The 64-bit Flash Player also has hardware acceleration disabled. The 32-bit player uses OpenGL for acceleration (though sometimes you have to convince it that your video card actually can handle it with a simple config file).
I have no issues in Ubuntu 10.04 with 32-bit Flash running in a 64-bit Firefox/Chrome (this is the default config and you only have to install the flashplugin-installer package and it "just works", at least on my system. ymmv of course). I'd rather have the hardware acceleration (smooth full screen video, yay!) than 64-bit (which has no real advantage for the Flash player).
Bell has a tower sharing agreement with Telus, not Rogers. Both companies worked together to provide a 3G HSPA network compatible with Rogers using the same bands. This makes it easy for them to grab Rogers customers. "Hey, you don't even need a new phone, just c'mon over!"
Nah, it's just with all the bullshit in the world, I find it hard to not take something like this lightly, laugh, and move on. Since at best it was amusing, and at worst it didn't really have any negative effects... except maybe on Seumas:)
Maybe there was no fun and entertainment for you, and that's totally cool. Not everyone has the same sense of humour. I expect that there are things you find greatly entertaining or funny that I wouldn't at all.
I saw it, chuckled because I found it amusing, and moved on. When I saw the amount of effort you'd put into your rant, I just had to say "hey, lighten up a bit, don't take life so seriously."
You seem quite religiously dead-set against this thing, even moreso now... and I find that entertaining too:)
Wow. You seriously know how to take just about all the fun out of something that was pretty entertaining. Sometimes you just need to shut the fuck and have a good laugh and realize that it doesn't even matter if it was real or a hoax.
Enjoy life - don't analyze everything to the point that all meaning is lost.
It runs great on Linux for me (including full-screen HD video... with hardware-acceleration), and in agreement with another poster, it's great on my Nexus One also.
Flash does suck up more CPU than other things, I wouldn't even try to dispute that. But certainly not enough that I get a poor experience on any of my three platforms (Windows, Linux, Android).
Wrong. Plugins have been around since Netscape and are still called plugins. They have a different function than an extension (and an extension is what we would want in this case to fix the site's colours).
Both plugins and extensions, along with themes, are collectively referred to as "addons." "Plugin" is the wrong word in the summary. "Extension" or "addon" would have been acceptable.
I own a Nexus One. In my opinion, the screen is sharp and clear with beautiful colour. No problems like you mentioned at all. My only complaint is that it's nearly impossible to see in sunlight... but otherwise I'm very pleased with the screen.
The Droid (and Droid X) are just smartphones made by Motorola. They can lock them or do whatever they want with them, it's their business. We can just not buy them if we don't like them. There are plenty of other Android-based phones to choose from, and Android is still fully open.
I don't think anyone ever claimed that using an open OS would mean the hardware it ran on would be just as open? That would sure be nice, but I don't ever remember that being a promise of the Android platform.
I use Chrome (5.0.375.70 on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10) and I find it leaks memory like crazy. I do use it for my daily browsing because like you said it's quite fast... but if I leave it running over night, I come back to work the next morning to find it's consumed all free memory on my system and even enough more to push other apps out to swap. The whole system is horribly slow and killing Chrome instantly frees up half of my RAM and puts things back to normal. If I leave it over a weekend, I might as well just hard reset the machine instead of spending 15 minutes waiting for swap so I can kill Chrome and let things come back into RAM. This is on an i7 980X w/6 GB, so it's not exactly a low-end system.
It seems to be sites like Facebook with regular dynamic updates that do it. I've started just closing Chrome when I leave for the day.
The 64-bit version has hardware acceleration removed, while the 32-bit includes it (using OpenGL). You can confirm this by checking the symbols in the plugin - you'll see no references to GL in the 64-bit version (but they are there in the 32-bit version). I have successfully played full-screen video smoothly with low (ok, lowER) CPU usage using the 32-bit plugin, using my nvidia 8600GT. There are a few requirements that must be met before Flash will use hardware acceleration, but I've found the performance to be much better when it does.
Would this be a fundamental flaw of the TOR network? If you don't know who's controlling the exit nodes, then you will never know if the information you send is truly secure.
Tor offers anonymity, not security. Encryption and signing is for security. The two can be combined.
Even better: Support the underlying media layer on the OS. Windows and Macs already come with licensed codecs for H.264... why not use these, which are completely legal in countries with these annoying patents? If the OS itself already handles what you want, why not use it?
Linux distributions may not be able to ship with H.264, but it can be left up to the user. Then at least they have the option, instead of nothing at all (other than using a different browser).
Not to mention that, at least on Windows 7, the licensed H.264 codec makes use of nvidia's (and maybe AMD's?) full hardware decoding of H.264, giving a *far* better experience than software decoding (for example, my buddy's media box can play H.264 1080p movies at about 9% CPU usage... on an Atom 330 with the ION chipset)
Just let the OS handle it and not worry about patents or codecs or hardware acceleration or anything else.
One thing that really pisses me off is scripts or apps that can't handle spaces or other certain characters in filenames.
It's 2010. We have all kinds of advanced, powerful software, and a space is a perfectly valid filename character (unlike the C tokens you mention, where they are not actually allowed).
Forty years ago we had two-digit years and other restrictions that were acceptable at the time. Well, it's not forty years ago, and things have come a long way. UNIX and UNIX-like systems can handle Unicode and lots of other technologies that were unheard of or in limited use forty years ago. Something as simple as spaces in filenames should be no exception.
It's also usually unnecessary. Linux usually comes as a distribution, and usually some specific platforms are supported. There are usually package repositories, so all software is available from the correct repository for that platform.
Of course, there are exceptions to this and cases where a fat-type binary would be useful, but for most normal everyday users, using one of the common distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, etc), you don't have to worry about it. You just use your package manager.
Or they've found a way around such limitations. Remember how 640k was enough for everyone, how the world was flat, humans could never possibly fly, and how the human body would never be able to withstand speeds greater than 21 mph? Yeah.
The thing is, you never know, and should never *absolutely* say it's impossible, impractical, has zero application, etc... Based on our current understanding of things this is true, but any scientist will tell you that we have FAR from a complete understanding of everything. Unless you're from the future, you really can't say with any certainty what new theories and discoveries in physics and our understanding of the universe might bring or not bring. You can only speculate based on current theories.
And by the way, our current understanding of physics IS totally messed up. On one hand we have general relativity, explaining things on a large scale (gravity). Then we have quantum theory, explaining things on a small scale (beyond gravity). Each describes its respective area very well, but they don't fit together. And they are both only *theories* that describe observations. Although they fit the observations quite well and have made accurate predictions, both are incomplete. The true story behind how the universe works might be very different from these theories we've designed to match what we see.
Just saying. A good scientist is never too set in his ways, and is open to new ideas and possibilities, and realizes that he doesn't know everything.
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The 32-bit Linux Flash player is also OpenGL-accelerated.
The 64-bit Flash Player also has hardware acceleration disabled. The 32-bit player uses OpenGL for acceleration (though sometimes you have to convince it that your video card actually can handle it with a simple config file).
I have no issues in Ubuntu 10.04 with 32-bit Flash running in a 64-bit Firefox/Chrome (this is the default config and you only have to install the flashplugin-installer package and it "just works", at least on my system. ymmv of course). I'd rather have the hardware acceleration (smooth full screen video, yay!) than 64-bit (which has no real advantage for the Flash player).
Bell has a tower sharing agreement with Telus, not Rogers. Both companies worked together to provide a 3G HSPA network compatible with Rogers using the same bands. This makes it easy for them to grab Rogers customers. "Hey, you don't even need a new phone, just c'mon over!"
Nah, it's just with all the bullshit in the world, I find it hard to not take something like this lightly, laugh, and move on. Since at best it was amusing, and at worst it didn't really have any negative effects... except maybe on Seumas :)
Maybe there was no fun and entertainment for you, and that's totally cool. Not everyone has the same sense of humour. I expect that there are things you find greatly entertaining or funny that I wouldn't at all.
I saw it, chuckled because I found it amusing, and moved on. When I saw the amount of effort you'd put into your rant, I just had to say "hey, lighten up a bit, don't take life so seriously."
You seem quite religiously dead-set against this thing, even moreso now... and I find that entertaining too :)
Wow. You seriously know how to take just about all the fun out of something that was pretty entertaining. Sometimes you just need to shut the fuck and have a good laugh and realize that it doesn't even matter if it was real or a hoax.
Enjoy life - don't analyze everything to the point that all meaning is lost.
It runs great on Linux for me (including full-screen HD video... with hardware-acceleration), and in agreement with another poster, it's great on my Nexus One also.
Flash does suck up more CPU than other things, I wouldn't even try to dispute that. But certainly not enough that I get a poor experience on any of my three platforms (Windows, Linux, Android).
Wrong. Plugins have been around since Netscape and are still called plugins. They have a different function than an extension (and an extension is what we would want in this case to fix the site's colours).
Both plugins and extensions, along with themes, are collectively referred to as "addons." "Plugin" is the wrong word in the summary. "Extension" or "addon" would have been acceptable.
I own a Nexus One. In my opinion, the screen is sharp and clear with beautiful colour. No problems like you mentioned at all. My only complaint is that it's nearly impossible to see in sunlight... but otherwise I'm very pleased with the screen.
The Droid (and Droid X) are just smartphones made by Motorola. They can lock them or do whatever they want with them, it's their business. We can just not buy them if we don't like them. There are plenty of other Android-based phones to choose from, and Android is still fully open.
I don't think anyone ever claimed that using an open OS would mean the hardware it ran on would be just as open? That would sure be nice, but I don't ever remember that being a promise of the Android platform.
I use Chrome (5.0.375.70 on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10) and I find it leaks memory like crazy. I do use it for my daily browsing because like you said it's quite fast... but if I leave it running over night, I come back to work the next morning to find it's consumed all free memory on my system and even enough more to push other apps out to swap. The whole system is horribly slow and killing Chrome instantly frees up half of my RAM and puts things back to normal. If I leave it over a weekend, I might as well just hard reset the machine instead of spending 15 minutes waiting for swap so I can kill Chrome and let things come back into RAM. This is on an i7 980X w/6 GB, so it's not exactly a low-end system.
It seems to be sites like Facebook with regular dynamic updates that do it. I've started just closing Chrome when I leave for the day.
I'm sure every company has a trill or two just lying around
I always wondered what became of Dax.
The 64-bit version has hardware acceleration removed, while the 32-bit includes it (using OpenGL). You can confirm this by checking the symbols in the plugin - you'll see no references to GL in the 64-bit version (but they are there in the 32-bit version). I have successfully played full-screen video smoothly with low (ok, lowER) CPU usage using the 32-bit plugin, using my nvidia 8600GT. There are a few requirements that must be met before Flash will use hardware acceleration, but I've found the performance to be much better when it does.
This is according to the developers of the Linux flash plugin at Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/05/flash_uses_the_gpu.html
Would this be a fundamental flaw of the TOR network? If you don't know who's controlling the exit nodes, then you will never know if the information you send is truly secure.
Tor offers anonymity, not security. Encryption and signing is for security. The two can be combined.
Top secret how? MSDN has all the Exchange protocols documented for all to see.
Even better: Support the underlying media layer on the OS. Windows and Macs already come with licensed codecs for H.264... why not use these, which are completely legal in countries with these annoying patents? If the OS itself already handles what you want, why not use it?
Linux distributions may not be able to ship with H.264, but it can be left up to the user. Then at least they have the option, instead of nothing at all (other than using a different browser).
Not to mention that, at least on Windows 7, the licensed H.264 codec makes use of nvidia's (and maybe AMD's?) full hardware decoding of H.264, giving a *far* better experience than software decoding (for example, my buddy's media box can play H.264 1080p movies at about 9% CPU usage... on an Atom 330 with the ION chipset)
Just let the OS handle it and not worry about patents or codecs or hardware acceleration or anything else.
Free of charge does not mean it is free software.
Since when is Pi an infinitely repeating number? It's an irrational number, it doesn't repeat. What you say doesn't apply here.
My phone (Rogers) shows the name.
Can it play Hell?
I expect competent programmers to not be lazy and properly escape/sanitize their inputs.
One thing that really pisses me off is scripts or apps that can't handle spaces or other certain characters in filenames.
It's 2010. We have all kinds of advanced, powerful software, and a space is a perfectly valid filename character (unlike the C tokens you mention, where they are not actually allowed).
Forty years ago we had two-digit years and other restrictions that were acceptable at the time. Well, it's not forty years ago, and things have come a long way. UNIX and UNIX-like systems can handle Unicode and lots of other technologies that were unheard of or in limited use forty years ago. Something as simple as spaces in filenames should be no exception.
It's also usually unnecessary. Linux usually comes as a distribution, and usually some specific platforms are supported. There are usually package repositories, so all software is available from the correct repository for that platform.
Of course, there are exceptions to this and cases where a fat-type binary would be useful, but for most normal everyday users, using one of the common distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, etc), you don't have to worry about it. You just use your package manager.
Or they've found a way around such limitations. Remember how 640k was enough for everyone, how the world was flat, humans could never possibly fly, and how the human body would never be able to withstand speeds greater than 21 mph? Yeah.
The thing is, you never know, and should never *absolutely* say it's impossible, impractical, has zero application, etc... Based on our current understanding of things this is true, but any scientist will tell you that we have FAR from a complete understanding of everything. Unless you're from the future, you really can't say with any certainty what new theories and discoveries in physics and our understanding of the universe might bring or not bring. You can only speculate based on current theories.
And by the way, our current understanding of physics IS totally messed up. On one hand we have general relativity, explaining things on a large scale (gravity). Then we have quantum theory, explaining things on a small scale (beyond gravity). Each describes its respective area very well, but they don't fit together. And they are both only *theories* that describe observations. Although they fit the observations quite well and have made accurate predictions, both are incomplete. The true story behind how the universe works might be very different from these theories we've designed to match what we see.
Just saying. A good scientist is never too set in his ways, and is open to new ideas and possibilities, and realizes that he doesn't know everything.
The two-page spread ad in the NY Times might've helped expose the idea to quite a large number of people too.