That's hilarious. Their websites were not broken, but just not standards-compliant. When a car is broken, it doesn't work. When a website is not standards-compliant, it still works. Standards-compliance is not the be-all and end-all of a website - it being USED is. It would be the most ridiculously immature act ever if Microsoft said it is going to destroy compatibility for all previous rendering modes in what will become the most widely-used browser on the web. The internet is not an experiment, it is not an ideology, it is not a religion, it is a TOOL. You're treating it like it's something far more.
You shouldn't have to lock your door to keep thieves out, so by that logic you keep yours open, then bitch and moan that someone robbed your house. Using computers shouldn't be about slinging blame, but about getting on with using them. Saying "this doesn't work because of company X" doesn't make it work any better. Microsoft is trying to make a standards-compliant browser that is also backwards-compatible with their browsers for the better part of the last decade. And you moan about it. Jesus.
If they didn't do it this way, then they'd effectively break the web for all their users. Considering that's most of the people using the web, it's a big deal. I'm sure most people who use the web don't care how standards-compliant their browser, or indeed the site they're viewing, is. They just want it to work. We're only in this mess because when IE was first stretching its legs in the competition against Netscape, the standards were not moving quickly enough, or were flawed, and Microsoft (and indeed Netscape) stepped in and added their own code to get things working. It allowed the web to grow far more quickly than if everyone waited for the standards, putting up with the problems caused by a slow standard development. I'm all for standards, but you have to understand they can be a boon and a burden. They're a boon when they're working quickly enough (a massive, massive boon), and when they're slow, they're a massive, massive pain in the ass, that can severely limit that which they describe. I'm not saying MS has done everything right (or even much right), but to lambast them for not wanting to break most web users' experience is a bit 'tarded.
Apple has put so much protection into iTunes it doesn't surprise me for a second they'd do everything they could to protect it, as a lot of their revenue is dependent on iTunes being as secure as possible. And I'm not just talking about iTMS, but things like AirTunes devices, Apple TV, etc. If iTunes' private keys could be found, third-party apps and hardware could quickly replace Apple sales, and they'd have a pretty hard time re-establishing their current level of protection.
If the money gathered goes into improving transport links, then everyone wins. It's better than taxing the crap out of everyone to help out the rich. If people could get out of their cars and into a more efficient transport solution, then that would be even better.
I couldn't have said it better myself. How gun-lovin' good ol' boys think citizens with guns will hold off the US armed forces, should the government become evil, is beyond me. Either the army is on the side of the people, or they're not, and their allegiance will decide who wins, not how many accountants are hiding in their sheds with handguns. Having a gun to defend against the government was fine when private citizens had the same weapons as the government, but I don't think the 2nd ammendment covers F22s and Apaches.
Thumb drives are connected via USB, which offers no DMA and adds CPU overhead for each and every bit sent to/from the drive. SSDs are connected via a hard-disk interface, and offer DMA. That means there's no CPU hit for accessing your drive.
Microsoft isn't playing catch-up for everyone. For what I use my computer for, and indeed how I use it, OS X won't do - I have no choice but to use Windows.
Probably living in hell because someone they loved was horribly mentally ill and not in control of his faculties. Clearly something you don't give a rat's ass about either. Nice humanity, there.
If you find joy in anyone's death, you've got some serious problems. Do you like the thought of people enjoying the pain your loved ones might feel when you die? Does the mental image of strangers smirking and smiling at your grieving relatives make you feel happy? If not, then you've got some serious hypocrisy going on. If it does make you happy, then you've got a serious lack of empathy for those around you.
Just because you don't like someone doesn't mean you should be happy they died. Some folks might think you're an asshole, but would that stop people you love from being hurt when you died? Of course not. Just be glad he's at peace, that his hatred has left the building.
If you'd actually watched video of the Surface demo, you'd see the Reactix solution is only partially similar, in that it has a digital screen you can interact with. That's where the similarity ends. Surface is projected from underneath, meaning no shadows, and can interact with devices placed on the surface, from mobile phones to cameras. Just having a projected image you can interact with is not the same as MS's Surface. It's not even close. It would help your cause if you got your facts right before slating MS, as it just makes you look a wee bit foolish.
Don't bring Isaac Newton into this. He didn't like Christianity in the slightest (being gay and a scientist). Saying Isaac's discoveries were down to religion is a massive slap in the face of a fantastic scientist. May I suggest finding ways to prop up your religious assertions that don't drag decent people down with them?
Evolution has never, ever tried to explain where life first came from. All it is interested in is explaining how one life-form can become another. The clue is in the name of Darwin's work: "On the Origin of Species", not "On the Origin of Life".
To push your example to its logical extreme, if he was stabbed it's his fault for not wearing a stab-proof jacket? No-one expects some childish ass to screw up a presentation in that way, and it's very reasonable for the presenters to be upset it happened. Just because it's trivial to do doesn't mean it's fine to do. They're supposed to be professionals, not kids.
The fact you posted that with great sincerity does my argument a great service. Look at life expectancy in the US. See how many people don't have access to healthcare. See how many democracies have been twatted by that great military. See how many people have died, unnecessarily, at its hands. If the US is so great, why is it detested across great swathes of the world? Hint: it's not jealousy.
Not everyone likes the guy. Some folks realise he's intentionally an ass to get great reactions from folks. He does make great TV, but it's contrived. It's presented as non-scripted, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I like a lot of what he does, but I wouldn't trust him with anything important.
That's hilarious. Seriously. Good luck living under the anachronism of a 200+ year old document. I know nationalism is rampant in the US but you have to realise the hell you'd be living in if the constitution was the be-all and end-all of government in the US. The constitution was supposed to be reviewed every generation, which was quickly forgotten due to it being far more useful for those in power if it was kept at its current form. Just look around the world at the countries with better quality of living and see if a 1700s insight into government is truly what you want. Hint: it's not. The freedoms the US has are bested in many countries, and without the higher crime rates and infant mortality the US is drenched in. If this sounds like a troll, I apologise, I don't mean any offense. This rose-coloured view many Americans have of the start of their country is as close to pathetic as a western country can be without being labelled retarded. As you can tell from my spelling I'm not from round "these parts", but that shouldn't preclude anyone from shooting my claims down, if they're as faulty as many would think. The US government in its current form is responsible for a shit-load of bad stuff, but on the whole it's the departure from the constitution that has given you the ability to be on slashdot bitching about it. If you want the US to disintegrate into a bunch of barely-first-world nations vying for territory and financial gain, then I guess you have a point. I hope you can understand this, but if you don't, let's talk.
Because most western countries don't have ridiculous outfits like the KKK coupled with intrinsic racism, and do have decent police forces and working courts? Most western countries have delegated protecting the people to police forces, and it's working a lot better than some ridiculous free-for-all where citizens have to concern themselves with having guns just to have the illusion of ensuring their safety.
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That's hilarious. Their websites were not broken, but just not standards-compliant. When a car is broken, it doesn't work. When a website is not standards-compliant, it still works. Standards-compliance is not the be-all and end-all of a website - it being USED is. It would be the most ridiculously immature act ever if Microsoft said it is going to destroy compatibility for all previous rendering modes in what will become the most widely-used browser on the web. The internet is not an experiment, it is not an ideology, it is not a religion, it is a TOOL. You're treating it like it's something far more.
You shouldn't have to lock your door to keep thieves out, so by that logic you keep yours open, then bitch and moan that someone robbed your house. Using computers shouldn't be about slinging blame, but about getting on with using them. Saying "this doesn't work because of company X" doesn't make it work any better. Microsoft is trying to make a standards-compliant browser that is also backwards-compatible with their browsers for the better part of the last decade. And you moan about it. Jesus.
If they didn't do it this way, then they'd effectively break the web for all their users. Considering that's most of the people using the web, it's a big deal. I'm sure most people who use the web don't care how standards-compliant their browser, or indeed the site they're viewing, is. They just want it to work. We're only in this mess because when IE was first stretching its legs in the competition against Netscape, the standards were not moving quickly enough, or were flawed, and Microsoft (and indeed Netscape) stepped in and added their own code to get things working. It allowed the web to grow far more quickly than if everyone waited for the standards, putting up with the problems caused by a slow standard development. I'm all for standards, but you have to understand they can be a boon and a burden. They're a boon when they're working quickly enough (a massive, massive boon), and when they're slow, they're a massive, massive pain in the ass, that can severely limit that which they describe. I'm not saying MS has done everything right (or even much right), but to lambast them for not wanting to break most web users' experience is a bit 'tarded.
Damn you sound all kinds of fucked up in the head.
Apple has put so much protection into iTunes it doesn't surprise me for a second they'd do everything they could to protect it, as a lot of their revenue is dependent on iTunes being as secure as possible. And I'm not just talking about iTMS, but things like AirTunes devices, Apple TV, etc. If iTunes' private keys could be found, third-party apps and hardware could quickly replace Apple sales, and they'd have a pretty hard time re-establishing their current level of protection.
If the money gathered goes into improving transport links, then everyone wins. It's better than taxing the crap out of everyone to help out the rich. If people could get out of their cars and into a more efficient transport solution, then that would be even better.
I couldn't have said it better myself. How gun-lovin' good ol' boys think citizens with guns will hold off the US armed forces, should the government become evil, is beyond me. Either the army is on the side of the people, or they're not, and their allegiance will decide who wins, not how many accountants are hiding in their sheds with handguns. Having a gun to defend against the government was fine when private citizens had the same weapons as the government, but I don't think the 2nd ammendment covers F22s and Apaches.
Thumb drives are connected via USB, which offers no DMA and adds CPU overhead for each and every bit sent to/from the drive. SSDs are connected via a hard-disk interface, and offer DMA. That means there's no CPU hit for accessing your drive.
Microsoft isn't playing catch-up for everyone. For what I use my computer for, and indeed how I use it, OS X won't do - I have no choice but to use Windows.
Probably living in hell because someone they loved was horribly mentally ill and not in control of his faculties. Clearly something you don't give a rat's ass about either. Nice humanity, there.
If you find joy in anyone's death, you've got some serious problems. Do you like the thought of people enjoying the pain your loved ones might feel when you die? Does the mental image of strangers smirking and smiling at your grieving relatives make you feel happy? If not, then you've got some serious hypocrisy going on. If it does make you happy, then you've got a serious lack of empathy for those around you.
Just because you don't like someone doesn't mean you should be happy they died. Some folks might think you're an asshole, but would that stop people you love from being hurt when you died? Of course not. Just be glad he's at peace, that his hatred has left the building.
Really? And that's from 2000. Check out their more recent galleries for some realistic (and some not so realistic) images.
If you'd actually watched video of the Surface demo, you'd see the Reactix solution is only partially similar, in that it has a digital screen you can interact with. That's where the similarity ends. Surface is projected from underneath, meaning no shadows, and can interact with devices placed on the surface, from mobile phones to cameras. Just having a projected image you can interact with is not the same as MS's Surface. It's not even close. It would help your cause if you got your facts right before slating MS, as it just makes you look a wee bit foolish.
They asked to debate him. He refused. Then he cancelled. Then the university complained.
Don't bring Isaac Newton into this. He didn't like Christianity in the slightest (being gay and a scientist). Saying Isaac's discoveries were down to religion is a massive slap in the face of a fantastic scientist. May I suggest finding ways to prop up your religious assertions that don't drag decent people down with them?
Evolution has never, ever tried to explain where life first came from. All it is interested in is explaining how one life-form can become another. The clue is in the name of Darwin's work: "On the Origin of Species", not "On the Origin of Life".
To push your example to its logical extreme, if he was stabbed it's his fault for not wearing a stab-proof jacket? No-one expects some childish ass to screw up a presentation in that way, and it's very reasonable for the presenters to be upset it happened. Just because it's trivial to do doesn't mean it's fine to do. They're supposed to be professionals, not kids.
The fact you posted that with great sincerity does my argument a great service. Look at life expectancy in the US. See how many people don't have access to healthcare. See how many democracies have been twatted by that great military. See how many people have died, unnecessarily, at its hands. If the US is so great, why is it detested across great swathes of the world? Hint: it's not jealousy.
Not everyone likes the guy. Some folks realise he's intentionally an ass to get great reactions from folks. He does make great TV, but it's contrived. It's presented as non-scripted, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I like a lot of what he does, but I wouldn't trust him with anything important.
Yeah! Blinding someone for stealing CDs. Great idea.
The CPU overhead of USB?
That's hilarious. Seriously. Good luck living under the anachronism of a 200+ year old document. I know nationalism is rampant in the US but you have to realise the hell you'd be living in if the constitution was the be-all and end-all of government in the US. The constitution was supposed to be reviewed every generation, which was quickly forgotten due to it being far more useful for those in power if it was kept at its current form. Just look around the world at the countries with better quality of living and see if a 1700s insight into government is truly what you want. Hint: it's not. The freedoms the US has are bested in many countries, and without the higher crime rates and infant mortality the US is drenched in. If this sounds like a troll, I apologise, I don't mean any offense. This rose-coloured view many Americans have of the start of their country is as close to pathetic as a western country can be without being labelled retarded. As you can tell from my spelling I'm not from round "these parts", but that shouldn't preclude anyone from shooting my claims down, if they're as faulty as many would think. The US government in its current form is responsible for a shit-load of bad stuff, but on the whole it's the departure from the constitution that has given you the ability to be on slashdot bitching about it. If you want the US to disintegrate into a bunch of barely-first-world nations vying for territory and financial gain, then I guess you have a point. I hope you can understand this, but if you don't, let's talk.
Because most western countries don't have ridiculous outfits like the KKK coupled with intrinsic racism, and do have decent police forces and working courts? Most western countries have delegated protecting the people to police forces, and it's working a lot better than some ridiculous free-for-all where citizens have to concern themselves with having guns just to have the illusion of ensuring their safety.
You get blacklisted if you try an incorrect port, so getting lucky is pretty impossible.