I've read a recent statistic that has said that of the 500m Facebook users, 100m visit via the iPhone. So 2% of web views depends entirely on the sites you count, and whether those sites actually make money from their web presence.
A few things you might want to know about Silverlight 4 before assuming the new shiney toy is the better one:
- Drop down boxes have no keyboard support (press U in a country list does nothing, you have to do it manually)
- Right click menus don't exist unless you make the control windowless
- You get fewer shortcut keys than Javascript
- You won't have Silverlight 4 installed on a fresh Windows 7 machine
- The scroll container control (ScrollViewer) has no inbuilt support for tabbing between controls or mousewheel support
- Unlike CSS there is no styling inheritence besides per-control styling, it's equivalent of having #ids for everything
- Visual Studio 2010 support is extremely crash-prone
- The MSDN documentation is poor to say the least
- It only works on one browser on the Mac
On the plus side
- It doesn't crash your Mac
- The parts they haven't butchered from WPF give you some very nice layout and animation features
- You get a strongly typed language
- You get a mostly awesome IDE to use it. And also Blend.
- It's not Adobe
It's actually worse than that. It's $99 per year, plus $99 per application.
But the first 5 application submissions are free. After that you pay which arguably keeps their appstore free of complete rubbish like the iPhone appstore has become.
Who would've predicted 20 years ago that a Conservative government is now more liberal than a labour one. What did labour bring the UK in respect to civil liberties?
- Huge amounts of CCTV - one estimate claims the it's the highest in the world - Useless passports that don't work in most airports - An illegal war or two - Sponging off the state is more attractive than working
I voted labour in 1997 and was fairly anti-conservative back then. Since that time something happened to the party (Tony Blair) that has completely transformed them in my view.
If you watch this video you will be amazed that IE9 can now do rounded corners. The clueless presenter is completely unaware that Firefox and Webkit have been doing this for years and is "super impressed".
It's a bit sad the huge divide that exists now.
Accenture were also given a huge NHS contract in the UK. The project is used as a case study of project failure in many Universities now, and cost $6b in what has been discovered as huge salaries and benefits being given to consultants. This was taxpayers' money for a national health scheme. They pulled out fortunately
The stupid situation with iTunes/Amazon is you can buy second hand CDs (whole albums) for less than a single track. But instead of competing with this, the music industry continues to hold on by their little finger to their enormous margins.
They should follow Valve's example and go for high output rather than low amounts at high prices.
I'm hoping Valve or another company such as Epic, Id, Dice will give us a FPS MMO some day soon.
TF2 is sort of there with the weapon unlocking, but to have something like TF2 with huge world battles...I'd happily hand over my monthly cash.
If you look at the instance stats for WoW which Blizzard publish, you'll see WSG/AB/AV far exceeds those PvE dungeons each week, so I'm not convinced PvE is 90% of WoW, but not lower than 60%.
The chronicles of spellborn claims to have what you're describing http://www.tcos.com/ plus some more intelligent mob AI (melee protecting caster mobs and so on) courtesy of the Unreal 2.5 engine it runs off.
Although the fool that's writing it can often offer himself out as an expert consultant in the field for outrageous sums, providing the GPL software is widely used enough such as Hibernate.
I hope they fix the bug where you sleep, wake the PC up and your network connection is gone for good unless you disable/enable the hardware. It's rendered the sleep feature useless.
Oh and I would like to see the shutdown button actually shut down the PC but I'm just a romantic dreamer.
Google's push underlines a shift in how businesses and consumers approach computing. They are increasingly using the Web to access applications and files stored in massive computer data centers operated by tech companies such as Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google
We've been hearing this prediction for 5 years now and it annoys me when someone makes it. Yes for for small businesses and home users, using online word processors, spreadsheets etc. makes sense as you don't have to worry about backup and you can share them. For medium sized businesses upwards it makes no sense at all. If your internet connection is lost, your business is screwed. For law firms for example, this can cost millions per day or even hour. There's also the usual issues about privacy and storage with 3rd parties.
I wouldn't recommend self study through books, as you have nothing pushing you to do the work, such as assignements. The Open University does a very good maths course (MU120 I think). Your only problem will be doing the exams if you're not in the UK, but the course teaches you up to University level.
It will cost you around $600 if you can afford that, but is far more effective in my view. You get a tutor and set texts all online, plus messageboards for the other students and tutorials if you are in the right country.
One lesson they will have learnt the hard way is itemisation. All the items at the start of BC were completely off. Infact most patches have seen big changes to item stats, something I can't remember happening that often in the original WoW (not on the same scale). Particularly the first major patch (the BT one) where green items went down dramatically.
It's as if they employed new item designers who didn't understand the color system in the game, and just threw stats about all over the place. Personally that devalued the game for me and made Blizzard look quite amateurish. Particularly with the overwhelming number of items introduced into the game after the expansion compared to the number before. If the items had actually been given new 3D models it would've been ok, but most are still left overs from pre-BC or just the same model with the colour changed. Same with the zones, recycled orcs, ogres (level 30 quest, or is it 65?!), spiders, wolves were abundent everywhere.
The main thing that might hook me to buy the expansion is real hefty update to the graphics engine, not just some new looking fire and ice. That's probably the biggest part of the game for me, exploring the new zones and areas. Having played (or still playing) Gears of War, Team Fortress 2, Bioshock, Crysis beta and numerous other games I see WoW screenshots now and think really, how are the playerbase so uncritical and apathetic of the graphics? The character animations still look superb, but the texture resolutions, lack of shader effects except a few spell particle effects look tired. Keep the cartoon-like graphics sure, but there's nothing wrong with making those 8800s and dual cores sweat a little.
I don't know what you class by MS shops, but most I've worked for have virus scanners, all but port 80 locked down and most website blockers via proxies or similar. Perhaps this is just a perceived view of the business world from a small portion of/. readers who are yet to work in large firms (but mothers have got spyware and so make the link).
If this suite is to take off and compete as an office application for large firms it needs to have a licensing system that beats Microsoft's, be compatible with Word documents/and or exchange or MAPI. Atleast in the US and Europe.
I read the 2nd interview, and saw the same question being asked 3 times and evaded 3 times. What exactly do you get for subscribing? A few extra equipment slots and bag spaces? I can see that working for the hardcore raiders (if the game has raiding, I don't really know the format of Diablio 2).
Personally I won't be fussed about extra slots for the money, new content would be the enticing aspect.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is the source:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/25/facebook-mobile-app-stats-shocker-104-million-iphone-users-12/
I've read a recent statistic that has said that of the 500m Facebook users, 100m visit via the iPhone. So 2% of web views depends entirely on the sites you count, and whether those sites actually make money from their web presence.
It's rubbishing Steve Jobs, why would you want to do that?
A few things you might want to know about Silverlight 4 before assuming the new shiney toy is the better one:
- Drop down boxes have no keyboard support (press U in a country list does nothing, you have to do it manually)
- Right click menus don't exist unless you make the control windowless
- You get fewer shortcut keys than Javascript
- You won't have Silverlight 4 installed on a fresh Windows 7 machine
- The scroll container control (ScrollViewer) has no inbuilt support for tabbing between controls or mousewheel support
- Unlike CSS there is no styling inheritence besides per-control styling, it's equivalent of having #ids for everything
- Visual Studio 2010 support is extremely crash-prone
- The MSDN documentation is poor to say the least
- It only works on one browser on the Mac
On the plus side
- It doesn't crash your Mac
- The parts they haven't butchered from WPF give you some very nice layout and animation features
- You get a strongly typed language
- You get a mostly awesome IDE to use it. And also Blend.
- It's not Adobe
It's actually worse than that. It's $99 per year, plus $99 per application.
But the first 5 application submissions are free. After that you pay which arguably keeps their appstore free of complete rubbish like the iPhone appstore has become.
Who would've predicted 20 years ago that a Conservative government is now more liberal than a labour one. What did labour bring the UK in respect to civil liberties?
- Huge amounts of CCTV - one estimate claims the it's the highest in the world
- Useless passports that don't work in most airports
- An illegal war or two
- Sponging off the state is more attractive than working
I voted labour in 1997 and was fairly anti-conservative back then. Since that time something happened to the party (Tony Blair) that has completely transformed them in my view.
Found here - namely 4 apps have made it through the app review process that signed the 3.1.3 clause.
Stockholm Syndrome
If you watch this video you will be amazed that IE9 can now do rounded corners. The clueless presenter is completely unaware that Firefox and Webkit have been doing this for years and is "super impressed". It's a bit sad the huge divide that exists now.
Accenture were also given a huge NHS contract in the UK. The project is used as a case study of project failure in many Universities now, and cost $6b in what has been discovered as huge salaries and benefits being given to consultants. This was taxpayers' money for a national health scheme. They pulled out fortunately
The stupid situation with iTunes/Amazon is you can buy second hand CDs (whole albums) for less than a single track. But instead of competing with this, the music industry continues to hold on by their little finger to their enormous margins.
They should follow Valve's example and go for high output rather than low amounts at high prices.
Radio is BROADcasting, the songs are chosen for you.
Last.fm is an online jukebox, with a nice recommendation system. You pay per play on a jukebox
I'm hoping Valve or another company such as Epic, Id, Dice will give us a FPS MMO some day soon. TF2 is sort of there with the weapon unlocking, but to have something like TF2 with huge world battles...I'd happily hand over my monthly cash.
Infact the CLR *is* a COM server, so it's never going away. You can create your own CLR host inside your application this way.
If you look at the instance stats for WoW which Blizzard publish, you'll see WSG/AB/AV far exceeds those PvE dungeons each week, so I'm not convinced PvE is 90% of WoW, but not lower than 60%.
The chronicles of spellborn claims to have what you're describing http://www.tcos.com/ plus some more intelligent mob AI (melee protecting caster mobs and so on) courtesy of the Unreal 2.5 engine it runs off.
They should just rename the InPrivate feature to "ImBrowsingPorn" although that's probably not as marketing friendly.
Although the fool that's writing it can often offer himself out as an expert consultant in the field for outrageous sums, providing the GPL software is widely used enough such as Hibernate.
I hope they fix the bug where you sleep, wake the PC up and your network connection is gone for good unless you disable/enable the hardware. It's rendered the sleep feature useless.
Oh and I would like to see the shutdown button actually shut down the PC but I'm just a romantic dreamer.
Google's push underlines a shift in how businesses and consumers approach computing. They are increasingly using the Web to access applications and files stored in massive computer data centers operated by tech companies such as Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google
We've been hearing this prediction for 5 years now and it annoys me when someone makes it. Yes for for small businesses and home users, using online word processors, spreadsheets etc. makes sense as you don't have to worry about backup and you can share them. For medium sized businesses upwards it makes no sense at all. If your internet connection is lost, your business is screwed. For law firms for example, this can cost millions per day or even hour. There's also the usual issues about privacy and storage with 3rd parties.
It was written in Microsoft's C#, which isn't supposed to let you have memory leaks
The CLR would have the memory leak, not C# which is just compiled into IL. Could've been VB.NET, Python, JScript, J#, F# etc. etc.
I wouldn't recommend self study through books, as you have nothing pushing you to do the work, such as assignements. The Open University does a very good maths course (MU120 I think). Your only problem will be doing the exams if you're not in the UK, but the course teaches you up to University level.
Course details are: http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?C01MU120
It will cost you around $600 if you can afford that, but is far more effective in my view. You get a tutor and set texts all online, plus messageboards for the other students and tutorials if you are in the right country.
One lesson they will have learnt the hard way is itemisation. All the items at the start of BC were completely off. Infact most patches have seen big changes to item stats, something I can't remember happening that often in the original WoW (not on the same scale). Particularly the first major patch (the BT one) where green items went down dramatically.
It's as if they employed new item designers who didn't understand the color system in the game, and just threw stats about all over the place. Personally that devalued the game for me and made Blizzard look quite amateurish. Particularly with the overwhelming number of items introduced into the game after the expansion compared to the number before. If the items had actually been given new 3D models it would've been ok, but most are still left overs from pre-BC or just the same model with the colour changed. Same with the zones, recycled orcs, ogres (level 30 quest, or is it 65?!), spiders, wolves were abundent everywhere.
The main thing that might hook me to buy the expansion is real hefty update to the graphics engine, not just some new looking fire and ice. That's probably the biggest part of the game for me, exploring the new zones and areas. Having played (or still playing) Gears of War, Team Fortress 2, Bioshock, Crysis beta and numerous other games I see WoW screenshots now and think really, how are the playerbase so uncritical and apathetic of the graphics? The character animations still look superb, but the texture resolutions, lack of shader effects except a few spell particle effects look tired. Keep the cartoon-like graphics sure, but there's nothing wrong with making those 8800s and dual cores sweat a little.
I don't know what you class by MS shops, but most I've worked for have virus scanners, all but port 80 locked down and most website blockers via proxies or similar. Perhaps this is just a perceived view of the business world from a small portion of /. readers who are yet to work in large firms (but mothers have got spyware and so make the link).
If this suite is to take off and compete as an office application for large firms it needs to have a licensing system that beats Microsoft's, be compatible with Word documents/and or exchange or MAPI. Atleast in the US and Europe.
I read the 2nd interview, and saw the same question being asked 3 times and evaded 3 times. What exactly do you get for subscribing? A few extra equipment slots and bag spaces? I can see that working for the hardcore raiders (if the game has raiding, I don't really know the format of Diablio 2).
Personally I won't be fussed about extra slots for the money, new content would be the enticing aspect.