The best player for video on the internet is still embedded Windows Media Player. It's just a shell around DirectShow, but DirectShow stuff is very well optimized, especially when using good third-party codecs. Nothing else comes close. Flash video is slow as hell, and Firefox's playback of HTML 5 video is even slower, especially when it is not played at 100% size.
So we have a 10-year old browser plugin outperforming all the newest software, and that's insane. Only goes to prove that software quality goes down with time.
Let FTP die already. Clear text passwords suck. The only legitimate use of FTP is a way of transferring files over a LAN to something which doesn't have a good implementation of a CIFS or SSH server.
It's just about like trusting that a power outlet will deliver the voltage and frequency it claims to, and not something else that will blow up your device.
Wikipedia needs to amend its "Notability" and "Verifiability" policies badly, and stop deleting articles (which blocks access to the edit history). They don't accept evidence as verification, only "published sources" which use inaccurate speculation and second-hand information. Misinformation keeps reappearing on pages, because it has a citation to some other website which makes the claim, despite that it is untrue.
An example of a time I was highly frustrated is when I was trying to read about the software program called Impulse Tracker, then discovered that its page was deleted. So what if Impulse Tracker is "not notable", its file format is still used in the tracking scene, so I wanted to read about the original program, but can't because the page was deleted. And if I want to reconstruct the page, I can't because the edit history is blocked out.
MP3.COM had the "My.MP3.com" feature, which let users stream music from CDs that they had registered with the site. Universal Music Group sued them and cost mp3.com $53 million in judgements and legal fees.
Mint isn't even based on Ubuntu anymore, since they got disgusted enough by it. Now it's based on plain old Debian, then heavily customized to the point that it becomes Mint.
Looks like the Url Classifier (worthless anti-phishing feature) is eating up a fair amount of resources for nothing. You look in your user profile, and you see the urlclassifier3.sqlite file keep getting bigger and bigger for no real reason, and you see that Firefox needs 24MB of RAM just to have it loaded and working.
Here's my list (sorted top 25, but may be misleading since some of the numbers look like sums of others)
Silverlight's Firefox plugin, unlike the Flash plugin, never pegged my CPU to shit ads at me.
Are you really blaming the Flash Player plugin for what websites have decided to send you? Flash Ads are an issue between you and the website you are visiting, not the technology itself.
Just because it's binary doesn't mean it's not parsable. A SWF file is a very well-known file format, made up of a sequence of Tags. Some tags define images, sounds, or shapes, while other tags place them in the frame, while other tags define the Actionscript code.
So, if you're using a local HTTP proxy program, you could change the content of a SWF file as it downloads.
I never understood the hate for Experts-exchange.com. Sure, they make it look like you need to pay to read the site, but you can always scroll down to the bottom of the page and read the discussion anyway.
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The best player for video on the internet is still embedded Windows Media Player. It's just a shell around DirectShow, but DirectShow stuff is very well optimized, especially when using good third-party codecs. Nothing else comes close. Flash video is slow as hell, and Firefox's playback of HTML 5 video is even slower, especially when it is not played at 100% size.
So we have a 10-year old browser plugin outperforming all the newest software, and that's insane. Only goes to prove that software quality goes down with time.
Let FTP die already. Clear text passwords suck.
The only legitimate use of FTP is a way of transferring files over a LAN to something which doesn't have a good implementation of a CIFS or SSH server.
It's just about like trusting that a power outlet will deliver the voltage and frequency it claims to, and not something else that will blow up your device.
Wikipedia needs to amend its "Notability" and "Verifiability" policies badly, and stop deleting articles (which blocks access to the edit history). They don't accept evidence as verification, only "published sources" which use inaccurate speculation and second-hand information. Misinformation keeps reappearing on pages, because it has a citation to some other website which makes the claim, despite that it is untrue.
An example of a time I was highly frustrated is when I was trying to read about the software program called Impulse Tracker, then discovered that its page was deleted. So what if Impulse Tracker is "not notable", its file format is still used in the tracking scene, so I wanted to read about the original program, but can't because the page was deleted. And if I want to reconstruct the page, I can't because the edit history is blocked out.
You can't revoke the particular version released, but later versions may be closed source.
The Google-owned "Recaptcha" appearing on every board on 4chan doesn't hurt. It will identify everyone who isn't behind seven proxies.
If you read the paper, you see that they are using FreeCiv, and not Civilization II.
Also really cool: The RBox
http://rossum.posterous.com/20131601
It uses an ARM CPU to generate a TV picture on the fly. The display needs to be generated scanline by scanline, sort of like an Atari 2600.
MP3.COM had the "My.MP3.com" feature, which let users stream music from CDs that they had registered with the site. Universal Music Group sued them and cost mp3.com $53 million in judgements and legal fees.
So we are supposed to cheer from seizing property from someone who has been accused but not yet convicted?
If this happened in America, would the 14th Amendment stop this?
You can always match disassemblies made from similar compilers, you know.
Yes, let's encrypt some audio before running it through Lossy Compression, and hope that we can get some recognizable signal afterwards.
Mint isn't even based on Ubuntu anymore, since they got disgusted enough by it. Now it's based on plain old Debian, then heavily customized to the point that it becomes Mint.
The worst invented name is the ".NET Assembly". It lets scripting language programmers pretend that they are using Assembly in some way.
Wow, we have a thread about a Javascript Gameboy Color emulator, and nobody has mentioned Nezulator, the Javascript NES emulator.
Looks like the Url Classifier (worthless anti-phishing feature) is eating up a fair amount of resources for nothing. You look in your user profile, and you see the urlclassifier3.sqlite file keep getting bigger and bigger for no real reason, and you see that Firefox needs 24MB of RAM just to have it loaded and working.
Here's my list (sorted top 25, but may be misleading since some of the numbers look like sums of others)
win32/workingset 432,160,768
win32/privatebytes 420,995,072
malloc/committed 376,307,712
DescriptionValuemalloc/allocated 354,080,976
storage/sqlite/pagecache 79,423,848
js/gc-heap 66,060,288
storage/places.sqlite/Cache_Used 52,400,928
storage/urlclassifier3.sqlite/Cache_Used 24,250,888
js/string-data 7,282,684
layout/all 6,261,185
images/content/used/raw 4,043,747
images/content/used/uncompressed 3,444,586
gfx/surface/win32 3,398,208
storage/sqlite/other 1,589,512
malloc/dirty 1,097,728
js/mjit-code 913,507
storage/cookies.sqlite/Cache_Used 528,376
storage/formhistory.sqlite/Cache_Used 508,664
storage/extensions.sqlite/Cache_Used 494,144
storage/addons.sqlite/Cache_Used 362,512
content/canvas/2d_pixel_bytes 360,000
images/chrome/used/uncompressed 353,440
shmem/allocated 344,064
shmem/mapped 344,064
Firefox 4 usually uses about 900MB of RAM after running for several days. This is not acceptable. But flaws in Chrome keep me coming back to Firefox.
It's Javascript stuff. Move along, nothing to see here.
Are you really blaming the Flash Player plugin for what websites have decided to send you? Flash Ads are an issue between you and the website you are visiting, not the technology itself.
You mean that store that sells Cell Phone plans and accessories, and doesn't sell any electronic components?
Try using something like Autopager to load the subsequent pages into the same window.
There are only 65536 ports, so you are limited to how many users you can stick behind NAT.
Wii has a web browser with Flash 7, it's called the "Internet Channel".
Just because it's binary doesn't mean it's not parsable. A SWF file is a very well-known file format, made up of a sequence of Tags. Some tags define images, sounds, or shapes, while other tags place them in the frame, while other tags define the Actionscript code.
So, if you're using a local HTTP proxy program, you could change the content of a SWF file as it downloads.
I never understood the hate for Experts-exchange.com. Sure, they make it look like you need to pay to read the site, but you can always scroll down to the bottom of the page and read the discussion anyway.