The one and only time I spent more than £20 on a mouse -- a Razer brand which had no features beyond standard buttons+wheel other than being advertised as a "gaming" mouse -- its left button broke after 2 weeks. I got another few days of use out of it by breaking the "warranty seal" over the screw holding it together and propping up the flimsy microswitch under the button so its dry solder joint stayed connected.
A 10-button office mouse I bought for 1/3rd of the price lasted well over a year.
The US is already one of the most tourist-hostile countries on the planet. Qatar was probably chosen because it had a higher chance of still having open borders 10 years from now.
Your digital hardware is proprietary garbage and broken as shit, the rest of your products are a buggy-whip industry, and on top of that you're a patent troll.
If this passes, people relying on proprietary software will get a rude awakening.
If your suppliers are using Windows or Photoshop, how can you verify that they're all using licensed copies? Either you call the BSA in to kick their office's doors down and ransack it on your behalf, which is going to get you some "special" customer service once they find out you did it, or someone else will after you've bought from them in which case you'll be screwed when they get caught.
The only way you'll be safe under this regime is to require everyone in the supply chain uses FOSS.
I thought the throbber GIF was the first image to be replaced with an APNG. (Probably the last too, considering not even Gimp supports the format.)
The MNG debacle was fascinating to watch at the time, but it left me with a clear message: there are people in Mozilla that are all too happy to kill off a format just because they don't like it personally. When the impossible technical requirements they imposed became dangerously close to actually happening, they went and threw a format over the wall in a hurry to rid themselves once and for all of the few annoying do-gooders that actually believed them.
It's a moot point now anyway, my main browser supports WebP which is a far more useful image format, and one that Mozilla will hopefully add support for in their next major release a year or two from now.:)
So what they're saying is that in the trench warfare that is the mobile phone industry, Microsoft is the only one stupid enough to stick their head up over the top
If you want dedicated SSL hardware, just set up a reverse proxy running on a Geode CPU. They can push 200Mbps of AES-128 despite being ancient. Newer Intel stuff has encryption-specific instructions built in so you might not even need a separate box.
Is Microsoft still doing that thing where IE9 detects standard Javascript benchmarks and cheats on them, or have they also figured out how to detect when people insert no-op statements into them and "optimise" those too?
Yep, civil disobedience is the way to go here, though personally I'm hoping we get lucky and some gun nut gets rid of a few of the retards proposing this thing.
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The one and only time I spent more than £20 on a mouse -- a Razer brand which had no features beyond standard buttons+wheel other than being advertised as a "gaming" mouse -- its left button broke after 2 weeks. I got another few days of use out of it by breaking the "warranty seal" over the screw holding it together and propping up the flimsy microswitch under the button so its dry solder joint stayed connected.
A 10-button office mouse I bought for 1/3rd of the price lasted well over a year.
The US is already one of the most tourist-hostile countries on the planet. Qatar was probably chosen because it had a higher chance of still having open borders 10 years from now.
The point of USB 3 is to try and kill off Firewire completely when USB 2 failed.
Your digital hardware is proprietary garbage and broken as shit, the rest of your products are a buggy-whip industry, and on top of that you're a patent troll.
Fuck off and die. kthx.
If this passes, people relying on proprietary software will get a rude awakening.
If your suppliers are using Windows or Photoshop, how can you verify that they're all using licensed copies? Either you call the BSA in to kick their office's doors down and ransack it on your behalf, which is going to get you some "special" customer service once they find out you did it, or someone else will after you've bought from them in which case you'll be screwed when they get caught.
The only way you'll be safe under this regime is to require everyone in the supply chain uses FOSS.
I thought the throbber GIF was the first image to be replaced with an APNG. (Probably the last too, considering not even Gimp supports the format.)
The MNG debacle was fascinating to watch at the time, but it left me with a clear message: there are people in Mozilla that are all too happy to kill off a format just because they don't like it personally. When the impossible technical requirements they imposed became dangerously close to actually happening, they went and threw a format over the wall in a hurry to rid themselves once and for all of the few annoying do-gooders that actually believed them.
It's a moot point now anyway, my main browser supports WebP which is a far more useful image format, and one that Mozilla will hopefully add support for in their next major release a year or two from now. :)
Well that awesome APNG support doesn't come for free, you know.
Doesn't that description also fit XSLT/XSL-FO, which have been around probably as long as XML has? Or is this a patent for doing it using a computer?
So what they're saying is that in the trench warfare that is the mobile phone industry, Microsoft is the only one stupid enough to stick their head up over the top
At $47500 per CPU, you're looking at way more than a million before you reach 32 cores.
Seriously, what? What is it? I've never even heard of this "group on" until this article, how can it possibly be worth $25bn?
This is right below a story about Microsoft investing a huge amount of resources to stop spam...
They can't receive a message if they don't know to listen for one yet.
It's not web 2.0-compatible unless it supports "streaming"! (something to do with urinating)
This is just the latest in a series of tubes.
If you want dedicated SSL hardware, just set up a reverse proxy running on a Geode CPU. They can push 200Mbps of AES-128 despite being ancient. Newer Intel stuff has encryption-specific instructions built in so you might not even need a separate box.
THP makes memory-heavy stuff anywhere up to 5% faster based on some quick testing I did with it on folding@home.
You probably want this, then.
Is that per comment, or...?
Is Microsoft still doing that thing where IE9 detects standard Javascript benchmarks and cheats on them, or have they also figured out how to detect when people insert no-op statements into them and "optimise" those too?
Yep, civil disobedience is the way to go here, though personally I'm hoping we get lucky and some gun nut gets rid of a few of the retards proposing this thing.
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is in the middle ground and takes the best from both worlds
And fucks it up spectacularly in a way only the makers of Windows could, then self-destructs the hardware. Ding! Next.
Supposedly they've actually fixed that in 6.1.
So... you're saying he should turn this into a chocolate railgun instead?
Teabagging's a metaphor for punching them in the face after you're done, obviously.