The whole point of flash was that the standards were so ignored that designers were glomping onto something, anything, that would show consistently across the browsers. But at this point with Firefox having the market share that it does and the other minor browsers taking on as many installs as they do by being more or less standards compliant, I fail to see why any designer in their right mind would be using Flash where alternatives exist.
As long as it isn't a real standard you're going to be giving up a portion of the potential market by using a proprietary plug in that isn't universally supported. Not to mention the people that block it because of the problems it causes and the abuses of technology over the years.
I do wonder if this sort of reverse class action suit is even legal. I don't think that a law firm ought to be able to bundle that many defendants together without having to at least demonstrate that there's a link between them other than allegedly infringing upon the same material.
Admittedly, this doesn't apply to this, but here under state law the plaintiff has to demonstrate damages to collect anything. Which means that they'd have to prove that they're entitled to the money in order to win. So the most that you'd be out would be court costs, attorneys fees plus whatever the cost of the actual damages was. Because the cost of the damages is unlikely to exceed the threshold, they'd be more or less stuck arguing things in small claims court. Which also means no attorneys either.
Which is the way that it should be, but by the same token, that's state rather than federal. Sort of ironic that it's far more appropriate for handling these sorts of things rather than the Federal courts which seem to have been high jacked by corporatist misanthropes looking to more or less convict whenever possible.
I'm guessing that before long somebody will come out with a version similar to what they did with Chrome. Basically removing a lot of the spyware. I get the sense that it won't be as easy with Chrome as presumably most of the scanning will be done on Google's end of things at the server level, but I'm sure some enterprising programmer will figure out a way of replacing Google apps with say dropbox or something else completely.
If it's mature and robust, explain to me why it is that MS is always reinventing it in drastic ways? Or why they seem to be constantly fixing it's bugs. I don't have problems with that on FreeBSD, because it is mature and robust. Very little changes without good reason. MS OTOH seems to change things all the time, even when there isn't a particularly compelling reason to do so. Even OSX hasn't been through any major changes of UI since they admitted that the old system didn't work properly and decided to fix pretty much all of it in one go.
I guess I'm sort of old fashioned for thinking that a mature OS isn't going to have to go through a radical redesign with every major release.
Wine's nice and all, but if you're really going to be gaming you're probably better off splurging on crossover games or when possible just buying the Linux version.
That being said, wasn't the point of Chrome to be a sort of cloud OS? Given that Larry Ellison predicted that we wouldn't be using PCs well over a decade ago and we're still using them, I'm guessing this is going to be more of a clod OS than a cloud OS. And such a thing will probably not be any good for gaming any time soon. Well, at least for things like FPS and other latency sensitive gaming.
Since evil is available in infinite supply, I'd say they're both evil as well as MS and Google while we're at it. Since I've still got evil to spare, I think that the US government is also evil for allowing our money to subsidized Israeli war crimes.
But seriously, this is/. either it's anti-Apple or pro-Apple we don't allow them moderates in here.
AT&T isn't losing money on their plans. They save a lot of it by not investing in the infrastructure necessary to provide the service they promise to the customers. It also doesn't make any sense for them to lower the price for most people while cutting the cap by less. I've got an unlimited data plan with them and I'm averaging somewhere around 250mb so far on my data plan. I'd have to increase my consumption quite a bit to come anywhere near running out of space on this possible new plan.
And quite a few casual users are in the same boat. Not that it makes it right if they go through with it, but most people will likely end up spending less money on their data plan than they do now. Gaining tethering would be worth it for quite a few of them. But really what needs to happen is that the FCC needs to step in and tell companies that they can't call it unlimited if you can't tether and that you can't charge people for bandwidth and then tell them how they can use it.
They're not patent trolls, they've been fighting to be compensated for nearly a decade and a half. Wireless wasn't really anywhere near as big back then as it is now. You act like they waited until it exploded before going gotcha, pay me my money.
You mean because they have the most experience not being tricked by slick corporate lawyers representing defendants. They regularly get tricked by slick attorneys into giving out dubious awards.
We use carrier pigeons, they can only take a couple "packets" of 16gb or so, but it only takes a few minutes for them to cross the city. We also use carrier rats internally as they can do the same thing with even higher capacity. We tried to work with carrier snails for a while, not sure why that didn't work out, but the packet never did arrive in San Diego like we expected. Snail mail my ass.
Hard disks don't go through revisions as quickly as tapes do. And on top of that you're not going to have to worry about whether or not you can read the HDD. Mainly because you'll know. Either the interface is supported in the other machine or it won't. On top of that any disk made in the last 15 or so years can be read with technology that's readily available today. But really you shouldn't have your disks sitting that long because it ends up being cheaper to dump the older ones onto newer larger ones anyways. You can get nearly a thousand of the HDDs I was using on my first personally owned computer on just one of the largest disks commercially available.
It's kind of a strawman argument to suggest that since you can't directly plug them in that there are no adapters available.
It's not that they're lazy it's usually because nobody has paid them to update it. That's a big difference indeed. Since they're presumably only being paid for upkeep, there's no money to do the work to bring it up to date and so it goes undone. However were they to be given the resources to bring it up to date, I doubt very much that it's less work to try to keep a long dead platform on a ventilator than it is to keep things up to date.
In the short term perhaps, but in the long term Android devices have been growing much quicker than the iPhone/iPad have been. And in the long run open platforms tend to do much better. Especially if developers get sick of Apple's iDickery. Which ironically enough probably won't ever be a real device since Apple seems to hate sex. A good set of developer tools and a platform that considers the needs of the people writing the programs can very easily translate into market share.
As a Nexus One owner, I have to say that Android is still somewhat immature. Google hasn't gotten around to implementing everything that it's reasonably capable of. As in there's still chips and bits of hardware which haven't been implemented in the OS yet and there's still no good way of syncing up google docs without a third party program.
That being said, because Google doesn't randomly kick people out of their market place for duplicating functions or using non-approved languages the situation is a lot less of a problem than it would be for Apple. OTOH I do wish that they'd implement some sort of rudimentary filtering mode for adult applications. I don't care if it defaults to disabled, but it's potentially problematic to be using my Nexus one to look for the latest applications and come across app after app of soft porn.
Still, it is quite usable and for the most part everything works the way that it should in a reliable and efficient fashion.
Except that's not entirely true. Biking, as well as jogging, greatly increases the exposure of a person's lungs to pollution. It's why you can have somebody that appears to be in perfect health drop dead anyways. Here's a citation, it's more specific to jogging, but it applies just as much to any aerobic exercise undertaken near traffic.Pollution: Dangerous to Joggers
Because things were working perfectly fine the way that they were. Most of the problems with ID theft have been due to carelessness of the people that were storing our records. And using flimsy information like mother's maiden name and SSN. Both of which are easy enough to determine without a whole lot of work. Adding a biometric dimension isn't going to solve the problem of sloppy security practices, just provide that much more information to be stolen or abused.
Suddenly? I remember when I was in elementary school 20 years ago that it was common for the whole class to go at once. There would be a teacher and the librarian there, but we were taught how to do most of the things ourselves. From looking things up in the card catalog to checking them out. There wasn't really a whole lot to checking them out, IIRC it was mostly a take the card out of the book, write your name down, place card in a specific place deal. I don't recall there ever being significant problems with lost books. Or at least no more so than with other systems used at the time.
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Except when it takes a half hour to boot up because it's still in the office supply store or requires a new pen to properly work with the upgrade.
Or, more likely he had the stylus in his hand and didn't want to put it away just to appease the paranoid.
The whole point of flash was that the standards were so ignored that designers were glomping onto something, anything, that would show consistently across the browsers. But at this point with Firefox having the market share that it does and the other minor browsers taking on as many installs as they do by being more or less standards compliant, I fail to see why any designer in their right mind would be using Flash where alternatives exist.
As long as it isn't a real standard you're going to be giving up a portion of the potential market by using a proprietary plug in that isn't universally supported. Not to mention the people that block it because of the problems it causes and the abuses of technology over the years.
Didn't the electric company as well as school house rock also do that? And well probably just about every other children's educational show?
I do wonder if this sort of reverse class action suit is even legal. I don't think that a law firm ought to be able to bundle that many defendants together without having to at least demonstrate that there's a link between them other than allegedly infringing upon the same material.
Admittedly, this doesn't apply to this, but here under state law the plaintiff has to demonstrate damages to collect anything. Which means that they'd have to prove that they're entitled to the money in order to win. So the most that you'd be out would be court costs, attorneys fees plus whatever the cost of the actual damages was. Because the cost of the damages is unlikely to exceed the threshold, they'd be more or less stuck arguing things in small claims court. Which also means no attorneys either.
Which is the way that it should be, but by the same token, that's state rather than federal. Sort of ironic that it's far more appropriate for handling these sorts of things rather than the Federal courts which seem to have been high jacked by corporatist misanthropes looking to more or less convict whenever possible.
Only in the way that Debian is Fedora, by which I mean only in the extremely vague way that they both use a Linux kernel.
I'm guessing that before long somebody will come out with a version similar to what they did with Chrome. Basically removing a lot of the spyware. I get the sense that it won't be as easy with Chrome as presumably most of the scanning will be done on Google's end of things at the server level, but I'm sure some enterprising programmer will figure out a way of replacing Google apps with say dropbox or something else completely.
If it's mature and robust, explain to me why it is that MS is always reinventing it in drastic ways? Or why they seem to be constantly fixing it's bugs. I don't have problems with that on FreeBSD, because it is mature and robust. Very little changes without good reason. MS OTOH seems to change things all the time, even when there isn't a particularly compelling reason to do so. Even OSX hasn't been through any major changes of UI since they admitted that the old system didn't work properly and decided to fix pretty much all of it in one go.
I guess I'm sort of old fashioned for thinking that a mature OS isn't going to have to go through a radical redesign with every major release.
Wine's nice and all, but if you're really going to be gaming you're probably better off splurging on crossover games or when possible just buying the Linux version.
That being said, wasn't the point of Chrome to be a sort of cloud OS? Given that Larry Ellison predicted that we wouldn't be using PCs well over a decade ago and we're still using them, I'm guessing this is going to be more of a clod OS than a cloud OS. And such a thing will probably not be any good for gaming any time soon. Well, at least for things like FPS and other latency sensitive gaming.
Since evil is available in infinite supply, I'd say they're both evil as well as MS and Google while we're at it. Since I've still got evil to spare, I think that the US government is also evil for allowing our money to subsidized Israeli war crimes.
/. either it's anti-Apple or pro-Apple we don't allow them moderates in here.
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AT&T isn't losing money on their plans. They save a lot of it by not investing in the infrastructure necessary to provide the service they promise to the customers. It also doesn't make any sense for them to lower the price for most people while cutting the cap by less. I've got an unlimited data plan with them and I'm averaging somewhere around 250mb so far on my data plan. I'd have to increase my consumption quite a bit to come anywhere near running out of space on this possible new plan.
And quite a few casual users are in the same boat. Not that it makes it right if they go through with it, but most people will likely end up spending less money on their data plan than they do now. Gaining tethering would be worth it for quite a few of them. But really what needs to happen is that the FCC needs to step in and tell companies that they can't call it unlimited if you can't tether and that you can't charge people for bandwidth and then tell them how they can use it.
They're not patent trolls, they've been fighting to be compensated for nearly a decade and a half. Wireless wasn't really anywhere near as big back then as it is now. You act like they waited until it exploded before going gotcha, pay me my money.
You mean because they have the most experience not being tricked by slick corporate lawyers representing defendants. They regularly get tricked by slick attorneys into giving out dubious awards.
We use carrier pigeons, they can only take a couple "packets" of 16gb or so, but it only takes a few minutes for them to cross the city. We also use carrier rats internally as they can do the same thing with even higher capacity. We tried to work with carrier snails for a while, not sure why that didn't work out, but the packet never did arrive in San Diego like we expected. Snail mail my ass.
Hard disks don't go through revisions as quickly as tapes do. And on top of that you're not going to have to worry about whether or not you can read the HDD. Mainly because you'll know. Either the interface is supported in the other machine or it won't. On top of that any disk made in the last 15 or so years can be read with technology that's readily available today. But really you shouldn't have your disks sitting that long because it ends up being cheaper to dump the older ones onto newer larger ones anyways. You can get nearly a thousand of the HDDs I was using on my first personally owned computer on just one of the largest disks commercially available.
It's kind of a strawman argument to suggest that since you can't directly plug them in that there are no adapters available.
It's not that they're lazy it's usually because nobody has paid them to update it. That's a big difference indeed. Since they're presumably only being paid for upkeep, there's no money to do the work to bring it up to date and so it goes undone. However were they to be given the resources to bring it up to date, I doubt very much that it's less work to try to keep a long dead platform on a ventilator than it is to keep things up to date.
It's not 54, it's 54*480 which is 25920. Which is a non trivial amount on a device that small.
In the short term perhaps, but in the long term Android devices have been growing much quicker than the iPhone/iPad have been. And in the long run open platforms tend to do much better. Especially if developers get sick of Apple's iDickery. Which ironically enough probably won't ever be a real device since Apple seems to hate sex. A good set of developer tools and a platform that considers the needs of the people writing the programs can very easily translate into market share.
As a Nexus One owner, I have to say that Android is still somewhat immature. Google hasn't gotten around to implementing everything that it's reasonably capable of. As in there's still chips and bits of hardware which haven't been implemented in the OS yet and there's still no good way of syncing up google docs without a third party program.
That being said, because Google doesn't randomly kick people out of their market place for duplicating functions or using non-approved languages the situation is a lot less of a problem than it would be for Apple. OTOH I do wish that they'd implement some sort of rudimentary filtering mode for adult applications. I don't care if it defaults to disabled, but it's potentially problematic to be using my Nexus one to look for the latest applications and come across app after app of soft porn.
Still, it is quite usable and for the most part everything works the way that it should in a reliable and efficient fashion.
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Indeed, if you eliminated the obsessive, borderline persistant people from slashdot, you'd end up with maybe a hundred.
Except that's not entirely true. Biking, as well as jogging, greatly increases the exposure of a person's lungs to pollution. It's why you can have somebody that appears to be in perfect health drop dead anyways. Here's a citation, it's more specific to jogging, but it applies just as much to any aerobic exercise undertaken near traffic.Pollution: Dangerous to Joggers
Because things were working perfectly fine the way that they were. Most of the problems with ID theft have been due to carelessness of the people that were storing our records. And using flimsy information like mother's maiden name and SSN. Both of which are easy enough to determine without a whole lot of work. Adding a biometric dimension isn't going to solve the problem of sloppy security practices, just provide that much more information to be stolen or abused.
Suddenly? I remember when I was in elementary school 20 years ago that it was common for the whole class to go at once. There would be a teacher and the librarian there, but we were taught how to do most of the things ourselves. From looking things up in the card catalog to checking them out. There wasn't really a whole lot to checking them out, IIRC it was mostly a take the card out of the book, write your name down, place card in a specific place deal. I don't recall there ever being significant problems with lost books. Or at least no more so than with other systems used at the time.