The PS3 is by far the fastest BluRay player out there and the most upgradeable and useful as a media center, as well as the most powerful. It is the ONLY player worth buying for the non-rich.
Nobody misses the 80s and nobody misses VHS tapes. You're a fucking liar and you should be modded down!
I want to work as a GPU designer for S3 and put my heart and soul into a product that will be laughably pathetic compared to nVidia and ATi's offerings.
I also want to fight two MMA champs at the same time, just so I can push my body to the limit and get utterly humiliated and destroyed anyways by two laughing guys drinking beer while they are beating me up.
Blazing-fast fullpage zoom: using the + and - keys makes Opera a delight to use for those of us browsing at high resolutions with websites designed for low resolutions. With 30" monitors like mine, it's an absolute must.
note:Firefox 3.1 has a horribly slow full page zoom on my dual core 2.2 Ghz AMD.
Instant page backtracking:. No re-rendering delay. (oh how I wish I could use Opera on my iPhone just because of that). The bonus is that any text typed by the user is also saved. A lifesaver for those of us who post on forums and hate to see their comments "eaten" by server and network errors.
Snappiest interface of the bunch: It shows quickdial tabs faster than the firefox plugin. Closing tabs and opening new ones is faster. Scrolling is faster. The reduced input latency makes interacting with the browser more enjoyable. Chrome is second best in this regard.
All of this makes up for the slightly higher incompatibility issues Opera deals with and the lack of addons (segmented downloading? Adblock? etc.). I can always fire up Chrome or Firefox if I need to.
...Apparently, 166,000 messages were logged in two months. 88,000 messages/month.
Ebay said that the lack of security that allowed the monitoring to be uncovered was the problem and affirmed their concerns for the privacy of their users (then why did they LOG their messages to begin with?):
the company spoke to the accessibility of the messages, not their monitoring. The security breach does not affect Skypes core technology or functionality, she said. It exists within an administrative layer on Tom Online servers. We have expressed our concern to Tom Online about the security issue and they have informed us that a fix to the problem will be completed within 24 hours. EBay had no comment on the monitoring.
Yeah...tough to justify logging messages, dates, IPs and phone numbers when keywords like "milk powder" or "earthquake" were used and providing them to the chinese government.
It seems the logging was done client-side. Skype is p2p based so this might have been their only option.
That is a a ridiculously bad idea. I understand the appeal of getting data for nothing (i'm paying $30/month for my useless data plan) but the method is just too limiting to be worth a damn.
Just the way it is. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't thought it through.
In these times of economic uncertainty, Activision can't afford to give away stuff that we are willing to pay for (ie: stuff we really enjoy doing). Consider it a real "Call of Duty" for us gamers who received stimulus checks from the government.
If you haven't received the check because you're not american or didn't qualify, just..save up and send some money to them. Where there is a will, there is a way. That's what my mom used to say.
they only sued to save Monticello from itself, apparently feeling that the municipality is unprepared for the onerous costs of maintaining such a network, and would lack the expertise to do so.
I, for one, am deeply grateful to our corporate overlords for saving the population of Monticello from themselves.
Divx may be 0.5GB/hour but HD video is more like 10GB/hour (less for 720p, more for 1080p).
That means that someone who watches 1 hour of HD video every day (way less than a typical TV viewer) consumes 300GB a month or more if he uploads as well and would immediately run afoul the comcast cap.
I really hope Google takes a page from opera's delicious full page, proportional zoom.
Chrome has the same old crappy zooming feature other browsers have and it sucks. People with large monitors/large resolution and people with eyesight problems NEED good zoom like the one available on Opera.
I won't hold my breath though. I suggested to the Gmail team that they allow the user to list more than 100 emails on a page and more than 20 emails when performing a search and I'm still waiting 2 or 3 years later.
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Thanks for amalgamating muslims and terrorists!
Please keep spreading bigotry and FUD on /. for great justice!
Stupid douchy cocksucker.
Mod parent up for truth and funny.
The PS3 is by far the fastest BluRay player out there and the most upgradeable and useful as a media center, as well as the most powerful. It is the ONLY player worth buying for the non-rich.
Nobody misses the 80s and nobody misses VHS tapes. You're a fucking liar and you should be modded down!
Ok, you're right about this one. I guess Munroe wins after all.
Suck it Katz!
Nonsense. Why would anyone's favorite animal be a cow?
In any case, how do you know who proposed each topic and where do you get off calling Katz a cheat? Where is your proof?
I want to work as a GPU designer for S3 and put my heart and soul into a product that will be laughably pathetic compared to nVidia and ATi's offerings.
I also want to fight two MMA champs at the same time, just so I can push my body to the limit and get utterly humiliated and destroyed anyways by two laughing guys drinking beer while they are beating me up.
The Internet, as envisioned by the elderly. KATZ
String Theory. MUNROE
1999. MUNROE
Your favorite animal eating your favorite food. KATZ
Katz cheated on 1999 and Munroe cheated on animal eating.
Munroe's elderly comic makes no sense. Katz actually pulls an XKCD-like description with the Venn Diagrams.
Finally, both string theory entries were funny (Katz more understandably so) but Munroe's entry was more original.
Thus, a tie.
Anyone who thinks different can suck my cock.
And yes I am an autopilot engineer.
That is so cool. Only on /. can I expect to read stuff like that :)
Anyways, keep on engineering and try not to fuck up like the last guy ;)
That means no multitouch or Tablet functionality. Handy to read ebooks perhaps and operate non-existing toy-like software.
What is desired is a TabletPC + multitouch hybrid. This one has neither and thus is a niche product using obsolete technology.
Blazing-fast fullpage zoom: using the + and - keys makes Opera a delight to use for those of us browsing at high resolutions with websites designed for low resolutions. With 30" monitors like mine, it's an absolute must.
note:Firefox 3.1 has a horribly slow full page zoom on my dual core 2.2 Ghz AMD.
Instant page backtracking:. No re-rendering delay. (oh how I wish I could use Opera on my iPhone just because of that). The bonus is that any text typed by the user is also saved. A lifesaver for those of us who post on forums and hate to see their comments "eaten" by server and network errors.
Snappiest interface of the bunch: It shows quickdial tabs faster than the firefox plugin. Closing tabs and opening new ones is faster. Scrolling is faster. The reduced input latency makes interacting with the browser more enjoyable. Chrome is second best in this regard.
All of this makes up for the slightly higher incompatibility issues Opera deals with and the lack of addons (segmented downloading? Adblock? etc.). I can always fire up Chrome or Firefox if I need to.
Don't call him 'friend', guy!
...Apparently, 166,000 messages were logged in two months. 88,000 messages/month.
Ebay said that the lack of security that allowed the monitoring to be uncovered was the problem and affirmed their concerns for the privacy of their users (then why did they LOG their messages to begin with?):
the company spoke to the accessibility of the messages, not their monitoring. The security breach does not affect Skypes core technology or functionality, she said. It exists within an administrative layer on Tom Online servers. We have expressed our concern to Tom Online about the security issue and they have informed us that a fix to the problem will be completed within 24 hours. EBay had no comment on the monitoring.
Yeah...tough to justify logging messages, dates, IPs and phone numbers when keywords like "milk powder" or "earthquake" were used and providing them to the chinese government.
It seems the logging was done client-side. Skype is p2p based so this might have been their only option.
I received a slight reprimand for even suggesting something like that might happen.
That's what you get for being a tattletale, bitch!
I agree with what you have said and I enjoyed reading your posts. There is no shame in saying "I don't know".
Unfortunately, we don't really like not knowing so it doesn't come to us easily.
Checking webpages through Gmail? Really?
That is a a ridiculously bad idea. I understand the appeal of getting data for nothing (i'm paying $30/month for my useless data plan) but the method is just too limiting to be worth a damn.
Just the way it is. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't thought it through.
People need to stop hating on developers for decisions made by publishers. It just needs to stop.
I didn't realize people were "hating" unless by hating, you mean "not buying their product because of a bad publisher".
In these times of economic uncertainty, Activision can't afford to give away stuff that we are willing to pay for (ie: stuff we really enjoy doing). Consider it a real "Call of Duty" for us gamers who received stimulus checks from the government.
If you haven't received the check because you're not american or didn't qualify, just..save up and send some money to them. Where there is a will, there is a way. That's what my mom used to say.
they only sued to save Monticello from itself, apparently feeling that the municipality is unprepared for the onerous costs of maintaining such a network, and would lack the expertise to do so.
I, for one, am deeply grateful to our corporate overlords for saving the population of Monticello from themselves.
Way to go!
How delightfully embarassing to Microsoft in general and the .net platform in particular!
Wait...is .net good? Some /.ers respect and like it...
So...confused...Help!?
Divx may be 0.5GB/hour but HD video is more like 10GB/hour (less for 720p, more for 1080p).
That means that someone who watches 1 hour of HD video every day (way less than a typical TV viewer) consumes 300GB a month or more if he uploads as well and would immediately run afoul the comcast cap.
What now, eh? I thought so...
Shouldn't they have fiber by now?
That's what they get for trusting the U.S telcos to deliver.
I disagree, Chrome is noticeably faster than firefox 3 for me.
As far as I'm concerned, you're either lying or smoking crack.
Anyways, Chrome doesn't have the full page zoom Opera has so I'll stick with opera for now.
Somehow, I don't think the best move when you're trying to produce Chinese CPUs is buying AMERICAN Micro Devices :)
I really hope Google takes a page from opera's delicious full page, proportional zoom.
Chrome has the same old crappy zooming feature other browsers have and it sucks. People with large monitors/large resolution and people with eyesight problems NEED good zoom like the one available on Opera.
I won't hold my breath though. I suggested to the Gmail team that they allow the user to list more than 100 emails on a page and more than 20 emails when performing a search and I'm still waiting 2 or 3 years later.
Oh man, I did not see that coming! I am intrigued by your sese of humor and wish to subscribe to your newsletter :)