The other option would be SMPlayer, a nice frontend to mplayer, which also gains popularity in circles that are already using VLC (I use one of the other, depending on the situation).
Has ridiculously low cpu usage. And generally feels much lighter/snappier.
Seriously...who thought that was a good idea?! If holding an e-reader I'd like it to have _some_ similarity to holding a book...not some cold piece of metal!
Now I'm thinking about getting V1 asap...even it will be a bit complicated (Kindle not available here...)
It _should_ be the same app. If both "common chat/VoIP/webcam" traffic and sensitive info are equally well secured, there's no way of distinguishing the two.
It does have sound processing unit and GPU (for starters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation#Technical_specifications ). Perhaps it was just common to assume otherwise because it didn't have hardware support for bilinear filtering, and at the time this feature was most commonly associated with GPUs because of Voodoo craze.
Though were the results really better? Most N64 game devs apparently were satisfied with blurred (hey, it was possible to do this in hardware) textures..."soap look". And they aged badly.
OTOH I still like top GFX from PS1...something about not looking blurry, doing many tricks and even software dithering (though with quite different results from bilinear one) and keeping eye on art direction still makes them great IMHO.
Something like in Homeworld, Starcraft or Diablo II - many PS1 games looks coherent/artistically complete.
Intel actually has a low power chipset for Atom (called Poulsbo), but it's apparently allowed to be used only in "MIDs", not in netbooks (and from the specs it would be perfectly suffiecient...)
Fallout is a REALLY bad word to use in a news headline (especially one with the text hidden on main/. page) for people waiting for release of Fallout3...
Oh I don't know...one of the reasons I could afford the smartphone I currently have is that it runs on SymbianOS EKA2 kernel, which has "sufficiently-fast real-time response such that it is possible to build a single-core phone around itthat is, a phone in which a single processor core executes both the user applications and the signalling stack... This has allowed SymbianOS EKA2 phones to become smaller, cheaper and more power efficient"
And most netbooks/laptops have integrated gfx of "classic" type; I'd guess those devices will be the first to be taken over by AMD Fusion/Intel Larabee style integrated CPU/GPU.
(though this practically goes without saying)...yes, obviously anti-abortionists here, as in most places, are heavily anti sex-education, anticonception (condoms and pills could be a lot cheaper if part of the price was covered from gov funds, and there was such project...but no go) and premarital sex generally.
Meanwhile number of children who have children skyrockets...
Well, if you put two teenagers of opposite sexes in the same place for some time, then also, if no one interfers, there's a high probability you'll end up with a baby. Or, a bit more seriously, what if healthy child will result only due to intervention?
Beeing completelly serious...that's a complicated issue. I am myself "pro life" in similar sense to you (and my views were tested somehow when my ex had early natural abortion (yeah, "what could have been"...)), but at the same time I live in a country where abortion is criminal, except when pregnancy is because of illegal act or due to health concerns. At least, that's the thoery...let me tell how it's in practise. And why you shouldn't want to abolish abortion, especially in religious motivated way (not that you have such reason...but many people do)
When it comes to pregnancy due to illegal acts (rape, incest, sex with somebody below 15, etc.) - just a few months ago there was a case of 14 year old girl, who wanted to have LEGAL abortion. But she was treated by some media as a cryminal anyway. She was taken away from her parents (who supposedly were guilty of a crime of convincing her to do something perfectly LEGAL), while at the same time local priest could intimidate her at will. Hospital refused to perform perfectly LEGAL abortion, so she had to be taken, in secrecy, to another city (somebody told the priest anyway so he could follow...). Eventually, she was given right to do what she could do all along...but imagine the psychological trauma she must have gone through because of people who are supposedly concerned by mental well beeing of woman who have abortions (nevermind that what THEY did was illegal) but forget what pregnancy would mean for the life of 14 year old girl. They didn't care about the law, only their moral "values". And they menaged to postpone the abortion almost to the point when it WOULD be illegal (past first trimester).
@due to health concerns - widely known case is of a woman who, due to genetic factors, has high chance of having a child with certain disorder, and already had one such child who must be taken care of (out of two). At the same time, after her last pregnancy, doctors determined that she could loose her sight if she would be pregnant/have another child again. And...it so happens she bacame pregnant at some point. Not only the pregnancy was a risk to her sight, it was also determined that the fetus actually had the disorder. So...perfectly LEGAL, for TWO reasons. But...due to stigma or smth, she was denied the abortion by a hospital/etc. (in such cases, the hospital MUST point to another place where abortion WILL be performed); and I don't know the details, but...she gave birth. And now has two children, out of free, who require constant care. Oh, and she's almost blind. And social help isn't what it should be in this country...
But that's ok, people who forbid perfectly legal abortion are concerned about children only before birth apparently...
Somehow, I doubt those are only such situations (I just remember those best/they were in the media). And don't forget about women who have illegal abortions anyway, either extremelly costly or in horrific conditions.
Yes, it shouldn't be allowed during whole time of pregnancy (first trimester is OK, I think). Nor should it be as easy as having your tooth removed (but at the same time requiring no beurocracy, because there WILL be people intimidating woman who want to have abortion; I'd day good solution would be - go to the doctor, tell what you want/have examination, and after that there's 1 to few days waiting time when abortion can be legally performed). But it can't be abolished. I gave you examples what happens then...local "pro-lifers" apparently still aren't satisfied with one of the most restrictive in the world abortion laws.
Well that's the thing - somehow better, perhaps. But not _really_ better. You had no chance of experiencing that...Opera was largery neglected even by Google...
Interestingly - Google services are lately improving when viewed in Opera. Perhaps it has something to do with new Opera version, but perhaps also with Chrome...
Unfortunatelly, Firefox wasn't close at all; it simply shifted the mindset in most places from "we support only IE" to "we support only IE and Firefox".
It was noticeable when you use something else, like Opera... (luckily not on sites originating in my area of the world, since Opera here has from 5 to 25 percent, depending on the country; and since Firefox has over 40% in most of them, aiming sites for duopoly doesn't work)
Seems like three major browsers is a minimum needed for them to start noticing _true_ interoperability...
Lenovo didn't really even try - I was in a market for a Thinkpad recently, and even if, by some chance, I would be able to find Linux powered anywhere, they would end up among "too expensive" models (due to configuration)
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I was thinking more in terms of functionality & presentation, not in technical matters.
Even it, as you say, technically it's impossible...perhaps giving end users an easy hint/way to reload flash plugin instead of hoping they will figure out you have to reload page would be good. And what's better place than "sad plugin" gfx?
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In case of Chrome, hitting reload on the tab in which flash plugin crashed seems to do the trick... (would be better if simply clicking on "sad plugin" image (displayed in place of youtube video for example) would suffice...)
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Just a small nitpicking and I see you aren't really against other browsers than FF, just stating your preference...but...you do know that Opera has practically every functionality you list also implemented (and supposedly leaner), right?:p (thought you'd have to check of dec tools released few months ago by Opera are to your liking)
If they'd do that they would soon run out of rich idi^H^H^Hclients for new versions, right after current owners decide it's exciting to dive close to crush depth.
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Better leave it alone and let nature take its few million years; the place is already riddled with conflicts, imagine what
a) destroying some land
b) prospects of access to the sea for nearby places
would do...
...away from us.
With Bridger gone and now this, we won't make it in 10 years ;/
The other option would be SMPlayer, a nice frontend to mplayer, which also gains popularity in circles that are already using VLC (I use one of the other, depending on the situation).
Has ridiculously low cpu usage. And generally feels much lighter/snappier.
Seriously...who thought that was a good idea?! If holding an e-reader I'd like it to have _some_ similarity to holding a book...not some cold piece of metal!
Now I'm thinking about getting V1 asap...even it will be a bit complicated (Kindle not available here...)
It _should_ be the same app. If both "common chat/VoIP/webcam" traffic and sensitive info are equally well secured, there's no way of distinguishing the two.
It does have sound processing unit and GPU (for starters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation#Technical_specifications ). Perhaps it was just common to assume otherwise because it didn't have hardware support for bilinear filtering, and at the time this feature was most commonly associated with GPUs because of Voodoo craze.
Though were the results really better? Most N64 game devs apparently were satisfied with blurred (hey, it was possible to do this in hardware) textures..."soap look". And they aged badly.
OTOH I still like top GFX from PS1...something about not looking blurry, doing many tricks and even software dithering (though with quite different results from bilinear one) and keeping eye on art direction still makes them great IMHO.
Something like in Homeworld, Starcraft or Diablo II - many PS1 games looks coherent/artistically complete.
Intel actually has a low power chipset for Atom (called Poulsbo), but it's apparently allowed to be used only in "MIDs", not in netbooks (and from the specs it would be perfectly suffiecient...)
Fallout is a REALLY bad word to use in a news headline (especially one with the text hidden on main /. page) for people waiting for release of Fallout3...
I seem to notice some interesting differences between UK & US media regarding LHC coverage... ;)
Oh I don't know...one of the reasons I could afford the smartphone I currently have is that it runs on SymbianOS EKA2 kernel, which has "sufficiently-fast real-time response such that it is possible to build a single-core phone around itthat is, a phone in which a single processor core executes both the user applications and the signalling stack... This has allowed SymbianOS EKA2 phones to become smaller, cheaper and more power efficient"
And most netbooks/laptops have integrated gfx of "classic" type; I'd guess those devices will be the first to be taken over by AMD Fusion/Intel Larabee style integrated CPU/GPU.
Possibly the best car analogy I've seen here yet...
Could be worse - in my part of the woods, the word stands for both "free" and..."slow".
(though this practically goes without saying) ...yes, obviously anti-abortionists here, as in most places, are heavily anti sex-education, anticonception (condoms and pills could be a lot cheaper if part of the price was covered from gov funds, and there was such project...but no go) and premarital sex generally.
Meanwhile number of children who have children skyrockets...
Well, if you put two teenagers of opposite sexes in the same place for some time, then also, if no one interfers, there's a high probability you'll end up with a baby. Or, a bit more seriously, what if healthy child will result only due to intervention?
Beeing completelly serious...that's a complicated issue. I am myself "pro life" in similar sense to you (and my views were tested somehow when my ex had early natural abortion (yeah, "what could have been"...)), but at the same time I live in a country where abortion is criminal, except when pregnancy is because of illegal act or due to health concerns. At least, that's the thoery...let me tell how it's in practise. And why you shouldn't want to abolish abortion, especially in religious motivated way (not that you have such reason...but many people do)
When it comes to pregnancy due to illegal acts (rape, incest, sex with somebody below 15, etc.) - just a few months ago there was a case of 14 year old girl, who wanted to have LEGAL abortion. But she was treated by some media as a cryminal anyway. She was taken away from her parents (who supposedly were guilty of a crime of convincing her to do something perfectly LEGAL), while at the same time local priest could intimidate her at will. Hospital refused to perform perfectly LEGAL abortion, so she had to be taken, in secrecy, to another city (somebody told the priest anyway so he could follow...). Eventually, she was given right to do what she could do all along...but imagine the psychological trauma she must have gone through because of people who are supposedly concerned by mental well beeing of woman who have abortions (nevermind that what THEY did was illegal) but forget what pregnancy would mean for the life of 14 year old girl. They didn't care about the law, only their moral "values". And they menaged to postpone the abortion almost to the point when it WOULD be illegal (past first trimester).
@due to health concerns - widely known case is of a woman who, due to genetic factors, has high chance of having a child with certain disorder, and already had one such child who must be taken care of (out of two). At the same time, after her last pregnancy, doctors determined that she could loose her sight if she would be pregnant/have another child again. And...it so happens she bacame pregnant at some point. Not only the pregnancy was a risk to her sight, it was also determined that the fetus actually had the disorder. So...perfectly LEGAL, for TWO reasons. But...due to stigma or smth, she was denied the abortion by a hospital/etc. (in such cases, the hospital MUST point to another place where abortion WILL be performed); and I don't know the details, but...she gave birth. And now has two children, out of free, who require constant care. Oh, and she's almost blind. And social help isn't what it should be in this country...
But that's ok, people who forbid perfectly legal abortion are concerned about children only before birth apparently...
Somehow, I doubt those are only such situations (I just remember those best/they were in the media). And don't forget about women who have illegal abortions anyway, either extremelly costly or in horrific conditions.
Yes, it shouldn't be allowed during whole time of pregnancy (first trimester is OK, I think). Nor should it be as easy as having your tooth removed (but at the same time requiring no beurocracy, because there WILL be people intimidating woman who want to have abortion; I'd day good solution would be - go to the doctor, tell what you want/have examination, and after that there's 1 to few days waiting time when abortion can be legally performed). But it can't be abolished. I gave you examples what happens then...local "pro-lifers" apparently still aren't satisfied with one of the most restrictive in the world abortion laws.
Well that's the thing - somehow better, perhaps. But not _really_ better. You had no chance of experiencing that...Opera was largery neglected even by Google...
Interestingly - Google services are lately improving when viewed in Opera. Perhaps it has something to do with new Opera version, but perhaps also with Chrome...
In places where efficient sofware, perfectly useable on old computers is sometimes preferred
http://www.en.ranking.com.ua/index.php?page=Ranks:RanksPage&stat=22|OW (who'd have thought, more than Gecko...) ;P )
http://www.en.ranking.lt/index.php?page=Ranks:RanksPage&stat=22|OW
http://www.en.ranking.pl/index.php?page=Ranks:RanksPage&stat=22|OW
http://www.en.rankings.cz/index.php?page=Ranks:RanksPage&stat=22|OW
(there are also stats for Hungary, where Opera performs similarly to "West"; though many people wouldn't consider Hungary to be in the same region, culturally at least; and I suspect culturall factors also play some role in spending habits/software choices; oh, and there's also Russia with Opera usage share comparable to Ukraine...though it's also a bit "out there"
Anyway, most interesting thing from those stats for most of you, I imagine: yes, there are places where IE is on the brink of falling below 50%
And personally I just think that it would be perfect if all four major layout engines end up each having roughly the same market share...
Unfortunatelly, Firefox wasn't close at all; it simply shifted the mindset in most places from "we support only IE" to "we support only IE and Firefox".
It was noticeable when you use something else, like Opera... (luckily not on sites originating in my area of the world, since Opera here has from 5 to 25 percent, depending on the country; and since Firefox has over 40% in most of them, aiming sites for duopoly doesn't work)
Seems like three major browsers is a minimum needed for them to start noticing _true_ interoperability...
They were, in a way, much more expensive. They did cost more or less the same as identical Windows versions, but...there was no low end configuration.
Buying cheapest Windows Thinkpad and trying to get money back for Windows tax will almost give me money for second Thinkpad.
Lenovo didn't really even try - I was in a market for a Thinkpad recently, and even if, by some chance, I would be able to find Linux powered anywhere, they would end up among "too expensive" models (due to configuration)
I was thinking more in terms of functionality & presentation, not in technical matters.
Even it, as you say, technically it's impossible...perhaps giving end users an easy hint/way to reload flash plugin instead of hoping they will figure out you have to reload page would be good. And what's better place than "sad plugin" gfx?
In case of Chrome, hitting reload on the tab in which flash plugin crashed seems to do the trick... (would be better if simply clicking on "sad plugin" image (displayed in place of youtube video for example) would suffice...)
Just a small nitpicking and I see you aren't really against other browsers than FF, just stating your preference...but...you do know that Opera has practically every functionality you list also implemented (and supposedly leaner), right? :p (thought you'd have to check of dec tools released few months ago by Opera are to your liking)
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=CMwdAc1Dzfg
(accidentally, while half of the videos from those years are "weird" in one way or another, imho this one should be behind rickrolling ;> )
If they'd do that they would soon run out of rich idi^H^H^Hclients for new versions, right after current owners decide it's exciting to dive close to crush depth.