Because the actual blog by the guys who did this on how they did this is actually very interesting with a lot of technical detail - and really appropriate for a site which used to have "news for nerds". Would have been a much better link to include in the summary...
As a European, what's Walmart? But seriously, let me give you some more global perspective - besides UK, Japan, China and South Africa there is not really much of a Walmart presence outside of North and South America. They will never catch up to Amazon, which is present just about everywhere in the world.
Amazon has the hell optimized out of their logistics and again, is present just about everywhere. There is not really much of an advantage (besides storefront locations) that Walmart has.
to your list. I received an invitation titled "Exclusive Look: Slashdot Redesign Alpha" on 2013-09-17. Assuming that a lot of people gave rather negative feedback, this has been going on for a long time.
Why would it "probably" be as patent encumbered as h.264?
Dark Shikari, a developer of x264, made an extensive analysis of WebM / VP8. Here is his summary regarding patents and VP8 (for details read the blog):
Finally, the problem of patents appears to be rearing its ugly head again. VP8 is simply way too similar to H.264: a pithy, if slightly inaccurate, description of VP8 would be “H.264 Baseline Profile with a better entropy coder”. Even VC-1 differed more from H.264 than VP8 does, and even VC-1 didn’t manage to escape the clutches of software patents. It’s quite possible that VP8 has no patent issues, but until we get some hard evidence that VP8 is safe, I would be cautious. Since Google is not indemnifying users of VP8 from patent lawsuits, this is even more of a potential problem. Most importantly, Google has not released any justifications for why the various parts of VP8 do not violate patents, as Sun did with their OMS standard: such information would certainly cut down on speculation and make it more clear what their position actually is.
Or use Chrome, which has a very neat inbuilt translation. When it detects a page with a langauge different to you main language, it asks whether it should translate it : Picture. Extremely useful!
So by doing this they are not serving their actual customers but bowing down to the pressure of school / testing entities. Interesting indeed.
As somebody who's not from the US I've never quite understood why TI behaved this way. But they are basically bowing down to SAT and other tests like this. Thanks for the explanation!
Seriously - why are they trying to stop this? It's not like there is a huge app store (phones) or a huge market for pirating apps (nintendo ds/psp) where they would lose money by allowing this. Can somebody explain the reasoning behind their unwillingness to allow hobbyist applications to me?
Or, if everything else fails, try writing an email to your account saying you want your laptop back and are willing to pay for it. The thief might read it. I know this pretty much sucks because you are paying the thief but if have you tried everything else and want the laptop really bad this could be a viable option.
The only value that Getty Images could add would be offering legal services to those who photos are used in violation of whatever the licensing terms are.
Not true - they have something much more valuable: direct access to customers willing to pay for images (newspapers, press agency, online news sites, etc.). That is their main business model after all. That is also why they will pay such a small sum to flickr photographers - because they know that they are in the stronger position. Photographers / flickr users are easily replaceable, but Getty Images is not replaceable.
There is nice quote by Robert A. Heinlein for what you described:
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
This wasn't supposed to be an anti-MS article - with all the previous discussions on/. regarding html5 and video I thought this was rather obvious. Quite the contrary: the article was supposed to highlight why MS made that decision and let us discuss their arguments. I for one would have probably made the same decision as the IE9 manager.
And with all that said, perhaps it's time to put Microsoft's SVG implementation through the/. torture rack.
Not necessary - here is a nice comparision for all current browser implementations of SVG and how much tests of the official SVG test suite they pass : SVG Implementation Table. If you click on the chart you get a very detailed view.
To summarize: IE9: 29% of the SVG test cases, Firefox: 72%, Chrome/Safari: 83 Opera: 93%
IE9 is way behind, Opera is the winner in this test
These devices are starting to get common in Europe (and maybe elsewehere) - they are called smart meters. They will be required for a smart grid which in turn is presumed to be required for mass deployment of electric cars. These devices are neither new nor did google invent something that hasn't existed before.
(I am not the orginal poster). But inspecting his post, this seems to be fairly easy: [b][em][strong]you text here[/b][/em][/strong]. This is the result: result . Slashdot should really not allow stuff like this.
Not necessary. A Bing Product Manager has already commented on the CPAN Testers blog entry upon which the article is based:
Hi, I am a Program Manager on the Bing team at Microsoft, thanks for bringing this issue to our attention. I have sent an email to barbie@cpan.org as we need additional information to be able to track down the problem. If you have not received the email please contact us through the Bing webmaster center at bwmc@microsoft.com.
As said below, never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. (Insert lame joke about MSFT being full of stupidity here).
There's just no reason to get this installed in corporate networks where IE6 is being used (breaks most intranet sites)
BS! Chrome Frame is entirely opt-in i.e. the website has to include a meta-tag indicating that the site should be displayed in Chrome Frame instead of IE Trident. This is the point of Chrome Frame: allow all these corporations (mostly) to keep their IE6 and maybe IE7 while still having the possibilty to access all these new & shiny ajaxy webapps (like Wave).
Well, as we are all aware, nobody cares how hard the admin's job is. The Enterprise is BB's target market and they're dug in deep. Just the ability to sync with Exchange calendars, contacts and email is 99% of why Blackberry exists - because BES is great if you're a user. If you're an admin, your job is to support the business and the business wants Exchange sync.
Read what he said again. The blackberry requires a whole bunch of 3rd party software to do that in a vaguely okay way, all of which is limiting, and a pain in the ass. By contrast, the iPhone does exchange calendar, contact and email syncing straight out the box, with extra faffing about.
Just for the sake of completeness: and so do all Windows Mobile devices, without the need for any extra software, straight out of the box.
Slashdot Mirror
Because the actual blog by the guys who did this on how they did this is actually very interesting with a lot of technical detail - and really appropriate for a site which used to have "news for nerds". Would have been a much better link to include in the summary...
Great news indeed!
Signed,
a lot of old farts who still keep and kept reading (despite the DICE stuff)
Just to avoid any confusion: VS Code is not Visual Studio, VS Code is a web-based code editor.
As a European, what's Walmart? But seriously, let me give you some more global perspective - besides UK, Japan, China and South Africa there is not really much of a Walmart presence outside of North and South America. They will never catch up to Amazon, which is present just about everywhere in the world.
Amazon has the hell optimized out of their logistics and again, is present just about everywhere. There is not really much of an advantage (besides storefront locations) that Walmart has.
You may add
September
October
to your list. I received an invitation titled "Exclusive Look: Slashdot Redesign Alpha" on 2013-09-17. Assuming that a lot of people gave rather negative feedback, this has been going on for a long time.
It is a joke. Relax.
Why would it "probably" be as patent encumbered as h.264?
Dark Shikari, a developer of x264, made an extensive analysis of WebM / VP8. Here is his summary regarding patents and VP8 (for details read the blog):
Finally, the problem of patents appears to be rearing its ugly head again. VP8 is simply way too similar to H.264: a pithy, if slightly inaccurate, description of VP8 would be “H.264 Baseline Profile with a better entropy coder”. Even VC-1 differed more from H.264 than VP8 does, and even VC-1 didn’t manage to escape the clutches of software patents. It’s quite possible that VP8 has no patent issues, but until we get some hard evidence that VP8 is safe, I would be cautious. Since Google is not indemnifying users of VP8 from patent lawsuits, this is even more of a potential problem. Most importantly, Google has not released any justifications for why the various parts of VP8 do not violate patents, as Sun did with their OMS standard: such information would certainly cut down on speculation and make it more clear what their position actually is.
Or use Chrome, which has a very neat inbuilt translation. When it detects a page with a langauge different to you main language, it asks whether it should translate it : Picture. Extremely useful!
So by doing this they are not serving their actual customers but bowing down to the pressure of school / testing entities. Interesting indeed.
As somebody who's not from the US I've never quite understood why TI behaved this way. But they are basically bowing down to SAT and other tests like this. Thanks for the explanation!
Seriously - why are they trying to stop this? It's not like there is a huge app store (phones) or a huge market for pirating apps (nintendo ds/psp) where they would lose money by allowing this. Can somebody explain the reasoning behind their unwillingness to allow hobbyist applications to me?
Or, if everything else fails, try writing an email to your account saying you want your laptop back and are willing to pay for it. The thief might read it. I know this pretty much sucks because you are paying the thief but if have you tried everything else and want the laptop really bad this could be a viable option.
He should be honored and respected for his actions, not called abnormal.
Yeah we should give him a prize or sth. Oh, wait...
no escape from reality
The only value that Getty Images could add would be offering legal services to those who photos are used in violation of whatever the licensing terms are.
Not true - they have something much more valuable: direct access to customers willing to pay for images (newspapers, press agency, online news sites, etc.). That is their main business model after all. That is also why they will pay such a small sum to flickr photographers - because they know that they are in the stronger position. Photographers / flickr users are easily replaceable, but Getty Images is not replaceable.
There is nice quote by Robert A. Heinlein for what you described:
"There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
- Robert A. Heinlein, "Life-Line"
This wasn't supposed to be an anti-MS article - with all the previous discussions on /. regarding html5 and video I thought this was rather obvious. Quite the contrary: the article was supposed to highlight why MS made that decision and let us discuss their arguments. I for one would have probably made the same decision as the IE9 manager.
And with all that said, perhaps it's time to put Microsoft's SVG implementation through the /. torture rack.
Not necessary - here is a nice comparision for all current browser implementations of SVG and how much tests of the official SVG test suite they pass : SVG Implementation Table. If you click on the chart you get a very detailed view.
To summarize:
IE9: 29% of the SVG test cases,
Firefox: 72%,
Chrome/Safari: 83
Opera: 93%
IE9 is way behind, Opera is the winner in this test
These devices are starting to get common in Europe (and maybe elsewehere) - they are called smart meters. They will be required for a smart grid which in turn is presumed to be required for mass deployment of electric cars. These devices are neither new nor did google invent something that hasn't existed before.
Whoops. Looks like my pseudo-HTML is not well formed (look at the closing brackets). But you get the idea.
(I am not the orginal poster). But inspecting his post, this seems to be fairly easy: [b][em][strong]you text here[/b][/em][/strong]. This is the result: result . Slashdot should really not allow stuff like this.
Not necessary. A Bing Product Manager has already commented on the CPAN Testers blog entry upon which the article is based:
Hi,
I am a Program Manager on the Bing team at Microsoft, thanks for bringing this issue to our attention. I have sent an email to barbie@cpan.org as we need additional information to be able to track down the problem. If you have not received the email please contact us through the Bing webmaster center at bwmc@microsoft.com.
As said below, never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. (Insert lame joke about MSFT being full of stupidity here).
Seriously? A story about breaking a phone which surprisingly is not unbreakable? If it's a slow news day at least put it in idle!
Meh.
I'm not going to install quicktime just to watch the video. So here's the youtube link: linky
There's just no reason to get this installed in corporate networks where IE6 is being used (breaks most intranet sites)
BS! Chrome Frame is entirely opt-in i.e. the website has to include a meta-tag indicating that the site should be displayed in Chrome Frame instead of IE Trident. This is the point of Chrome Frame: allow all these corporations (mostly) to keep their IE6 and maybe IE7 while still having the possibilty to access all these new & shiny ajaxy webapps (like Wave).
Well, as we are all aware, nobody cares how hard the admin's job is. The Enterprise is BB's target market and they're dug in deep. Just the ability to sync with Exchange calendars, contacts and email is 99% of why Blackberry exists - because BES is great if you're a user. If you're an admin, your job is to support the business and the business wants Exchange sync.
Read what he said again. The blackberry requires a whole bunch of 3rd party software to do that in a vaguely okay way, all of which is limiting, and a pain in the ass. By contrast, the iPhone does exchange calendar, contact and email syncing straight out the box, with extra faffing about.
Just for the sake of completeness: and so do all Windows Mobile devices, without the need for any extra software, straight out of the box.