Well, if they can offer a setting to have all MS apps, revert to at least a choice of classic menus and turning off the fucking 'ribbon' crap, I'd celebrate a little, and at least upgrade for that reason alone.
Actually, I've heard that Windows 7 further refines the ribbon into a string, for which there will be a different one for each edition with different operations optimized as easy. The grand unified one, the "super string" for Ultimate, is still in development, as top scientists haven't yet figured out how to make a string theory that would make all operations easy.
Anyone who believes this has simply never written a web application. Javascript and cookies are absolutely essential to any web programmer who wishes have any type of dynamic content on a page.
So by advising people to disable Javascript, I'm doing my part for killing off "Web Applications" and getting us back to good old Web Pages. Excellent.
Seriously, why would I want "dynamic content" when all that really means is a thousand pauses as more data is fetched? Give me static pages whenever possible. Better yet, give me a single large static page rather than a dozen small pages, so I don't have to wait while the next page is being loaded and rendered.
The solution is for programmers to stop being idiots and write secure code, both in web applications and in the browsers themselves.
The solution is to understand that most web sites are not applications, from the users point of view, and stop stuffing them full of scripts that do nothing but slow things down.
Just as exploits in the image processing components of web browsers will hopefully educate people to surf in Lynx? Or exploits in their HTML rendering will hopefully educate people to surf by piping wget through less?
There's a huge difference in complexity between image/HTML renderer and Javascript. Image file formats and HTML pages are not Turing complete, while Javascript is. Consequently, the former are "safe" in that it's possible to prove that a particular implementation is free of exploits that would allow running arbitrary code, while Javascript by definition can never be; the whole point of Javascript is to allow arbitrary code execution, so the best you could ever prove is that the code never leaves the confines of the Web browser - but having a script post comments does not require that.
This was not because of Javascript, nor is Javascript going away because of this.
Yes, this was because of Javascript, but no, sadly it won't be going away.
Instead, some asshat announces to the world "Bow to our unhackable laptops! We are awesome! HAHAHA!", and now thousands of hackers and security researchers out there have made it their personal crusade to find a way to totally decimate all the security on the box. You're right... It's gonna take about 1 month for an exploit for these things to make it to the front page on slashdot. Fucking idiots.
Perhaps. But then again, this is Australia we're talking about. You know, the country who's government is desperate to implement their own version of the Great Firewalls of China and Finland for whatever reason. Now, if some cyber terrorist just happened to disable to porn filters in laptops of kids who are at the height of puberty, and thus bound to use their laptops to download tons of it... Well, that would prove that just measures have to be passed, since it's the only way to keep children safe from criminal porn-peddling hackers, now wouldn't it?
Never forget that your leaders are the people who came on top in a brutal fight for power. They might seem imbeciles, but they aren't. They are ruthless, treacherous bastards, both the economic and political ones. Never attribute any deed of theirs to stupidity if it can be adequately explained by calculating malice.
mark me as troll all you want mods, i got karma from hell baby, yeah!
You keep getting modded down because you keep on ranting and not listening what you're being told.
That doesn't answer my fucking question, which is there ANY of the current devices that will accelerate any damned thing in a mkv "container".
The answer to your sexually mless frustrated than you question is would be obvious if you knew what a container file is. That's why people keep on trying to explain it to you. However, to keep you from having an aneyrism, the answer is "yes": any video stream that's accelerated when it's contained in any other container file should be accelerated when it's contained in Matroska file.
And can we PLEASE get off this "container" bullshit already?
it is the same bullshit as "avi is a container" even though we all fucking know that when John Q Public is talking avi he is talking MP4, usually DivX.
No, he's talking about video container files with end with ".avi". He neither knows nor cares about the format of the video contained in them.
The very fact that you said "usually" should make it quite clear that "avi files" can refer to multiple different files, so in a technical discussion it's vital to distinguish between them.
But this pedantic bullshit is just as fucking pointless as the asshats that say "Linux is a kernel" everytime someone posts a problem they are having with Linux.
Linux is a kernel. The graphical subsystem is usually X.org nowadays, while the desktop environment is likely either Gnome or KDE. Browser tends to be Mozilla Firefox. Various background stuff comes from GNU. These are all separate projects, so if there's a problem with one of them, it needs to be routed to the proper place to be taken care of.
Get off it grammar nazis, as you have lost.
A grammar nazi is someone who complains about what he perceives as incorrect language usage even when the text in question is easy to read and its meaning obvious. On the other hand, not differentiating between codec and container or the kernel and other components of a system make the meaning ambiguous, at least in a technical discussion such as this.
To the public Linux is Linux, be it Ubuntu Linux or Red Hat Linux or PCLinux, okay? And nobody cares whether it is a fucking container or not with regards to mkv, all they care about is it gonna suck the battery dry, that's all.
That's nice. You said above that you "build desktops" to your customers, which I presume means you do it for money, so excuse us for presuming that you might actually know or at least want to know something about what you do for a living.
In France, popular protesting coupled with strikes has regularly made the government back off some laws.
That's because in France, the mob burns cars, smashes windows and in general makes it absolutely clear that they'll proceed to actual armed revolution if they're not listened to. Protesting is only useful if whoever you're protesting to knows there's an implied "or die" attached to your demands.
Sleep also serves an important economic function. Just ask the proprietor of any business in the bedding industry, the hotel industry, the sleeping car manufacturing industry.... Where would our GDP be without sleep creating demands for all those goods?
On the other hand, if you didn't need sleep, you could squeeze 120 hours of work into a 5-day workweek. Think of how much that would benefit the shareholders!
Now I wait and see if anyone tries to take me seriously. It always happens when you make a deliberately stupid comment.
Only in economics, and sadly such comments often become the basis of actual policies. I mean, really: "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps"? Obvious troll is obvious, unless it's a discussion about economics, in which case everyone will think it's a great idea and will actually try to put it into action and anyone who points out the stupidity of it is obviously a communist (which, in itself, was a troll of truly epic proportions).
Shall we all go back to stone age? No piracy there.
Really? I bet that when a bunch of cavemen were sitting around a fire and cooking their catch, one of them told a story he'd heard from someone else without paying the original author! For that matter, I doubt the inventor of fire had been paid for the use of his method of generating heat by oxygenating plant matter.
The difference is, the app is up and running, ready to ship with the duck-typed languages,
Except that it isn't. Sure, it starts, runs for a few seconds, and then exits due to typing error.
All duct typing does is move type errors from compile time to runtime, which also means that you can never be sure if you've actually squashed them all. I truly hate that aspect of Python.
People should be able to release code they wrote with whatever conditions they like.
People should be able to release code or any other ideas under whatever conditions they like, but there's no reason why anyone who gets that code or hears those ideas should be obliged to honour them.
Copyright isn't about granting rights to the author, it's about removing rights from everyone else.
But I'm sure the number of static non-javascript way-way-way-way-too-complicated pages is but a tiny fraction of the number of pages with poorly coded Javascript that can lock up a browser for minutes while the Javascript runs in order to generate the page.
But that's just it: the browser shouldn't lock up just because a page is running Javascript. It should still respond to user commands, allow scrolling around pages, opening other pages in other windows/tabs, clicking on elements that are visible, stoppping page load, going to another URL, etc.
Today's browsers are basically special-purpose operating systems, but the joys of pre-emptive multitasking hasn't spread to them yet. It's like a return to Windows 3.1.
Nonsense. Aside from the retrieval of a page, rendering said (static) page will be instant in almost all cases, regardless the browser. If it doesn't, either the page is way way way too complicated or you are using an antiquated machine.
Or you are using Firefox and hitting one of its bugs. And of course the whole browser UI often freezes for a few seconds while downloading a page in another tab.
Well, then how about you explain why/how objects in motion tend to stay in motion or at rest.
They don't, actually. Their state stays the same unless something changes it. The same object could appear to be at rest or in motion to different observers, depending on the motion of the observers. As for the reason, well... if nothing changes it, why would it change?
Burning fossil fuels emits energy into the atmosphere. Over a long period of time, that energy dissipates into the "cold" of outer space.
Burning fossil fuels emits an insignificant amount of energy in the atmosphere. However, it also puts greenhouse gasses there amongst the exhaust, which then trap Sun's heat.
And outer space is just a few degrees above absolute zero, which is cold and not "cold" by any reasonable standard.
Will the "cold" of outer space absorb enough surplus heat from the atmosphere at a sufficiently fast rate? Is anyone using a supercomputer to model this heat equation?
Yes, the blood-freezing chill of outer space is plenty enough to absorb the puny heat generated by any and all activities of man. According to Wikipedia, the yearly total electricity usage of the world (5.67×10^19 J) is much less than the energy from the Sun that strikes the Earth each day (1.5×10^22 J). It's the greenhouse effect caused by the exhaust that's the killer; surplus heat from actually burning the fuel is beneath measuring.
What sort of climatic catastrophy will occur when 3 billion apes -- with their automobiles, power plants, lawn mowers, etc. -- inject a daily, massive pulse of energy into the atmosphere?
Given that an average hurricane, again according to Wikipedia, releases more energy per second than Fat Man did on Nagasaki, I'd say that "massive" means quite a bit more than you'd think in this context. On the other hand, the exhaust - carbon dioxide, to be exact - from all these appliances can and will cause problems.
The company that once up on a time gave us Mario, Zelda, Metroid and all the other stuff just isn't there anymore and has been replaced by some trendy lifestyle product producer or whatever you want to call what they are now.
And yet Mario, Zelda and Metroid all exist for Wii. Many Wii games, such as De Blob, are all about innovation in the field of gaming; the end result may or may not be great, but that's normal for innovation. IMHO Wii as a whole is an experiment about gaming and what new forms it may take; that you dislike the direction of the experiment (casual gaming) doesn't mean it's not about gaming nonetheless.
Let's not forget that Metroid, for example, was truly something else for its time, and not just because Samus was a woman. When you try new things, you sometimes fail; and whatever else you can say about Nintendo, you can't deny that Wii is different from PSP in ways other than just processor power.
For the record, my previous console to Wii was SNES. NES was what I grew up on; 486DX25 was my bread and butter once upon a time. Wii is very different, and clearly and experiment in many ways, the control scheme being one of them; but then again, it's excellent craftsmanship, some games (Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess) are excellent, and it plays the top games of the previous generation(s).
There's no Zelda for Wii (it's a Gamecube port) and Mario Galaxy was meh at best.
Mario Galaxy is great; however, the control scheme in the main game - shake the controller to spin - is a hindrance, not an asset. The same is true of Zelda. On the other hand, Metroid 3 works fine, not as fine as 2D Metroid but fine nonetheless.
Offhand, I'd say that compulsive use of 3D in what's really platformer games is the greatest weakness in current game consoles.
Which country do you live in? I'm guessing the UK or somewhere in the EU. Here in the US, if someone was burglarizing my property repeatedly and also assaulted my wife, he would have been shot, not videotaped.
Why is it that every time people are trying to have a rational discussion about deterring crime, Internet tough guys start making noises about shooting people? Did your Rambo DVD melt from overuse, or is this some kind of replacement for GNAA?
But the experience will prove useful the next time you feel like tossing a match.
Indeed. If you discover a vulnerability in the fire protection of some building, sell the knowledge to Russian Mafia, so they can use the knowledge for an insurance scam. Lesson acknowledged.
I mean this is supposed to be a role playing game, or am I wrong?
You are wrong, MMORPGs are power-fantasy games. Not that that matters, since the whole concept of gaining more hit points as you play originates with RPGs.
Say you have a 6 year old kid: is it really going to harm them to wear one of these?
That depends on how easy it is for perverts to tap into it to find out when the wearer is in a secluded location. It might also act as a handy way to track the whole family for the government.
What is the value they bring to my news-reading experience that is so good that the free sites can't keep up?
Well, for-pay news sites can be monopolized just like any other business, giving Mr. Murdoch control over what you see and hear and thus your opinion. Getting to rule the world is quite valuable.
Exactly. Now, what can we (American citizens) do to help make American more of a friendly environment to do business in again? The answer should be fairly obvious.
Lower your standard of living until it matches the lowest on the planet, making you the most desperate and thus cheapest workers.
Or you could put up toll barriers and make it illegal or at least extremely expensive for corporations to outsource, thus forcing them to serve the common good if they are to be successful in their quest for profits. All it takes is giving up the idea that economic freedom for the rich trumps everything else.
I think this is a lesson in buying an extended warranty if the manufacturer warranty isn't long enough.
Not only is it impossible to know beforehand if manufacturer warranty is long enough, but buying extended warranty rewards bad quality.
Otherwise you're gambling - those things see a lot of use and get very hot, especially if you're buying the launch model without the refinements of newer ones. I don't know if I can blame Sony when they are offering a fair price repair alternative - repairs aren't free!
If a game console overheats from playing a game, then clearly the console is defective. Selling a defective product is always the fault of the manufacturer. So yes, Sony is to blame - assuming, of course, that this is an actual issue and not Microsoft propaganda as some have suggested.
It's simple economics - what does the consumer want?
Something that works as promised.
The risk of having to repair at cost or buying a new (perhaps improved) one, or insurance against paying for repair when they are buying a new and complex technology.
This isn't ancient Rome, and "buyer beware" is long obsolete. Besides, the idea of paying "insurance" to the manufacturer least whatever you're buying breaks within weeks of purchase (as has happened with Xbox 360) sounds like blackmail to me. "Nice console you have there, wouldn't want anything bad to happen to it.
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Actually, I've heard that Windows 7 further refines the ribbon into a string, for which there will be a different one for each edition with different operations optimized as easy. The grand unified one, the "super string" for Ultimate, is still in development, as top scientists haven't yet figured out how to make a string theory that would make all operations easy.
So by advising people to disable Javascript, I'm doing my part for killing off "Web Applications" and getting us back to good old Web Pages. Excellent.
Seriously, why would I want "dynamic content" when all that really means is a thousand pauses as more data is fetched? Give me static pages whenever possible. Better yet, give me a single large static page rather than a dozen small pages, so I don't have to wait while the next page is being loaded and rendered.
The solution is to understand that most web sites are not applications, from the users point of view, and stop stuffing them full of scripts that do nothing but slow things down.
There's a huge difference in complexity between image/HTML renderer and Javascript. Image file formats and HTML pages are not Turing complete, while Javascript is. Consequently, the former are "safe" in that it's possible to prove that a particular implementation is free of exploits that would allow running arbitrary code, while Javascript by definition can never be; the whole point of Javascript is to allow arbitrary code execution, so the best you could ever prove is that the code never leaves the confines of the Web browser - but having a script post comments does not require that.
Yes, this was because of Javascript, but no, sadly it won't be going away.
Perhaps. But then again, this is Australia we're talking about. You know, the country who's government is desperate to implement their own version of the Great Firewalls of China and Finland for whatever reason. Now, if some cyber terrorist just happened to disable to porn filters in laptops of kids who are at the height of puberty, and thus bound to use their laptops to download tons of it... Well, that would prove that just measures have to be passed, since it's the only way to keep children safe from criminal porn-peddling hackers, now wouldn't it?
Never forget that your leaders are the people who came on top in a brutal fight for power. They might seem imbeciles, but they aren't. They are ruthless, treacherous bastards, both the economic and political ones. Never attribute any deed of theirs to stupidity if it can be adequately explained by calculating malice.
You keep getting modded down because you keep on ranting and not listening what you're being told.
The answer to your sexually mless frustrated than you question is would be obvious if you knew what a container file is. That's why people keep on trying to explain it to you. However, to keep you from having an aneyrism, the answer is "yes": any video stream that's accelerated when it's contained in any other container file should be accelerated when it's contained in Matroska file.
No, he's talking about video container files with end with ".avi". He neither knows nor cares about the format of the video contained in them.
The very fact that you said "usually" should make it quite clear that "avi files" can refer to multiple different files, so in a technical discussion it's vital to distinguish between them.
Linux is a kernel. The graphical subsystem is usually X.org nowadays, while the desktop environment is likely either Gnome or KDE. Browser tends to be Mozilla Firefox. Various background stuff comes from GNU. These are all separate projects, so if there's a problem with one of them, it needs to be routed to the proper place to be taken care of.
A grammar nazi is someone who complains about what he perceives as incorrect language usage even when the text in question is easy to read and its meaning obvious. On the other hand, not differentiating between codec and container or the kernel and other components of a system make the meaning ambiguous, at least in a technical discussion such as this.
That's nice. You said above that you "build desktops" to your customers, which I presume means you do it for money, so excuse us for presuming that you might actually know or at least want to know something about what you do for a living.
That's because in France, the mob burns cars, smashes windows and in general makes it absolutely clear that they'll proceed to actual armed revolution if they're not listened to. Protesting is only useful if whoever you're protesting to knows there's an implied "or die" attached to your demands.
On the other hand, if you didn't need sleep, you could squeeze 120 hours of work into a 5-day workweek. Think of how much that would benefit the shareholders!
Only in economics, and sadly such comments often become the basis of actual policies. I mean, really: "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps"? Obvious troll is obvious, unless it's a discussion about economics, in which case everyone will think it's a great idea and will actually try to put it into action and anyone who points out the stupidity of it is obviously a communist (which, in itself, was a troll of truly epic proportions).
Really? I bet that when a bunch of cavemen were sitting around a fire and cooking their catch, one of them told a story he'd heard from someone else without paying the original author! For that matter, I doubt the inventor of fire had been paid for the use of his method of generating heat by oxygenating plant matter.
Except that it isn't. Sure, it starts, runs for a few seconds, and then exits due to typing error.
All duct typing does is move type errors from compile time to runtime, which also means that you can never be sure if you've actually squashed them all. I truly hate that aspect of Python.
People should be able to release code or any other ideas under whatever conditions they like, but there's no reason why anyone who gets that code or hears those ideas should be obliged to honour them.
Copyright isn't about granting rights to the author, it's about removing rights from everyone else.
But that's just it: the browser shouldn't lock up just because a page is running Javascript. It should still respond to user commands, allow scrolling around pages, opening other pages in other windows/tabs, clicking on elements that are visible, stoppping page load, going to another URL, etc.
Today's browsers are basically special-purpose operating systems, but the joys of pre-emptive multitasking hasn't spread to them yet. It's like a return to Windows 3.1.
Or you are using Firefox and hitting one of its bugs. And of course the whole browser UI often freezes for a few seconds while downloading a page in another tab.
They don't, actually. Their state stays the same unless something changes it. The same object could appear to be at rest or in motion to different observers, depending on the motion of the observers. As for the reason, well... if nothing changes it, why would it change?
Isn't it just amazing how wide your margins can get when you have good money riding on not exceeding them?
Burning fossil fuels emits an insignificant amount of energy in the atmosphere. However, it also puts greenhouse gasses there amongst the exhaust, which then trap Sun's heat.
And outer space is just a few degrees above absolute zero, which is cold and not "cold" by any reasonable standard.
Yes, the blood-freezing chill of outer space is plenty enough to absorb the puny heat generated by any and all activities of man. According to Wikipedia, the yearly total electricity usage of the world (5.67×10^19 J) is much less than the energy from the Sun that strikes the Earth each day (1.5×10^22 J). It's the greenhouse effect caused by the exhaust that's the killer; surplus heat from actually burning the fuel is beneath measuring.
Given that an average hurricane, again according to Wikipedia, releases more energy per second than Fat Man did on Nagasaki, I'd say that "massive" means quite a bit more than you'd think in this context. On the other hand, the exhaust - carbon dioxide, to be exact - from all these appliances can and will cause problems.
And yet Mario, Zelda and Metroid all exist for Wii. Many Wii games, such as De Blob, are all about innovation in the field of gaming; the end result may or may not be great, but that's normal for innovation. IMHO Wii as a whole is an experiment about gaming and what new forms it may take; that you dislike the direction of the experiment (casual gaming) doesn't mean it's not about gaming nonetheless.
Let's not forget that Metroid, for example, was truly something else for its time, and not just because Samus was a woman. When you try new things, you sometimes fail; and whatever else you can say about Nintendo, you can't deny that Wii is different from PSP in ways other than just processor power.
For the record, my previous console to Wii was SNES. NES was what I grew up on; 486DX25 was my bread and butter once upon a time. Wii is very different, and clearly and experiment in many ways, the control scheme being one of them; but then again, it's excellent craftsmanship, some games (Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess) are excellent, and it plays the top games of the previous generation(s).
Mario Galaxy is great; however, the control scheme in the main game - shake the controller to spin - is a hindrance, not an asset. The same is true of Zelda. On the other hand, Metroid 3 works fine, not as fine as 2D Metroid but fine nonetheless.
Offhand, I'd say that compulsive use of 3D in what's really platformer games is the greatest weakness in current game consoles.
Therefore, anyone who'd voluntarily think of them must be the scum of the world and very likely deserving of arrest.
Why is it that every time people are trying to have a rational discussion about deterring crime, Internet tough guys start making noises about shooting people? Did your Rambo DVD melt from overuse, or is this some kind of replacement for GNAA?
Indeed. If you discover a vulnerability in the fire protection of some building, sell the knowledge to Russian Mafia, so they can use the knowledge for an insurance scam. Lesson acknowledged.
You are wrong, MMORPGs are power-fantasy games. Not that that matters, since the whole concept of gaining more hit points as you play originates with RPGs.
That depends on how easy it is for perverts to tap into it to find out when the wearer is in a secluded location. It might also act as a handy way to track the whole family for the government.
Well, for-pay news sites can be monopolized just like any other business, giving Mr. Murdoch control over what you see and hear and thus your opinion. Getting to rule the world is quite valuable.
Or did you mean value to you?
Lower your standard of living until it matches the lowest on the planet, making you the most desperate and thus cheapest workers.
Or you could put up toll barriers and make it illegal or at least extremely expensive for corporations to outsource, thus forcing them to serve the common good if they are to be successful in their quest for profits. All it takes is giving up the idea that economic freedom for the rich trumps everything else.
Not only is it impossible to know beforehand if manufacturer warranty is long enough, but buying extended warranty rewards bad quality.
If a game console overheats from playing a game, then clearly the console is defective. Selling a defective product is always the fault of the manufacturer. So yes, Sony is to blame - assuming, of course, that this is an actual issue and not Microsoft propaganda as some have suggested.
Something that works as promised.
This isn't ancient Rome, and "buyer beware" is long obsolete. Besides, the idea of paying "insurance" to the manufacturer least whatever you're buying breaks within weeks of purchase (as has happened with Xbox 360) sounds like blackmail to me. "Nice console you have there, wouldn't want anything bad to happen to it.