It's ridiculously obvious that you'd want to put a camera on the Touch. I wonder if they're just trying to ensure a high amount of differentiation between the iPhone and the iPod Touch, or if they're just holding off on the camera for the Touch for the next iPod event.
Their definition of "better served" is showing you things you didn't even know that you wanted. Generally, I just want to buy what I have decided that I want, and then to be left alone.
This had the effect of disabling the command interpreter, meaning that all future commands (including pokes and saves) had no effect. I got the dirtiest looks when I told people about that command and they tried it--without saving their work first.
There is no such thing as a "developer hardware" that could make your development/testing easier - you have to wait the random approval process before any hands on testing (you are restricted to software emulators).
Last I checked, you could get a developer's signing key to put an unapproved app on a limited number of devices for testing.
I just tested Opera 9.something on OS X. I cleared out everything and added a couple of site preferences. Adding things was quick, but once I hit OK, the dialog froze for 10 seconds.
More importantly, use of this dialog probably won't be under these circumstances. You'll probably be browsing along, come across a site which needs Javascript, decide to allow it, and then hit this dialog. So if the number of tabs or length of your browsing session increases the wait, it's still quite the issue.
Then there's the fact that NoScript does much more than just whitelisting Javascript, and that functionality is not duplicated.
Still a bad analogy, since the mere act of reading cannot cause harm to anyone else. Clicking on a malicious link can cause your computer to start harming other computers, and thus other people.
I've facetiously said that we should have licenses to use the 'net for years, because I get so sick of cleaning up people's computers after they do something stupid.
Learning is great and all, but in the end, you really want tools to help you manage your system. Most people eventually realize that computers are there to help you get things done, not as something to get done themselves. These people often end up going to OS X, but they can just as easily go to a distribution with comprehensive package management.
I haven't read the ACPI spec, but I do follow a few mailing lists where it's discussed. It turns out that most manufacturers don't follow the spec perfectly. This is one of the reasons that some laptops won't resume after suspend/hibernate under Linux.
ACPI is a complete screwup, but it may not be the fault of the spec, and that laptop manufacturers don't adhere to it is nowhere near the fault of Linux.
Informative? Really? It's more like, "Wow, no one else seems to have this problem. What are you doing wrong?"
Kinda the inverse to the old adage, "If everyone you date turns out to be crazy, maybe you should figure out what all of those people have in common." Hint: it's you.
Go work on your reading comprehension. ÂThe poster to whom I replied asked how culling 2% of their users could have such a dramatic change on CPU load. ÂI explained how without passing judgement.
I didn't read the article carefully, but it doesn't look like they were even aiming for CPU load reduction. They were trying to get rid of real-life sale of virtual goods. ÂYou can argue about whether they should do this, but it's clearly spelled out as against the ToS in many MMOROGs--if it's in theirs, they are pretty much in the right.
In fact, the CPU reduction seems to be largely a side-effect--something interesting that was noticed after they enacted their plan. Â ÂÂ
The fact that in order to maintain sales, you have to be on pretty much all of the time. Look at it this way--if these people were playing the game 12 hours per day, and the average non-exploiter plays the game 2 hours per day, then when you ban the exploiters, you get back a massive amount of per-user CPU time.
There are general limitations to the quality/compressibility of any codec. Otherwise, we should be seeing massive gains in mpeg1/mpeg2 by now.
Generationally, Ogg Theora is comparable to DivX4/Xvid. You'd have to essentially break spec (with respect to current decoders) in order to do an order of magnitude better.
If you get a replacement instead of your old console repaired, you lose access to all of your DLC unless you sign in.
The fixes (from what I heard) are mostly band-aids, meaning the devices will fail again if used under the same circumstances.
If you're out of warranty, you're SOL (no one really buys a $400 piece of equipment expecting to have to replace it in a year--and yes, I'm aware that Microsoft extended warranty service for RRoD units.)
This was precisely my take on the movie. After I left the theater, the only good thing I had to say about it was that the effects were amazing.
I think the only reason that people are giving this film such high reviews are for the ethnic issues in the first 30 minutes (which are mostly glossed over for the rest of the film, until near the end.) Even these were treated shallowly.
Not at all. The ending was that man can prevail over technology. The Head Six and Head Baltar indicated that this time around, humanity would make it just fine.
I bet that a pretty big chunk of those filters relies on people pressing the "report spam" button. It'd be really nice if Google would offer a spam-checking service so that non-Gmail users could check messages against Google's spam corpus.
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It's ridiculously obvious that you'd want to put a camera on the Touch. I wonder if they're just trying to ensure a high amount of differentiation between the iPhone and the iPod Touch, or if they're just holding off on the camera for the Touch for the next iPod event.
Look on the bright side--once they start pushing 3D TVs, the cost of 2D sets will drop.
It's only a matter of time before they stop mastering DVDs as well as they do in order to broaden the quality gap between Bluray and DVD.
Their definition of "better served" is showing you things you didn't even know that you wanted. Generally, I just want to buy what I have decided that I want, and then to be left alone.
More fun was:
poke 120,0
This had the effect of disabling the command interpreter, meaning that all future commands (including pokes and saves) had no effect. I got the dirtiest looks when I told people about that command and they tried it--without saving their work first.
There is no such thing as a "developer hardware" that could make your development/testing easier - you have to wait the random approval process before any hands on testing (you are restricted to software emulators).
Last I checked, you could get a developer's signing key to put an unapproved app on a limited number of devices for testing.
Maybe.
I just tested Opera 9.something on OS X. I cleared out everything and added a couple of site preferences. Adding things was quick, but once I hit OK, the dialog froze for 10 seconds.
More importantly, use of this dialog probably won't be under these circumstances. You'll probably be browsing along, come across a site which needs Javascript, decide to allow it, and then hit this dialog. So if the number of tabs or length of your browsing session increases the wait, it's still quite the issue.
Then there's the fact that NoScript does much more than just whitelisting Javascript, and that functionality is not duplicated.
Nope. I used to have this problem with just a couple of tabs open. This problem is what drove me from Opera back to Firefox.
Fascinating. I wouldn't feel embarrassed, but I'd probably give him a couple of bucks for the chuckle.
Still a bad analogy, since the mere act of reading cannot cause harm to anyone else. Clicking on a malicious link can cause your computer to start harming other computers, and thus other people.
I've facetiously said that we should have licenses to use the 'net for years, because I get so sick of cleaning up people's computers after they do something stupid.
What happened at the Wharf? I hadn't heard of any common scams over there.
Learning is great and all, but in the end, you really want tools to help you manage your system. Most people eventually realize that computers are there to help you get things done, not as something to get done themselves. These people often end up going to OS X, but they can just as easily go to a distribution with comprehensive package management.
I haven't read the ACPI spec, but I do follow a few mailing lists where it's discussed. It turns out that most manufacturers don't follow the spec perfectly. This is one of the reasons that some laptops won't resume after suspend/hibernate under Linux.
ACPI is a complete screwup, but it may not be the fault of the spec, and that laptop manufacturers don't adhere to it is nowhere near the fault of Linux.
Informative? Really?
It's more like, "Wow, no one else seems to have this problem. What are you doing wrong?"
Kinda the inverse to the old adage, "If everyone you date turns out to be crazy, maybe you should figure out what all of those people have in common." Hint: it's you.
And additionally, the obnoxious notion of "fairness" further complicates the issue.
When issues like these come up, I'm always reminded of Harrison Bergeron
You assume too much. "People like you?" Really?
Go work on your reading comprehension. ÂThe poster to whom I replied asked how culling 2% of their users could have such a dramatic change on CPU load. ÂI explained how without passing judgement.
I didn't read the article carefully, but it doesn't look like they were even aiming for CPU load reduction. They were trying to get rid of real-life sale of virtual goods. ÂYou can argue about whether they should do this, but it's clearly spelled out as against the ToS in many MMOROGs--if it's in theirs, they are pretty much in the right.
In fact, the CPU reduction seems to be largely a side-effect--something interesting that was noticed after they enacted their plan. Â ÂÂ
The fact that in order to maintain sales, you have to be on pretty much all of the time.
Look at it this way--if these people were playing the game 12 hours per day, and the average non-exploiter plays the game 2 hours per day, then when you ban the exploiters, you get back a massive amount of per-user CPU time.
I'd love to see it happen, but I'm skeptical that they'll reach comparable quality to h.264 at identical bitrates.
There are general limitations to the quality/compressibility of any codec. Otherwise, we should be seeing massive gains in mpeg1/mpeg2 by now.
Generationally, Ogg Theora is comparable to DivX4/Xvid. You'd have to essentially break spec (with respect to current decoders) in order to do an order of magnitude better.
You lose the use of your console for the week.
If you get a replacement instead of your old console repaired, you lose access to all of your DLC unless you sign in.
The fixes (from what I heard) are mostly band-aids, meaning the devices will fail again if used under the same circumstances.
If you're out of warranty, you're SOL (no one really buys a $400 piece of equipment expecting to have to replace it in a year--and yes, I'm aware that Microsoft extended warranty service for RRoD units.)
They're often called "rail shooters."
This was precisely my take on the movie. After I left the theater, the only good thing I had to say about it was that the effects were amazing.
I think the only reason that people are giving this film such high reviews are for the ethnic issues in the first 30 minutes (which are mostly glossed over for the rest of the film, until near the end.) Even these were treated shallowly.
Not at all. The ending was that man can prevail over technology. The Head Six and Head Baltar indicated that this time around, humanity would make it just fine.
I bet that a pretty big chunk of those filters relies on people pressing the "report spam" button. It'd be really nice if Google would offer a spam-checking service so that non-Gmail users could check messages against Google's spam corpus.
Once they get hit with that bill, they'll clean up their computers. Multiple positive effects here.