First, I am against DRM. I think it restricts fair use and innovation, is spyware, and defends obsolete business models.
But what Mozilla did was a good step. Almost every browser in the wild ships with a flash plugin. Flash is worse than any CDM.
I think EME improves current situation, when some websites don't rely on flash anymore.
Most DRM is a rootkit, and not a honest software which balances the content owner's and the users interests. The sandbox approach from Mozilla is very non-intrusive in comparison to other DRM systems, and other EME browsers. I never liked installing any DRM software on my computer, as I give it full access to my system, and I will never be abled to distinguish its behaviour from malware. But when the sandbox really is as restrictive to the blob as it should be, I will probably even use the DRM.
This step of Mozilla will make some content owners accept less intrusive DRM, which is good.
Politicians could at least recognize the faster pace in the IT world compared to other technology industries, and lessen the patent terms for software patents.
I also don't know why there should be a difference between a patent troll and a large company with lots of 'defensive' patents suing other companies because of "swipe to unlock" features.
You are right that the "original" instructions may take only a small part of the chip's microcode memory. But if you have to comply not just with a 1970s chip but also with last year's chips, you can't make such big changes as EPIC in a "native" x86 chip without a huge effort.
All wild bird's poop is full of pathogens. I doubt that, if the goose poop carries some special illness in addition to the basic pathogens, it is harming the goose. This story is about birds on a river, and swan upping, too. The only difference is that in swan upping the people take care of the birds, and in the story the people take care of the humans. I don't say that the drone is harming the goose or that the goose shouldn't be driven away from the beaches if they actually harm children. I hope you can see the abstraction I have made.
Intel tried to obsolete x86 with its IA-64 architecture, and they failed. With old architectures its like with old software: lots of backwards compatibility, and a huge mess. And x86/is/ old. x86 still has features from the 1970 8080 chip. It is time for an architecture to success x86, and remove that clutter. However, with a new architecture, AMD takes a high risk. The PC success of their architecture depends on whether microsoft wants to support three architectures or not.
No, you are responsible for your own cloud. Every designer has to have a diesel-driven cloud generator in the basement and fire it on every time there is a cloud outage. Its just like with energy in developing countries. Welcome to the third world, designers!
Do you have to stay 15-90 days in the restaurant after you've paid with a credit card before you can go?
With credit cards you still can track down the person who owned the credit card. This is not (always) possible with bitcoin. Of course, as less bitcoins get mined, more and more bitcoins will be trackable, as people get them from exchanges, which have anti-money-laundering rules.
What happens when the intercontinental Internet goes down because of War or other cataclysmic event?
I think this dependence can serve as good chilling effect for the governments not to declare War. You know, the EU was construced with the thought that the economical interlock between the countries should make an inner-european war as hard as possible. You can even see internationalisation as a peacemaker. If a country has outsourced its sewing industry, it won't be abled to prouce clothing for its soilders in a war between those countries.
With Android, google did something good to the mobile world I think. It has created a mostly open source OS, and allowed it for every company to install it on their device. Whether it has a monopoly or not, it created a base for small companies to start with, when creating their own mobile OS. This OS also has standardized lots of the mobile phone world outside of this apple walled garden. Look at how incompatible those old feature phones were across vendors.
Firefox 29 didn't get worse in this manner. The only change I have noticed in the last version changes is that beginning with some version in the early twenties, you couldn't use another search for the address bar than the dedicated search bar right to the URL bar. It was then when I learned of smart keywords, and now I really like them. I've added all important search engines (and even the wayback machine, in case I encounter a deadlink), and I need to type only one letter to access them. Firefox should ship some default (short) keywords, they are very useful.
In the omnibox question, Firefox is better than Chrome, as when you input httpq://example.com or somenonexistentwebpageandsoon.com to firefox, you get an error page. In chrome you get a search. In Firefox, you can also turn off search from the URL bar if you want.
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First, I am against DRM. I think it restricts fair use and innovation, is spyware, and defends obsolete business models.
But what Mozilla did was a good step. Almost every browser in the wild ships with a flash plugin. Flash is worse than any CDM.
I think EME improves current situation, when some websites don't rely on flash anymore.
Most DRM is a rootkit, and not a honest software which balances the content owner's and the users interests. The sandbox approach from Mozilla is very non-intrusive in comparison to other DRM systems, and other EME browsers. I never liked installing any DRM software on my computer, as I give it full access to my system, and I will never be abled to distinguish its behaviour from malware. But when the sandbox really is as restrictive to the blob as it should be, I will probably even use the DRM.
This step of Mozilla will make some content owners accept less intrusive DRM, which is good.
Politicians could at least recognize the faster pace in the IT world compared to other technology industries, and lessen the patent terms for software patents.
I also don't know why there should be a difference between a patent troll and a large company with lots of 'defensive' patents suing other companies because of "swipe to unlock" features.
I don't think so. I think most trolls always like attention, whether they get negative feedback or positive.
From TFA: "Tux3 is yet another interesting open-source file-system designed for specialized cases."
For $50000, Lincoln has bribed all democrats and buyed himself a new hat! And that for something good.
You are right that the "original" instructions may take only a small part of the chip's microcode memory. But if you have to comply not just with a 1970s chip but also with last year's chips, you can't make such big changes as EPIC in a "native" x86 chip without a huge effort.
All wild bird's poop is full of pathogens. I doubt that, if the goose poop carries some special illness in addition to the basic pathogens, it is harming the goose.
This story is about birds on a river, and swan upping, too. The only difference is that in swan upping the people take care of the birds, and in the story the people take care of the humans. I don't say that the drone is harming the goose or that the goose shouldn't be driven away from the beaches if they actually harm children.
I hope you can see the abstraction I have made.
I guess this is a test for a drone protecting the royal swans owned by HRH Queen Elizabeth II on the Thames.
Is there any reason I should keep the router's preinstalled firmware and not flash openwrt as fast as I can?
Intel tried to obsolete x86 with its IA-64 architecture, and they failed. With old architectures its like with old software: lots of backwards compatibility, and a huge mess. And x86 /is/ old. x86 still has features from the 1970 8080 chip. It is time for an architecture to success x86, and remove that clutter. However, with a new architecture, AMD takes a high risk. The PC success of their architecture depends on whether microsoft wants to support three architectures or not.
No, you are responsible for your own cloud. Every designer has to have a diesel-driven cloud generator in the basement and fire it on every time there is a cloud outage. Its just like with energy in developing countries. Welcome to the third world, designers!
Is it http://thenextweb.com/creativity/2014/05/15/adobe-creative-cloud-worldwide/?
Do you have to stay 15-90 days in the restaurant after you've paid with a credit card before you can go?
With credit cards you still can track down the person who owned the credit card. This is not (always) possible with bitcoin. Of course, as less bitcoins get mined, more and more bitcoins will be trackable, as people get them from exchanges, which have anti-money-laundering rules.
Do you have to wait 10 minutes until you get your stuff? Do you have to stay 10 minutes in the restaurant after you've paid before you can go?
Good to know for me as a firefox user. One day there will perhaps be another downtime, and I won't be abled to watch DRMed movies.
What happens when the intercontinental Internet goes down because of War or other cataclysmic event?
I think this dependence can serve as good chilling effect for the governments not to declare War. You know, the EU was construced with the thought that the economical interlock between the countries should make an inner-european war as hard as possible. You can even see internationalisation as a peacemaker. If a country has outsourced its sewing industry, it won't be abled to prouce clothing for its soilders in a war between those countries.
With Android, google did something good to the mobile world I think. It has created a mostly open source OS, and allowed it for every company to install it on their device. Whether it has a monopoly or not, it created a base for small companies to start with, when creating their own mobile OS. This OS also has standardized lots of the mobile phone world outside of this apple walled garden. Look at how incompatible those old feature phones were across vendors.
Firefox 29 didn't get worse in this manner. The only change I have noticed in the last version changes is that beginning with some version in the early twenties, you couldn't use another search for the address bar than the dedicated search bar right to the URL bar. It was then when I learned of smart keywords, and now I really like them. I've added all important search engines (and even the wayback machine, in case I encounter a deadlink), and I need to type only one letter to access them. Firefox should ship some default (short) keywords, they are very useful. In the omnibox question, Firefox is better than Chrome, as when you input httpq://example.com or somenonexistentwebpageandsoon.com to firefox, you get an error page. In chrome you get a search. In Firefox, you can also turn off search from the URL bar if you want.