but I do care about speed, and firefox is the slowest of the main browsers I use (I do not use IE8). The four things I care about are security, ad-blocking, speed, and privacy. It looks like this is another case of "choose 3 out of 4".
1. Take off the tin foil hat and spend 5 seconds disabling whatever it is that offends you in the clearly labeled and displayed Privacy settings in Chrome.
2. Download a good hosts adblocking file.
3. Download a good extension that'll hide the blocked elements and text ads.
4. Enjoy using a blazingly fast and responsive, free browser.
Or if you're still paranoid that Google is using Chrome to hijack your life, you could even do this:
1. Download Opera.
2. Use this guy's stuff.
Did you not read TFA at all ? You can not only choose which search provider to use the search suggestions, you can also turn off search suggestions in chrome !!
All of these settings are hidden in the advanced settings dialog
Blast them for hiding the Settings in the Settings menu!
This article points out that while the PC has returned to favor as a gaming platform, consoles are still the target for most developers, and still provide the major limitations on the technological sophistication of game graphics.
All I can say is: good. A couple of the reasons PC games blow are the constant hardware churn and the emphasis on graphics and not gameplay.
The Chinese people don't leally cale about Google. So I do not undelstand why we talk so much about this. Just my 50 ct.
Yes! All this reary annoyed! ^_^~~~~~
Goggle (9x_x)9 Q(^.^Q) China
Let's just go with how the conversation with any non-geek person/friend/spouse/family member would both start and end: Wait, Facebook already is free. I don't get it.
And watch them uncomfortably smile and nod and say "ah" when you come off sounding like a lunatic trying to explain the four freedoms of free software. Make sure you refer to them as freedoms 0-3 too. And when they don't get that clever joke, you can explain arrays to them.
That's because Windows 7 with 1GB of RAM is like crawling through a tar pit... the additional performance hit from MSE won't really be noticable.
I'm running two systems with Win7, one with 2GB of RAM (ran on 1GB for a while... that was horrible) and one with 4GB, and both of them take a noticable performance hit with MSE running actively in the background. However, that performance hit is neglible compared to programs like AVG or Avira...
My desktop runs Windows 7 with 1 GB RAM and I've never, ever had any performance issues. Even WoW plays smooth as butter on it. Not sure how or why we could have such different experiences. The only thing I've done is disabled a few Windows services I don't need, and the antivirus I use is Clamwin. It's FOSS and doesn't do realtime scanning (which is fine for me since I'm generally the only person that uses my desktop and I don't download a lot of questionable things to begin with) which surely keeps its resources down significantly.
I'm not sure why this is modded down. The Democratic party in the US is at best moderate-right.
I'm a "Troll" for saying this? Oh well - I suppose no moderation system can be fool-proof. If you're under the delusion that somehow the Democratic party or Obama is in any way, shape, or form significantly and consistently "leftist," I advise and challenge you to learn about real liberal politics.
TEA PARTY = grass roots
Good one. I didn't know "sponsored by Fox News" == "grass roots."
If only Obama really was a "radical leftist." If anything, he's a Republican in disguise.
I'm not sure why this is modded down. The Democratic party in the US is at best moderate-right.
Only liberals are allowed to complain about their leaders, is that right?
As long as the other crazies do nothing but walk around with picket signs of Heith Ledger's face as the Joker with a Hitler mustache painted on it, yes.