Some places will always be far behind, but this news means there should be a brighter future, instead of endlessly delving further and further into a barrel of hideous hackery.
Seeing as Foxit is a stand alone EXE, how is it crashing firefox? i've been using it for years with FF, after stripping Acrobat Reader from my system, the way PDF's now open instantly just by being the associated program for 'open' for PDF, instead of the Acrobat plugin garbage has been invaluable.
Have you left acrobat plugins in your Firefox's plugin directory or something ?
Uninstall notepad++ and reinstall it without the auto-update option, they said something about the function being fixed a while back, but it isn't yet sadly.
If flawed, predictable PRNG code is so 'irrelevant in the real world' why does even Microsoft seek to improve upon it?
"Strengthens the cryptography platform with a redesigned random number generator, which leverages the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), when present, for entropy and complies with the latest standards. The redesigned RNG uses the AES-based pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) from NIST Special Publication 800-90 by default. The Dual Elliptical Curve (Dual EC) PRNG from SP 800-90 is also available for customers who prefer to use it."
"The Windows Vista SP1 install process clears the user-specific data that is used by Windows to optimize performance, which may make the system feel less responsive immediately after install. As the customer uses their SP1 PC, the system will be retrained over the course of a few hours or days and will return to the previous level of responsiveness." source
Any performance tests that haven't taken that into account somehow can't be taken too seriously sadly, it's a difficult thing to deal with for review, much like a fresh Vista original release, though at least SP1 shouldn't blank out your index system's index, and cause that to re-catalog everything too, that really would cripple immediate post-install tests.
A sort of Feedback escrow would perhaps be a better idea?, both parties can see the feedback proposed, but it's not made public until they're both satisfied, this gives opportunity to contest/fix problems before things are set in stone.
I'm afraid the 60% of the movies you have listed that I have seen, I would rate them 'great' at absolute best, 'ok', 'passed the time in an amusing fashion' or similar, not 'amazing' by any stretch of the imagination.
Sadly right now I'm struggling to remember the last western made movie in the last 5 years I genuinely thought was amazing, though I clearly don't have mainstream tastes, most of the films I've been really impressed with recently have all been Asian, and mostly anime. It's been nearly a decade and a half since I last wanted to watch a movie I'd just finished a second time immediately (Akira), though obviously that's partially going to be due to being far more impressionable as a 13 year old.
I haven't tried playing with XNA I admit, I've been waiting patiently looking forward to a visual studio 2008 compatible release of XNA2.
But having said that,
"Look at XBox 360 dedicated games that are using the XNA and jumping off from a solid DX10 level engine, they blow cross platform games away in terms of FPS and quality."
Though I agree it is unlikely that we will see anything that really impresses the masses in dx10 till a 'dx10 from the ground up' engine is released, from a capable developer, it is my understanding that XNA, and even XNA2 does not have any DX10 capability, as the xbox 360 is not a dx10 capable device.
"As for XNA supporting DirectX 10, I haven't heard any plans of this, and would think it's unlikely since DirectX 10 is not supported on the Xbox 360, and XNA is focused on working on both Windows and Xbox." source (Bill Reiss - XNA MVP, posted 01-26-2008 so I believe it would be correct to assume this comment covers XNA2)
The rest of your post is very interesting however.
If I could I would certainly mod up your post, I don't really see why you'd post that Anonymously though.
Sadly there isn't any real way to compensate for the years of legal knowledge, training, experience required first.
Perhaps there should be some kind of requirement for a 'young' specialist advisement team on modern technological issues or something. Though the mere suggestion is probably bordering on ageism. I certainly have always felt that someone in tune with the issues at hand should be presiding on them, and in cases such as this that will mean leaning toward the younger generation.
I don't mean to be offending any 60, 70 year old I.T. geniuses reading Slashdot, or anywhere, but you must admit you are in the minority.
This is NOT good news for software innovation in the UK at all.
Anyone claiming that there hasn't been any innovation in software over the last 10 years because of the lack of ability to patent it in the UK is clearly barking mad.
Yes, as someone that has worked on generating IP before I strongly believe that people should be paid for their work if they don't wish to donate it for free, but clearly a lack of patents hasn't prevented this either.
All this will bring eventually is the stifling of the software industry, oh, and more patent trolling, joy.
I thought you'd get modded down - I'm glad it's not so. The overwhelming reaction of the online community over the Warner announcement made me very angry as it was clear it was the phraseology of the news titles, fueling the fanboys, that was causing significantly more damage than the announcement itself.
This alone gave the fanboys more reason to troll 'the war is over' in such force and with such conviction as never before.
Why was this so out of place with fanboys, nearly the ultimate of online extremists? Well, it's flat out counter their interests and even starkly in contrast with the overwhelming opinion of Sony after the rootkit scenario. With still plenty of support behind HD-DVD, the cheaper technology, the more consumer friendly technology (both now and including any fears for the future - got to love a company that wants to stop you lending or selling on your property, right?) and HD-DVD AACS and region encoding being optional, more dedicated players in peoples homes made it the true consumer choice (the PS3 isn't dedicated Blu-Ray - it's a games console, however I view the 360 add on as a dedicated player as it has NO other function and is a full optional purchase, not bundled with the console. Finally a lot of people have bought them as they also work on PCs), by far the most logical choice for the majority of online enthusiasts was HD-DVD. So what if per-layer Blu-Ray held more? Most of us are unlikely to afford a burner in the next 15 years.
The only thing Blu-Ray had going for it was the pushiest marketing scheme ever. I'm disappointed in HD-DVD on that front but never thought it would take in so many online. A carefully orchestrated viral campaign from a Sony backed product would not surprise me in the SLIGHTEST, considering their consistent history of such. The only surprise would be that they pulled it off so subtly compared to their previous attempts. I guess one of the other Blu-Ray backers would have stepped in and overseen its careful deployment, though I'm still surprised at the total lack of tact when someone from the Blu-Ray camp was very publicly quoted as saying "they knew what they were getting into" about early adopters when people started to complain about the redundancy of all the very expensive first (and second?) generation players other than the PS3. I'm also surprised about the small scale of the backlash from that comment alone currently. I mean: what more proof did people need of Blu-Ray's total lack of regard for their customers, even those so loyal they'd spend so much on the earliest systems?
I own neither HD-DVD or Blu-Ray systems, or a 360 - I wouldn't have minded a PS3 IF they'd maintained backward compatibility (I admit I love my mini PS2, ironically rubbish DVD player that it is - GREEN screen if you want RGB out? hah) but I would never have bought one as I couldn't bring myself to support a format that was so likely to attempt to trample over and even strip yet more consumer rights in the future.
"In its place we are putting non-copyrighted text: Links to websites about the church of Scientology, as well as links to how you can contact your congressman about the DMCA. Thanks a lot to Jamie for putting this together."
Sadly this little piece of Slashdot history appears not to be there any more...
Well the DNF team did release a new teaser at Christmas, and had previously stated they wouldn't start releasing media until they were within a year of release...
Who are they, or who is anyone to state that something is 'adding value', that's ENTIRELY subjective with something like this.
There is no need what so ever to clarify 'fair use' any further than it already written in law, especially not when the 'clarification' proposed is clearly only to reduce the rights of the very people they were introduced to protect.
Ok, they may well have produced a mock up, but the one pictured on the website is definitely a photochop (sic) job.
look at the hard 1 pixel, anti-alias free lines, and inconsistent shadowing for an easy start.
I particularly like the way they've photographed an SD card and GIMPed it into their 'product' but not mentioned anything about it being concept art or anything too.
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Some places will always be far behind, but this news means there should be a brighter future, instead of endlessly delving further and further into a barrel of hideous hackery.
Firefox 3 will surely be my browser of choice still, but this is still an epic win for developers, and the progression of the WWW.
huge success!
Welcome to the new age of Streisand.
Recent events are just the beginning.
Seeing as Foxit is a stand alone EXE, how is it crashing firefox? i've been using it for years with FF, after stripping Acrobat Reader from my system, the way PDF's now open instantly just by being the associated program for 'open' for PDF, instead of the Acrobat plugin garbage has been invaluable.
Have you left acrobat plugins in your Firefox's plugin directory or something ?
V for Vendetta, very good movie, even better original graphic novel.
highlight desired URL, hit delete, it's gone, same goes for stored text input box histories.
hold ctrl when you click for new tab, or use middle mouse button, the same as for the bookmark toolbars.
Uninstall notepad++ and reinstall it without the auto-update option, they said something about the function being fixed a while back, but it isn't yet sadly.
Slow copy speeds that are fixed in SP1.
If flawed, predictable PRNG code is so 'irrelevant in the real world' why does even Microsoft seek to improve upon it?
"Strengthens the cryptography platform with a redesigned random number generator, which leverages the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), when present, for entropy and complies with the latest standards. The redesigned RNG uses the AES-based pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) from NIST Special Publication 800-90 by default. The Dual Elliptical Curve (Dual EC) PRNG from SP 800-90 is also available for customers who prefer to use it."
Overview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Though this question obviously will depend on how MS's previous PRNG implementation stacks up against OpenBSD's.
"The Windows Vista SP1 install process clears the user-specific data that is used by Windows to optimize performance, which may make the system feel less responsive immediately after install. As the customer uses their SP1 PC, the system will be retrained over the course of a few hours or days and will return to the previous level of responsiveness." source
Any performance tests that haven't taken that into account somehow can't be taken too seriously sadly, it's a difficult thing to deal with for review, much like a fresh Vista original release, though at least SP1 shouldn't blank out your index system's index, and cause that to re-catalog everything too, that really would cripple immediate post-install tests.
A sort of Feedback escrow would perhaps be a better idea?, both parties can see the feedback proposed, but it's not made public until they're both satisfied, this gives opportunity to contest/fix problems before things are set in stone.
;op
I expect a decent payout if my idea's used
You missed out completely free, highly encrypted, off the record instant messaging.
Acrobat? Foxit PDF Reader FTW!
Indeed! you might as well say the majority of car jackings and highway robberies were facilitated by illegal services like ROADS and PETROL.
I'm afraid the 60% of the movies you have listed that I have seen, I would rate them 'great' at absolute best, 'ok', 'passed the time in an amusing fashion' or similar, not 'amazing' by any stretch of the imagination.
Sadly right now I'm struggling to remember the last western made movie in the last 5 years I genuinely thought was amazing, though I clearly don't have mainstream tastes, most of the films I've been really impressed with recently have all been Asian, and mostly anime. It's been nearly a decade and a half since I last wanted to watch a movie I'd just finished a second time immediately (Akira), though obviously that's partially going to be due to being far more impressionable as a 13 year old.
But having said that,
Though I agree it is unlikely that we will see anything that really impresses the masses in dx10 till a 'dx10 from the ground up' engine is released, from a capable developer, it is my understanding that XNA, and even XNA2 does not have any DX10 capability, as the xbox 360 is not a dx10 capable device.
"As for XNA supporting DirectX 10, I haven't heard any plans of this, and would think it's unlikely since DirectX 10 is not supported on the Xbox 360, and XNA is focused on working on both Windows and Xbox." source (Bill Reiss - XNA MVP, posted 01-26-2008 so I believe it would be correct to assume this comment covers XNA2)
The rest of your post is very interesting however.
If I could I would certainly mod up your post, I don't really see why you'd post that Anonymously though.
Sadly there isn't any real way to compensate for the years of legal knowledge, training, experience required first.
Perhaps there should be some kind of requirement for a 'young' specialist advisement team on modern technological issues or something. Though the mere suggestion is probably bordering on ageism. I certainly have always felt that someone in tune with the issues at hand should be presiding on them, and in cases such as this that will mean leaning toward the younger generation.
I don't mean to be offending any 60, 70 year old I.T. geniuses reading Slashdot, or anywhere, but you must admit you are in the minority.
This is NOT good news for software innovation in the UK at all.
Anyone claiming that there hasn't been any innovation in software over the last 10 years because of the lack of ability to patent it in the UK is clearly barking mad.
Yes, as someone that has worked on generating IP before I strongly believe that people should be paid for their work if they don't wish to donate it for free, but clearly a lack of patents hasn't prevented this either.
All this will bring eventually is the stifling of the software industry, oh, and more patent trolling, joy.
I thought you'd get modded down - I'm glad it's not so. The overwhelming reaction of the online community over the Warner announcement made me very angry as it was clear it was the phraseology of the news titles, fueling the fanboys, that was causing significantly more damage than the announcement itself.
This alone gave the fanboys more reason to troll 'the war is over' in such force and with such conviction as never before.
Why was this so out of place with fanboys, nearly the ultimate of online extremists? Well, it's flat out counter their interests and even starkly in contrast with the overwhelming opinion of Sony after the rootkit scenario. With still plenty of support behind HD-DVD, the cheaper technology, the more consumer friendly technology (both now and including any fears for the future - got to love a company that wants to stop you lending or selling on your property, right?) and HD-DVD AACS and region encoding being optional, more dedicated players in peoples homes made it the true consumer choice (the PS3 isn't dedicated Blu-Ray - it's a games console, however I view the 360 add on as a dedicated player as it has NO other function and is a full optional purchase, not bundled with the console. Finally a lot of people have bought them as they also work on PCs), by far the most logical choice for the majority of online enthusiasts was HD-DVD. So what if per-layer Blu-Ray held more? Most of us are unlikely to afford a burner in the next 15 years.
The only thing Blu-Ray had going for it was the pushiest marketing scheme ever. I'm disappointed in HD-DVD on that front but never thought it would take in so many online. A carefully orchestrated viral campaign from a Sony backed product would not surprise me in the SLIGHTEST, considering their consistent history of such. The only surprise would be that they pulled it off so subtly compared to their previous attempts. I guess one of the other Blu-Ray backers would have stepped in and overseen its careful deployment, though I'm still surprised at the total lack of tact when someone from the Blu-Ray camp was very publicly quoted as saying "they knew what they were getting into" about early adopters when people started to complain about the redundancy of all the very expensive first (and second?) generation players other than the PS3. I'm also surprised about the small scale of the backlash from that comment alone currently. I mean: what more proof did people need of Blu-Ray's total lack of regard for their customers, even those so loyal they'd spend so much on the earliest systems?
I own neither HD-DVD or Blu-Ray systems, or a 360 - I wouldn't have minded a PS3 IF they'd maintained backward compatibility (I admit I love my mini PS2, ironically rubbish DVD player that it is - GREEN screen if you want RGB out? hah) but I would never have bought one as I couldn't bring myself to support a format that was so likely to attempt to trample over and even strip yet more consumer rights in the future.
"In its place we are putting non-copyrighted text: Links to websites about the church of Scientology, as well as links to how you can contact your congressman about the DMCA. Thanks a lot to Jamie for putting this together."
Sadly this little piece of Slashdot history appears not to be there any more...Good, as MS's proposed tag is effectively 'quirks mode v2' NOT standards compliance.
Well the DNF team did release a new teaser at Christmas, and had previously stated they wouldn't start releasing media until they were within a year of release...
Time to check hells thermostat maybe..
Who are they, or who is anyone to state that something is 'adding value', that's ENTIRELY subjective with something like this.
There is no need what so ever to clarify 'fair use' any further than it already written in law, especially not when the 'clarification' proposed is clearly only to reduce the rights of the very people they were introduced to protect.
Ok, they may well have produced a mock up, but the one pictured on the website is definitely a photochop (sic) job. look at the hard 1 pixel, anti-alias free lines, and inconsistent shadowing for an easy start.
I particularly like the way they've photographed an SD card and GIMPed it into their 'product' but not mentioned anything about it being concept art or anything too.