That joke wasn't very funny when a painfully unfunny Canadian made it in a teeth grindingly unfunny movie 10+ years ago even though there it was at least in context. It hasn't matured with age to become funny since then.
Microsoft somehow has the power to make everyone cripple their implementation of Atom to 2GB or less RAM supported
Only if they want to use Windows 7 Starter. There's nothing to stop someone making a netbook with Windows 7 Home Premium (in fact Asus's 12" netbooks do). Or for that matter Linux or Chrome OS or Android.
The EFF isn't the preeminent protector of your digital rights. The lordpwnalot toolbar is. It protects against Adware, spyware, and all sorts of other capitalist things.
I'll never understand why Intel didn't put H.264 in the GPU in the N570. I'm writing this on a 1015PX. It does Youtube 720p video pretty well but it needs around 50% CPU usage. Windows 7 has the hooks for H.264 hardware acceleration but the GPU only implements Mpeg 2. Most cellphones SOCs have hardware accelerated H.264 decoding despite having a lower transistor budget than an Atom. HD video performance is pretty much the only thing that people complain about on netbooks. Adding support for H.264 in the chipset would have ended those complaints. Plus of course the power consumption would have been lower compared to decoding on the CPU.
I think Google looked at the vast Linux ecosystem and GPL community and decided very wisely they'd keep the kernel but write their own non GPL userland.
***Hack to make shit Samsung hardware work. Dog eating incompetents***
***Fuck Qualcomm with a chainsaw***
***Fucking HTC can't get anything right****
***Secret codes for Gmail sync. If these aren't present there's a 1% chance the server will delete all your emails, cancel reminders for meetings before 9am, and other bad stuff. If this leaks we'll get done under anti trust law****
***This is evil, but we need to tell the Gmail server we're a Google device not an iShit or Very Bad Things Will Happen to us too,***
***Fucking Apple got the codes - added a new set which will go live in a year**
the best way to do it is for the video to start real quiet and for sites like slashdot to tell people they need to turn their volume way up to hear it. then without warning THE VIDEO GETS REALLY LOUD.
I'd honestly pay to see resulting conversations between pissed off soldiers and AT&T reps who have disconnected/throttled/generally sabotaged their connections for a variety of dubious reasons.
Don't forget that he claims that his other job besides porn store clerk is research director for the LED company he advertises in his.sig.
That's like the ultimate synergy! Lighting porn with bright, bluish point sources is the only way to get ahead in the "heinously ugly lighting" stakes.
Judging by the porn I^Hmy friends have watched, ugly lighting is de rigueur in this genre and considerable effort is taken to make sure that the lighting is ugly enough to be competitive.
Care to show some references that show MS giving native code rights to 3rd parties instead of just showing idle speculation and rumors from some random forum threads?
Regarding the managed code sandbox, he noted that over time this will become less and less strict, and that access to native code will just be in very special cases, like with Adobe Flash.
He being Charlie Kindel, Microsoft spokesman.
WP7 is a complete rewrite of WM because WM sucked in task management and battery life(like Android?). Also, the UI needed resistive pressure sensitive screens whereas the world is moving to capacitative touch.
My HD2 has a capacitative touch screen and runs Windows Mobile just fine. I think it's absurd to make version n+1 of an OS based on the idea that version n "sucked". Well at the very least you shouldn't do so and expect people to upgrade.
Think of WP7 as a new OS.
That runs fewer of my favourite applications than Android and irritates me by being even more crippled and locked down than an iPhone. If I was going for a new OS it would be Android hands down. If I were not going for a new OS - i.e. if Windows Phone 7 had run Windows Mobile applications the odds are I'd have bought a Window Phone.
So they can say goodbye to the sort of people that bought WM phones as customers for WP7
Question is - will more people switch from Android or iPhone to WP7 to replace all the Windows Mobile users who decide to jump ship to Android? And the answer to that is that if you look at the falling market share of Microsoft mobile OSs - i.e. WinMo + WP7 - a rather resounding no.
Ha, I've been very pro Microsoft in the past - all my machines run Windows and all my smartphones run Windows Mobile.
However Windows Phone 7 a complete disaster. It can't run old applications. People wanting to port C/C++ applications to it need to rewrite completely in managed C# or apply for a special pass from Microsoft to use native code. Microsoft's market share is dropping like a rock as Windows Mobile users move to Android instead of Windows Phone 7. Actually the application I most depend on on Windows Mobile - Pleco - works on Windows Mobile and iPhone and has a beta that runs on Android. It's never going to support Windows Phone. Even if Microsoft gave them a native code pass Pleco have said that they won't support WP7 unless everyone gets native code rights -
gato wrote: The rumor is that other companies are also getting special privileges. The Spotify music service has been announced for Windows Phone 7, but it is hard to believe that the music will stop whenever the user switches task. One attendee told me that the Windows Phone 7 native code framework is called Iris, is based on what was used for the Zune music player, and is used by Microsoft as well as by Spotify. He added that major games developers will also be allowed to use native code.
Neither Apple nor Google have stooped as low as giving big developers the tools to make their apps significantly better / faster / more feature-rich than small developers'; if this is true, it's basically the mobile app equivalent of (not having) net neutrality, give the big guys everything they want and shut the little guys out. Microsoft might be able to make EA happy this way, but EA's iPhone games suck - if Microsoft wants to get the next Angry Birds or Flight Control or, for that matter, Pleco on WP7, they have to open up their native code APIs to everyone and not treat small companies like second-class citizens. Giving us access 6 months later isn't the same, either - if anybody gets to use a particular framework to develop shipping apps, then everybody should get access to that same framework; if it's not ready for prime time yet, release the beta version to everyone and only make it official once it is.
Windows Phone is a bizarre idea. You can move from Windows Mobile to WP7. None of your old applications work and the ones available on WP7 are far inferior because (for things like Pleco) they can't use third party libraries for things like OCR and handwriting recognition. Or you can move to Android. Most of the applications you liked on Windows Mobile have already been ported to Android. And the phones are cheaper and not at all locked down - all the custom Rom chefs have moved to Android already. You can tether and access the device as mass storage. You can sideload applications. I.e.Android is just like WinMo but not at all like WP7. And people like HTC who made your old WinMo handset have loads of Android devices but very few WP7 ones. It's almost like Microsoft want people to buy Android.
Last but not least they've pissed off their ISVs by telling them they can either rewrite fucking everything - something they don't need to do on Android and iPhone which have much better sales - or presumably pay/beg Microsoft for the right to use their old Windows Mobile code via a native code pass. Adobe are rumoured to have a native code pass for Flash. But given WP7's dire sales it seems like Adobe have decided that even with that it's not worth the bother of supporting WP7. I reckon WP7 will be killed of at some point like Zune and Kin - both of which were based on the same technologies and marketing team. By that point everyone that run custom applications or Roms on WinMo (and face it that was the only reason people bought Windows Mobile devices) will simply have moved over to Android and will be content there. So it's not like they'd be tempted back even if Microsoft release a back compatible successor to Windows Mobile.
I see Godwins as being a valid example of reductio ad absurdum which can be used to educate. Particularly when I'm talking to Apple apologists. Who all seem to be white and identically dressed in stylish black clothes.
When's the last time you saw a black person in an Apple store? There was more racial diversity at a Nuremburg rally.
I also think that Godwins are good because they tend to spur and empassioned debate, which is obviously good for convincing people that they are a) wrong and b) worse than Nazis and should be put in camps.
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over one beeeellion dollars
That joke wasn't very funny when a painfully unfunny Canadian made it in a teeth grindingly unfunny movie 10+ years ago even though there it was at least in context. It hasn't matured with age to become funny since then.
Do you actually live with your mother in her mother's basement?
The best thing about these slashdot technical discussions these days is the abuse.
Whoosh *
* The sound a swinging pendant makes
Microsoft somehow has the power to make everyone cripple their implementation of Atom to 2GB or less RAM supported
Only if they want to use Windows 7 Starter. There's nothing to stop someone making a netbook with Windows 7 Home Premium (in fact Asus's 12" netbooks do). Or for that matter Linux or Chrome OS or Android.
Pendant.
Jesus Christ it's a Li-ion, get it in the car
You can either: ship the full code with every binary or you can ship the binary alone but commit to provide the source code to anyone who requests it.
You can just send them a link to the original author's site.
What did you mean? Divide by zero --> COREDUMP?
Memes r in his brainz, corruptin his intelligences.
I once worked with someone who had that damn ad as the ringtone on his phone. On full blast.
The EFF isn't the preeminent protector of your digital rights. The lordpwnalot toolbar is. It protects against Adware, spyware, and all sorts of other capitalist things.
http://www.lordpwnalot.cn/
Note : many antivirus software will give a false positive and you may need to disable it to install.
watching h.264 720p w/o hardware acceleration
I'll never understand why Intel didn't put H.264 in the GPU in the N570. I'm writing this on a 1015PX. It does Youtube 720p video pretty well but it needs around 50% CPU usage. Windows 7 has the hooks for H.264 hardware acceleration but the GPU only implements Mpeg 2. Most cellphones SOCs have hardware accelerated H.264 decoding despite having a lower transistor budget than an Atom. HD video performance is pretty much the only thing that people complain about on netbooks. Adding support for H.264 in the chipset would have ended those complaints. Plus of course the power consumption would have been lower compared to decoding on the CPU.
Can't think of a one of them that doesn't qualify as a xenophobic, racist sociopath.
Hitler would have said the same thing about Jews.
Republicans - prick them do they not bleed, wrong them do they not revenge?
I think Google looked at the vast Linux ecosystem and GPL community and decided very wisely they'd keep the kernel but write their own non GPL userland.
Varuka Saltz
It's Veruca Salt. Verruca are plantar walts.
Does it do sharding? Is it WebScale?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Scans through check in comments
Yeah, I think we'll just strip all the metadata.
the best way to do it is for the video to start real quiet and for sites like slashdot to tell people they need to turn their volume way up to hear it. then without warning THE VIDEO GETS REALLY LOUD.
I'd honestly pay to see resulting conversations between pissed off soldiers and AT&T reps who have disconnected/throttled/generally sabotaged their connections for a variety of dubious reasons.
Don't forget that he claims that his other job besides porn store clerk is research director for the LED company he advertises in his .sig.
That's like the ultimate synergy! Lighting porn with bright, bluish point sources is the only way to get ahead in the "heinously ugly lighting" stakes.
Judging by the porn I^Hmy friends have watched, ugly lighting is de rigueur in this genre and considerable effort is taken to make sure that the lighting is ugly enough to be competitive.
When they asked you to pick up the can, they really meant it.
Or you could give your passwords to your Uncle Hal Porter for safekeeping.
Care to show some references that show MS giving native code rights to 3rd parties instead of just showing idle speculation and rumors from some random forum threads?
http://wmpoweruser.com/microsoft-promises-to-fix-many-windows-phone-7-limitations-in-future-releases/
Regarding the managed code sandbox, he noted that over time this will become less and less strict, and that access to native code will just be in very special cases, like with Adobe Flash.
He being Charlie Kindel, Microsoft spokesman.
WP7 is a complete rewrite of WM because WM sucked in task management and battery life(like Android?). Also, the UI needed resistive pressure sensitive screens whereas the world is moving to capacitative touch.
My HD2 has a capacitative touch screen and runs Windows Mobile just fine. I think it's absurd to make version n+1 of an OS based on the idea that version n "sucked". Well at the very least you shouldn't do so and expect people to upgrade.
Think of WP7 as a new OS.
That runs fewer of my favourite applications than Android and irritates me by being even more crippled and locked down than an iPhone. If I was going for a new OS it would be Android hands down. If I were not going for a new OS - i.e. if Windows Phone 7 had run Windows Mobile applications the odds are I'd have bought a Window Phone.
So they can say goodbye to the sort of people that bought WM phones as customers for WP7
Question is - will more people switch from Android or iPhone to WP7 to replace all the Windows Mobile users who decide to jump ship to Android? And the answer to that is that if you look at the falling market share of Microsoft mobile OSs - i.e. WinMo + WP7 - a rather resounding no.
Ha, I've been very pro Microsoft in the past - all my machines run Windows and all my smartphones run Windows Mobile.
However Windows Phone 7 a complete disaster. It can't run old applications. People wanting to port C/C++ applications to it need to rewrite completely in managed C# or apply for a special pass from Microsoft to use native code. Microsoft's market share is dropping like a rock as Windows Mobile users move to Android instead of Windows Phone 7. Actually the application I most depend on on Windows Mobile - Pleco - works on Windows Mobile and iPhone and has a beta that runs on Android. It's never going to support Windows Phone. Even if Microsoft gave them a native code pass Pleco have said that they won't support WP7 unless everyone gets native code rights -
http://www.plecoforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=19990&sid=8d1f4894881d1b4653a82de2614656f8#p19990
gato wrote:
The rumor is that other companies are also getting special privileges. The Spotify music service has been announced for Windows Phone 7, but it is hard to believe that the music will stop whenever the user switches task. One attendee told me that the Windows Phone 7 native code framework is called Iris, is based on what was used for the Zune music player, and is used by Microsoft as well as by Spotify. He added that major games developers will also be allowed to use native code.
Neither Apple nor Google have stooped as low as giving big developers the tools to make their apps significantly better / faster / more feature-rich than small developers'; if this is true, it's basically the mobile app equivalent of (not having) net neutrality, give the big guys everything they want and shut the little guys out. Microsoft might be able to make EA happy this way, but EA's iPhone games suck - if Microsoft wants to get the next Angry Birds or Flight Control or, for that matter, Pleco on WP7, they have to open up their native code APIs to everyone and not treat small companies like second-class citizens. Giving us access 6 months later isn't the same, either - if anybody gets to use a particular framework to develop shipping apps, then everybody should get access to that same framework; if it's not ready for prime time yet, release the beta version to everyone and only make it official once it is.
Windows Phone is a bizarre idea. You can move from Windows Mobile to WP7. None of your old applications work and the ones available on WP7 are far inferior because (for things like Pleco) they can't use third party libraries for things like OCR and handwriting recognition. Or you can move to Android. Most of the applications you liked on Windows Mobile have already been ported to Android. And the phones are cheaper and not at all locked down - all the custom Rom chefs have moved to Android already. You can tether and access the device as mass storage. You can sideload applications. I.e.Android is just like WinMo but not at all like WP7. And people like HTC who made your old WinMo handset have loads of Android devices but very few WP7 ones. It's almost like Microsoft want people to buy Android.
Last but not least they've pissed off their ISVs by telling them they can either rewrite fucking everything - something they don't need to do on Android and iPhone which have much better sales - or presumably pay/beg Microsoft for the right to use their old Windows Mobile code via a native code pass. Adobe are rumoured to have a native code pass for Flash. But given WP7's dire sales it seems like Adobe have decided that even with that it's not worth the bother of supporting WP7. I reckon WP7 will be killed of at some point like Zune and Kin - both of which were based on the same technologies and marketing team. By that point everyone that run custom applications or Roms on WinMo (and face it that was the only reason people bought Windows Mobile devices) will simply have moved over to Android and will be content there. So it's not like they'd be tempted back even if Microsoft release a back compatible successor to Windows Mobile.
I'm looking for something to indicate this is a joke. . .
Look harder
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2494380&cid=37842532
I see Godwins as being a valid example of reductio ad absurdum which can be used to educate. Particularly when I'm talking to Apple apologists. Who all seem to be white and identically dressed in stylish black clothes.
When's the last time you saw a black person in an Apple store? There was more racial diversity at a Nuremburg rally.
I also think that Godwins are good because they tend to spur and empassioned debate, which is obviously good for convincing people that they are a) wrong and b) worse than Nazis and should be put in camps.