So there are no more devices that run webOS. What are the OS developers going to be doing? If HP doesn't have faith in the OS, why would anyone else chose to make devices for it?
if I remember correctly they stated that they will put it inside cars and other embedded devices
actually cygwin is quite useless on a server, it's only useful if you need to execute bash scripts and you don't really want to write bash scripts on linux either, better use something like python
as for the article some of the tools seems quite "meh", they also put nmap two times since zenmap is included in the nmap installer for windows
also they didn't mention managepc (http://managepc.net/) it can read pretty much any wmi info from other windows computers without the need to install any client
you don't have to, the classic interface is there even on tablets, we have seen office 2010 running on a tablet in classic mode when windows 8 was unveiled
also microsoft might not be that open but they always give you tons of options to customize windows, some of them are hidden in the registry, but I bet that you will be able to choose the default interface from the control panel
they are a big company you know it's not like they can't focus on multiple things at time, the ps3 firmwares are done only from the developers in japan, playstation home is done in europe or us, the playstation store interface is done by some other team too
I very much agree and the Wii U will be a bigger catastrophe, I think that more than 60% of the wii sales are from casual gamers and the very fact that they are casual gamers imply that they won't need a new console in the next few years, and nintendo pretty much left the hardcore gamers in the dust(likewise we left our wii in the dust too..)
so who is gonna buy the Wii U? very few people imho, probably just the hardcore nintendo fans
I should note, that almost all of these posts so far are 1million UIDs or AC, so it probably really is teenage angst, but holy shit no wonder no one commercially supports Linux, you guys are just ungrateful fucks.
yes, valve, please go ahead, and put it on github.com - I "smell" a big chain of forks/contributers already:)
they are just releasing the sdk for free not the sourcecode, unreal has done this for some time with udk, and crytek will do the same next month with cryengine 3
yeah let's go from motion control to using a tablet with buttons, that's really what we wanted
I think nintendo will really fuck up this time with the wii u, having more power than ps3 and 360 right now it's useless, we have seen this with pc gaming for years, developers won't make better games for one platform, and when the new playstation and xbox will come out the wii u hardware will be already obsolete, also if the games are mostly the same of pc/ps3/360 why whould I buy it, just to play with that half-assed controller? or maybe to play another mario? I'm tired of playing mario, especially the 3d one.
Imho right now the best combination is pc+ps3, with pc you get 90% of the multiplatform games and with the ps3 you get a lot of nice first party games, the xbox 360 aside from halo and gears of war, doesn't have any exclusive that you can't play on either pc or ps3, same thing with the wii/wii u you get mario and zelda but that's it
if you add new functions the library stays binary compatible, so if you try to run a program compiled for 4.0 and you have 4.7 it will run without problems
python would be the best imho, you don't even need to write the code on a file, just start the python shell and play with it, for the gui use pyqt4 signal and slot are easy to understand, ruby might also be good, I think it has a shell too
Another good "all in one" option might be C#.NET it's easy to create gui interfaces, AFAIR event handling is quite easy too you just need to click on the object and select the event from a list and it will automatically create the function, one of the best thing about C# if you use visual studio(all versions) is intellisense, you don't have to waste time looking at the api to find a function
and here I thought that slashdot usesr could use google to solve problems, it's the second time in two days that I have to say this on slashdot, set extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0 (replace the number with your version or nightly for nightly build) to false
And that doesn't even consider how this crap breaks plugins... Literally half the plugins I currently run, I had to edit the install.rdf just to get around the damned version check (after which, they all work just fine of course).
or you could have set extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0 (replace the number with your version or nightly for nightly build) to false
I hope they purge their gui designer too, I'm still using skype 3.8 because of the horrible chat interface of skype 4 and 5, for example these days everyone has a widescreen, so why the fuck they waste vertical space by putting a huge contact list on the top instead of leaving it to the right? the chat content doesn't automatically resize with the window, you have to drag it, also there is no big visual difference between your and others text, with skype 3 you get a big blue/gray bar before the text, with skype 4-5 it's very subtle since it's only the nickname that changes color
I don't use osx but I've seen that they made a gui contest, this is the one that is winning right now http://macthemes.skype.com/themes/54 I wonder if skype mac user will become epileptic after using this theme:P
we had the chance to undo the terrible mistake we did 25 years ago, but again people proved to be a bunch of morons following FUD spreaded by politician that transformed this into a political matter rather than scientific
"Apple is planning to release an update specifically designed to protect users against the MacDefender malware that has been circulating for the last couple of weeks. The update for Mac OS X will automatically find and remove the malware on an infected machine and also will warn users if another infection attempt is detected"
What defence is there against the end users downloading and running MacDefender and giving up the Admin password?
quite easy, to protect the end user apple will remove the admin account, every time an application will require admin access a pray wil be sent to steve jobs himself and he'll decide to allow or deny it
I know slashdot likes to bash sony, but this time sony exec are not at fault, it's not like they are the one who choose to run a server without a firewall, so it's some sysadmin that did something stupid, also it was probably the same sysadmin who went rogue, after all sony is moving its datacenter to a new location, yeah they were probably planning to do that from quite some time, but now instead of restoring the psn as fast as possible they want to move everything too
Of course, not that I'd necessarily trust Sony after their lack of honesty and transparency throughout this fiasco ("oh just a PSN outage / actually some account info has been stolen / actually CC info has been compromised").
I really don't see any lack of transparency, nobody sane would disclose a security breach while they are still investigating it, even open source software don't do that, for example in kde vulnerabilities are kept "secret" in the packagers mailing list for some days so every distro has the time to patch up and then they are disclosed to the public
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So there are no more devices that run webOS. What are the OS developers going to be doing? If HP doesn't have faith in the OS, why would anyone else chose to make devices for it?
if I remember correctly they stated that they will put it inside cars and other embedded devices
actually cygwin is quite useless on a server, it's only useful if you need to execute bash scripts and you don't really want to write bash scripts on linux either, better use something like python
as for the article some of the tools seems quite "meh", they also put nmap two times since zenmap is included in the nmap installer for windows
also they didn't mention managepc (http://managepc.net/) it can read pretty much any wmi info from other windows computers without the need to install any client
you don't have to, the classic interface is there even on tablets, we have seen office 2010 running on a tablet in classic mode when windows 8 was unveiled
also microsoft might not be that open but they always give you tons of options to customize windows, some of them are hidden in the registry, but I bet that you will be able to choose the default interface from the control panel
we have known that ivy bridge will be released in 2012 since april... http://www.maximumpc.com/files/u69/sandy_bridge-e_roadmap_updated.jpg
they are a big company you know it's not like they can't focus on multiple things at time, the ps3 firmwares are done only from the developers in japan, playstation home is done in europe or us, the playstation store interface is done by some other team too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_3DS_games
I very much agree and the Wii U will be a bigger catastrophe, I think that more than 60% of the wii sales are from casual gamers and the very fact that they are casual gamers imply that they won't need a new console in the next few years, and nintendo pretty much left the hardcore gamers in the dust(likewise we left our wii in the dust too..)
so who is gonna buy the Wii U? very few people imho, probably just the hardcore nintendo fans
I should note, that almost all of these posts so far are 1million UIDs or AC, so it probably really is teenage angst, but holy shit no wonder no one commercially supports Linux, you guys are just ungrateful fucks.
you must be new here
Would you rather AMD go out of business and Intel charge $2000 for that $200 CPU?
so let's hope some benevolent guy buys AMD cpus so I can buy a cheap six core sandy bridge next year
Do they have a lot of problems with tsunamis in Germany?
yes the one that will hit the government if they don't do something to please the people
his nickname was his last name "Frey"
yes, valve, please go ahead, and put it on github.com - I "smell" a big chain of forks/contributers already :)
they are just releasing the sdk for free not the sourcecode, unreal has done this for some time with udk, and crytek will do the same next month with cryengine 3
yeah let's go from motion control to using a tablet with buttons, that's really what we wanted
I think nintendo will really fuck up this time with the wii u, having more power than ps3 and 360 right now it's useless, we have seen this with pc gaming for years, developers won't make better games for one platform, and when the new playstation and xbox will come out the wii u hardware will be already obsolete, also if the games are mostly the same of pc/ps3/360 why whould I buy it, just to play with that half-assed controller? or maybe to play another mario? I'm tired of playing mario, especially the 3d one.
Imho right now the best combination is pc+ps3, with pc you get 90% of the multiplatform games and with the ps3 you get a lot of nice first party games, the xbox 360 aside from halo and gears of war, doesn't have any exclusive that you can't play on either pc or ps3, same thing with the wii/wii u you get mario and zelda but that's it
You live by the wall, you die by the wall.
that's only if you take the black version of the iphone/ipad
if you add new functions the library stays binary compatible, so if you try to run a program compiled for 4.0 and you have 4.7 it will run without problems
python would be the best imho, you don't even need to write the code on a file, just start the python shell and play with it, for the gui use pyqt4 signal and slot are easy to understand, ruby might also be good, I think it has a shell too .NET it's easy to create gui interfaces, AFAIR event handling is quite easy too you just need to click on the object and select the event from a list and it will automatically create the function, one of the best thing about C# if you use visual studio(all versions) is intellisense, you don't have to waste time looking at the api to find a function
Another good "all in one" option might be C#
if you wanted someone to belive your spam link you should have at least said something bad about microsoft
and here I thought that slashdot usesr could use google to solve problems, it's the second time in two days that I have to say this on slashdot, set extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0 (replace the number with your version or nightly for nightly build) to false
And that doesn't even consider how this crap breaks plugins... Literally half the plugins I currently run, I had to edit the install.rdf just to get around the damned version check (after which, they all work just fine of course).
or you could have set extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0 (replace the number with your version or nightly for nightly build) to false
I hope they purge their gui designer too, I'm still using skype 3.8 because of the horrible chat interface of skype 4 and 5, for example these days everyone has a widescreen, so why the fuck they waste vertical space by putting a huge contact list on the top instead of leaving it to the right? the chat content doesn't automatically resize with the window, you have to drag it, also there is no big visual difference between your and others text, with skype 3 you get a big blue/gray bar before the text, with skype 4-5 it's very subtle since it's only the nickname that changes color :P
I don't use osx but I've seen that they made a gui contest, this is the one that is winning right now http://macthemes.skype.com/themes/54 I wonder if skype mac user will become epileptic after using this theme
we had the chance to undo the terrible mistake we did 25 years ago, but again people proved to be a bunch of morons following FUD spreaded by politician that transformed this into a political matter rather than scientific
"Apple is planning to release an update specifically designed to protect users against the MacDefender malware that has been circulating for the last couple of weeks. The update for Mac OS X will automatically find and remove the malware on an infected machine and also will warn users if another infection attempt is detected"
What defence is there against the end users downloading and running MacDefender and giving up the Admin password?
quite easy, to protect the end user apple will remove the admin account, every time an application will require admin access a pray wil be sent to steve jobs himself and he'll decide to allow or deny it
yeah as usual slashdot editors don't check what they post
I know slashdot likes to bash sony, but this time sony exec are not at fault, it's not like they are the one who choose to run a server without a firewall, so it's some sysadmin that did something stupid, also it was probably the same sysadmin who went rogue, after all sony is moving its datacenter to a new location, yeah they were probably planning to do that from quite some time, but now instead of restoring the psn as fast as possible they want to move everything too
Of course, not that I'd necessarily trust Sony after their lack of honesty and transparency throughout this fiasco ("oh just a PSN outage / actually some account info has been stolen / actually CC info has been compromised").
I really don't see any lack of transparency, nobody sane would disclose a security breach while they are still investigating it, even open source software don't do that, for example in kde vulnerabilities are kept "secret" in the packagers mailing list for some days so every distro has the time to patch up and then they are disclosed to the public