You do realize that in the link that you're pointing to, Chrome is using *standard* features that are enabled through use of specialized CSS calls, right? That doesn't mean Google developed special features on their own and are trying to standardize them.
As far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as a HTML standard. As it is right now, every single browser handles HTML5 in slightly different ways. Every browser has handled rendering differently since the creation of the Internet. I fail to see how this is any worse.
There are already HTML5 sites that only work in Chrome. There are a couple HTML5 showcase sites Microsoft had made that barely run in Chrome, but run fine in IE 9/10. I've seen some that only work in Firefox, not Chrome or IE 9/10.
Don't like it? Go into your BIOS and turn it off. The specification mandates that it have a disable option. How hard is it to disable? Take a look at this image: http://imgur.com/QW1Pp
Saying Yahoo was the best search engine in the pre-PageRank era is not saying much. As for email, I used Rocketmail... until it was bought out by Yahoo, who took Rocketmail and added a couple layers of Yahoo bloat onto it.
But what I'll never forgive Yahoo for doing is ruining GeoCities. Before Yahoo, there was no annoying advertising overlay. None.
From the Kickstarter page: " It's built on Android, so developers already know how it works. That doesn't mean OUYA is an Android port."... So I imagine that it's a significant fork with major re-writes, including the interface.
My Exede satellite internet service was out from 8:00 EDT to 9:50 EDT... I have no way to verify it was caused by the leap second, but it seems a little coincidental.
Slashdot's reaction to the Surface has been a mixture of amusing and frustrating. The reaction was immediately: "Surface is complete garbage. Horrible fail. After all, Microsoft never makes anything good." A few days later after some of the announced features of Surface disseminated the reaction changed to: "Utter vaporware. Never coming out. After all, Microsoft could never make something like that. They must be lying." Never in my life have I seen a piece of unreleased hardware declared vaporware in mere days of it's announcement. Never. Microsoft must've really touched a nerve with some people.
Unlike an Apple event, where they make a huge deal about a feature, then immediately invite journalists from the crowd to try it out... Wait, that never happens.
If it's store policy, it's store policy. Live with it. Frankly, it's not worth it to the employee who is getting paid $8/hour to go out on a limb by breaking rules that were beat into them during orientation. If it means breaking policy, the employee would much rather keep his job then help you out. If you don't like it, complain to a manager at the store who isn't afraid of losing his job by breaking a rule.
Once Windows 8 is released, hardware manufacturers will be forced to ship machines that refuse to run any software that is not explicitly approved by Microsoft — and that includes competing operating systems like Linux.
FUD FUD FUD. Also: Bullshit. You will **ALWAYS** be able to install another OS onto your system. Just toggle off the hardware certification in the BIOS. Don't you just love it when people hate FUD when it's against something they like, but go ahead and use it themselves when it's against the "enemy". Microsoft requiring it's hardware manufacture to use the verified boot feature that has been baked into the UEFI standard for **YEARS** now is not the same as banning OSes. It's designed to block malware from affecting the boot path. You are correct; Microsoft completely blocking other OSes would be essentially illegal. That's why it **isn't** happening.
Also, I think it's freaking hilarious that the article says the Fedora feels it's forced to pay because "they would have to explain to their potential users how to mess with firmware settings just to install the OS". Let me get that straight: You're worried that your LINUX customer won't know how to change a setting in the BIOS? To install an OS that nearly requires a near expert level computer knowledge to use?
Okay, let's pretend that these computer neophyte Linux users exist. Hardware manufacturers could always just install a physical switch that Google uses on **ALL** Chromebooks. Flip the switch, and the verified boot is disabled. Then these neophyte Linux users can continue on to install the OS they won't know how to use.
"Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that “there is no such word.” There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead. First known use: circa 1912" - Merriam Webster, (who is owned by Encyclopedia Britannica)
Has Twitter *ever* used direct browser data to advertise? I thought 100% of their business model was giving paid suggestions depending on your public tweets and follow list. The DNT toggle won't change that. They're essentially not changing anything. It's not like Twitter has regular ads on the site. They're all paid stream inserts and paid trending topics. The paid inserts have never been based off a cookie or off-site browser behavior.
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Do a Google search for "Indiana legalizes shooting cops" or check out this blurb: http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Indiana_First_State_to_Allow_Citizens_to_Shoot_Law_Enforcement_Officers_120611
Indiana just passed this law too. It specifically allows shooting police who refuse to leave your property if they have no legal right to be there.
Also, G+.
Was hoping for something more like this: http://mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/
You do realize that in the link that you're pointing to, Chrome is using *standard* features that are enabled through use of specialized CSS calls, right? That doesn't mean Google developed special features on their own and are trying to standardize them.
For example, here are the list of Firefox CSS calls that are standardized, but temporarily renamed, while they settle out exactly how they want to render them: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS_Reference/Mozilla_Extensions
As far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as a HTML standard. As it is right now, every single browser handles HTML5 in slightly different ways. Every browser has handled rendering differently since the creation of the Internet. I fail to see how this is any worse. There are already HTML5 sites that only work in Chrome. There are a couple HTML5 showcase sites Microsoft had made that barely run in Chrome, but run fine in IE 9/10. I've seen some that only work in Firefox, not Chrome or IE 9/10.
Domination through improvement? BTW, the WHATWG is run by people from Mozilla, Apple, and Opera.
A DC wired house is fun until one of your outlets go out. Good luck trying to restore power.
Seems a lot like cryogenics to me.
I haven't had even a 3.5" drive in my computer in 10 years.
Don't like it? Go into your BIOS and turn it off. The specification mandates that it have a disable option. How hard is it to disable? Take a look at this image: http://imgur.com/QW1Pp
Saying Yahoo was the best search engine in the pre-PageRank era is not saying much. As for email, I used Rocketmail... until it was bought out by Yahoo, who took Rocketmail and added a couple layers of Yahoo bloat onto it. But what I'll never forgive Yahoo for doing is ruining GeoCities. Before Yahoo, there was no annoying advertising overlay. None.
Maybe 0 CEO experience, but she's spent the last 2 years at Google's "operating committee", previously named the executive management group. - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/google-search-executive-marissa-mayer-takes-a-new-job/
From the Kickstarter page: " It's built on Android, so developers already know how it works. That doesn't mean OUYA is an Android port."... So I imagine that it's a significant fork with major re-writes, including the interface.
Sure, 15% of that website's users. Most definitely not 15% of global market. That number is closer to 54% on the desktop. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/firefox-fights-back-holds-on-to-second-place-in-world-browser-shares/
My Exede satellite internet service was out from 8:00 EDT to 9:50 EDT... I have no way to verify it was caused by the leap second, but it seems a little coincidental.
If anyone's want to know exactly what went down at the press conference without being fed a heavy dose of cynicism, you could always check out ArsTechnica's liveblog and post-event coverage: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/liveblog-from-la-microsofts-major-announcement-rumored-tablet-unveil/
Slashdot's reaction to the Surface has been a mixture of amusing and frustrating. The reaction was immediately: "Surface is complete garbage. Horrible fail. After all, Microsoft never makes anything good." A few days later after some of the announced features of Surface disseminated the reaction changed to: "Utter vaporware. Never coming out. After all, Microsoft could never make something like that. They must be lying." Never in my life have I seen a piece of unreleased hardware declared vaporware in mere days of it's announcement. Never. Microsoft must've really touched a nerve with some people.
Unlike an Apple event, where they make a huge deal about a feature, then immediately invite journalists from the crowd to try it out... Wait, that never happens.
If it's store policy, it's store policy. Live with it. Frankly, it's not worth it to the employee who is getting paid $8/hour to go out on a limb by breaking rules that were beat into them during orientation. If it means breaking policy, the employee would much rather keep his job then help you out. If you don't like it, complain to a manager at the store who isn't afraid of losing his job by breaking a rule.
Note that the ability to install your owns keys is certainly not a guaranteed right.
Also note: YOU CAN ALWAYS TURN OFF SECURE BOOT IN THE BIOS
I'm done trying to explain this. If people want to have a persecution complex about this, that's their problem.
Once Windows 8 is released, hardware manufacturers will be forced to ship machines that refuse to run any software that is not explicitly approved by Microsoft — and that includes competing operating systems like Linux.
FUD FUD FUD. Also: Bullshit. You will **ALWAYS** be able to install another OS onto your system. Just toggle off the hardware certification in the BIOS. Don't you just love it when people hate FUD when it's against something they like, but go ahead and use it themselves when it's against the "enemy". Microsoft requiring it's hardware manufacture to use the verified boot feature that has been baked into the UEFI standard for **YEARS** now is not the same as banning OSes. It's designed to block malware from affecting the boot path. You are correct; Microsoft completely blocking other OSes would be essentially illegal. That's why it **isn't** happening.
Also, I think it's freaking hilarious that the article says the Fedora feels it's forced to pay because "they would have to explain to their potential users how to mess with firmware settings just to install the OS". Let me get that straight: You're worried that your LINUX customer won't know how to change a setting in the BIOS? To install an OS that nearly requires a near expert level computer knowledge to use?
Okay, let's pretend that these computer neophyte Linux users exist. Hardware manufacturers could always just install a physical switch that Google uses on **ALL** Chromebooks. Flip the switch, and the verified boot is disabled. Then these neophyte Linux users can continue on to install the OS they won't know how to use.
"Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that “there is no such word.” There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead. First known use: circa 1912" - Merriam Webster, (who is owned by Encyclopedia Britannica)
The correct usage of a word is what the majority of its users say it is. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Has Twitter *ever* used direct browser data to advertise? I thought 100% of their business model was giving paid suggestions depending on your public tweets and follow list. The DNT toggle won't change that. They're essentially not changing anything. It's not like Twitter has regular ads on the site. They're all paid stream inserts and paid trending topics. The paid inserts have never been based off a cookie or off-site browser behavior.
False positives? Gah! Not what I meant.