the problem with linux, is that to many people want it to be to many things. there is no centralised effort to get it to do one thing.
there are several GUI solutions, rather than a centralised effort, there are several browsers gunning to be the main browser, there are several sound sub-systems/servers... why cant these people learn to play together, and come up with something that fits everybody.
i know i will get comments about "choice" its all about "choice", but its not, its not at all about choice to the common user... the common user want to switch the computer on, check their hotmail account, check facebook, and then talk to their friends on live messenger... THATS IT.... thats what the common computer user does now... they dont care how their computer does it, they dont care about the morality behind it, they dont care if the guy who made their file system killed his wife or not.. they dont even know what a file system is.
its only the very advanced users who care about these things, and im afraid to say, that these users dont even account for 1% of all computer users.
if linux based operating systems are to become as big as they want to be, they need to stop fighting among themselves and centralised their efforts. otherwise, we will be having this same story in another 17 years
i am currently in a quite decent job, as a web developer, i have no degree at all. i found it difficult at first to get a job without experiance, but even with a degree, that would have been the same, as everyone was looking for commercial experiance. once i got a years commercial experiance, i found it so simple to get a better job, and then into the job i am in now it was unreal.
all you need is commercial experiance, or to say you have. and your goood.
this is yet another miss quoted summery from someone who is just trying to slam microsoft... what it actually says in TFA is that DX10 in windows 7 CAN run on the gpu OR the cpu alone, but, in most instances, will use both together to get the maximum effect required.
could something not be written customised to the data being held there? that way it could be alot easier to make things move and flash, and change colours. (my boss is the same, if it doesnt flash, move and change colours, it doesnt work)
shouldnt they be suing google since they have been doing this as long as i have been using the web on my phone. search anything on google via your phone, and it will pass the site through its own parser giving a mangled xml version of the site, and they even split large pages into multiple pages.
the vast majority of the planet do have a live id, as they use hotmail as their email service, or they use messenger, or some other microsoft service such as xbox live. microsoft HAVE provided a considerable weight to the openid movement in that, the single account the vast majority now have, can be used to log into anything accepting open id (of which, there are only a few i can think of, and the only two large places i can remember accepting it are sourceforge and yahoo)
i have always disliked Stallman, and the GNU in general. but that is my personal opinion... this time though, he has litterally just allowed himself to take a shit out of his mouth.
the problem is that dvd players are £20, and blu-ray players are £200. nobody is going to spend 10x as much on a player, then spend nearly 3x as much on the disks to play in that player when you cant play them on a non-hd tv, and if you spend £40 on a new upscalling hdmi dvd player, you generally cant tell the difference between the £6 dvd and the £22 blu-ray disk.
apple are gonna blame vista, but im using itunes 8, i have my ipod plugged in (im actually listening to music from my ipod, via itunes+pc speakers as i type this) and i didnt see anything that remotly looked like a bsod... so i dont know how it can be vista if some people get it, and some dont.
can people just get over themselfs... microsoft has had its document format made a standard, and the apeal made by people who have no lives has been rejected on the grounds that its meritless. deal with it, it isnt the end of the world.
Firefox has a security framework in place which is designed to prevent web pages from being able to manipulate the browser chrome (aka javascript code, UI, etc). So on the firefox level, pages can't access any add-on code to begin with. Up until recently pages could reference scripts or other chrome documents as urls but I believe this has been fixed in Firefox 3. The only possible exploits now would be if ubiquity explicitly registered javascript commands for any web pages to use to interact with ubiquity, and I don't believe there are any (actually ubiquity works exactly the opposite way, the user calls up ubiquity to interact with web page contents, not the other way around).
My understanding of the behind the scenes stuff in Firefox is rudimentary at best, so don't take my word for it. Mozilla has tons of documentation on their site.
CANT access? CANT? i think what you mean is "should not be able to access", as you should know with software, there is always a way around ssomething.
also, with the amount of data this is collecting when doing these tasks, whats to stop mozilla from lining its pockets with some nice targeted advertising?
how? if you bothered to enable that tiny piece of gray material situated between your ears, you would see that this is about chineese athletes, not the british...
this looks pretty nice, and its cool that nvidia are working on getting ray tracing methods down to an acceptable level of processing... but the problem i can see with this.... everything within all those images looks like its made from the same plastic that samsung tvs are made out of... everything is... TOO reflective.
this guy is making as close to 1:1 backups of these things as is possible since the music that is on them is no longer available else where on other formats. hell, if he found it on CD now, he would have a hard time finding something that would play it... jk. really though, this guy is doing something, by himself, with his own money, that the record companies should have done (and could have made money from, shocked they didnt pick up on that) a while a go now.
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the problem with linux, is that to many people want it to be to many things. there is no centralised effort to get it to do one thing.
there are several GUI solutions, rather than a centralised effort, there are several browsers gunning to be the main browser, there are several sound sub-systems/servers... why cant these people learn to play together, and come up with something that fits everybody.
i know i will get comments about "choice" its all about "choice", but its not, its not at all about choice to the common user... the common user want to switch the computer on, check their hotmail account, check facebook, and then talk to their friends on live messenger... THATS IT.... thats what the common computer user does now... they dont care how their computer does it, they dont care about the morality behind it, they dont care if the guy who made their file system killed his wife or not.. they dont even know what a file system is.
its only the very advanced users who care about these things, and im afraid to say, that these users dont even account for 1% of all computer users.
if linux based operating systems are to become as big as they want to be, they need to stop fighting among themselves and centralised their efforts. otherwise, we will be having this same story in another 17 years
i am currently in a quite decent job, as a web developer, i have no degree at all. i found it difficult at first to get a job without experiance, but even with a degree, that would have been the same, as everyone was looking for commercial experiance.
once i got a years commercial experiance, i found it so simple to get a better job, and then into the job i am in now it was unreal.
all you need is commercial experiance, or to say you have. and your goood.
this is yet another miss quoted summery from someone who is just trying to slam microsoft... what it actually says in TFA is that DX10 in windows 7 CAN run on the gpu OR the cpu alone, but, in most instances, will use both together to get the maximum effect required.
could something not be written customised to the data being held there? that way it could be alot easier to make things move and flash, and change colours. (my boss is the same, if it doesnt flash, move and change colours, it doesnt work)
shouldnt they be suing google since they have been doing this as long as i have been using the web on my phone.
search anything on google via your phone, and it will pass the site through its own parser giving a mangled xml version of the site, and they even split large pages into multiple pages.
if this is possible on mars, what different properties does earth have to stop our atmosphear from one day just disapearing?
i read this story on the bbc a few days ago, and again here today. but one thing i still dont get, what is a nuclear family?
its one of two things,
1. they dont like gimpy looking, spotty nerds letching over them in the class, or
2. they are at home, making the dinner
i assume 1.21 jiggawatts
why does trackback make firefox non-free? by the logic stallman uses, cedega running on any linux based os makes linux non-free
the vast majority of the planet do have a live id, as they use hotmail as their email service, or they use messenger, or some other microsoft service such as xbox live. microsoft HAVE provided a considerable weight to the openid movement in that, the single account the vast majority now have, can be used to log into anything accepting open id (of which, there are only a few i can think of, and the only two large places i can remember accepting it are sourceforge and yahoo)
not to be too harsh, but this is your work place, you are getting paid to do as you are asked. get off your high horse and just do it.
all i did was point a hidden camera at the keyboard.
just because a product is only available on windows, doesnt make it open source?
i have always disliked Stallman, and the GNU in general. but that is my personal opinion... this time though, he has litterally just allowed himself to take a shit out of his mouth.
the problem is that dvd players are £20, and blu-ray players are £200. nobody is going to spend 10x as much on a player, then spend nearly 3x as much on the disks to play in that player when you cant play them on a non-hd tv, and if you spend £40 on a new upscalling hdmi dvd player, you generally cant tell the difference between the £6 dvd and the £22 blu-ray disk.
all that effort put into getting a story onto slashdot, and it doesnt even tell you what it actually does.
logical first step... dont allow any of this to be accessed via the internet...
apple are gonna blame vista, but im using itunes 8, i have my ipod plugged in (im actually listening to music from my ipod, via itunes+pc speakers as i type this) and i didnt see anything that remotly looked like a bsod... so i dont know how it can be vista if some people get it, and some dont.
can people just get over themselfs... microsoft has had its document format made a standard, and the apeal made by people who have no lives has been rejected on the grounds that its meritless. deal with it, it isnt the end of the world.
i always thought i was in the minority when i did this, turns out pretty much everyone does it.
Firefox has a security framework in place which is designed to prevent web pages from being able to manipulate the browser chrome (aka javascript code, UI, etc). So on the firefox level, pages can't access any add-on code to begin with. Up until recently pages could reference scripts or other chrome documents as urls but I believe this has been fixed in Firefox 3. The only possible exploits now would be if ubiquity explicitly registered javascript commands for any web pages to use to interact with ubiquity, and I don't believe there are any (actually ubiquity works exactly the opposite way, the user calls up ubiquity to interact with web page contents, not the other way around).
My understanding of the behind the scenes stuff in Firefox is rudimentary at best, so don't take my word for it. Mozilla has tons of documentation on their site.
CANT access? CANT? i think what you mean is "should not be able to access", as you should know with software, there is always a way around ssomething.
also, with the amount of data this is collecting when doing these tasks, whats to stop mozilla from lining its pockets with some nice targeted advertising?
how? if you bothered to enable that tiny piece of gray material situated between your ears, you would see that this is about chineese athletes, not the british...
this looks pretty nice, and its cool that nvidia are working on getting ray tracing methods down to an acceptable level of processing... but the problem i can see with this.... everything within all those images looks like its made from the same plastic that samsung tvs are made out of... everything is... TOO reflective.
this guy is making as close to 1:1 backups of these things as is possible since the music that is on them is no longer available else where on other formats. hell, if he found it on CD now, he would have a hard time finding something that would play it... jk.
really though, this guy is doing something, by himself, with his own money, that the record companies should have done (and could have made money from, shocked they didnt pick up on that) a while a go now.