so thinking about how technology will affect the future is bad in your mind? Ill stick with linux users then thanks. linux is already on the desktops that matter, why should we care that microsoft and apple harvest stupid?
smart people find it on their own, less fortunate ones like the OP get a Mac.
microsoft will drop silverlight like everything else they make when it fails to take over the world. flash is barely tolerated since its (sort of) needed for video currently, noone will use when html5 is up.
there will be a short soft retreat of both, flash/silver to html5 converters will be used for awhile, and then theyll be forgotten, leaving only the tears of developers who got sucked in.
My bias against ms is based on past behaviour, I dont trust them at all and therefore view anything connected to them in the worst possible light. You seem to be suggesting anything ms does should be viewed in a neutral, clean slate fashion to be fair, ignoring history. Maybe you would be happier as a goldfish?
That is pretty disappointing to see, to say the least. Any data discrimination opens the possibility for abuse, which google knows very well. I dont want isps or google or anyone deciding which data is important and which is not, thank you very much.
How do you define video? Which format? No new format would have a chance of surviving if it is not given the same bandwidth as existing formats.
Startups will face another hurdle competing against the giants, if their type of traffic doesnt fit with existing schemes. ISPs gets to decide success or failure.
It will make a complete mess in the end, the first thing I would do if my torrents gets lower bandwidth than my voip is to use the new "torrent over voip" ofcourse.
How about using the money on making networks better, instead of protocol sniffing crap that can only make it worse?
You dont need to worry about u.s. appreciation in the world, its long gone..even in my country (we are nato allies) its political suicide to appear supportive of anything u.s. Friend of mine works in a kitchen often serving tourists, he and the waiter have a deal where the waiter will note "american style" if its for u.s. tourists. That is basically boogers and spit, bon apetite!
Yes it was done with a custom chip (the copper), a simple chip with very few commands (4?) that could sit and wait for a specific scanline. When the compare triggered it could change the registers that controlled screen resolution, depth, data source etc. So in theory every scanline of the screen could have its own resolution, subtracting the cycles it takes for the copper to work.
So theres no actual moving of screen data when you pull it down, it just starts displaying furher down the screen, which makes for very smooth movement no matter content.
It is not completely seamless, if you look there will be a couple blanked scanlines between screens, which is where the copper does its thing.
Was very nice to use, typically when waiting for something to finish you just pulled the screen down to peek quickly, no messy slow context switching.
you know the point of a good april fools joke is to catch people unaware, when there are more jokes than real stories it kinda DOES NOT WORK. April 1. has now flipped to a game of trying to find a real story among all the unfunny crap.
Agree mostly with this, I bought amd cpu/mb and ati card last time to support their open source efforts and non-douchebag business (ill never touch intel). Sadly tho it seems to be a choice between evil and incompetent, the catalyst drivers are completely random regarding functionality. They cant even get the packaging straight.
If someone else starts making decent cpu/gpu with drivers that work its bye to amd/ati.
"Unlike the Java world that is blossoming with dozens of vibrant Java virtual machine implementations, the.NET world has suffered by this meme spread by Ballmer that they would come after people that do not license patents from them."
"The veil of threats that existed over the runtime in 2001 was lifted with the Community Promise announcement but it took eight years, and those were eight years of lost opportunity and FUD directed at all things Microsoft. "
Maybe we define fud differently, I wouldnt use it regarding statements that are facts, and even confirmed to be so in the same block of text.
Hardly. They care about making companies happy sure; when "development" requires little skill, more people will line up for the job, pay will be less. How do you compete with free? Make internal development cheaper.
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since european police can assign such vast resources to chasing file sharing kids it must mean serious crime in europe is all but eliminated.
so say I ignore all the controversy and possible patent traps etc., drop my current language of choice, and pick up java or .net, what is the gain?
so thinking about how technology will affect the future is bad in your mind? Ill stick with linux users then thanks.
linux is already on the desktops that matter, why should we care that microsoft and apple harvest stupid?
smart people find it on their own, less fortunate ones like the OP get a Mac.
hooker logo would be more appropriate, oracle invited everyone to bed then demanded pay after.
microsoft will drop silverlight like everything else they make when it fails to take over the world.
flash is barely tolerated since its (sort of) needed for video currently, noone will use when html5 is up.
there will be a short soft retreat of both, flash/silver to html5 converters will be used for awhile, and then theyll be forgotten, leaving only the tears of developers who got sucked in.
wouldnt be too surprised if tracing that "controversy" led back to ea...
not a bad play either, americans buy it to kill taliban, everyone else buy it to kill americans.
yes you did
My bias against ms is based on past behaviour, I dont trust them at all and therefore view anything connected to them in the worst possible light.
You seem to be suggesting anything ms does should be viewed in a neutral, clean slate fashion to be fair, ignoring history.
Maybe you would be happier as a goldfish?
That is pretty disappointing to see, to say the least.
Any data discrimination opens the possibility for abuse, which google knows very well.
I dont want isps or google or anyone deciding which data is important and which is not, thank you very much.
How do you define video? Which format? No new format would have a chance of surviving if it is not given the same bandwidth as existing formats.
Startups will face another hurdle competing against the giants, if their type of traffic doesnt fit with existing schemes. ISPs gets to decide success or failure.
It will make a complete mess in the end, the first thing I would do if my torrents gets lower bandwidth than my voip is to use the new "torrent over voip" ofcourse.
How about using the money on making networks better, instead of protocol sniffing crap that can only make it worse?
after reading some of this summary, I have decided to release the Tribal linux distribution.
It was only a big deal to the paid US shills, there was no "loss of public trust".
Reasonable people listen to scientific consensus.
After this pr disaster I think they should change name to distance themselves. Maybe ASHAT?
You dont need to worry about u.s. appreciation in the world, its long gone..even in my country (we are nato allies) its political suicide to appear supportive of anything u.s.
Friend of mine works in a kitchen often serving tourists, he and the waiter have a deal where the waiter will note "american style" if its for u.s. tourists. That is basically boogers and spit, bon apetite!
microsoft+eye lasers? cant see what could possibly go wrong, sign me up!
Maybe Eric Schwartz can enlighten you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q&feature=related
Would be interesting to see how the botnets compare
that is a lot funnier than it has a right to be.
Yes it was done with a custom chip (the copper), a simple chip with very few commands (4?) that could sit and wait for a specific scanline.
When the compare triggered it could change the registers that controlled screen resolution, depth, data source etc.
So in theory every scanline of the screen could have its own resolution, subtracting the cycles it takes for the copper to work.
So theres no actual moving of screen data when you pull it down, it just starts displaying furher down the screen, which makes for very smooth movement no matter content.
It is not completely seamless, if you look there will be a couple blanked scanlines between screens, which is where the copper does its thing.
Was very nice to use, typically when waiting for something to finish you just pulled the screen down to peek quickly, no messy slow context switching.
you know the point of a good april fools joke is to catch people unaware, when there are more jokes than real stories it kinda DOES NOT WORK.
April 1. has now flipped to a game of trying to find a real story among all the unfunny crap.
Oh well its just 1 day i guess.
Agree mostly with this, I bought amd cpu/mb and ati card last time to support their open source efforts and non-douchebag business (ill never touch intel).
Sadly tho it seems to be a choice between evil and incompetent, the catalyst drivers are completely random regarding functionality.
They cant even get the packaging straight.
If someone else starts making decent cpu/gpu with drivers that work its bye to amd/ati.
from the link:
"Unlike the Java world that is blossoming with dozens of vibrant Java virtual machine implementations, the .NET world has suffered by this meme spread by Ballmer that they would come after people that do not license patents from them."
"The veil of threats that existed over the runtime in 2001 was lifted with the Community Promise announcement but it took eight years, and those were eight years of lost opportunity and FUD directed at all things Microsoft. "
Maybe we define fud differently, I wouldnt use it regarding statements that are facts, and even confirmed to be so in the same block of text.
yep, I do all my banking/email/anything involving identity etc. in linux, windows is used for games only.
You have a point but they get a lot of free press simply for having that name.
Id say thats worth more than the extremely slim chance some old people will change their vote from the last 30 years.
I kinda remember being able to filter stories away based on the section, did I dream this?
Hardly. They care about making companies happy sure; when "development" requires little skill, more people will line up for the job, pay will be less.
How do you compete with free? Make internal development cheaper.