I fully agree. Their actions are socially irresponsible, to say the least.
To make matters worse, they are using medicine to spread defective DNA. Helping people that can't reproduce normally is going against evolution, and a direct attack on our genetic pool, and the future of our species.
hello? We are in 2011. All browsers support the audio tag. All you need is to dual-encode your files in MP3 and OGG to support Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Explorer. If you are like me, You'll only encode in ogg, which will work in Chrome, Opera and Firefox. Explorer/Safari represents Mac/Windows, so fuck them.
Also, since Chrome supports all browsers, Safari only MP3, Opera and Firefox only ogg, all you need to support all browsers is MP3, and the audio tag.
That means, the entirety of this functionality is already in the browser, and all you need is 2 file formats, and there's automatic failover with multiple source tags in the audio tag.
Of course, it's still a nice hack and POC of what can be acomplished in JS, but pretending it has real life uses as the article does is just plain stupid.
microsoft has consistently attacked OpenGL in order to push directx. They are working hard to keep people on windows. One of the few things tying people to it is applications, and within that, the biggest marketshare comes from games. Office suits, video and music, ERPs, CRMs, and just about everything else is going to the web. But games are still mostly actual executable files that depend on the OS. With WebGL, we can have games as complex as we want that just run on the browser. Microsoft DOESN'T want that, specially since their browser is going the way of the dodo.
Stop Censorship. Censorship doesn't have shades of gray... it's black and white. There is either free speech or there isn't. If there is free speech, you don't censor anyone, regardless of age. If there is just ONE content in the world that is banned to even a SINGLE person, then there isn't freedom of speech.
That is currently one of the biggest unanswered questions in the world of science. Theoretically, equal parts of matter and antimatter where created during the big bang. Why they didn't annihilate each other hasn't been explained yet.
I don't have any kind of religious tolerance. Why should I? What is your tolerance to murder? And how is your tolerance to rape and genocide coming later?
Why should I have any tolerance towards the single most idiotic, self destructive thing the human kind has ever invented?
+10 Informative, I didn't get the reference, I'll look into that.
I don't like the idea of defining myself as an Atheist either, as Poe would have put it: de nier ce qui est, et d'expliquer ce qui n'est pas. (to deny what it is, and explain what it's not). But it servers me better than any other term for a simple reason: It's immediately understood by anyone. "I'm an empiricist" doesn't have the same ring as "Fuck you, I'm an Atheist" when said to a jeovah's witness on a sunday morning. So, out of pragmatism I've gotten used to the term.
Fuck you, he was an Atheist, don't disrespect him with your bullshit.
There goes a great man, who fought against the religious bullshit machine in the most difficult place possible to do so. Once more enlightened times reach this earth, he will be remembered as he deserves.
Why is antisemitism a bad thing? Hating Republicans/Democrats or any other political/economical faction is ok. The jews are just an economical/political faction. It's not about their choice of invisible man in the sky, it's about politics. So, yeah, I am anti-semitic just as I am anti-capitalism.
You can feel the changes in cabin pressurization, and you can certainly differentiate between gravity and acceleration most of the time. Maybe some old bastard with a screwed internal ear couldn't feel it, but just one frequent flyer was enough to let everyone knew what was going on.
The end user (i.e you) experience would be the same in both a deterministic and in a non deterministic system. You only live once, your entire life can be written down as the state of every particle that makes up your body throughout every moment of your entire life. That'll be the single definition of your entire life. If after writing it down, we pushed that exact sequence into a new organism, he would be literally you, and he would live exactly your life. Therefore, you can't judge the existence of your own free will, as the end user experience will be the same, and therefore the outcome of your tests will be the same.
One word for you: torture. If someone is willing to cut your head to get access, I'm sure they have some 5 dollar wrench lying around to help them get your password.
Oh, given that comment and your username, I see you believe in imaginary people in the sky. If that's the case, please do us all a favor and commit suicide.
I own 50% of my company. We have a few employees that work between 8 and 10 hours a day, and some other part time (4 to 6 hours).
My associate and I get to the office at 8 A.M, and stay there until midnight most days, we work Monday through Saturday, but we also answer our phones and get some telecommute hours on Sundays. We rarely take any holidays off, and since there is no god, we even work on christmas. Last year, I only took 6 days of vacations.
We work harder than any of our employees, and we like it that way. We enjoy what we do (we code), and come in to the office every day with a huge smile. I'm single, so it's easier for me. My associate is married, 2 children, and he still manages to put in almost as many hours as I do.
Dedication to what you do is a great thing, and working hard shouldn't drive anyone to suicide. It's the other half of the problem that drives this people to kill themselves. It's having a life with no purpose other than to serve your capitalist overlords.
One of the very few things that make me proud about my country (Argentina) is our internet freedom. Our connections aren't great, but they ain't bad either, and they are cheap and just about everywhere (you can get unlimited, uncensored cablemodem 6mbps down, 1 mbps up for ~30 dollars a month, and unlimited, uncensored 3G 3mbps down, 512kbps up for ~25 dollars a month). Domains (*.ar) are absolutely FREE for life, and there's no limit on what you can register (I have domains that contain all 7 words, are anti-government, anti-religion, and anti-corporations, I've had them for years, and none of them has been taken away or filtered in any way). Our copyright laws are fairly sane (well, as insane as copyright itself is, they aren't as bad as the states), and we have no DMCA or any other similar shit). ISPs don't hand out information without a court order, and neither do host companies. Nobody has been sued for file-sharing, and no ISP is throttling or limiting p2p connections.
And it's not a feature, it's a bug. It's been in chrome for a while now, suddenly popped up overnight, and made life more complex to all developers. Do you have any idea of how hard it is to test a webapp if you can only get an error message once?
It's a real piece of shit. I found a way to disable it, but it still pisses me off that google suddenly decided to implement such a stupid feature overnight, without warning, and without informing users of a way to disable it.
This kind of protection should be implemented server-side. Relying in any way on the client is just braindead.
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I fully agree. Their actions are socially irresponsible, to say the least.
To make matters worse, they are using medicine to spread defective DNA. Helping people that can't reproduce normally is going against evolution, and a direct attack on our genetic pool, and the future of our species.
Well, if she also needs some sperm donors, I'll gladly deliver it directly to her uterus (after it's been transplanted, of course).
Grooveshark has already been rewritten in HTML5 ages ago. It doesn't work on Android/iPhone because they want to profit from app sales.
hello? We are in 2011. All browsers support the audio tag. All you need is to dual-encode your files in MP3 and OGG to support Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Explorer. If you are like me, You'll only encode in ogg, which will work in Chrome, Opera and Firefox. Explorer/Safari represents Mac/Windows, so fuck them.
Exactly my thoughts.
Also, since Chrome supports all browsers, Safari only MP3, Opera and Firefox only ogg, all you need to support all browsers is MP3, and the audio tag.
That means, the entirety of this functionality is already in the browser, and all you need is 2 file formats, and there's automatic failover with multiple source tags in the audio tag.
Of course, it's still a nice hack and POC of what can be acomplished in JS, but pretending it has real life uses as the article does is just plain stupid.
Are they really that obvious?
microsoft has consistently attacked OpenGL in order to push directx. They are working hard to keep people on windows. One of the few things tying people to it is applications, and within that, the biggest marketshare comes from games. Office suits, video and music, ERPs, CRMs, and just about everything else is going to the web. But games are still mostly actual executable files that depend on the OS. With WebGL, we can have games as complex as we want that just run on the browser. Microsoft DOESN'T want that, specially since their browser is going the way of the dodo.
Stop Censorship. Censorship doesn't have shades of gray ... it's black and white. There is either free speech or there isn't. If there is free speech, you don't censor anyone, regardless of age. If there is just ONE content in the world that is banned to even a SINGLE person, then there isn't freedom of speech.
Treating kids like that is awful.
Really? Dude, you have a 7 digits UID. You are the child here.
Lurk moar.
Get a cheap android phone, like the i5500, create cheap plastic front end + app. That's all you need to do this.
That is currently one of the biggest unanswered questions in the world of science. Theoretically, equal parts of matter and antimatter where created during the big bang. Why they didn't annihilate each other hasn't been explained yet.
I don't have any kind of religious tolerance. Why should I? What is your tolerance to murder? And how is your tolerance to rape and genocide coming later?
Why should I have any tolerance towards the single most idiotic, self destructive thing the human kind has ever invented?
+10 Informative, I didn't get the reference, I'll look into that.
I don't like the idea of defining myself as an Atheist either, as Poe would have put it: de nier ce qui est, et d'expliquer ce qui n'est pas. (to deny what it is, and explain what it's not). But it servers me better than any other term for a simple reason: It's immediately understood by anyone. "I'm an empiricist" doesn't have the same ring as "Fuck you, I'm an Atheist" when said to a jeovah's witness on a sunday morning. So, out of pragmatism I've gotten used to the term.
Not yet, but we are working on it.
Fuck you, he was an Atheist, don't disrespect him with your bullshit.
There goes a great man, who fought against the religious bullshit machine in the most difficult place possible to do so. Once more enlightened times reach this earth, he will be remembered as he deserves.
Why is antisemitism a bad thing? Hating Republicans/Democrats or any other political/economical faction is ok. The jews are just an economical/political faction. It's not about their choice of invisible man in the sky, it's about politics. So, yeah, I am anti-semitic just as I am anti-capitalism.
Ridiculous.
You can feel the changes in cabin pressurization, and you can certainly differentiate between gravity and acceleration most of the time. Maybe some old bastard with a screwed internal ear couldn't feel it, but just one frequent flyer was enough to let everyone knew what was going on.
The end user (i.e you) experience would be the same in both a deterministic and in a non deterministic system. You only live once, your entire life can be written down as the state of every particle that makes up your body throughout every moment of your entire life. That'll be the single definition of your entire life. If after writing it down, we pushed that exact sequence into a new organism, he would be literally you, and he would live exactly your life. Therefore, you can't judge the existence of your own free will, as the end user experience will be the same, and therefore the outcome of your tests will be the same.
One word for you: torture. If someone is willing to cut your head to get access, I'm sure they have some 5 dollar wrench lying around to help them get your password.
http://xkcd.com/538/
And they have tolls everywhere. So they are already taxing everyone based on mileage.
Adding yet another tax that accomplishes the same in a more complicated and expensive manner is bloody stupid.
Oh, given that comment and your username, I see you believe in imaginary people in the sky. If that's the case, please do us all a favor and commit suicide.
My thoughts exactly, as soon as /b/ gets involved, this is gonna be pretty funny. Pool's closed due to aids.
I own 50% of my company. We have a few employees that work between 8 and 10 hours a day, and some other part time (4 to 6 hours).
My associate and I get to the office at 8 A.M, and stay there until midnight most days, we work Monday through Saturday, but we also answer our phones and get some telecommute hours on Sundays. We rarely take any holidays off, and since there is no god, we even work on christmas. Last year, I only took 6 days of vacations.
We work harder than any of our employees, and we like it that way. We enjoy what we do (we code), and come in to the office every day with a huge smile. I'm single, so it's easier for me. My associate is married, 2 children, and he still manages to put in almost as many hours as I do.
Dedication to what you do is a great thing, and working hard shouldn't drive anyone to suicide. It's the other half of the problem that drives this people to kill themselves. It's having a life with no purpose other than to serve your capitalist overlords.
Absolutely.
One of the very few things that make me proud about my country (Argentina) is our internet freedom. Our connections aren't great, but they ain't bad either, and they are cheap and just about everywhere (you can get unlimited, uncensored cablemodem 6mbps down, 1 mbps up for ~30 dollars a month, and unlimited, uncensored 3G 3mbps down, 512kbps up for ~25 dollars a month). Domains (*.ar) are absolutely FREE for life, and there's no limit on what you can register (I have domains that contain all 7 words, are anti-government, anti-religion, and anti-corporations, I've had them for years, and none of them has been taken away or filtered in any way). Our copyright laws are fairly sane (well, as insane as copyright itself is, they aren't as bad as the states), and we have no DMCA or any other similar shit). ISPs don't hand out information without a court order, and neither do host companies. Nobody has been sued for file-sharing, and no ISP is throttling or limiting p2p connections.
But we aren't even on the list, go figure ...
The joke's on you, considering Antarctica isn't a country ...
And it's not a feature, it's a bug. It's been in chrome for a while now, suddenly popped up overnight, and made life more complex to all developers. Do you have any idea of how hard it is to test a webapp if you can only get an error message once?
It's a real piece of shit. I found a way to disable it, but it still pisses me off that google suddenly decided to implement such a stupid feature overnight, without warning, and without informing users of a way to disable it.
This kind of protection should be implemented server-side. Relying in any way on the client is just braindead.