Until my PDA/smartphone sports an IR emitter, or all of my entertainment equipment (including legacy items I have no need or desire to replace) supports Bluetooth natively or can be cheaply retrofitted, my Harmony 880 is quite safe, thanks. Even then, I'd have a hard time giving up dedicated, touch-distinguishable hard buttons for functions like play/pause and volume control.
Yes, you're quite correct -- the confusing jumble that is Slashdot's threaded presentation led me to believe the AC comment I responded to was replying to this post, rather than this one.
These are presumably to catch telecine rips (digitized directly from the film reel — i.e., by theater staff with access to the film), not cam/telesync rips.
And yet I don't hear anybody complaining loudly they had to buy a Blu-ray player and an HDTV with HDMI to play Blu-ray discs. Same draconian DRM, same barriers; artificial and otherwise. The difference seems to be that you'd be hard-pressed to find a modern HDTV that doesn't have HDMI inputs — but the same should be true of HDCP-compatible monitors by the time Windows 7 hits shelves, if it isn't already. (When I bought my newest monitor a couple of months ago, most of the models I looked at were HDCP-compatible, and many had HDMI-in.)
Disappointed that you're locked out of using your existing physically-capable equipment? Do you also complain that you can't attach a Blu-ray player to the S-Video port on your old big-screen TV?
...Thanks to Google Analytics. One of the many pieces of useful information GA tracks by default is site visitors' Flash capabilities (down to the minor version number). If you don't think Google is already tracking those numbers in aggregate form across all the sites they service with GA, you probably don't quite grasp the business Google is in.
Anecdotally, Adobe's 99% claim is broadly supported by the Google Analytics stats on the mid-sized corporate web site I maintain: of ~35,000 unique visitors this month, a little under 97% reported some version of Flash installed (and of that number, a total of 11 reported an open source Flash player).
I've seen it called "the dole" — presumably from the verb "to dole", as in "doling out" support to those less fortunate. I've never seen it capitalized as a proper noun, however.
I'm sure I could find a kinder way to phrase this if I cared to try, but don't be fucking retarded.
Saving my game right before I plunge into a room full of enemies with limited cover and even more limited ammo doesn't prevent me from dying once, twice, a hundred times before I develop a winning strategy. It doesn't mean that I win just for showing up. It does mean I get to focus my effort on overcoming the challenge at hand, rather than being forced to replay some arbitrary chunk of the game over and over again just to get to the bit that overwhelmed me. (Why should the penalty for failure be endless tedium? That sounds too much like real life to qualify as entertainment.)
Parent is very nearly correct: the Acid test series purposely test CSS edge cases in order to catch rendering bugs. The CSS they use to do so looks very little like any CSS you would be likely to find in a production web site. That doesn't invalidate Acid, but it should be recognized that the tests are essentially synthetic, and any results should be evaluated with that understanding.
Bullshit. The German Workers' Party renamed themselves the National Socialist German Workers' Party to capitalize on the popularity of socialism in Weimar Germany. They were never remotely "left-wing". Their primary political opponents prior to taking power in 1933 were the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the most popular left-wing party in pre-war Germany.
Only if (assuming we're still in the MVC paradigm) your Controller logic is incredibly simple — or you implement it client-side, and use your web service merely to implement a data store (a terrible idea from a security/data integrity perspective).
Interestingly enough, I've been able to do this in Live Search on my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone for months, now, and it works surprisingly well for Microsoft software. Glad Google and iPhone are finally joining the party.
Good point. Looks like the executable is only 135K or so. Still enormous compared to the original 8K ROM, and more than twice the size of the Farbrausch emulator. Guess most of that overhead goes to interfacing with the host OS, but it still intuitively seems a little excessive.
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Yeah, that table was brilliant. Microsoft launches furniture that crashes.
I thought Steve Ballmer did that back in 2005.
Until my PDA/smartphone sports an IR emitter, or all of my entertainment equipment (including legacy items I have no need or desire to replace) supports Bluetooth natively or can be cheaply retrofitted, my Harmony 880 is quite safe, thanks. Even then, I'd have a hard time giving up dedicated, touch-distinguishable hard buttons for functions like play/pause and volume control.
Yes, you're quite correct -- the confusing jumble that is Slashdot's threaded presentation led me to believe the AC comment I responded to was replying to this post, rather than this one.
These are presumably to catch telecine rips (digitized directly from the film reel — i.e., by theater staff with access to the film), not cam/telesync rips.
And yet I don't hear anybody complaining loudly they had to buy a Blu-ray player and an HDTV with HDMI to play Blu-ray discs. Same draconian DRM, same barriers; artificial and otherwise. The difference seems to be that you'd be hard-pressed to find a modern HDTV that doesn't have HDMI inputs — but the same should be true of HDCP-compatible monitors by the time Windows 7 hits shelves, if it isn't already. (When I bought my newest monitor a couple of months ago, most of the models I looked at were HDCP-compatible, and many had HDMI-in.)
Disappointed that you're locked out of using your existing physically-capable equipment? Do you also complain that you can't attach a Blu-ray player to the S-Video port on your old big-screen TV?
...Thanks to Google Analytics. One of the many pieces of useful information GA tracks by default is site visitors' Flash capabilities (down to the minor version number). If you don't think Google is already tracking those numbers in aggregate form across all the sites they service with GA, you probably don't quite grasp the business Google is in.
Anecdotally, Adobe's 99% claim is broadly supported by the Google Analytics stats on the mid-sized corporate web site I maintain: of ~35,000 unique visitors this month, a little under 97% reported some version of Flash installed (and of that number, a total of 11 reported an open source Flash player).
I've seen it called "the dole" — presumably from the verb "to dole", as in "doling out" support to those less fortunate. I've never seen it capitalized as a proper noun, however.
A lousy job may be preferable to no job & living like a parasite (living off the Dole).
...Bob? Elizabeth?
Who needs a vote when you can buy your politician outright?
I'm a Democrat, Apple is overrated, and you're a fucking tool with a persecution complex.
What makes you so certain the mods were European, fuckhead? Plenty of non-European nationalities are capable of recognizing flamebait.
I'm sure I could find a kinder way to phrase this if I cared to try, but don't be fucking retarded.
Saving my game right before I plunge into a room full of enemies with limited cover and even more limited ammo doesn't prevent me from dying once, twice, a hundred times before I develop a winning strategy. It doesn't mean that I win just for showing up. It does mean I get to focus my effort on overcoming the challenge at hand, rather than being forced to replay some arbitrary chunk of the game over and over again just to get to the bit that overwhelmed me. (Why should the penalty for failure be endless tedium? That sounds too much like real life to qualify as entertainment.)
Parent is very nearly correct: the Acid test series purposely test CSS edge cases in order to catch rendering bugs. The CSS they use to do so looks very little like any CSS you would be likely to find in a production web site. That doesn't invalidate Acid, but it should be recognized that the tests are essentially synthetic, and any results should be evaluated with that understanding.
I know you're trolling, but: http://www.ieaddons.com/. (Mostly crap, but then, so is https://addons.mozilla.org/.)
Even better: http://www.bhelpuri.net/Trixie/. Trixie enables user scripts (ala Greasemonkey) in IE.
Bullshit. The German Workers' Party renamed themselves the National Socialist German Workers' Party to capitalize on the popularity of socialism in Weimar Germany. They were never remotely "left-wing". Their primary political opponents prior to taking power in 1933 were the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the most popular left-wing party in pre-war Germany.
Only if (assuming we're still in the MVC paradigm) your Controller logic is incredibly simple — or you implement it client-side, and use your web service merely to implement a data store (a terrible idea from a security/data integrity perspective).
YHBT; YHL. HAND.
It's called the Presidential Records Act.
(Ah, but what's this? An Executive Order from President George W. Bush? I wonder what that's about...)
Funny, hell; try "Insightful".
Interestingly enough, I've been able to do this in Live Search on my Windows Mobile 6.1 phone for months, now, and it works surprisingly well for Microsoft software. Glad Google and iPhone are finally joining the party.
Federal Trade Commission — FTC, not FCC. And this is well within their purview.
Good point. Looks like the executable is only 135K or so. Still enormous compared to the original 8K ROM, and more than twice the size of the Farbrausch emulator. Guess most of that overhead goes to interfacing with the host OS, but it still intuitively seems a little excessive.
I found it odd that it took 1.8 MB of source code to compile to an interpreter that used to fit in 8K of ROM space.
Especially when you consider that Farbrausch were able to create a near-complete c64 emulator for Windows in under 64K a couple of years ago.
So what does that other 1.74M go to?
You don't understand journalism at all do you?
If you consider ShackNews "journalism", chances are, you don't either.
Duh, that's what the camera's for.