Adding support for H.264 is actually useful, unlike Theora support. Also, it's largely a game of upsmanship, basically saying, "here Google, we fixed your browser for you".
Someone at Microsoft has probably been waiting for an opportunity to do something like this ever since Google Chrome Frame came out.
That "detailed analysis" of the Gawker breach needs to be stricken from the web. The passwords that were decrypted were the easiest passwords in the set for the most part. That's why they were able to decrypt them. They were in dictionaries or their hashes were already on lookup tables. Then some joker takes those decrypted passwords and acts as if they are in any way representative of the rest of the passwords that could not be decrypted.
Perhaps it's just that I am used to Blackberry track balls and touch pads, but the motion you describe seems incredibly easy to do. It seems like a natural progression of what people often already do on their cell phones and not something that will actually be a challenge unless you have a phone that is really big compared to your hand or perhaps a medical condition with your hand.
The same thing happened to me as I use UserJS to block external scripts and have plugins set to on-demand. In this case, the issue is that Opera needs to present these features to users in a more accessible way.
I have a feeling the first round of extensions for Opera will be simple front ends for settings that have been available in the browser for years, but not explained well to users.
TFA makes it sound shocking that something like video loaded through Flash would be slow on a processor with as much horsepower as the NexusOne's 1GHz Snapdragon.
I would have assumed something like a 1GHz, low voltage, cell phone CPU would have trouble with video in flash, especially since I routinely see 1.6GHz ATOM processors struggle with it. Even my old Athlon 64 3200+ struggled loading ABC's online video section and that was a 2GHz desktop CPU with 1GB of RAM that drew, what, like 135 watts TDP? And this cellphone CPU should have "plenty of horsepower" for it?
Taking this article at face value, frankly, it sounds like Flash on Android is working surprisingly well actually. Especially considering you can set the plugin to on-demand on the NexusOne and only click to load the flash content you actually want to see. With that sort of implementation, it seems like this fits the bill pretty well right now. Obviously, future enhancements could make it a lot more useful, but I think given the overall performance we have all come to expect from Flash, this is not any kind of shocker.
Most certainly, the Republic has access to government institutions, i.e., National Center for Mental Health, which has qualified psychiatric experts whose opinion it could have sought to evaluate [the woman] and her spouse
That quote seems to sum it up pretty nicely. They could have done it right, but they didn't. Wikipedia just happened to be the tool they used after making the wrong decision (the decision to NOT seek out actual expert advice).
It doesn't seem like a "merits of Wikipedia" issue at all since I believe the court would have had the same objection if they had cited a print encyclopedia or even the DSM-IV directly for the exact reasons you specified.
But gets a front page story on Slashdot and Ars Technica. Not sure what the advertising value is of that but I have to believe it's pretty substantial. Hopefully it puts a dent in however many actual lost sales that 90% piracy rate translates to.
This sounds like a great basis for an MMO! Addiction Camp Online or maybe World of Addiction Camp. It'll have a lot of grinding. You'll have to put some serious hours into it. But it'll all pay off when your character breaks free of his/her internet addiction and starts living a social, outdoorsy life. And you can do it all from the comfort of your bedroom!
...they managed to find someone that actually knows what he is talking about. I mean, if you want a spam expert, how can you beat a successful spammer?
Optimize makes it sound as if the whole process was moving it in a positive direction. But natural evolution is not always a positive process. I think the best word is simply evolved. The human brain has evolved and has not yet brought about its own extinction.
I believe that's still around. Its a little different than the joystick since that was based on speed, not based on how much the wheel is turned, but its something I totally forgot about until you mentioned in. I believe they had it be more responsive when the wheels are closer to straight ahead and then less responsive as you turn the wheel more.
Variable steering assist only changes how much the power steering system assists in the turning of the wheels.
When I said influence I meant at high speed the ratio of angle of joystick to angle of wheels might be 1:1. And then at low speed the ratio is 1:3. In their system tilting the joystick 5 degrees would result in the wheels turning differing amounts at different speeds. That's the recipe for disaster.
The NeGcon is definitely a fun controller. I still have mine, however I've never found a way to hold it like a normal gamepad. I hold it vertically and twist the top like a dial. Holding it like a normal gamepad drastically reduces the range of rotation I can comfortably achieve with it.
I remember this as well. I believe the joystick would turn the wheels less at high speed than at low speed because the joystick had such a reduced range of motion compared to a steering wheel.
The problems they encountered don't seem like ones there will likely be a solution to without taking a completely different approach. The steering mechanism having different levels of influence over the wheels depending on speed just seems like a recipe for disaster.
I can understand why they would try though. I believe back when Saab tried it, the logic behind the test was to eliminate the steering wheel because its the most dangerous thing to a driver in a collision. So it was less about finding a better way to steer and more about building a less dangerous cockpit to steer in. It almost sounds like Toyota is looking at it from a "how do we make the car even smaller" perspective.
But he never said "Firefox is unstable." Unstable would imply things that he never implied. He said "Make it not crash, and I don't care what it looks like." And that comment could be made in any web browser UI overhaul discussion on the web and still be something important to keep in mind.
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Adding support for H.264 is actually useful, unlike Theora support. Also, it's largely a game of upsmanship, basically saying, "here Google, we fixed your browser for you".
Someone at Microsoft has probably been waiting for an opportunity to do something like this ever since Google Chrome Frame came out.
That "detailed analysis" of the Gawker breach needs to be stricken from the web. The passwords that were decrypted were the easiest passwords in the set for the most part. That's why they were able to decrypt them. They were in dictionaries or their hashes were already on lookup tables. Then some joker takes those decrypted passwords and acts as if they are in any way representative of the rest of the passwords that could not be decrypted.
Idiotic.
Distributed Denial of Fax.
I went there looking for a horrible car analogy and they delivered.
The government believes differently. The supreme court can nullify laws as a way to balance the legislative branch. Check out Marbury v. Madison.
Perhaps it's just that I am used to Blackberry track balls and touch pads, but the motion you describe seems incredibly easy to do. It seems like a natural progression of what people often already do on their cell phones and not something that will actually be a challenge unless you have a phone that is really big compared to your hand or perhaps a medical condition with your hand.
That the number of "Desktop Linux is Dead" stories is inversely proportional to the number of "PC Gaming is Dead" stories.
The same thing happened to me as I use UserJS to block external scripts and have plugins set to on-demand. In this case, the issue is that Opera needs to present these features to users in a more accessible way.
I have a feeling the first round of extensions for Opera will be simple front ends for settings that have been available in the browser for years, but not explained well to users.
TFA makes it sound shocking that something like video loaded through Flash would be slow on a processor with as much horsepower as the NexusOne's 1GHz Snapdragon.
I would have assumed something like a 1GHz, low voltage, cell phone CPU would have trouble with video in flash, especially since I routinely see 1.6GHz ATOM processors struggle with it. Even my old Athlon 64 3200+ struggled loading ABC's online video section and that was a 2GHz desktop CPU with 1GB of RAM that drew, what, like 135 watts TDP? And this cellphone CPU should have "plenty of horsepower" for it?
Taking this article at face value, frankly, it sounds like Flash on Android is working surprisingly well actually. Especially considering you can set the plugin to on-demand on the NexusOne and only click to load the flash content you actually want to see. With that sort of implementation, it seems like this fits the bill pretty well right now. Obviously, future enhancements could make it a lot more useful, but I think given the overall performance we have all come to expect from Flash, this is not any kind of shocker.
But I could just be crazy.
That quote seems to sum it up pretty nicely. They could have done it right, but they didn't. Wikipedia just happened to be the tool they used after making the wrong decision (the decision to NOT seek out actual expert advice).
It doesn't seem like a "merits of Wikipedia" issue at all since I believe the court would have had the same objection if they had cited a print encyclopedia or even the DSM-IV directly for the exact reasons you specified.
But gets a front page story on Slashdot and Ars Technica. Not sure what the advertising value is of that but I have to believe it's pretty substantial. Hopefully it puts a dent in however many actual lost sales that 90% piracy rate translates to.
This sounds like a great basis for an MMO! Addiction Camp Online or maybe World of Addiction Camp. It'll have a lot of grinding. You'll have to put some serious hours into it. But it'll all pay off when your character breaks free of his/her internet addiction and starts living a social, outdoorsy life. And you can do it all from the comfort of your bedroom!
We're whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon. But there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tune.
I think CasablancaPA only had like 50 followers this morning. Its at 600 now. This could be the greatest thing that has ever happened to their cause.
You can substitute mother-in-law if you don't have a staffer handy.
...they managed to find someone that actually knows what he is talking about. I mean, if you want a spam expert, how can you beat a successful spammer?
Btrfs or butterfs. This should go smoothly. I hear it's throughput is very fast.
I'd be afraid someone would try to jailbreak my front door and end up bricking my house.
Optimize makes it sound as if the whole process was moving it in a positive direction. But natural evolution is not always a positive process. I think the best word is simply evolved. The human brain has evolved and has not yet brought about its own extinction.
I believe that's still around. Its a little different than the joystick since that was based on speed, not based on how much the wheel is turned, but its something I totally forgot about until you mentioned in. I believe they had it be more responsive when the wheels are closer to straight ahead and then less responsive as you turn the wheel more.
Variable steering assist only changes how much the power steering system assists in the turning of the wheels.
When I said influence I meant at high speed the ratio of angle of joystick to angle of wheels might be 1:1. And then at low speed the ratio is 1:3. In their system tilting the joystick 5 degrees would result in the wheels turning differing amounts at different speeds. That's the recipe for disaster.
The NeGcon is definitely a fun controller. I still have mine, however I've never found a way to hold it like a normal gamepad. I hold it vertically and twist the top like a dial. Holding it like a normal gamepad drastically reduces the range of rotation I can comfortably achieve with it.
I remember this as well. I believe the joystick would turn the wheels less at high speed than at low speed because the joystick had such a reduced range of motion compared to a steering wheel.
The problems they encountered don't seem like ones there will likely be a solution to without taking a completely different approach. The steering mechanism having different levels of influence over the wheels depending on speed just seems like a recipe for disaster.
I can understand why they would try though. I believe back when Saab tried it, the logic behind the test was to eliminate the steering wheel because its the most dangerous thing to a driver in a collision. So it was less about finding a better way to steer and more about building a less dangerous cockpit to steer in. It almost sounds like Toyota is looking at it from a "how do we make the car even smaller" perspective.
They've been Pigeowned.
pigeowned.
But he never said "Firefox is unstable." Unstable would imply things that he never implied. He said "Make it not crash, and I don't care what it looks like." And that comment could be made in any web browser UI overhaul discussion on the web and still be something important to keep in mind.