Bloody hell.. I wasn't trolling at all, I was just asking the OP to back up their comment about guns in the populace (as according to him/her he/she was replying to the GPs comment about guns), in what I thought was a humourous way:(
I typed in Shantaram which both my girlfriend and I have read and enjoyed. She owns the number 4 unsuggestion (Stitch and bitch handbook) and I own the number 8 (Design Patterns).
> And why should nation states and courts get involved in making other products work with > Microsoft's?
Because Microsoft are leveraging the effective monopoly they have in the OS and office markets to make their protocols and file formats de-facto standards, then withholding documentation in order to stop competitors from being able to use these, now standard, protocols.
> Microsoft's not a monopoly: you're perfectly free to create your own standard (as the OO > crowd is trying to do). Surely you'll admit that it's not Microsoft's fault that such > standards aren't catching on?
Yes they are and yes it is. Courts in both the US and the EU have found Microsoft to be a monopoly. Furthermore courts in both the EU and the US have found Microsoft to be illegally using it's monopoly status to lock-out competitors by either polluting existing standards ('embrace and extend' as it's known)(HTML, Java etc) or create proprietary standards and then consistently attempt to make it difficult for other software to be compatible (.doc, SMB, WMV etc).
> Personally I don't use OO because I can't swap files with people with whom I co-author > scientific articles. MS Office and Open Office equations STILL don't work right (and before > you LaTeX fanatics step in, neither of us speak that language).
All the more reason to document the file format properly and allow the applications to compete on merit and price then don't you think?
> Since I get my MS Office for free, why should I even consider OO?
I didn't notice anyone say you should. But if I can't use OO because you use Office simply because Microsoft is deliberately obfuscating their file format is that fair either?
Laptops use a *lot* less energy. My desktop (excluding monitor) pulls more than twice what my laptop does *including* it's screen being on full brightness.
Well seeing as we've been told it's using the 'analog hole' I think it's a fair assumption that that's how it works.
Seems the analogue in can capture the analogue out before it leaves the card, presumably bypassing whatever DRM enforcement happens in the lower level Windows Media layers:
"Windows Media Player does the tough job of converting the 1's and 0's particular to that codec the music was stored as into an analog output that is played through the sound card. While the song is playing, AnalogWhole re-routes this analog signal back into the recording input of the sound card. "
There is more degradation this way, because instead of having:
decode->encode
you have
decode->adc->dac->encode
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Yeah but a little more unstable isn't necessarily the same as 5 or more application crashes a day. I wouldn't expect that from a clean Win98 install...
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There do seem to be a number of regressions with Edgy to be honest. I think they cleaned up a lot of them before release, but the release isn't as solid as Dapper. Personally I've been getting quite a few random crashes, but I am running the nVidia beta drivers and Beryl, so I can't necessarily blame that on [...]*firefox crashed here!*(luckily its new session recovery recovered the tabs *and* my half written reply, which is quite impressive)[...]
No the way it works is that you identify parts of a page that you want to experiment with with tags, include a javascript library on it and a conversion page, and then tell google what variations on the tagged item (alternate headlines for example) you want to test.
When someone goes to that page, google will randomly select one of your alternate headlines and replace the original one with it. It'll then check if that person buys something (or subscribes or whatever).
It then gives you a report of which variations lead to the most conversions.
I've never seen a 'java site' if you mean a site running as an applet. I've seen some ill-conceived uses of applets, but applets never worked very well. Flash has been around for a long time and has remained popular.
Personally I virtually never come across all flash sites, except when I occasionally click through to the wrong place and end up at a site promoting a movie or a game.
My experience of the use of flash these days tends to revolve around it's use for either animated elements on a site, such as an welcome banner on a homepage, or as a generic movie player like on youtube, google video etc, which I think is a great way to deliver video, or for some online games, like those by Ferry Halim. I think these are all perfectly valid uses of the plugin and don't have any negative effect on usability.
My only complaint about Flash in and of itself (any technology can be abused) is that it's closed source, so we are at the mercy of Adobe.
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A few Linux users refusing to use flash is going to make fk all difference to Adobe. Flash is here to stay for now, it's too well entrenched.
And all the complaints about Flash mainly boil down to one thing, it's a standard but closed source, which leads to exactly the kind of thing people have had to put up with of not being able to use a lot of websites because they require 8 or above and Adobe hadn't released a player...
How are they using their monopoly to do that? People are using lots of their services because they like their other services, but I don't see how they're leveraging their monopoly in search to gain advantage elsewhere.
I dislike a number of things Google do but I really don't see your point.
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My comment was more in reference to the mention of guns. As far as I know not many revolutions have relied much on guns.
Bloody hell.. I wasn't trolling at all, I was just asking the OP to back up their comment about guns in the populace (as according to him/her he/she was replying to the GPs comment about guns), in what I thought was a humourous way :(
I typed in Shantaram which both my girlfriend and I have read and enjoyed. She owns the number 4 unsuggestion (Stitch and bitch handbook) and I own the number 8 (Design Patterns).
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> And why should nation states and courts get involved in making other products work with
> Microsoft's?
Because Microsoft are leveraging the effective monopoly they have in the OS and office markets to make their protocols and file formats de-facto standards, then withholding documentation in order to stop competitors from being able to use these, now standard, protocols.
> Microsoft's not a monopoly: you're perfectly free to create your own standard (as the OO
> crowd is trying to do). Surely you'll admit that it's not Microsoft's fault that such
> standards aren't catching on?
Yes they are and yes it is. Courts in both the US and the EU have found Microsoft to be a monopoly. Furthermore courts in both the EU and the US have found Microsoft to be illegally using it's monopoly status to lock-out competitors by either polluting existing standards ('embrace and extend' as it's known)(HTML, Java etc) or create proprietary standards and then consistently attempt to make it difficult for other software to be compatible (.doc, SMB, WMV etc).
> Personally I don't use OO because I can't swap files with people with whom I co-author
> scientific articles. MS Office and Open Office equations STILL don't work right (and before
> you LaTeX fanatics step in, neither of us speak that language).
All the more reason to document the file format properly and allow the applications to compete on merit and price then don't you think?
> Since I get my MS Office for free, why should I even consider OO?
I didn't notice anyone say you should. But if I can't use OO because you use Office simply because Microsoft is deliberately obfuscating their file format is that fair either?
Very cool.
:)
How do you do it though?
(I don't have a Wii yet but judging from your description this sounds like an easter egg?)
Thirded! One of the best multi-player games of all time IMHO.
Well I'm glad you responded to the trolls personally. It's refreshing to see this common fallacy put down.
"[...]and contribute fixes back to the community."
Hahahahahahahaha!
HAHAHAHA!
Oh stop it you're killing me!
Come on, you are aware of what has happened pretty much any time Microsoft has made a deal with a competitor aren't you?
Specifically the report said that we were waking up in a surveillance society, not that we're walking into one.
Laptops use a *lot* less energy. My desktop (excluding monitor) pulls more than twice what my laptop does *including* it's screen being on full brightness.
They have RPGs?
Well seeing as we've been told it's using the 'analog hole' I think it's a fair assumption that that's how it works.
Seems the analogue in can capture the analogue out before it leaves the card, presumably bypassing whatever DRM enforcement happens in the lower level Windows Media layers:
"Windows Media Player does the tough job of converting the 1's and 0's particular to that codec the music was stored as into an analog output that is played through the sound card. While the song is playing, AnalogWhole re-routes this analog signal back into the recording input of the sound card. "
I think the insugency in Iraq is a bit better armed than your average farmer.
There is more degradation this way, because instead of having:
decode->encode
you have
decode->adc->dac->encode
Yeah but a little more unstable isn't necessarily the same as 5 or more application crashes a day. I wouldn't expect that from a clean Win98 install...
There do seem to be a number of regressions with Edgy to be honest. I think they cleaned up a lot of them before release, but the release isn't as solid as Dapper. Personally I've been getting quite a few random crashes, but I am running the nVidia beta drivers and Beryl, so I can't necessarily blame that on [...]*firefox crashed here!*(luckily its new session recovery recovered the tabs *and* my half written reply, which is quite impressive)[...]
Main stability issue for me has been FF2.
No the way it works is that you identify parts of a page that you want to experiment with with tags, include a javascript library on it and a conversion page, and then tell google what variations on the tagged item (alternate headlines for example) you want to test.
When someone goes to that page, google will randomly select one of your alternate headlines and replace the original one with it. It'll then check if that person buys something (or subscribes or whatever).
It then gives you a report of which variations lead to the most conversions.
I've never seen a 'java site' if you mean a site running as an applet. I've seen some ill-conceived uses of applets, but applets never worked very well. Flash has been around for a long time and has remained popular.
Personally I virtually never come across all flash sites, except when I occasionally click through to the wrong place and end up at a site promoting a movie or a game.
My experience of the use of flash these days tends to revolve around it's use for either animated elements on a site, such as an welcome banner on a homepage, or as a generic movie player like on youtube, google video etc, which I think is a great way to deliver video, or for some online games, like those by Ferry Halim. I think these are all perfectly valid uses of the plugin and don't have any negative effect on usability.
My only complaint about Flash in and of itself (any technology can be abused) is that it's closed source, so we are at the mercy of Adobe.
Whatever..
Here's part of the GN privacy policy:
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I believe GN only keep a record of what you've downloaded for 3 days.
hellanzb beats nzbget for me. Used to use the latter but switched as hellanzb handles unparring, unrarring, fetching nzbs from newzbin by id and whatnot too.
Nice FF plugin as well, hellafox.
A few Linux users refusing to use flash is going to make fk all difference to Adobe.
Flash is here to stay for now, it's too well entrenched.
And all the complaints about Flash mainly boil down to one thing, it's a standard but closed source, which leads to exactly the kind of thing people have had to put up with of not being able to use a lot of websites because they require 8 or above and Adobe hadn't released a player...
I understand now.
:)
Sorry if my post came across with default "you're an idiot" tone so common on here, it starts to become a habit
How are they using their monopoly to do that? People are using lots of their services because they like their other services, but I don't see how they're leveraging their monopoly in search to gain advantage elsewhere.
I dislike a number of things Google do but I really don't see your point.