Even when you use these technologies you are still writing a standard web app and it still runs on all browsers - just without the Chrome optimizations. For NaCl for example, the primary use case (according to Google) is that you take your bundle of HTML/CSS/Javascript and replace pieces of the javascript with native code. When deployed to other browsers your app uses the original javascript instead of the optimized NaCl alternative.
So I have to write my stuff twice? I barely have enough time to write what's needed once!
No thanks, I'd rather continue to write once and run everywhere-- That's what javascript + existing cross platform libraries provide.
I'll start using these, though, If any of these solutions (thanks to their open specifications) get picked up by a majority of browsers.
There is still no way for realtime rendering of Pixar-like stuff in the near future, be it on mobiles or desktops.
I attended a conference where the head of Dreamworks animation was speaking about the process of making a CGI movie.
I was amazed to discover that each frame of a high-quality, big-budget movie is rendered 100 different times differently. Some layers are masks, other layers are specific aspects of the scene. Each layer is composited with the others to make the final frame look just right.
Realtime Pixar-like graphics will not happen in the near future, and not just because of processing power. Those graphics are excellent because of more than just rendering.
I don't really want to see any legislation come out of this. An immoral population will find a way around any law you can make. However, I'm very happy to see this movement continue because it's at least causing people to think about the problems and injustices that exist.
We as a society can be greater than the sum of each of us. But we won't be as long as we're only thinking of how to game the system for ourselves.
If I understand the summary correctly, it's not the record for the most overclocking-- rather, it's the record for the fastest clock speed of a computer.
But there is one huge and significant difference between science and religion -- objective testing and verification. If any one of the "faithful" have doubts, anyone is welcome to attempt to refute the findings with new tests and experimentation.
The point of the poster was that the average person is not in a position (either through lack of education, or lack of time, or lack of funding) to be able to perform the independent testing and verification you speak of. Hence, they must trust that what the science masters say is actually correct. And that is faith.
They're both turing complete languages. From a technical perspective, there's nothing Javascript can do that can't also be done in Basic.
Of course, Actionscript has some nice features that JS doesn't have-- like optional strong typing and automatic closure context. It's true they're both (mostly) syntactic sugar, but they're really nice to have when you need them and they don't get in the way the rest of the time.
Completely hiding the end user from IPv6 is extremely difficult for an ISP. As websites migrate to IPv6 (without an IPv4 version), what IP address should the end user be directed to?
For example:
1. SomeCorp.com sets up his website with only an IPv6 address. 2. Joe Schmoe attempts to visit the website. 3. The DNS query for SomeCorp.com returns the IPv6 address. 4. Joe Schmoe's computer cannot get to the address, because his IPv6 has been disabled by his ISP.
What this means is that the users router MUST support IPv6 unless the ISP supports tunneling. And I suspect this will be beyond most users.
On the other hand, if you use a unit of bandwidth there's another unit waiting for you.
That's an irrelevant distinction as bandwidth is a scarce resource (in economic terms). Instead of being separated into physical units (e.g. liters, gallons, etc), bandwidth is separated into temporal units (e.g. KB/second). There are a finite number of these units at any specific time. If somebody is to use all those units at once (the full pipe), other users are deprived of bandwidth.
Therefore I agree with the GP as those who use more pay more (just as with everything else).
If the rates are fair, pay-per-use is a good idea -- certainly better than arbitrary data caps that might get enforced god-knows-when
You can talk and talk and talk all you want. In that sense you have freedom of speech. However, your right to speak ends where my ears begin (as they say). If you can find a way to broadcast your voice to the masses you can certainly do it. But you are not entitled to a way to broadcast your voice to the masses.
Fry: [smelling Saturn via the smelloscope] Pine needles. Oh, man, this is great... hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus. Leela: I don't get it. Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Fry: Oh. What's it called now? Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Technically speaking, getting a court order would be due process because the law would explicitly stipulate a court order as a legal way to require the website to be taken down.
However, many laypeople interpret "due process" as to allow the defendant the opportunity to provide a defense before the punishment is meted out.
His quote about start-ups being under capitalized is spot on. Personally I prefer a windows desktop. And I prefer visual studio for C/C++ development (it's excellent). Unfortunately, all the MS solutions cost money and it adds up. I've been part of pre-venture-capital start-ups, and there's no any extra money. It just doesn't make sense to purchase a domain controller, or outlook server, or any of their other products when there are viable free alternatives.
A slow and inadequate standards process led to the browser wars. There were no standards for doing what people wanted to do with the web-- so instead of waiting for the WC3 committee (or whatever it was back then) to come up with a standard way, the two major browser manufacturers decided to do it anyway. And it's no surprise they did it differently. However, if the WC3 had provided robust standards early on for dynamic content, proprietary solutions would have been at a disadvantage.
However, flash fills the missing piece of the picture. In the late 90s, flash was not as robust or ubiquitous as it is now, and website developers had to use proprietary HTML extensions to provide dynamic content to their users. But now, with flash as widespread as it is (adobe claims around 95% of computers have flash10), website developers use it instead of proprietary extensions. Flash has become, in effect, the standard proprietary extension to HTML.
If you want websites to stop using flash, provide a standard that does what the websites need, and sooner is better.
Mr. Furious: [talking about Carmine the Bowler] Seems there was a little controversy there regarding your father's death. The Bowler: Yes, the police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets. The Blue Raja: You know, I've alwas suspected a bit of foul play there. The Bowler: As have I.
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So I have to write my stuff twice? I barely have enough time to write what's needed once!
No thanks, I'd rather continue to write once and run everywhere-- That's what javascript + existing cross platform libraries provide.
I'll start using these, though, If any of these solutions (thanks to their open specifications) get picked up by a majority of browsers.
Groupon should care about the merchant because a happy merchant will work with Groupon again; An unhappy merchant will not.
I attended a conference where the head of Dreamworks animation was speaking about the process of making a CGI movie.
I was amazed to discover that each frame of a high-quality, big-budget movie is rendered 100 different times differently. Some layers are masks, other layers are specific aspects of the scene. Each layer is composited with the others to make the final frame look just right.
Realtime Pixar-like graphics will not happen in the near future, and not just because of processing power. Those graphics are excellent because of more than just rendering.
I don't really want to see any legislation come out of this. An immoral population will find a way around any law you can make. However, I'm very happy to see this movement continue because it's at least causing people to think about the problems and injustices that exist.
We as a society can be greater than the sum of each of us. But we won't be as long as we're only thinking of how to game the system for ourselves.
I see what you did there.
If I understand the summary correctly, it's not the record for the most overclocking-- rather, it's the record for the fastest clock speed of a computer.
8+ GHZ is no simple feat.
I recently switched back to the default google mobile browser because firefox mobile kept crashing, and was slower.
The quote at the bottom of the slashdot page is "Jenkinson's Law: It won't work.".
I think it's fitting.
Wouldn't killing yourself be akin to repudiating your right to life? As such, killing yourself is counter to the right to life.
It seems that some people think that a "right to life" means having ultimate control over their own life, and others think it means keeping all alive.
Note: I'm not taking a side, just trying to frame the argument.
The point of the poster was that the average person is not in a position (either through lack of education, or lack of time, or lack of funding) to be able to perform the independent testing and verification you speak of. Hence, they must trust that what the science masters say is actually correct. And that is faith.
I read that as:
But Hitler demands furher comment!
(it would have been a delightfully painful pun)
They're both turing complete languages. From a technical perspective, there's nothing Javascript can do that can't also be done in Basic.
Of course, Actionscript has some nice features that JS doesn't have-- like optional strong typing and automatic closure context. It's true they're both (mostly) syntactic sugar, but they're really nice to have when you need them and they don't get in the way the rest of the time.
Completely hiding the end user from IPv6 is extremely difficult for an ISP. As websites migrate to IPv6 (without an IPv4 version), what IP address should the end user be directed to?
For example:
1. SomeCorp.com sets up his website with only an IPv6 address.
2. Joe Schmoe attempts to visit the website.
3. The DNS query for SomeCorp.com returns the IPv6 address.
4. Joe Schmoe's computer cannot get to the address, because his IPv6 has been disabled by his ISP.
What this means is that the users router MUST support IPv6 unless the ISP supports tunneling. And I suspect this will be beyond most users.
If you can afford that, I'm happy to support you in your quest for immortality.
But please don't make me, and my children, and their children (and so on) pay just because you refuse to die gracefully at some point.
AT&T no longer offers the unlimited data plan. Were you to sign up as a new AT&T customer today, you would not be able to choose the unlimited plan.
In this case you're essentially volunteering to be part of a botnet by downloading the tool so it's not like you're risking much.
That's an irrelevant distinction as bandwidth is a scarce resource (in economic terms). Instead of being separated into physical units (e.g. liters, gallons, etc), bandwidth is separated into temporal units (e.g. KB/second). There are a finite number of these units at any specific time. If somebody is to use all those units at once (the full pipe), other users are deprived of bandwidth.
Therefore I agree with the GP as those who use more pay more (just as with everything else).
I can't believe nobody has posted today's XKCD, it's highly applicable: http://xkcd.com/830/
You can talk and talk and talk all you want. In that sense you have freedom of speech. However, your right to speak ends where my ears begin (as they say). If you can find a way to broadcast your voice to the masses you can certainly do it. But you are not entitled to a way to broadcast your voice to the masses.
Fry: [smelling Saturn via the smelloscope] Pine needles. Oh, man, this is great... hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus.
Leela: I don't get it.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Technically speaking, getting a court order would be due process because the law would explicitly stipulate a court order as a legal way to require the website to be taken down.
However, many laypeople interpret "due process" as to allow the defendant the opportunity to provide a defense before the punishment is meted out.
I suppose I should clarify: A toner cartridge has electronics and a large mass of something that looks like it could be an explosive (toner).
Laptops and cell-phones contain electronics, but don't generally have a large quantity of anything that could be a potential explosive.
A toner cartridge is an effective screen for an explosives container because it has electronics built-in.
His quote about start-ups being under capitalized is spot on. Personally I prefer a windows desktop. And I prefer visual studio for C/C++ development (it's excellent). Unfortunately, all the MS solutions cost money and it adds up. I've been part of pre-venture-capital start-ups, and there's no any extra money. It just doesn't make sense to purchase a domain controller, or outlook server, or any of their other products when there are viable free alternatives.
A slow and inadequate standards process led to the browser wars. There were no standards for doing what people wanted to do with the web-- so instead of waiting for the WC3 committee (or whatever it was back then) to come up with a standard way, the two major browser manufacturers decided to do it anyway. And it's no surprise they did it differently. However, if the WC3 had provided robust standards early on for dynamic content, proprietary solutions would have been at a disadvantage.
However, flash fills the missing piece of the picture. In the late 90s, flash was not as robust or ubiquitous as it is now, and website developers had to use proprietary HTML extensions to provide dynamic content to their users. But now, with flash as widespread as it is (adobe claims around 95% of computers have flash10), website developers use it instead of proprietary extensions. Flash has become, in effect, the standard proprietary extension to HTML.
If you want websites to stop using flash, provide a standard that does what the websites need, and sooner is better.
Mr. Furious: [talking about Carmine the Bowler] Seems there was a little controversy there regarding your father's death.
The Bowler: Yes, the police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.
The Blue Raja: You know, I've alwas suspected a bit of foul play there.
The Bowler: As have I.