I want my product to work in the real world, not magical fairy land. It doesn't matter how free, how technically superior, how ideologically pure, or how hard it's authors worked on it, it 99% of your customer base can't use it, it's a "non-starter".
All it requires then is a single unified network file system that's 100% reliable, and doesn't bizarrely fail for more reasons than there are life forms on earth...
Ok, I'll qualify that. If you want your product to nosedive, because the only people who're able to use it think never paying for anything and wearing rotating beanies are good ideas, then go ahead and use ExtWhatever. Otherwise, FAT is a prerequisite.
Yeah, I'd come across these metricated units before - I always thought they would be a sensible way for the UK to escape the last grasps of imperial. Unfortunately, old people are just too curmudgeonly to stay quiet while we catch up with the rest of the world.
I'm from the UK, and I've been metric my whole life. There're only 3 exceptions, off the top of my head:
1) Pints - beer comes in pints. 2) Miles - distances 3) Stones - for weighing people. This one tends to really confuse people who think they use Imperial units.
I don't buy the small/big company thing, it's purely a matter of sector, I've telecommuted for a number of small firms. If anything, they're more likely to support it, rather than being entrenched in the old ways.
As for the second, if you can't afford a 50p on broadband, you've probably got more important things you should be spending your money on than broadband. Is a rich person going to use their broadband more than a poor person? I'm paid a reasonable amount, and I work bloody hard to earn it: why should I be punished for deciding to make more of my life than sitting on the internet all day, paid for with the dole?
The average person does not have aspergers syndrome, unlike the average slashdotter, and thus isn't anal about SNR ratios, codecs, et al. As long as they can screech along to Britney's latest banshee wailing, they're happy - they just don't care about audio quality.
Of course there's loss, but to imply a lack of transcoding loss is a prerequisite before anyone can use it anywhere is absolute madness.
No one who lives outside of their mum's basement cares. Really. Your average MP3 player is not hifi, and your average consumer doesn't give two shits about the quality loss.
Also, last I checked, Steve Jobs didn't repeatedly smash your face into a MacBook keyboard whilst pointing a shotgun at your head with his free hand until you bought music from iTunes. If you don't want it, don't buy it.
The old Palm platform is a horrendous mire of shite, no loss to anyone - it's still primarily based round 68K native code, even if it is run under an emulator now.
Bloomin' kids! I still remember Doom 1 scaring the shit out of me the first time round, when one of the invisible demon things pops out of seemingly nowhere in front of me.
They do. They just don't sell them in the US, because your domestic diesel is dirty filthy stuff compared to that used in the rest of the world, and would foul their fueling systems in no time at all.
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I want my product to work in the real world, not magical fairy land. It doesn't matter how free, how technically superior, how ideologically pure, or how hard it's authors worked on it, it 99% of your customer base can't use it, it's a "non-starter".
All it requires then is a single unified network file system that's 100% reliable, and doesn't bizarrely fail for more reasons than there are life forms on earth...
Ok, I'll qualify that. If you want your product to nosedive, because the only people who're able to use it think never paying for anything and wearing rotating beanies are good ideas, then go ahead and use ExtWhatever. Otherwise, FAT is a prerequisite.
FAT is needed to support embedded hardware that presents itself as a USB mass storage device to the host, or that has to talk to flash memory devices.
It's an individual, not their fucking chattel. It's a sacred honour to be the guardian of a child.
Yeah, I'd come across these metricated units before - I always thought they would be a sensible way for the UK to escape the last grasps of imperial. Unfortunately, old people are just too curmudgeonly to stay quiet while we catch up with the rest of the world.
I'm from the UK, and I've been metric my whole life. There're only 3 exceptions, off the top of my head:
1) Pints - beer comes in pints.
2) Miles - distances
3) Stones - for weighing people. This one tends to really confuse people who think they use Imperial units.
Yeah, cos the alternative of getting off their arses and doing a hard days work is a horrifying anathema to them.
I don't buy the small/big company thing, it's purely a matter of sector, I've telecommuted for a number of small firms. If anything, they're more likely to support it, rather than being entrenched in the old ways.
As for the second, if you can't afford a 50p on broadband, you've probably got more important things you should be spending your money on than broadband. Is a rich person going to use their broadband more than a poor person? I'm paid a reasonable amount, and I work bloody hard to earn it: why should I be punished for deciding to make more of my life than sitting on the internet all day, paid for with the dole?
Yeah, the idea of a fair tax, that's just *so* unfair!
Wait... What?
Undoubtedly due to the Javascript JIT.
Which is an acceptable attitude right up to the point where you start asking people for money.
I didn't say they couldn't tell - though I'm sure they wouldn't unless someone pointed it out to them - I said they didn't care.
I'm hardly average here. I'm female, for one thing.
The average person does not have aspergers syndrome, unlike the average slashdotter, and thus isn't anal about SNR ratios, codecs, et al. As long as they can screech along to Britney's latest banshee wailing, they're happy - they just don't care about audio quality.
If you think the amplifier-plus-two-speakers most people have in their front rooms is hifi, you're sorely mistaken.
No one converts it ten times. They convert it either 0 or 1 times - they leave it in AAC, or they convert it to MP3 to stick on their player.
Hence: They don't care.
Of course there's loss, but to imply a lack of transcoding loss is a prerequisite before anyone can use it anywhere is absolute madness.
No one who lives outside of their mum's basement cares. Really. Your average MP3 player is not hifi, and your average consumer doesn't give two shits about the quality loss.
Also, last I checked, Steve Jobs didn't repeatedly smash your face into a MacBook keyboard whilst pointing a shotgun at your head with his free hand until you bought music from iTunes. If you don't want it, don't buy it.
Most of the modern OMAP chips have the PowerVR chip integrated directly into the CPU, rather than as a separate chip.
The old Palm platform is a horrendous mire of shite, no loss to anyone - it's still primarily based round 68K native code, even if it is run under an emulator now.
It's an integrated solution, the GPU is part of the CPU.
I was sensible enough to get sterilised at age 20 - 8 years later, and having to grow up still isn't even on the horizon.
Except that's from the New Adventures, so the canonicity is debatable...
(I feel so dirty >_)
Bloomin' kids! I still remember Doom 1 scaring the shit out of me the first time round, when one of the invisible demon things pops out of seemingly nowhere in front of me.
They do. They just don't sell them in the US, because your domestic diesel is dirty filthy stuff compared to that used in the rest of the world, and would foul their fueling systems in no time at all.