Last I saw Adobe was denying that there are any standards for video acceleration (VDPAU) on Linux as well. And they seem to be pretty confident that 64 bit is just a fad. But hey, you gotta wait at least a decade to see how these things shake out.
Pretty sure that's an option somewhere in VLC; on Windows it does the Mac single-window thing by default, and there was an "advanced option" to change it iirc. But on Linux it opened a new window by default. Lots of people with >1 monitor these days...
Now if only the flashtards at youtube et al would realize you might want to maximize a video on one screen and touch the keyboard in another window, that the entire world does not grind to a halt just because you're doing your job... and if only they'd let us fix their warped aspect ratios... the state of the art would be nearly mediocre!
I mean, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of lifetimes we as a species have already lost to Microsoft's pathetic security. The entire industry is about ten years behind where it would have been had we not had MS fighting virtually every innovation we now take for granted-- the Internet, multitasking, multiuser, open source, open standards, basic security (you don't try eating everything that looks like it'd fit in your mouth... why should you execute every piece of data you find on the internet, as Admin...).
We'd be much better off if we'd just sent them the same amount they profited without ever using their products. We'd have months of our lives back, and lower blood pressure.
Furthermore, the governments-- at least the US government-- have been shown to operate without any support in law. With the cooperation of the telcos and ISPs.
Also, laws and technology change (sometimes retroactively, to cover massive crimes). So even data which seems harmless now, because it would be illegal to ask for, or because it would be futile to process it on a large scale, or because it covers activities which are currently considered innocent, can and-- the trend is clear, WILL be used against you in the future.
I could have sworn that XP's share relative to Windows 7 would grow once 7 was actually released. Because I'm Commander Cuckoo Bananas, woopwoopwoop!!!
On about a third of my boots into the Win7 RC. I figured, eh, that's Windows for ya, and besides, it's an RC. Also, you can't shut down without sitting around for ten minutes to make sure that every program feels like closing, every update is allowed or denied, etc. Also, Java wants to update about ten minutes into each session, grabbing focus, you know, right when you're getting into a game. I can tell it yes, no, don't ask again, whatever: it never, ever gives up.
I need to know how much of the internet is 1, and how much is 0.
I suppose I could get a start on that by running VMs of the most popular OSs, and examining snapshots of each one, multiplying that by... oh, and do the same with backbone traffic... be a bit of a pain to handle all the embedded stuff, but in principle... well, in principle, the internet could be represented as a single number. I wonder if it's odd or even. I guess it depends on who has the last bit.
--is their bizarre bias towards relevant results. All I want is whatever results make the most money for billionaires. In fact, don't even show me search results. Just take money from my back account and show me advertisements, please. PLEASE, Mr. Fratboy Douchenozzle Billionaire, I still have money left and they keep giving me more every other week!
Let me ask you this. In the Old Testament, this God feller was pretty active: he created he world in six days, then stopped for a smoke break. He committed genocide against several populations, slaughtered all the people on the planet save one family, smashed cities, parted seas, turned women into condiments, etc. In the New Testament, Sky Daddy still made himself obvious. He raped young virgins, raised zombies, fed multitudes with a packet of crisps and a six-pack. But ever since his son said "Screw you guys; I'm going home," no more miracles, really-- nothing more convincing than Jesus tortillas, anyway.
Why? I don't recall any mention of this in the Bible. He never said, "oh hey, by the way, I'm going to be out golfing for the next couple thousand years. Try not to slaughter yourselves."
What science has that religion does not is falsifiability, and a vastly greater degree of self-consistency.
I don't think you can ask for more than this reaction. They certainly reacted more ethically than many, many GPL violators (Hi Linksys/Cisco!). So, good for them, and good for us. The responsible individuals should be fired, tarred and feathered-- but I can't believe that this was in line with corporate policy.
But it was also very much in their best interests. If they take on the GPL, what other licenses come into question? Their entire business is based on the copyright status quo. No need to rock that particular boat. They've already experimented with taking on free software via their proxy SCO, and lost. Doing so directly would entail high risk, small possibility of reward, terrible PR, alienating their customers, most of whom probably use GPL/Linux software as well as Microsofts-- and for what? Some trivial piece of code they intended to distribute for free anyway? Why on earth would they do that?
The telecoms have caught on to IP? And the handset manufacturers are committing to a standard DC adaptor?...I thought we'd be walking on Mars before this day. We probably would, too, if it weren't for these masterminds with their business imperatives (Must... not... cooperate! Waste is profit!).
Many people take Xanax while flying. I'm tempted myself, not because I worry about the plane crashing, but because sitting on the tarmac for two hours with no air conditioning, crammed in next to some fat bastard with his shrieking kids, well, it doesn't suit me.
I don't see why the imaginary terrorists couldn't take Xanax or equivalent. So really, what the "security" people should do is molest the people who aren't afraid, stressed, or angry. Clearly something is wrong with those bastards.
This case actually may be as legitimate as they come. Seriously, if these guys had NDAs and B&N pulled a Microsoft on them, they have my sympathy-- though this was the obvious way to make a new e-reader, these days. Linux, and now Android linux, are the obvious choices for the OS on any consumer device these days. You'd have to be morons not to have seen that (for Linux, ~6 years ago-- sorry Palm, too late; for Android, basically on announcement).
But in general, every new tech product or service that comes out in the US seems to be hit by lawsuits as soon as it appears it will be successful. At the very least this reduces competition and increases prices. It's also a huge boon to countries which don't give a rat's ass about IP (see China). We're killing ourselves. The US has become a terrible environment for innovation.
Agreed, water in the US is (for the foreseeable future) safer than water in China. The water in the US is getting more dangerous, however, largely due to Bush/43's strangling the EPA (remember the Tennessee Valley Authority spill?). The extent of the damage is not yet known, nor is it clear how far Obama will go to restore environmental regulations and monitoring. My guess is he'll do something, but not very much.
Yep. I'll never buy a game with ads (for real companies) in it. Of course they'd make that claim: they want to get paid twice, by us and by the advertisers. I notice the prices of games with ads seem to be the same as those without.
Compete if you don't like it. Get a cartel of game companies to fund a copy of Steam. I doubt it will save much money, though.
I've definitely purchased more games due to Steam. I do wish that more of the games supported online backups of saved games, and that it had a default configuration/hinting system for settings such as key and mouse binds. Movement, invert mouse, zoom, jump, crouch, prone, etc: most games of a similar type have mostly similar controls.
Steam is great. They've had the potential to be evil since inception, but they seem to have realized that they'll do much better by treating customers well. I doubt I'll ever buy a game on physical (fragile, wasteful) media again.
Start with the Book of the New Sun. Like most classics, it rewards multiple readings. Plenty of philosophy thrown in as a bonus, and it's a good introduction to the unreliable narrator.
If that's too difficult, I'd recommend Steven Brust's Vlad books. They're a good way to break stereotypes of SF/fantasy. The first few are told in almost a film noir, hard-boiled style. That's become a genre unto itself these days, but he was among the first (Zelazny's Amber books did it as well). They read fast, but they're surprisingly thoughtful.
Iain M Banks' Culture books are great, particularly Use of Weapons and Player of Games. Blindsight, by Peter Watts, is probably the best SF book I've read since Cryptonomicon. But Watts may be a little depressing for high school. I'm not sure today's tender young treasures, raised on foam playgrounds, not allowed to walk two blocks to school, could stand up to him... you'd probably end up getting sued.
Oh, and it's hard to go wrong with Stross (except for the Family Trade books, I can't get into them).
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Last I saw Adobe was denying that there are any standards for video acceleration (VDPAU) on Linux as well. And they seem to be pretty confident that 64 bit is just a fad. But hey, you gotta wait at least a decade to see how these things shake out.
Pretty sure that's an option somewhere in VLC; on Windows it does the Mac single-window thing by default, and there was an "advanced option" to change it iirc. But on Linux it opened a new window by default. Lots of people with >1 monitor these days...
Now if only the flashtards at youtube et al would realize you might want to maximize a video on one screen and touch the keyboard in another window, that the entire world does not grind to a halt just because you're doing your job... and if only they'd let us fix their warped aspect ratios... the state of the art would be nearly mediocre!
Anybody who claims 100% accuracy in such a context is 100% lying, or 100% incompetent, or both.
I mean, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of lifetimes we as a species have already lost to Microsoft's pathetic security. The entire industry is about ten years behind where it would have been had we not had MS fighting virtually every innovation we now take for granted-- the Internet, multitasking, multiuser, open source, open standards, basic security (you don't try eating everything that looks like it'd fit in your mouth... why should you execute every piece of data you find on the internet, as Admin...).
We'd be much better off if we'd just sent them the same amount they profited without ever using their products. We'd have months of our lives back, and lower blood pressure.
Furthermore, the governments-- at least the US government-- have been shown to operate without any support in law. With the cooperation of the telcos and ISPs.
Also, laws and technology change (sometimes retroactively, to cover massive crimes). So even data which seems harmless now, because it would be illegal to ask for, or because it would be futile to process it on a large scale, or because it covers activities which are currently considered innocent, can and-- the trend is clear, WILL be used against you in the future.
I could have sworn that XP's share relative to Windows 7 would grow once 7 was actually released. Because I'm Commander Cuckoo Bananas, woopwoopwoop!!!
On about a third of my boots into the Win7 RC. I figured, eh, that's Windows for ya, and besides, it's an RC. Also, you can't shut down without sitting around for ten minutes to make sure that every program feels like closing, every update is allowed or denied, etc. Also, Java wants to update about ten minutes into each session, grabbing focus, you know, right when you're getting into a game. I can tell it yes, no, don't ask again, whatever: it never, ever gives up.
I need to know how much of the internet is 1, and how much is 0.
I suppose I could get a start on that by running VMs of the most popular OSs, and examining snapshots of each one, multiplying that by... oh, and do the same with backbone traffic... be a bit of a pain to handle all the embedded stuff, but in principle... well, in principle, the internet could be represented as a single number. I wonder if it's odd or even. I guess it depends on who has the last bit.
Ooops, time to takes me pills again.
...if the one instruction is NOP. He could easily crack the petanop barrier.
--is their bizarre bias towards relevant results. All I want is whatever results make the most money for billionaires. In fact, don't even show me search results. Just take money from my back account and show me advertisements, please. PLEASE, Mr. Fratboy Douchenozzle Billionaire, I still have money left and they keep giving me more every other week!
Let me ask you this. In the Old Testament, this God feller was pretty active: he created he world in six days, then stopped for a smoke break. He committed genocide against several populations, slaughtered all the people on the planet save one family, smashed cities, parted seas, turned women into condiments, etc. In the New Testament, Sky Daddy still made himself obvious. He raped young virgins, raised zombies, fed multitudes with a packet of crisps and a six-pack. But ever since his son said "Screw you guys; I'm going home," no more miracles, really-- nothing more convincing than Jesus tortillas, anyway.
Why? I don't recall any mention of this in the Bible. He never said, "oh hey, by the way, I'm going to be out golfing for the next couple thousand years. Try not to slaughter yourselves."
What science has that religion does not is falsifiability, and a vastly greater degree of self-consistency.
I don't think you can ask for more than this reaction. They certainly reacted more ethically than many, many GPL violators (Hi Linksys/Cisco!). So, good for them, and good for us. The responsible individuals should be fired, tarred and feathered-- but I can't believe that this was in line with corporate policy.
But it was also very much in their best interests. If they take on the GPL, what other licenses come into question? Their entire business is based on the copyright status quo. No need to rock that particular boat. They've already experimented with taking on free software via their proxy SCO, and lost. Doing so directly would entail high risk, small possibility of reward, terrible PR, alienating their customers, most of whom probably use GPL/Linux software as well as Microsofts-- and for what? Some trivial piece of code they intended to distribute for free anyway? Why on earth would they do that?
QPLists? Fuck me. Say what you want about the tenets of the GPL, but at least it's an ethos!
"A pretty comprehensive system..."
A roof? Vents not open to the sky? Filters? It's not particle physics, people.
The telecoms have caught on to IP? And the handset manufacturers are committing to a standard DC adaptor? ...I thought we'd be walking on Mars before this day. We probably would, too, if it weren't for these masterminds with their business imperatives (Must... not... cooperate! Waste is profit!).
Many people take Xanax while flying. I'm tempted myself, not because I worry about the plane crashing, but because sitting on the tarmac for two hours with no air conditioning, crammed in next to some fat bastard with his shrieking kids, well, it doesn't suit me.
I don't see why the imaginary terrorists couldn't take Xanax or equivalent. So really, what the "security" people should do is molest the people who aren't afraid, stressed, or angry. Clearly something is wrong with those bastards.
This case actually may be as legitimate as they come. Seriously, if these guys had NDAs and B&N pulled a Microsoft on them, they have my sympathy-- though this was the obvious way to make a new e-reader, these days. Linux, and now Android linux, are the obvious choices for the OS on any consumer device these days. You'd have to be morons not to have seen that (for Linux, ~6 years ago-- sorry Palm, too late; for Android, basically on announcement).
But in general, every new tech product or service that comes out in the US seems to be hit by lawsuits as soon as it appears it will be successful. At the very least this reduces competition and increases prices. It's also a huge boon to countries which don't give a rat's ass about IP (see China). We're killing ourselves. The US has become a terrible environment for innovation.
That thing looks better all the time.
Amazon, free tip: words matter. Especially in books.
Shut UP, dude! Ixnay on the omainday.
They're welcome to implement any feature they want. It's just business, nothing personal.
But if Apple *does* implement that particular feature, I will join Al Queda. Just sayin'.
Agreed, water in the US is (for the foreseeable future) safer than water in China. The water in the US is getting more dangerous, however, largely due to Bush/43's strangling the EPA (remember the Tennessee Valley Authority spill?). The extent of the damage is not yet known, nor is it clear how far Obama will go to restore environmental regulations and monitoring. My guess is he'll do something, but not very much.
Everybody set all your TTLs to 1.
Yep. I'll never buy a game with ads (for real companies) in it. Of course they'd make that claim: they want to get paid twice, by us and by the advertisers. I notice the prices of games with ads seem to be the same as those without.
Compete if you don't like it. Get a cartel of game companies to fund a copy of Steam. I doubt it will save much money, though.
I've definitely purchased more games due to Steam. I do wish that more of the games supported online backups of saved games, and that it had a default configuration/hinting system for settings such as key and mouse binds. Movement, invert mouse, zoom, jump, crouch, prone, etc: most games of a similar type have mostly similar controls.
Steam is great. They've had the potential to be evil since inception, but they seem to have realized that they'll do much better by treating customers well. I doubt I'll ever buy a game on physical (fragile, wasteful) media again.
Start with the Book of the New Sun. Like most classics, it rewards multiple readings. Plenty of philosophy thrown in as a bonus, and it's a good introduction to the unreliable narrator.
If that's too difficult, I'd recommend Steven Brust's Vlad books. They're a good way to break stereotypes of SF/fantasy. The first few are told in almost a film noir, hard-boiled style. That's become a genre unto itself these days, but he was among the first (Zelazny's Amber books did it as well). They read fast, but they're surprisingly thoughtful.
Iain M Banks' Culture books are great, particularly Use of Weapons and Player of Games. Blindsight, by Peter Watts, is probably the best SF book I've read since Cryptonomicon. But Watts may be a little depressing for high school. I'm not sure today's tender young treasures, raised on foam playgrounds, not allowed to walk two blocks to school, could stand up to him... you'd probably end up getting sued.
Oh, and it's hard to go wrong with Stross (except for the Family Trade books, I can't get into them).