Everyone get ready for IE becoming the corporate standard again.
All of which said, I was under the impression Chrome ultimately was going to implement another API instead, rather than abandoning the concept of plug-ins altogether. It seems hard to believe that Chrome is completely closed.
Well, there you go. What about videos in tabs you're not looking at, and also videos everywhere else, don't autoplay at all?
There is no reason whatsoever for any video to autoplay. The person at Adobe who allowed that to happen without user intervention, as well as the committee of W3C experts who decided to replicate this anti-pattern in HTML5, need to be taken out into the streets and slapped around the face with a giant trout.
Every time I'm stuck behind some clunker from the 1970s, or even a diesel from the 1990s, with my car's AC sucking in (despite being on the recycled air setting) the fumes from an era of under-regulation, I'm reminded of why the EPA is generally a good thing, and how much better off we are with it. Remember: you're choking on air that twenty years ago was the norm for driving through.
Yeah, sometimes they're not effective enough, but I think the nation's generally better off thanks to their work.
Windows 7 Starter Edition was a crippled version of Windows 7 Home. It had the same requirements, but you couldn't do as much. So of course it didn't do well.
Windows 8.1 with Bing is Windows 8.1, with Bing as the default search engine... and that's it. Nothing else is different. Same system requirements, but critically it's not crippled in any way. (It's not even locked to Bing.) No features have been removed.
Except, obviously, that it's Windows 10, not Windows 8.1. My HP tablet comes with Windows 8.1 with Bing, and I've been suspecting the "free upgrade" I'll be getting will be to an equivalent Windows 10 version.
Windows 8.1 with Bing is actually free to manufacturers of cheaper devices. I assume that was partly why it was on my $150 HP tablet.
Look it's quite simple, it's a multiplatform framework to empower SAAS professionals to partner with their clients on provisioning media services over the cloud through standardized, open, technologies.
Powered by GStreamer.
(The sad thing is the above MBAspeak is 100% accurate.)
They didn't, dinosaurs and crocodiles have a common descendent (archosaurs) Crocodiles were never descended from dinosaurs, their parents are just very close in the family tree.
Interestingly enough there's still some debate about whether dinosaurs were warm blooded, or had a more complex metabolism with characteristics of both warm and cold blooded animals. And archosaurs are also likely to have had such a complex metabolism, so it's unlikely crocodilians ever were descended from anything fully warm blooded.
Because smartphones have batteries that suck and are generally awful when it comes to the basic task of making and receiving calls.
I ended up switching to a dumb/feature phone as my primary mobile phone, with my old smartphone relegated to the role of Wifi-linked tablet. My stress levels and blood pressure has improved dramatically:)
To be fair, that's not what "subscription free" ("it") means, it's what the submitter almost intended to mean but used the wrong words to describe...
Everyone calm down. The wording was shitty and wrong, and if there's something we on Slashdot don't like, it's when someone on the Internet is wrong, but we can figure out what the intent of the words were...
I believe it's actually the fourth one in the Four series series, following Saints Row IV, GTA 4, and FarCry 4, so if you liked the other fours you should love Fallout 4.
Well I don't. There's no substitute, in privacy terms, for talking directly to people. That's why when I want to talk to someone and they're not around, I climb on something very high and shout the confidential information directly to them, as loudly as possible so they can hear it.
Seems a shame that the heirs to the 68xx legacy these days just put out commodity standard architecture (ie ARM, PPC, etc) chips.
Is Freescale doing anything with the 68000 series these days? I assume the related but not quite the same ColdFire is still in production, but last I looked that hadn't advanced very much since the last 68060s in the 1990s.
It's not the same thing three times though, and the context of this very discussion should tell you that.
Each of the three components is radically different, but there shouldn't be much redundancy - each of the three serves an entirely different purpose and only one actually contains the core information you need to remember.
The introduction ("you tell them what you are going to tell them") is warning you what's coming. That means giving you context and a road map for the information that follows. Think of it as, say, the marketing blurb for the book you're about to read.
The second ("You tell them") is the information. This is long, and your brain under normal circumstances isn't going to be prepared for that information. Hence the warning and roadmap.
The last ("then tell them what you told them") is the reminder, the overview that makes it easier to remember the information. It's the roadmap for returning here, rather than the simplified roadmap for finding your way there for the first time.
If someone is repeating the same thing three times, they're doing it wrong. As you saw, it's easy to set context without being overly redundant, and a reminder of what you just heard is always helpful.
Out of interest, while this was a little TL;DR (doesn't matter if you're stuck in a meeting;-), did you feel it was overly redundant? The "Each of" paragraph was "you tell them what you are going to tell them", the "If someone is repeating the same thing three times" was the "then tell them what you told them". The bit in the middle was the core information. I'm not a great communicator, but I doubt you spent the entire thing saying "Why does he keep saying the same thing over and over again? What a jerk!" But if I'd launched into just that middle part, and not provided context, it wouldn't have immediately clicked as to what relevance it has to your concerns.
If you avoid regular expressions and use English.pm
True. Similarly French is very easy to understand if only words that are common to English and French are used, and if the speaker speaks them with an English accent...
I think there's a sense of defeat amongst most Wikipedia editors right now, that if they revert the removal of sourced, no-BLP-problems, negative information from Wikipedia, they're going to end up in a fight that leaves them banned for "edit warring" or "incivility" by admins and arbs more keen on the appearance of dealing with conflict than on resolving real issues with off-site organizing of vandalism and harassment.
I wouldn't recommend anyone get involved in that hole for a while, and as such I reluctantly discourage anyone from reading Wikipedia for anything but the least controversial articles - unless they're also willing to put the work in and examine page histories, checking references, etc.
Actually the legal difference between hard core and soft core, is that the latter is simulated, the former is technically "real". That is, for example, showing an actual erection would count as hard core pornography.
But yeah, porn is inherently unrealistic: the pizza delivery guy never arrives that quickly after you place your order...
Because of the three existing mobile platforms, two have gatekeepers with a veto on what can and cannot be installed. This makes it exceptionally difficult for Mozilla to make mobile browsers with any chance of success.
This is only not important if you think:
1. Mobile devices will never become the most common way of accessing the Internet
2. Android (the sole platform that allows the user and only the user to ultimately decide what's allowed to be installed on their device) will always have a huge market share, so big that iOS and Windows Phone/Mobile/whatever it's called today will always have a negligible marketshare.
I suspect (1) is already false. (2) is laughably false. So this is important for Mozilla.
From what people are writing here, there are multiple definitions of "perfectly well". Someone in an above thread complains that capacitive screens require only the lightest touch, ensuring that they make mistakes when trying to use their fingernail to accurately press a specific pixel.
That, to me, says that the N900 and Neo900 do not have "touch" sensitive displays, they require pressure. I'm finding it improbable (and I'm willing to be proven wrong, but I'm increasingly sceptical as this videophilesque discussion continues) that the usual range of gestures we've come to know and, yes, love, are going to work nearly as well on that type of screen.
If I'm wrong and a light tap will always work, and a swipe will never be broken up into multiple gestures or ignored altogether, and so on, then I'd be delighted, albeit surprised the technology isn't being used anywhere else.
RTMP is a Flash thing, not a W3C/HTML5 thing. The HTML5 thing that's being standardized (possibly defacto, I'm not sure) is HLS, but as of now only one desktop browser supports it.
I'm not away of any desktop browsers that support RTMP.
I'm going to be honest, the more I read this discussion, the move I'm thrown back to old "debates" between advocates of rear projection and plasma TVs, and LCDs, all bemoaning the rise of the latter against such superior technologies as a TV that can only be viewed from one angle (and then not all at the same time), or a TV that requires all 4:3 content be shown in stretch-o-vision to avoid temporary burn-in issues. "But LCDs have a tiny bit of light visible when they're supposed to be black!" screams the videophiles, apparently oblivious to the fact that normal people rarely watch TV in rooms with no ambient light.
The resistive screen they're describing is clearly inferior to capacitive when applied to real world applications. Nobody in their right mind uses their cellphone to "paint" pictures. But everyone uses it to dial numbers, browse websites, and other activities that require a finger, or two, rather than a stylus.
But, hey, for the 0.01% of users who do actually use their cellphones more as an easel than a phone, I guess it might be useful.
I think that is the content industry view, however rotten it might be. The idea is that if you damaged or lost a book (or some other physical item that's hard to copy), you wouldn't expect to have any choice but to buy a new copy, so why should you have a choice other than paying for replacement with music or videos?
It has a resistive touchscreen. What's more they're saying they're going for resistive because it's "more accurate" than capacitive and capacitive would be a "step back."
I had a Nokia N800 so am familiar with the history of this platform, but it always felt like a prototype to me, and it seems like the Neo900 is still a prototype of something that would have been released ten years ago. What a shame.
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Everyone get ready for IE becoming the corporate standard again.
All of which said, I was under the impression Chrome ultimately was going to implement another API instead, rather than abandoning the concept of plug-ins altogether. It seems hard to believe that Chrome is completely closed.
Well, there you go. What about videos in tabs you're not looking at, and also videos everywhere else, don't autoplay at all?
There is no reason whatsoever for any video to autoplay. The person at Adobe who allowed that to happen without user intervention, as well as the committee of W3C experts who decided to replicate this anti-pattern in HTML5, need to be taken out into the streets and slapped around the face with a giant trout.
Every time I'm stuck behind some clunker from the 1970s, or even a diesel from the 1990s, with my car's AC sucking in (despite being on the recycled air setting) the fumes from an era of under-regulation, I'm reminded of why the EPA is generally a good thing, and how much better off we are with it. Remember: you're choking on air that twenty years ago was the norm for driving through.
Yeah, sometimes they're not effective enough, but I think the nation's generally better off thanks to their work.
Yup, a Stream 8 in my case with the free T-Mobile data.
I genuinely think Windows 8.1 is the best tablet operating system out there. I hope Windows 10 continues to work as well for that as it does.
Windows 7 Starter Edition was a crippled version of Windows 7 Home. It had the same requirements, but you couldn't do as much. So of course it didn't do well.
Windows 8.1 with Bing is Windows 8.1, with Bing as the default search engine... and that's it. Nothing else is different. Same system requirements, but critically it's not crippled in any way. (It's not even locked to Bing.) No features have been removed.
So it's not really similar.
Except, obviously, that it's Windows 10, not Windows 8.1. My HP tablet comes with Windows 8.1 with Bing, and I've been suspecting the "free upgrade" I'll be getting will be to an equivalent Windows 10 version.
Windows 8.1 with Bing is actually free to manufacturers of cheaper devices. I assume that was partly why it was on my $150 HP tablet.
Look it's quite simple, it's a multiplatform framework to empower SAAS professionals to partner with their clients on provisioning media services over the cloud through standardized, open, technologies.
Powered by GStreamer.
(The sad thing is the above MBAspeak is 100% accurate.)
They didn't, dinosaurs and crocodiles have a common descendent (archosaurs) Crocodiles were never descended from dinosaurs, their parents are just very close in the family tree.
Interestingly enough there's still some debate about whether dinosaurs were warm blooded, or had a more complex metabolism with characteristics of both warm and cold blooded animals. And archosaurs are also likely to have had such a complex metabolism, so it's unlikely crocodilians ever were descended from anything fully warm blooded.
Because smartphones have batteries that suck and are generally awful when it comes to the basic task of making and receiving calls.
I ended up switching to a dumb/feature phone as my primary mobile phone, with my old smartphone relegated to the role of Wifi-linked tablet. My stress levels and blood pressure has improved dramatically :)
To be fair, that's not what "subscription free" ("it") means, it's what the submitter almost intended to mean but used the wrong words to describe...
Everyone calm down. The wording was shitty and wrong, and if there's something we on Slashdot don't like, it's when someone on the Internet is wrong, but we can figure out what the intent of the words were...
I believe it's actually the fourth one in the Four series series, following Saints Row IV, GTA 4, and FarCry 4, so if you liked the other fours you should love Fallout 4.
Well I don't. There's no substitute, in privacy terms, for talking directly to people. That's why when I want to talk to someone and they're not around, I climb on something very high and shout the confidential information directly to them, as loudly as possible so they can hear it.
Seems a shame that the heirs to the 68xx legacy these days just put out commodity standard architecture (ie ARM, PPC, etc) chips.
Is Freescale doing anything with the 68000 series these days? I assume the related but not quite the same ColdFire is still in production, but last I looked that hadn't advanced very much since the last 68060s in the 1990s.
It's not the same thing three times though, and the context of this very discussion should tell you that.
Each of the three components is radically different, but there shouldn't be much redundancy - each of the three serves an entirely different purpose and only one actually contains the core information you need to remember.
The introduction ("you tell them what you are going to tell them") is warning you what's coming. That means giving you context and a road map for the information that follows. Think of it as, say, the marketing blurb for the book you're about to read.
The second ("You tell them") is the information. This is long, and your brain under normal circumstances isn't going to be prepared for that information. Hence the warning and roadmap.
The last ("then tell them what you told them") is the reminder, the overview that makes it easier to remember the information. It's the roadmap for returning here, rather than the simplified roadmap for finding your way there for the first time.
If someone is repeating the same thing three times, they're doing it wrong. As you saw, it's easy to set context without being overly redundant, and a reminder of what you just heard is always helpful.
Out of interest, while this was a little TL;DR (doesn't matter if you're stuck in a meeting ;-), did you feel it was overly redundant? The "Each of" paragraph was "you tell them what you are going to tell them", the "If someone is repeating the same thing three times" was the "then tell them what you told them". The bit in the middle was the core information. I'm not a great communicator, but I doubt you spent the entire thing saying "Why does he keep saying the same thing over and over again? What a jerk!" But if I'd launched into just that middle part, and not provided context, it wouldn't have immediately clicked as to what relevance it has to your concerns.
True. Similarly French is very easy to understand if only words that are common to English and French are used, and if the speaker speaks them with an English accent...
I think there's a sense of defeat amongst most Wikipedia editors right now, that if they revert the removal of sourced, no-BLP-problems, negative information from Wikipedia, they're going to end up in a fight that leaves them banned for "edit warring" or "incivility" by admins and arbs more keen on the appearance of dealing with conflict than on resolving real issues with off-site organizing of vandalism and harassment.
I wouldn't recommend anyone get involved in that hole for a while, and as such I reluctantly discourage anyone from reading Wikipedia for anything but the least controversial articles - unless they're also willing to put the work in and examine page histories, checking references, etc.
Ive become death, destroyer of Beige.
Actually the legal difference between hard core and soft core, is that the latter is simulated, the former is technically "real". That is, for example, showing an actual erection would count as hard core pornography.
But yeah, porn is inherently unrealistic: the pizza delivery guy never arrives that quickly after you place your order...
Because of the three existing mobile platforms, two have gatekeepers with a veto on what can and cannot be installed. This makes it exceptionally difficult for Mozilla to make mobile browsers with any chance of success.
This is only not important if you think:
1. Mobile devices will never become the most common way of accessing the Internet
2. Android (the sole platform that allows the user and only the user to ultimately decide what's allowed to be installed on their device) will always have a huge market share, so big that iOS and Windows Phone/Mobile/whatever it's called today will always have a negligible marketshare.
I suspect (1) is already false. (2) is laughably false. So this is important for Mozilla.
From what people are writing here, there are multiple definitions of "perfectly well". Someone in an above thread complains that capacitive screens require only the lightest touch, ensuring that they make mistakes when trying to use their fingernail to accurately press a specific pixel.
That, to me, says that the N900 and Neo900 do not have "touch" sensitive displays, they require pressure. I'm finding it improbable (and I'm willing to be proven wrong, but I'm increasingly sceptical as this videophilesque discussion continues) that the usual range of gestures we've come to know and, yes, love, are going to work nearly as well on that type of screen.
If I'm wrong and a light tap will always work, and a swipe will never be broken up into multiple gestures or ignored altogether, and so on, then I'd be delighted, albeit surprised the technology isn't being used anywhere else.
RTMP is a Flash thing, not a W3C/HTML5 thing. The HTML5 thing that's being standardized (possibly defacto, I'm not sure) is HLS, but as of now only one desktop browser supports it. I'm not away of any desktop browsers that support RTMP.
I'm going to be honest, the more I read this discussion, the move I'm thrown back to old "debates" between advocates of rear projection and plasma TVs, and LCDs, all bemoaning the rise of the latter against such superior technologies as a TV that can only be viewed from one angle (and then not all at the same time), or a TV that requires all 4:3 content be shown in stretch-o-vision to avoid temporary burn-in issues. "But LCDs have a tiny bit of light visible when they're supposed to be black!" screams the videophiles, apparently oblivious to the fact that normal people rarely watch TV in rooms with no ambient light.
The resistive screen they're describing is clearly inferior to capacitive when applied to real world applications. Nobody in their right mind uses their cellphone to "paint" pictures. But everyone uses it to dial numbers, browse websites, and other activities that require a finger, or two, rather than a stylus.
But, hey, for the 0.01% of users who do actually use their cellphones more as an easel than a phone, I guess it might be useful.
1. Does touch work, or is a stylus in practice mandatory?
2. Does multi-touch work?
I think that is the content industry view, however rotten it might be. The idea is that if you damaged or lost a book (or some other physical item that's hard to copy), you wouldn't expect to have any choice but to buy a new copy, so why should you have a choice other than paying for replacement with music or videos?
It has a resistive touchscreen. What's more they're saying they're going for resistive because it's "more accurate" than capacitive and capacitive would be a "step back."
I had a Nokia N800 so am familiar with the history of this platform, but it always felt like a prototype to me, and it seems like the Neo900 is still a prototype of something that would have been released ten years ago. What a shame.