True, true. These kind if deluxe GPUs (and the Intel Extreme CPU line, or the discontinued Nokia Vertu phones, for example) always have a bad value. They are a "stupid money" purchase: when you have a lot of money to burn and want to just get the best bling and be done with it. Hey, at least it keeps the economy running.;)
If amazon wants my money they need to have a local storage model where I can download once and view as many times as I want offline, on any device I own. And it needs to work w/ linux as easily as possible.
You know that's not gonna happen. A more reasonable thing to ask would be functional online-only viewing on Linux.
Right now thanks to private trackers I have every tv show and movie ever made at my fingertips for free, pretty much immediately after it "airs" the first time. Amazon and netflix are competing against that and they aren't doing a very good job.
Amazon might only interpret that as the piracy numbers rising, and they will make sure to keep the DRM turned on in future too. Resorting to piracy is ambiguous anyway -- you can send a much stronger signal if you could carry your money to some other provider that gives you better hardware/software support.
However it's interesting to see where internet video under Linux will head to. HTML5 playback is somewhat working now, but the CPU usage is still very high. Many sites use Flash, which is unsupported and unaccelerated on Linux platform.
Well, that is true, the CEO is the ultimate representative in the company. But I think the funky monkey Steve Ballmer is often perceived as the cause of this and that because people simply cannot name many other people inside Microsoft. For example, how many reading this story knew that there was a guy called "Peter Klein" playing the part of CFO?
Should some cool guy like John Carmack quit making games at the point he has secured enough millions to live a life where "quattro stagioni or frutti di mare" is the most important question of the day?
Maybe those people just wanted to share something interesting they made and weren't much interested about the fancy fine print. "Cheers, have fun" is the only license they need.
Win 3.x (kind of crappy, but whatever a first attempt)
Windows 3.x was not crappy, really. For people coming from DOS world and having slow 286/386 hardware, It provided a nice base for running some graphical applications. It was also a big improvement from 2.0.
I understand it is an important project, supposed to be the successor to X11 etc so it has more interest to geeks than, say, bitcoins, but is it really that interesting?
I find them quite interesting and would like the rate of Wayland news to be kept at its current level.
This is because Silverlight actually uses a proper video overlay for the playback. Flash and all the HTML5 players would be much faster if they did this.
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True, true. These kind if deluxe GPUs (and the Intel Extreme CPU line, or the discontinued Nokia Vertu phones, for example) always have a bad value. They are a "stupid money" purchase: when you have a lot of money to burn and want to just get the best bling and be done with it. Hey, at least it keeps the economy running. ;)
If amazon wants my money they need to have a local storage model where I can download once and view as many times as I want offline, on any device I own. And it needs to work w/ linux as easily as possible.
You know that's not gonna happen. A more reasonable thing to ask would be functional online-only viewing on Linux.
Right now thanks to private trackers I have every tv show and movie ever made at my fingertips for free, pretty much immediately after it "airs" the first time. Amazon and netflix are competing against that and they aren't doing a very good job.
Amazon might only interpret that as the piracy numbers rising, and they will make sure to keep the DRM turned on in future too. Resorting to piracy is ambiguous anyway -- you can send a much stronger signal if you could carry your money to some other provider that gives you better hardware/software support.
I was going to suggest Comic Sans MS, but then I remembered that it is being used for serious science announcements these days.
Internet video is broken in many ways in Linux at its current state.
If you belong to one of those minorities you have no choice but to get used to it.
Or just take it with a healthy dose of self-irony and laugh along...
I expect to be modded down for pointing this out.
It's funny how often that small trick can be used to make people actually mod you up.
And hey, let's not forget Steam for Linux. :)
However it's interesting to see where internet video under Linux will head to. HTML5 playback is somewhat working now, but the CPU usage is still very high. Many sites use Flash, which is unsupported and unaccelerated on Linux platform.
Well, that is true, the CEO is the ultimate representative in the company. But I think the funky monkey Steve Ballmer is often perceived as the cause of this and that because people simply cannot name many other people inside Microsoft. For example, how many reading this story knew that there was a guy called "Peter Klein" playing the part of CFO?
Should some cool guy like John Carmack quit making games at the point he has secured enough millions to live a life where "quattro stagioni or frutti di mare" is the most important question of the day?
What's going on? I keep hearing "Sorry for the spam, our Twitter account was hacked" from various companies all the time.
Does the site itself have security vulnerabilities or are these just stolen or phished passwords?
Twitter should start looking to provide some extra security features to avoid this kind of problems.
Java security problems have been brought up in a larger scale only in the past few months.
ASCII is 7-bit.
I heard from a recent Dice meeting that the proposed new slogan is "random shit 4 u, yo".
Two dashboards monitor the company's Prineville, Ore. (here) and Forest City, N.C. data centers (here)
Why add a separate word "here" just for the link? That part could have been written like:
Two dashboards monitor the company's Prineville, Ore. and Forest City, N.C. data centers
Much neater.
Maybe those people just wanted to share something interesting they made and weren't much interested about the fancy fine print. "Cheers, have fun" is the only license they need.
It may stink your kitchen out a bit, but then so does cabbage.
Actually, a professional cook avoids the cabbage smell by not overcooking the plant. The smell is said to be the result of hydrogen sulfide.
Sometimes I feel the opposite: the people who brag how they need gobs of jigabytez and corez, do not do any real work with their machines...
Heh, I snickered too. But at the same note I must say that the often used "gigahertz" is also a very bogus way to describe a CPU's performance.
Win 3.x (kind of crappy, but whatever a first attempt)
Windows 3.x was not crappy, really. For people coming from DOS world and having slow 286/386 hardware, It provided a nice base for running some graphical applications. It was also a big improvement from 2.0.
I understand it is an important project, supposed to be the successor to X11 etc so it has more interest to geeks than, say, bitcoins, but is it really that interesting?
I find them quite interesting and would like the rate of Wayland news to be kept at its current level.
A window manager works at even lower level than GTK.
To be honest, I don't think the ribbon system works in Office very well, either - rather than de-cluttering menus it leads to hieroglyphic overload.
Not really, as there is text under the buttons. For me, it's much cleaner solution than the previous one of menus and a mix of various toolbars.
This is because Silverlight actually uses a proper video overlay for the playback. Flash and all the HTML5 players would be much faster if they did this.
There's a lot of comments floating around which say "when you install this this 3rd party start menu and make it boot straight to desktop, it's fine".
What they are saying is that if you undo all the big ideas that were added in Windows 8 it's fine. That's not good, you know.
That would only equal to clicking the "Desktop" button from the Start Screen once after each boot.