What we need is clean fork of Firefox which would have some kind of h264 support. It should follow otherwise upstream as closely as possible and be 100% compatible with extensions and themes. Of course MozCos trademarks should be avoided. So, a catchy domain, few devs and some marketing, and MozCos stubbornness wouldn't matter anymore. I'd guess even Google could help to sponsor this kind of project, as it's in their interest to get the format war over.
I know everyone hates Microsoft and its eeevil proprietary technologies but still, it can achieve nice things. A javascript library which parses python script-tags via Silverlight. Check it out:
http://visitmix.com/labs/gestalt/
I'd be interested to know how would a highly clocked, 8 core, ARM based CPU made at 45nm process and fitted to be compatible with some current tech (PCIe 16x for GPU and DDR3 memory) compare to anything offered at desktop market now. Of course there is the little problem with no actual software optimized for that kind of architecture.
Best bang for buck CPU's are in the sub-$100 segment, maybe some dual-core Athlon, especially if you take the whole system cost into account. Lynnfield is designed for much bigger bang, at much higher cost, with lots of new tech (new socket, "new" memory(ddr3) etc).
Instead of asking best bang/buck, ask for largest bang at certain price point for cpu-mb-ram -combo. Also upgradability/longevity of the platform should be considered. With the new lynnfields you have large probability to have a viable upgrade path in the future, but with s775 its not as certain. Imho choosing CPU has never been more difficult than what it is now with i5 out. On the other hand, luckily most CPU's are powerful enough for average desktop usage. While some other CPU could be 10% faster than other in certain benchmark, in real life usage the differences usually aren't that clear, and performance should be adequate in most situations.
One recent "game" (more like simulation actually) to for realistic graphics is DCS: Black Shark. Yes, it runs on 5+ years old engine, and has some lowres textures and other rough edges. But still, I think it looks more realistic than some more technically advanced games (for example HAWX).
Another comparison is ARMA 2, and OFP 2. Arma 2 has much plainer and realistic look than what i have seen videos of OFP2 so far. Arma 2 probably compares favorably even to aforementioned DCS:BS in realism, but cant really say as I haven't played it myself.
I blame the fancy HDR/Bloom/Blur -effects that have plagued this generation of games. Some of it hides the fugly lowres textures made for consoles, and some can be explained by the proliferation of Unreal Engine 3.
There is just a little thing called Gulf Stream that could cause some trouble. Gulf Stream currently is a major thing making Scandinavia more habitable, and there has been some guesses that melting water from Arctic could disrupt that making Scandinavia actually colder.
Change distro to something that has slower release cycle like Debian, or longer support like Ubuntu LTS, or no releases like Arch. Using Linux-based OS is all about choice, you can see it as a downside or upside. On the other hand, its usually assumed that your configurations etc(='running the way I wanted') don't break (much) if you update, at least if you haven't missed any releases in between.
It does NOT NEED to have any OO stuff because they already have solid OO-language on.NET: C#. Why try to make one jack of all trades, master of none, when you could have masters of all trades working together? Thats exactly the point of having multiple languages on.NET.
imho the relevancy of Desktop Linux is irrelevant. I have never understood why actually should everyone from Joe Sixpack to Linus Torvalds run the same system? Let the hacker geeks have their own nice os and let others use whatever.
Could someone please explain why the +x solution was rejected? Obviously shebang will also be needed, but I don't see the problem with that.
Backward compablity could be achieved with a warning dialog: 'You are trying to open non-executable.desktop-file. What do you want to do? [Add +x] [Run] [Edit]' (ok, maybe with better wording but anyways)
The best reason I got from TFA(!) was that if KDE would be installed on FAT32-system which doesn't support execute-flag for files, then the system would fail.
So game companies assume that those people that break the copy protection of original game are somehow unable to do so with the extra content? If that extra content has any value its sure as hell going to be pirated as well.
So this gives nothing to game companies, but another step to legal gamers who now have to depend some download server to have all content, type in more codes etc, while pirates just keep downloading the game with extras from our Swedish friends.
Taking point by point: "Weak incentives for usability." I think that the fact that afaik most free software is written for programmers themselves provides quite an incentive to make the program nice to use.
"Few good designers." Agreed.
"Design suggestions often arenâ€(TM)t invited or welcomed." Partly agree. Look at awesomebar. Its hated mostly because its new(among other things). In more community-driven developement it wouldnt be accepted. Imho smaller/less radical design changes are accepted more easily.
"Usability is hard to measure." Partially agree. Usability is partially subjective, and hard to measure. But some aspects of usability can easily measured: how many mouseclicks takes to accomplish some task etc.
"Coding before design." Disagree. Because most of projects evolve from smaller to larger software(featurewise) unpredictably, designing interface before coding is almost impossible, as its not known what features it needs to accomodate. Making too rigid design decisons too early asks for trouble when new featurs should be added, but the design isn't flexible enough to accomodate them.
"Too many cooks." Agree on larger projects.
"Chasing tail-lights." Especially agree. FOSS-developers try too hard to get all users to use their software, and are willing to bend towards mainstream software, insted of making software to themselves and doing what feels right.
"Scratching their own itch." Especially don't agree. This is the main point where i don't agree. Free software has no need to grab markets and all users. Why is all ui design concentrated on making software easy to use for new users, instead of making software easy to use for power users. Right tool for the right job, noob software for noob users, and poweruser-software for powerusers. IMHO Linux and free software in general needs to get back the 'from hackers to hackers'-attitude, because thats what we do best. Quoting: "So software thatâ€(TM)s supposed to be for general use[...]" Not all software is supposed to be for general use. I make software for my own use, and thats enough. I dont need no stinking users....:)
"Leaving little things broken." If it hinders usability it will be fixed, if the reward is greater than work needed to fix it.
"Placating people with options." And this is bad thing because? Quote: "The number, obscurity, and triviality of such preferences ends up confusing ordinary users" Again. 'Ordinary users' don't matter. And making good default settings, and showing only relevant options in main ui(about:config vs Preferences-dialog) relieves this problem a lot. Cases: Awesome-bar. Start-menu in Vista(I atleast would like to have option to use XP-like start-menu).
"Fifteen pixels of fame." "Design is high-bandwidth, the Net is low-bandwidth." Agreed.
"Release early, release often, get stuck." Just add configuration options, and depreciate them if necessary.
"Mediocrity through modularity." Imho modularity can't be blamed for bad design.
"Gated development communities." This one I don't understand. If print-dialog sucks, identify the project it belongs to and complain there. It will be fixed or not, depending on other conditions, like ones above.
Monthly fee: 0.66 per month Phone calls: 0.069 per minute Text messages: 0.069 per piece MMS-messages: 0.19 per piece Data(3G or GPRS): 1.5 per megabyte
No additional fees or taxes. No longterm contracts. No sim-locked phones. And thats euros(1 Euro = 1.5833 U.S. dollars according to google atm).
Of course there are different plans available, ie 45e for 3000 mins of calls and 3000 sms.
Why would so called misinformation be a bad thing? Everybody has right to express their opinion, or things they consider fact. There is no such thing as universal truth, some opinions may be better argumented and supported, but that doesnt make them absolutely right.
This would kill battery life of a device, cellphones are already at only few days of usage. Lets just add a gimmicky effect that needs more battery. 'Oh how much do I have battery left? *shake* None, anymore anyways...'
I feel that this is major win for ssd, because this is first 'consumer-class' ssd that has actually better (non-random) transfer speeds than average desktop hdd, at least what I have heard
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What we need is clean fork of Firefox which would have some kind of h264 support. It should follow otherwise upstream as closely as possible and be 100% compatible with extensions and themes. Of course MozCos trademarks should be avoided. So, a catchy domain, few devs and some marketing, and MozCos stubbornness wouldn't matter anymore. I'd guess even Google could help to sponsor this kind of project, as it's in their interest to get the format war over.
I know everyone hates Microsoft and its eeevil proprietary technologies but still, it can achieve nice things. A javascript library which parses python script-tags via Silverlight. Check it out: http://visitmix.com/labs/gestalt/
There isn't a single Nehalem die/chip. Nehalem refers to the general architecture on which Lynnfield, Bloomfield etc chips are based on.
Lots and lots of tests and bechmarks. Looking good.
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I think LGA 1366 will live on as the high-end platform it always has been. LGA 1156 will be middle-end, and 775 in low-end and legacy.
I'd be interested to know how would a highly clocked, 8 core, ARM based CPU made at 45nm process and fitted to be compatible with some current tech (PCIe 16x for GPU and DDR3 memory) compare to anything offered at desktop market now. Of course there is the little problem with no actual software optimized for that kind of architecture.
Best bang for buck CPU's are in the sub-$100 segment, maybe some dual-core Athlon, especially if you take the whole system cost into account. Lynnfield is designed for much bigger bang, at much higher cost, with lots of new tech (new socket, "new" memory(ddr3) etc).
Instead of asking best bang/buck, ask for largest bang at certain price point for cpu-mb-ram -combo. Also upgradability/longevity of the platform should be considered. With the new lynnfields you have large probability to have a viable upgrade path in the future, but with s775 its not as certain. Imho choosing CPU has never been more difficult than what it is now with i5 out. On the other hand, luckily most CPU's are powerful enough for average desktop usage. While some other CPU could be 10% faster than other in certain benchmark, in real life usage the differences usually aren't that clear, and performance should be adequate in most situations.
One recent "game" (more like simulation actually) to for realistic graphics is DCS: Black Shark. Yes, it runs on 5+ years old engine, and has some lowres textures and other rough edges. But still, I think it looks more realistic than some more technically advanced games (for example HAWX). Another comparison is ARMA 2, and OFP 2. Arma 2 has much plainer and realistic look than what i have seen videos of OFP2 so far. Arma 2 probably compares favorably even to aforementioned DCS:BS in realism, but cant really say as I haven't played it myself.
I blame the fancy HDR/Bloom/Blur -effects that have plagued this generation of games. Some of it hides the fugly lowres textures made for consoles, and some can be explained by the proliferation of Unreal Engine 3.
There is just a little thing called Gulf Stream that could cause some trouble. Gulf Stream currently is a major thing making Scandinavia more habitable, and there has been some guesses that melting water from Arctic could disrupt that making Scandinavia actually colder.
Change distro to something that has slower release cycle like Debian, or longer support like Ubuntu LTS, or no releases like Arch. Using Linux-based OS is all about choice, you can see it as a downside or upside. On the other hand, its usually assumed that your configurations etc(='running the way I wanted') don't break (much) if you update, at least if you haven't missed any releases in between.
Awesome anyways, but the system isn't really connected to teh intertubes, no ip-packets are routed to the laptop.
You mean something like Inkscape? You know that SVG is supported by at least Firefox, and iirc also by other modern (non IE) browsers
It does NOT NEED to have any OO stuff because they already have solid OO-language on .NET: C#. Why try to make one jack of all trades, master of none, when you could have masters of all trades working together? Thats exactly the point of having multiple languages on .NET.
Using right tool for right job is now hacky workaround?
It's nearly impossible to make all-encompassing solution to anything, much less to create a programming language that does everything.
imho the relevancy of Desktop Linux is irrelevant. I have never understood why actually should everyone from Joe Sixpack to Linus Torvalds run the same system? Let the hacker geeks have their own nice os and let others use whatever.
Could someone please explain why the +x solution was rejected? Obviously shebang will also be needed, but I don't see the problem with that.
.desktop-file. What do you want to do? [Add +x] [Run] [Edit]' (ok, maybe with better wording but anyways)
Backward compablity could be achieved with a warning dialog: 'You are trying to open non-executable
The best reason I got from TFA(!) was that if KDE would be installed on FAT32-system which doesn't support execute-flag for files, then the system would fail.
This may come as shock to you, but US of A is not the world, nor does US Constitution apply outside US.
Especially when spokesman of an International Federation comments on trial in Sweden.
So game companies assume that those people that break the copy protection of original game are somehow unable to do so with the extra content?
If that extra content has any value its sure as hell going to be pirated as well.
So this gives nothing to game companies, but another step to legal gamers who now have to depend some download server to have all content, type in more codes etc, while pirates just keep downloading the game with extras from our Swedish friends.
Taking point by point:
:)
"Weak incentives for usability."
I think that the fact that afaik most free software is written for programmers themselves provides quite an incentive to make the program nice to use.
"Few good designers."
Agreed.
"Design suggestions often arenâ€(TM)t invited or welcomed."
Partly agree. Look at awesomebar. Its hated mostly because its new(among other things). In more community-driven developement it wouldnt be accepted. Imho smaller/less radical design changes are accepted more easily.
"Usability is hard to measure."
Partially agree. Usability is partially subjective, and hard to measure. But some aspects of usability can easily measured: how many mouseclicks takes to accomplish some task etc.
"Coding before design."
Disagree. Because most of projects evolve from smaller to larger software(featurewise) unpredictably, designing interface before coding is almost impossible, as its not known what features it needs to accomodate. Making too rigid design decisons too early asks for trouble when new featurs should be added, but the design isn't flexible enough to accomodate them.
"Too many cooks."
Agree on larger projects.
"Chasing tail-lights."
Especially agree. FOSS-developers try too hard to get all users to use their software, and are willing to bend towards mainstream software, insted of making software to themselves and doing what feels right.
"Scratching their own itch."
Especially don't agree. This is the main point where i don't agree. Free software has no need to grab markets and all users. Why is all ui design concentrated on making software easy to use for new users, instead of making software easy to use for power users. Right tool for the right job, noob software for noob users, and poweruser-software for powerusers. IMHO Linux and free software in general needs to get back the 'from hackers to hackers'-attitude, because thats what we do best. Quoting:
"So software thatâ€(TM)s supposed to be for general use[...]"
Not all software is supposed to be for general use. I make software for my own use, and thats enough. I dont need no stinking users....
"Leaving little things broken."
If it hinders usability it will be fixed, if the reward is greater than work needed to fix it.
"Placating people with options."
And this is bad thing because? Quote:
"The number, obscurity, and triviality of such preferences ends up confusing ordinary users"
Again. 'Ordinary users' don't matter. And making good default settings, and showing only relevant options in main ui(about:config vs Preferences-dialog) relieves this problem a lot.
Cases: Awesome-bar. Start-menu in Vista(I atleast would like to have option to use XP-like start-menu).
"Fifteen pixels of fame."
"Design is high-bandwidth, the Net is low-bandwidth."
Agreed.
"Release early, release often, get stuck."
Just add configuration options, and depreciate them if necessary.
"Mediocrity through modularity."
Imho modularity can't be blamed for bad design.
"Gated development communities."
This one I don't understand. If print-dialog sucks, identify the project it belongs to and complain there. It will be fixed or not, depending on other conditions, like ones above.
My phone costs are about:
:)
Monthly fee: 0.66 per month
Phone calls: 0.069 per minute
Text messages: 0.069 per piece
MMS-messages: 0.19 per piece
Data(3G or GPRS): 1.5 per megabyte
No additional fees or taxes. No longterm contracts. No sim-locked phones. And thats euros(1 Euro = 1.5833 U.S. dollars according to google atm).
Of course there are different plans available, ie 45e for 3000 mins of calls and 3000 sms.
Enjoy your iPhone...
Force somehow people to host DTD:s on their own servers. To enable caching include md5sum or something to identify DTD.
Why would so called misinformation be a bad thing? Everybody has right to express their opinion, or things they consider fact. There is no such thing as universal truth, some opinions may be better argumented and supported, but that doesnt make them absolutely right.
This would kill battery life of a device, cellphones are already at only few days of usage. Lets just add a gimmicky effect that needs more battery. 'Oh how much do I have battery left? *shake* None, anymore anyways...'
I feel that this is major win for ssd, because this is first 'consumer-class' ssd that has actually better (non-random) transfer speeds than average desktop hdd, at least what I have heard