Decoders will get eventually done. If a dvd player can read it any program can. Only reverse engineer is required it is not like it will be hard to be done by the people that are used to decode video formats. VLC player can currently play even flv videos.
Even if that's not possible, one can always do something with the propietary video players to send the video output to a 'friendly' format encoder app instead of the screen.
I have a 768 MB RAM 2.4 Ghz comp and I always use firefox, I have never experienced problems so far, I can even have firefox open while I play some 3d games , I don't see where your post is coming from, is it really about a real experience? D you use like 30 browser windows at the same time?
I have never seen firefox use more than 70 MB of RAM , that is too much but it is not enough to bring down a comp like mine/yours.
now we only need to spend more tax-payers' dollars in order to convince the stupid sub-set of tax payers to stop talking with the cell phone while they are driving so they don't die.
People are getting too much "+5 insightful" modifiers for trolling...
Nobody is going to buy windows, I am sure that the guys with pirated copies will just get a hack-fix . They will be really easy to find. The XP.isos already come with everything and serial code. It won't take much time before the XP_no_WGA.iso becomes available for torrents.
The objective of the GPL is to encourage people to share code but to maintain and update the code for the original software's benefits as opposed to encourage them to share and reuse the code.
I don't really like this approach. I'd also like it to encourage people to share and reuse code. That's the reason I prefer the FreeBSD license over of the GPL. The one I use for my hobby from scratch projects is zlib though.
As "evil and incompetent" as google is. I think the web needed competence in this area. Paypal's monopoly wasn't good for the costumer.
If gbuy allows more countries to use (aka mine) I will be really glad. And if not it will at least force paypal to improve instead of not doing anything.
I've seen much of the advances on game development to be eye candy related rather than other things. These super graphics take most of the space. The executable files hardly take more than 1MB and the data won't go higher than 50MB . Latest games involve 2 GB of 3d models and skins.
On the other hand, gameplay and such stuff hasn't really improved a lot in the latest 10 years. In fact one could argue that despite warcraft III's nice graphics its gameplay is far from matching starcraft.
I have to say games are pushing towards the graphics way too much. There are still good games and so and so but the evolution in gameplay seems too small compared to the one I could witness before.
The good thing is that modding is taking more importance than before that's really good. Probably the only good thing about the current state of video games, although MMORPGS menace to kill modding.
Bulletin Boards have been effective against these issues for ages with bbcodes that use [] instead of > < . Also wikipedia has excellent formatting features without letting users ever use an html tag by themselves.
By simply turning >< into ><before displaying content that was influenced by user input you get rid of every single XSS risk. If users complaint about it being too limited they should get their own site instead of depenging on blog/forum/ whatever other thing.
I personally found Bon Echo (Firefox 2.0 alpha version) kind of impressive. Considering it is just alpha I hope they don't mess it up later in the development. Firefox 2.0 currently promises of being a really good improvement for firefox (not feature crazyness but speed and stability, heck the only crash I get now is when closing firefox, unlike 1.5.0.4 which crashes eventually on some pages, specially those with embedded videos.)
The subtle part about this thing is that the "Buda man" will not get jailed, just myspace will lost the $30 million.
The girl could have sued her mother for not protecting her. Of course, the mother doesn't have as much money as mySpace nor does the "Buda man"
What's Myspace supposed to do? Require users to take an personality test that could tell if they are sexual harassers before registering?
It is not like they could sue the phone company for letting a harasser contact her. Another "guilty" institutions are both email services for letting the harasser write mail to the teenager
Also, I personally doubt native code will end its existance
As long as native is faster than interpreted languages there will be a good reason to use it instead of interpreted languages. The fans of interpreted languages might prefer native code to die, but it will not do so
With the help of good libraries C++ can easily achieve the Cross Platform status which is by far the most important feature of interpreted languages
You might argue that you need a garbage collector to type your code, but that's not really true and even so if you plan to make a big project with c++ you can always make your own memory manager
As far as coding effectiveness goes, if faster development is more important than faster execution interpreted languages are the answer"
It's not like they 'll win anything from faking benchmarks they would eventually be proven wrong, and that would be a bad thing for them, so just leave the paranoia.
If support for these old OS is causing bigger file sizes and other disadvatages I think it is wise to drop support for such an old System. 8 years is like a whole era in the PC world. Also nothing will stop interested developers in making a windows 98 port. And I think that 1.5 would be faster than 3.0 in w98 anyways
May be they are still in a tough fight against Vista and XP but for old versions like 98 the newest linux distros killed the old windows' so if pricing is a worry it is not something that should stop you from using modern OSes.
As far as I know the video games that include violence and sex are rated for not so young people. People that could find the same stuff on tv without any problem anyways.
This witch hunt against video games is as stupid as it can get. I for one do not think that violence in video games causes violence in the real world (else I would be a serial killer) I actually think that it is the opposite, violence in the real world is the cause of violence in video games
I am currently using Bon Echo Alpha 3 . I tried 1.5.0.4 and it seems much stabler and faster than 1.5.0.3 but it seems to me that Bon echo is still the best firefox version, It seriously is awesome.
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Have you seen a person complaining about a movie's gameplay?
Decoders will get eventually done. If a dvd player can read it any program can. Only reverse engineer is required it is not like it will be hard to be done by the people that are used to decode video formats. VLC player can currently play even flv videos.
Even if that's not possible, one can always do something with the propietary video players to send the video output to a 'friendly' format encoder app instead of the screen.
Luck equals that no massive disaster comes by before we can prevent it.
That means that not even malware developers bother to port their software to mac!
Oscar Wilde is popular then his statement is wrong
I have a 768 MB RAM 2.4 Ghz comp and I always use firefox, I have never experienced problems so far, I can even have firefox open while I play some 3d games , I don't see where your post is coming from, is it really about a real experience? D you use like 30 browser windows at the same time?
I have never seen firefox use more than 70 MB of RAM , that is too much but it is not enough to bring down a comp like mine/yours.
now we only need to spend more tax-payers' dollars in order to convince the stupid sub-set of tax payers to stop talking with the cell phone while they are driving so they don't die.
People are getting too much "+5 insightful" modifiers for trolling...
.isos already come with everything and serial code. It won't take much time before the XP_no_WGA.iso becomes available for torrents.
Nobody is going to buy windows, I am sure that the guys with pirated copies will just get a hack-fix . They will be really easy to find. The XP
The objective of the GPL is to encourage people to share code but to maintain and update the code for the original software's benefits as opposed to encourage them to share and reuse the code. I don't really like this approach. I'd also like it to encourage people to share and reuse code. That's the reason I prefer the FreeBSD license over of the GPL. The one I use for my hobby from scratch projects is zlib though.
As "evil and incompetent" as google is. I think the web needed competence in this area. Paypal's monopoly wasn't good for the costumer.
If gbuy allows more countries to use (aka mine) I will be really glad. And if not it will at least force paypal to improve instead of not doing anything.
I actually think that adults are letting the world note their immaturity more than before.
I've seen much of the advances on game development to be eye candy related rather than other things. These super graphics take most of the space. The executable files hardly take more than 1MB and the data won't go higher than 50MB . Latest games involve 2 GB of 3d models and skins. On the other hand, gameplay and such stuff hasn't really improved a lot in the latest 10 years. In fact one could argue that despite warcraft III's nice graphics its gameplay is far from matching starcraft. I have to say games are pushing towards the graphics way too much. There are still good games and so and so but the evolution in gameplay seems too small compared to the one I could witness before. The good thing is that modding is taking more importance than before that's really good. Probably the only good thing about the current state of video games, although MMORPGS menace to kill modding.
Bulletin Boards have been effective against these issues for ages with bbcodes that use [] instead of > < . Also wikipedia has excellent formatting features without letting users ever use an html tag by themselves.
By simply turning >< into ><before displaying content that was influenced by user input you get rid of every single XSS risk. If users complaint about it being too limited they should get their own site instead of depenging on blog/forum/ whatever other thing.
There is an IE port for linux, I've seen many articles on how to install IE in wine.
I personally found Bon Echo (Firefox 2.0 alpha version) kind of impressive. Considering it is just alpha I hope they don't mess it up later in the development. Firefox 2.0 currently promises of being a really good improvement for firefox (not feature crazyness but speed and stability, heck the only crash I get now is when closing firefox, unlike 1.5.0.4 which crashes eventually on some pages, specially those with embedded videos.)
The subtle part about this thing is that the "Buda man" will not get jailed, just myspace will lost the $30 million.
The girl could have sued her mother for not protecting her. Of course, the mother doesn't have as much money as mySpace nor does the "Buda man"
What's Myspace supposed to do? Require users to take an personality test that could tell if they are sexual harassers before registering?
It is not like they could sue the phone company for letting a harasser contact her. Another "guilty" institutions are both email services for letting the harasser write mail to the teenager
Since when is nudity considered spam or spyware?
Let's say we have a very complex operation that involves calling "instantaneous" calculations a couple of trillions of times.
Now compare 2 trillions of instantaneous with 20 trillions of instantaneous.
Also Programmer lazyness is not a good excuse
I agree 100%.
Also, I personally doubt native code will end its existance
As long as native is faster than interpreted languages there will be a good reason to use it instead of interpreted languages. The fans of interpreted languages might prefer native code to die, but it will not do so
With the help of good libraries C++ can easily achieve the Cross Platform status which is by far the most important feature of interpreted languages
You might argue that you need a garbage collector to type your code, but that's not really true and even so if you plan to make a big project with c++ you can always make your own memory manager
As far as coding effectiveness goes, if faster development is more important than faster execution interpreted languages are the answer"
He can now make another article about how apple paid him to say this. That'll be an awesome way to continue the trolling.
It's not like they 'll win anything from faking benchmarks they would eventually be proven wrong, and that would be a bad thing for them, so just leave the paranoia.
If support for these old OS is causing bigger file sizes and other disadvatages I think it is wise to drop support for such an old System. 8 years is like a whole era in the PC world. Also nothing will stop interested developers in making a windows 98 port. And I think that 1.5 would be faster than 3.0 in w98 anyways
May be they are still in a tough fight against Vista and XP but for old versions like 98 the newest linux distros killed the old windows' so if pricing is a worry it is not something that should stop you from using modern OSes.
As far as I know the video games that include violence and sex are rated for not so young people. People that could find the same stuff on tv without any problem anyways.
This witch hunt against video games is as stupid as it can get. I for one do not think that violence in video games causes violence in the real world (else I would be a serial killer) I actually think that it is the opposite, violence in the real world is the cause of violence in video games
I am currently using Bon Echo Alpha 3 . I tried 1.5.0.4 and it seems much stabler and faster than 1.5.0.3 but it seems to me that Bon echo is still the best firefox version, It seriously is awesome.