Hubble is aging, yes, and our technology has improved such that a replacement would be far superior, but the fact that it's orbiting outside the atmosphere makes a big difference in the sorts of things it can photograph. Turbulence is one thing, but the UV and IR that is blocked by our atmosphere can be picked up much more easily from space. Personally, I don't see why Hubble can't surpass every other land-based optical telescope on any level except exposure time (due to its smaller optics compared to many on Earth), since it's got every other advantage. I would imagine that any remaining shortcomings are due to its age. If we could bring it back to upgrade its technology to par with land-based scopes, or replace it with a new scope of the newest tech, it would have significant benefits over its land-based brothers.
If your main beef is getting rid of iTunes and you're willing to use Winamp instead, look no further than ml_iPod, which allows the iPod to show up as a 'device' in the Winamp media library. Just drag to and from it, or sync with your library collection. Get it here: http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/ - I've been using it since I got my iPod about a year ago, and I've loved it since.
It was a one-year warranty, unfortunately. It couldn't have been any more their fault either - the thing literally gave up its magic smoke. I yanked the power out and ran it out to the hallway of my dorm; the stench of electronic death filled the room for quite a while afterward.
When I replaced it, I made sure the new 19" Sony had 3-year warranty:)
I never said the game was about being a bully; the gameplay you mention, which I had already read about prior to making my comment, is just as bad as the summary. My point is that they're releasing games that they know will cause an uprising of parents and Congresspeople, but they continue to do it. How many intelligent companies push the envelope farther and farther every time there's a threat to legislate against them? They're going to find themselves shut down by censorship; not all publicity is good publicity.
Why are they releasing a game like this? Is it their bread and butter to make their own lives as difficult as possible? How about the next game is one where you sit in a shack and send bombs via mail to unsuspecting institutions of higher learning? What about a game where you score points by mixing chemicals to produce the largest fireball? I mean, I'm all for gamer's rights, but at this point Rockstar is simply hurting the industry more than they're helping. Some things are best left untried.
This is a big loss. A few years ago my Sony display bit the dust after only 1.5 years of use. I was ready to move away from Sony because of that quick failure, so I looked at all sorts of alternatives. I couldn't afford an LCD that could match a CRT for color, so a CRT it was. I came close to buying a ViewSonic display for just over $100, but when I checked it out at the store it was amazing how poor the video clarity was compared to the Sony I had. I finally checked some reviews and went with a 19" Sony CRT from Newegg, and it's been great since. I've seen monitors from all over, and Sony CRT displays are clearly above all other consumer CRTs. Dell displays that use Sony tubes are equally excellent.
It's hard for me to say that CRTs are still superior to LCDs because I haven't actively researched the best LCDs, but of the many LCD displays that friends and labs use, I can't imagine what I'll do when my current CRT comes up for replacement. There's simply no comparison. The LCD blacks are fake on many of the Dells (they seem to cheat to get a good contrast ratio - perfect black is dark, but the dark grey levels are much lighter). There's also the abrasiveness of the tri-color split of LCD pixels.
I guess I'm an old-fashioned dinosaur, and maybe the CRT v. LCD battle is comparable to the tube v. solid state amplifier battle, but this day marks the end of the era of beautiful CRT displays. I'll mourn.
People aren't stupid and people who use computers learn new things all the time.
Learning Linux isn't one of those things "people" regularly do, when compared to the other things they learn. I'm reminded of a comic that clarifies the type of roadblocks you'll run into getting Linux into the homes of normal people. My grandparents are smart. They know how to do lots of specific things on the PC (in Windows). They use Firefox and Thunderbird because I set them up to look like IE and OE, and my grandfather appreciates the junkmail filter in Tbird. However, I would never think of moving them to Linux. There are huge numbers of people out there who still need help deciding "left or right button?" when you instruct them to "click", and Windows and MacOSX are miles ahead of Linux when supporting this crowd. As long as Linux caters to the geek, it can't cater to the grandparent.
If this adjustment were made, spammers would start subscribing to their own splogs. You're just moving the hoops to jump through farther and farther from the end goal (finding what you need online).
While it may not replace Photoshop in terms of some specific features and purpose, the very things you've listed in your excellent analysis are the things that will make this a Photoshop "injurer". Right now, PS serves two crowds: digital artists and digital photographers. Adobe is going to find themselves losing market share if they don't pick up the pace on PS real quick, thanks to Aperture. Since Canon released Digital Photo Pro, I've been using PS less and less, though DPP falls short in many areas. Aperture sounds like the best combination of Picasa, DPP (or Phase One C1), and Photoshop's digital photography features.
If the two programs continue as they are now, there will always be a place for both Aperture and PS, but PS won't be the king of all digital imagery, only digital art. It will lose the photography world to Apple.
We're not talking about handling regular window popups - I haven't had a problem with those since Adblock blocks most of the scripts that serve them, Flashblock prevents annoying flash-generated popups, and FF handles the rest itself. We're talking about javascript "alert" dialogs that give the user no choice but to click "OK", which the javascript follows with another dialog, forever and ever...
Opera becomes useless with that script as well. The modal alert prevents you from exiting the browser, or doing anything else. It sounds like the only solution is another OS.
What browser/OS combo are you using? In IE or FF for Windows, alerts are displayed application modal, preventing menu access. I'm curious if another browser or OS handles them more gracefully.
I noticed this effect, but it's not IE recognizing unsafe code, it's the fact that IE considers any Javascript run on the localhost to be unsafe until you okay it. That's a decent security feature to keep Javascript from doing stuff on your PC, but IE fails to keep you safe from the script if it's loaded from the internet instead. Upload the script to a webserver and try it again, and IE falls victim to it as well.
In general, I think the solution to Javascript DoS problems is twofold: first, alert boxes and input boxes should not be application modal (maybe the other poster is referring to a different OS, but if what he says is true then his setup has accomplished this). Second, the browser user should have the ability to halt Javascript, even if it's hidden from typical users. That would prevent the need for the browser message: "A script on this page is causing your computer to react slowly..." - this type of dialog would be unnecessary if the browser simply executed Javascript asynchronously.
Also, FF is being developed by people who aren't getting paid (well, most aren't) for their service compared to Microsoft, a multi-billion dollar corporation which has had 10 years to try and get the bugs out of their product.
We cannot use this as an excuse in the open-source community; it's very dangerous. When you are trying to convince the general population that FF is superior to IE and can be successful in an enterprise environment, which is generally the goal, you can't consider the two to be on equal footing in performance and features and then shoot it down by relegating it to a niche position. Though we realize the FF devs are volunteering a lot of time, we want to convince others that it doesn't matter, or in fact, it improves their ability to solve problems.
It's hardly news to be able to DoS a browser. I DoS both FF and IE regularly while working on DHTML scripts, often when I use a debugging "alert" in the wrong place. Try this one and see how much farther you get during your morning browsing:
It's funny that people can read this with two distinct points of view and either say "yay! it's cheaper!" or "no! that's more expensive!". If you typically work with a beefy 4-cpu machine that simulates one megabox, you're good to go. Now you'd only have to pay for one license where you previously paid for 4. OTOH, If you're the type to run 4 VMware virtual servers on one megabox with a lot of ram, you're in the second, and it's going to cost you 4 times as much next time.
In other words, readers may have jumped to either conclusion based on their own experience, not whether they read the article. Thus, a huge debate raged about the wrong problems! Ideally, Microsoft would charge licenses on the minimum of each configuration (the lesser of [physical CPUs] and [virtual CPUs]), but then that's the consumer ideal. Oops, forgot the Linux reference: I pay 4 times as much for my Fedora server, which comes to a whopping $0!
So as it takes longer for you to download, you're providing more evidence that you're infringing their copyright. They're not wasting their bandwidth if they plan to use the peer list as a huge database of people to sue later.
I noticed the Amex site issue a few months ago and wrote them a detailed email about it. Nothing has changed, as you pointed out. The login page sends your data safely over HTTP via Javascript, but since the original page is HTTP you can't easily confirm that this will happen every time. Visiting the login page via HTTPS yields a Akamai security certificate that doesn't fit the domain, so that doesn't help.
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Hubble is aging, yes, and our technology has improved such that a replacement would be far superior, but the fact that it's orbiting outside the atmosphere makes a big difference in the sorts of things it can photograph. Turbulence is one thing, but the UV and IR that is blocked by our atmosphere can be picked up much more easily from space. Personally, I don't see why Hubble can't surpass every other land-based optical telescope on any level except exposure time (due to its smaller optics compared to many on Earth), since it's got every other advantage. I would imagine that any remaining shortcomings are due to its age. If we could bring it back to upgrade its technology to par with land-based scopes, or replace it with a new scope of the newest tech, it would have significant benefits over its land-based brothers.
If your main beef is getting rid of iTunes and you're willing to use Winamp instead, look no further than ml_iPod, which allows the iPod to show up as a 'device' in the Winamp media library. Just drag to and from it, or sync with your library collection. Get it here: http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/ - I've been using it since I got my iPod about a year ago, and I've loved it since.
When I replaced it, I made sure the new 19" Sony had 3-year warranty :)
I never said the game was about being a bully; the gameplay you mention, which I had already read about prior to making my comment, is just as bad as the summary. My point is that they're releasing games that they know will cause an uprising of parents and Congresspeople, but they continue to do it. How many intelligent companies push the envelope farther and farther every time there's a threat to legislate against them? They're going to find themselves shut down by censorship; not all publicity is good publicity.
Why are they releasing a game like this? Is it their bread and butter to make their own lives as difficult as possible? How about the next game is one where you sit in a shack and send bombs via mail to unsuspecting institutions of higher learning? What about a game where you score points by mixing chemicals to produce the largest fireball? I mean, I'm all for gamer's rights, but at this point Rockstar is simply hurting the industry more than they're helping. Some things are best left untried.
It's hard for me to say that CRTs are still superior to LCDs because I haven't actively researched the best LCDs, but of the many LCD displays that friends and labs use, I can't imagine what I'll do when my current CRT comes up for replacement. There's simply no comparison. The LCD blacks are fake on many of the Dells (they seem to cheat to get a good contrast ratio - perfect black is dark, but the dark grey levels are much lighter). There's also the abrasiveness of the tri-color split of LCD pixels.
I guess I'm an old-fashioned dinosaur, and maybe the CRT v. LCD battle is comparable to the tube v. solid state amplifier battle, but this day marks the end of the era of beautiful CRT displays. I'll mourn.
Learning Linux isn't one of those things "people" regularly do, when compared to the other things they learn. I'm reminded of a comic that clarifies the type of roadblocks you'll run into getting Linux into the homes of normal people. My grandparents are smart. They know how to do lots of specific things on the PC (in Windows). They use Firefox and Thunderbird because I set them up to look like IE and OE, and my grandfather appreciates the junkmail filter in Tbird. However, I would never think of moving them to Linux. There are huge numbers of people out there who still need help deciding "left or right button?" when you instruct them to "click", and Windows and MacOSX are miles ahead of Linux when supporting this crowd. As long as Linux caters to the geek, it can't cater to the grandparent.
If this adjustment were made, spammers would start subscribing to their own splogs. You're just moving the hoops to jump through farther and farther from the end goal (finding what you need online).
While it may not replace Photoshop in terms of some specific features and purpose, the very things you've listed in your excellent analysis are the things that will make this a Photoshop "injurer". Right now, PS serves two crowds: digital artists and digital photographers. Adobe is going to find themselves losing market share if they don't pick up the pace on PS real quick, thanks to Aperture. Since Canon released Digital Photo Pro, I've been using PS less and less, though DPP falls short in many areas. Aperture sounds like the best combination of Picasa, DPP (or Phase One C1), and Photoshop's digital photography features.
If the two programs continue as they are now, there will always be a place for both Aperture and PS, but PS won't be the king of all digital imagery, only digital art. It will lose the photography world to Apple.
Opera becomes useless with that script as well. The modal alert prevents you from exiting the browser, or doing anything else. It sounds like the only solution is another OS.
What browser/OS combo are you using? In IE or FF for Windows, alerts are displayed application modal, preventing menu access. I'm curious if another browser or OS handles them more gracefully.
In general, I think the solution to Javascript DoS problems is twofold: first, alert boxes and input boxes should not be application modal (maybe the other poster is referring to a different OS, but if what he says is true then his setup has accomplished this). Second, the browser user should have the ability to halt Javascript, even if it's hidden from typical users. That would prevent the need for the browser message: "A script on this page is causing your computer to react slowly..." - this type of dialog would be unnecessary if the browser simply executed Javascript asynchronously.
We cannot use this as an excuse in the open-source community; it's very dangerous. When you are trying to convince the general population that FF is superior to IE and can be successful in an enterprise environment, which is generally the goal, you can't consider the two to be on equal footing in performance and features and then shoot it down by relegating it to a niche position. Though we realize the FF devs are volunteering a lot of time, we want to convince others that it doesn't matter, or in fact, it improves their ability to solve problems.
It's hardly news to be able to DoS a browser. I DoS both FF and IE regularly while working on DHTML scripts, often when I use a debugging "alert" in the wrong place. Try this one and see how much farther you get during your morning browsing:
<html>
<body onmousemove="while(1) alert('ooooh');">
</body>
</html>
Watch out before you run it! You wouldn't want to lose that Xanga post you've been working on.
It's good to see that they're sticking to the apparent official font of Britain, Gill Sans.
For future Europeans who might be reading these comments on a mirror or cache, you can get to Slashdot at one of the following addresses:
http://66.35.250.150/
http://66.35.250.151/
I wouldn't trust their QA. I know it's just a beta, but it's clear by screenshot 1 that Media Player 11 has trouble properly labeling songs by The Who
In other words, readers may have jumped to either conclusion based on their own experience, not whether they read the article. Thus, a huge debate raged about the wrong problems! Ideally, Microsoft would charge licenses on the minimum of each configuration (the lesser of [physical CPUs] and [virtual CPUs]), but then that's the consumer ideal. Oops, forgot the Linux reference: I pay 4 times as much for my Fedora server, which comes to a whopping $0!
Gee, I wonder who that is making easy use of the Lisa in photo 7 ...
I know it's off topic, but does anyone know why it's raining little bits of metal? I just raked the yard ...
So as it takes longer for you to download, you're providing more evidence that you're infringing their copyright. They're not wasting their bandwidth if they plan to use the peer list as a huge database of people to sue later.
"safely over HTTPS via Javascript", I mean. Dernit!
For those who would like a secure login to AMEX, I ran across this URL recently: https://www.americanexpress.com/links/myca/
"Many" others? Can you back that up?
It sounds like the author is one of the people who wouldn't be able to get his hands on any M-rated games anymore.