Interesting that a Jim Crow law is still so popular in DC...
That statement is flat out ignorant. The DC handgun ban was passed by the democratically elected government of the city at a time when the population was over 75% black. It was passed as an attempt to keep people from killing each other when DC was still one of the most violent cities in the nation and has nothing to do with Jim Crow.
The only reason I stopped buying from iTunes is the poor audio quality the results from over-compressing the music. I'd pay a little bit more for higher quality, or even better, losses, audio.
In all this time all they ever managed to finish were 10 cars and a few tracks?
Polyphony Digital is notoriously slow when it comes to just about everything. I'd actually have been more surprised if they had actually gotten the game out sometime before holiday 2008. This just confirms what I already suspected; Sony has no faith in Polyphony Digital's ability to get a game finished, and was planning to do a neutered game and then sell more content when it was finally finished, instead they caved in and just made the game free.
If you are a simple automaton in your job, then *perhaps* you might be able to get away with something like modafinil for short periods of time...
There's no shortage of people who fit the bill of automatons at work. By reducing the need for sleep we could dramatically increase the productivity of factory workers, nearly everyone working in restaurants, retail cashiers, and a whole lot of other menial jobs. Keeping them wired to work longer shifts or at multiple jobs would create a much larger labor pool and allow employers to pay less, which could lead to dramatic increases in profitability. These drugs are combined with drugs that focus attention, specialized diets; and structured break times can create an industrial workforce that both obviates the desire to replace them with complex robots and keeps them so busy that the leaders of a technocratic society would no longer need to deal with workers interfering with government.
Of course such a society would have little need for most of the goods it produced, so the whole system would collapse pretty quickly. So maybe it would be better if we all just used the drugs to stay up all night playing WoW...
I want to be snarky and point out that this guy obvious has no idea how these games are designed, but I think he pretty much nails what very MMOG player really wants out of a game. Now, if only it were feasible within the bounds of money, time, and talent.
It seems a little more likely that you're just buying into the excuses cooked up by the marketing departments of the MMORPG industry. Turbine pulled off most of what TFA asks for in the original Asheron's Call and made money hand over fist, and still had a hell of a lot fewer customers than WoW. With all those customers Blizzard could easily cram a lot more content into the game, but that would require Vivendi to be nicer to employees (so they'll stop leaving en masse every time NCSoft starts building a new game) as well as customers. The reason MMORPGs have devolved into 3D Diablo clones is that the publishers treat them as cash cows, and use the massive income generated to make their foundering companies look like they're doing better than they really are.
I've never had a hard disk die on my personal computers (Although I seen dozens of dead SCSI drives in servers) and never needed to replace one. If I start running low on space I just offload to firewire drives, DVDs, etc., but mechanical failure has never been an issue.
I for one welcome Apple's new phone; a white plastic phone with white earbuds will garner enough attention to lower the vocal volume of people who still shout into cellular phones as a pathetic attempt to look important.
I can open up an.swf in notepad and see the source?
No, but that question is irrelevant for the vast majority of end-users. Anything complex enough to be worth rendering in SVG isn't going to be something that there's any reason to look at the source for, aside from satisfying the personal curiosity of people with nothing better to do.
I can inline flash elements in my (x)html page?
No, but again, why does it matter if you can? Again, this might be a cute idea for a hobbyist, but not for someone with something important to do.
I'm allowed to write my own viewer for it?
Sure. But for some odd reason, it seems like all the capable programmers have better things to do.
Konqueror has good support for non-animated/non-scripted SVG already...Opera...
Again, irrelevant. Neither Opera nor Konqueror have a large enough user base to be relevant to people developing animation for the web.
And Firefox isn't too shabby either.
Now you're just spouting nonsense. Firefox's rendering performance regarding SVG is pathetic at best. It might work for a tiny graphic here and there, but anything complex or containing more than a few elements grinds away slowly on the fastest machines.
I doubt SVG is going anywhere, except up. Die flash, die.
Given that Adobe was the only hope SVG ever had of going anywhere, there's nothing to make SVG go anywhere. Flash FTW.
I've seen some theories on the Internet suggest that part of the deal with Adobe was to remove the native SVG support from Firefox effectively reducing the competition for Flash.
There's no need for Adobe to make such a deal. Anyone who has tried using SVG on Firefox knows that the code renders so slowly as to be almost unusable, and lacks support for a tremendous number of SVG features. On top of that Adobe's own staff were always the big force behind SVG, now that Adobe has pulled out of SVG development its safe to say that SVG has no future outside of the tiny community of inkscape users.
The only way I could see them removing SVG support would be if Adobe ever decided to open source the Flash player but even then I could imagine that this would not be a popular move as SVG is an open standard.
Aside from the video codecs--which are no doubt entangled in far too many patent issues for Adobe to publish the standards--Flash is just as open as SVG, and it's a shame that open standards pundits refuse to stop pretending otherwise. It makes them sound just as stupid as the HD-DVD evangelists who pretend that HD-DVD is any less proprietary than Blu-Ray, and its hard to convince people that standards-based web development is important when this kind of garbage keeps getting spewed out.
SVG will eventually get yanked from Firefox not because of sleazy deals between Adobe and the Mozilla foundation, but due to the W3C not being behind SVG, SVG not having enough developers, the majority of SVG content on the web being experimental projects, and lack of software support for animated SVG content.
The world is ready for Linux, Linux just isn't ready for the world. It is absurd to try and dump the tiny market share of desktop Linux on consumers who would be quite happy to jump on a better, less expensive boat if one actually existed. This is why Linux made its way into servers and embedded devices years ago, and is struggling to achieve any meaningful desktop market share-Linux is largely built by and for Linux programmers, and that's never going to bring in the masses.
Thats bullcrap. To say Bush is spineless and just standing by isn't right at all. He's got troops f*cking stuff up everywhere.
I didn't say anything about Bush. He's a part of the problem, but America's tendency to play well with tyrants around the world goes back several presidents, and Congress has a lot to do with it as well.
And Microsoft pulling out of China would be one hell of a slap in the face. Having one of the world's largest corporations say "Sorry, but you guys are so vile that we don't want your money anymore" is a huge slap, and if Microsoft leads the way, it will be easy for other big companies to justify doing the same. It might also scare a lot of other nasty regimes out there who act like China and don't have financial and human capital that China uses to convince people to look the other way.
I would certainly be happy to see this happen. America is lead by sniveling cowards who stand by and watch while the world's most vile regimes crack down harder and harder on dissent, much less freedom, so it would be a boon to people around the world if American business would slap China (and other such regimes) with the sort of sanctions that our spineless leadership does not.
This is what NPR is doing with its money? They couldn't just focus on broadcasting something other than bluegrass when the news isn't on? At least now I have another reason to not feel bad for never calling in during pledge week.
Unless you really like the idea of being the victim of identity theft, or a host in a botnet, then the fact that they are "just" for security reasons should be a great advantage.
The important word in that sentence was "should." But what should be a big advantage of Firefox isn't always easy to transform into market share.
Why can't they support keyboards and mice on consoles?
Some games do. But most don't because most console gamers don't want to play with a keyboard/mouse combo in the first place. Something about trying to use a keyboard/mouse while sitting on the couch twenty feet from the console/TV.
If the creators have the monetary incentive to produce their film, then there's a good chance that they start producing higher quality videos more often.
Not only that, they'll be likely to limit the content to Google, whose massive advertiser base is likely to generate more income than all the YouTube knockoffs that have popped up.
...why didn't youtube think of this in the first place?!
Because YouTube never had any interest in turning a profit, only in being bought out a larger, less agile companies that was not willing to take the risks that YouTube was.
That's the best suggestion for handling tabs I've ever seen, but given the tendency of F/OSS types to avoid anything that uses more than the bare minimum of system resources (Unless it's OpenOffice) it seems unlikely to appear in Firefox without a plugin. Maybe Safari, tho...
What does the Firefox team feel is more important to the future of Firefox: adding features or fixing bugs? I ask because the old memory leaks still aren't gone and the problem with sometimes being unable to enter anything into text boxes, including the URL and search boxes, still has not been fixed. Should we just get used to Firefox becoming more and more buggy over time, until it becomes the new Mozilla and someone else strips out the rendering engine and start over? And as a Firefox evangelist, how am I supposed to convince people that Firefox's regular releases are any better than the few-and-far-between releases of Internet Explorer if many of the updates seem mostly cosmetic or security related?
Shame on the game news outlets like GameSpy, IGN, and GameSpot, among others; outlets with the resources to send a reporter to the conference, but chose not to...
Why would such "gaming media" bother showing up at a political event? None of those web sites or their related magazines have anything to do with legitimate journalism. They're a bunch of hacks who sit around giving absurdly friendly reviews to game companies which return the favor by advertising with them, or in the case of Gamespy, licensing their code. They're a bunch of parasites, not responsible journalists, and they don't go to events that don't involve free stuff and half-naked girls because they don't care about the game industry in the first place. If they lose their jobs they can all just go work in some other BS wing of the American media.
I came pretty close to moving to Canada a few years ago. But I ended up falling in love with a hotshot Washington lawyer who would have a hard time moving and doing the same work in Canada, so I ended up staying here in Washington until 2008, at which point if Americans of both parties haven't made a serious effort to get their heads out of their rectums, we're packing up and shipping off to Europe for while.
I know i'm going to get the 640k quote from this, but who really needs a laptop with more than 3 gigs of memory?
Anyone who wants does video editing work, especially HD or movie footage. There are a lot of TV/Movie professionals who would love to have more RAM to use when working out of the office where they can't take a desktop.
It would also be handy for anyone who does art/design work in multiple programs simultaneously. I often have various combinations of Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash, BBEdit, and AfterEffects running. When I'm working with big files it's not hard to start chewing through every bit of my two gigabytes of memory, meaning that I have to stop running programs like Firefox and iTunes. It's irritating as hell, and another two gigs of RAM would be a huge plus at times.
You could generate new works under creative commons licences or other. I would start with a textbook for every subject and then spend the rest on 1000 new novels from every part of the world.
Why assume that anything produced under such a scheme would be any good? It makes a lot more sense to buy existing works known to be worth the money than it does to spend it commissioning work that may very well not be worth anything to anyone by the time it's finished.
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That statement is flat out ignorant. The DC handgun ban was passed by the democratically elected government of the city at a time when the population was over 75% black. It was passed as an attempt to keep people from killing each other when DC was still one of the most violent cities in the nation and has nothing to do with Jim Crow.
The only reason I stopped buying from iTunes is the poor audio quality the results from over-compressing the music. I'd pay a little bit more for higher quality, or even better, losses, audio.
Polyphony Digital is notoriously slow when it comes to just about everything. I'd actually have been more surprised if they had actually gotten the game out sometime before holiday 2008. This just confirms what I already suspected; Sony has no faith in Polyphony Digital's ability to get a game finished, and was planning to do a neutered game and then sell more content when it was finally finished, instead they caved in and just made the game free.
There's no shortage of people who fit the bill of automatons at work. By reducing the need for sleep we could dramatically increase the productivity of factory workers, nearly everyone working in restaurants, retail cashiers, and a whole lot of other menial jobs. Keeping them wired to work longer shifts or at multiple jobs would create a much larger labor pool and allow employers to pay less, which could lead to dramatic increases in profitability. These drugs are combined with drugs that focus attention, specialized diets; and structured break times can create an industrial workforce that both obviates the desire to replace them with complex robots and keeps them so busy that the leaders of a technocratic society would no longer need to deal with workers interfering with government.
Of course such a society would have little need for most of the goods it produced, so the whole system would collapse pretty quickly. So maybe it would be better if we all just used the drugs to stay up all night playing WoW...
I want to be snarky and point out that this guy obvious has no idea how these games are designed, but I think he pretty much nails what very MMOG player really wants out of a game. Now, if only it were feasible within the bounds of money, time, and talent.
It seems a little more likely that you're just buying into the excuses cooked up by the marketing departments of the MMORPG industry. Turbine pulled off most of what TFA asks for in the original Asheron's Call and made money hand over fist, and still had a hell of a lot fewer customers than WoW. With all those customers Blizzard could easily cram a lot more content into the game, but that would require Vivendi to be nicer to employees (so they'll stop leaving en masse every time NCSoft starts building a new game) as well as customers. The reason MMORPGs have devolved into 3D Diablo clones is that the publishers treat them as cash cows, and use the massive income generated to make their foundering companies look like they're doing better than they really are.
I think it's a safe bet that consumers with no internet connection don't matter to Sony; at least not when it comes to the PS3.
I've never had a hard disk die on my personal computers (Although I seen dozens of dead SCSI drives in servers) and never needed to replace one. If I start running low on space I just offload to firewire drives, DVDs, etc., but mechanical failure has never been an issue.
I for one welcome Apple's new phone; a white plastic phone with white earbuds will garner enough attention to lower the vocal volume of people who still shout into cellular phones as a pathetic attempt to look important.
No, but that question is irrelevant for the vast majority of end-users. Anything complex enough to be worth rendering in SVG isn't going to be something that there's any reason to look at the source for, aside from satisfying the personal curiosity of people with nothing better to do.
No, but again, why does it matter if you can? Again, this might be a cute idea for a hobbyist, but not for someone with something important to do.
Sure. But for some odd reason, it seems like all the capable programmers have better things to do.
Again, irrelevant. Neither Opera nor Konqueror have a large enough user base to be relevant to people developing animation for the web.
Now you're just spouting nonsense. Firefox's rendering performance regarding SVG is pathetic at best. It might work for a tiny graphic here and there, but anything complex or containing more than a few elements grinds away slowly on the fastest machines.
Given that Adobe was the only hope SVG ever had of going anywhere, there's nothing to make SVG go anywhere. Flash FTW.
There's no need for Adobe to make such a deal. Anyone who has tried using SVG on Firefox knows that the code renders so slowly as to be almost unusable, and lacks support for a tremendous number of SVG features. On top of that Adobe's own staff were always the big force behind SVG, now that Adobe has pulled out of SVG development its safe to say that SVG has no future outside of the tiny community of inkscape users.
Aside from the video codecs--which are no doubt entangled in far too many patent issues for Adobe to publish the standards--Flash is just as open as SVG, and it's a shame that open standards pundits refuse to stop pretending otherwise. It makes them sound just as stupid as the HD-DVD evangelists who pretend that HD-DVD is any less proprietary than Blu-Ray, and its hard to convince people that standards-based web development is important when this kind of garbage keeps getting spewed out.
SVG will eventually get yanked from Firefox not because of sleazy deals between Adobe and the Mozilla foundation, but due to the W3C not being behind SVG, SVG not having enough developers, the majority of SVG content on the web being experimental projects, and lack of software support for animated SVG content.
The world is ready for Linux, Linux just isn't ready for the world. It is absurd to try and dump the tiny market share of desktop Linux on consumers who would be quite happy to jump on a better, less expensive boat if one actually existed. This is why Linux made its way into servers and embedded devices years ago, and is struggling to achieve any meaningful desktop market share-Linux is largely built by and for Linux programmers, and that's never going to bring in the masses.
I didn't say anything about Bush. He's a part of the problem, but America's tendency to play well with tyrants around the world goes back several presidents, and Congress has a lot to do with it as well.
And Microsoft pulling out of China would be one hell of a slap in the face. Having one of the world's largest corporations say "Sorry, but you guys are so vile that we don't want your money anymore" is a huge slap, and if Microsoft leads the way, it will be easy for other big companies to justify doing the same. It might also scare a lot of other nasty regimes out there who act like China and don't have financial and human capital that China uses to convince people to look the other way.
I would certainly be happy to see this happen. America is lead by sniveling cowards who stand by and watch while the world's most vile regimes crack down harder and harder on dissent, much less freedom, so it would be a boon to people around the world if American business would slap China (and other such regimes) with the sort of sanctions that our spineless leadership does not.
This is what NPR is doing with its money? They couldn't just focus on broadcasting something other than bluegrass when the news isn't on? At least now I have another reason to not feel bad for never calling in during pledge week.
IANAL, but I still think that I'm qualified to point out that filing a lawsuit based on an essay posted to Slashdot is a really stupid thing to do.
The important word in that sentence was "should." But what should be a big advantage of Firefox isn't always easy to transform into market share.
Not only that, they'll be likely to limit the content to Google, whose massive advertiser base is likely to generate more income than all the YouTube knockoffs that have popped up.
That's the best suggestion for handling tabs I've ever seen, but given the tendency of F/OSS types to avoid anything that uses more than the bare minimum of system resources (Unless it's OpenOffice) it seems unlikely to appear in Firefox without a plugin. Maybe Safari, tho...
What does the Firefox team feel is more important to the future of Firefox: adding features or fixing bugs? I ask because the old memory leaks still aren't gone and the problem with sometimes being unable to enter anything into text boxes, including the URL and search boxes, still has not been fixed. Should we just get used to Firefox becoming more and more buggy over time, until it becomes the new Mozilla and someone else strips out the rendering engine and start over? And as a Firefox evangelist, how am I supposed to convince people that Firefox's regular releases are any better than the few-and-far-between releases of Internet Explorer if many of the updates seem mostly cosmetic or security related?
"Everyone who opens enough tabs to trip it hates the scrolling..."
Personally, I like the scrolling, and you aren't positing any better suggestions.
Why would such "gaming media" bother showing up at a political event? None of those web sites or their related magazines have anything to do with legitimate journalism. They're a bunch of hacks who sit around giving absurdly friendly reviews to game companies which return the favor by advertising with them, or in the case of Gamespy, licensing their code. They're a bunch of parasites, not responsible journalists, and they don't go to events that don't involve free stuff and half-naked girls because they don't care about the game industry in the first place. If they lose their jobs they can all just go work in some other BS wing of the American media.
I came pretty close to moving to Canada a few years ago. But I ended up falling in love with a hotshot Washington lawyer who would have a hard time moving and doing the same work in Canada, so I ended up staying here in Washington until 2008, at which point if Americans of both parties haven't made a serious effort to get their heads out of their rectums, we're packing up and shipping off to Europe for while.
Anyone who wants does video editing work, especially HD or movie footage. There are a lot of TV/Movie professionals who would love to have more RAM to use when working out of the office where they can't take a desktop.
It would also be handy for anyone who does art/design work in multiple programs simultaneously. I often have various combinations of Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash, BBEdit, and AfterEffects running. When I'm working with big files it's not hard to start chewing through every bit of my two gigabytes of memory, meaning that I have to stop running programs like Firefox and iTunes. It's irritating as hell, and another two gigs of RAM would be a huge plus at times.
Why assume that anything produced under such a scheme would be any good? It makes a lot more sense to buy existing works known to be worth the money than it does to spend it commissioning work that may very well not be worth anything to anyone by the time it's finished.