I can't get most video content, and Flash-only sites are inaccessible.
Sometimes if I really want something on the website I'll change my user agent string to the same as the iPad's, and I have yet to hit an issue with the site not being able to limp along at that point.
For video, I've yet to see a HTML5 player that works as well as Flash.
Block Flash in your browser. Go to a website that'll fall back to HTML5 if Flash can't be found (I only know of youtube and funnyplace.org). You might see some warnings about Flash not being loaded, but you can still see the vast majority of the videos.
If Chromebooks are a hit, it's evidence around how much backwards compatibility is important; or in other words, how it might be unimportant. Windows is full of bugs, which don't get fixed, or have really nasty work arounds, because somebody has a crappy written piece of software that they tell the Windows team that they can't live without. So Windows merrily, goes along shimming, or not fixing existing bugs. Perhaps a successful Chromebook would show the Windows team that the type of customers who refuse to pay for updates to broken applications are also the type of customers who aren't going to buy new copies of Windows. Giving Microsoft the guts to risk breaking 15 year old software, is what Chromebooks might do to Windows.
they quit using it internally on any sort of scale because it sucked
Part of the reason why is because the group that created TFS (DevDiv) views its target audience as lone wolf star programmers, working in their garage, just waiting to become to next big thing. It's in all of their vision documents, and all of the profiles they make up for most of their targeted audience. Since they needed to dogfood it, they got it scale by the 2010 release. It's core problem though, is that all of TFS's designers must have only worked in that group and don't know anything better. I swear they must be actively avoiding even thinking about any possible comparisons to competitors.
I have a Terminator-like vision of a dark future where everything is a all-in-one, laptop, or tablet--and all are walled gardens.
I struggle to see how having a major player break up its presence in a market, to multiple competitors, the sign that it's going to be harder to purchase individual parts.
This was exactly the same argument made on the eve of WWI, that the world economy was too interdependent for war to be waged between the major powers. What happened afterwards is history.
In all my studying of WWI I've never heard that brought up. The closest thing I've heard to that was that every major head of Europe was Queen Victoria's grandkid (or grandkid-in-law).
Aren't these companies partly owned by the People's Liberation Army?
According to Is China's Huawei a threat to our national security?"Huawei is not China. Huawei is Huawei," said Sykes. "We are an independent commercial company. Zero percent ownership by the Chinese government."
I believe the maximum value on passwords comes from the fact that the hashes for passwords are a hard coded length. The idea being that any length of password coming in, will take up the same amount of space in the database table once hashed. Since passwords should be hashed using a one way hash, there are statistical chances for hash collisions. The greater the length of the hash, the less there is a chance of collision.
So there is a point of diminishing returns where the hashes of longer password will start having a higher probability of colliding with the hashes of smaller passwords. Would you rather have your super long password have a noticeable probability of colliding with a simple dictionary word, or a medium sized password have a near 0 chance of colliding with a simple dictionary word?
For the major offender of VS 2012, type 'color theme ' into Quick Launch and select Environment - General. Then change the Color theme to Dark.
For Office 2013 go to the General options and change the Office Theme to Dark Gray.
I'm not talking about murders, I'm talking about massacres. What are the types of weaponry used by people who are trying to kill everyone in a building?
So what you're saying is that you want to prioritize fighting against events that take a few dozen lives at once versus several thousand that happen to occur one or two at a time?
I think it's more realistic to tackle the massacre events, than the individual shooting events.
Maybe they wanted it that way, because they don't want nosy people they know to easily find and harass them?
But you'd only be added to someone's Messenger contact list if you accepted them as a contact. Someone couldn't use a Messenger address to go fishing for real names.
One major issue I have with current copyright laws is that it seems that characters can be copyrighted. It's common knowledge that Congress keeps extending the copyright age so that Disney can retain the right to Mickey Mouse. It seems the idea is that once Steamboat Willie passes a certain mark, anyone and everyone can create new and original works for Mickey Mouse. So why don't we separate copyright from authorship rights?
Change copyright back to 7 years. But create the idea of authorship. Disney creates Steamboat Willie, he has 7 years to control how copies of the actual work of art are distributed. He also has 7 years over any new work over any new noun that was created in the show (ie Mickey Mouse). Any time Disney creates a new work of art which extends the story of any character, place or thing, from Steamboat Willie, the authorship rights of that character, place or thing, gets extended. But once 7 years pass, any publisher/distributer can create and distribute infinite copies of Steamboat Willie, but only in it's original form (No "Steamboat Willie DreamWorks Edition").
I think this way works of art will enter the public domain, and authors will still have something valuable they can work on, so long as they keep working on it.
Best feature ever. I hated how I would have trouble finding certain contacts because I didn't know what cute nickname they picked for themselves that day.
I was under the impression it was heavily advertised. I don't remember what show my spouse was watching a few nights ago, but a Chromebook ad was part of every ad break. Given how little we watch stuff, from my experience the Chromebook is heavily advertised.
Because Microsoft has a dominant market share by EU standards and therefore this sort of behavior is illegal
A dominant market share in what? From every legal finding I've read it's specified that Microsoft has a monopoly on OS's which run on x86 chips. The Surface isn't an OS, it's the entire computer.
Knowing most "users" out there, any option which exists to let a 'user' configure something will most likely result in a virus configuring it on behalf of the ignorant user. Disabling Restricted Boot should require some physical action to prevent software from doing it.
I don't know how much of a change this would be for amazon, but for other websites, I wish they would force a user to give reviews of varying degrees. Someone giving everything a 5 star review, has a pretty worthless opinion. Same, for all 1 star reviews. Have some rule that says "You have to give roughly the same number of 5 star reviews as the other star reviews". If you really want to give an item a 5 star review, and you've used up your 5 star quota, either re-review some items, or find more items to give 3 star reviews to, so you can 'earn' another 5 star review.
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I can't get most video content, and Flash-only sites are inaccessible.
Sometimes if I really want something on the website I'll change my user agent string to the same as the iPad's, and I have yet to hit an issue with the site not being able to limp along at that point.
For video, I've yet to see a HTML5 player that works as well as Flash.
Block Flash in your browser. Go to a website that'll fall back to HTML5 if Flash can't be found (I only know of youtube and funnyplace.org). You might see some warnings about Flash not being loaded, but you can still see the vast majority of the videos.
If Chromebooks are a hit, it's evidence around how much backwards compatibility is important; or in other words, how it might be unimportant. Windows is full of bugs, which don't get fixed, or have really nasty work arounds, because somebody has a crappy written piece of software that they tell the Windows team that they can't live without. So Windows merrily, goes along shimming, or not fixing existing bugs. Perhaps a successful Chromebook would show the Windows team that the type of customers who refuse to pay for updates to broken applications are also the type of customers who aren't going to buy new copies of Windows. Giving Microsoft the guts to risk breaking 15 year old software, is what Chromebooks might do to Windows.
In a democracy, you can't get away with having a small minority with all the knowledge.
Sure you can. You only let the people with a certain threshold of knowledge have the ability to vote.
That's not math, that's known as attrition.
Sometimes you don't need the better soldiers, you just need more soldiers.
they quit using it internally on any sort of scale because it sucked
Part of the reason why is because the group that created TFS (DevDiv) views its target audience as lone wolf star programmers, working in their garage, just waiting to become to next big thing. It's in all of their vision documents, and all of the profiles they make up for most of their targeted audience. Since they needed to dogfood it, they got it scale by the 2010 release. It's core problem though, is that all of TFS's designers must have only worked in that group and don't know anything better. I swear they must be actively avoiding even thinking about any possible comparisons to competitors.
Movies should stop having bad guys because it always paints some race or culture as having deceitful and criminal personalities and that upsets me.
I read somewhere that the Director of Skyfall picked Javier Bardem as the villain because he a "can't be identified with any race" aspect to him.
I have a Terminator-like vision of a dark future where everything is a all-in-one, laptop, or tablet--and all are walled gardens.
I struggle to see how having a major player break up its presence in a market, to multiple competitors, the sign that it's going to be harder to purchase individual parts.
This was exactly the same argument made on the eve of WWI, that the world economy was too interdependent for war to be waged between the major powers. What happened afterwards is history.
In all my studying of WWI I've never heard that brought up. The closest thing I've heard to that was that every major head of Europe was Queen Victoria's grandkid (or grandkid-in-law).
Aren't these companies partly owned by the People's Liberation Army?
According to Is China's Huawei a threat to our national security? "Huawei is not China. Huawei is Huawei," said Sykes. "We are an independent commercial company. Zero percent ownership by the Chinese government."
I believe the maximum value on passwords comes from the fact that the hashes for passwords are a hard coded length. The idea being that any length of password coming in, will take up the same amount of space in the database table once hashed. Since passwords should be hashed using a one way hash, there are statistical chances for hash collisions. The greater the length of the hash, the less there is a chance of collision.
So there is a point of diminishing returns where the hashes of longer password will start having a higher probability of colliding with the hashes of smaller passwords. Would you rather have your super long password have a noticeable probability of colliding with a simple dictionary word, or a medium sized password have a near 0 chance of colliding with a simple dictionary word?
For the major offender of VS 2012, type 'color theme ' into Quick Launch and select Environment - General. Then change the Color theme to Dark.
For Office 2013 go to the General options and change the Office Theme to Dark Gray.
I'm not talking about murders, I'm talking about massacres. What are the types of weaponry used by people who are trying to kill everyone in a building?
So what you're saying is that you want to prioritize fighting against events that take a few dozen lives at once versus several thousand that happen to occur one or two at a time?
I think it's more realistic to tackle the massacre events, than the individual shooting events.
Frequency of application.
So tell me, how would banning Assault Weapons prevent handgun murders?
It wouldn't. But that's not what's trying to be accomplished in the current national dialogue. What's trying to be prevented are massacres.
I agree. It made searching for someone's contact impossible because they weren't using Romanized characters in their name.
Maybe they wanted it that way, because they don't want nosy people they know to easily find and harass them?
But you'd only be added to someone's Messenger contact list if you accepted them as a contact. Someone couldn't use a Messenger address to go fishing for real names.
One major issue I have with current copyright laws is that it seems that characters can be copyrighted. It's common knowledge that Congress keeps extending the copyright age so that Disney can retain the right to Mickey Mouse. It seems the idea is that once Steamboat Willie passes a certain mark, anyone and everyone can create new and original works for Mickey Mouse. So why don't we separate copyright from authorship rights? Change copyright back to 7 years. But create the idea of authorship. Disney creates Steamboat Willie, he has 7 years to control how copies of the actual work of art are distributed. He also has 7 years over any new work over any new noun that was created in the show (ie Mickey Mouse). Any time Disney creates a new work of art which extends the story of any character, place or thing, from Steamboat Willie, the authorship rights of that character, place or thing, gets extended. But once 7 years pass, any publisher/distributer can create and distribute infinite copies of Steamboat Willie, but only in it's original form (No "Steamboat Willie DreamWorks Edition"). I think this way works of art will enter the public domain, and authors will still have something valuable they can work on, so long as they keep working on it.
Demanding real names instead of a nickname,
Best feature ever. I hated how I would have trouble finding certain contacts because I didn't know what cute nickname they picked for themselves that day.
Screening by airline personnel was the standard prior to 9/11. It wasn't clearly better.
I remember it being clearly better.
I was under the impression it was heavily advertised. I don't remember what show my spouse was watching a few nights ago, but a Chromebook ad was part of every ad break. Given how little we watch stuff, from my experience the Chromebook is heavily advertised.
Because Microsoft has a dominant market share by EU standards and therefore this sort of behavior is illegal
A dominant market share in what? From every legal finding I've read it's specified that Microsoft has a monopoly on OS's which run on x86 chips. The Surface isn't an OS, it's the entire computer.
Knowing most "users" out there, any option which exists to let a 'user' configure something will most likely result in a virus configuring it on behalf of the ignorant user. Disabling Restricted Boot should require some physical action to prevent software from doing it.
I don't know how much of a change this would be for amazon, but for other websites, I wish they would force a user to give reviews of varying degrees. Someone giving everything a 5 star review, has a pretty worthless opinion. Same, for all 1 star reviews. Have some rule that says "You have to give roughly the same number of 5 star reviews as the other star reviews". If you really want to give an item a 5 star review, and you've used up your 5 star quota, either re-review some items, or find more items to give 3 star reviews to, so you can 'earn' another 5 star review.