That was the second time. First time was shortly after the elections last year (for a new constitution, which he lost), he appeared unnanounced on a military event, which was being transmitted live, and on a speech he made he called the opposition's victory a "shitty victory" (victoria de mierda)
That wouldn't do any good if people have no idea of what mozilla, opera and safari are (and even if you include text explaining it, doubt most people would read it anyway). The way I'd see it more feasable is if they included two options, a "install default apps" that would install MSIE (of course I'd rather firefox be the default... but it's MS, let's be realistic there), their mail app and so on, this one set as default so people that are used to next-next-next aren't bothered, and a "install custon apps" that would ask you which ones you want for each task.
Of course, the ideal would be for people to do informed choices, but we all know that's not going to happen anytime soon for most of the non geek crowd...
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I guess YMMV.
I have no idea about speed in general (chrome feels just as fast as FF for me on that sense), but at least on the javascript front the difference is noticeable, at least on some pages. Biggest example I can think of right now is digg.com. You open a discussion there set to expand all threads and I see noticeable slowdown on firefox (digg.com even warns you of that if you set it to expand all threads). On chrome it works instantly with no slowdown at all.
An while I haven't actually seen javascript hanging the browser (that I know offhand, though I'm highly suspicious of one last night), I've lost count of the times where flash has done it (on linux, where I do most of my internet browsing).
I still do most of my browsing on FF, but honestly I see lots of potential for chrome... and as they say, the more competition, the better for the consumers...:)
There are plenty of disreputable news sources around, but would their readership be interested in Hugo Chavez's email?
US or UK news sources, probably not... but it would be a treasure for venezuelan news sources, specially the ones mostly controlled by the oposition like Globovision, El Nacional or El Universal. Heck, if wikileaks wasn't saying they would publish it later anyway, I'd even see the venezuelan government or some of the pro chavez media bidding on it to prevent them being public.
I think you have the words "content" and "platform" confused.
However, what's the content without a platform?... what's a platform without content on it?... I think both go hand in hand in this case.
There might have been lots of ways to put video on the internet before, both open and closed, all with advantages and disadvantages. Flash (in the case of video with sites like youtube, at least) helped create a platform for videos where it's lightweight AND (I think the most important) easy enough that people without technical inclination could upload and watch videos without having to hunt and download codecs for it (note that in most cases upgrading flash means just visiting a site and restarting the browser).
There might have been better ways, or more practical.. but the implementation is what wins in these cases, not the ideas alone, and in this particular case, Flash turned out to be the best tool for the job at the moment.
However, I do hate it when it comes to excess of flash in websites navigations, except in some cases where the actual flash is the message (like some artistic websites) and not the way to get the message.
Where I work we create videos for different companies, and usually we have to send some of them over email or websites for the clients to aprove... and it's a nightmare. MPEG is great as long as it's something under 30 secs or it won't go trough most email servers. WMV is the one we use the most... except for some clients that are using macs.. and others that are using linux... most formats require something to be installed in one way or another, and unless people work with video or are tech oriented, the safest is to assume it won't be installed (heck, even tech oriented people don't have the freedom to install video codecs on work computers).
Flash video becamse the de facto standard because it just works, you grab any computer and you can have a hich percentage of certainty that it'll work, and it'll load fairly fast (much faster than MPEG1 that seems to be the most universal format out there, at least)
I went to a 25th anniversay screening of Wargames at a local theater recently. I wasn't even aware that I was in a digital theater until about halfway through the movie their server lost connection to the host and the movie theater screen suddenly turned into a giant Windows desktop. It was a little unnerving (I had thought I was looking at an actual film).
So that's why it happens... when I went to see Dark Knight and the projector turned on it was the windows XP loading screen... too bad they turned it off before I could get my cell phone out to take a picture.. didn't knew we had a digital theater in this city..:)
It's happening here in Venezuela too.
I know of two places here that sell the EEE pc (well, they import them, you have to pay first for them to import them). Both install XP on them right off the bat.
Well, they could argue (though not sure how well it would stand) that to reverse engineer the protocol he would have needed either a legit copy and account of the game, in which case he would have agreed to the term and conditions, or a private server that would be considered illegal since WoW server software isn't legally distributed to begin with.
That is one of my pet peeves of quicktime. I installed the stand alone quicktime, with no itunes, yet anytime it updates (at least here on this computer) not only installs itunes, but also sets it as the default media player.
I have to agree there. I was thinking of maybe taking the plunge on an HD system, but doing a quick check amazon.com I see movies I want exclusive in both formats, so I guess I'll stick with DVD until a clear winner emerges.
I'll try it again soon (waiting for a new video card to arrive for main computer, then the ubuntu one can inherit a better card), also haven't tried it since I upgraded to 7.10 this last weekend, so maybe it's better now.. 8^)
Maybe it works like on world of warcraft, that you use the same login and passwords to enter both the game and the forums, so if the breach of security comes to the login and passwords of costumers, it could happen on either end so it would be safer to take them both down just in case.
I wouldn't say "world of warcraft" being no hacks or tricks to run on linux. At least on my computer (won't say about performance because the video card is worse than on my main gaming computer) I had to open several configuration files and do some changes in wine's registry to make WoW work, and still have problems with sound (it stutters no matter what I try) and some effects (full screen glow, for example) have to be disabled.
Don't get me wrong, gaming on windows has made some great strides forward, but it's still very far from where windows is now, that you can practically go to the store, pick up almost any game you can see and be sure it'll work.
Don't know about you, but any game where I have to reboot to use it is a game I'll never be using on my computer... not to mention that it would defeat the point of having an OS that already has dealt with the specific details of that particular computer (for example, in the computer where I use ubuntu I have to add some extra commands in the boot options for the network card to work, without them I get no internet)
To be fair, Blizzard has never been known to make new and different games... so far their strenght has been to take existing ideas genres and ideas, then improve and polish them.
At least that's how it was with Diablo, War/Starcraft and WoW. The 3rd person hack and slash RPG, RTS and MMORPG genres already existed, they just polished them better than anyone at the time (heck, you could even say the same with the puzzle platform genre with Lost Vikings)
At least here in Venezuela Speed Racer was insanely famous too on its time (it was called "meteoro" here). Even the car's name (Match 5) has by now entered in popular culture to refer to any fast car or anyone that drives like he was in a race.
I kinda hope they don't try to do it too serious, though, and make it more of a tongue in cheek thing with a narrator and all like the old cartoons..:)
Well, you can always try http://www.turbosquid.com/
Most models there are for sale, but there are quite a few free ones there. I do remember getting a free model of a football (soccer) ball from there sometime ago.
I had the same problems here... my brother was staying with me for a while and he was using my computer for work stuff... and he claimed he didn't do anything but anytime I came back from work I'd see at least one dialer icon on the desktop and had to run adaware and spybot on it...
As soon as he got money to buy his own computer (with some leftover parts I had around), they suddenly stopped appearing. Now I have two computers, made a second one with leftover pieces after I upgraded the main one, installed ubuntu on it, and anytime there are visits staying at home, I just win+l before heading off to work (so that you can't get in without a password) and tell them they can use the ubuntu one. Not a problem so far.
Even then (from what I've read in the WoW forums), you can revert the info on an account using the original credit card it was signed up with in the first place... at least I heard there of a couple of cases of people that bought a character, and after the payment went trough and they changed the account details, later found it reverting back to the original owner and password changed.... so it's really a two way avenue, you can't really insure you'll get the payment anymore than the buyer can't assure you'll not take the account back.
I guess it's kinda like in game when you want someone to craft you something/enchant an item... you give the materials, and then if you don't know the person it's a leap of faith that they won't just run away with them and ignore you (which is why when I've done it, and so far has gone good all the time, I tip generously)... and at least on the european side, according to forums, the GM's see it as "working as intended".
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That was the second time. First time was shortly after the elections last year (for a new constitution, which he lost), he appeared unnanounced on a military event, which was being transmitted live, and on a speech he made he called the opposition's victory a "shitty victory" (victoria de mierda)
That wouldn't do any good if people have no idea of what mozilla, opera and safari are (and even if you include text explaining it, doubt most people would read it anyway). The way I'd see it more feasable is if they included two options, a "install default apps" that would install MSIE (of course I'd rather firefox be the default... but it's MS, let's be realistic there), their mail app and so on, this one set as default so people that are used to next-next-next aren't bothered, and a "install custon apps" that would ask you which ones you want for each task.
Of course, the ideal would be for people to do informed choices, but we all know that's not going to happen anytime soon for most of the non geek crowd...
I guess YMMV.
I have no idea about speed in general (chrome feels just as fast as FF for me on that sense), but at least on the javascript front the difference is noticeable, at least on some pages. Biggest example I can think of right now is digg.com. You open a discussion there set to expand all threads and I see noticeable slowdown on firefox (digg.com even warns you of that if you set it to expand all threads). On chrome it works instantly with no slowdown at all.
An while I haven't actually seen javascript hanging the browser (that I know offhand, though I'm highly suspicious of one last night), I've lost count of the times where flash has done it (on linux, where I do most of my internet browsing).
I still do most of my browsing on FF, but honestly I see lots of potential for chrome... and as they say, the more competition, the better for the consumers... :)
There are plenty of disreputable news sources around, but would their readership be interested in Hugo Chavez's email?
US or UK news sources, probably not... but it would be a treasure for venezuelan news sources, specially the ones mostly controlled by the oposition like Globovision, El Nacional or El Universal. Heck, if wikileaks wasn't saying they would publish it later anyway, I'd even see the venezuelan government or some of the pro chavez media bidding on it to prevent them being public.
I think you have the words "content" and "platform" confused.
However, what's the content without a platform?... what's a platform without content on it?... I think both go hand in hand in this case.
There might have been lots of ways to put video on the internet before, both open and closed, all with advantages and disadvantages. Flash (in the case of video with sites like youtube, at least) helped create a platform for videos where it's lightweight AND (I think the most important) easy enough that people without technical inclination could upload and watch videos without having to hunt and download codecs for it (note that in most cases upgrading flash means just visiting a site and restarting the browser).
There might have been better ways, or more practical.. but the implementation is what wins in these cases, not the ideas alone, and in this particular case, Flash turned out to be the best tool for the job at the moment.
However, I do hate it when it comes to excess of flash in websites navigations, except in some cases where the actual flash is the message (like some artistic websites) and not the way to get the message.
Preinstalled being the key word here.
Where I work we create videos for different companies, and usually we have to send some of them over email or websites for the clients to aprove... and it's a nightmare. MPEG is great as long as it's something under 30 secs or it won't go trough most email servers. WMV is the one we use the most... except for some clients that are using macs.. and others that are using linux... most formats require something to be installed in one way or another, and unless people work with video or are tech oriented, the safest is to assume it won't be installed (heck, even tech oriented people don't have the freedom to install video codecs on work computers).
Flash video becamse the de facto standard because it just works, you grab any computer and you can have a hich percentage of certainty that it'll work, and it'll load fairly fast (much faster than MPEG1 that seems to be the most universal format out there, at least)
I went to a 25th anniversay screening of Wargames at a local theater recently. I wasn't even aware that I was in a digital theater until about halfway through the movie their server lost connection to the host and the movie theater screen suddenly turned into a giant Windows desktop. It was a little unnerving (I had thought I was looking at an actual film).
So that's why it happens... when I went to see Dark Knight and the projector turned on it was the windows XP loading screen... too bad they turned it off before I could get my cell phone out to take a picture.. didn't knew we had a digital theater in this city.. :)
WW2 must have been a heck of a flame war... 8^)
Your wish shall be granted (at least half of it).. 8^)
A Dragon Ball movie is already on the works, set to be released in 2009.
IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1098327/
Leaked photos: http://themovingpicture.net/new-dragonball-set-photos
It's happening here in Venezuela too. I know of two places here that sell the EEE pc (well, they import them, you have to pay first for them to import them). Both install XP on them right off the bat.
Well, they could argue (though not sure how well it would stand) that to reverse engineer the protocol he would have needed either a legit copy and account of the game, in which case he would have agreed to the term and conditions, or a private server that would be considered illegal since WoW server software isn't legally distributed to begin with.
That is one of my pet peeves of quicktime. I installed the stand alone quicktime, with no itunes, yet anytime it updates (at least here on this computer) not only installs itunes, but also sets it as the default media player.
I have to agree there. I was thinking of maybe taking the plunge on an HD system, but doing a quick check amazon.com I see movies I want exclusive in both formats, so I guess I'll stick with DVD until a clear winner emerges.
I'll try it again soon (waiting for a new video card to arrive for main computer, then the ubuntu one can inherit a better card), also haven't tried it since I upgraded to 7.10 this last weekend, so maybe it's better now.. 8^)
Maybe it works like on world of warcraft, that you use the same login and passwords to enter both the game and the forums, so if the breach of security comes to the login and passwords of costumers, it could happen on either end so it would be safer to take them both down just in case.
Just guessing, though.
of course I meant "gaming on linux" on that last sentence.. 8^)
I wouldn't say "world of warcraft" being no hacks or tricks to run on linux. At least on my computer (won't say about performance because the video card is worse than on my main gaming computer) I had to open several configuration files and do some changes in wine's registry to make WoW work, and still have problems with sound (it stutters no matter what I try) and some effects (full screen glow, for example) have to be disabled.
Don't get me wrong, gaming on windows has made some great strides forward, but it's still very far from where windows is now, that you can practically go to the store, pick up almost any game you can see and be sure it'll work.
Don't know about you, but any game where I have to reboot to use it is a game I'll never be using on my computer... not to mention that it would defeat the point of having an OS that already has dealt with the specific details of that particular computer (for example, in the computer where I use ubuntu I have to add some extra commands in the boot options for the network card to work, without them I get no internet)
And if you want to go into profesional level aps there's
:)
http://www.softimage.com/downloads/XSI_Mod_Tool/default.aspx
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_download&task=apprentice&Itemid=89 (though if you don't like blender for lack of a standard interface, houdini might not be for you)
Those two, while they do produce watermarked work and have res limitations, are good enough to play around and learn a little bit..
And http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110273/ and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127398/
To be fair, Blizzard has never been known to make new and different games... so far their strenght has been to take existing ideas genres and ideas, then improve and polish them. At least that's how it was with Diablo, War/Starcraft and WoW. The 3rd person hack and slash RPG, RTS and MMORPG genres already existed, they just polished them better than anyone at the time (heck, you could even say the same with the puzzle platform genre with Lost Vikings)
At least here in Venezuela Speed Racer was insanely famous too on its time (it was called "meteoro" here). Even the car's name (Match 5) has by now entered in popular culture to refer to any fast car or anyone that drives like he was in a race. I kinda hope they don't try to do it too serious, though, and make it more of a tongue in cheek thing with a narrator and all like the old cartoons.. :)
Well, you can always try http://www.turbosquid.com/ Most models there are for sale, but there are quite a few free ones there. I do remember getting a free model of a football (soccer) ball from there sometime ago.
I had the same problems here... my brother was staying with me for a while and he was using my computer for work stuff... and he claimed he didn't do anything but anytime I came back from work I'd see at least one dialer icon on the desktop and had to run adaware and spybot on it...
As soon as he got money to buy his own computer (with some leftover parts I had around), they suddenly stopped appearing. Now I have two computers, made a second one with leftover pieces after I upgraded the main one, installed ubuntu on it, and anytime there are visits staying at home, I just win+l before heading off to work (so that you can't get in without a password) and tell them they can use the ubuntu one. Not a problem so far.
Even then (from what I've read in the WoW forums), you can revert the info on an account using the original credit card it was signed up with in the first place... at least I heard there of a couple of cases of people that bought a character, and after the payment went trough and they changed the account details, later found it reverting back to the original owner and password changed.... so it's really a two way avenue, you can't really insure you'll get the payment anymore than the buyer can't assure you'll not take the account back.
I guess it's kinda like in game when you want someone to craft you something/enchant an item... you give the materials, and then if you don't know the person it's a leap of faith that they won't just run away with them and ignore you (which is why when I've done it, and so far has gone good all the time, I tip generously)... and at least on the european side, according to forums, the GM's see it as "working as intended".