There are good reasons to add a video tag, but considering the way you revel in your own ignorance, I can't really be bothered to tell you about it. I'll just let you know that there are good reasons, and you can use that as a starting point to educate yourself instead of posting knee-jerk nonsense, if you really are interested.
"As a circumcised female, it's not a health matter, it's definitely a cosmetic issue, and has to do with the child's identity development. Child sees the mother's vagina and it's circumcised while the child isn't? Blah blah blah."
I haven't made any plans, but yeah, if I have a son I'll probably get him circumcised, why not?
Maybe because you should leave it for him to choose when he's an adult, and maybe because it's extremely painful for the baby? Why mutilate your son just because you can? My God, that's the most evil thing I've heard all day!
Comparing Male Circumcision to Female Circumcision is ignorant of just how terrible female circumcision is.
Nonsense. Male mutilation is incredibly painful, and you lose nerve endings that would otherwise help with stimulation.
It's funny how so many people think circumcision is so terrible, when kids are showing off tongue studs, rings etc.
Male genital mutilation is extremely painful, and it should be left up to each guy to choose when he grows old enough. Mutilating your son's penis is NOT YOUR PLACE.
Though no one is saying it, those who advocate against circumcision seem to be likening it to a clitoridectomy. It isn't and honestly I'd call it the inverse.
Gee, one involves removing something which gives sexual pleasure. The other involves removing something which leads to less sensitivity. Both are extremely gruesome and painful.
once a circumcision involves cutting off sensitive parts of the penis to keep men from realizing the joys of sex and possibly leaving their wives for more fulfilling sexual relationships, give me a call
The foreskin actually helps to stimulate the woman.
Don't mutilate kids penises. Let them choose for themsevels when they grow up.
A guy working for Opera at the time started HTML5. Mozilla has been heavily involved, as has Google. If anything, Apple has been stalling because they didn't want patent-free video competing with QuickTime!
Your "standard" is not free. And who cares if Apple is crippled because they chose to push patent-infested nonsense?
Opera runs comfortable even on low-memory mobile phones with the same engine (and I'm talking about the full browser, not Opera Mini). Firefox does not. You were saying again?
Without a domain name, this sort of thing is basically useless.
Yes, and? So what? They let you get one easily, or you can just buy your own. If not, what's preventing you from registering your own domain name exactly?
It's great that it uses UPnP. Woo! Awesome! Gold star! But it's still essentially useless for damn near anything.
What do you mean by "anything"? Do you even know what Unite is?
Setting up a web server really is trivial. Like this. And it actually gives you something worth a flying fuck.
Actually, it isn't as trivial as setting up Unite. And besides, Unite isn't supposed to replace traditional web servers.
And using "keeping your files local" as a reason for some stupid boondoggle like this is absolutely silly.
It's silly to want control of your own files? Wow.
This is Opera trying very, very had to remain relevant by replacing MySpace, Facebook, et al. by encouraging traffic through their servers, becoming a hub of traffic.
Hey, you blabbering idiot, the proxy is just a fallback. If UPnP works there's no traffic through Opera's servers.
I'd love to see the impotent nerd rage on the faces of Opera devs if Google came out with Google Sites-On-Your-Computer in the next six months and obliterate what little buzz this stupid, stupid feature has. Not because I think it's a good feature, but because the Opera folks have a history of doing more whining than marketing and have the success to show for it.
It's ironic, then, that you are whining like a little crybaby now. You are raging so badly that you just threw a childish fit, and had some childish fantasy about Google beating up the mean Opera for innovating. LOL.
Opera is currently the dominant mobile browser, and the revenue growth from the desktop version is more than 100% each quarter, with a user base more than doubling in less than 2 years. Sounds pretty successful to me.
What's with the constant crying? TFA was an interesting article showing that while the Unite server can't really compete with the big boys, it still does quite well, and the ease of use is much better than the rest.
Regarding proxies and Unite, let's just quote the Opera Unite offical website, "Opera Unite uses a proxy between the server and its clients"
Hey, quote mining! Just like Creationists! The proxy is just a fallback in case UPnP fails, as the FAQ clearly states. But I guess you prefer to whine like a little crybaby instead of educating yourself about the facts.
Did anyone claim that it was a thorough comparison? No. It's just to see how Unite's performance measures up. It's a fun exercise, and gives you an idea about how far you can push it.
I don't care about "813 r/s"; saying that figure means nothing. And what hardware exactly?
People with more than half a brain would have RTFA and seen the hardware specs in the original post. Funny how you talk about low quality, and yet your comment is obviously based on not bothering to read the thing.
Open standards are held back because the dominant browser ignores them. In a world with several browsers with about equal market share, things would move much faster because there is no dominant player to slow everyone else down. And if one of the browsers don't follow the rest, it will lose users.
Until someone can come up with a way to make committees efficient and people with diverging commercial interests work for the general good, this is probably just going to be the nature of life.
Right now, all other browser vendors are able to work together and agree on standards, except Microsoft. Diverging commercial interests or not, they are working together and getting things done.
you do know that Opera Unite will send everything through Opera's servers right?
No it won't. It will use UPnP, and as a fallback it will use a proxy server for routing.
So I'm afraid it doesn't work like you think it does.
I'm afraid you are spreading FUD.
I predict Opera will hang on for another year or two
LOL. People have been saying that for 15 years. But the market is going where Opera wants it to go. Yes, their mobile division is doing incredibly well, and it will only do better. Also, Opera's desktop user base has more than doubled in less than 2 years. How's that for "hanging on"? You doom-sayers crack me up. You have been wrong about Opera for 15 years, and will for at least 15 more. The worst that can happen to Opera is that they are bought up by some other company. Otherwise they'll continue to thrive.
And without a domain name, who's going to do that?
Wait, so it's Opera's job to provide you with the.com domain of your choice for free? And how, pray tell, would they go about making sure that domain pointed to your computer unless you had an account with them which could be used to keep track of your IP address?
What's preventing you from registering your own domain name exactly?
In any case, NAT (which basically everyone has or should have!) makes this silly and meaningless.
And guess what, Opera uses UPnP go get through NAT.
Anybody savvy enough--and with an ISP terms-of-use agreement liberal enough--to set up Opera Unite as their web server on a private account can probably set up a real web server running Wordpress or whatever.
This is a joke, right? Setting up a wewb server running wordpress is as easy as logging in to Opera Unite and double-clicking a service to start it??
Or just spend $5/month for shared hosting and do it that way.
..and your files end up on someone else's servers, which is what Opera Unite avoids. It's amazing how you suggest something that's the opposite of what Unite is trying to do!
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Or maybe because his "report" was submitted for peer review, and was rejected?
This "science"?
What abuse, and what makes you think HTML5 is supposed to address whatever abuse you are referring to?
There are good reasons to add a video tag, but considering the way you revel in your own ignorance, I can't really be bothered to tell you about it. I'll just let you know that there are good reasons, and you can use that as a starting point to educate yourself instead of posting knee-jerk nonsense, if you really are interested.
Wow, this is truly disgusting. You'll probably be giving your infant daughter a boob job next.
"As a circumcised female, it's not a health matter, it's definitely a cosmetic issue, and has to do with the child's identity development. Child sees the mother's vagina and it's circumcised while the child isn't? Blah blah blah."
Maybe because you should leave it for him to choose when he's an adult, and maybe because it's extremely painful for the baby? Why mutilate your son just because you can? My God, that's the most evil thing I've heard all day!
Nonsense. Male mutilation is incredibly painful, and you lose nerve endings that would otherwise help with stimulation.
Good for you. That's no reason to mutilate the penis of a small child who is never even given the chance to choose.
Male genital mutilation is extremely painful, and it should be left up to each guy to choose when he grows old enough. Mutilating your son's penis is NOT YOUR PLACE.
Gee, one involves removing something which gives sexual pleasure. The other involves removing something which leads to less sensitivity. Both are extremely gruesome and painful.
The foreskin actually helps to stimulate the woman.
Don't mutilate kids penises. Let them choose for themsevels when they grow up.
You can blame them for being asshats. Everyone is so angry about their obvious BS, and trying to trample all over individual rights.
You are just an ASSHAT shill. Their actions are clearly completely retarded, and anyone who doesn't represent them will know that.
According to a flawed test, perhaps. In reality, Firefox still has a lot of memory issues to deal with.
A guy working for Opera at the time started HTML5. Mozilla has been heavily involved, as has Google. If anything, Apple has been stalling because they didn't want patent-free video competing with QuickTime!
Your "standard" is not free. And who cares if Apple is crippled because they chose to push patent-infested nonsense?
Opera runs comfortable even on low-memory mobile phones with the same engine (and I'm talking about the full browser, not Opera Mini). Firefox does not. You were saying again?
Yes, and? So what? They let you get one easily, or you can just buy your own. If not, what's preventing you from registering your own domain name exactly?
What do you mean by "anything"? Do you even know what Unite is?
Actually, it isn't as trivial as setting up Unite. And besides, Unite isn't supposed to replace traditional web servers.
It's silly to want control of your own files? Wow.
Hey, you blabbering idiot, the proxy is just a fallback. If UPnP works there's no traffic through Opera's servers.
It's ironic, then, that you are whining like a little crybaby now. You are raging so badly that you just threw a childish fit, and had some childish fantasy about Google beating up the mean Opera for innovating. LOL.
Opera is currently the dominant mobile browser, and the revenue growth from the desktop version is more than 100% each quarter, with a user base more than doubling in less than 2 years. Sounds pretty successful to me.
Hey, quote mining! Just like Creationists! The proxy is just a fallback in case UPnP fails, as the FAQ clearly states. But I guess you prefer to whine like a little crybaby instead of educating yourself about the facts.
Did you even RTFA? And the original article? Obviously not. Welcome to Slashdot, where trolls flame story writers without having RTFA.
Did anyone claim that it was a thorough comparison? No. It's just to see how Unite's performance measures up. It's a fun exercise, and gives you an idea about how far you can push it.
The proxy is just a fallback if UPnP fails.
People with more than half a brain would have RTFA and seen the hardware specs in the original post. Funny how you talk about low quality, and yet your comment is obviously based on not bothering to read the thing.
Right now, all other browser vendors are able to work together and agree on standards, except Microsoft. Diverging commercial interests or not, they are working together and getting things done.
No it won't. It will use UPnP, and as a fallback it will use a proxy server for routing.
I'm afraid you are spreading FUD.
LOL. People have been saying that for 15 years. But the market is going where Opera wants it to go. Yes, their mobile division is doing incredibly well, and it will only do better. Also, Opera's desktop user base has more than doubled in less than 2 years. How's that for "hanging on"? You doom-sayers crack me up. You have been wrong about Opera for 15 years, and will for at least 15 more. The worst that can happen to Opera is that they are bought up by some other company. Otherwise they'll continue to thrive.
Latest public Firefox: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.5rc2/win32/en-US/ (7.9 MB, a hefty 1.2 MB bigger than even Opera's bloated MSI, and 2.4 MB bigger than the classic installer)
And you were saying again?
Wait, so it's Opera's job to provide you with the .com domain of your choice for free? And how, pray tell, would they go about making sure that domain pointed to your computer unless you had an account with them which could be used to keep track of your IP address?
What's preventing you from registering your own domain name exactly?
And guess what, Opera uses UPnP go get through NAT.
This is a joke, right? Setting up a wewb server running wordpress is as easy as logging in to Opera Unite and double-clicking a service to start it??