Put simply, the PS4 can do things with memory that no current PC can even dream of
I heard similar things about the PS3, but then I found it couldn't run games at 1080p without being capped at 30fps, later I found games like Resident Evil would often go down to 5fps etc. while the PC version did not.
I'm not a great history buff (seriously), so perhaps you can help me?
I know of the beheading of King Charles in 1642 and his beheading was the result of him declaring war against his own people which was in direct opposition to the parliament law which stated the English monarch cannot rule without Parliament's consent... And did not. That seems more like the country having a civil war over the King violating the law, not a revolution. Where and when have I misunderstood history?
Noun: A person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, esp. considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action. Pronoun: Oneself, in particular. Adjective: (of a trimming or cover) Of the same material and color as the rest of the item: "a dress with self belt". Verb: Self-pollinate; self-fertilize. Synonyms: noun. ego - person pronoun. oneself - itself - himself - myself - yourself - herself adjective. uniform
If you don't want to use a real license, just use the DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE. It's one of the more permissive licenses...
That doesn't have the warranty protection or limits liabilities, that would be opening up the author to massive litigation issues. What is even worse is that the FAQ is misleading by providing a basic warranty clause, but does not limit liability. It doesn't define where merchant liability begins or ends, so it opens up litigation for fitness and merchantability (there are laws that require explicit mentions of something, otherwise it is assumed otherwise).
A 'real' license would protect the author from stupid lawsuits.
We fought a revolution partly because we didn't want the government to be able to arbitrarily spy on innocent people and the Fourth Amendment clearly elaborates this prohibitions on government.
I remember most of the arguments against were about seizure and locking up people for doing nothing. Technological surveillance however does not require the use of seizure. This leaves the argument of locking people up for doing nothing - As I understand, despite the fact the NSA is doing surveillance on a massive scale, they don't appear to be locking up a significant amount of people for doing nothing?
Do you think it is possible that because the impact cannot be felt as directly anymore (search and seizure as opposed to the new 'spying' methodology) that people don't mind as much and would be more willing to live with this?
I think it's fun too. Let me pretend to be a xbox fanboy (note: I don't even own an xbox) too!
xbox was the first to allow indie developers to self publish through XNA. Now they're giving developers even greater control over their games, by allowing them to prevent resales of their games if they wish to, and make it configurable to the point that developers oculd prevent it for a time period with the game's initial release and allow resale later. In doing so, Microsoft is looking to entice more developers in using their system in the future, which is better than Sony, where they still won't allow developers to self publish on the PS3. I'm sure the developers can see which platform is friendlier to developers!
I will probably get a Wii U
But that can't even handle [hardware requirement of xbox] and can't handle [popular game]!
Oh dear. Java and Flash are bound by whatever constraints limit the browser such as firewalls and security sandboxes.
Fortunately they can poke stuff on the same domain thanks to policy files with Flash, which isn't really a problem for the BBC since they own the domain. With Java it's either accessing the same host as where the applet is loading from, which shouldn't be a problem for the BBC. The more long winded approach with Java would be a matter of signing with a certificate, and then the user authorizing it from the BBC (although annoying for the user).
And Unity3D is an game runtime abstraction which has multiple backends so it would be transformed to Flash or WebGL
Uh no, Unity 3d is it's own plugin, it's not converted to Flash of WebGL and is automatically offered to be installed when encountered by the majority of browsers now.
Well clearly it is or they wouldn't have yanked the clock.
Or clearly they just don't give anything about it on the website. Especially if they have to invest so many man hours.
I was using examples of other sites that could do with an accurate clock. It's really not a hard to understand that some sites need precise clocks.
It's not hard to understand that most don't need a super accurate clock and those that do should be probably using NTP.
Interesting. I only see a single FF process (V21.0).
Likely not using a plugin for any the pages you're browsing then.
I have noticed that when that count gets up into the mid-40s that things slow down noticeably. Perhaps there's a kernel parameter that could be altered to ease that problem.
The only thing I ever really do as far as 'tweaks' on my Linux system is increasing file descriptors limits to something insane and that's just because compiling massive projects (of which I am a developer of) take significantly more time due to the system being starved for file descriptors.
I admit that I am a very heavy webbrowser user, and some of it is just because I leave websites open for days without bothering to close them (I'm not a very good user I guess). I haven't really noticed a performance problem with FF nor Chrome, my biggest annoyance with Chrome is just multiple tabs crashing out when one Chrome process crashes (and it does so often enough to be an annoyance), although if Firefox crashed for me as much, it would obviously take out everything and I would probably switch to something else.
Nope. I do rely on Ghostery and NoScript.
I am not a current user of either (I use flashblock, blocks the majority of ads out there - although the reason why I block it is more from a security paranoia standpoint than paranoia of tracking).
How do you talk with an NTP time server from Javascript? You can't.
Java, Flash, Unity 3d all talk to Javascript just fine and they can all do UDP.
The reasons for accuracy should be obvious from the examples I suggested.
Because that is the obvious practical use of looking at the time on the BBC website. A seven seconds drift is generally not an issue for most people. If you're late by seven seconds and that effects what you're doing and you're setting it by hand from the BBC website... Uh, yeah.
Anything where someone could bitch that their clock was out by a few seconds and they incurred a loss or suffered a disadvantage.
I can assure you that the time on BBC radio one is not even accurate to the second with the London Stock Exchange. So, your example isn't even valid for stock trading anyway. I doubt it's accurate with much else too.
It seems quite feasible to create a JS lib that makes a request over HTTP to a server running some time module and receives the exact value in response.
Did you know that the majority of webservers return the current date and time in a header field in response to the majority of request types they receive?
It was my understanding that the licensing only covers live broadcasts of BBC television (doesn't matter if it's sent you over radio frequencies or Internet). So, technically, I don't believe you are correct.
As for Chrome being a memory pig: I hadn't heard that before and I'm not sure how it could be any worse than Firefox's appetite for memory.
A single 32bit executable can allocate 3.8GB of memory. Chrome uses multiple executables. Firefox uses two, one for the browser (firefox) and one to encapsulate plugins (plugincontainer - so if the plugins crash, the browser does not - Doesn't crash a tab or a few tabs like in Chrome).
I have three FF windows open with (maybe) 30 tabs total across all of those windows and I'm showing around 1.25GB of memory in use.
Let me guess, you have adblock or Skype extensions installed?
when FF still gets itself in a state where it cannot print without resorting to crappy badly-scaled bit-mapped fonts that look like they were imported from an old Pet computer.
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I heard similar things about the PS3, but then I found it couldn't run games at 1080p without being capped at 30fps, later I found games like Resident Evil would often go down to 5fps etc. while the PC version did not.
I don't really care for more lies.
Watching recorded shows/games on the DVR during those times.
They should take a stand and demand better Internet.
He was listening to music, let him be.
Mine survived, you're just bad at the game.
I'm not a great history buff (seriously), so perhaps you can help me?
I know of the beheading of King Charles in 1642 and his beheading was the result of him declaring war against his own people which was in direct opposition to the parliament law which stated the English monarch cannot rule without Parliament's consent... And did not. That seems more like the country having a civil war over the King violating the law, not a revolution. Where and when have I misunderstood history?
Noun:
A person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, esp. considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action.
Pronoun:
Oneself, in particular.
Adjective:
(of a trimming or cover) Of the same material and color as the rest of the item: "a dress with self belt".
Verb:
Self-pollinate; self-fertilize.
Synonyms:
noun. ego - person
pronoun. oneself - itself - himself - myself - yourself - herself
adjective. uniform
That doesn't have the warranty protection or limits liabilities, that would be opening up the author to massive litigation issues. What is even worse is that the FAQ is misleading by providing a basic warranty clause, but does not limit liability. It doesn't define where merchant liability begins or ends, so it opens up litigation for fitness and merchantability (there are laws that require explicit mentions of something, otherwise it is assumed otherwise).
A 'real' license would protect the author from stupid lawsuits.
I remember most of the arguments against were about seizure and locking up people for doing nothing. Technological surveillance however does not require the use of seizure. This leaves the argument of locking people up for doing nothing - As I understand, despite the fact the NSA is doing surveillance on a massive scale, they don't appear to be locking up a significant amount of people for doing nothing?
Do you think it is possible that because the impact cannot be felt as directly anymore (search and seizure as opposed to the new 'spying' methodology) that people don't mind as much and would be more willing to live with this?
My next console will be a PC instead. Vote with your money!
I think it's fun too. Let me pretend to be a xbox fanboy (note: I don't even own an xbox) too!
xbox was the first to allow indie developers to self publish through XNA. Now they're giving developers even greater control over their games, by allowing them to prevent resales of their games if they wish to, and make it configurable to the point that developers oculd prevent it for a time period with the game's initial release and allow resale later. In doing so, Microsoft is looking to entice more developers in using their system in the future, which is better than Sony, where they still won't allow developers to self publish on the PS3. I'm sure the developers can see which platform is friendlier to developers!
But that can't even handle [hardware requirement of xbox] and can't handle [popular game]!
I'm sure the word of an Anonymous Coward making a purchase based of significant changes would be honoured, said no corporation ever.
That's not how Adobe's current cloud offering works, you have to download photoshop to your computer to use it.
Fortunately they can poke stuff on the same domain thanks to policy files with Flash, which isn't really a problem for the BBC since they own the domain. With Java it's either accessing the same host as where the applet is loading from, which shouldn't be a problem for the BBC. The more long winded approach with Java would be a matter of signing with a certificate, and then the user authorizing it from the BBC (although annoying for the user).
Uh no, Unity 3d is it's own plugin, it's not converted to Flash of WebGL and is automatically offered to be installed when encountered by the majority of browsers now.
Or clearly they just don't give anything about it on the website. Especially if they have to invest so many man hours.
It's not hard to understand that most don't need a super accurate clock and those that do should be probably using NTP.
Likely not using a plugin for any the pages you're browsing then.
The only thing I ever really do as far as 'tweaks' on my Linux system is increasing file descriptors limits to something insane and that's just because compiling massive projects (of which I am a developer of) take significantly more time due to the system being starved for file descriptors.
I admit that I am a very heavy webbrowser user, and some of it is just because I leave websites open for days without bothering to close them (I'm not a very good user I guess). I haven't really noticed a performance problem with FF nor Chrome, my biggest annoyance with Chrome is just multiple tabs crashing out when one Chrome process crashes (and it does so often enough to be an annoyance), although if Firefox crashed for me as much, it would obviously take out everything and I would probably switch to something else.
I am not a current user of either (I use flashblock, blocks the majority of ads out there - although the reason why I block it is more from a security paranoia standpoint than paranoia of tracking).
Java, Flash, Unity 3d all talk to Javascript just fine and they can all do UDP.
Because that is the obvious practical use of looking at the time on the BBC website. A seven seconds drift is generally not an issue for most people. If you're late by seven seconds and that effects what you're doing and you're setting it by hand from the BBC website... Uh, yeah.
I can assure you that the time on BBC radio one is not even accurate to the second with the London Stock Exchange. So, your example isn't even valid for stock trading anyway. I doubt it's accurate with much else too.
I would imagine it is plenty accurate enough for most people.
Indeed.
If you want to use NTP accuracy, how about using NTP then? I am not understanding the problem of using web sockets in this context?
Did you know that the majority of webservers return the current date and time in a header field in response to the majority of request types they receive?
Actually, the radio streams are world wide to my knowledge.
That's only because Sky includes BBC television as part of their package.
It was my understanding that the licensing only covers live broadcasts of BBC television (doesn't matter if it's sent you over radio frequencies or Internet). So, technically, I don't believe you are correct.
Note: I am not the grandparent.
A single 32bit executable can allocate 3.8GB of memory. Chrome uses multiple executables. Firefox uses two, one for the browser (firefox) and one to encapsulate plugins (plugincontainer - so if the plugins crash, the browser does not - Doesn't crash a tab or a few tabs like in Chrome).
Let me guess, you have adblock or Skype extensions installed?
I never experienced this.
Please explain how it is amazing.
Actually, there is plenty of regulation requirements on software for specific purposes. This includes software used to manage the black boxes in cars.
Breaking compliance requirements after deployment results in hefty fines and lawsuits.
u mad?