So how does all this work internationally, then? Does this mean that in 2013, in the U.S., I'll be able to legally copy an import of "Please Please Me"? Or that if I'm in the U.K., I'll be able to copy any copy of "Please Please Me", regardless of origin? Or some other variation?
Umm, XP boots faster than Win2k on the same hardware because the driver initialisation is multithreaded. XP gets to the GUI in 30 seconds, unlike 2k.
And how long does 2k take? 35 seconds? Is this worth a major-version OS upgrade to you? It's rock solid, so you're not booting it more than once a day, and that's if you turn it off at night. XP is not much more than bringing 2k to the home user. I've never found 2k sluggish (at least no more sluggish than XP)...
$400M. The summary is off by a (binary) order of magnitude. Check the article. But I'm pretty sure you're still right--I don't think I've heard of any home worth anywhere near that much.
This is Indiana, where the state legislature passed a law decreeing that pi (as in the ratio of the circumference of circle to its diameter) is 3. Just 3. No messy fraction. No messy transcendental. Just 3.
That was Alabama, not Indiana. *And* it's just a myth...
First they mangled "toe the line"... Then they mangled "bated breath"... Now they're mangling the meaning of "beg the question". What's next? "Call a spayed a spayed"?
Actually, it should read "Oracle to lay off 2000 people". 'layoff' is a noun (from Webster's):
"Main Entry: layoff Pronunciation: 'lA-"of Function: noun 1 : a period of inactivity or idleness 2 : the act of laying off an employee or a workforce; also : SHUTDOWN "
'Lay off' is the verb. I know slashdot is not the place for English lessons, but if someone's correcting people, he or she should be doing it right.
There would be noticeable latency to those downstream, but they would also receive more robust streams, no? Since they would have multiple points to access the stream (whereas the direct streamers must access the one set of servers), it would be more resilient to network problems in one of the connections. I'd gladly watch a "live" webcast delayed by two minutes if it means it's more stable.
For some reason, this reminds me of the Simpsons' military school graduation speech:
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
He doesn't care what anything *is* or how it *works*, only what it looks like. And, of course, that it's ugly.
Not only that, but HTML is not meant to let you determine how things look. You know that, of course, but he doesn't seem to. HTML is all about what things are, and not how they look. How they look is the browser's job, and not only is there plenty of room for differing interpretations in the web standards, but there are things such as end-user font size changes that just can't be predicted. No design should break because a user wants to read the font at two points larger (but many do, most hideously); that's the point of HTML.
Exactly. It hasn't been exploited in the wild because there are no uses of Konqueror in the wild. And they say that security through obsurity is a bad idea......
Right. Saying that humans are hard-wired for geometry is only a little less silly than saying that humans are hard-wired for breathing. It's almost a truism.
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How about the fact that.NET programs require twice the amount of lines of code as their competitors (with the exception of maybe JAVA).
Than what competitors besides Java? C? C++? I don't buy that. Python? Perl? They're not meant for the same sort of thing. Besides, the LOC count is inflated by the language's brace conventions (new lines everywhere). I started a C# project last fall, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed with the language. It's like a neater Java.
End of the year? Ha! You're getting ripped off. Two years old (plus) is where it's at. I don't think I've spent more than ten bucks on a game since... Hmm... Neverwinter Nights, I think. Admittedly, this is not a viable strategy for anyone seriously considering themselves a gamer, but as someone who prefers to just dabble (and explore every last corner of RPGs), I find it great. Up next for me: "No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In Harm's Way".
Or perhaps a lot of people think it rocks. I never played it, but you can't argue that it hasn't been well received. And unless you plan to present a rigorous, objective proof to definitively refute the majority opinion, I think it's safe to say that Zonk was (for a change) not pulling things out of his ass when he said the game rocks. Really, this doesn't matter in the slightest, but it's just incorrect to imply that Zonk is alone here.
Three of us. I tried playing X-COM again recently, but on these newfangled machines, the sound doesn't work and time flies much too fast (because the game clock is tied to the CPU speed, and today's CPUs are a good twenty times faster than what the designers envisioned). I found Dosbox a few days ago. It works great for the original Dark Forces (which also had several issues running natively); gonna try it with X-COM soon.
Damn right. I indulged in Bookworm for the first time in months, spent most of an evening with it, and almost got to 700,000 points before I had the good sense to quit. They're a little *too* addictive.
People aren't going to die because Civ IV crashes on you. In more critical software, standards are stricter. Besides, if my car breaks down, it's broken till I get it fixed. If Civ IV crashes, it's broken until, uh, I restart it.
Software bugs are a problem, but your analogy is flawed.
We've worked with the developers of the Firefox FlashBlock extension to make sure sIFR text is automatically degraded to (X)HTML for users of recent versions of FlashBlock. When users install FlashBlock, they are demonstrating a bias against Flash (most likely because of the incredible amount of obnoxious and invasive advertising on the web these days) and we want to respect this bias. If users don't want to see Flash, we don't want to show it to them. sIFR runs fine under other extensions like AdBlock, but users can always disable the loading of sifr.js if they'd like.
Good. I fired up Opera to check it out, and it does look better, but scaling is fubared (regular text scales but these things don't), linking is fubared (can't see where link goes), highlighting is nerfed (you can't highlight the headlines *and* regular text at the same time). Meh. I'll take some ugly and keep the functionality. Hell, if you really want picture-perfect headlines, just use images with alt tags; it's just about as against the spirit of HTML, and breaks just about as much functionality, as this flash doohickey.
Also, considering some wireless cards have no official Linux support, and the unofficial open-source projects to write drivers don't offer WPA yet, we could use this to push for better official Linux support: "I'm sorry, Your Honor, I couldn't run a secure network because Texas Instruments won't release Linux drivers and the drivers reverse-engineered by volunteers can't quite do WPA yet". Of course, the likely response would be, "Wait, did you just say 'reverse-eningeered'? I'd better pull out the DMCA and pile on some more charges."
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So how does all this work internationally, then? Does this mean that in 2013, in the U.S., I'll be able to legally copy an import of "Please Please Me"? Or that if I'm in the U.K., I'll be able to copy any copy of "Please Please Me", regardless of origin? Or some other variation?
And how long does 2k take? 35 seconds? Is this worth a major-version OS upgrade to you? It's rock solid, so you're not booting it more than once a day, and that's if you turn it off at night. XP is not much more than bringing 2k to the home user. I've never found 2k sluggish (at least no more sluggish than XP)...
$400M. The summary is off by a (binary) order of magnitude. Check the article. But I'm pretty sure you're still right--I don't think I've heard of any home worth anywhere near that much.
That was Alabama, not Indiana. *And* it's just a myth...
First they mangled "toe the line"... Then they mangled "bated breath"... Now they're mangling the meaning of "beg the question". What's next? "Call a spayed a spayed"?
'Lay off' is the verb. I know slashdot is not the place for English lessons, but if someone's correcting people, he or she should be doing it right.
Old software? (Okay, as of 5.12 or so, it seems to run okay for a restricted user, but it key features like the Media Library still won't work right).
There would be noticeable latency to those downstream, but they would also receive more robust streams, no? Since they would have multiple points to access the stream (whereas the direct streamers must access the one set of servers), it would be more resilient to network problems in one of the connections. I'd gladly watch a "live" webcast delayed by two minutes if it means it's more stable.
Right. I can't imagine anyone who is both (1) qualified and (2) interested in the reward.
Not only that, but HTML is not meant to let you determine how things look. You know that, of course, but he doesn't seem to. HTML is all about what things are, and not how they look. How they look is the browser's job, and not only is there plenty of room for differing interpretations in the web standards, but there are things such as end-user font size changes that just can't be predicted. No design should break because a user wants to read the font at two points larger (but many do, most hideously); that's the point of HTML.
Acrobat does this too, at least as of six point something... What a dumb thing to hard-code...
Exactly. It hasn't been exploited in the wild because there are no uses of Konqueror in the wild. And they say that security through obsurity is a bad idea... ...
I keed, I keed.
Right. Saying that humans are hard-wired for geometry is only a little less silly than saying that humans are hard-wired for breathing. It's almost a truism.
Than what competitors besides Java? C? C++? I don't buy that. Python? Perl? They're not meant for the same sort of thing. Besides, the LOC count is inflated by the language's brace conventions (new lines everywhere). I started a C# project last fall, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed with the language. It's like a neater Java.
End of the year? Ha! You're getting ripped off. Two years old (plus) is where it's at. I don't think I've spent more than ten bucks on a game since... Hmm... Neverwinter Nights, I think. Admittedly, this is not a viable strategy for anyone seriously considering themselves a gamer, but as someone who prefers to just dabble (and explore every last corner of RPGs), I find it great. Up next for me: "No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In Harm's Way".
Or perhaps a lot of people think it rocks. I never played it, but you can't argue that it hasn't been well received. And unless you plan to present a rigorous, objective proof to definitively refute the majority opinion, I think it's safe to say that Zonk was (for a change) not pulling things out of his ass when he said the game rocks. Really, this doesn't matter in the slightest, but it's just incorrect to imply that Zonk is alone here.
Three of us. I tried playing X-COM again recently, but on these newfangled machines, the sound doesn't work and time flies much too fast (because the game clock is tied to the CPU speed, and today's CPUs are a good twenty times faster than what the designers envisioned). I found Dosbox a few days ago. It works great for the original Dark Forces (which also had several issues running natively); gonna try it with X-COM soon.
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Ah, interesting. Mods, mod Clueless Moron Insightful.
Damn right. I indulged in Bookworm for the first time in months, spent most of an evening with it, and almost got to 700,000 points before I had the good sense to quit. They're a little *too* addictive.
If this were giving time in hex, three tubes is all you'd need 100% of the time (assuming a twelve-hour clock).
People aren't going to die because Civ IV crashes on you. In more critical software, standards are stricter. Besides, if my car breaks down, it's broken till I get it fixed. If Civ IV crashes, it's broken until, uh, I restart it.
Software bugs are a problem, but your analogy is flawed.
Good. I fired up Opera to check it out, and it does look better, but scaling is fubared (regular text scales but these things don't), linking is fubared (can't see where link goes), highlighting is nerfed (you can't highlight the headlines *and* regular text at the same time). Meh. I'll take some ugly and keep the functionality. Hell, if you really want picture-perfect headlines, just use images with alt tags; it's just about as against the spirit of HTML, and breaks just about as much functionality, as this flash doohickey.
Also, considering some wireless cards have no official Linux support, and the unofficial open-source projects to write drivers don't offer WPA yet, we could use this to push for better official Linux support: "I'm sorry, Your Honor, I couldn't run a secure network because Texas Instruments won't release Linux drivers and the drivers reverse-engineered by volunteers can't quite do WPA yet". Of course, the likely response would be, "Wait, did you just say 'reverse-eningeered'? I'd better pull out the DMCA and pile on some more charges."