Or just drop the DRM, use a codec that's supported cross-platform, install a BitTorrent tracker and stick links to torrents on the website. No 'iPlayer' needed. Job done. Seriously, I'm paying for this. I think that's how it should be done. If 'content providers' don't like the lack of DRM, stop using them. Don't tell me that I won't be able to watch SomeGreatProgramme. Make your own programmes. Shocking idea, I know.
I have found the same. Sometimes what you want to do (and we're not talking complicated or uncommon stuff, here) is simply not possible with CSS, or if it was, would require various browser-specific hacks which will stop working next time a new release of a browser is made (this happened with hacks made for IE6).
My laptop's CPU (Pentium M 1.4Ghz) switches down to 600Mhz when it's on battery power. I use VS.NET with ReSharper on medium-sized projects and do Ruby on Rails development. I also use Firefox and play Internet radio. I occasionally notice that it takes longer to load an application than it does on my desktop machine, but apart from that, it's fine.
"a specification that describes how to handle invalid content instead of pretending it's not important" is what we would like. The spec you linked to doesn't help with that, sadly.
And when I want to use a program which I opened ten minutes ago, but now find that a large chunk of the code (libraries, etc) has expired from the disk cache, it slows me down as much as if it had been swapped.
Why would it matter if parts of the code are no longer in the disk cache? They're in RAM! There's not much point keeping stuff in cache when it's part of a running process!
The point is, an OS is better equipped to figure out what's "unnecessary" than you are.
When I want to use a program which I opened ten minutes ago but now find it's been swapped, I'm annoyed because it's slowing me down. The OS feels a great deal faster with swap turned off. Same with Windows, which seems to employ similar tactics.
The parent post is complete tripe and anyone who feels like moderating it up would do well to get a little knowledge of how browser, virtualization and operating systems work before doing so.
and if I paid for the DVD on which the data is encrypted I should unquestionably have access to the tools necessary to decrypt it (for fair use backups, for example)
You don't need to decrypt it to back it up. Do you?
I hope you realise that no-one actually cares that a few geeks can't get Flash working in their non-32-bit-x86-Linux. The rest of the world is using Flash quite happily. Yes there are some bad Flash user interfaces, but there are also many good uses of flash and plenty of great games. If you want to sulk, that's fine with the rest of us. Just try not to let that bitterness eat you up inside.
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Or just drop the DRM, use a codec that's supported cross-platform, install a BitTorrent tracker and stick links to torrents on the website. No 'iPlayer' needed. Job done. Seriously, I'm paying for this. I think that's how it should be done. If 'content providers' don't like the lack of DRM, stop using them. Don't tell me that I won't be able to watch SomeGreatProgramme. Make your own programmes. Shocking idea, I know.
I have found the same. Sometimes what you want to do (and we're not talking complicated or uncommon stuff, here) is simply not possible with CSS, or if it was, would require various browser-specific hacks which will stop working next time a new release of a browser is made (this happened with hacks made for IE6).
http://hdparm-win32.dyndns.org/hdparm/
What they didn't tell you (it's just been discovered) is that it's doubling in size every twelve seconds.
My laptop's CPU (Pentium M 1.4Ghz) switches down to 600Mhz when it's on battery power. I use VS.NET with ReSharper on medium-sized projects and do Ruby on Rails development. I also use Firefox and play Internet radio. I occasionally notice that it takes longer to load an application than it does on my desktop machine, but apart from that, it's fine.
"Unless an open AP is labelled "dontleech" or something similar, then I can't tell if it's deliberately open or not".
If you haven't been explicitly granted permission by its owner to use it, then you must not use it. It's that simple.
Who are 'we'?
Which programs rely on atime?
"Either get other friends, or convert the ones you have"
Says the person with a binary signature.
...so I didn't.
Why are you sorry? It's exactly what I was going to post, then I checked to see if someone already had.
"a specification that describes how to handle invalid content instead of pretending it's not important" is what we would like. The spec you linked to doesn't help with that, sadly.
No, that's not anything like what was discussed.
Why would it matter if parts of the code are no longer in the disk cache? They're in RAM! There's not much point keeping stuff in cache when it's part of a running process!
When I want to use a program which I opened ten minutes ago but now find it's been swapped, I'm annoyed because it's slowing me down. The OS feels a great deal faster with swap turned off. Same with Windows, which seems to employ similar tactics.
Perhaps you'd like to write it? I'd like to see such a thing. It would be quite amazing if it was done well.
"Using more than 80 columns to express yourself just means you're not as clever a programmer as you think you are."
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Indeed. I want a 20" iMac. I'd buy one for £750, which is how much they cost in the US. Not for £1000, which is what they cost in the UK.
Krups do even cheaper pump machines.
The parent post is complete tripe and anyone who feels like moderating it up would do well to get a little knowledge of how browser, virtualization and operating systems work before doing so.
You don't need to decrypt it to back it up. Do you?
In the UK we'd mumble something about a pot and a kettle.
Sounds like he handled it like a teenage girl meeting her pop idol.
So if I wear gingham trousers I can use my laptop on my lap without having to plug it in? Fantastic.
I hope you realise that no-one actually cares that a few geeks can't get Flash working in their non-32-bit-x86-Linux. The rest of the world is using Flash quite happily. Yes there are some bad Flash user interfaces, but there are also many good uses of flash and plenty of great games. If you want to sulk, that's fine with the rest of us. Just try not to let that bitterness eat you up inside.