You are missing the biggest part. As with every other application or framework, the AJAX ones are released when barely mature. With any other application it 'kinda works' because they rely on a stable base (a JVM, an OS, W3C standards, etc...)
AJAX applications rely on a fragmented unstable and constantly moving base. And no, it is not JavaScript, it is the various DOM implementations and javascript limitations inherent to every different browser. I have written an AJAX framework, and know the pain and the hacks needed to make such a framework usable. The problem is that any browser vendor may chose to disable this CSS feature or this javascript one, or this DOM hack because all of a sudden a whacko has found a way to make it a security vulnerability.
Again, the problem is not with JavaScript or with AJAX, it's with the fragmented unstable base of JavaScript's implementations in web browsers and the 'extra features' the AJAX vendors think they need to make their product competitive (when listing features against a competitor).
Maybe we could just pass a law enforcing DVD producers to clearly state on the front cover in black characters no less than 12 points high on a white background how many seconds of crap you have to watch before getting the movie up and running, and wether it is skippable or not.
So you would see a DVD in the store with the label: "715 seconds of unskippable crap".
Wait... we're on the wrong end of the economic market to design our own laws...
After all, if their revenue drops, it must be because of a third-party actions. What else? Then, the only problem remaining across their path to rentability is to find these third-party terrorists and break them.
Unsurprisingly, these parts are written in Java, while the rest is C++
Of course, the fact that some part of a program doesn't work like the rest is to be solely blamed on the programming language used. The quality of the program itself is obviously to be disregarded in this kind of matter.
In France, you typically get 20Mb/s down 1Mb/s up (depending on your distance to the DSL router) for about 30/month. That's about what every provider gives you these days (at least in reasonnably urbanized areas). This deal includes:
1. An ip telephone where you just plug your phone in and it works. All calls to europe, northern america and most of asia are included in the deal. Calls to mobile phones in France and special numbers are not. 2. TV broadcast, in MPEG-4, 3Mb/s 720x576 (DVD-res). This includes major channels. Additionnal channels can be added on a one by one basis, so if you're interested in sports you can add sport channels for 1/month each. That's just an example. Newer boxes includes HD as well. The box includes a s-video out, spdif out but you can also broadcast to any device on your LAN. 3. Internet access (I believe either USB or 100Mb/s TCP/IP.
That's the typical deal in France. That's what I have at home. And best of the best, you can get rid of the France Telecom (the historical operator) bill. So all of that is only 30/month.
Note that drastically reducing our oil consumption will also remove the outrageous amount of money the middle-east dictatorships are making on our back. This might solve more than the mere global warming issue.
There is no clear scientific proof of to what extent humans are responsible for this and to what extent complete removal of any human CO2 emission could change the situation
What is certain, is that by emmiting CO2, we're not helping. That we pretty much know.
When will you people understand that mere technology cannot win that kind of war. Who is compatible with who, who's got the best quality, who's got the more titles, etc... All these questions, ALL OF THEM, are irrelevant when it comes to who will win the battle (and the war).
There is one more thing to this review. The first three pages talk exclusively about MythTV. Why is that? I don't know.
Then there is a summary table in which every single item described about Windows MCE is just a plain lie / mistake (but for the first one). It seriously looks like these guys didn't even take the time to read anything about MCE, or else they just plain lied.
Of course, they chose MythTV in the end. This is just a big false advertisement, nothing else.
And don't get me wrong, I think MythTV is a great choice. But the article is just trash.
I have learned that the wireless equivalents are always well under the performances of the wired ones. And I'm tired to see my image freeze every time someone walks between the Wi-Fi access point and the HTPC.
Wireless is a no-go, in any of its incarnations today, save the input devices which don't need high data rate: mice, keyboards, remotes. All the rest is just on an emergency basis.
Their growth barely shows they're in the right spot. It shows nothing over their wasting of the precious ressource they are running on. Online payment is a gold bar. They have the incredible talent to make it silver. Hopefully it's a big bar.
I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm saying there's a difference.
Or you can look at it the other way: We're all prisonners of earth after all (or say... the solar system, that'll hold for a while). So finally being in a 10x10 cell or in a 20-planet solar system, it's all the same. We're all prisonners.
WHAT ????? Do you mean Google allows terrorists to use Google MAP ?????
That is just incredible... They're no better than those pirates downloading MP3s... Helping terrorists spread in our beloved countries!!! Even worse! funding their movement!!!
1. They have more money than me so coercing me is legal for them ??? (Remember, that was my question) 2. I don't live in the US, so I guess the civics class you are referring to doesn't quite apply to me.
But if Civics class really teaches me #1, so I'm really glad I'm not american...
According to wikipedia: Coercion is the practice of compelling a person to involuntarily behave in a certain way (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation or some other form of pressure or force.
So when the RIAA comes to you and say: Sign this paper or I'll sue you (ie, I'll drown you under legal fees you can't afford), why is this not coercion? How is all this legal?
>Restricting where someone can live isn't nearly as big a deal as locking them away.
They're exactly the same thing
And I thought size didn't matter! If you really think that then you're stupid. Between being locked in a 10x10 cell and being able to live everywhere but a few areas is a bit different, even if only by a matter of degree.
It's like saying a 10 years sentence is "exactly the same thing" as a 1 month one. In fact, it is: you're going to jail in both cases!!!! So it must be the same.
Damn stupid if you want my point of view. But do you?...
Hmmm, the market doesn't decide anything in this instance. The market is being fed. There is a very important difference. It is basically an abuse by a monopolistic company. Of course, nobody can even sue MS for doing so in that the alternatives are all free (or almost) so there is no monetary damage in their bundling IE with Windows.
Sad, when the monetary damages are the only thing that matters.
The Ubuntu update that "just works" downloaded stuff for me two weeks ago that just crashed every X running on an nvidia or an ATI GC. That's a bit too much for my dad to recover from.
On the other side, I have *never* seen a windows not able to start after a windows update (save XP SP2 but it was clearly advertised as being "big and risky", so my dad would never have installed it without me around).
So much for "Linux just works". BTW, Linux is *not* an OS and shall therefore not be compared to Windows. If you want to compare something, compare Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora or some other distro, but save us the Linux bit. Cause after all, Slackware is also Linux. And it's quite far from XP.
The entire point to have a machine in your living room is to get rid of all the rest (save the screen and speakers/amp of course). A Mac cannot do that (yet). There is no TV support with recording, time shifting, and a decent EPG on the mac mini (yet, that I am aware of). Plus it is a pain to play HD content in any decent codec (h264) on anything but a Windows PC at this time.
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You are missing the biggest part. As with every other application or framework, the AJAX ones are released when barely mature. With any other application it 'kinda works' because they rely on a stable base (a JVM, an OS, W3C standards, etc...)
AJAX applications rely on a fragmented unstable and constantly moving base. And no, it is not JavaScript, it is the various DOM implementations and javascript limitations inherent to every different browser. I have written an AJAX framework, and know the pain and the hacks needed to make such a framework usable. The problem is that any browser vendor may chose to disable this CSS feature or this javascript one, or this DOM hack because all of a sudden a whacko has found a way to make it a security vulnerability.
Again, the problem is not with JavaScript or with AJAX, it's with the fragmented unstable base of JavaScript's implementations in web browsers and the 'extra features' the AJAX vendors think they need to make their product competitive (when listing features against a competitor).
Maybe we could just pass a law enforcing DVD producers to clearly state on the front cover in black characters no less than 12 points high on a white background how many seconds of crap you have to watch before getting the movie up and running, and wether it is skippable or not.
So you would see a DVD in the store with the label: "715 seconds of unskippable crap".
Wait... we're on the wrong end of the economic market to design our own laws...
After all, if their revenue drops, it must be because of a third-party actions. What else? Then, the only problem remaining across their path to rentability is to find these third-party terrorists and break them.
As simple as that.
Unsurprisingly, these parts are written in Java, while the rest is C++
Of course, the fact that some part of a program doesn't work like the rest is to be solely blamed on the programming language used. The quality of the program itself is obviously to be disregarded in this kind of matter.
In France, you typically get 20Mb/s down 1Mb/s up (depending on your distance to the DSL router) for about 30/month. That's about what every provider gives you these days (at least in reasonnably urbanized areas). This deal includes:
1. An ip telephone where you just plug your phone in and it works. All calls to europe, northern america and most of asia are included in the deal. Calls to mobile phones in France and special numbers are not.
2. TV broadcast, in MPEG-4, 3Mb/s 720x576 (DVD-res). This includes major channels. Additionnal channels can be added on a one by one basis, so if you're interested in sports you can add sport channels for 1/month each. That's just an example. Newer boxes includes HD as well. The box includes a s-video out, spdif out but you can also broadcast to any device on your LAN.
3. Internet access (I believe either USB or 100Mb/s TCP/IP.
That's the typical deal in France. That's what I have at home. And best of the best, you can get rid of the France Telecom (the historical operator) bill. So all of that is only 30/month.
Note that drastically reducing our oil consumption will also remove the outrageous amount of money the middle-east dictatorships are making on our back. This might solve more than the mere global warming issue.
There is no clear scientific proof of to what extent humans are responsible for this and to what extent complete removal of any human CO2 emission could change the situation
What is certain, is that by emmiting CO2, we're not helping. That we pretty much know.
Why in the world would SONY invest in such a nonsense? Don't get me wrong, this sounds really cool. But why should SONY care?
As I said in another post technical merits of a technology very seldom decides its success.
When will you people understand that mere technology cannot win that kind of war. Who is compatible with who, who's got the best quality, who's got the more titles, etc... All these questions, ALL OF THEM, are irrelevant when it comes to who will win the battle (and the war).
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The war will be won by the format that is on the front display of all Best Buy-like stores over the planet. Read here for more infos: http://projectorcentral.com/retailing_HD-DVD_Blu-
There is one more thing to this review. The first three pages talk exclusively about MythTV. Why is that? I don't know.
Then there is a summary table in which every single item described about Windows MCE is just a plain lie / mistake (but for the first one). It seriously looks like these guys didn't even take the time to read anything about MCE, or else they just plain lied.
Of course, they chose MythTV in the end. This is just a big false advertisement, nothing else.
And don't get me wrong, I think MythTV is a great choice. But the article is just trash.
I have learned that the wireless equivalents are always well under the performances of the wired ones. And I'm tired to see my image freeze every time someone walks between the Wi-Fi access point and the HTPC.
Wireless is a no-go, in any of its incarnations today, save the input devices which don't need high data rate: mice, keyboards, remotes. All the rest is just on an emergency basis.
You know, usually when a story's links are slashdotted to death, I can at least make up something half intelligent based on the description.
Something half intelligent is also something half stupid. Maybe you should be glad there were no outright lies/mistakes in the description.
Firefox is not safe, nor is Ubuntu, nor is VMWare. You shouldn't believe commercial propaganda written on a commercial website.
Their growth barely shows they're in the right spot. It shows nothing over their wasting of the precious ressource they are running on. Online payment is a gold bar. They have the incredible talent to make it silver. Hopefully it's a big bar.
I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm saying there's a difference.
Or you can look at it the other way: We're all prisonners of earth after all (or say... the solar system, that'll hold for a while). So finally being in a 10x10 cell or in a 20-planet solar system, it's all the same. We're all prisonners.
WHAT ????? Do you mean Google allows terrorists to use Google MAP ?????
;-)
That is just incredible... They're no better than those pirates downloading MP3s... Helping terrorists spread in our beloved countries!!! Even worse! funding their movement!!!
We should killl them all.
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Then again, Paypal has never made any business sense anyways...
Thanks for your insight. Let's resume:
1. They have more money than me so coercing me is legal for them ??? (Remember, that was my question)
2. I don't live in the US, so I guess the civics class you are referring to doesn't quite apply to me.
But if Civics class really teaches me #1, so I'm really glad I'm not american...
According to wikipedia:
Coercion is the practice of compelling a person to involuntarily behave in a certain way (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, intimidation or some other form of pressure or force.
So when the RIAA comes to you and say: Sign this paper or I'll sue you (ie, I'll drown you under legal fees you can't afford), why is this not coercion? How is all this legal?
So, should those living in a 5x10 cell have their sentence halved
Well, according to Immercenary_2000, having its sentence served in a 10x10 cell and a 5x10 cell is "exactly the same thing". So I guess not.
>Restricting where someone can live isn't nearly as big a deal as locking them away.
They're exactly the same thing
And I thought size didn't matter! If you really think that then you're stupid. Between being locked in a 10x10 cell and being able to live everywhere but a few areas is a bit different, even if only by a matter of degree.
It's like saying a 10 years sentence is "exactly the same thing" as a 1 month one. In fact, it is: you're going to jail in both cases!!!! So it must be the same.
Damn stupid if you want my point of view. But do you?...
You mean we should all die coding?
Nail infection, here I come.
Hmmm, the market doesn't decide anything in this instance. The market is being fed. There is a very important difference. It is basically an abuse by a monopolistic company. Of course, nobody can even sue MS for doing so in that the alternatives are all free (or almost) so there is no monetary damage in their bundling IE with Windows.
Sad, when the monetary damages are the only thing that matters.
The Ubuntu update that "just works" downloaded stuff for me two weeks ago that just crashed every X running on an nvidia or an ATI GC. That's a bit too much for my dad to recover from.
On the other side, I have *never* seen a windows not able to start after a windows update (save XP SP2 but it was clearly advertised as being "big and risky", so my dad would never have installed it without me around).
So much for "Linux just works". BTW, Linux is *not* an OS and shall therefore not be compared to Windows. If you want to compare something, compare Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora or some other distro, but save us the Linux bit. Cause after all, Slackware is also Linux. And it's quite far from XP.
The entire point to have a machine in your living room is to get rid of all the rest (save the screen and speakers/amp of course). A Mac cannot do that (yet). There is no TV support with recording, time shifting, and a decent EPG on the mac mini (yet, that I am aware of). Plus it is a pain to play HD content in any decent codec (h264) on anything but a Windows PC at this time.
Unfortunately, Mac is a no-no for now.