It's funny how there's huge amounts of people criticizing flash on slashdot every day, and then we have an article with a flash video (I can only assume it's a video, since I don't run flash) attached to it.
Do these guys even know how their target audience is?
Serious? How can Microsoft Media Center be worse than the thing they put into them now?
* Extremely poor UI * Minimal DLNA support * Crappy "remote-control" software on handheld devices * Not compatible with video recorded on SAMSUNG devices
Disclaimer: I have a 2011 BD player that features the same software as Samsung SmartTVs from the same time.
DLNA es really a bunch of protocols stuck together; and most of then are the "alternative" to an RFC. I'd rather see support for standarized protocols than a handful some alliance picked. "video recorded on SAMSUNG devices"? Really? That's your reference format? It doesn't even have a name!?
Yes, and convicted monopolists are known for the fair terms. Thanks for the clarification.
Even assuming that you have no choice but to use MS Windows, they actually sell newer software with lots of support remaining. How is holding a monopoly relevant to purchasing that the monopolist is telling you NOT TO buy anymore?
and even after that he had a chance to return it to the retailed if he didn't accept the terms.
Yes, how simple. Even in successful cases, just lose a day's work and struggle for a few weeks making it a lossmaking adventure for most people; to say nothing of the countless unsuccessful cases.
a) It's pretty hard to find a new machine with XP preinstalled nowadaya. And I mean really hard! Why would you even bother searching for one if you don't want XP? b) Why the hell did you buy a computer with a pre-installed OS if you didn't want it? My above statement applied to someone who purchased a box set and wanted to return it.
Neat test but I think the summary could at least clarify that the test system is Windows 8 64 Bit. It doesn't really mean a whole lot to me when I'm running a 64 bit distribution of GNU/Linux.
Why not? Are you assuming that either has lots of OS-specific tweaks that tilt that so much? In any case, it's still relevant which is faster for average joe out there.
Also the tests are selected by Tom's Hardware as a suite... some of these tests are fairly meaningless to me and I feel like something like cold start time should be more heavily weighted than, say, hardware acceleration performance. The wait time on start up affects everyone and is unavoidable
I only restart firefox after an upgrade, and that's the only time I close it. I'm sure as hell I'm not the only one.
Is anyone reading this actually using Windows 8?
Regrettable, yes, I've seen lots of people out there with shinny new laptops with win8 installed.
Geeks don't generally prefer Chrome. Sure, there's a good deal of chrome users amongst geeks, but I think we have a greater proporiton of firefox users than non-geeks have.
adsuck should be ever lighter than privoxy, and it's easy to setup for the entire network.
adsuck filters DNS requets for domains know for serviding ads (like adserver.adclick.com, or something alike). Not 100% accurate, but still pretty good. Network usage also goes down considerably.
And your age determination is "senseful"? A customer who bought something yesterday should be deprived of support in a year[...]
Yes, he'll be deprived of the support he knew he wouldn't get when he purchased the software and accepted the terms. Nobody forced him to buy it, and even after that he had a chance to return it to the retailed if he didn't accept the terms.
Anyway, you didn't understand the car example either. The car was manufactured 2 years ago and sold to me. It's first identical piece was sold 5 years ago. But in the 3 years in between when it was not yet manufactured, the car got worn and degraded? Talk some sense.
You're saying that is I install an OS I purchased 10 years ago, it will not be the same quality as it was 10 years ago? Sure, it doesn't have the same features as modern OSs, but it's 100% IDENTICAL to an installation made 10 years ago. There is no difference at all.
Also, I'm pretty sure that most users that disable JS, and are willing to deal with a lack of JS on most sites, can easily find about the same option in about:config (or noscript).
Maybe it's time screen readers caught up. If lots of text was added to a page, why can't it be read? The screen reader should deal with the browser's DOM, not the HTML.
Sure, there's plenty of sites that do stupid things (like creating a canvas with vectors to render pretty fonts), but let's not shift all the blame to JS devs/apps, screen readers need to stay current as well.
It's sensless to compare software and cars age-wise.
Cars get degraded as the years pass. Software is identical, it's not worn of or anything like that. If you assume that cars have no sort of degradatino with time just like cars, then the manufacturing date is irrelevant, since all that share the same design are identical.
I live in Argentina, and the AFIP (our version of the IRS) has lots of web systems that only run on IE6. YES, IE6 is they only browser they officially support. Hence, anyone that's self-empoyed and need to constaltly be doing taxes has an XP VM somewhere around. This includes any freelance developer, quite a nerd, IMO.
And I'm pretty sure plenty of other non-firstworld countries have similar issues.
No, XP is still 12 years old. Vista's existance just means that XP was superceded 6 years ago, and has been deprecated since. The age of ANYTHING is how long ago it was concieved.
You make it sound like getting supported hardware was a hard thing. My mum bought her computer about 5 years algo, and XP x64 worked fine without any issues. We never consulted if it would work or not - you could just assume it would, much like XP would run on almost any machine you could build at the time.
Honestly, users who are still using windows XP [quite clearly] don't care about getting software updates, why would they care?
Even thought this sounds like flaimbait/troll, I'm being pretty much sincere. Someone who's using an unsupported, 12 year-old OS doesn't seem to be the type of person constantly updating their driver anyway.
Having played online games, I'm pretty sure millons need to be arrested for potential rapists, since I've heard lots of insults regarding fucking people's mums!
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It's funny how there's huge amounts of people criticizing flash on slashdot every day, and then we have an article with a flash video (I can only assume it's a video, since I don't run flash) attached to it.
Do these guys even know how their target audience is?
It is purely online.
Your problem is that you don't have any BTC.
The Internet can be used with as little as a computer. But you still need to make a phonecall to request the service to your ISP.
I just traded 300USD worth in bitcoins about half an hour ago. I fail to see how Visa, MC or PP were involved.
Bank transfers work fine too.
Serious? How can Microsoft Media Center be worse than the thing they put into them now?
* Extremely poor UI
* Minimal DLNA support
* Crappy "remote-control" software on handheld devices
* Not compatible with video recorded on SAMSUNG devices
Disclaimer: I have a 2011 BD player that features the same software as Samsung SmartTVs from the same time.
DLNA es really a bunch of protocols stuck together; and most of then are the "alternative" to an RFC. I'd rather see support for standarized protocols than a handful some alliance picked.
"video recorded on SAMSUNG devices"? Really? That's your reference format? It doesn't even have a name!?
Windows Media Center has detected a change in the channel you're viewing. Please restart you TV for the changes to take effect.
Yes, and convicted monopolists are known for the fair terms. Thanks for the clarification.
Even assuming that you have no choice but to use MS Windows, they actually sell newer software with lots of support remaining.
How is holding a monopoly relevant to purchasing that the monopolist is telling you NOT TO buy anymore?
and even after that he had a chance to return it to the retailed if he didn't accept the terms.
Yes, how simple. Even in successful cases, just lose a day's work and struggle for a few weeks making it a lossmaking adventure for most people; to say nothing of the countless unsuccessful cases.
a) It's pretty hard to find a new machine with XP preinstalled nowadaya. And I mean really hard! Why would you even bother searching for one if you don't want XP?
b) Why the hell did you buy a computer with a pre-installed OS if you didn't want it? My above statement applied to someone who purchased a box set and wanted to return it.
Neat test but I think the summary could at least clarify that the test system is Windows 8 64 Bit. It doesn't really mean a whole lot to me when I'm running a 64 bit distribution of GNU/Linux.
Why not? Are you assuming that either has lots of OS-specific tweaks that tilt that so much?
In any case, it's still relevant which is faster for average joe out there.
Also the tests are selected by Tom's Hardware as a suite ... some of these tests are fairly meaningless to me and I feel like something like cold start time should be more heavily weighted than, say, hardware acceleration performance. The wait time on start up affects everyone and is unavoidable
I only restart firefox after an upgrade, and that's the only time I close it. I'm sure as hell I'm not the only one.
Is anyone reading this actually using Windows 8?
Regrettable, yes, I've seen lots of people out there with shinny new laptops with win8 installed.
Geeks don't generally prefer Chrome. Sure, there's a good deal of chrome users amongst geeks, but I think we have a greater proporiton of firefox users than non-geeks have.
adsuck should be ever lighter than privoxy, and it's easy to setup for the entire network.
adsuck filters DNS requets for domains know for serviding ads (like adserver.adclick.com, or something alike).
Not 100% accurate, but still pretty good. Network usage also goes down considerably.
And your age determination is "senseful"? A customer who bought something yesterday should be deprived of support in a year[...]
Yes, he'll be deprived of the support he knew he wouldn't get when he purchased the software and accepted the terms. Nobody forced him to buy it, and even after that he had a chance to return it to the retailed if he didn't accept the terms.
Anyway, you didn't understand the car example either. The car was manufactured 2 years ago and sold to me. It's first identical piece was sold 5 years ago. But in the 3 years in between when it was not yet manufactured, the car got worn and degraded? Talk some sense.
You're saying that is I install an OS I purchased 10 years ago, it will not be the same quality as it was 10 years ago?
Sure, it doesn't have the same features as modern OSs, but it's 100% IDENTICAL to an installation made 10 years ago. There is no difference at all.
Also, I'm pretty sure that most users that disable JS, and are willing to deal with a lack of JS on most sites, can easily find about the same option in about:config (or noscript).
Maybe it's time screen readers caught up.
If lots of text was added to a page, why can't it be read? The screen reader should deal with the browser's DOM, not the HTML.
Sure, there's plenty of sites that do stupid things (like creating a canvas with vectors to render pretty fonts), but let's not shift all the blame to JS devs/apps, screen readers need to stay current as well.
It's sensless to compare software and cars age-wise.
Cars get degraded as the years pass. Software is identical, it's not worn of or anything like that.
If you assume that cars have no sort of degradatino with time just like cars, then the manufacturing date is irrelevant, since all that share the same design are identical.
I live in Argentina, and the AFIP (our version of the IRS) has lots of web systems that only run on IE6. YES, IE6 is they only browser they officially support.
Hence, anyone that's self-empoyed and need to constaltly be doing taxes has an XP VM somewhere around.
This includes any freelance developer, quite a nerd, IMO.
And I'm pretty sure plenty of other non-firstworld countries have similar issues.
No, XP is still 12 years old. Vista's existance just means that XP was superceded 6 years ago, and has been deprecated since. The age of ANYTHING is how long ago it was concieved.
So FreeDOS is a new OS?
XP is about a few minutes old (I still see it sold - distributed - in plenty of places nowadays).
You make it sound like getting supported hardware was a hard thing.
My mum bought her computer about 5 years algo, and XP x64 worked fine without any issues. We never consulted if it would work or not - you could just assume it would, much like XP would run on almost any machine you could build at the time.
Honestly, users who are still using windows XP [quite clearly] don't care about getting software updates, why would they care?
Even thought this sounds like flaimbait/troll, I'm being pretty much sincere. Someone who's using an unsupported, 12 year-old OS doesn't seem to be the type of person constantly updating their driver anyway.
If you read the ISO spec, you'd realize it's not really open (it makes references to MSO's former binary format, which isn't open).
Also, MS's implementation diverges from the ISO specs (not sure about 2013, though. I didn't even know 2013 was out).
Uhm...
Maybe by the end of year, the functionality will make it into the Chrome browser, too."
If they patent it, all the others ISPs won't be using this sort of tech to annoy it's users.
Having played online games, I'm pretty sure millons need to be arrested for potential rapists, since I've heard lots of insults regarding fucking people's mums!
Sure, 5KiB (NOT mb) can contain all sorts of code. But it's not an issue it there's no way to execute that.
Just like these code:
sudo rm -rf /
or:
dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda
Both are now store in your browser cache. :)
I'd rather wall off parts of the web that don't care about what consumer want, than taint standards (and software) we use every day with DRM.