A lot of commenters here seem to be taking what I would consider as extreme measures in order to avoid these cookies. Running your browser in a VM which resets each time you close it? Installing numerous addons (I see someone listed 4 you need to install to cover yourself)? Does anyone else not think that perhaps instead of avoiding the issue, it should be tackled head on?
What I mean is - if this is such a serious issue, why are we standing by just letting it happen when we could be petitioning the various standards committees, plugin developers and browser manufacturers to do something about it? The so-called zombie cookie (or Supercookie) exists because we let it exist. It's clearly an exploit in the way various technologies work together and it should be treated as such, i.e. patched until it can't be done any more.
Furthermore, any company that uses this tactic should be taken to court since it's a clear and deliberate violation of privacy. I.e. if I decide to delete a cookie, I'm making it explicitly clear that I want it gone - I'm opting OUT, so keep it that way.
I don't think the drivers are going to be that difficult. The CPU/GPU/etc are from the snapdragon platform, there's plenty of source code for kernels out for that already. I'm not sure it has any components that can't be found in other tablets/phones either, it'll just be a case of gluing it all together. The main issue will probably making Gingerbread workable without the hardware buttons, but then once ICS comes out, it'll be a non-issue.
Alien Davlik has been mentioned as well, but as far as I can tell, the developers feel it'd be better to port to Android and ensure the device has a future upgrade path since nobody knows what HP is doing with WebOS.
I agree apple does have those advantages, but the same can be said for the iPhone, yet Apple would rather make huge profits than sell the most devices. I don't think their tablets will be much different, but who knows what the future holds.
No, it's obviously much simpler than that: Price. When it comes to android tablets, there's a lot of high-end offerings that can compete with the iPad in terms on performance, the problem is that they cost as much as (if not more) than the iPad. Then there's the other end of the spectrum - the "cheap" android tablets. They're cheap in every regard: resistive screens, slow processors and minimal memory, they're mere toys. The fact that the touchpad is flying off the shelves shows that people are waiting for decent tablets to come down in price and don't care if it's not an iPad.
Android's tablet offerings could learn from this (And yes, I know it would be impossible to produce this tablet at this price and make a profit).
Not that C++ really ever went away. With its older cousin C, it remains one of the most popular languages for systems programming and for applications that call for performance-intensive native code, such as 3D game engines.
I fail to see any problem with this statement, except perhaps that it implies that C++ was designed only for performance applications, when really it was designed to handle anything you throw at it (of course, other languages are better at certain things, meaning people will pick that language because of their needs, but no language is as good as C++ at absolutely everything) and handle it efficiently.
I never said "it might have been ok", what I said was "let's not jump all over him when we only have half of the story".
I in no way defended his actions, merely the notion of "throwing the book at him" because what he did was so utterly, utterly wrong. Except what he did that we know of was cause some disruption that lost the company money. The OP's argument was "lets throw the book at him because of what he COULD have done", which isn't really any better.
I would just like to stress that I in no way claimed to be "old school". In fact, I'm quite young, can't grasp Linuz for the life of me and feel much more comfortable in a GUI than the command line.
I'll go get my coat, now. My Geek pass is on your desk.
I'm not debating that what he did was right or wrong (it's certainly wrong), all I'm saying is that there is a good possibility that his actions weren't entirely selfish. It wasn't just him that got laid off and we don't have any information on what his initial disagreements with the management were, for all we know they wanted to experiment on baby pandas (yes I know that's unlikely, but the point remains). Saying he doesn't deserve any leniency without knowing the full story is just wrong.
And in case you didn't figure it out, "^" represents the CTRL key.
And oddly enough, it's not just VI - the windows command prompt works exactly the same way, open one now and hit CTRL+V (probably expecting to paste something) only to get ^V on your screen instead. But it's ok, hit CTRL+H and it'll backspace for you.
I believe its less to do with VI and it's CRAZINESS and more to do with the legacy of some keyboards not actually having a backspace key. Shock horror, I know.
(Cue the "...back in my day, we had to use TWO keys to backspace!" comments...).
I tried WoW when it first came out in the EU. I gave up after a month for numerous reasons (basically, it just wasn't my kind of game), however a couple of years ago I met my (now) wife who was an avid WoW player. She played at a professional level, in a guild with sponsorships and that kind of thing. By all definitions, she was a "hardcore" WoW player. Yes - was.
I watched from the sidelines as her interest in the game dwindled and it's easy, from an outside perspective, to see why - Blizzard were trying to appeal to too many "types" of MMO player and more or less alienated everyone. To break it down in its simplest terms, there's 2 kinds of player - casual and hardcore. When the burning crusade came out, it was hard. Tough as nails, in fact. I remember watching her and her 25 man guild wipe numerous times on regular bosses, let alone the heroics. And it was fun! They enjoyed the challenege, but the problem is the "casual" players didn't. The casual argument was that they're paying the same subscription as everyone else yet only getting to see half of the content because they couldn't progress. That's when Blizzard decided to tone down the difficulty, just in time for Wrath of the Litch King. This kept a lot of the casual players happy, but it meant the hardcore guilds were completing the content a day or two after it came out. If Blizzard didn't stagger patch releases, Arthas would have been dead before Christmas.
In each instance, Blizzard ultimately lost players. Sure, they'd gain an increase in subscribers when the expansions were released, but shortly after people would stop paying the subscription. On the one hand, the casuals feel cheated when content is too hard and the hardcore guilds get bored because there is no content left for them. I've even seen Casual players argue that the heroic modes are too hard and that it isn't fair, despite the fact that the content is the same and the purpose of heroics is to keep the hardcore guilds happy.
The end result is that Blizzard constantly changes their mind on who they focus on - casual or hardcore and ultimately appeases neither.
Just because you can use a tool incorrectly does not mean that the tool itself is bad. You can use a hammer to eat pasta with, if you really insist. It'll take forever, you'll probably lose a tooth and if used really poorly, you can possibly even give yourself brain damage - but does that make hammers bad? Should we go back to just bashing shit with rocks? No.
C++ has a lot of tools and just because you don't have a need for them or have no idea how to correctly use them, it does not make them useless, pointless or otherwise.
No, this is all about Android, not ChromeOS. Make no mistake, Google's press release specifically mentions Android and if Google wanted such a device, they'd build another high-end "reference" device like the Nexus ONE was.
I must have been using ZSNES for over a decade now, possibly even longer. Snes9x was pretty good, too. I never had much of an issue with either emulator, as far as I was concerned, it played the games and it played them just fine. The odd glitch, maybe, but nothing that put me off completing a whole bunch of games I played as a kid, or missed out on.
However, I do agree with the author of bsnes that "just fine" isn't really acceptable when you want to preserve the computer you're emulating, not just play some games. I believe MAME takes a similar approach, aiming for accuracy rather than speed (Which is why it runs mostly in software and not hardware, hence 3D games like Tekken run very slowly) as MAME is primarily about preserving the games and not just playing them.
Computing power isn't really an issue, computers will only get faster and faster over time. The computers in use 10 years ago would be eclipsed by even a mid-ranged smartphone today. In 10 years from now, when there's even fewer working SNESes out there, it's good to know that the code will be portable to whatever machines we have at the time and that it'll run games as they're intended. It's not unthinkable that someone might unearth a previously unknown SNES game cartridge only to not be able to find a SNES to play it on. bsnes may well be the only emulator capable of playing it, for one reason or another.
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The Bill of Materials for the Touchpad is $296 (Source: http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/HP-TouchPad-Carries-$318-Bill-of-Materials.aspx) and that doesn't include manufacturing costs. How on earth are you going to knock more than 2/3 of that price off? Volume will only get you so far.
A lot of commenters here seem to be taking what I would consider as extreme measures in order to avoid these cookies. Running your browser in a VM which resets each time you close it? Installing numerous addons (I see someone listed 4 you need to install to cover yourself)? Does anyone else not think that perhaps instead of avoiding the issue, it should be tackled head on?
What I mean is - if this is such a serious issue, why are we standing by just letting it happen when we could be petitioning the various standards committees, plugin developers and browser manufacturers to do something about it? The so-called zombie cookie (or Supercookie) exists because we let it exist. It's clearly an exploit in the way various technologies work together and it should be treated as such, i.e. patched until it can't be done any more.
Furthermore, any company that uses this tactic should be taken to court since it's a clear and deliberate violation of privacy. I.e. if I decide to delete a cookie, I'm making it explicitly clear that I want it gone - I'm opting OUT, so keep it that way.
I don't think the drivers are going to be that difficult. The CPU/GPU/etc are from the snapdragon platform, there's plenty of source code for kernels out for that already. I'm not sure it has any components that can't be found in other tablets/phones either, it'll just be a case of gluing it all together. The main issue will probably making Gingerbread workable without the hardware buttons, but then once ICS comes out, it'll be a non-issue.
Alien Davlik has been mentioned as well, but as far as I can tell, the developers feel it'd be better to port to Android and ensure the device has a future upgrade path since nobody knows what HP is doing with WebOS.
I agree apple does have those advantages, but the same can be said for the iPhone, yet Apple would rather make huge profits than sell the most devices. I don't think their tablets will be much different, but who knows what the future holds.
No, it's obviously much simpler than that: Price.
When it comes to android tablets, there's a lot of high-end offerings that can compete with the iPad in terms on performance, the problem is that they cost as much as (if not more) than the iPad.
Then there's the other end of the spectrum - the "cheap" android tablets. They're cheap in every regard: resistive screens, slow processors and minimal memory, they're mere toys. The fact that the touchpad is flying off the shelves shows that people are waiting for decent tablets to come down in price and don't care if it's not an iPad.
Android's tablet offerings could learn from this (And yes, I know it would be impossible to produce this tablet at this price and make a profit).
That's bullcrap, my computer is chocked full of cookies and every time I visit a website, it grows more!
I presume you're referring to this:
Not that C++ really ever went away. With its older cousin C, it remains one of the most popular languages for systems programming and for applications that call for performance-intensive native code, such as 3D game engines.
I fail to see any problem with this statement, except perhaps that it implies that C++ was designed only for performance applications, when really it was designed to handle anything you throw at it (of course, other languages are better at certain things, meaning people will pick that language because of their needs, but no language is as good as C++ at absolutely everything) and handle it efficiently.
I never said "it might have been ok", what I said was "let's not jump all over him when we only have half of the story".
I in no way defended his actions, merely the notion of "throwing the book at him" because what he did was so utterly, utterly wrong. Except what he did that we know of was cause some disruption that lost the company money. The OP's argument was "lets throw the book at him because of what he COULD have done", which isn't really any better.
They did this in Splinter Cell YEARS ago.
I would just like to stress that I in no way claimed to be "old school". In fact, I'm quite young, can't grasp Linuz for the life of me and feel much more comfortable in a GUI than the command line.
I'll go get my coat, now. My Geek pass is on your desk.
That's a lot of innovation!
I'm not debating that what he did was right or wrong (it's certainly wrong), all I'm saying is that there is a good possibility that his actions weren't entirely selfish. It wasn't just him that got laid off and we don't have any information on what his initial disagreements with the management were, for all we know they wanted to experiment on baby pandas (yes I know that's unlikely, but the point remains). Saying he doesn't deserve any leniency without knowing the full story is just wrong.
And in case you didn't figure it out, "^" represents the CTRL key.
And oddly enough, it's not just VI - the windows command prompt works exactly the same way, open one now and hit CTRL+V (probably expecting to paste something) only to get ^V on your screen instead. But it's ok, hit CTRL+H and it'll backspace for you.
I believe its less to do with VI and it's CRAZINESS and more to do with the legacy of some keyboards not actually having a backspace key. Shock horror, I know.
(Cue the "...back in my day, we had to use TWO keys to backspace!" comments...).
I believe you know the full story from both sides then, yes? So what was his dispute with the management that made him do this?
I tried WoW when it first came out in the EU. I gave up after a month for numerous reasons (basically, it just wasn't my kind of game), however a couple of years ago I met my (now) wife who was an avid WoW player. She played at a professional level, in a guild with sponsorships and that kind of thing. By all definitions, she was a "hardcore" WoW player. Yes - was.
I watched from the sidelines as her interest in the game dwindled and it's easy, from an outside perspective, to see why - Blizzard were trying to appeal to too many "types" of MMO player and more or less alienated everyone. To break it down in its simplest terms, there's 2 kinds of player - casual and hardcore. When the burning crusade came out, it was hard. Tough as nails, in fact. I remember watching her and her 25 man guild wipe numerous times on regular bosses, let alone the heroics. And it was fun! They enjoyed the challenege, but the problem is the "casual" players didn't. The casual argument was that they're paying the same subscription as everyone else yet only getting to see half of the content because they couldn't progress.
That's when Blizzard decided to tone down the difficulty, just in time for Wrath of the Litch King. This kept a lot of the casual players happy, but it meant the hardcore guilds were completing the content a day or two after it came out. If Blizzard didn't stagger patch releases, Arthas would have been dead before Christmas.
In each instance, Blizzard ultimately lost players. Sure, they'd gain an increase in subscribers when the expansions were released, but shortly after people would stop paying the subscription. On the one hand, the casuals feel cheated when content is too hard and the hardcore guilds get bored because there is no content left for them. I've even seen Casual players argue that the heroic modes are too hard and that it isn't fair, despite the fact that the content is the same and the purpose of heroics is to keep the hardcore guilds happy.
The end result is that Blizzard constantly changes their mind on who they focus on - casual or hardcore and ultimately appeases neither.
What if I call it Slow Loris?
Just because you can use a tool incorrectly does not mean that the tool itself is bad. You can use a hammer to eat pasta with, if you really insist. It'll take forever, you'll probably lose a tooth and if used really poorly, you can possibly even give yourself brain damage - but does that make hammers bad? Should we go back to just bashing shit with rocks? No.
C++ has a lot of tools and just because you don't have a need for them or have no idea how to correctly use them, it does not make them useless, pointless or otherwise.
As opposed to a submarine?
Just Motorola Mobility. Motorola Solutions is not affected.
Antitrust people would probably shit a brick if that were to happen.
Samsung, HTC, LG and Sony Ericsson are there and they're the biggest Android manufacturers. Erm....ZTE, maybe? Is it anyone important?
No, this is all about Android, not ChromeOS. Make no mistake, Google's press release specifically mentions Android and if Google wanted such a device, they'd build another high-end "reference" device like the Nexus ONE was.
Isn't the EVO made by HTC?
I'm guessing that in your (clearly inadequate) haste, you also forgot to tick the "Post Anonymously" button?
I must have been using ZSNES for over a decade now, possibly even longer. Snes9x was pretty good, too. I never had much of an issue with either emulator, as far as I was concerned, it played the games and it played them just fine. The odd glitch, maybe, but nothing that put me off completing a whole bunch of games I played as a kid, or missed out on.
However, I do agree with the author of bsnes that "just fine" isn't really acceptable when you want to preserve the computer you're emulating, not just play some games. I believe MAME takes a similar approach, aiming for accuracy rather than speed (Which is why it runs mostly in software and not hardware, hence 3D games like Tekken run very slowly) as MAME is primarily about preserving the games and not just playing them.
Computing power isn't really an issue, computers will only get faster and faster over time. The computers in use 10 years ago would be eclipsed by even a mid-ranged smartphone today. In 10 years from now, when there's even fewer working SNESes out there, it's good to know that the code will be portable to whatever machines we have at the time and that it'll run games as they're intended. It's not unthinkable that someone might unearth a previously unknown SNES game cartridge only to not be able to find a SNES to play it on. bsnes may well be the only emulator capable of playing it, for one reason or another.