I disagree. See, I'm one of those people. I had enough for a n900 at $300(used, unlocked), but not enough for $50/month phone bill. So, I went with T-Mobile payg. I pay a few $ now and then, and get ineternet on the few days I need it for 1.50/day. Sure, I do that everyday for a month, and I'm up to $50... But I don't need to. I don't always need more than Wifi at home and a few hotspots; 3g's just for edge-cases.
I -think- the admin is only removing the -desktop icon-, not disabling the functionality entirely. This means that it's accessable other ways, and -possibly- even still accessable to the user - Just not through the desktop.
I see no problem with that - Not going to hurt anything.
Personally, I've not had a desktop icon for that in over a year (3 kde), and before that I never used it - I'd always use explorer to do all such things rather than have to minimise all my applications to find the desktop icon.
"Use a script to disable the "right click copy and paste" function"...And I will try to never visit your page again. Not only is it annoying -- NOTHING should be messing with my context menu on a normal page -- but it's also inneffective: Just disable JS, right click, and do whatever you want. Most of the time, though, I find it more causing me issues when I want to right-click view-source - copy and paste should be done through ctrl+c/v anyway.
Mind you, I don't plagerize, so the other things don't bother me. But if I want to copy-paste something, or see how you built your page, you aren't going to stop me.
And here inlies the crux of the matter: If the new 24-bit tracks are re-mastered with greater dynamic range, it'll do fine. Sure, it might only be mixed to a level of a good 16-bit recording... But that's better than the 16-bit compressed down to 20DB!
Though, if you can build me a nice automativ dynamic expander for all the horribly-loud stuff I already have... That'd solve the problem equally well.
And I disagree. WebM's already got hardware support in a few chips, and a device that could play it at 1080p, 60fps was showed off at CES? 2011(whatever that recent show was) by Rockchip.
Once Firefox 4 comes out, along with the plugin for ie9, and most people can play webm, I think YouTube will make the switch(at least as it's default on supported browsers). Once that happens, I think it'll snowball.
Everyone forget about Runescape? Sure, it doesn't have the latest graphics, and can be childish at times... But it's still a good example of a 3D MMORPG written in Java(Except for the OpenGL & DirectX rendering modules). And heck, it runs on pretty much anything(Though perhaps not well).
@ "worse video drivers":
Depends on the mfgr.
Nvidia drivers are excellent(though closed) and even their legacy drivers have support under current Linux distros(In my case, Geforce 4 GO on Ubuntu 10.10), whereas on Windows only XP is supported.
Intel also seems to do a reasonable job, and opens up their drivers... But they don't exactly have "gaming"-grade GPU's either.
AMD's drivers can be poor, but I hear they can be just as bad on Windows.
Mod this guy up!
I mean, really. If he had just ignored it, the total number of people who knew about this would have been -far- less than 100. Now? Probably several million. And all because his mother got the press involved.
*sigh*
Some people don't seem to get the streisand effect.
Mod this guy up!
As far as prior art goes, it looks like it can't be patented so long as it's already in use or described in a document publicly published - at least, that's how I read it.
I wonder where this leaves Internet publication methods...
+sI suppose it all depends on what your aiming for.
If you developed an app -exclusively- for Firefox, it would run perfectly well on a Windows, Mac(Intel and PPC), Linux(x86, amd64, arm... or any other obscure variant) and even my cell phone(N900)!
That might not be your entire market, but between that and Chrome compatibility, you can probably make do.
Conversely, if you write an OS app, it's usually got to be recompiled for each OS/platform combination, tested, etc.
And often times, Javascript is perfectly fast - Give up on canvas/pixel models and start using SVG elements(Ignore IE) and you'll be surprised at how fast it can be rendered - On a number of platforms it'
Erm... Thatms max possible requirement, not normal working requirement. And includes at least 1a for the 2 USB ports, plus whatever the wifi, ethernet, bluetooth, etc. take.
I mean... My Nokia N900 has a 1A wall-charger - Doesn't mean it needs that much to run.
In fact, it can run just fine off of half that, even with the screen on, and I suspect the same thing here with our dreamplug here.
Seven!
I mean... Do you -really- want to be seen reading Slashdot on your iPhone? N900's -so- much better, what with it's desktop browing experiance -- And root Xterm.
I hope Google takes the high ground here and -doesn't- try to track this -- Otherwise, I shall be forced to use Greasemonkey to block it. And it won't be the only thing I'll block if it comes to that.
Personally, I will buy books when I see them at the local used bookstore, or I can't find a gopd online version.
As far as ebooks go, I will buy one when I find something I -really want-, cheap enough, in a drm free/strippable format; Something that's convertable to HTML/text/ePUB for viewing on my N900 via FBReader.
The one eBook I've bought so far was in an Adobe PDF-based format... Never doing that again. It was DRMed, didn't allow printing/copying, and I couldn't find a stripper for that type, sadly.
Recently, I've been simply looking at free "online novels", and I've found some excellent material - Sure, you may see occasional errors, but you don't have to worry about a book getting cut short by the publisher.
they obviously didn't care enough to:
1. Send out an email to all affected people AND/OR
2. Disable those people's passwords after a certain period of time, forcing them to use the forgot password link.
I dunno... I personally value securitty over forcing a bunch of people to reset their passwords.
SO WHAT if a few people complain? It's better that than people losing money over this.
*sigh*
Do notice that they -didn't censor anything!
All they did is hide certain terms from the auto-complete. Big deal. There's plenty of other words in that "censored" list.
Now, they can claim to be "helping prevent piracy" or whatever without actually doing anything. I see it as a win-win situation.
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I disagree. See, I'm one of those people. I had enough for a n900 at $300(used, unlocked), but not enough for $50/month phone bill.
So, I went with T-Mobile payg. I pay a few $ now and then, and get ineternet on the few days I need it for 1.50/day. Sure, I do that everyday for a month, and I'm up to $50... But I don't need to. I don't always need more than Wifi at home and a few hotspots; 3g's just for edge-cases.
I -think- the admin is only removing the -desktop icon-, not disabling the functionality entirely. This means that it's accessable other ways, and -possibly- even still accessable to the user - Just not through the desktop.
I see no problem with that - Not going to hurt anything.
Personally, I've not had a desktop icon for that in over a year (3 kde), and before that I never used it - I'd always use explorer to do all such things rather than have to minimise all my applications to find the desktop icon.
"Use a script to disable the "right click copy and paste" function" ...And I will try to never visit your page again. Not only is it annoying -- NOTHING should be messing with my context menu on a normal page -- but it's also inneffective: Just disable JS, right click, and do whatever you want.
Most of the time, though, I find it more causing me issues when I want to right-click view-source - copy and paste should be done through ctrl+c/v anyway.
Mind you, I don't plagerize, so the other things don't bother me. But if I want to copy-paste something, or see how you built your page, you aren't going to stop me.
And here inlies the crux of the matter: If the new 24-bit tracks are re-mastered with
greater dynamic range, it'll do fine. Sure, it might only be mixed to a level of a good 16-bit recording... But that's better than the 16-bit compressed down to 20DB!
Though, if you can build me a nice automativ dynamic expander for all the horribly-loud stuff I already have... That'd solve the problem equally well.
And I disagree. WebM's already got hardware support in a few chips, and a device that could play it at 1080p, 60fps was showed off at CES? 2011(whatever that recent show was) by Rockchip.
Once Firefox 4 comes out, along with the plugin for ie9, and most people can play webm, I think YouTube will make the switch(at least as it's default on supported browsers). Once that happens, I think it'll snowball.
Everyone forget about Runescape?
Sure, it doesn't have the latest graphics, and can be childish at times... But it's still a good example of a 3D MMORPG written in Java(Except for the OpenGL & DirectX rendering modules).
And heck, it runs on pretty much anything(Though perhaps not well).
@ "worse video drivers": Depends on the mfgr. Nvidia drivers are excellent(though closed) and even their legacy drivers have support under current Linux distros(In my case, Geforce 4 GO on Ubuntu 10.10), whereas on Windows only XP is supported. Intel also seems to do a reasonable job, and opens up their drivers... But they don't exactly have "gaming"-grade GPU's either. AMD's drivers can be poor, but I hear they can be just as bad on Windows.
At the very least, he told her about it. I wouldnmt be surprised, though, if he -did- have a hand in it.
Mod this guy up! I mean, really. If he had just ignored it, the total number of people who knew about this would have been -far- less than 100. Now? Probably several million. And all because his mother got the press involved. *sigh* Some people don't seem to get the streisand effect.
Mod this guy up! As far as prior art goes, it looks like it can't be patented so long as it's already in use or described in a document publicly published - at least, that's how I read it. I wonder where this leaves Internet publication methods...
+sI suppose it all depends on what your aiming for. If you developed an app -exclusively- for Firefox, it would run perfectly well on a Windows, Mac(Intel and PPC), Linux(x86, amd64, arm... or any other obscure variant) and even my cell phone(N900)! That might not be your entire market, but between that and Chrome compatibility, you can probably make do. Conversely, if you write an OS app, it's usually got to be recompiled for each OS/platform combination, tested, etc. And often times, Javascript is perfectly fast - Give up on canvas/pixel models and start using SVG elements(Ignore IE) and you'll be surprised at how fast it can be rendered - On a number of platforms it'
Erm... Thatms max possible requirement, not normal working requirement. And includes at least 1a for the 2 USB ports, plus whatever the wifi, ethernet, bluetooth, etc. take. I mean... My Nokia N900 has a 1A wall-charger - Doesn't mean it needs that much to run. In fact, it can run just fine off of half that, even with the screen on, and I suspect the same thing here with our dreamplug here.
Seven! I mean... Do you -really- want to be seen reading Slashdot on your iPhone? N900's -so- much better, what with it's desktop browing experiance -- And root Xterm.
I hope Google takes the high ground here and -doesn't- try to track this -- Otherwise, I shall be forced to use Greasemonkey to block it. And it won't be the only thing I'll block if it comes to that.
Personally, I will buy books when I see them at the local used bookstore, or I can't find a gopd online version. As far as ebooks go, I will buy one when I find something I -really want-, cheap enough, in a drm free/strippable format; Something that's convertable to HTML/text/ePUB for viewing on my N900 via FBReader. The one eBook I've bought so far was in an Adobe PDF-based format... Never doing that again. It was DRMed, didn't allow printing/copying, and I couldn't find a stripper for that type, sadly. Recently, I've been simply looking at free "online novels", and I've found some excellent material - Sure, you may see occasional errors, but you don't have to worry about a book getting cut short by the publisher.
they obviously didn't care enough to: 1. Send out an email to all affected people AND/OR 2. Disable those people's passwords after a certain period of time, forcing them to use the forgot password link. I dunno... I personally value securitty over forcing a bunch of people to reset their passwords. SO WHAT if a few people complain? It's better that than people losing money over this. *sigh*
Mod this guy up! Excellent quote reference.
Do notice that they -didn't censor anything! All they did is hide certain terms from the auto-complete. Big deal. There's plenty of other words in that "censored" list. Now, they can claim to be "helping prevent piracy" or whatever without actually doing anything. I see it as a win-win situation.