You know, I remember a world wide web where random people ran their own websites giving away free everything -- knowledge, stories, tutorials, programs, whatever -- and no one gave a shit about monetizing everything.
You have a point, but then again I think the "free world" still too, and it's better than ever. The maker community is thriving and there's as many programming and electronics tutorials that you would ever need. The open source community creates a lot of good software free in cost. A lot of stories are told in places in Slashdot or Reddit, not to mention the new possibilities of YouTube... If you accept the occasional ad banner on the side (which have existed since the 90s), you get a lot.
It's interesting... Norway, Denmark, Sweden have been mentioned above... Here in Finland no banking operations require Java. All browsers work without any special plugins.
And this is probably the main motivation for Mozilla. If you really need Java, it's not too much effort to authorize the occasional app, and at the same time the block prevents some random malicious little Java app from nuking your computer.
Wow, there seems to be a bug in the Slashdot engine which causes your link to break the layout. On Chrome it spans across the right side of the page, creating a wide empty grey area.
Maybe, but it does the job. But before that we could say that the whole Web 2.0 thing (implementing apps inside a web browser) "sounds like a performance problem to me" and still we deal with that shit. Because it's there and it kind of works.
I have had a consumer-level HP 3070A print-scan-copy machine for a couple of years and the experience has been really good. The drivers are a 22 MB package and they work 100% fast and reliably. Both printing and scanning work wirelessly. The UI panel of the printer is super easy to use. Great print quality, no clogged print heads. This particular unit has provided me good value.
Well, I guess I today get to be the semantic web nazi, but here goes... Hyperlinks should flow nicely along the text and not be words like "here" or "this". This is how I would tweak your message:
Both the nanoparticles and ozone spread by laser printers are a real issue, especially in areas where the machine is used a lot. They might not be a meaningful health issue in all cases, but definitely something we should keep an eye on.
Submitter here. I was able to locate the Finnish version from YLE News website. There is indeed a possibility for that kind of translation error. I'll try to retranslate the top part:
A virus is being uncovered behind type I diabetes, a disease found especially in children. In particular, it is an enterovirus, which invades the pancreas and destroys the cells producing insuline. A vaccine against the viruses can be created.
There are over hundred of various enteroviruses. A research team conducted by virology professor Heikki Hyöty has gone through all the strains and has been able to mark out five of them which cause diabetes. They can be compiled into a vaccine.
"We have recognized one type of virus which carries the biggest risk factor. We could also put its relatives into the vaccine, to get the best possible effect", says professor Hyöty from University of Tampere.
There was also recently someone in/r/learnprogramming who was new to C++ and his first impression was that std::cout << "Hello world"; looks just like "count your STDs and tell the whole world".
Multimillionaire after writing a relatively simple computer game? Sign me up for that dreamboat.
It's not that simple to write something like Minecraft. Think about: maintaining the data for a huge dynamic world, the lighting system, monster AI, some simple physics, particle effects, animating the player and NPC heads and limbs turning, interactions of the various materials, calculating how lava and water fill empty spaces, procedural generation of realistic landscapes, multiplayer...
Actually Microsoft does not do that so much anymore. Windows 8.1 has pretty much exactly same system requirements than Windows 7 (which in turns runs smoothly on many later XP-era machines). Also Visual Studio (which still is a bloated pig) has been actually getting faster over 2010...2012...2013. Same with the Office suite, Internet Explorer, and what else.
I'm not saying that there isn't still a lot of legacy junk slowing down Windows, but this compared to the 90s when each version of Windows and other MS software was clearly more heavyweight than the previous iteration.
Windows Search can also be disabled, if you don't search much. (This seems to break things a bit under Win8, but under Win7 it's a good tweak for low-performance systems.)
Eh. In the past you could as well have made the argument that "IE needs even a "compatibility mode" because it can't render the web in a standards-compliant manner".
Actually if you simply remove metro, Windows 8 is quite a marked improvement over 7
Technically you can't really remove Metro that easily. Even if you avoid going to the Start Screen and use a 3rd party Start Menu, the full Metro engine will happily continue running in the background.
That being said, a hack/mod which would actually all Metro from Windows 8 would be interesting. You would have to drill quite deep into Windows system components, but maybe some guys have thought about what has to be done. After that, if you just used the NT 6.3 core to run desktop apps, most of them would probably run just fine without any sight of Metro.
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You know, I remember a world wide web where random people ran their own websites giving away free everything -- knowledge, stories, tutorials, programs, whatever -- and no one gave a shit about monetizing everything.
You have a point, but then again I think the "free world" still too, and it's better than ever. The maker community is thriving and there's as many programming and electronics tutorials that you would ever need. The open source community creates a lot of good software free in cost. A lot of stories are told in places in Slashdot or Reddit, not to mention the new possibilities of YouTube... If you accept the occasional ad banner on the side (which have existed since the 90s), you get a lot.
I wonder if Flash will be the next to go. HTML5+JS is already quite close in being able to do all the same tricks.
It's interesting... Norway, Denmark, Sweden have been mentioned above... Here in Finland no banking operations require Java. All browsers work without any special plugins.
The only applets out there are ads and virusses.
And this is probably the main motivation for Mozilla. If you really need Java, it's not too much effort to authorize the occasional app, and at the same time the block prevents some random malicious little Java app from nuking your computer.
Wow, there seems to be a bug in the Slashdot engine which causes your link to break the layout. On Chrome it spans across the right side of the page, creating a wide empty grey area.
Sounds like a security hole to me.
Maybe, but it does the job. But before that we could say that the whole Web 2.0 thing (implementing apps inside a web browser) "sounds like a performance problem to me" and still we deal with that shit. Because it's there and it kind of works.
If you aren't familiar with the game, some months ago Kikoskia made a quite funny clip about the gameplay.
DVD also comes with DRM built into the standard.
I have had a consumer-level HP 3070A print-scan-copy machine for a couple of years and the experience has been really good. The drivers are a 22 MB package and they work 100% fast and reliably. Both printing and scanning work wirelessly. The UI panel of the printer is super easy to use. Great print quality, no clogged print heads. This particular unit has provided me good value.
Well, I guess I today get to be the semantic web nazi, but here goes... Hyperlinks should flow nicely along the text and not be words like "here" or "this". This is how I would tweak your message:
actually, it seems like it does from this Amazon review of the printer
The drivers from Epson website are also looking to be fairly compliant and is registered as a SANE backend.
Both the nanoparticles and ozone spread by laser printers are a real issue, especially in areas where the machine is used a lot. They might not be a meaningful health issue in all cases, but definitely something we should keep an eye on.
And if we look at single-core performance only, we have fallen off the wagon already.
Submitter here. I was able to locate the Finnish version from YLE News website. There is indeed a possibility for that kind of translation error. I'll try to retranslate the top part:
A virus is being uncovered behind type I diabetes, a disease found especially in children. In particular, it is an enterovirus, which invades the pancreas and destroys the cells producing insuline. A vaccine against the viruses can be created.
There are over hundred of various enteroviruses. A research team conducted by virology professor Heikki Hyöty has gone through all the strains and has been able to mark out five of them which cause diabetes. They can be compiled into a vaccine.
"We have recognized one type of virus which carries the biggest risk factor. We could also put its relatives into the vaccine, to get the best possible effect", says professor Hyöty from University of Tampere.
There was also recently someone in /r/learnprogramming who was new to C++ and his first impression was that std::cout << "Hello world"; looks just like "count your STDs and tell the whole world".
Or putting a buttload of signs on the terrain which each contain one sentence from the book. :P
Multimillionaire after writing a relatively simple computer game? Sign me up for that dreamboat.
It's not that simple to write something like Minecraft. Think about: maintaining the data for a huge dynamic world, the lighting system, monster AI, some simple physics, particle effects, animating the player and NPC heads and limbs turning, interactions of the various materials, calculating how lava and water fill empty spaces, procedural generation of realistic landscapes, multiplayer...
The netbook I'm typing this on right now dual-boots Ubuntu (full Unity bloat version)
How can you use Unity on a netbook? It's a very slow experience.
Actually Microsoft does not do that so much anymore. Windows 8.1 has pretty much exactly same system requirements than Windows 7 (which in turns runs smoothly on many later XP-era machines). Also Visual Studio (which still is a bloated pig) has been actually getting faster over 2010...2012...2013. Same with the Office suite, Internet Explorer, and what else.
I'm not saying that there isn't still a lot of legacy junk slowing down Windows, but this compared to the 90s when each version of Windows and other MS software was clearly more heavyweight than the previous iteration.
Windows Search can also be disabled, if you don't search much. (This seems to break things a bit under Win8, but under Win7 it's a good tweak for low-performance systems.)
He's correcting himself. :)
+1
Eh. In the past you could as well have made the argument that "IE needs even a "compatibility mode" because it can't render the web in a standards-compliant manner".
Actually if you simply remove metro, Windows 8 is quite a marked improvement over 7
Technically you can't really remove Metro that easily. Even if you avoid going to the Start Screen and use a 3rd party Start Menu, the full Metro engine will happily continue running in the background.
That being said, a hack/mod which would actually all Metro from Windows 8 would be interesting. You would have to drill quite deep into Windows system components, but maybe some guys have thought about what has to be done. After that, if you just used the NT 6.3 core to run desktop apps, most of them would probably run just fine without any sight of Metro.
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
+1.
All my precious iptables knowledge gone!
Linus hates us precious! Hates us!
1 minute later...
Okay so after RTFMing, I like the changes.
NFTables FTW!