I think that the transmission delay is not as important as the energy consumption. I'm pretty sure that computing to repair loss data will be quicker than retransmitting; but I do not know if the energy used is less. Because if that is not the case then it is bye bye cell phone & tablet batteries!
Metro is about MS making a homogenous look and feel across all possible platforms,
I agree with this.
and thus, having to go to the least common denominator (cell phone interfaces) for all of them.
I do not agree with this.
I think that cellphones are, now, the "most common" denominator, not the "least" one. There are so many smartphones around, that now people are more used to this kind of interface, so it does make computers more usable if they agree with the paradigm.
I also think this is shit for "power users" or "developers", but that is less than 1% of the market, so MS will not care.
Have you seen the "save" icon in some applications?
A floppy drive would let you put some of those (the real thing) to read or write information into them.
Amazing, ugh?
Well it happened here in Chile after our last big earthquake in 2010. Then, when the army finally took over (it took them some time to reach the most devastated points), some people were rushing to return the goods. You can probably still find videos of "walking" fridges in the internet.
I totally agree with you. As I said, I love this kind of feature, and I think it has a lot of potential. My point is that it does not help with migration.
Just "to be fair" I checked out in Windows, if I put "present...", it does not show power point as an alternative. It only show menu items that do match with that I'm typing. To lauch it i write "power...". How will that help to migrate to linux?
"... and migrate from Windows to Linux software without having to relearn menus"
I do like typing the name (or part of the name) of an application to run it, but still I'm really not sure about this one. Menus, at least, are a lot more standarized in term of names (for the most common tasks: copy, pase, search, undo...) than applications names. I'm a long time linux user, for example, but I have not idea how is called the presentation application in open-office (or libre-office). Will I have to type "presentation"? How many people will guess that and not start typing "powerpoint"?
I like in spirit, but I would be wary about the implementation.
It has already happened with the iPhone (I do not know if this is the case): the hardware is so powerfull, that developers forget this is not a fully computer or laptop. I'm not thinking about the interface, but usage of battery. They forget that the energy resource IS a limitation in this case, with the consequence, for me at least, that the battery will be shorter than the day, requiring me to charge at some point of just keeping mi phone plugged during the day.
If this has happened to the developers that started working with the mobile device in mind, I wonder what a platform that started with none of these consideration in mind.
Not going to happen for two reasons:
- More often than not, technology or techniques developed from said projects are used in future or ongoing projects.
- Only one thing worse than your project failing is releasing it in the wild and having another company or group making it successful without you.
Is it that if you opensource something you also immediately transfer (or give away) the right to commercialize it? (I think that, for example, there is a Qt commercial license which is different from the non-commercial one).
Around here, people say something like: "You should not blame the pig, but the one that feeds it", meaning that it is not the pig's fault to be dirty or smelly...
(Maybe you have know the english equivalent or can make a better translation: "No es culpa del chancho, sino de el que le da afrecho")
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I think that the transmission delay is not as important as the energy consumption. I'm pretty sure that computing to repair loss data will be quicker than retransmitting; but I do not know if the energy used is less. Because if that is not the case then it is bye bye cell phone & tablet batteries!
I think that not having sun (and health) is actually worse for you skin than having some of it.
Metro is about MS making a homogenous look and feel across all possible platforms,
I agree with this.
and thus, having to go to the least common denominator (cell phone interfaces) for all of them.
I do not agree with this. I think that cellphones are, now, the "most common" denominator, not the "least" one. There are so many smartphones around, that now people are more used to this kind of interface, so it does make computers more usable if they agree with the paradigm. I also think this is shit for "power users" or "developers", but that is less than 1% of the market, so MS will not care.
Just give the whole cake to Chuck Norris.
Have you seen the "save" icon in some applications? A floppy drive would let you put some of those (the real thing) to read or write information into them. Amazing, ugh?
Well it happened here in Chile after our last big earthquake in 2010. Then, when the army finally took over (it took them some time to reach the most devastated points), some people were rushing to return the goods. You can probably still find videos of "walking" fridges in the internet.
I totally agree with you. As I said, I love this kind of feature, and I think it has a lot of potential. My point is that it does not help with migration. Just "to be fair" I checked out in Windows, if I put "present...", it does not show power point as an alternative. It only show menu items that do match with that I'm typing. To lauch it i write "power...". How will that help to migrate to linux?
"... and migrate from Windows to Linux software without having to relearn menus" I do like typing the name (or part of the name) of an application to run it, but still I'm really not sure about this one. Menus, at least, are a lot more standarized in term of names (for the most common tasks: copy, pase, search, undo...) than applications names. I'm a long time linux user, for example, but I have not idea how is called the presentation application in open-office (or libre-office). Will I have to type "presentation"? How many people will guess that and not start typing "powerpoint"?
I like in spirit, but I would be wary about the implementation. It has already happened with the iPhone (I do not know if this is the case): the hardware is so powerfull, that developers forget this is not a fully computer or laptop. I'm not thinking about the interface, but usage of battery. They forget that the energy resource IS a limitation in this case, with the consequence, for me at least, that the battery will be shorter than the day, requiring me to charge at some point of just keeping mi phone plugged during the day. If this has happened to the developers that started working with the mobile device in mind, I wonder what a platform that started with none of these consideration in mind.
Oh God... no. Please do not let them see Justin Bieber! Imaging they could wee him suddently made me feel like using only underwear in the street.
The title already gives a hint of the creativity involved in the film: "Manos" = "Hands" in spanish. So the title is like "Hands: The hands of Fate".
High concentrations of Aussies will be banned in flights.
Sure... that run on top of Windows (not free).
Not going to happen for two reasons: - More often than not, technology or techniques developed from said projects are used in future or ongoing projects. - Only one thing worse than your project failing is releasing it in the wild and having another company or group making it successful without you.
Is it that if you opensource something you also immediately transfer (or give away) the right to commercialize it? (I think that, for example, there is a Qt commercial license which is different from the non-commercial one).
... All hardware for mounting your flatscreen TV is all metric...
Oh, the irony: at least in the metric countries I have bothererd to check, flatscreen sizes are measured in inches.
Then it is Wiv!
But, won't my cities revolt if I do that?
If these pills are so smart, how is it they cannot avoid been eaten?
Indeed, considering that each of those mice are connected to a computer...
I travel in a zeppelin, you insensitive clod...
You are free to modify the date as you want. But keep in mind that if you are goinf to distribute the new date, you have to release the source code...
Around here, people say something like: "You should not blame the pig, but the one that feeds it", meaning that it is not the pig's fault to be dirty or smelly... (Maybe you have know the english equivalent or can make a better translation: "No es culpa del chancho, sino de el que le da afrecho")
When will the wii version come out?
"You got some nice documents there. It would be a shame if you cannot access them anymore."
I think this will be good for OpenOffice.org!
Nice to see Wine going 1.0. Does anyone know how much this impacts ReactOS?