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by pyalot2 13y ago
I like bitcoin, I do, but, please stop posting prices.
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The incentive to keep iOS safari competitive with Android browsers isn't as strong, as it would be if iOS Safari would have to compete with browsers on the same platform. Significantly, the lack of features on iOS Safari, which might b
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by pyalot2 13y ago
If you think of a browser as "just this thing that renders the page", you're correct, it's basically irrelevant how it technically is implemented. However that'd be a very poor view of what a browser is. A browser i
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The choice of default is meaningless for browsers, even if you had it, because the only browser that exists on iOS is Safari. Yes, you might be able to download something called "Chrome" or "Firefox", but what you'r
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by pyalot2 13y ago
The old objections against altcoins are rolled out and paraded again like a good circus. Let me paraphrase what author is saying: "There will be no other cryptocurrency, for whatever purpose, ever, than bitcoin." That's of co
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Not mentioned in that story, but relevant. Modern cruise ships for the most part are equipped with medical facilities and staff of high standard, certainly higher than most destinations they set out for. It's mainly because that's
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Wrong, they now have coffee flavored balls.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
It's true that Gox$ aren't US$. But that doesn't mean they're entirely fake. The matter of the fact is that, some people are doing arbitrage between Gox and other exchanges. And this arbitrage keeps prices somewhat in li
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by pyalot2 13y ago
They're all "real". Somebody, somewhere, traded that tick, fiat (or gox$) and bitcoin changed hands. If you consider the 4 largest exchanges (together about 90% of the volume), then you can look at the price as this fuzzy zon
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Learning to do it yourself is the best investment you can make. However, don't loose sight of the fact that for serious software development you'll need to hire somebody if you're not a professional programmer (i.e. somebody
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> It takes 10,000 hours to become an “expert in an ultra > competitive field” but to go from “knowing nothing to being > pretty good”, actually takes 20 hours. Let's discount fields where it takes less than 10'000 hours t
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Weirdly this is simultaneously pretty cool (yay, open source makes an impact, take that Ballmer) and quite horrible (license jungle anyone?).
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it scrolls trough the lines, so screenshotting that is difficult.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Yes, but if you don't display the image, there's no get, so when you put it on a new tab, that's one get, and from there you can save it from the browser, which isn't no more additional get.
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by pyalot2 13y ago
1) Open email in gmail (do not press display images) 2) Options on the right "Show Original" 3) Copy the URL that goes like: http://content.fade.li/selcouth/.. . to a new tab 4) Save image as 5) ... 6) Profit
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Oh there's no problem paying somebody to do a job. But somehow you'll need to be able to check that the job is done. Or at least read the opinion of somebody who has no stake in the matter to attest to the job being done. So &quot
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Proprietary "safer" web browser. Yeah right.
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The solution was built in 2/3rds by Accidenture, who got awared a $400m contract (out of the total of $600m awarded) with the bulk of the remainder going to IBM and the 50 other contractors. If I know one thing, and I say this from fir
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> If widespread restrictions are going to exist anyway, then it's strictly better for the interface to be standardized. Those widespread restrictions imply that only proprietary browsers and operating systems can use EME. However &q
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Apple is, and has been participating in EME. Apple employees are active on the W3C EME-WG ML and they are regularly scheduled to attendance of Telephoneconferences by Microsoft, to which they appear and comment. Microsoft has become the mai
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Because running it this way, Google, Microsoft and Apple can't exclude browser competition. With EME they can.
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> Again, the fact that this works with Silverlight and Flash disproves your argument. I don't like DRM, I wish people would refuse to give up control of their devices but it's time to stop pretending that most of the computer u
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Netflix supports a particular CDM (Widevine). That CDM isn't supported (yet) in chrome for desktops. It is supported on IE11 for desktops and on Chrome for chromebooks. The CDM provider (Widevine) has not made the CDM runtime available
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by pyalot2 13y ago
> I can't understand what parallel you're trying to draw here. The IE 6 monopoly did not arise because of a DRM standard; it arose because Microsoft killed its competition by giving its browser away for free with Windows. That&
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by pyalot2 13y ago
It will be: "You can't watch this video because you don't have IE11 or Chrome" because Firefox will be legally barred from accessing the CDM. EME is steering full steam ahead into a new proprietary browser monopoly with
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> Almost none of this is true if the operating system allows you to provide a write-only layer – you'd be limited to the operations which the GPU can perform without the browser seeing the bits but that would address the needs of mo
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The W3C standards are so far licensed non-derivatively, but that's about to change.
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The biggest proponent of EME/DRM is microsoft. And they are the first who have put it into their desktop browser (IE11). Microsoft was also the party most eager to stiffle dissent in the encrypted media working group by the likes of me
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by pyalot2 13y ago
EME has a proprietary part, the CDM (content decryption module). In order for the browser (its compositor etc.) to work, the browser needs access to the plain (unencrypted) content, to do things like layering (alpha blending) elements on to
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by pyalot2 13y ago
Yes. The embedd API defines a way for the browser to pass a framebuffer for flash to draw in (a framebuffer is just a buffer of pixels). It uses this 60x a second to composit with the page.

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