It said 'please upgrade to a modern HTML5 compliant browser', (I'm using firefox 4 RC) then it linked to safari. For fuck's sake, why does the site not detect that I have no 264 support and automatically start the webm video, which is available?
Jigsaw:"Mark Zuckerberg. You have made your fortune selling people's personal information to corporations. Society would call you a menace. I call you an abomination. The device -insert horribly ironic punishment here- you have 15 seconds."
Bush didn't get kicked out by the people- there's a term limit. Believe me, most Americans would've had little trouble electing him a third time. *sigh*
The 360 OS to my knowledge runs basically on a streamlined XP kernel. It was compiled for a totally different architecture; but you might notice how MS had the slight advantage of total access to D3D/Windows source code.
Without someone with the intellect of the framers of the constitution, the original American revolution would probably have resulted in a third world country. The problem is not the current generation if you get my meaning...
Oh for the love of god... I came to that conclusion by myself after a few months using slackware. I think ubuntu is a fine distro, it's just a bit slow. And I'm not just saying that, take a look at 3Dperformance comparisons. That I happened to express my opinion shortly after a similar article was posted was a total coincidence, I didn't need the groupthink of slashdot to tell me what I've known for years. And that is, use ubuntu if you want an easier desktop for a performance sacrifice.
blew all the mod points on another article, hopefully everyone else is browsing uncut and raw. Anyway, I'd say it looks like it's copying opera much more than chrome- at least interface wise. Otherwise- yeah, it's a disturbing trend in firefox's development. Used to be they'd come up with some killer feature to dominate the browser market, but they've become followers. Unfortunately, I dislike both opera and chrome, so I'll probably just fork & update a version of ice weasel pre-4.0 with whatever I think needs doing.
That does not qualify it as a supercomputer. Hell, I could have an 89 TFLOP computer in my basement if we're talking pure power- a GeForce GTX 580 has 1.5TFLOPS alone, for around 4-500$, that's 50k for a computer with conservatively 1.4 times the power (motherboards and cabling to link 'em. Not counting the absurd power bills I'd rack up though). Call us, iran, when you break a petaflop.
I think he's referring to the fucktard attitude of the poorer dictatorships about the internet, over the past few weeks in particular. Egypt gets protests, they shut down the internet, protests escalate hugely, culminating in a near coup. Libya pretty much preemptively shuts down the internet where there hadn't been much protest, instant riots. It's about dictatorships not understanding the bread and circuses phenomenon.
Yeah, by the caretaker. Standard starfleet subspace could not send a message from the delta to the Alpha/Beta Quadrant in less than 70 years if I recall correctly. You should have added a bit about subspace channels through micro-wormholes, which is how voyager was able to communicate with the alpha quadrant in the latter years of the show.
Well, except criticizing your general lack of idealism and assumption that everyone else has the same, I'd like to point out a few things.
Success of linux != success of open source. Sure, it's a free operating system, and success on the desktop would be a huge boon, but just because it failed to gain acceptance there does not mean we (FLOSS community) lost. On the contrary, Linux and BSD basically own the server and supercomputer market. Open source browsers are coming close to dominating 50% of the web browser market. Android (though phone distributors try to make it otherwise) is an open, linux based phone OS that's also doing extremely well for its self. Blender, inkscape and LibreOffice are all professional grade tools. Without even mentioning the innumerable low level utilities, we're winning. Does that mean we should give up the fight just because 264's more popular? Hell no! What if firefox had never been released because IE's near total dominance had been 'unbeatable'? We wouldn't have the aforementioned open source victories on the browser field.
Using your argument, proprietary software companies have NO power because if they did, Linux wouldn't own the supercomputers, WebKit and Gecko wouldn't own the web, and Android wouldn't own the phone market.
TLDR version: You're wrong. FLOSS is doing very well and has a huge amount of power, just not in the particular fields you cherry picked (Well actually, FLAC is doing well for music..). The Good Fight (tm) isn't over yet.
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It said 'please upgrade to a modern HTML5 compliant browser', (I'm using firefox 4 RC) then it linked to safari. For fuck's sake, why does the site not detect that I have no 264 support and automatically start the webm video, which is available?
Ah, back when scifi was sci-fi, not wrastling.
Jigsaw:"Mark Zuckerberg. You have made your fortune selling people's personal information to corporations. Society would call you a menace. I call you an abomination. The device -insert horribly ironic punishment here- you have 15 seconds."
Hm, it even works on firefox 3.6- albeit slowly. It's incredibly fast in 4b12 and chrome though. Fun game, also.
Bush didn't get kicked out by the people- there's a term limit. Believe me, most Americans would've had little trouble electing him a third time. *sigh*
Another goatse link.
The 360 OS to my knowledge runs basically on a streamlined XP kernel. It was compiled for a totally different architecture; but you might notice how MS had the slight advantage of total access to D3D/Windows source code.
Check the Uranium prices..
Thorium. He said thorium, it's in the title. It's also about four times as abundant as uranium.
39" 3080x1050. Got me beat on vertical resolution though.
which makes him wrong how exactly?
Without someone with the intellect of the framers of the constitution, the original American revolution would probably have resulted in a third world country. The problem is not the current generation if you get my meaning...
Oi, it's Leia!
Oh for the love of god... I came to that conclusion by myself after a few months using slackware. I think ubuntu is a fine distro, it's just a bit slow. And I'm not just saying that, take a look at 3D performance comparisons. That I happened to express my opinion shortly after a similar article was posted was a total coincidence, I didn't need the groupthink of slashdot to tell me what I've known for years. And that is, use ubuntu if you want an easier desktop for a performance sacrifice.
Ubuntu is among the slowest dsitros I've ever used. For a fair comparison to *nix in general, try gentoo. 'course OS X is *nix....
Is make getting your hands dirty with the command line a good deal harder.
blew all the mod points on another article, hopefully everyone else is browsing uncut and raw. Anyway, I'd say it looks like it's copying opera much more than chrome- at least interface wise. Otherwise- yeah, it's a disturbing trend in firefox's development. Used to be they'd come up with some killer feature to dominate the browser market, but they've become followers. Unfortunately, I dislike both opera and chrome, so I'll probably just fork & update a version of ice weasel pre-4.0 with whatever I think needs doing.
That does not qualify it as a supercomputer. Hell, I could have an 89 TFLOP computer in my basement if we're talking pure power- a GeForce GTX 580 has 1.5TFLOPS alone, for around 4-500$, that's 50k for a computer with conservatively 1.4 times the power (motherboards and cabling to link 'em. Not counting the absurd power bills I'd rack up though). Call us, iran, when you break a petaflop.
thanks for clearing that up, had a long day and the cynicism/sarcasm detector's not working well ;)
if ebay outlaws craigslist....?
I think he's referring to the fucktard attitude of the poorer dictatorships about the internet, over the past few weeks in particular. Egypt gets protests, they shut down the internet, protests escalate hugely, culminating in a near coup. Libya pretty much preemptively shuts down the internet where there hadn't been much protest, instant riots. It's about dictatorships not understanding the bread and circuses phenomenon.
First episode of season 4, scorpion. It's a good watch but it's where the borg start to get castrated.
Yeah, by the caretaker. Standard starfleet subspace could not send a message from the delta to the Alpha/Beta Quadrant in less than 70 years if I recall correctly. You should have added a bit about subspace channels through micro-wormholes, which is how voyager was able to communicate with the alpha quadrant in the latter years of the show.
pfft, everyone knows to merely get from the delta quadrant of our galaxy, it takes a subspace signal years. Go back and watch some more ST.
Well, except criticizing your general lack of idealism and assumption that everyone else has the same, I'd like to point out a few things.
Success of linux != success of open source. Sure, it's a free operating system, and success on the desktop would be a huge boon, but just because it failed to gain acceptance there does not mean we (FLOSS community) lost. On the contrary, Linux and BSD basically own the server and supercomputer market. Open source browsers are coming close to dominating 50% of the web browser market. Android (though phone distributors try to make it otherwise) is an open, linux based phone OS that's also doing extremely well for its self. Blender, inkscape and LibreOffice are all professional grade tools. Without even mentioning the innumerable low level utilities, we're winning. Does that mean we should give up the fight just because 264's more popular? Hell no! What if firefox had never been released because IE's near total dominance had been 'unbeatable'? We wouldn't have the aforementioned open source victories on the browser field.
Using your argument, proprietary software companies have NO power because if they did, Linux wouldn't own the supercomputers, WebKit and Gecko wouldn't own the web, and Android wouldn't own the phone market.
TLDR version: You're wrong. FLOSS is doing very well and has a huge amount of power, just not in the particular fields you cherry picked (Well actually, FLAC is doing well for music..). The Good Fight (tm) isn't over yet.
sweet.