Are you absolutely sure it's not Flash/PDF/[Silver/Moon]light plugins that are freezing Chrome?
Wait, hang on, what's the difference in a plugin freezing Chrome and the problem described by GP? He says a tab can hang and then sometimes all the other tabs die too, to the end user who cares if it's technically caused by a plugin or not?
Indeed, your point is valid. It's a classic issue that we don't get perspective-changing 3d with the current round of 3d. The equally-classic response to your idea of "proper 3d" is that it causes problems for multiple viewers since you suddenly can't sit at an angle to the TV because it leaves you looking at the walls of the recording studio.
How would you choose to solve it? I don't mean technically, let's just imagine it's possible in an easy and nonintrusive way, how do you then imagine the livingroom and/or theater of the future?
Is it just me or is that just a horrible video? Especially for Slashdotters.. If they would simply recut it, showing each of the useful features (bookmarking, skimming, translation, read-aloud) it would have made me interested. It sounds like a cool research project but right now the smarminess of the video has me running for the hills.
(And what's with the first link? Seems to be to some totally different topic, but maybe that's my bad for trying to read the article)
This is exactly why the iPad has a chance of success: It's not about the features, it's not about more capable netbooks, just as it wasn't about more capable phones being available back with the iPhone. If the iPad delivers the features users want then that counts magnitudes more than a netbook chugging along trying to open Photoshop with limited resources.
There's a core group of/.'ers that'll never wake up to this though, that sees the world in black and white and therefore must hate whatever device that doesn't do everything. And bless all those nerds, this simply isn't a device for them. What matters is if the iPad can enable tech-illiterate people to easily create documents, easily browse the web, easily email people, and maybe even discovering an app or two along the way. That's a powerful promise, that's a recipe for success,. Just like it was for the iPhone.
(caveat: Whether or not the iPad will actually succeed remains to be seen, but it doesn't hinge on whether or not a netbook might be capable of more. That's not how the market works (see: the iPhone) and it is imo a damn narrow-minded attitude to put forth)
I put forth EVE Online as the new UO. As far as I can tell (I didn't play UO but friends of mine did) EVE has a similar cutthroat PvP oriented culture where exploits are allowed within the gamerules. I'm not judging either game, just drawing parallels between the two worlds and their willingness to let players make stupid mistakes and pay for it.
Sorry, I like all things interesting but your intepretation is incorrect. Why would he search in French? No he googled for what she wrote/said and then activated Directive Omega (i.e. Win Over French Girl)
I use proportional fonts (on whiteish background) because I'm a rebel and don't have any nostalgia for black-background-green-text terminals (i.e. I enjoy the increased readability). And contrary to your statement my code is properly tabbed, functions are aligned, everything is indented just the way FSM demands it. I know this because my coworker enjoys his nonproportional black-backgrounded terminal look and our code is interchangeable.
I simply stay away from "clever alignment tricks". I don't align comments up that sit at the end of my code lines, and you know what? Neither should you. They're annoying no matter the font-type because rewriting one line can make you end up re-indenting all the comments in that block and it's just such a silly waste of time. In my world comments go above a line, or even better is writing the code so at most it needs a little Docstring blurp to provide some context.
To recap: I'm glad you're not my boss you goddamned controlfreak. I get to read my code in sparkly pink letters as long as it doesn't affect my output or my coworkers.
Oh cool, that's not a story I'm familiar with. I went and googled for the answer I was about to ask:
"In his short story "A Slight Case of Sunstroke", Arthur C. Clarke writes of a stadium full of disgruntled soccer fans barbecueing the dishonest referee by reflecting sunlight on him with mirrors found under their seats."
Easy means you don't have to ever wonder if this file needs the PC turned on, it means not having to keep yet another program uptodate when updates come out, and it means not having to do any of the tiny little steps you're forgetting to tell us.
You sound like a poweruser though so to you it seems really easy, but for those who just want the easiest solution it's not good enough. Easy is buying a movie off of iTunes and it always plays when clicking Play. Always. The first time it doesn't, for practically any reason at all, it starts becoming a burden.
So that's, what, eight years ago? You had a problem with a genre of drivers notorious for being problematic (network issues have always been a constant pain), on a platform known for its millions of hardware combinations? And they got it wrong with your specific combination, oh woe is them... maybe it's time to kiss and make up?
I don't really care what you do man, and I'm not saying my rephrasing of your problem is any more "right" than what you posted. It just sounds like maybe its time to revisit your feelings and test if the underlying reasons remain valid. Maybe, just maybe, Microsoft's VM department really do want to give their customers the best Linux experience possible. Sounds like basic business to me, so I imagine the drivers will work pretty well for what they're for.
Huh, how interesting. I don't believe I'd want to use your system.
You're right that abstract categories and open ended text-fields can make for vague and deceitful answers, but... that's the person you're seeing reflected in the text! I want to read that person, I want to see how she describes herself or her interests. Or how she doesn't. Some girls are shy in their texts, and that says something too right?
It doesn't matter if you start off at a bar/party/box social or via text. I've gotten mails that completely fail to interest me and I'm sure I've sent them out as well. Just as I've been at parties where my smile freezes as I realize what an idiot I am and/or she is. It's as difficult to spot the crazies in text as it is in real life, but that's not really a problem per se. That's human nature. Making everything quantifiable strikes me as an engineer's attempt at a solution (no offense intended, some of my best friends are engineers:).
If I wanted the scientific approach to women I'd build my own robot, I actually prefer the little blurbs of handwritten text that let me analyze between the lines. I think of it as a richer way of communication than just a straight up list of facts*. But that's me, I have faith in my ability to parse meaningful metadata from text and voice. To others it might seem like white noise, so to each their own I suppose.
* With that said I do love being able to define "no smoking" as an easy filter rule. Good riddance!
Every person who has downloaded and used it has stolen 9 dollars from me. With hundreds or thousands of people having done it, I am out thousands of dollars that I would have otherwise had.
I'm calling complete and utter bullshit on that. What has their copying *really* cost you? Nothing. Nothing at all, even in the slightest. Your statement is way too fanatical.
I'm not personally against the concept of copyright and I sympathize that the license of your product is being violated, but you're going to have to get out of doing digital products if you don't want your shit copied.
That's cool. All the more tomatoes for me. Refuse all you want in the meantime.
I have plenty principles I adhere to, but this is not a slippery slope into a government-controlled fascistic future. It is you weighing your own goddamn tomatoes because the checkout lady wastes a ton of time doing that for you, and this technology tries to make that burden easier for you.
I suggest you shop somewhere more expensive if you want them to do the weighing, or make your own store that caters to your market segment if you feel it's that important an issue.
Plus, graphics are usable when they scale back to what consumers actually have. I agree with the article that this sort of processing power will be available in retail product in a couple of years.. but that doesn't put it in the hands of anyone. How about adding an additional, oh I don't know, four+ years before it's actually available in a broad userbase? Because raytracers don't scale back to current gen hardware, and then what? It's already a huge hassle supporting DX9 and DX10 renderpaths, I can't imagine (m)any games dedicating themselves to two completely radically different rendering techniques on top of that.
And that's assuming this nVidia techdemo was all it took to make a game. Like the parent says, there's a lot of different materials in the world and raytracing ain't exactly the magic bullet for all of them.
Raytracing will come along at some point, but it's not like we're facing some imminent blitzkrieg.
Uh, yes it's justifiable. Apple wants its product to behave this way, and I purchase their devices knowing they want to control everything. Don't buy the phone if you want an open market model! Hell you shouldn't own any Apple product if that's the kind of market you prefer, it is simply not their thing.
Besides, as other posters have pointed out, it's not phoning home to control apps, it's to prevent malicious use of CoreLocation because Apple cares about privacy.
(okay I'm not actually arguing they care, but that's the impression they want to give. It protects their profit margin)
How does that quote go, "When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology"?
When the original Wiimote was announced we all dreamed of the wonderful things it would do. We'd finally have lightsaber games and true-to-life shooters and all that, because it could somehow tell what you were doing!
But that wasn't the case. It don't actually do swordfighting in any real capacity. And I don't say that to diminish what Nintendo did, I love the system and in fact the Wiimote's simplicity was probably a good idea, I just want to point out what happens when we don't know how a device operates. I mean, these statements are from a press release, so, [citation needed] y'know.
If someone can explain to me what the heck this extra doohickey actually does though then I'll perfectly happily drink the kool-aid and party all night. But right now all they say is improved tracking? What does that mean? Are we getting absolute tracking on all axes? That's what'd make me excited...
On reason is that great design means fewer options, and OSS inherently favors control and flexibility because all the apps are written to and by superusers. So there are these goals that oppose each other, and cutting through it all is difficult when your programmers owe you nothing. It takes a clear vision to achieve the elegance Apple pulls off.
Well that, and Apple's gigantic wad of money they spend on human interface research:)
Want a hands-off solution with zero configuration? gMail. Switch everyone to google's company tools.
Yeah yeah switching a company to gMail is a ridiculous suggestion, you can't store company information remotely, users will panic at the change, fire will break out in the streets and cats and dogs will run together.
But all that aside, if you can look at the suggestion without all the doomsday scenarios in mind, gMail offers completely autonomous service-free zero-configuration spam-filtering. Which is about as easy as spam-filtering can get, I think.
You, sir, are trolling. Please explain yourself otherwise... I can't think of a single positive thing to say about NAT (other than the security aspect, but a firewall does that part of the job even more elegantly).
Could this have consequences for the way we think of animals that dreams? Dog do, so that means they can imagine themselves in theoretical danger? Cows? Rodents? Imagining yourself in situations seems like a mental dividing line of sorts... or would you rather argue that dreaming can occur without being an indication of capability for mental leaps?
I've been told once that mammals make up the dreaming group. Why should we be the only ones doing these simulations, wouldn't a reptile stand to benefit from the same? Or could it be argued that simulating cost more energy than a cold-blooded design can provide...
This theory also combines well with the recent story about drugs that stops sleep with "no sideeffects". Lack of threat simulation would be a pretty damn difficult bug to catch in clinical trials, we could go on as a species for a hundred years until we came across a threat we might've actually thought about had everyone been sleeping.
So they make it more difficult for everyone because a few people have to be prevented from doing stupid shit? Is that about the gist of it?
How about you let me have my VISA compatible, online purchase compatible, "I get all the money back if I get hit by fraud", "charges straight into my main account so there's no hassle" card, and I'll let you use your wonderful card that injects several steps between you and whatever boogie men you're so afraid of. Sounds like a deal?
They're great for reading on the train, I'll tell you that much. Until phones gets bigger screens I'm clinging to my iPaq. I don't plan to ever touch another book again, it's all eBooks for me from here on out.
Of course all those digital ink products are on the horizon, so it's just a matter of time before yet another market closes for the PDA. I suppose that's life when you're jack-of-all but master of.. very little.
How about you throw us a link to that survey pointing out how the vast majority of users thinks like you. You know, something to take up to the boss to use as an argument, because honestly "some guy at slashdot said it was bad" just doesn't cut it anymore.
It seems poignant to point out that neither photocopiers, tape recorders or VCRs are capable of duplicating the original perfectly. If you were visiting a friend and saw this fascinating book, what would you do if you could take a perfect replica home without having to do anything more than click a button? No need to fiddle with a difficult photocopier. And the legal solution is walking all the way to the nearest bookstore, not an easy alternative.
IANAEconomist, so what do I know, but I have my own unrealistic take on a solution: I think people want to pay for their entertainment. If I'm at a friends house and I hear some music, a) make it ridiculously easy for me to get a legal copy, and b) give me perks for taking the honest route: For example the song is automatically sent wirelessly to my ZunePod. And I can access my music library from any available computer. And it's an integrated and slick experience regardless of the device I use.
To the DRM-using industries: At the very least make it fucking hasslefree first before going on about how the world's going to hell in a handbasket if we don't get prohibitive DRM, don't wonder why I tend to go with the MP3s when I don't even have a proper legal alternative. Jeez.
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Are you absolutely sure it's not Flash/PDF/[Silver/Moon]light plugins that are freezing Chrome?
Wait, hang on, what's the difference in a plugin freezing Chrome and the problem described by GP? He says a tab can hang and then sometimes all the other tabs die too, to the end user who cares if it's technically caused by a plugin or not?
Indeed, your point is valid. It's a classic issue that we don't get perspective-changing 3d with the current round of 3d. The equally-classic response to your idea of "proper 3d" is that it causes problems for multiple viewers since you suddenly can't sit at an angle to the TV because it leaves you looking at the walls of the recording studio.
How would you choose to solve it? I don't mean technically, let's just imagine it's possible in an easy and nonintrusive way, how do you then imagine the livingroom and/or theater of the future?
Is it just me or is that just a horrible video? Especially for Slashdotters.. If they would simply recut it, showing each of the useful features (bookmarking, skimming, translation, read-aloud) it would have made me interested. It sounds like a cool research project but right now the smarminess of the video has me running for the hills.
(And what's with the first link? Seems to be to some totally different topic, but maybe that's my bad for trying to read the article)
Take note of parent! It's an important posts!
/.'ers that'll never wake up to this though, that sees the world in black and white and therefore must hate whatever device that doesn't do everything. And bless all those nerds, this simply isn't a device for them. What matters is if the iPad can enable tech-illiterate people to easily create documents, easily browse the web, easily email people, and maybe even discovering an app or two along the way. That's a powerful promise, that's a recipe for success,. Just like it was for the iPhone.
Because it is exactly wrong.
This is exactly why the iPad has a chance of success: It's not about the features, it's not about more capable netbooks, just as it wasn't about more capable phones being available back with the iPhone. If the iPad delivers the features users want then that counts magnitudes more than a netbook chugging along trying to open Photoshop with limited resources.
There's a core group of
(caveat: Whether or not the iPad will actually succeed remains to be seen, but it doesn't hinge on whether or not a netbook might be capable of more. That's not how the market works (see: the iPhone) and it is imo a damn narrow-minded attitude to put forth)
I put forth EVE Online as the new UO. As far as I can tell (I didn't play UO but friends of mine did) EVE has a similar cutthroat PvP oriented culture where exploits are allowed within the gamerules. I'm not judging either game, just drawing parallels between the two worlds and their willingness to let players make stupid mistakes and pay for it.
Sorry, I like all things interesting but your intepretation is incorrect. Why would he search in French? No he googled for what she wrote/said and then activated Directive Omega (i.e. Win Over French Girl)
Incorrect.
I use proportional fonts (on whiteish background) because I'm a rebel and don't have any nostalgia for black-background-green-text terminals (i.e. I enjoy the increased readability). And contrary to your statement my code is properly tabbed, functions are aligned, everything is indented just the way FSM demands it. I know this because my coworker enjoys his nonproportional black-backgrounded terminal look and our code is interchangeable.
I simply stay away from "clever alignment tricks". I don't align comments up that sit at the end of my code lines, and you know what? Neither should you. They're annoying no matter the font-type because rewriting one line can make you end up re-indenting all the comments in that block and it's just such a silly waste of time. In my world comments go above a line, or even better is writing the code so at most it needs a little Docstring blurp to provide some context.
To recap: I'm glad you're not my boss you goddamned controlfreak. I get to read my code in sparkly pink letters as long as it doesn't affect my output or my coworkers.
Oh cool, that's not a story I'm familiar with. I went and googled for the answer I was about to ask:
"In his short story "A Slight Case of Sunstroke", Arthur C. Clarke writes of a stadium full of disgruntled soccer fans barbecueing the dishonest referee by reflecting sunlight on him with mirrors found under their seats."
Easy means you don't have to ever wonder if this file needs the PC turned on, it means not having to keep yet another program uptodate when updates come out, and it means not having to do any of the tiny little steps you're forgetting to tell us. You sound like a poweruser though so to you it seems really easy, but for those who just want the easiest solution it's not good enough. Easy is buying a movie off of iTunes and it always plays when clicking Play. Always. The first time it doesn't, for practically any reason at all, it starts becoming a burden.
So that's, what, eight years ago? You had a problem with a genre of drivers notorious for being problematic (network issues have always been a constant pain), on a platform known for its millions of hardware combinations? And they got it wrong with your specific combination, oh woe is them... maybe it's time to kiss and make up?
I don't really care what you do man, and I'm not saying my rephrasing of your problem is any more "right" than what you posted. It just sounds like maybe its time to revisit your feelings and test if the underlying reasons remain valid. Maybe, just maybe, Microsoft's VM department really do want to give their customers the best Linux experience possible. Sounds like basic business to me, so I imagine the drivers will work pretty well for what they're for.
Huh, how interesting. I don't believe I'd want to use your system.
:).
You're right that abstract categories and open ended text-fields can make for vague and deceitful answers, but... that's the person you're seeing reflected in the text! I want to read that person, I want to see how she describes herself or her interests. Or how she doesn't. Some girls are shy in their texts, and that says something too right?
It doesn't matter if you start off at a bar/party/box social or via text. I've gotten mails that completely fail to interest me and I'm sure I've sent them out as well. Just as I've been at parties where my smile freezes as I realize what an idiot I am and/or she is. It's as difficult to spot the crazies in text as it is in real life, but that's not really a problem per se. That's human nature. Making everything quantifiable strikes me as an engineer's attempt at a solution (no offense intended, some of my best friends are engineers
If I wanted the scientific approach to women I'd build my own robot, I actually prefer the little blurbs of handwritten text that let me analyze between the lines. I think of it as a richer way of communication than just a straight up list of facts*. But that's me, I have faith in my ability to parse meaningful metadata from text and voice. To others it might seem like white noise, so to each their own I suppose.
* With that said I do love being able to define "no smoking" as an easy filter rule. Good riddance!
Convertible?
Every person who has downloaded and used it has stolen 9 dollars from me. With hundreds or thousands of people having done it, I am out thousands of dollars that I would have otherwise had.
I'm calling complete and utter bullshit on that. What has their copying *really* cost you? Nothing. Nothing at all, even in the slightest. Your statement is way too fanatical.
I'm not personally against the concept of copyright and I sympathize that the license of your product is being violated, but you're going to have to get out of doing digital products if you don't want your shit copied.
That's cool. All the more tomatoes for me. Refuse all you want in the meantime.
I have plenty principles I adhere to, but this is not a slippery slope into a government-controlled fascistic future. It is you weighing your own goddamn tomatoes because the checkout lady wastes a ton of time doing that for you, and this technology tries to make that burden easier for you.
I suggest you shop somewhere more expensive if you want them to do the weighing, or make your own store that caters to your market segment if you feel it's that important an issue.
Indeed.
Plus, graphics are usable when they scale back to what consumers actually have. I agree with the article that this sort of processing power will be available in retail product in a couple of years.. but that doesn't put it in the hands of anyone. How about adding an additional, oh I don't know, four+ years before it's actually available in a broad userbase? Because raytracers don't scale back to current gen hardware, and then what? It's already a huge hassle supporting DX9 and DX10 renderpaths, I can't imagine (m)any games dedicating themselves to two completely radically different rendering techniques on top of that.
And that's assuming this nVidia techdemo was all it took to make a game. Like the parent says, there's a lot of different materials in the world and raytracing ain't exactly the magic bullet for all of them.
Raytracing will come along at some point, but it's not like we're facing some imminent blitzkrieg.
Uh, yes it's justifiable. Apple wants its product to behave this way, and I purchase their devices knowing they want to control everything. Don't buy the phone if you want an open market model! Hell you shouldn't own any Apple product if that's the kind of market you prefer, it is simply not their thing.
Besides, as other posters have pointed out, it's not phoning home to control apps, it's to prevent malicious use of CoreLocation because Apple cares about privacy.
(okay I'm not actually arguing they care, but that's the impression they want to give. It protects their profit margin)
How does that quote go, "When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology"?
When the original Wiimote was announced we all dreamed of the wonderful things it would do. We'd finally have lightsaber games and true-to-life shooters and all that, because it could somehow tell what you were doing!
But that wasn't the case. It don't actually do swordfighting in any real capacity. And I don't say that to diminish what Nintendo did, I love the system and in fact the Wiimote's simplicity was probably a good idea, I just want to point out what happens when we don't know how a device operates. I mean, these statements are from a press release, so, [citation needed] y'know.
If someone can explain to me what the heck this extra doohickey actually does though then I'll perfectly happily drink the kool-aid and party all night. But right now all they say is improved tracking? What does that mean? Are we getting absolute tracking on all axes? That's what'd make me excited...
On reason is that great design means fewer options, and OSS inherently favors control and flexibility because all the apps are written to and by superusers. So there are these goals that oppose each other, and cutting through it all is difficult when your programmers owe you nothing. It takes a clear vision to achieve the elegance Apple pulls off.
Well that, and Apple's gigantic wad of money they spend on human interface research :)
Want a hands-off solution with zero configuration? gMail. Switch everyone to google's company tools.
Yeah yeah switching a company to gMail is a ridiculous suggestion, you can't store company information remotely, users will panic at the change, fire will break out in the streets and cats and dogs will run together.
But all that aside, if you can look at the suggestion without all the doomsday scenarios in mind, gMail offers completely autonomous service-free zero-configuration spam-filtering. Which is about as easy as spam-filtering can get, I think.
The elegant and awesome *what*?
You, sir, are trolling. Please explain yourself otherwise... I can't think of a single positive thing to say about NAT (other than the security aspect, but a firewall does that part of the job even more elegantly).
Could this have consequences for the way we think of animals that dreams? Dog do, so that means they can imagine themselves in theoretical danger? Cows? Rodents? Imagining yourself in situations seems like a mental dividing line of sorts... or would you rather argue that dreaming can occur without being an indication of capability for mental leaps?
I've been told once that mammals make up the dreaming group. Why should we be the only ones doing these simulations, wouldn't a reptile stand to benefit from the same? Or could it be argued that simulating cost more energy than a cold-blooded design can provide...
This theory also combines well with the recent story about drugs that stops sleep with "no sideeffects". Lack of threat simulation would be a pretty damn difficult bug to catch in clinical trials, we could go on as a species for a hundred years until we came across a threat we might've actually thought about had everyone been sleeping.
So they make it more difficult for everyone because a few people have to be prevented from doing stupid shit? Is that about the gist of it?
How about you let me have my VISA compatible, online purchase compatible, "I get all the money back if I get hit by fraud", "charges straight into my main account so there's no hassle" card, and I'll let you use your wonderful card that injects several steps between you and whatever boogie men you're so afraid of. Sounds like a deal?
They're great for reading on the train, I'll tell you that much. Until phones gets bigger screens I'm clinging to my iPaq. I don't plan to ever touch another book again, it's all eBooks for me from here on out.
Of course all those digital ink products are on the horizon, so it's just a matter of time before yet another market closes for the PDA. I suppose that's life when you're jack-of-all but master of.. very little.
How about you throw us a link to that survey pointing out how the vast majority of users thinks like you. You know, something to take up to the boss to use as an argument, because honestly "some guy at slashdot said it was bad" just doesn't cut it anymore.
It seems poignant to point out that neither photocopiers, tape recorders or VCRs are capable of duplicating the original perfectly. If you were visiting a friend and saw this fascinating book, what would you do if you could take a perfect replica home without having to do anything more than click a button? No need to fiddle with a difficult photocopier. And the legal solution is walking all the way to the nearest bookstore, not an easy alternative.
IANAEconomist, so what do I know, but I have my own unrealistic take on a solution:
I think people want to pay for their entertainment. If I'm at a friends house and I hear some music, a) make it ridiculously easy for me to get a legal copy, and b) give me perks for taking the honest route: For example the song is automatically sent wirelessly to my ZunePod. And I can access my music library from any available computer. And it's an integrated and slick experience regardless of the device I use.
To the DRM-using industries: At the very least make it fucking hasslefree first before going on about how the world's going to hell in a handbasket if we don't get prohibitive DRM, don't wonder why I tend to go with the MP3s when I don't even have a proper legal alternative. Jeez.