Yeah personally I'd kill for a 2G ipod with proper buttons... you can't use the current one in your pocket at all without taking it out (and flashing expensive hardware around is a fast way to lose it in most places these days).
Screen only? No tactile feedback at all.. no thanks.
I must pick you up on one thing. A smart pointer is a good thing - and about the best compromise you can get if you pass pointers around and can't reliably predict their lifetime (if you can predict it of course the standard alloc/free is far more efficient). A properly written one is *not* subject to threading issues... the one in the article merely sucked.
Garbage collectors have the same problem that FF has - they eat memory.. they're basically big caches (if you think FF is bad try running a largish java app for any length of time - I've seen one take out a server with 2gb of ram!).
Yeah, like dimitri skylarov was all over the front pages of the newspapers, and CNN did a three hour special on software patents, and the Fox picked up on how regressive the DMCA was...
First I've heard of that, and I tend to keep on top of these things.
For the UK government to pass such an act it'd have to get through the lords (and they are bouncing crap back to the commons like they're playing tennis at the moment) and even if Blair used the parliement act to force it through then the queen would have to sign it (granted she hasn't refused to sign anything recently but she has the power to do so). By the time he'd gone through all that (would take 2-3 years) the bad publicity would have killed it anyway.
The fusion is a bit better, but *damn* the blades are expensive... twice the cost of mach 3 razors! And they seem to have a much shorter life too - seems like they used thinner blades to get them all in or something.
Mach 3 seems to be the sweet spot for me. Might try going back to the 2 blade to compare after reading some of the comments though.
You might regret going for the 6 blade 'marketing dream' razor. Blades cost 2-3 times as much as standard ones and don't last for shit (The one I tried the blades were blunt after only 2 shaves - a mach 3 will last a week).
You don't know many then... most of the low end mp3 players are just that - mp3 players. It's only at the medium-high end that the DRM kicks in. That's before you go into things like minidisc.
PPTP doesn't encrypt by default unless the other end supports MPPPE. The problem is windows doesn't actually tell you whether it does or not, so you could easily be on an uncrypted VPN.
That's a vista thing.. instead of the standard UI philosophy of not hiding things (because users won't know they can do things if they can't see the option) vista goes the other way and hides everything but the immediate set of options - including the menu bar (everything is on right click). Damned infuriating when you know what you're trying to do and there's no obvious way to do it.
Um no.. they're talking about tabs. MDI != Tabs. Windows 3.1 had MDI but it didn't have tabs.
MDI is very unintuitive on its own - tabs make it much better by putting, well, a tab on the page so you know it's there. Closest analogy is Windows 95 property sheets I guess, although they weren't the first (just the first that most people will have used).
OK so you're writing a GPLv2 app. One of your dependent libraries accepts a contribution from a GPLv3 source - making it GPLv3 automatically. Your code is GPLv2 only (no 'or later' clause) and therefore can no longer use that library - and you can't track down all the contributors to change the license.
What do you do? Write your own? Fork the GPLv2 app?
Either of those would work.. but it's a travesty that so much duplication will be forced.
If you're using a dependent library written by someone else and they are forced to GPL3 by using GPL3 contributions you're stuffed. If you see some opensource code that someone has written and want to use it if it's GPL3 you're stuffed.
Basically it's a complete mess.
Some of the GPL3 provisions are pretty nasty (like having to make it so your program spits out the source, and not being able to use encryption) so I'm not intending to use it in any projects now or in the future... OTOH I've been transitioning to LGPL for most stuff anyway...
Once a single line of GPL3 code is used in a project the entire project must go to GPL3 or it can't use that code. That's deliberately splitting the opensource world.
So you have a choice. Stick with GPL2 and stop using any code that goes to GPL3, or jump to GPL3 and stop anyone still on GPL2 from using your code. Or go BSD and ignore all that mess.
No but it stops you contributing under GPL2. If you have a GPL2 application and someome commits a *single* item of GPL3 code to one of your dependent libraries your choice is to change to GPL3 or stop using that library.
For some of us that's a major concern. I've read enough about GPL3 to say in my own projects no GPL3 licensed code will be accepted (and have already premtively removed the 'or later' from all code I own).
You have to spend all day there. It should be a pleasant environment, and for many that includes ipods. Basic manangement - happy workers are more productive.
Not sure if I'd want to work at a place that balked at something like running itunes (last place I was at it was available in the central software repository along with a lot of other non-work stuff).
I used to be a part time reviewer, and I got sent a game that was so appalling I've never seen anything so bad since - it had jerky 2d motion and after I basically gave up on it found out that there was no quit - the only way to exit the game was to pull the power switch!
Damned if I can remember its name.. I've blocked it out. Gave it a negative percentage at the time...
Every time you upgrade the lock you into a minimum 12 months.. sometimes 18 months. The rental over that period is usually far more than the price difference between the upgrade and the wholesale price of the phone (often more than the retail price) - so you simply pay over the next year.
People who don't upgrade are paying for their upgrade even though they didn't get one - however they can leave for another company whenever they want, which is quite useful.
Merging the phone with the ipod is the point, but not for audio, for video.
In the UK at least the ipod video is being trounced by the 3g providers who can offer on-demand video and live programming at a far lower price (not helped that there's no video available for the ipod video outside the US unless you're into 3 minute music videos at £5 a throw) - nearly everyone I know has one. I don't, because I don't see the point of video on the move, but that's another issue.
I presume this hasn't happened yet in the US, so apple can get in at the ground level by mixing an ipod video with a mobile phone, and offering the advantages of both. Heck, if they play it right they might even be able to break into the more mature markets over here with it.. but they're going to have to do some damned good deals to do that, since mobile phones are all heavily subsidised.
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Yeah personally I'd kill for a 2G ipod with proper buttons... you can't use the current one in your pocket at all without taking it out (and flashing expensive hardware around is a fast way to lose it in most places these days).
Screen only? No tactile feedback at all.. no thanks.
kittens and puppies are *never* innocent. They're responsible for more than you know... if we drop our guard then they'll enslave the world.
I must pick you up on one thing. A smart pointer is a good thing - and about the best compromise you can get if you pass pointers around and can't reliably predict their lifetime (if you can predict it of course the standard alloc/free is far more efficient). A properly written one is *not* subject to threading issues... the one in the article merely sucked.
Garbage collectors have the same problem that FF has - they eat memory.. they're basically big caches (if you think FF is bad try running a largish java app for any length of time - I've seen one take out a server with 2gb of ram!).
Yeah, like dimitri skylarov was all over the front pages of the newspapers, and CNN did a three hour special on software patents, and the Fox picked up on how regressive the DMCA was...
Oh, wait... this is planet earth, I forgot.
The UK version of getfirefox sucks donkey.
Try going to getfirefox.co.uk. There's no download link, and the only download on the page is for google toolbar.
They *really* need to work on that, because UK users will go there first to get the en-GB version.
First I've heard of that, and I tend to keep on top of these things.
For the UK government to pass such an act it'd have to get through the lords (and they are bouncing crap back to the commons like they're playing tennis at the moment) and even if Blair used the parliement act to force it through then the queen would have to sign it (granted she hasn't refused to sign anything recently but she has the power to do so). By the time he'd gone through all that (would take 2-3 years) the bad publicity would have killed it anyway.
The fusion is a bit better, but *damn* the blades are expensive... twice the cost of mach 3 razors! And they seem to have a much shorter life too - seems like they used thinner blades to get them all in or something.
Mach 3 seems to be the sweet spot for me. Might try going back to the 2 blade to compare after reading some of the comments though.
You might regret going for the 6 blade 'marketing dream' razor. Blades cost 2-3 times as much as standard ones and don't last for shit (The one I tried the blades were blunt after only 2 shaves - a mach 3 will last a week).
Ugh I hate the oils... damned expensive and they don't seem to work properly.
Gel seems to be the best. Cream is awful.
Heh. My wife just went to the doctor yesterday with anxiety symptoms (tiredness, shaking, etc.), and was told to visit the site in the article!
So as far as the doctor is concerned that site *is* proper help.
Kinda funny to see it on slashdot the next day...
Just block fasterfox. Not sure what you mean by 'a ton of scripts' - it's a single line in httpd.conf.
lock refers to locking the safety, which you do first - so the correct term is 'lock and load'.
You don't know many then... most of the low end mp3 players are just that - mp3 players. It's only at the medium-high end that the DRM kicks in. That's before you go into things like minidisc.
PPTP doesn't encrypt by default unless the other end supports MPPPE. The problem is windows doesn't actually tell you whether it does or not, so you could easily be on an uncrypted VPN.
That's a vista thing.. instead of the standard UI philosophy of not hiding things (because users won't know they can do things if they can't see the option) vista goes the other way and hides everything but the immediate set of options - including the menu bar (everything is on right click). Damned infuriating when you know what you're trying to do and there's no obvious way to do it.
Um no.. they're talking about tabs. MDI != Tabs. Windows 3.1 had MDI but it didn't have tabs.
MDI is very unintuitive on its own - tabs make it much better by putting, well, a tab on the page so you know it's there.
Closest analogy is Windows 95 property sheets I guess, although they weren't the first (just the first that most people will have used).
OK so you're writing a GPLv2 app. One of your dependent libraries accepts a contribution from a GPLv3 source - making it GPLv3 automatically. Your code is GPLv2 only (no 'or later' clause) and therefore can no longer use that library - and you can't track down all the contributors to change the license.
What do you do? Write your own? Fork the GPLv2 app?
Either of those would work.. but it's a travesty that so much duplication will be forced.
If you're using a dependent library written by someone else and they are forced to GPL3 by using GPL3 contributions you're stuffed. If you see some opensource code that someone has written and want to use it if it's GPL3 you're stuffed.
Basically it's a complete mess.
Some of the GPL3 provisions are pretty nasty (like having to make it so your program spits out the source, and not being able to use encryption) so I'm not intending to use it in any projects now or in the future... OTOH I've been transitioning to LGPL for most stuff anyway...
Yes it does. It's built into the license.
Once a single line of GPL3 code is used in a project the entire project must go to GPL3 or it can't use that code. That's deliberately splitting the opensource world.
So you have a choice. Stick with GPL2 and stop using any code that goes to GPL3, or jump to GPL3 and stop anyone still on GPL2 from using your code. Or go BSD and ignore all that mess.
No but it stops you contributing under GPL2. If you have a GPL2 application and someome commits a *single* item of GPL3 code to one of your dependent libraries your choice is to change to GPL3 or stop using that library.
For some of us that's a major concern. I've read enough about GPL3 to say in my own projects no GPL3 licensed code will be accepted (and have already premtively removed the 'or later' from all code I own).
Why?
You have to spend all day there. It should be a pleasant environment, and for many that includes ipods. Basic manangement - happy workers are more productive.
Not sure if I'd want to work at a place that balked at something like running itunes (last place I was at it was available in the central software repository along with a lot of other non-work stuff).
I used to be a part time reviewer, and I got sent a game that was so appalling I've never seen anything so bad since - it had jerky 2d motion and after I basically gave up on it found out that there was no quit - the only way to exit the game was to pull the power switch!
Damned if I can remember its name.. I've blocked it out. Gave it a negative percentage at the time...
The N-Gage?
It sucked as a phone.
It sucked as a games machine.
Heck, if it had sucked any harder it would have spontaneously formed a black hole!
You actually pay for your own upgrade...
Every time you upgrade the lock you into a minimum 12 months.. sometimes 18 months. The rental over that period is usually far more than the price difference between the upgrade and the wholesale price of the phone (often more than the retail price) - so you simply pay over the next year.
People who don't upgrade are paying for their upgrade even though they didn't get one - however they can leave for another company whenever they want, which is quite useful.
Merging the phone with the ipod is the point, but not for audio, for video.
In the UK at least the ipod video is being trounced by the 3g providers who can offer on-demand video and live programming at a far lower price (not helped that there's no video available for the ipod video outside the US unless you're into 3 minute music videos at £5 a throw) - nearly everyone I know has one. I don't, because I don't see the point of video on the move, but that's another issue.
I presume this hasn't happened yet in the US, so apple can get in at the ground level by mixing an ipod video with a mobile phone, and offering the advantages of both. Heck, if they play it right they might even be able to break into the more mature markets over here with it.. but they're going to have to do some damned good deals to do that, since mobile phones are all heavily subsidised.