Funny how after the Unite the Right march it was Nazis crying out for safe spaces. Like they didn't realise they would get fired for marching with swastikas and chanting "blood and soil".
TBBT should have ended a long time ago. They ran out of ideas and most of the actors have no sense of comic timing whatsoever. Only Amy and Howard seem to know what they are doing.
The characters were too thin to begin with and they couldn't really grow them into anything interesting. Plus they were pretty much the worst nerd stereotypes possible - the letcherous Howard with his low level sexual harassment, endlessly mocking the sensitive Raj, and Sheldon... At best you could say he was hit or miss. And of the women, Penny never developed beyond the dumb blond B movie actress, and Bernardette's "nasty little woman" character just completed Howard's toxic man-child gimmick.
If they had developed Amy a bit it could have worked, but she ended up being Sheldon's foil after Lennard moved on.
I think HCF could have done more with the tech culture side of things. That history is interesting and something not really covered much in mainstream TV. They did some of it but could have gone further.
I mostly enjoyed it, the only really off-putting thing was l33t hacker Cameron's hunt-and-peck one finger typing. Her portrayal of the nerd who cares more about the tech than anything else was spot on though.
We have the opposite problem. Our sites only work in Chrome and Firefox. We use Google maps extensively and IE11 doesn't work properly. In Edge the maps work but it's implementation of the HTML audio tag doesn't seem to work reliably.
Since none of our customers are without access to either Firefox or Chrome, it's not worth fixing.
I had a look but couldn't see any evidence in those cases, even an serious allegations. In fact it seems like all of them benefitted greatly from exposure through Google services like YouTube.
Do you mean the recent YouTube monetisation issues?
US scientists and engineers could build you a molten salt nuke... If you *pay* them.
It's not a good investment. No one is willing to throw billions at a technology that has failed repeatedly in the past and which is rapidly being replaced anyway.
The Chinese government is only doing it for military purposes.
Sure, but even so it doesn't affect anyone who doesn't enable it. They can't play that stuff now, they won't be able to play it in future if they don't want non-free binaries.
Speaking of which, they haven't blocked Fox or Brietbart either, that was just the paranoid ranting of a/. AC. You reacted like it had already happened.
DisplayPort doesn't do DRM natively, only in legacy HDMI mode. It's useful because it's packet based, so should be flexible enough to serve us for the foreseeable future.
UEFI is a useful upgrade over the old BIOS. It ditched a lot of legacy crap like running x86 code directly from PCI ROMs and then having the OS reconfigure them anyway. It's much more secure, not tied to x86 and not full of crappy hacks.
Sometimes change is good. Not always, and in the absence of central planning this is how the market decides what is good.
I can't see a down side to this. You want to watch something that requires HDCP, so you enable it. You are still running a free OS, HDCP itself is easy to remove, and the content is none the wiser.
ABP is kinda old and crap now. Try uBlock. I'm particular, Google "uBlock medium mode" and give it a try. It blocks auto play videos for me with minimal breakage. It's also faster and uses less memory in general.
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Funny how after the Unite the Right march it was Nazis crying out for safe spaces. Like they didn't realise they would get fired for marching with swastikas and chanting "blood and soil".
There actually at such things.
Ubuntu Christian Edition
http://ubuntuce.com/
Ubuntu Satanic Edition
http://ubuntusatanic.org/scree...
Islamic Linux
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Even Nazis have one called Apartheid Linux, but I'm not linking to that.
They will be really screwed when they get up to Windows 94.
"So where's the spec for this project?"
"How long is the testing phase?"
"Who writes the documentation?"
It's Private Browsing I feel sorry for. He's seen things man...
Indeed, it only likes to run signed code.
For any kind of low power application there are better options. Like a Raspberry Pi.
It's called the console, and it changed a lot in Windows 10, breaking many apps.
People there are still quite religious, but it has less effect on their politics than in the US.
TBBT should have ended a long time ago. They ran out of ideas and most of the actors have no sense of comic timing whatsoever. Only Amy and Howard seem to know what they are doing.
The characters were too thin to begin with and they couldn't really grow them into anything interesting. Plus they were pretty much the worst nerd stereotypes possible - the letcherous Howard with his low level sexual harassment, endlessly mocking the sensitive Raj, and Sheldon... At best you could say he was hit or miss. And of the women, Penny never developed beyond the dumb blond B movie actress, and Bernardette's "nasty little woman" character just completed Howard's toxic man-child gimmick.
If they had developed Amy a bit it could have worked, but she ended up being Sheldon's foil after Lennard moved on.
I think HCF could have done more with the tech culture side of things. That history is interesting and something not really covered much in mainstream TV. They did some of it but could have gone further.
I mostly enjoyed it, the only really off-putting thing was l33t hacker Cameron's hunt-and-peck one finger typing. Her portrayal of the nerd who cares more about the tech than anything else was spot on though.
The giveaway will be that the boss is actually Spiderman, and a pregnant Elsa is in the background being menaced by the Incredible Hulk.
We have the opposite problem. Our sites only work in Chrome and Firefox. We use Google maps extensively and IE11 doesn't work properly. In Edge the maps work but it's implementation of the HTML audio tag doesn't seem to work reliably.
Since none of our customers are without access to either Firefox or Chrome, it's not worth fixing.
IE is installed and managed by the IT team, as such, they should come up with standard configurations that are not leaky.
The first part of that sentence suggests that the second part's assertion is probably false.
I had a look but couldn't see any evidence in those cases, even an serious allegations. In fact it seems like all of them benefitted greatly from exposure through Google services like YouTube.
Do you mean the recent YouTube monetisation issues?
Doing nothing heavily favours the far right and general political instability, because that's the angle most of the fake news is pushing.
Do you have examples of this?
US scientists and engineers could build you a molten salt nuke... If you *pay* them.
It's not a good investment. No one is willing to throw billions at a technology that has failed repeatedly in the past and which is rapidly being replaced anyway.
The Chinese government is only doing it for military purposes.
Sure, but even so it doesn't affect anyone who doesn't enable it. They can't play that stuff now, they won't be able to play it in future if they don't want non-free binaries.
Let's be clear, you are talking about random blogs and fake news that you feel should be more prominent because you believe them for some reason.
Speaking of which, they haven't blocked Fox or Brietbart either, that was just the paranoid ranting of a /. AC. You reacted like it had already happened.
Fake news indeed.
What is your alternative solution, or are you suggesting that they do nothing?
DisplayPort doesn't do DRM natively, only in legacy HDMI mode. It's useful because it's packet based, so should be flexible enough to serve us for the foreseeable future.
UEFI is a useful upgrade over the old BIOS. It ditched a lot of legacy crap like running x86 code directly from PCI ROMs and then having the OS reconfigure them anyway. It's much more secure, not tied to x86 and not full of crappy hacks.
Sometimes change is good. Not always, and in the absence of central planning this is how the market decides what is good.
I can't see a down side to this. You want to watch something that requires HDCP, so you enable it. You are still running a free OS, HDCP itself is easy to remove, and the content is none the wiser.
ABP is kinda old and crap now. Try uBlock. I'm particular, Google "uBlock medium mode" and give it a try. It blocks auto play videos for me with minimal breakage. It's also faster and uses less memory in general.
Seems like being rid of VB script and replacing it with Python would be a security win.