I played X3 which used StarForce, and it never gave me problems, despite its rumors as the DRM of Satan. What I saw of it was a dialog box showing up for 1-2 secs before game launch. Later I uninstalled the game though, because of ridiculous system requirements, and StarForce too. Yes, it can be uninstalled too.
Btw, IE 8 beta 2 also seem to have way improved performance over IE 7, although that one will still not reach "interesting" levels in a test like this.
As soon as I have to fuss around with media not playing on my computers I'm gone
E.g. Linux won't help you there. Linux doesn't magically play DRM protected media that this HDCP support now does. Do you really get what this is all about?
If Apple even thinks about pressing the lock-in game, I'm gone and I will stop recommending Apple instantly.
Haha. Did you completely miss the EULA and OS X? Mini DisplayPort with no supporting hardware? iTunes and FairPlay? Have you been sleeping under a rock lately? Apple is experts at locking in their customers. It's not about that. It's about which kinds of lock in you tolerate, and which you don't.
You obviously have no beef against OS X and them saying "on our hardware only or piss off, we'll sue you" since you still support Apple, but you obviously dislike supporting media lock in pushed by DRM. There's nothing wrong with that, I'm just pointing out your illogical argument.
Nothing LESS will play. It has ADDED support for the (optional) protection feature of HDCP, for those who want to support stores who sell such media for some stupid reason. Vista started supporting this, now Mac does. Linux still doesn't AFAIK (unless there's some project started for it just recently), so if still true, it can't play these things.
you process water that's purer than what you drink here on Earth. - It might be the case physically/chemically, but not psychologically.... "Look, I'm drinking purified pee and it's tasty!" God...
Not that we aren't drinking recycled pee the natural way already.
There's no deep sub surface container with the pee of past generations of humans and animals.;)
Huh? No, Vista SE. ME was a failure, in this case, Vista seems to be the failure, and W7 bringing the stuff in that should have been there from the start, like a more intelligent UAC feature. But MS would never call it Vista SE as the brand name is too tainted now. See also the Mojave Experiment.
If W7 can do the compatibility part right here, it's a good thing, not a reason to look down on it for not being different enough. How typical of Slashdot -- would you honestly ever be able to use the same logic about your favorite OS?
I already did, to the most pleasant *nix system I've used yet, long time "ready for the desktop". OS X.:) I'll be damned if I have never before used an distribution providing such a merge of geeky features and usability and in general lack of fuss.
If I were 10 years younger now, I'd probably write annoyed posts on how Windows 7 is copying OS X features like the Dock, but nowadays I can't even be bothered.
I left that mess that's called Windows as for my home computing needs to get my work done more efficiently, and that's that. I've used Windows since 3.1, but Vista, and the lack of vision MS is still showing after that OS, was enough. That Apple is focusing on speed and not features on Snow Leopard is speaking volumes about the difference in mentality compared to the offices in Redmond.
I noticed they've used Javascript to block that method on some (??) browsers, but that was easy enough to circumvent by disabling Javascript for their domain. Most modern web browsers can do this.
Actually, I like the CC name as it quite clearly describes what it's providing. That it's OK to share if you provide attribution and share under the same terms as the liecnse.
Is there more to this than just a new object? Does it imply that certain models on how pulsars form need to be refined? Gamma rays are also incredibly high energy, what does it imply as for the structure of the pulsar that it doesn't emit lower frequencies?
What I'm getting at is pretty much that the article seem to just pass this off as a "ok, we have a new kind of pulsar here" without any follow up questions raised. IS there any questions to raise? Does this all fit neatly into what we know about pulsars, and is it easily explained why this one doesn't emit in lower frequencies, and only in a very high energy one?
I'm also surprised there are so much "junk" like the "yourmumisapulsar" tag and Obama posts, etc. Come on now, this is Slashdot, if I want the other stuff on science stories, I can read Digg.:-(
Are you sure you're aware of Opera's full feature set?
Opera has both per-site Noscript and Noscript by default, it's up to you.
Right-click on a website, pick "Edit site preferences..." and uncheck "Enable Javascript" for the domain if you want. Or disable Javascript for the entire application, and check Enable Javascript for the sites you wish.
As for blocking ads, right-click on the site with ads and pick "Block content..." -- wildcards are supported. The only thing I miss there is a subscription like that in Adblock, but after having blocked the most common sites, I don't get ads nearly as much anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
http://celebrity.tel/
WTF?
You can navigate further in that "hierarchy" of shit.
http://images.gisele-bundchen.models.celebrity.tel/
Umm, was this the intended purpose?
I played X3 which used StarForce, and it never gave me problems, despite its rumors as the DRM of Satan. What I saw of it was a dialog box showing up for 1-2 secs before game launch. Later I uninstalled the game though, because of ridiculous system requirements, and StarForce too. Yes, it can be uninstalled too.
maybe that is because they don't fully understand what they are missing, or just can't compehend it ?
Then what is the problem?
Btw, IE 8 beta 2 also seem to have way improved performance over IE 7, although that one will still not reach "interesting" levels in a test like this.
And what about Firefox 3.1 pre-beta 2, if including this browser.
As soon as I have to fuss around with media not playing on my computers I'm gone
E.g. Linux won't help you there. Linux doesn't magically play DRM protected media that this HDCP support now does. Do you really get what this is all about?
If Apple even thinks about pressing the lock-in game, I'm gone and I will stop recommending Apple instantly.
Haha. Did you completely miss the EULA and OS X? Mini DisplayPort with no supporting hardware? iTunes and FairPlay? Have you been sleeping under a rock lately? Apple is experts at locking in their customers. It's not about that. It's about which kinds of lock in you tolerate, and which you don't.
You obviously have no beef against OS X and them saying "on our hardware only or piss off, we'll sue you" since you still support Apple, but you obviously dislike supporting media lock in pushed by DRM. There's nothing wrong with that, I'm just pointing out your illogical argument.
And it will on Vista too, for that matter.
This debate is just so stupid for that matter IMHO.
Nothing LESS will play. It has ADDED support for the (optional) protection feature of HDCP, for those who want to support stores who sell such media for some stupid reason. Vista started supporting this, now Mac does. Linux still doesn't AFAIK (unless there's some project started for it just recently), so if still true, it can't play these things.
Besides, SLI isn't even a performance white horse anyway. ;) The only thing it seems to be consistent in -- is underperforming for the power usage.
You mean the severely limited, non SLI-hydra-whatever GPU thing that requires a restart/logon-off cycle just to switch?
It's "limited" by design. It wouldn't do much good to a laptop battery life running two graphics cards SLI'd.
you process water that's purer than what you drink here on Earth. - It might be the case physically/chemically, but not psychologically.... "Look, I'm drinking purified pee and it's tasty!" God...
Not that we aren't drinking recycled pee the natural way already.
There's no deep sub surface container with the pee of past generations of humans and animals. ;)
Well, it's especially odd to me since Darwin's theory of evolution explains it is anything but random.
(And don't worry, only the hard drives get "nude", so it's SFW.)
Unless your name is Bender Bending Rodriguez.
Nooo! Don't ruin the fun of comparing a technical preview to an RTM release now! ;)
Huh? No, Vista SE. ME was a failure, in this case, Vista seems to be the failure, and W7 bringing the stuff in that should have been there from the start, like a more intelligent UAC feature. But MS would never call it Vista SE as the brand name is too tainted now. See also the Mojave Experiment.
If W7 can do the compatibility part right here, it's a good thing, not a reason to look down on it for not being different enough. How typical of Slashdot -- would you honestly ever be able to use the same logic about your favorite OS?
I already did, to the most pleasant *nix system I've used yet, long time "ready for the desktop". OS X. :) I'll be damned if I have never before used an distribution providing such a merge of geeky features and usability and in general lack of fuss.
If I were 10 years younger now, I'd probably write annoyed posts on how Windows 7 is copying OS X features like the Dock, but nowadays I can't even be bothered.
I left that mess that's called Windows as for my home computing needs to get my work done more efficiently, and that's that. I've used Windows since 3.1, but Vista, and the lack of vision MS is still showing after that OS, was enough. That Apple is focusing on speed and not features on Snow Leopard is speaking volumes about the difference in mentality compared to the offices in Redmond.
I noticed they've used Javascript to block that method on some (??) browsers, but that was easy enough to circumvent by disabling Javascript for their domain. Most modern web browsers can do this.
A relative to little Bobby Tables perhaps? ;-)
Just FYI, they very recently claimed this:
Microsoft: Moving to Windows 7 Easy for Device Makers
Then tilt it 45 degrees. ;)
Actually, I like the CC name as it quite clearly describes what it's providing. That it's OK to share if you provide attribution and share under the same terms as the liecnse.
Is there more to this than just a new object? Does it imply that certain models on how pulsars form need to be refined? Gamma rays are also incredibly high energy, what does it imply as for the structure of the pulsar that it doesn't emit lower frequencies?
What I'm getting at is pretty much that the article seem to just pass this off as a "ok, we have a new kind of pulsar here" without any follow up questions raised. IS there any questions to raise? Does this all fit neatly into what we know about pulsars, and is it easily explained why this one doesn't emit in lower frequencies, and only in a very high energy one?
I'm also surprised there are so much "junk" like the "yourmumisapulsar" tag and Obama posts, etc. Come on now, this is Slashdot, if I want the other stuff on science stories, I can read Digg. :-(
Are you sure you're aware of Opera's full feature set?
Opera has both per-site Noscript and Noscript by default, it's up to you.
Right-click on a website, pick "Edit site preferences..." and uncheck "Enable Javascript" for the domain if you want. Or disable Javascript for the entire application, and check Enable Javascript for the sites you wish.
As for blocking ads, right-click on the site with ads and pick "Block content..." -- wildcards are supported. The only thing I miss there is a subscription like that in Adblock, but after having blocked the most common sites, I don't get ads nearly as much anymore.
Why is a link to the latest nightly Firefox build news? Huh?
Yes, it will be fast when it's out, but... What's this sudden story all about
Opera and myself have been browsing the web for porn since 2000 :) I never leave my pants on the floor without it :)
Uhh, too much inf... No wait
-1, Informative ;)