Really? I can't stand the UI in Firefox... it always feels like I'm fighting with the window...
That's probably because FF takes a noticeable amount of time to render new tabs though... and the fact that I'm completely lost without Opera's mouse gestures now.:(
Seriously, mouse gestures in Opera COMPLETELY make up for any extensions you're using in Firefox... When I learned mouse gestures my browsing... efficiency I guess is the right word... skyrocketted. I spend more time doing what I want and need to do quickly, and less time interfacing with a pointless UI.
I have an input device, and I'm glad someone finally lets me use it creatively.
That depends on which parts of the two you use. Opera has a little used thing called "Author Mode", which by default is of limitted use to Web Developers, but can be customized to be VERY helpful for most of the tasks you'd use FireBug and WebDev for. The screensize feature in WebDev is actually the main reason I keep FF installed on my PC, because it's nice to know how bad the site will look in 800x600, even though I code for 1024x768 and up, (for the most part).
One of the things that Opera gets complaints for quite a bit is actually something I appreciate as a developer. Opera has trouble with some of the completely backwards ways of rendering extremily complex and convoluted things like alpha filters or such, but still shines with JavaScript and CSS. It keeps me creative, knowing that I can't fall back on relying on the broken "features" of IE rendering to make snazzy pages that only work in IE7 or IE6, and aren't even guaranteed to work in the next build of IE. As a web developer, it ensures that my pages are far more future proof, and forces me to do what I want correctly the first time, instead of having an "oh shit" moment when compatability gets broken, having to go back and redesign several sites.
You've clearly never used Opera if you're attempting to spin this article by claiming that we just plain don't know that Opera renders stuff in general near the top of the pack already, and also is perhaps the most standards compliant browser.
Not to mention that Opera 9.x is one of the only stable browsers with tentative support for HTML 5.
I get a kick out of FF fans on this site. FF is by no means bad, but Opera clearly has areas where it consistently outshines the open-source browser. Before, people used to say "I don't like ads in my browser" as an excuse for not using it. Then when it became free, it was "I use lots of GreaseMonkey scripts", despite the fact that you can use most GM scripts in Opera too.
Opera leads the way for most browsing achievements, and they show no signs of stopping. I've been using it since version 6, and though I give FF a whirl every.x build, I still have yet to see anything on FF that makes me believe it's worth the switch... and to top it off I'm a web developer by trade. I code for Opera, then break it for FF and IE.
Super Stardust HD and Warhawk are far and above worth playing.
Other than that... Echochrome and GT5: Prologue look like all we've got for the rest of the year worth picking up, (maybe Heavenly Sword if you really like the genre), and Everyday Shooter whenever it is released.
There's also Home in the next few months if you find it interesting, but not everyone does. Working for a PS3 related website... I have to say that LittleBigPlanet almost seems like it's worth the purchase of a PS3 by itself, but I still want to play it before I give it too much praise.
Sat int he press section at GDC and saw Phil and company playing the game... it was like objectified fun. I'm way more excited about LBP than I am abotu Super Mario Galaxy, and Mario is one of my favorite memes in games.
If you're looking for an excuse to get a PS3 though, it really is quite excellent as a multimedia center. Stick a 300 or 120 GB notebook drive in there, download Red Kawa's video encoder for the PS3, and you can put dozens of your favorite TV episodes or movies on your TV, ready to watch at any time, or on your PSP if you have one when the TV is in use. Blu-Ray is actually starting to come into its own now as well, and HDTVs are starting to become more reasonable.
By GDC next year, I expect that people won't have to look for a reason to buy a PS3 anymore. That doesn't excuse the lack of reasons right now however. Right now, it's very touch and go. If you have the money, I can tell you that you won't be disappointed with your purchase. If you have to scrounge the extra cash to manage a PS3, you will probably be frustrated by its current state of games and such.
What does XHTML fail to deliver that would cause WC3 to shy away from the previously hardline (and appropriate, IMHO) stance of "this is the new HTML, get used to it"?
First, having reviewed some of the things in the draft HTML5 standard Opera and Apple have been working on, I have to say that it is indeed worth standardizing.
Second, I wonder about this "hardline" approach. Who made the W3C gods of the internet? I mean, things need to be standardized, but they refused to do their job and standardize, and guess what, the industry got together and made another standardization board which was mentioned in the OP. The W3C can't hardline anything... they just format the direction we're going... they don't choose it, the industry does that.
Go ahead, think I'm wrong, think the W3C should just stick it to all those web developers and browser companies that have spent years working around the group that is supposed to make their lives easier. The W3C is a paper tiger... they are completely at the mercy of everyone else. They can't hardline anything, much less something which was being standardized without them anyway.
I believe they mean doubling *existing* bandwidth, in which case it would indeed cost a lot... that would mean doubling the entire infrastructure of our internet backbone.
But again, that doesn't necessarilly mean that its less cost-effective.
People are going back and forth about whether or not the GPLv3 will apply to Microsoft, but the real crux of the deal is that it won't matter if there is no one that both has the resources and the motivation to force Microsoft to comply.
How could it possibly stop Microsoft from doing anything they do as long as no one has the money or the reason to take them to court over it and see it through completion. IBM is the only company I can think of that would really have both, and Microsoft isn't stupid enough to violate any of IBM's licenses, nor is it strategically positive for IBM to place themselve directly against Microsoft right now either.
Otherwise, who are we really expecting to take Microsoft to court? Novell? The Free Software Foundation? Please... Microsoft has been stalling the sum total of *Europe* for almost half a decade, if you think Novell or the FSF is going to force Microsoft to comply witht eh GPL you're delusional.
I spent the full price for a 60GB version at launch and I haven't played it at all really, except for Folding and some Motorstorm.
I went to the Tokyo Game Show last year so I KNOW that I will love Lair and Heavenly Sword... and Home was excellent too. It's just about if you have the disposable income or not.
People here act like its some huge crime to charge what Sony does for their console. Sony charges what they want, and they'll price it out of range of a portion of people at any price. I don't see how you could possible be upset with a company because they priced something you *don't* want to buy out of your acceptable range.
That's what I really see all over. The only way you should really personally be able to complain about the price of anything is if it's something you *do* want to buy but *can't* at the current price point.
I think the fact that this story has been tagged "rootkit" is also extremily telling of the way the/. crowd is approaching the console. It's a fucking home entertainment system, not a political canidate running for president. Get the fuck over yourselves and realize that large corporations all fuck things up here and there, but in the end all tehy do is a make a product you either do or don't want to purchase, and that is the final truth of it.
Unless you literally meant the XBox 1, I can't count the number of ways this statement is wrong and can be torn appart. Suffice to say I think the following phrase should be heeded:
It's very easy to pick on the BDSM community... they aren't what you would call the most upstanding citizenry in most people's minds... but isn't that kinda the point?
A real free society cares about the rights of the people they don't like too.
If you don't want DRM then stop pirating, you can't have it both ways.
The burden of responsibility is not on the consumer to either prove they are NOT criminals or give up their rights, it's on the corporation to create business models and products which help produce reliable revenue streams while letting customers retain all of their fair-use rights.
Theoretically.
That's like Nazi Germany telling the Jews, "If you don't like concentration camps then stop being inferior, you can't have it both ways".
Since 9/11, how many additional hours of your life have been spent in airports?
I have been on no less than 20 round trip flights, 2 international, since 9/11. There is nothing unreasonable and rediculous about them at all. In fact, the only place I ever really waited in line for long was in Denver, and that was situational.
In fact, having flown many times, I actually am concerned about the lack of time many airports spend on security. I was coming back from Tokyo in the San Francisco and due to a malfunction in the baggage return I was delayed 45 minutes on a connecting flight that was only 1:10 after I landed. I was sure that there was no way I could get my bags and get to the connecting gate, in the domestic terminal, in time.
Fortunately for me, customs waved me through without so much as wanding me. Unfortunately, that isn't what customs is supposed to do. I should have missed that flight.
Just steal some stuff and get caught and see what happens.
IT people seem to suck at... anything else.
Let me explain this in language you probably CAN understand: freedom is not boolean. The fact that we don't have ALL freedom does not mean we have none, which is the connection you made.
China still maintains... errr... unconventional control of the value of its currency. It tells you how much it is worth, and if you want any Yuan, that's what you'll agree it's worth.
A Chinaman and an Englishman could never pay the same price, because even if they did the Chinese price would be undervalued due to the over valuation of the Chinese government of its own currency.
The Chinese "global" economy is held together with glue and playdoh, under the theory that by the time they are forced to let everything loose, all the lies they told will then be true. I like to call it the Homer Simpson Theory of Macroeconomics.
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No kidding... Slashdot is turning into Digg... a bunch of teenagers jerking to the idea of Gates in cellophane wrap and Sony being the most utterly pathetic thing ever that does things right even less than Microsoft. Even when they get it right.
If Slashdot and Digg both go the way of MySpace, where am I going to get REAL news discussion?
Slashdot Mirror
Really? I can't stand the UI in Firefox... it always feels like I'm fighting with the window...
:(
That's probably because FF takes a noticeable amount of time to render new tabs though... and the fact that I'm completely lost without Opera's mouse gestures now.
Seriously, mouse gestures in Opera COMPLETELY make up for any extensions you're using in Firefox... When I learned mouse gestures my browsing... efficiency I guess is the right word... skyrocketted. I spend more time doing what I want and need to do quickly, and less time interfacing with a pointless UI.
I have an input device, and I'm glad someone finally lets me use it creatively.
One of the things that Opera gets complaints for quite a bit is actually something I appreciate as a developer. Opera has trouble with some of the completely backwards ways of rendering extremily complex and convoluted things like alpha filters or such, but still shines with JavaScript and CSS. It keeps me creative, knowing that I can't fall back on relying on the broken "features" of IE rendering to make snazzy pages that only work in IE7 or IE6, and aren't even guaranteed to work in the next build of IE. As a web developer, it ensures that my pages are far more future proof, and forces me to do what I want correctly the first time, instead of having an "oh shit" moment when compatability gets broken, having to go back and redesign several sites.
That's the beauty of standards.
You've clearly never used Opera if you're attempting to spin this article by claiming that we just plain don't know that Opera renders stuff in general near the top of the pack already, and also is perhaps the most standards compliant browser.
.x build, I still have yet to see anything on FF that makes me believe it's worth the switch... and to top it off I'm a web developer by trade. I code for Opera, then break it for FF and IE.
Not to mention that Opera 9.x is one of the only stable browsers with tentative support for HTML 5.
I get a kick out of FF fans on this site. FF is by no means bad, but Opera clearly has areas where it consistently outshines the open-source browser. Before, people used to say "I don't like ads in my browser" as an excuse for not using it. Then when it became free, it was "I use lots of GreaseMonkey scripts", despite the fact that you can use most GM scripts in Opera too.
Opera leads the way for most browsing achievements, and they show no signs of stopping. I've been using it since version 6, and though I give FF a whirl every
Why would anyone who bought an iPhone go get an iPod touch? It's not like it has that much more storage...
Super Stardust HD and Warhawk are far and above worth playing.
Other than that... Echochrome and GT5: Prologue look like all we've got for the rest of the year worth picking up, (maybe Heavenly Sword if you really like the genre), and Everyday Shooter whenever it is released.
There's also Home in the next few months if you find it interesting, but not everyone does. Working for a PS3 related website... I have to say that LittleBigPlanet almost seems like it's worth the purchase of a PS3 by itself, but I still want to play it before I give it too much praise.
Sat int he press section at GDC and saw Phil and company playing the game... it was like objectified fun. I'm way more excited about LBP than I am abotu Super Mario Galaxy, and Mario is one of my favorite memes in games.
If you're looking for an excuse to get a PS3 though, it really is quite excellent as a multimedia center. Stick a 300 or 120 GB notebook drive in there, download Red Kawa's video encoder for the PS3, and you can put dozens of your favorite TV episodes or movies on your TV, ready to watch at any time, or on your PSP if you have one when the TV is in use. Blu-Ray is actually starting to come into its own now as well, and HDTVs are starting to become more reasonable.
By GDC next year, I expect that people won't have to look for a reason to buy a PS3 anymore. That doesn't excuse the lack of reasons right now however. Right now, it's very touch and go. If you have the money, I can tell you that you won't be disappointed with your purchase. If you have to scrounge the extra cash to manage a PS3, you will probably be frustrated by its current state of games and such.
Why keep us geeks ona retainer? Just sue Google, and it'll appear on Slashdot, then you'll get all the free prior art guidance you need.
Welcome to Tokyo 15 years ago.
Second, I wonder about this "hardline" approach. Who made the W3C gods of the internet? I mean, things need to be standardized, but they refused to do their job and standardize, and guess what, the industry got together and made another standardization board which was mentioned in the OP. The W3C can't hardline anything... they just format the direction we're going... they don't choose it, the industry does that.
Go ahead, think I'm wrong, think the W3C should just stick it to all those web developers and browser companies that have spent years working around the group that is supposed to make their lives easier. The W3C is a paper tiger... they are completely at the mercy of everyone else. They can't hardline anything, much less something which was being standardized without them anyway.
Holy shit, AC's generate karma now? Screw this posting logged in...
Lately? Anti-Sony orgies are one thing that both Slashdot and Digg do with equal prepubescent ferver, and have for months.
I believe they mean doubling *existing* bandwidth, in which case it would indeed cost a lot... that would mean doubling the entire infrastructure of our internet backbone.
But again, that doesn't necessarilly mean that its less cost-effective.
While Ron Paul is my favorite candidate... that isn't correct as far as I know:
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People are going back and forth about whether or not the GPLv3 will apply to Microsoft, but the real crux of the deal is that it won't matter if there is no one that both has the resources and the motivation to force Microsoft to comply.
How could it possibly stop Microsoft from doing anything they do as long as no one has the money or the reason to take them to court over it and see it through completion. IBM is the only company I can think of that would really have both, and Microsoft isn't stupid enough to violate any of IBM's licenses, nor is it strategically positive for IBM to place themselve directly against Microsoft right now either.
Otherwise, who are we really expecting to take Microsoft to court? Novell? The Free Software Foundation? Please... Microsoft has been stalling the sum total of *Europe* for almost half a decade, if you think Novell or the FSF is going to force Microsoft to comply witht eh GPL you're delusional.
I spent the full price for a 60GB version at launch and I haven't played it at all really, except for Folding and some Motorstorm.
/. crowd is approaching the console. It's a fucking home entertainment system, not a political canidate running for president. Get the fuck over yourselves and realize that large corporations all fuck things up here and there, but in the end all tehy do is a make a product you either do or don't want to purchase, and that is the final truth of it.
I went to the Tokyo Game Show last year so I KNOW that I will love Lair and Heavenly Sword... and Home was excellent too. It's just about if you have the disposable income or not.
People here act like its some huge crime to charge what Sony does for their console. Sony charges what they want, and they'll price it out of range of a portion of people at any price. I don't see how you could possible be upset with a company because they priced something you *don't* want to buy out of your acceptable range.
That's what I really see all over. The only way you should really personally be able to complain about the price of anything is if it's something you *do* want to buy but *can't* at the current price point.
I think the fact that this story has been tagged "rootkit" is also extremily telling of the way the
Actually, unregulated industries tend to have better customer service... phone service and telecom is HIGHLY regulated...
"Your bias is showing."
It's very easy to pick on the BDSM community... they aren't what you would call the most upstanding citizenry in most people's minds... but isn't that kinda the point?
A real free society cares about the rights of the people they don't like too.
Theoretically.
That's like Nazi Germany telling the Jews, "If you don't like concentration camps then stop being inferior, you can't have it both ways".
And with the Godwin law revoked, I leave you.
Murders affect several people severely and one person terminally. Depending on a few factors, a single one can get you the death penalty.
His crimes affected literally hundreds of millions of people, and cost untold billions to counteract.
65 years is too long? Fuck that. Lock him up and throw away the key.
In fact, having flown many times, I actually am concerned about the lack of time many airports spend on security. I was coming back from Tokyo in the San Francisco and due to a malfunction in the baggage return I was delayed 45 minutes on a connecting flight that was only 1:10 after I landed. I was sure that there was no way I could get my bags and get to the connecting gate, in the domestic terminal, in time.
Fortunately for me, customs waved me through without so much as wanding me. Unfortunately, that isn't what customs is supposed to do. I should have missed that flight.
Let me explain this in language you probably CAN understand: freedom is not boolean. The fact that we don't have ALL freedom does not mean we have none, which is the connection you made.
Worse yet, what if currencies reached parity?
China still maintains... errr... unconventional control of the value of its currency. It tells you how much it is worth, and if you want any Yuan, that's what you'll agree it's worth.
A Chinaman and an Englishman could never pay the same price, because even if they did the Chinese price would be undervalued due to the over valuation of the Chinese government of its own currency.
The Chinese "global" economy is held together with glue and playdoh, under the theory that by the time they are forced to let everything loose, all the lies they told will then be true. I like to call it the Homer Simpson Theory of Macroeconomics.
No kidding... Slashdot is turning into Digg... a bunch of teenagers jerking to the idea of Gates in cellophane wrap and Sony being the most utterly pathetic thing ever that does things right even less than Microsoft. Even when they get it right.
If Slashdot and Digg both go the way of MySpace, where am I going to get REAL news discussion?