If Blizzard is going to implement this, they'll probably do it via Battle.net somehow. And knowing how much money Blizzard is raking in, I wouldn't be surprised if other publishers got the balls to set up restrictive you-must-be-on-line-and-connected-to-us-if-you-want-to-play "services".
Yes, but how do they know if the DNS is resolving to their server vs someone's server set up for the explicit purpose of serving blank ads for the game?
Plus, you know those guys that do no-CD cracks, right? I'm sure they'll start doing no-ad and privacy cracks as well. Crisis averted. Well except for people who don't know about such things. Maybe they'll start *snicker* an online petition.
Well, to be fair, this was back right after Apollo 11 came back, when they probably had plans to revisit the moon more frequently than we've done lately.
Firefox and Chrome (and IE) all have invisible browsing modes, although they don't allow you to store bookmarks for obvious reasons. In addition there's nothing to stop you from using separate profiles for both browsers, and with Firefox profile selection is hidden by default making it easy to hide a second profile from non-techy users peeking over your shoulder.
Using a portable browser (see portableapps.com, google operausb, or check out my own site mzzt.net for a PortableApps.com implementation of Chrome) is also an alternative. Wiping a profile after use or rolling a profile back using a backup or a virtual machine undo disk or something would also be possible options but if you don't want to keep hidden bookmarks and history not creating the records at all by using a Private Browsing mode is probably the way to go.
Actually I disagree with you, because this is less about changing around menu options as it is about search.
Not a day goes by where I don't use Google to search for SOMETHING. Having to navigate through a large directory tree of every website meticulously filed, but being unable to SEARCH through it, would be unbearable. Similarly, sometimes you just want to find something in your history or bookmarks but can't remember where it is, or maybe you have so many items that it's simply easier to search for it.
Perhaps your examples are valid in some cases, but it's important to realize how results are sorted. They use a mixture of frequency and recency... so if "fi" doesn't pop up Google Finance the first time, if you do it a few times it will likely quickly rise to the top. The Awesome Bar "learns" in this way. That's why it's Awesome.
I put in finance.google.com and went there, then checked the results for "fi". It did pop up near the bottom of the list. After navigating there again and checking "fi" again, it jumped straight to the top that time.
That said I use Chrome, which has a very similar system (I think it prefers bookmarks and actually typed urls over page history though) that no-one seems to complain about. Indeed Chrome actually has a more annoying flaw, in that sometimes the history "forgets" the titles of random pages you visited, which can make searching for the title of a page impossible and browsing for it difficult unless you happen to remember the url.
As for the people who won't upgrade, it is possible they dislike the Awesome Bar for whatever reason (it's not really important to understand why) but I can definitely see at least some of them not wanting others who use the computer or are watching them to stumble on past browser history or bookmarks. Even though probably many Slashdotters have their own computer(s) that no-one else uses, I understand many households share a single computer.
Of course if you do browsing you don't want anyone else to know about that's what Private Browsing mode is for, coincidentally also introduced in 3.5 along with the Awesome Bar completion toggle.
You need to use about:config for 3.0, but in 3.5 they included the option to disable location bar searching in options... that's the whole point of this story, Mozilla took user feedback based on users who wouldn't upgrade to fix the issues they had with 3.0.
It's very easy to find now, under Privacy in Options at the bottom.
They did in 3.5, that's part of the story, at least in the blog posts I read. This story was an example of how user feedback from 2.0 users who couldn't upgrade was used to improve 3.0 for 3.5.
"These days, single applications like games and video editing software can easily use more than 3 gigs of RAM."
I don't know of any games that do. Furthermore 64-bit processors aren't yet widespread enough that game devs are going to drop support for 32-bit yet, AFAIK. Keep in mind too that not many people have the boot.ini switch needed for 3GB of application address space (and that switch might cause problems with poorly written drivers, too) so the apps you describe would need to be limited to just 2GB. 3GB is only available for apps explicitly compiled with a switch so they can be marked as supporting it. I can see video editing software requiring 64-bit, though the alternative of a carefully-managed application-based page file (or more simply a temporary project file on disk) is possible it would be very slow.
Anyways I think the most I ever saw an app take up legitimately (IE not a memory leak) was 800mb (it was Uru). I think Team Fortress 2, the most recently released game I play a lot, takes up about 600 or so, though to be fair it's not like I watch it in Task Manager while I play. Don't forget a lot of texture data and stuff gets offloaded to the GPU's memory.
Did he ever state in the prequels that he was a protocol droid, or display a talent for translation (I can't remember any, myself)? Don't forget 3P0 got his memory wiped at the end of episode 3, so it's likely he was repurposed as a protocol droid at that time and given his 6,000,000 forms of communication in a download.
I did just realize that 3P0 tells Luke soon after they meet in Episode 4 that he's not good at telling stories. Flash forward to Episode 6 as he tells the Ewoks all about their adventures and he seems to have gotten quite good at it somehow.
Maybe this fork won't hang if you try to use it in a VM. Also maybe the fork will keep an up-to-date 32-bit download.
I tried Menuet once but those two irks were quite annoying to me, especially since the 32-bit version hasn't been updated since I tried it and saw the 32-bit version was already out of date then. Might give this fork a try.
The cost would be that it would have to keep track of which blocks of data are in use, so it would have to have a small bit of the SSD storage set aside for this purpose.
There is no performance or lifespan penalty since this only affects what happens when data is written -- currently, the block is always read, combined, and then written. If the block is marked as not in use, the first two steps can be skipped. If the block is in use, we're just doing old behavior, no loss (except we needed to look up to see if the block was in use, but I doubt the performance loss would be noticeable).
I imagine they would still contain the data, but once you write to anywhere in that block the garbaged data would be zeroed out because it isn't being read into the "combine-read-data-with-new-to-be-written-data" buffer.
Ooops missed the last sentence of your last post. Oh well, I don't agree with it anyways. Whenever a site seems broken I automatically add it to the whitelist. Of course half the time that doesn't fix it and the site is just plain broken, but at least it's not NoScript's fault then.
I think if you use an existing partition instead of making a new one Windows will just put everything on one partition.
Anyways you could always copy the files and boot sector from the small partition to the Windows 7 one and raze the small one, then you just need to edit the BCD registry using EasyBCD or bootedit.exe to point to the correct partition on boot. But yeah those are both WINDOWS tools... but bootedit.exe should be available from Windows 7 Setup on the DVD if you mess up and can't boot into Windows (press SHIFT+F10), and fixboot.exe can install the boot sector onto any partition.
If you replace "JavaScript" with "Flash" and "HTML 5" with "HTML 5 and JavaScript" your sentence makes a bit more sense.
Seriously... Flash is usually OK when put next to giants like Internet Explorer, but a common plugin that runs on all browsers that is similarly exploitable on all browsers when an exploit is found is a bad thing in my book. I hope we see a version of Flash that will play nicely with sandbox models like Chrome's (currently Chrome is forced to run it unsandboxed, AFAIK).
Umm traditional toolbars show or hide elements based on window size...
The ribbon just tries to do it intelligently by hiding stuff you might not use as often, while a toolbar just uses icon placement to determine which to hide.
Well, I assume the entire system is encrypted, in which case there'd be little you COULD do except trick the user into giving you their decryption key.
The scenario described is NOT a monopoly, but perhaps a recipe for disaster for Microsoft. If game developers don't like MS' rules, they can still take their games elsewhere, whether to another console by Sony or Nintendo or to the PC (Valve's Steam service, for example).
It's only a monopoly if game developers have little choice but to develop under MS' rules, for example if most of their customers use Xboxes. Nintendo and Sony would have to both be "defeated" for this to happen. Right now Nintendo is going in a different direction and trying to distance themselves from the traditional "more polygons, more cost = better system" approach and I think they're doing a pretty good job which would make it difficult for Microsoft to beat a competitor who's technically not trying to compete. I don't know too much about Sony. But there's also the PC gaming scene which would be another haven for devs if Microsoft should impose significant rules or fees. Yes Microsoft monopolizes that OS market already, but you can already run anything you want on a Windows PC, and if MS tries to change that devs will simply stick to developing for the old Windows, consumers will stick to running the old Windows, and this would be very bad for MS.
Steam keeps a record of your purchase history, so your extra copy is not "lost". Valve will likely eventually extend the "gift games you already own" feature to any games you own two copies off in the future. Right now it's limited to HL2 and EP1 as part of the Orange Box package, and L4d as part of the L4D 4-pack package.
I will admit I'm puzzled as to why they haven't already extended the feature.
Latest version of NoScript still whitelists the authors own domains by default, and pops up his own domain on first run. I remove all his whitelists and just leave Google when I install it.
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If Blizzard is going to implement this, they'll probably do it via Battle.net somehow. And knowing how much money Blizzard is raking in, I wouldn't be surprised if other publishers got the balls to set up restrictive you-must-be-on-line-and-connected-to-us-if-you-want-to-play "services".
Yes, but how do they know if the DNS is resolving to their server vs someone's server set up for the explicit purpose of serving blank ads for the game?
Plus, you know those guys that do no-CD cracks, right? I'm sure they'll start doing no-ad and privacy cracks as well. Crisis averted. Well except for people who don't know about such things. Maybe they'll start *snicker* an online petition.
Well, to be fair, this was back right after Apollo 11 came back, when they probably had plans to revisit the moon more frequently than we've done lately.
Firefox and Chrome (and IE) all have invisible browsing modes, although they don't allow you to store bookmarks for obvious reasons. In addition there's nothing to stop you from using separate profiles for both browsers, and with Firefox profile selection is hidden by default making it easy to hide a second profile from non-techy users peeking over your shoulder.
Using a portable browser (see portableapps.com, google operausb, or check out my own site mzzt.net for a PortableApps.com implementation of Chrome) is also an alternative. Wiping a profile after use or rolling a profile back using a backup or a virtual machine undo disk or something would also be possible options but if you don't want to keep hidden bookmarks and history not creating the records at all by using a Private Browsing mode is probably the way to go.
Actually I disagree with you, because this is less about changing around menu options as it is about search.
Not a day goes by where I don't use Google to search for SOMETHING. Having to navigate through a large directory tree of every website meticulously filed, but being unable to SEARCH through it, would be unbearable. Similarly, sometimes you just want to find something in your history or bookmarks but can't remember where it is, or maybe you have so many items that it's simply easier to search for it.
Perhaps your examples are valid in some cases, but it's important to realize how results are sorted. They use a mixture of frequency and recency... so if "fi" doesn't pop up Google Finance the first time, if you do it a few times it will likely quickly rise to the top. The Awesome Bar "learns" in this way. That's why it's Awesome.
I put in finance.google.com and went there, then checked the results for "fi". It did pop up near the bottom of the list. After navigating there again and checking "fi" again, it jumped straight to the top that time.
That said I use Chrome, which has a very similar system (I think it prefers bookmarks and actually typed urls over page history though) that no-one seems to complain about. Indeed Chrome actually has a more annoying flaw, in that sometimes the history "forgets" the titles of random pages you visited, which can make searching for the title of a page impossible and browsing for it difficult unless you happen to remember the url.
As for the people who won't upgrade, it is possible they dislike the Awesome Bar for whatever reason (it's not really important to understand why) but I can definitely see at least some of them not wanting others who use the computer or are watching them to stumble on past browser history or bookmarks. Even though probably many Slashdotters have their own computer(s) that no-one else uses, I understand many households share a single computer.
Of course if you do browsing you don't want anyone else to know about that's what Private Browsing mode is for, coincidentally also introduced in 3.5 along with the Awesome Bar completion toggle.
You need to use about:config for 3.0, but in 3.5 they included the option to disable location bar searching in options... that's the whole point of this story, Mozilla took user feedback based on users who wouldn't upgrade to fix the issues they had with 3.0.
It's very easy to find now, under Privacy in Options at the bottom.
They did in 3.5, that's part of the story, at least in the blog posts I read. This story was an example of how user feedback from 2.0 users who couldn't upgrade was used to improve 3.0 for 3.5.
"These days, single applications like games and video editing software can easily use more than 3 gigs of RAM."
I don't know of any games that do. Furthermore 64-bit processors aren't yet widespread enough that game devs are going to drop support for 32-bit yet, AFAIK. Keep in mind too that not many people have the boot.ini switch needed for 3GB of application address space (and that switch might cause problems with poorly written drivers, too) so the apps you describe would need to be limited to just 2GB. 3GB is only available for apps explicitly compiled with a switch so they can be marked as supporting it. I can see video editing software requiring 64-bit, though the alternative of a carefully-managed application-based page file (or more simply a temporary project file on disk) is possible it would be very slow.
Anyways I think the most I ever saw an app take up legitimately (IE not a memory leak) was 800mb (it was Uru). I think Team Fortress 2, the most recently released game I play a lot, takes up about 600 or so, though to be fair it's not like I watch it in Task Manager while I play. Don't forget a lot of texture data and stuff gets offloaded to the GPU's memory.
Did he ever state in the prequels that he was a protocol droid, or display a talent for translation (I can't remember any, myself)? Don't forget 3P0 got his memory wiped at the end of episode 3, so it's likely he was repurposed as a protocol droid at that time and given his 6,000,000 forms of communication in a download.
I did just realize that 3P0 tells Luke soon after they meet in Episode 4 that he's not good at telling stories. Flash forward to Episode 6 as he tells the Ewoks all about their adventures and he seems to have gotten quite good at it somehow.
Maybe this fork won't hang if you try to use it in a VM. Also maybe the fork will keep an up-to-date 32-bit download.
I tried Menuet once but those two irks were quite annoying to me, especially since the 32-bit version hasn't been updated since I tried it and saw the 32-bit version was already out of date then. Might give this fork a try.
The cost would be that it would have to keep track of which blocks of data are in use, so it would have to have a small bit of the SSD storage set aside for this purpose.
There is no performance or lifespan penalty since this only affects what happens when data is written -- currently, the block is always read, combined, and then written. If the block is marked as not in use, the first two steps can be skipped. If the block is in use, we're just doing old behavior, no loss (except we needed to look up to see if the block was in use, but I doubt the performance loss would be noticeable).
I imagine they would still contain the data, but once you write to anywhere in that block the garbaged data would be zeroed out because it isn't being read into the "combine-read-data-with-new-to-be-written-data" buffer.
Privacy advocates will love it.
Ooops missed the last sentence of your last post. Oh well, I don't agree with it anyways. Whenever a site seems broken I automatically add it to the whitelist. Of course half the time that doesn't fix it and the site is just plain broken, but at least it's not NoScript's fault then.
One word: NoScript
Or do apt-get remove ubufox which will remove ubuntu specific firefox stuff and give you a fresh firefox.
Of course right now ubufox is for 3.0 so if you run 3.5 you don't even have to worry about ubufox (for now).
I think if you use an existing partition instead of making a new one Windows will just put everything on one partition.
Anyways you could always copy the files and boot sector from the small partition to the Windows 7 one and raze the small one, then you just need to edit the BCD registry using EasyBCD or bootedit.exe to point to the correct partition on boot. But yeah those are both WINDOWS tools... but bootedit.exe should be available from Windows 7 Setup on the DVD if you mess up and can't boot into Windows (press SHIFT+F10), and fixboot.exe can install the boot sector onto any partition.
What is a Backslashdot?
Last I checked IE8 still doesn't support the canvas tag without needing a third-party ActiveX control to add support, so no.
If you replace "JavaScript" with "Flash" and "HTML 5" with "HTML 5 and JavaScript" your sentence makes a bit more sense.
Seriously... Flash is usually OK when put next to giants like Internet Explorer, but a common plugin that runs on all browsers that is similarly exploitable on all browsers when an exploit is found is a bad thing in my book. I hope we see a version of Flash that will play nicely with sandbox models like Chrome's (currently Chrome is forced to run it unsandboxed, AFAIK).
Works fine in lynx for me.
Umm traditional toolbars show or hide elements based on window size...
The ribbon just tries to do it intelligently by hiding stuff you might not use as often, while a toolbar just uses icon placement to determine which to hide.
Microsoft issue a fix before Mozilla? I don't think you understand how "Patch Tuesday" works.
Well, I assume the entire system is encrypted, in which case there'd be little you COULD do except trick the user into giving you their decryption key.
The scenario described is NOT a monopoly, but perhaps a recipe for disaster for Microsoft. If game developers don't like MS' rules, they can still take their games elsewhere, whether to another console by Sony or Nintendo or to the PC (Valve's Steam service, for example).
It's only a monopoly if game developers have little choice but to develop under MS' rules, for example if most of their customers use Xboxes. Nintendo and Sony would have to both be "defeated" for this to happen. Right now Nintendo is going in a different direction and trying to distance themselves from the traditional "more polygons, more cost = better system" approach and I think they're doing a pretty good job which would make it difficult for Microsoft to beat a competitor who's technically not trying to compete. I don't know too much about Sony. But there's also the PC gaming scene which would be another haven for devs if Microsoft should impose significant rules or fees. Yes Microsoft monopolizes that OS market already, but you can already run anything you want on a Windows PC, and if MS tries to change that devs will simply stick to developing for the old Windows, consumers will stick to running the old Windows, and this would be very bad for MS.
Steam keeps a record of your purchase history, so your extra copy is not "lost". Valve will likely eventually extend the "gift games you already own" feature to any games you own two copies off in the future. Right now it's limited to HL2 and EP1 as part of the Orange Box package, and L4d as part of the L4D 4-pack package.
I will admit I'm puzzled as to why they haven't already extended the feature.
Latest version of NoScript still whitelists the authors own domains by default, and pops up his own domain on first run. I remove all his whitelists and just leave Google when I install it.