Don't whine that it's slow - Chrome, Opera, Safari and Recently firefox now have very fast javascript engines. Don't whine its not powerful enough - ActionScript (Flash Scripting) is Javascript. And Flash isn't very quick at interpreting it either...
My Earliest 'Internet' experiance was Netscape 3/IE 3 (Dialup was expensive in Australia before the advent of iPrimus' $29.95 'All-You-Can-Eat' Plan (Unlimited Hours AND Downloads! - Actaully - Who remembers the concept of Internet usage in Hours rather than data...)
I Remember IE4 for Win 3.11 - and the Flashy DHTML tricks it could do; Took awhile to upgrade to '95 in my house...
School was mostly an Internet Void until 1998/9 - and then it was Netscape - Actually I can't remember which version; High School was Communicator 4.77 until 2004... Which was then changed to IE6 - when IE6 was a Godsend..
Strike that down to just Windows please. Flash performance on OSX is still Abysmal;
Flash 10 Improved performance slightly - but only from being unable to use Youtube - to Youtube using 75% of 1 Core on a 2ghz Core2Duo... iView (a Flash Based monster of a site - akin to BBC's iPlayer) just barely runs (90% 1 Core in Menu 70-85% during video playback) with Flash 10.1 on Snow Kitty 10.6.2
I Resent that, my onboard Geforce 9400M runs many things quite well; Case in point - I can (and do) play Team Fortress 2 at 1920x1200 on medium settings with an almost contant 60fps...
Both Boxee and XBMC use mplayer or ffmpeg for playback - which both in turn use libavcodec - and that supports pretty much anything a 'regular' home user is going to encounter. (also most nerds...)
Actually - The current 'modchip' precendent in australia is its legal to do so; as long as the 'primary' purpose of the modchip is not piracy.
(ie. therefore modding your 360 would be illegal - but modding your first gen xbox for XBMC would be perfectly legal)
and Believe me they took spam seriosuly... not just for reasons of stopping spam, and credibility, but for profit..
See, we'd give them 2 chances - they got reported for spamming we'd give them a call and tell them what going on and ask them nicely to please fix it. if its a suspected botnet, get a pc tech - if its spammer (its happened) then stop your freakin' spam.
if they got reported again, accounts get suspended. give them another call explain the situation again, and advise them that they need to cease their spam immediately (for deliberate spamming) or get their PC checked by a PC Tech (BotNet style), the Account would NOT be unsuspended until they could garuntee us they they had remedied the situation, at this point we'd advise them that if we get another spam report they would be charged $5 PER EMAIL for spam sent.
If spam happens again, account is suspended again, an invoice generated and sent to the customer for the spam, and this - we'd wait for their call.
The Law should be yes, but Sony isn't going to listen to the law...
What Sony will listen to - is if Walmart, etc Say: Remove to Copy Protection that causing us to lose sales - Or we'll stop selling your DVDs. This is the point that is being made - Big Business is about Money - and lots of it. Not the Consumer; Big Business could care less about the consumer.
Only Small Business cares for the consumer, sometimes because they like to, sometimes because they have to they garner sales. When small business' gets Bigger, its starts to lose consumer focus - and starts focusing on money, and then once a company is public - they don't care about money so much either - they care about shareholders - because shareholders care about money, and they vote weather Mr. CEO and Board Members get to keep their (Very Highly Paid..) jobs or not.
The ISP i'm currently with is doing a HD video service - but it doesn't "choke the internet" as such
It actually uses a seperate PVC on an ADSL2 Service so the only strain on bandwidth is from the CO back to the main DC.
Slashdot Mirror
Explains it perfectly - Staying up late to Man the Internet
Javascript.
Don't whine that it's slow - Chrome, Opera, Safari and Recently firefox now have very fast javascript engines.
Don't whine its not powerful enough - ActionScript (Flash Scripting) is Javascript. And Flash isn't very quick at interpreting it either...
Indeed,
My Earliest 'Internet' experiance was Netscape 3/IE 3 (Dialup was expensive in Australia before the advent of iPrimus' $29.95 'All-You-Can-Eat' Plan (Unlimited Hours AND Downloads! - Actaully - Who remembers the concept of Internet usage in Hours rather than data...)
I Remember IE4 for Win 3.11 - and the Flashy DHTML tricks it could do; Took awhile to upgrade to '95 in my house...
School was mostly an Internet Void until 1998/9 - and then it was Netscape - Actually I can't remember which version; High School was Communicator 4.77 until 2004... Which was then changed to IE6 - when IE6 was a Godsend..
I'm in my Early 20's
I didn't 'grow up' with Firefox.
Google Toolbar is distributed *with* Firefox? Since When?
Certainly not last week when I reinstalled Firefox on a windows machine, Not on my Macbook either...
Strike that down to just Windows please. Flash performance on OSX is still Abysmal;
Flash 10 Improved performance slightly - but only from being unable to use Youtube - to Youtube using 75% of 1 Core on a 2ghz Core2Duo...
iView (a Flash Based monster of a site - akin to BBC's iPlayer) just barely runs (90% 1 Core in Menu 70-85% during video playback) with Flash 10.1 on Snow Kitty 10.6.2
I Resent that, my onboard Geforce 9400M runs many things quite well; Case in point - I can (and do) play Team Fortress 2 at 1920x1200 on medium settings with an almost contant 60fps...
Both Boxee and XBMC use mplayer or ffmpeg for playback - which both in turn use libavcodec - and that supports pretty much anything a 'regular' home user is going to encounter. (also most nerds...)
FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec#Implemented_video_codecs
The X64 Drivers work nicely too, and whilst it takes an extra step on some machines - you CAN install x64 Windows onto any Intel Mac with 64bit EFI :)
You really did ENGAGE! me there.
What state are you in? - I've never seen a self-service checkout here in SA..
Actually - The current 'modchip' precendent in australia is its legal to do so; as long as the 'primary' purpose of the modchip is not piracy. (ie. therefore modding your 360 would be illegal - but modding your first gen xbox for XBMC would be perfectly legal)
I used to work for an Australian ISP,
and Believe me they took spam seriosuly...
not just for reasons of stopping spam, and credibility, but for profit..
See, we'd give them 2 chances - they got reported for spamming we'd give them a call and tell them
what going on and ask them nicely to please fix it. if its a suspected botnet, get a pc tech - if its spammer (its happened)
then stop your freakin' spam.
if they got reported again, accounts get suspended. give them another call explain the situation again, and advise them that they need to
cease their spam immediately (for deliberate spamming) or get their PC checked by a PC Tech (BotNet style), the Account would NOT be unsuspended until they
could garuntee us they they had remedied the situation, at this point we'd advise them that if we get another spam report they would be charged $5 PER EMAIL
for spam sent.
If spam happens again, account is suspended again, an invoice generated and sent to the customer for the spam, and this - we'd wait for their call.
The Law should be yes, but Sony isn't going to listen to the law...
What Sony will listen to - is if Walmart, etc Say: Remove to Copy Protection that causing us to lose sales - Or we'll stop selling your DVDs.
This is the point that is being made - Big Business is about Money - and lots of it. Not the Consumer; Big Business could care less about the consumer.
Only Small Business cares for the consumer, sometimes because they like to, sometimes because they have to they garner sales.
When small business' gets Bigger, its starts to lose consumer focus - and starts focusing on money, and then once a company is public - they don't care about money so much either - they care about shareholders - because shareholders care about money, and they vote weather Mr. CEO and Board Members get to keep their (Very Highly Paid..) jobs or not.
The ISP i'm currently with is doing a HD video service - but it doesn't "choke the internet" as such It actually uses a seperate PVC on an ADSL2 Service so the only strain on bandwidth is from the CO back to the main DC.
"I barely knew you, and now your gone - your wise flow of bits has all but dried - and only your IRC remains, Rest in peace our Friend"
maybe you should have a watch of this Anime series -all to do with the lives of "Debree Collectors" quite relevant to this story indeed
I hope my ISP and AppleTalk.au don't mind - But here is Quick mirror to take the load off AppleTalk
http://users.on.net/~matrox/appletalk.htm