Statistically speaking, when every existing option is equally fucked up, an attempt to fix it is the extreme viewpoint.
Take the Milgram experiment for example. Or the state of web browsers in 2004. Or parts of the world controlled by religion like the Middle East and the Bottom USA.
I'm unsure what's going to change on user desktops that will drive any massive increase in core numbers. Still, I'm prepared to be surprised.
Browsers. Chrome already does multi-process, Firefox 3.5 uses multithreaded audio/video, and Javascript has explicit (albeit uselessly heavily sandboxed) threading support now as well.
Windows is pretty entrenched on the desktop (and laptop) and won't be displaced there easily.
I've installed Ubuntu for some barely tech-literate relatives in the past. When I went back there the CD was gone... they gave it to someone else and it's been passed on at least 3 times since then.
This ain't new tech, people, it's just a new (and horribly bastardized and slow) variant of what dumb terminals and X have been capable of for decades.
Ever used X outside of an academic/office setting with gigabit both ways? It ain't pretty. Or fast.
Firefox 3.5 has jumped head first into the idiotic "perceived speed" browser arms race, and it now does DNS lookups for every link on a page when it's loading just to save 100ms on the off-chance you do click on one. So if your only DNS access is over a 56kbps line, it's going to suck hard.
There's no option to turn this off in the Privacy section like there is on Chrome, it's buried in about:config.
I used to play a Doom sourceport that had added jumping and vertical aim and... well.
A few months after I'd forced one CTF map out of the official rotation forever through sequence-breaking it, rocket jump servers were pretty common. Multi-level games with nothing but fields of health, invincibility and rocket ammo with some impossible jumps needed to get to the exit switch. At one point there were more people in the RJ servers than the CTF ones.
The one thing I'll always remember was this crazy playground map someone had built with a tower in it. The only way to reach the top was double-jumping off its walls three times in a row, before the invincibility ran out (about 30 seconds). Me and about 4 or 5 guys spent a good few hours getting up there, then we piled on top of each other (another hour) - using only RJing. Back in my day we didn't have teleporters and we had to rocket jump up the hill both ways...
(I *did* get a screenshot, but it's been gone for years now.)
Try it yourself: can you think of five third-party win32 apps that actually use the standard UI? See if you can do the same for first-party ones without counting notepad...
As a side note, I think console systems would be improved if the right analog joystick on the controller was replaced with a trackball. Aiming is next to impossible with a joystick.
Your thumb would hurt after a while. A joystick has a mostly flat top, a trackball is more curved so it has less contact area and more pressure. The idea would be perfect if not for that.
Complaining about how bad your OS runs and demanding handouts while actively refusing to take the free upgrade path already there... can't say you don't deserve it.
Sure, I tried that. And the window hit the top of the Ubuntu desktop, and would not go up any further, so it did not help. If the top of the window could have gone out of the visible area, allowing me to see the "Okay" button, that would have been nice. Also nice would be if a scroll bar appeared to one side of the dialog and just let me scroll the dialog until the "Okay" button was visible.
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Statistically speaking, when every existing option is equally fucked up, an attempt to fix it is the extreme viewpoint.
Take the Milgram experiment for example. Or the state of web browsers in 2004. Or parts of the world controlled by religion like the Middle East and the Bottom USA.
Give Slashdot one line of text and it'll find some way to screw it up...
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Why would you need 200 webpages open at once while you're playing a fullscreen game?
I'm unsure what's going to change on user desktops that will drive any massive increase in core numbers. Still, I'm prepared to be surprised.
Browsers. Chrome already does multi-process, Firefox 3.5 uses multithreaded audio/video, and Javascript has explicit (albeit uselessly heavily sandboxed) threading support now as well.
gzip only stores single files at a time.
It's a pointless layer of indirection anyway. Ogg and FLAC both have enough extensibility to use as container formats for whole albums.
Windows is pretty entrenched on the desktop (and laptop) and won't be displaced there easily.
I've installed Ubuntu for some barely tech-literate relatives in the past. When I went back there the CD was gone... they gave it to someone else and it's been passed on at least 3 times since then.
It really bothers me that I can't find any vocal resistance in the press to these buzzwords. Is there anyone with a brain?
Have you tried looking outside Slashdot?
This ain't new tech, people, it's just a new (and horribly bastardized and slow) variant of what dumb terminals and X have been capable of for decades.
Ever used X outside of an academic/office setting with gigabit both ways? It ain't pretty. Or fast.
"tl;dr" is actually shorthand for "too lazy; drooling retard".
Would it be too much to ask for a single link that leads to the story in the portion that shows on the front page?
Click the "Read More" link.
You need to add a network.dns.disablePrefetch boolean, it's apparently not in the list by default. Details here
Firefox 3.5 has jumped head first into the idiotic "perceived speed" browser arms race, and it now does DNS lookups for every link on a page when it's loading just to save 100ms on the off-chance you do click on one. So if your only DNS access is over a 56kbps line, it's going to suck hard.
There's no option to turn this off in the Privacy section like there is on Chrome, it's buried in about:config.
This one time I found an old power-socket-to-lightbulb-socket adaptor thing when I was about 3 or 4. I decided to test it.
Um, yeah. Fill in the blanks yourself.
I used to play a Doom sourceport that had added jumping and vertical aim and... well.
A few months after I'd forced one CTF map out of the official rotation forever through sequence-breaking it, rocket jump servers were pretty common. Multi-level games with nothing but fields of health, invincibility and rocket ammo with some impossible jumps needed to get to the exit switch. At one point there were more people in the RJ servers than the CTF ones.
The one thing I'll always remember was this crazy playground map someone had built with a tower in it. The only way to reach the top was double-jumping off its walls three times in a row, before the invincibility ran out (about 30 seconds). Me and about 4 or 5 guys spent a good few hours getting up there, then we piled on top of each other (another hour) - using only RJing. Back in my day we didn't have teleporters and we had to rocket jump up the hill both ways...
(I *did* get a screenshot, but it's been gone for years now.)
Don't welcome MS to 2001.
It gives them too much credit. They haven't even reached 2000 yet.
Well to be fair, they aren't dressing like that for nothing.
Nope - Windows is still going strong.
Try it yourself: can you think of five third-party win32 apps that actually use the standard UI? See if you can do the same for first-party ones without counting notepad...
As a side note, I think console systems would be improved if the right analog joystick on the controller was replaced with a trackball. Aiming is next to impossible with a joystick.
Your thumb would hurt after a while. A joystick has a mostly flat top, a trackball is more curved so it has less contact area and more pressure. The idea would be perfect if not for that.
Yes, CNet is telling you this.
In case you haven't noticed already, they make Fox News look fair and balanced.
Vista is sufficient punishment in itself.
Complaining about how bad your OS runs and demanding handouts while actively refusing to take the free upgrade path already there... can't say you don't deserve it.
Sure, I tried that. And the window hit the top of the Ubuntu desktop, and would not go up any further, so it did not help. If the top of the window could have gone out of the visible area, allowing me to see the "Okay" button, that would have been nice. Also nice would be if a scroll bar appeared to one side of the dialog and just let me scroll the dialog until the "Okay" button was visible.
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On reputable sites, they are.
Bell is clearly anything but.
Yes, you!
Report their fake error page: Help -> Report Web Forgery in Firefox, probably in the same place in other browsers.
The thugs are already better armed than the victims. That'll stay the same even if it were legal.