Flash is a hack, works like a hack and has the performance to match.
For instance: 1. Right-clicking a Flash object doesn't work consistently with other browser functions 2. If the Flash object has focus, normal browser shortcuts don't work (ctrl-t for a new tab, etc) 3. You can't search text inside Flash, at least not using the browser text search functionality 4. Flash movies and animations are horribly inefficient, even in Flash's main platform, Windows 5. Flash is traditionally much less stable than the browser it's running on
I don't know what purpose or what audience you were referring to, but flash does not "work well", and that's becoming ever more evident in the face of new standardized web technology such as AJAX and SVG.
When a high-ranking employee speaks on company matters, one can assume he's speaking for the company.
Especially if there isn't a hurried rebuttal by corporate PR in the following hours.
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Even the final release will be affected by this bug.
I checked the page and it says:
When using the ext4 filesystem, accessing large files can trigger a kernel panic and filesystem corruption. The fix for this problem will be included in the final 9.04 release. Users installing from the Ubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate may wish to avoid this problem by using the default ext3 filesystem and converting it to ext4 after release.
In a country that is democratic, reporters must be allowed to report anything that is true.
He didn't just report that the movie was available. Lots of other reporters did that and didn't catch any flack for it.
He went ahead and reviewed the movie in the same manner as one would review a finished movie.
That's not exacly the same as simply reporting that the movie has been made available, or even on the quality of the movie as a whole (something that others also did -- "the movie is 95% complete, missing most of the special effects and bla bla bla").
I'd argue that if you're performing simulations while you're away, your computer wouldn't be considered "unused".
On the other hand, I don't see really the logic on saving on your CO2 footprint just so you can splurge it somewhere else. Wouldn't it be better to try to save more, if it is at all possible?
I'm not the mother theresa of energy savings, but sometimes saving a bit is really easy. There are some people who even leave their office lights on 24h per day because they're not paying for it, and noone is complaining. There's no justification for that in my book.
Have you ever noticed that the lightbulbs which last the least are the ones in your living room instead of the ones in your bathroom?
Living room: turn on/off once per day but stays on for a long time, each time. Bathroom: turn on/off many times per day, but stays on for short periods of time.
My point is that being on is what deteriorates the lightbulb in the long term, not the action of turning it on. The momentary stress of turning it on will kill an already deteriorated lightbulb, but it's leaving it on all the time that deteriorates it to reach that point.
They do not provide the games for free. They mention that this opens up different pricing models for games, but certainly make no promises on being able to try games out for cheap.
You're right. It'd probably make it easier to try out the game (no downloads), but the main problem remains.
I guess you missed their wireless controller, and microconsole. If a game requires accessories with today's systems, why would they not require them with this one? This does absolutely nothing in terms of reducing controller accessories, and if you have the microconsole, doesn't help in the wires & stuff department either.
It may not eliminate the wireless controllers, but it does reduce the number. At least you (theoretically) don't have to have two controllers for the XBox + 2 for the PS3 + Classic controllers for the Wii.
Likewise, if the acessories are simmilar (play guitars come to mind) you'd only need one. I seem to remember a lot of bullshit surrounding instruments from Guitar Hero and Rock Band which were basically the same, but made deliberately incompatible (not sure if that got resolved though).
Why would I willingly embrace single-player gaming in the same poor environment?
Because it's both much cheaper and convenient for the average person than the alternative: having all the most recent consoles and the game library.
Not to speak of other benefits such as: 1. Not having to risk buying crappy games (even if they had a good demo) 2. Not having to have n consoles hooked up to your tv 3. Not having to manage n*x different controllers/acessories, most of them wireless, meaning you must keep them charged
For me the benefits outweigh the disadvantages (I'm not an avid player), I'm just suspicious if they can pull it off technically and as with all recent media subscription models, I'm expecting that I will find the prices to be too high.
It's much easier to have these concerns in a first world country where the issue has been controlled. I hope you appreciate that someone living in the Sahel may feel differently.
I find the image of a poor family house in Africa equipped with moskitto-killing automated lasers while families in western countries are using flyswatters funny.
This is for Portugal, because it's where I know the law better. There, the law states that in public you must be minimally dressed. I don't know what exactly "minimally" means, but I know it includes a shirt of some kind.
As I said before, there are exceptions for places such as beaches and the areas around them, and probably some sport venues.
Basically the law exists because the country has such a nice weather, which can also become quite hot during the summer, that otherwise men would be walking around the cities shirtless.
Lawmakers decided that that would go against their view of a nice society so they made these rules which are generally ignored except to keep the offenses to a minimum.
For that reason you still have your construction workers shirtless, and your teens going home after sport practice with their shirts over their shoulders.
But you're sure as hell going to get stopped if you're going around the city shirtless in your day-to-day life.
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That's a neat little trick.
Not that I'd ever use it because it's not very readable, but I'll try to remember it next time I need to impress someone :-)
Respect is a two-way street.
Perhaps the author's guild doesn't get the kind of hatred that RIAA and MPAA get because it doesn't deserve it as much.
I think the blue shell detracts from the game because it's unnavoidable. I think it's the only atacking item for which there is no counter technique.
The only solution (kind of) I've found for not losing a race when I get hit with it is to brake violently so that the second place gets hit too.
It worked for me once or twice but you really have to pull it off perfectly, and have a whole lot of luck.
I disagree.
Flash is a hack, works like a hack and has the performance to match.
For instance:
1. Right-clicking a Flash object doesn't work consistently with other browser functions
2. If the Flash object has focus, normal browser shortcuts don't work (ctrl-t for a new tab, etc)
3. You can't search text inside Flash, at least not using the browser text search functionality
4. Flash movies and animations are horribly inefficient, even in Flash's main platform, Windows
5. Flash is traditionally much less stable than the browser it's running on
I don't know what purpose or what audience you were referring to, but flash does not "work well", and that's becoming ever more evident in the face of new standardized web technology such as AJAX and SVG.
Microsoft is a company, not a community.
When a high-ranking employee speaks on company matters, one can assume he's speaking for the company.
Especially if there isn't a hurried rebuttal by corporate PR in the following hours.
Even the final release will be affected by this bug.
I checked the page and it says:
When using the ext4 filesystem, accessing large files can trigger a kernel panic and filesystem corruption. The fix for this problem will be included in the final 9.04 release. Users installing from the Ubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate may wish to avoid this problem by using the default ext3 filesystem and converting it to ext4 after release.
Maybe that page changed meanwhile.
No problems whatsoever in my NC10 netbook (Intel 945GSE).
The Intel drivers have been a breath of fresh air, coming from a previous NVidia-based laptop.
Hei, I applied to a series of experiments at Aperture Labs!
The girl sounded really nice on the phone.
I'm really excited about starting.
In a country that is democratic, reporters must be allowed to report anything that is true.
He didn't just report that the movie was available. Lots of other reporters did that and didn't catch any flack for it.
He went ahead and reviewed the movie in the same manner as one would review a finished movie.
That's not exacly the same as simply reporting that the movie has been made available, or even on the quality of the movie as a whole (something that others also did -- "the movie is 95% complete, missing most of the special effects and bla bla bla").
I guess it's 2009 and it's about time that Slashdot should get with the program and start accepting unicode in the posts.
For a site that lives on community discussion, this is something that has been really sticking out like a sore thumb for a long time now.
Hell, not even the euro symbol will display properly without using the html code for it.
Just my 0,2â or should that be 0,2€
Isn't that the problem with all authors of influential books, though? Particularly those whose works are well in the past?
Their books inpired so many other works that by the time you look back they look incredibly chichéed, which isn't surprising really -- they invented the clichés.
Disclaimer: I never read Shakespeare, but I do know that Tolkien has the same problem.
Do you really believe that all of this content is going to get less available over time? Note that this would essentially contradict all of history.
Yeah, don't bother making copies of those documents at the Great Library of Alexandria.
Course thats nothing when you compare it to what the dingos do...
They eat your babies?
I'd argue that if you're performing simulations while you're away, your computer wouldn't be considered "unused".
On the other hand, I don't see really the logic on saving on your CO2 footprint just so you can splurge it somewhere else. Wouldn't it be better to try to save more, if it is at all possible?
I'm not the mother theresa of energy savings, but sometimes saving a bit is really easy. There are some people who even leave their office lights on 24h per day because they're not paying for it, and noone is complaining. There's no justification for that in my book.
OTOH, we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years.
It is the product of a sexually repressed society that someone could consider the sight of female breasts or a limp schlong a sexual thing.
People go around naked in many cultures, and I've never heard that it encourages sexual behaviour in children.
In fact, it's the most repressed cultures which tend to exhibit more sexual devian behaviour. Case in point: the catholic church.
Have you ever noticed that the lightbulbs which last the least are the ones in your living room instead of the ones in your bathroom?
Living room: turn on/off once per day but stays on for a long time, each time.
Bathroom: turn on/off many times per day, but stays on for short periods of time.
My point is that being on is what deteriorates the lightbulb in the long term, not the action of turning it on. The momentary stress of turning it on will kill an already deteriorated lightbulb, but it's leaving it on all the time that deteriorates it to reach that point.
Never heard of suspend? Hybernate?
They do not provide the games for free. They mention that this opens up different pricing models for games, but certainly make no promises on being able to try games out for cheap.
You're right. It'd probably make it easier to try out the game (no downloads), but the main problem remains.
I guess you missed their wireless controller, and microconsole. If a game requires accessories with today's systems, why would they not require them with this one? This does absolutely nothing in terms of reducing controller accessories, and if you have the microconsole, doesn't help in the wires & stuff department either.
It may not eliminate the wireless controllers, but it does reduce the number. At least you (theoretically) don't have to have two controllers for the XBox + 2 for the PS3 + Classic controllers for the Wii.
Likewise, if the acessories are simmilar (play guitars come to mind) you'd only need one. I seem to remember a lot of bullshit surrounding instruments from Guitar Hero and Rock Band which were basically the same, but made deliberately incompatible (not sure if that got resolved though).
Why would I willingly embrace single-player gaming in the same poor environment?
Because it's both much cheaper and convenient for the average person than the alternative: having all the most recent consoles and the game library.
Not to speak of other benefits such as:
1. Not having to risk buying crappy games (even if they had a good demo)
2. Not having to have n consoles hooked up to your tv
3. Not having to manage n*x different controllers/acessories, most of them wireless, meaning you must keep them charged
For me the benefits outweigh the disadvantages (I'm not an avid player), I'm just suspicious if they can pull it off technically and as with all recent media subscription models, I'm expecting that I will find the prices to be too high.
Better question is what typeof BIOS?
Your many hours of programming C/C++ betray you :-)
It's much easier to have these concerns in a first world country where the issue has been controlled. I hope you appreciate that someone living in the Sahel may feel differently.
I find the image of a poor family house in Africa equipped with moskitto-killing automated lasers while families in western countries are using flyswatters funny.
Whoo you've got balls, making jokes about other countries economies while being american.
Glass house, man.
English Garden in Munich == nude park.
Try doing it in other parks in Munich if you don't believe me (or even in diferent areas of the english garden, which is huge).
This is for Portugal, because it's where I know the law better. There, the law states that in public you must be minimally dressed. I don't know what exactly "minimally" means, but I know it includes a shirt of some kind.
As I said before, there are exceptions for places such as beaches and the areas around them, and probably some sport venues.
Basically the law exists because the country has such a nice weather, which can also become quite hot during the summer, that otherwise men would be walking around the cities shirtless.
Lawmakers decided that that would go against their view of a nice society so they made these rules which are generally ignored except to keep the offenses to a minimum.
For that reason you still have your construction workers shirtless, and your teens going home after sport practice with their shirts over their shoulders.
But you're sure as hell going to get stopped if you're going around the city shirtless in your day-to-day life.
Sure man. I'm a veritable fountain of romantic sayings.
Here's another freebie: If I had to choose between yogurt and tits, I'd take the second.