Sure they have an interest in keeping things snappy, but things can and do happen. Look at Sony, a multi-billion worldwide company and all PS3s were off the Internet for a month. S3 and EC2 have not been perfect, I have first-hand experience with that.
Even though we are both using the word scale I assume we are talking about resampling. If the image was 2048x1024 pixels then Amazon would decide it only needed to be 1024x512 for the Fire and send it as that size? If so, no thanks. In my experience traditional browsers load the whole 2048x1024 image but resample/resize it to fit the browser window. The full-size image is there in the local cache if you want it though.
Suppose Amazon's servers are overloaded, then your browsing sucks even though your browser and Internet connection are fine. And I don't want scaled images, I want the image that the site sends. And how much of a performance hit are DNS lookups and open sockets?
If you want to do everything through the Internet they might as well run the OS on their servers too.
I wonder how much of the sluggishness is due to the browser funneling everything through Amazons servers? If you want a consistent user experience the local hardware needs to handle retrieving and rendering, not a remote server. I don't want my browsing dependent on how much traffic Amazon is experiencing.
Can another browser be used on the Fire besides Silk, one that works like a traditional web browser?
I think a lot of malware is getting in through ad banners. You can browse with Firefox and use FlashBlock and Adblock Plus for added safety. FlashBlock will keep Flash from executing unless you specifically allow it.
The best code is 9991. If you're going to brute force it, most everyone would start at 0000 and it would take 9991 tries. If you're going to bruteforce descending from 9999 you'd get through 4 or 5 before you decided it was too much trouble.;)
I've gotten all sorts of things to my Gmail account (firstinitialLastname@gmail.com). Navy job interview details, hotel reservations, job quotes, renewals of UK commercial driver's licenses.
I correct individuals, just a quick note to say "Sorry wrong e-mail address." Except some girl named Paige (same last name as me). I have been trying for 6 months to get her to stop sending me her stupid chain humor letters (she thinks she's e-mailing her dad), and she said she would several times. Today she got Reported as Spam to Gmail.
For companies I if they don't make it easy to unsubscribe, I Report Spam. They should check e-mails before blindly accepting and mailing to them.
Rock Band kicked their asses. They were starting to get it with Band Hero, but too little too late.
And I suspect the crappy Rock Band 3 release without the pro hardware available and the ever-increasing demands of music publishers will finish it off too.
I went to archive.org and found an old clean google.com page from a couple years ago. Then I saved it as google.html on our company web server and use that as my browser home page.
The only way I would use PayPal to collect payments is if I regularly cleared out the account. There is little or no recourse if they decide they're keeping your money.
Agreed. What I did was find an old copy of the Google search page from early 2010 and use a local copy of it as my default home page. You can actually type your search with no crap happening all over the screen to entertain you.
Actually most of my searches are done from the browser URL/search bar anyway, so what Google does with their home page isn't a big deal any more.
What's to stop you from deleting fields you don't like and/or filling them with fake but reasonable data? That's what I did.
I think in a way, having a carefully controlled Facebook account has more advantages than disadvantages. Give it a unique e-mail address, study what happens with that address. Post that you like ponies and rainbows. Have some fun with it and learn.;)
New machines have Win7, old ones stick with XP
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XP works as long as it has antivirus and a firewall installed. It's not worth the time and cost to "upgrade" (which is really a complete reinstall) an old machine to Windows 7.
This is probably a test to see if users are willing and able to upgrade their browser just for YouTube. If they will, then Google can abandon Flash for HTML5, and then it's up to the browsers and users to upgrade to the 21st century.
9.5% of visitors on our our moderately active site are using IE6.
I think our only hope would be that a race advanced enough to make it here would be peaceful. Maybe a bad assumption, you'd have to do like Teddy Roosevelt, talk softly but carry a big stick.
I also think it's entirely possible that we wouldn't be able to relate to the aliens in any meaningful way. Maybe they spend all their days exchanging various molecules between themselves and us talking to them face to "face" and hitting them with exhaled CO2 would be a grave insult.
I used to drink a cola for lunch and one for dinner, occasionally more. I've been on just water for a month or so now, other than one with dinner one or two nights a week. I feel pretty good, no withdrawl. Not a huge difference but I know cutting out that sugar and caffeine is a good move.
Sprint and Verizon EVDO are both available in my area, but both have 5GB per month limits. They're the best broadband connection I can get. I get about 1.2 megabit, and 120ms latency. Much better than satellite.
5GB goes fast if you watch any streaming video such as GameTrailers.com or Hulu.com.
Verizon says their Mobile Broadband connections are oriented towards business travellers and streaming video isn't one of the things I should be doing much of. Well fine Verizon, then give me DSL or something. I'm two miles from a town. I'm not bitter or anything.
They send out all these pointless e-mails practically every time someone you know logs on.
And I initially signed up for a year, what I didn't realize is they would automatically charge me again after that year was up. That took some trouble. If you have a credit card in their system and don't want to get auto-renewed, go there and remove the # now.
I really found there wasn't that much activity on Classmates.com anyway, Facebook is where my former classmates are.
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Sure they have an interest in keeping things snappy, but things can and do happen. Look at Sony, a multi-billion worldwide company and all PS3s were off the Internet for a month. S3 and EC2 have not been perfect, I have first-hand experience with that.
Even though we are both using the word scale I assume we are talking about resampling. If the image was 2048x1024 pixels then Amazon would decide it only needed to be 1024x512 for the Fire and send it as that size? If so, no thanks. In my experience traditional browsers load the whole 2048x1024 image but resample/resize it to fit the browser window. The full-size image is there in the local cache if you want it though.
Suppose Amazon's servers are overloaded, then your browsing sucks even though your browser and Internet connection are fine. And I don't want scaled images, I want the image that the site sends. And how much of a performance hit are DNS lookups and open sockets?
If you want to do everything through the Internet they might as well run the OS on their servers too.
I wonder how much of the sluggishness is due to the browser funneling everything through Amazons servers? If you want a consistent user experience the local hardware needs to handle retrieving and rendering, not a remote server. I don't want my browsing dependent on how much traffic Amazon is experiencing.
Can another browser be used on the Fire besides Silk, one that works like a traditional web browser?
I think a lot of malware is getting in through ad banners. You can browse with Firefox and use FlashBlock and Adblock Plus for added safety. FlashBlock will keep Flash from executing unless you specifically allow it.
The best code is 9991. If you're going to brute force it, most everyone would start at 0000 and it would take 9991 tries. If you're going to bruteforce descending from 9999 you'd get through 4 or 5 before you decided it was too much trouble. ;)
That's probably about right, although I played more Team Fortress Classic than Quake.
I play that way too, very successfully I might add.
Left-click: Fire
Middle-click: Scope/iron sights/zoom
Right-click: Jump
Thumb button on MS Intellimouse: Reload
Arrow keys to move
Shift: Run
Home: Prone
End: Crouch
Insert on Numpad: Melee
Ins/Del: Grenade or other misc spotting or weapon functions
I've gotten all sorts of things to my Gmail account (firstinitialLastname@gmail.com). Navy job interview details, hotel reservations, job quotes, renewals of UK commercial driver's licenses.
I correct individuals, just a quick note to say "Sorry wrong e-mail address." Except some girl named Paige (same last name as me). I have been trying for 6 months to get her to stop sending me her stupid chain humor letters (she thinks she's e-mailing her dad), and she said she would several times. Today she got Reported as Spam to Gmail.
For companies I if they don't make it easy to unsubscribe, I Report Spam. They should check e-mails before blindly accepting and mailing to them.
As if it could get any worse, now their name has underscores in it.
Rock Band kicked their asses. They were starting to get it with Band Hero, but too little too late.
And I suspect the crappy Rock Band 3 release without the pro hardware available and the ever-increasing demands of music publishers will finish it off too.
I went to archive.org and found an old clean google.com page from a couple years ago. Then I saved it as google.html on our company web server and use that as my browser home page.
Yeah you won't get rid of those any time soon.
Think we'll get a cost reduction by not getting white pages? Didn't think so. :|
I don't like Best Buy but a service is a service.
I'll update your PS3 for only $20 if you pay postage or bring it to me. ;)
The only way I would use PayPal to collect payments is if I regularly cleared out the account. There is little or no recourse if they decide they're keeping your money.
Agreed. What I did was find an old copy of the Google search page from early 2010 and use a local copy of it as my default home page. You can actually type your search with no crap happening all over the screen to entertain you.
Actually most of my searches are done from the browser URL/search bar anyway, so what Google does with their home page isn't a big deal any more.
What's to stop you from deleting fields you don't like and/or filling them with fake but reasonable data? That's what I did.
I think in a way, having a carefully controlled Facebook account has more advantages than disadvantages. Give it a unique e-mail address, study what happens with that address. Post that you like ponies and rainbows. Have some fun with it and learn. ;)
XP works as long as it has antivirus and a firewall installed. It's not worth the time and cost to "upgrade" (which is really a complete reinstall) an old machine to Windows 7.
This is probably a test to see if users are willing and able to upgrade their browser just for YouTube. If they will, then Google can abandon Flash for HTML5, and then it's up to the browsers and users to upgrade to the 21st century.
9.5% of visitors on our our moderately active site are using IE6.
I think our only hope would be that a race advanced enough to make it here would be peaceful. Maybe a bad assumption, you'd have to do like Teddy Roosevelt, talk softly but carry a big stick.
I also think it's entirely possible that we wouldn't be able to relate to the aliens in any meaningful way. Maybe they spend all their days exchanging various molecules between themselves and us talking to them face to "face" and hitting them with exhaled CO2 would be a grave insult.
If someone has physical control of the machine, all bets are off.
I used to drink a cola for lunch and one for dinner, occasionally more. I've been on just water for a month or so now, other than one with dinner one or two nights a week. I feel pretty good, no withdrawl. Not a huge difference but I know cutting out that sugar and caffeine is a good move.
I was able to download season premieres before they were broadcast.
Sprint and Verizon EVDO are both available in my area, but both have 5GB per month limits. They're the best broadband connection I can get. I get about 1.2 megabit, and 120ms latency. Much better than satellite.
5GB goes fast if you watch any streaming video such as GameTrailers.com or Hulu.com.
Verizon says their Mobile Broadband connections are oriented towards business travellers and streaming video isn't one of the things I should be doing much of. Well fine Verizon, then give me DSL or something. I'm two miles from a town. I'm not bitter or anything.
I don't even want to park at a friend's house because she has so many acorns falling from her oak trees.
They send out all these pointless e-mails practically every time someone you know logs on.
And I initially signed up for a year, what I didn't realize is they would automatically charge me again after that year was up. That took some trouble. If you have a credit card in their system and don't want to get auto-renewed, go there and remove the # now.
I really found there wasn't that much activity on Classmates.com anyway, Facebook is where my former classmates are.