The first half of your post -- these bozos want to do everything their way and won't let us fix it. So no wonders sound doesn't work for you when it works with everything else.
The second half -- hell yeah.
Flash is the only program I can truthfully say I hope is *never* open sourced. I guarantee you it has too many cooties for "safe source" viewing.
Understanding consumer interaction at a deeper level of analysis allows us to measure the value of advertising investment' said Alison Walton, Head of Visual Engagement."
If they say they can measure the value of advertising, why don't they see it's negative? Ads not only push people like us away from the product being marketed, but also cost the consumer twice. Once in the cost of the time/attention wasted trying to avoid them, and a second time in the costs incurred by the marketing department and the ads themselves.
What about, let's say, increasing the quality, or, if that's too hard, reduce the price by exactly the amount wasted on marketing? The price reduction would get you way under the price of competition and thus the company would have the same sales without ads. Same sales, same profits, just with the customer more happy.
'I remember when they improved the error messages you get in Internet Explorer, or when they improved fonts in Windows with ClearType technology.
Improving error messages can't really be called a new invention. ClearType is nothing but a marketing name for sub-pixel antialiasing, something that has been done before. So, if their examples for Microsoft's innovations are in fact counterexamples, this is quite telling.
5 miles whips you into shape? I barely feel warmed up in 5 miles on a bike. I ride 25 miles to and from work a day, with about 700 feet in elevation change. And I don't feel that's enough to keep me in shape.
No, I would say it's nearly completely about controlling other OSes. How? Without allowing other OSes to run, any attempts to make TCPA mandatory would be instantly stopped by about every country. But now, they can provide VirtualPC for free, providing people with a way to run a free OS inside a sandbox fully controlled by Microsoft -- as they only way of using the new shiny hardware. And that's their master plan, full control over computing.
Didn't they use pressure plates for pushing weight loss pills for those who weighted over a given threshold and other ads for everyone else, a while ago?
Suing... Microsoft? Isn't it the epitome of a law-abiding corporation? It is supposed to sue people, not the other way around.
This makes me sick. For example, we have strict privacy laws in Poland -- in theory. Every single database that includes any personal data needs to be reported to GIODO -- and you need every person on your list to agree to that use. You also need to provide a way for every person to review whatever data you have on file about them, and/or request their removal. And if you anger the powers that be, you will be controlled and face stiff penalties. Unless you have enough political clout, that is. Now, take a wild guess who is playing a major role in building the henhouse...
I'm not that skilled in necromancy, but as far as I can tell, in any system Animate Dead spells work only before the corpse rots away. And in the case of DOS, indeed, they're a tiny bit too late.
Wait, so an one-time spill of the data of just mere thousands of customers (no "'") are suddenly news, and everyone forgets about ongoing constant spilling of the data of 299 millions? Interesting...
fwrite and other f* functions are just a yet another layer of buffering. In some cases (lots of small writes) they're beneficial, in other (large writes) they slow you down. Their point is to reduce the number of syscalls.
The operating system doesn't know about fwrite; it's something internal to a program and the libraries it uses. The real, important buffering is done by the OS:
In order to write something to the disk, you need:
a radial seek
read the remainder of the sector being written to (unless you're appending)
this requires an in-track seek and a read
write the data
this requires an in-track seek and a write
Without OS-level buffering, this sequence would have to be repeated for every single write. Try this: for(...){write(f,"x",1);sync();} if you want to see how bad this can go.
Whoops, indeed. I guess I owe those two karma points now. I based my post only on a man page I read many years ago somewhere and on the current Linux man, without checking POSIX (nor SUS) itself.
Still, even though I don't remember where did I read that man page, there's at least one Unix where it makes sense to sync twice:p
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...you gotta type 'sync' three times before it works.
Don't laugh so loud. While running it thrice is indeed voodoo, there are Unices where you actually need to sync twice.
The POSIX semantic is: sync() doesn't have to actually write everything, it can just schedule the commit. However, a second sync() won't return until the writes from the previous sync() finish.
The only product Microsoft ever made that didn't suck was indeed a piece of hardware -- MS Intellimouse 2.0a and 2.1a.
On the other hand, the chances of a company which keeps shouting "DRM! DRM! DRM!" even though it's sore in the throat for a long time coming up with something capable of playing DRM-free stuff is pretty small.
Shove your "fanboi" thing up your ass and use your brain.
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The second half -- hell yeah.
Too bad, Gnash is already out there.
Uhm, he can.
That's why he replied as an AC.
No, no. You got that wrong.
The bareass corporal punishment should be reserved for female crooks of appropiate age.
The rest should be rid of -- but, sending them to the Capitol would count as a cruel and unusual punishment.
What about, let's say, increasing the quality, or, if that's too hard, reduce the price by exactly the amount wasted on marketing? The price reduction would get you way under the price of competition and thus the company would have the same sales without ads. Same sales, same profits, just with the customer more happy.
Yeah, I thought about that as well. Now I'm waiting the 6 months before it will appear there.
:p
Free backup and bandwidth, yay
Kim's goons are not exactly teenagers.
- Should the government aid farmers, letting them survive the flood of imported goods?
- Would you want to pay extra taxes to grant benefits to the most incompetent of farmers?
It's all about who gets to edit the questions...Or use the anycast gate, 192.88.99.1.
No, I would say it's nearly completely about controlling other OSes. How? Without allowing other OSes to run, any attempts to make TCPA mandatory would be instantly stopped by about every country. But now, they can provide VirtualPC for free, providing people with a way to run a free OS inside a sandbox fully controlled by Microsoft -- as they only way of using the new shiny hardware. And that's their master plan, full control over computing.
Didn't they use pressure plates for pushing weight loss pills for those who weighted over a given threshold and other ads for everyone else, a while ago?
Suing... Microsoft? Isn't it the epitome of a law-abiding corporation? It is supposed to sue people, not the other way around.
This makes me sick. For example, we have strict privacy laws in Poland -- in theory. Every single database that includes any personal data needs to be reported to GIODO -- and you need every person on your list to agree to that use. You also need to provide a way for every person to review whatever data you have on file about them, and/or request their removal.
And if you anger the powers that be, you will be controlled and face stiff penalties. Unless you have enough political clout, that is.
Now, take a wild guess who is playing a major role in building the henhouse...
This is a yet another reminder of the importance of preventive measures!
The article is nothing but a slashvertisement. But, if you want a _real_ NIC killer, here you go.
I'm not that skilled in necromancy, but as far as I can tell, in any system Animate Dead spells work only before the corpse rots away. And in the case of DOS, indeed, they're a tiny bit too late.
I guess it's rather the time for exorcisms now.
Only partially. cdrecord contains numerous contributions from other people, and Joerg has no rights to relicense anything he doesn't own copyright to.
Then why not Ceres and co?
They were called planets for quite a bit of time. There's a number of precedents for such demotion.
Does a reinstalled coyote count as the same one as the original?
The operating system doesn't know about fwrite; it's something internal to a program and the libraries it uses. The real, important buffering is done by the OS:
In order to write something to the disk, you need:
- a radial seek
- read the remainder of the sector being written to (unless you're appending)
- write the data
Without OS-level buffering, this sequence would have to be repeated for every single write. Try this: for(...){write(f,"x",1);sync();} if you want to see how bad this can go.this requires an in-track seek and a read
this requires an in-track seek and a write
Whoops, indeed. I guess I owe those two karma points now.
:p
I based my post only on a man page I read many years ago somewhere and on the current Linux man, without checking POSIX (nor SUS) itself.
Still, even though I don't remember where did I read that man page, there's at least one Unix where it makes sense to sync twice
The POSIX semantic is: sync() doesn't have to actually write everything, it can just schedule the commit. However, a second sync() won't return until the writes from the previous sync() finish.
On Linux, a single sync is enough, though.
On the other hand, the chances of a company which keeps shouting "DRM! DRM! DRM!" even though it's sore in the throat for a long time coming up with something capable of playing DRM-free stuff is pretty small.
Well said