Sounds kinda like Linux Standard Base. Its an interesting project although I haven't found it too useful as just a plain ol' desktop user. My Linux need are all met by Damn Small Linux at the moment. Hopefully no rush to centralize will sweep my favorite little distro away!
The arcade version of Street Fighter IV (and other Taito Type X2 games I would imagine) actually functions this way. The "arcade machine" it runs on is a relatively standard PC. LGA775 cpu, DDR2 RAM, PCI-E x16 for vid card, SATA2 harddrives. And it runs XPe SP2.
I believe when you get the game it comes on a harddrive and includes a USB dongle for security. I also believe other companies have gone other routes. I remember teh newest Tekken being set up at an arcade and the owner having to hook it up to the internet so that it could "activate." Not sure if thats a feature for all versions or if other arcade machines function that way, but I thought it was interesting to see the different DRM approaches exhibited in that sector as well.
This is indeed true. I am in that minority, but there is no point in me describing my issues.
I just hope the people that use it happily and haven't had a problem (yet) that makes it impossible for them to play their game realize that by purchasing over Steam they are putting all their eggs in one big basket over which they have almost no control.
They went with something better than flash. It isn't as widely adopted but things like this will increase the rate it is adopted.
The new code MS developers contributed recently may have been quickly implemented, but it really is ignorant to the work that's been going on to refer to MoonLight as a quickly made port/hack. It's been in development since 2007. It's not for a one time occasion.
The screen is bigger than it looks in those photos. The part where you see the clock and signal strength are actually part of the screen.
If you check this video from the event, he demonstrates a photo app (about 35 seconds in) where the bar with signal, battery and everything slides up and is replaced by a header for the photo app. He also clicks to hide that header so you can see the full size of the screen.
I'd love to see one up close to see how well the screen blends with the surface when its showing the clock and signal.
You mean the DRM that is enforced when you play BluRay DVDs, like what OS X has?
BluRay DVDs AND iTunes DRM V3 video. So if you have OS X and buy video from iTunes, make sure you don't intend to use a display that doesn't have DisplayPort copy protection.
Windows is working with them to develop security software. So, what actually happened is your friend installed a Beta test of an OS, and then installed a technical preview beta of antivirus software and on his hardware something goes wrong.
As long as he reported the issues to MS, then it all seems like standard operating procedure for using test software running on a test OS.
It doesn't guarantee success but relying on a standard like h264 that has to be licensed will mean we're right back where we started. Not every browser will pay to license it, people will quickly realize its easier to just use a plugin, and we're back to flash.
I don't know how many open source options there are. I know Theora isn't the best codec that can be used, but if you are producing a standard, it just seems like a smarter idea to go with something that everyone basically has equal access to.
And considering how theora is the video format of wikipedia, and considering how many things already support it, it does make sense to adopt it and encourage/aide its development to get performance up to snuff.
You use object and embed to embed all of them in the site. They all have to load external plugins because obviously no browser can play them all natively. The same would happen with the video tag, requiring lots of plugins, unless there's a standard.
We already have what you are describing. MOV, AVI, MPG, WMV, they can all be embedded in all the major browsers right now.
One of the reasons flash is so popular amongst the folks embedding video in sites is that its become a platform for video thats extremely common on the web. It has a standard format.
Until the video tag spec has a viable video format to go with it, its meaningless. It just means we would use a video tag instead of embed/object/whatever to add the video to the site.
If FireFox and Opera choose OGG (Vorbis/Theora) and don't use other formats, I believe they'll have made the right choice. Until there is a standard, its just more of the sort of stuff we've been using for years.
The same is also true for Firefox. I've encountered quite a few folks that turn off auto updates on FF because they find the updates annoying. Usually because they have so many extensions that each update warns that it will break compatibility with at least one.
Widespread use of the video tag probably won't become too common until there is a specific codec or group of codecs that are specified to go with it.
The tag spec just says it'll load a video, but doesn't specify what kind of video. Safari does quicktime and installed codecs. Firefox and Opera I believe do OGG Vorbis/Theora. If IE added it I would guess they'd do WMV.
The video tag is not done yet. So its not going to get much use.
There were versions of XP for Itanium. I got to use one in a computer lab but it was original Itanium running 32 bit x86 apps so the experience was not a fun one (and not one the system was even really designed for).
I haven't seen Vista for Itanium, just for 64 bit x86. I'm pretty sure they skipped supporting Itanium in the versions of NT 6 aimed at the workstation and opted just to release it for the server versions.
Not sure if this helps. It's a simple way to block externally loaded JS files in opera. You create a folder to store your UserJS files in, and any.js files you put there get loaded and run when a page loads. The script below blocks external javascript.
It's what I remember, not being near my normal comp right now. The next step I did on my home comp is to show a text link at the bottom of the page for each external script showing the host it comes from and setting it so clicking a link allows that script on that domain, storing the choice as a cookie.
Also, if you notice the @exclude in the top, that tells it to ignore this userjs file on that host. You can put as many as you want and there are other options there too.
// ==UserScript== // @exclude http://*youtube.com/* // ==/UserScript== opera.addEventListener('BeforeExternalScript', function(e){ var topLevelDomainName = function(domain){ if(!domain)return; if(/^(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}$/.test(domain)) return domain; var a = domain.split('.'); var l = a.length; return (l > 1) ? a[l - 2] : domain; }; var a = document.createElement('a'); a.href = e.element.src; if(topLevelDomainName(window.location.hostname) != topLevelDomainName(a.host)) { e.preventDefault(); } }, false);
Per your first question, the best you can do AFAIK is go Tools->Preferences->Content->Manage Site Preferences. That will give you a list of all the sites that you have set preferences for. You can edit, add, or remove sites from the list. So if you enter "google.com" as a new one you can edit all the settings there without visiting the site.
Your second question is an interesting one, but I don't know the answer. I use a userjs file to handle blocking javascripts I don't want it to load. It blocks everything by default and when I tell it to allow something it remembers to allow it in the future. It remembers by setting a cookie though which is a crappy way to do it IMO.
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...and I never will. I can never forgive them...for robbing my 7-11.
Sounds kinda like Linux Standard Base. Its an interesting project although I haven't found it too useful as just a plain ol' desktop user. My Linux need are all met by Damn Small Linux at the moment. Hopefully no rush to centralize will sweep my favorite little distro away!
The arcade version of Street Fighter IV (and other Taito Type X2 games I would imagine) actually functions this way. The "arcade machine" it runs on is a relatively standard PC. LGA775 cpu, DDR2 RAM, PCI-E x16 for vid card, SATA2 harddrives. And it runs XPe SP2.
I believe when you get the game it comes on a harddrive and includes a USB dongle for security. I also believe other companies have gone other routes. I remember teh newest Tekken being set up at an arcade and the owner having to hook it up to the internet so that it could "activate." Not sure if thats a feature for all versions or if other arcade machines function that way, but I thought it was interesting to see the different DRM approaches exhibited in that sector as well.
This is indeed true. I am in that minority, but there is no point in me describing my issues.
I just hope the people that use it happily and haven't had a problem (yet) that makes it impossible for them to play their game realize that by purchasing over Steam they are putting all their eggs in one big basket over which they have almost no control.
But they are charging an arm and a leg for the wifi seeking missiles they are selling to our enemies.
And now you can shoot from the "hip"
They went with something better than flash. It isn't as widely adopted but things like this will increase the rate it is adopted.
The new code MS developers contributed recently may have been quickly implemented, but it really is ignorant to the work that's been going on to refer to MoonLight as a quickly made port/hack. It's been in development since 2007. It's not for a one time occasion.
Could it have been this?
The screen is bigger than it looks in those photos. The part where you see the clock and signal strength are actually part of the screen.
If you check this video from the event, he demonstrates a photo app (about 35 seconds in) where the bar with signal, battery and everything slides up and is replaced by a header for the photo app. He also clicks to hide that header so you can see the full size of the screen.
I'd love to see one up close to see how well the screen blends with the surface when its showing the clock and signal.
BluRay DVDs AND iTunes DRM V3 video. So if you have OS X and buy video from iTunes, make sure you don't intend to use a display that doesn't have DisplayPort copy protection.
Windows is working with them to develop security software. So, what actually happened is your friend installed a Beta test of an OS, and then installed a technical preview beta of antivirus software and on his hardware something goes wrong.
As long as he reported the issues to MS, then it all seems like standard operating procedure for using test software running on a test OS.
It doesn't guarantee success but relying on a standard like h264 that has to be licensed will mean we're right back where we started. Not every browser will pay to license it, people will quickly realize its easier to just use a plugin, and we're back to flash.
I don't know how many open source options there are. I know Theora isn't the best codec that can be used, but if you are producing a standard, it just seems like a smarter idea to go with something that everyone basically has equal access to.
And considering how theora is the video format of wikipedia, and considering how many things already support it, it does make sense to adopt it and encourage/aide its development to get performance up to snuff.
You use object and embed to embed all of them in the site. They all have to load external plugins because obviously no browser can play them all natively. The same would happen with the video tag, requiring lots of plugins, unless there's a standard.
We already have what you are describing. MOV, AVI, MPG, WMV, they can all be embedded in all the major browsers right now.
One of the reasons flash is so popular amongst the folks embedding video in sites is that its become a platform for video thats extremely common on the web. It has a standard format.
Until the video tag spec has a viable video format to go with it, its meaningless. It just means we would use a video tag instead of embed/object/whatever to add the video to the site.
If FireFox and Opera choose OGG (Vorbis/Theora) and don't use other formats, I believe they'll have made the right choice. Until there is a standard, its just more of the sort of stuff we've been using for years.
The same is also true for Firefox. I've encountered quite a few folks that turn off auto updates on FF because they find the updates annoying. Usually because they have so many extensions that each update warns that it will break compatibility with at least one.
Widespread use of the video tag probably won't become too common until there is a specific codec or group of codecs that are specified to go with it.
The tag spec just says it'll load a video, but doesn't specify what kind of video. Safari does quicktime and installed codecs. Firefox and Opera I believe do OGG Vorbis/Theora. If IE added it I would guess they'd do WMV.
The video tag is not done yet. So its not going to get much use.
I'm changing the TOS for my sites to include "You must donaite $5 to view this site." If they don't, BAM, federal crime!
Charge Back.
Airstrike.
Invoie cost of airstrike.
I was saving that money to buy stock :-(
There were versions of XP for Itanium. I got to use one in a computer lab but it was original Itanium running 32 bit x86 apps so the experience was not a fun one (and not one the system was even really designed for).
I haven't seen Vista for Itanium, just for 64 bit x86. I'm pretty sure they skipped supporting Itanium in the versions of NT 6 aimed at the workstation and opted just to release it for the server versions.
Wow. I was just thinking he hadn't divorced his wife like McCain had. But you went and made it about Hitler. Impressive.
At least this election the people went for someone with a more wholesome family background. It might be a step in the right direction.
Not sure if this helps. It's a simple way to block externally loaded JS files in opera. You create a folder to store your UserJS files in, and any .js files you put there get loaded and run when a page loads. The script below blocks external javascript.
It's what I remember, not being near my normal comp right now. The next step I did on my home comp is to show a text link at the bottom of the page for each external script showing the host it comes from and setting it so clicking a link allows that script on that domain, storing the choice as a cookie.
Also, if you notice the @exclude in the top, that tells it to ignore this userjs file on that host. You can put as many as you want and there are other options there too.
// ==UserScript==
// @exclude http://*youtube.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
opera.addEventListener('BeforeExternalScript', function(e){
var topLevelDomainName = function(domain){
if(!domain)return; if(/^(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}$/.test(domain)) return domain;
var a = domain.split('.'); var l = a.length; return (l > 1) ? a[l - 2] : domain;
};
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = e.element.src;
if(topLevelDomainName(window.location.hostname) != topLevelDomainName(a.host)) {
e.preventDefault();
}
}, false);
I didn't cringe when I heard it in Shrek. I cringed when someone referred to it as "a song written for Shrek" when I played it in my car :-(
Per your first question, the best you can do AFAIK is go Tools->Preferences->Content->Manage Site Preferences. That will give you a list of all the sites that you have set preferences for. You can edit, add, or remove sites from the list. So if you enter "google.com" as a new one you can edit all the settings there without visiting the site.
Your second question is an interesting one, but I don't know the answer. I use a userjs file to handle blocking javascripts I don't want it to load. It blocks everything by default and when I tell it to allow something it remembers to allow it in the future. It remembers by setting a cookie though which is a crappy way to do it IMO.