Not really. The W3C hasn't standardized the interface between the browser plugin and the browser, and in fact browsers aren't required to have any API that allows plugins to register new CDMs at all and probably won't in most cases.
All the CDMs so far are tied to a particular OS and browser combination, and I don't think any of the browsers so far support any way of installing additional CDMs, nor does the spec require them to ever allow this. Right now ChromeOS only supports Google's Widevine DRM and nothing else, the beta version of IE support's Microsoft's PlayReady DRM and nothing else, presumably if Apple ever support it they'll use their own PlayFair DRM and nothing else...No two vendors have any DRM scheme in common, nor is there any reason to expect they ever will. This "standard" (pah!) is way more fragmented, proprietary and incompatible than Flash ever was.
Nokia's new Asha 501 isn't a smartphone, it's a featurephone with a touch screen. Apps for it are written in J2ME with a bunch of Nokia-proprietary extensions - basically a slightly improved descendant of what your old Nokia 3330 supported. Apparently it doesn't even support 3G unlike newer featurephones.
They're a profit-maximising company that's heavily subsidised by the Chinese government. From what I can remember, the main companies who were affected by this were other Chinese manufacturers of ARM SoCs though; Allwinner aren't really playing in the same market as companies like Qualcomm and Intel.
With HTML5 EME, every platform will still do it seperately, so you'll still have Apple DRM, Google DRM, Amazon DRM etc, and some content providers will probably still enter into exclusive deals with some platform providers. The entire point of EME is to provide a way to access platform-specific DRM/CDM modules - it only specifies the API that web applications can hand encrypted keying information and encrypted media to them, not what happens after that. In fact, this is already happening; Google Chromebooks and development versions of IE11 both support HTML5 EME, but the Chromebooks only support Google's Widevine DRM and IE11 only supports Microsoft's PlayReady DRM, neither of which is compatible with the other.
The CDM isn't necessarily even a plugin; it can be integrated into the browser. So for instance Microsoft could decide that Internet Explorer will have a built-in implementation of their PlayReady DRM as the only CDM it supports and that they won't allow other browsers to use that CDM or other CDM implementations in their browsers, and that'd be entirely compliant with the HTML5 ECE specification. It'd also be entirely non-interoperable with any non-Microsoft browser or platform.
At the consumer level, there are enough users of most apps that at least one is probably a developer who can take over development if needs be. For example, there's an open source IRC app called XChat that's quite popular but no longer maintained by its developers, so someone forked it and released a new version HexChat.
Allegedly the Bitcoin exchange was being used to launder funds stolen by phishing from people's online banking accounts, which seems to be the usual way that these things die.
And yet, a comment about how it would be no big deal if you swallowed them all at once has been voted up to +5, Insightful on a site supposedly full of smart people. Gee, I wonder why the CPSC felt the need to try and recall them, given how good everyone's understanding of the risks resulting from swallowing them is.
Nope, the problem is that people are idiots, even smart people. On one of the previous/. discussions there were a surprising number of people who posted comments talking about how they'd swallowed all kinds of metal objects as kids, many of which were sharp, and swallowing something round like Buckyballs is no big deal - it's just the nanny state kicking up a fuss about nothing. They did this in response to an article which described, in fairly graphic detail, exactly why swallowing strong magnets was more dangerous than other small metal objects and the actual injuries that had resulted from it.
Would you be willing check, every time, that every single magnet went back in the case even if it took you several days to find the ones that went missing? Because if not, there's a good chance that you'd be a danger to kids if you got your hands on a set of these magnets - even if you don't have kids of your own, it just takes a visiting kid finding a couple and eating them, or them getting trapped in the tread of your shoe and deposited somewhere where kids could eat them, or... They don't look obviously dangerous and all the warnings are on the box. Hell, I think some people on here have been building desk sculptures from them, and they're dangers to kids too even if they don't realise it.
From what I remember, Microsoft has discontinued support for all the APIs you've just listed, so you should really be using alternatives to them anyway...
Bad management killed manufacturing. How much of that UK manufacturing is far-eastern firms opening up UK factories? I suspect quite a lot, which means that whatever Thatcher did is irrelevant - for the most part their attitudes to employees forestalled unionisation everywhere. Even in the US where the car industry is still heavily unionised, companies like Honda somehow manage not to have the union problems that GM and other American giants do.
That's bullshit. All non-union private sector jobs have retirement accounts based on personal investment.
Their retirement accounts are based on investments, but the account holders have no control over how the fund votes using the shares bought with their money and a large chunk of the profits are siphoned off in the form of management fees. (Naturally, the managers don't share in the losses.) The net effect is that the capitalist class still get most of the benefits from everyone else's "investments".
The rules set by real-world exchanges aren't necessarily as robust as you might think. For example, there was a problem where one of the big commodity exchanges effectively didn't actually require metals purchased for physical delivery to be delivered in any real quantity. Goldman Sachs abused the hell out of that loophole and caused problems for a whole bunch of businesses that actually make stuff.
I'm not sure they can contribute their improvements terribly easily. Apple changed their development policies recently to be fairly hostile to non-Apple users of Webkit; basically, developers are allowed to check in changes that break the build on non-Apple platforms (which is enough to make development elsewhere a pain on its own because it breaks git bisect), and commits - including ones to non-Apple platform code, even ones that fix the build - now require the approval of an Apple employee with no knowlege of other platform and no incentive to approve changes important to them promptly.
Nope, you're misreading that. It applies to all debts. Private parties can accept or refuse whatever they like as payments for goods and services, but for debts they have to accept payment in US dollars.
True, but this this isn't the first time she's made questionable allegations of sexism. If it hadn't blown up and resulted in someone being sacked, it wouldn't have been the most impressive one either; her T-shirt stunt involved her being actively hostile towards a woman who wanted to include (non-sexualised) depictions of women, and who could've avoided the whole fuss if the T-shirt went with the safe option and used the stereotypical male geeks. She's an active disincentive to including women.
Supposedly the first joke involved them talking about forking people's GitHub repos as a new sign of respect in the tech industry, and one of the guys later said (of another male developer) "I'd fork his repo". So a double entendre at most.
Of course, the DRM is provided by the company selling your product and calls back to their servers, so they could just as easily lie about that as they could about the sales figures...
Most of those different equalization curves were handled at the source, though. Tape players and phono pre-amps had hardwired analog equalization circuitry that provided the necessary frequency response.
For calendar support apparently they've given up even trying. According to this announcement, they're discontinuing CalDAV support except for "whitelisted developers" and pushing everyone to their proprietary Google Calendar API, including existing developers.
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They probably won't sue you but they've been threatening to sue providers of YouTube download sites and software for years.
Not really. The W3C hasn't standardized the interface between the browser plugin and the browser, and in fact browsers aren't required to have any API that allows plugins to register new CDMs at all and probably won't in most cases.
All the CDMs so far are tied to a particular OS and browser combination, and I don't think any of the browsers so far support any way of installing additional CDMs, nor does the spec require them to ever allow this. Right now ChromeOS only supports Google's Widevine DRM and nothing else, the beta version of IE support's Microsoft's PlayReady DRM and nothing else, presumably if Apple ever support it they'll use their own PlayFair DRM and nothing else...No two vendors have any DRM scheme in common, nor is there any reason to expect they ever will. This "standard" (pah!) is way more fragmented, proprietary and incompatible than Flash ever was.
Nokia's new Asha 501 isn't a smartphone, it's a featurephone with a touch screen. Apps for it are written in J2ME with a bunch of Nokia-proprietary extensions - basically a slightly improved descendant of what your old Nokia 3330 supported. Apparently it doesn't even support 3G unlike newer featurephones.
They're a profit-maximising company that's heavily subsidised by the Chinese government. From what I can remember, the main companies who were affected by this were other Chinese manufacturers of ARM SoCs though; Allwinner aren't really playing in the same market as companies like Qualcomm and Intel.
Most people don't change the firmware on their router either.
With HTML5 EME, every platform will still do it seperately, so you'll still have Apple DRM, Google DRM, Amazon DRM etc, and some content providers will probably still enter into exclusive deals with some platform providers. The entire point of EME is to provide a way to access platform-specific DRM/CDM modules - it only specifies the API that web applications can hand encrypted keying information and encrypted media to them, not what happens after that. In fact, this is already happening; Google Chromebooks and development versions of IE11 both support HTML5 EME, but the Chromebooks only support Google's Widevine DRM and IE11 only supports Microsoft's PlayReady DRM, neither of which is compatible with the other.
The CDM isn't necessarily even a plugin; it can be integrated into the browser. So for instance Microsoft could decide that Internet Explorer will have a built-in implementation of their PlayReady DRM as the only CDM it supports and that they won't allow other browsers to use that CDM or other CDM implementations in their browsers, and that'd be entirely compliant with the HTML5 ECE specification. It'd also be entirely non-interoperable with any non-Microsoft browser or platform.
I hear the next generation of the Cubieboard (not released yet) should have both SATA and gigabit Ethernet.
At the consumer level, there are enough users of most apps that at least one is probably a developer who can take over development if needs be. For example, there's an open source IRC app called XChat that's quite popular but no longer maintained by its developers, so someone forked it and released a new version HexChat.
Allegedly the Bitcoin exchange was being used to launder funds stolen by phishing from people's online banking accounts, which seems to be the usual way that these things die.
And yet, a comment about how it would be no big deal if you swallowed them all at once has been voted up to +5, Insightful on a site supposedly full of smart people. Gee, I wonder why the CPSC felt the need to try and recall them, given how good everyone's understanding of the risks resulting from swallowing them is.
Nope, the problem is that people are idiots, even smart people. On one of the previous /. discussions there were a surprising number of people who posted comments talking about how they'd swallowed all kinds of metal objects as kids, many of which were sharp, and swallowing something round like Buckyballs is no big deal - it's just the nanny state kicking up a fuss about nothing. They did this in response to an article which described, in fairly graphic detail, exactly why swallowing strong magnets was more dangerous than other small metal objects and the actual injuries that had resulted from it.
Would you be willing check, every time, that every single magnet went back in the case even if it took you several days to find the ones that went missing? Because if not, there's a good chance that you'd be a danger to kids if you got your hands on a set of these magnets - even if you don't have kids of your own, it just takes a visiting kid finding a couple and eating them, or them getting trapped in the tread of your shoe and deposited somewhere where kids could eat them, or... They don't look obviously dangerous and all the warnings are on the box. Hell, I think some people on here have been building desk sculptures from them, and they're dangers to kids too even if they don't realise it.
From what I remember, Microsoft has discontinued support for all the APIs you've just listed, so you should really be using alternatives to them anyway...
Bad management killed manufacturing. How much of that UK manufacturing is far-eastern firms opening up UK factories? I suspect quite a lot, which means that whatever Thatcher did is irrelevant - for the most part their attitudes to employees forestalled unionisation everywhere. Even in the US where the car industry is still heavily unionised, companies like Honda somehow manage not to have the union problems that GM and other American giants do.
That's bullshit. All non-union private sector jobs have retirement accounts based on personal investment.
Their retirement accounts are based on investments, but the account holders have no control over how the fund votes using the shares bought with their money and a large chunk of the profits are siphoned off in the form of management fees. (Naturally, the managers don't share in the losses.) The net effect is that the capitalist class still get most of the benefits from everyone else's "investments".
The rules set by real-world exchanges aren't necessarily as robust as you might think. For example, there was a problem where one of the big commodity exchanges effectively didn't actually require metals purchased for physical delivery to be delivered in any real quantity. Goldman Sachs abused the hell out of that loophole and caused problems for a whole bunch of businesses that actually make stuff.
I'm not sure they can contribute their improvements terribly easily. Apple changed their development policies recently to be fairly hostile to non-Apple users of Webkit; basically, developers are allowed to check in changes that break the build on non-Apple platforms (which is enough to make development elsewhere a pain on its own because it breaks git bisect), and commits - including ones to non-Apple platform code, even ones that fix the build - now require the approval of an Apple employee with no knowlege of other platform and no incentive to approve changes important to them promptly.
Nope, you're misreading that. It applies to all debts. Private parties can accept or refuse whatever they like as payments for goods and services, but for debts they have to accept payment in US dollars.
True, but this this isn't the first time she's made questionable allegations of sexism. If it hadn't blown up and resulted in someone being sacked, it wouldn't have been the most impressive one either; her T-shirt stunt involved her being actively hostile towards a woman who wanted to include (non-sexualised) depictions of women, and who could've avoided the whole fuss if the T-shirt went with the safe option and used the stereotypical male geeks. She's an active disincentive to including women.
Supposedly the first joke involved them talking about forking people's GitHub repos as a new sign of respect in the tech industry, and one of the guys later said (of another male developer) "I'd fork his repo". So a double entendre at most.
Of course, the DRM is provided by the company selling your product and calls back to their servers, so they could just as easily lie about that as they could about the sales figures...
Most of those different equalization curves were handled at the source, though. Tape players and phono pre-amps had hardwired analog equalization circuitry that provided the necessary frequency response.
For calendar support apparently they've given up even trying. According to this announcement, they're discontinuing CalDAV support except for "whitelisted developers" and pushing everyone to their proprietary Google Calendar API, including existing developers.