Yeah seriously, why doesnt this idea come up more often? Why cant browsers just function like any other media player and use already installed system codecs? Or if you really want it to be noob friendly why not include libavcodec or something and use that instead of having to pick one codec?
I wouldn't be surprised if iPad e-books cost even more than on Kindle, since they're higher resolution and in color.
eBooks are not images, they are text. They dont have resolution in that sense.
iBooks is supposedly going to be selling ebooks in the ePub format which is just html/css in a zip container.
I suppose cover images might be higher resolution but i doubt it, the iPad is only 1024x768 to the Kindle's 800x600 or the Kindle DX's 1200x824.
Having said that I too would not be surprised if iBooks was more expensive than Amazon;)
I don't have a kindle but i do have a 6" e-ink e-reader.
I've read from it for hours straight indoors, usually a halogen bedside lamp, with no problems at all, same cant be said for reading pdfs etc. on my LCD monitor.
I'm thoroughly sold on reflective displays for reading.
Far Cry 2 is a perfect example of why I no longer give a flying fuck what professional game reviews say.
That game was abysmal and yet hailed as the second coming by just about every single review.
You missed out:
4) Feet / inches - for measuring people
When someone tells you how tall they are in the UK or what size trousers/shirt they are the measurements are generally in feet / inches.
Although if someone asked me how tall a building was i'd probably answer in meters.
Have your MySQL servers instead of PHP do some calculations in queries (hashes, query-related math, etc) usually doesn't hurt since you're generally offloading CPU-intensive operations to a disk-bound machine.
Interestingly in the presentation he said they actually do the opposite of that, things like md5 hashes are done in the application rather than on the DB because its much easier to scale up the number of web servers
It was a talk by the Director of Engineering to "an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development".
Of course it was about their LAMP stack and backend infrastucture and not their site design...
Fahrenheit just makes more sense to most of us. 30s = cold, 40s = chilly, 50s = cool, 60s = decent/might need a windbreaker, 70s = nice, 80s = warm, 90s = hot, etc, etc. Celsius is no where near that intuitive and was as arbitrarily defined as Fahrenheit was.
No it makes more sense to Americans (being one of the very few countries left still using Fahrenheit) because they were brought up with it.
How is 30s = cold, 40s = chilly etc any more intuitive than 0-10 = cold, 10-20 = chilly etc?
Thats a ridiculous argument.
People used to using Fahrenheit find Celsius unintuitive.
People used to using Celsius find using Fahrenheit unintuitive.
Shocking!
My parents were brought up using Fahrenheit but the UK switched to celsius in the 70's, they occasionally still give temperatures in Fahrenheit but for the most part use celsius, its not that hard to adapt really.
Considering the rest of the world uses Celsius don't you think it might be sensible for the US to switch too?:P
I know you were just making a joke but on Vista you can actually update graphics drivers without rebooting.
The installer will tell you to reboot anyway, but the driver has been updated.
This is possibly the best feature in Vista;)
You get 25fps in GTA4 and 40fps in Crysis
Now, which one (given those numbers) would you expect to look better?
Which one actually looks (a lot) better?
Theres your problem.
Also it has a spectacular memory leak that sees it using up all available physical memory after a while, grinding to a halt and refusing to load any new textures, which is actually pretty funny the first time. Driving around in a flying car avoiding invisible buildings:D
Yeah those sites are annoying, if you really must do that the very least you can do is use anchors to allow you to link/bookmark directly aswell.
As in www.domain.com/index.html#page3 and then use either server side scripting or JS to pull in the right page when first loaded.
Only 700MB/s?
Battleship Mtron hit 800MB/s sustained and nearly 1200MB/s burst and that was with SSDs that are now 9 months old.
I'd love to see what could be accomplished with the new Intel SLC SSD's
Also, the user interface when using Safari on the iPhone 3G is vastly superior to anything else I've experienced on a cellphone, including a bunch of Opera-using ones. My last phone came with Opera and I really tried to like it but the UI made me want to smash my phone into little pieces....
/Mikael
Opera 9.5 beta is definately worth a look, they finally introduced the zooming functionality (similar to Opera Mini and Safari on the iPhone)
into Opera Mobile, flash doesnt work in this beta but its supposed to for the final.
The UI has almost completely changed from what i remember of Opera Mobile 8.x too, its a lot better imo.
My browser of choice for mobile devices now.
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Yeah seriously, why doesnt this idea come up more often?
Why cant browsers just function like any other media player and use already installed system codecs?
Or if you really want it to be noob friendly why not include libavcodec or something and use that instead of having to pick one codec?
Not anymore you dont :)
I wouldn't be surprised if iPad e-books cost even more than on Kindle, since they're higher resolution and in color.
eBooks are not images, they are text. They dont have resolution in that sense.
;)
iBooks is supposedly going to be selling ebooks in the ePub format which is just html/css in a zip container.
I suppose cover images might be higher resolution but i doubt it, the iPad is only 1024x768 to the Kindle's 800x600 or the Kindle DX's 1200x824.
Having said that I too would not be surprised if iBooks was more expensive than Amazon
I don't have a kindle but i do have a 6" e-ink e-reader.
I've read from it for hours straight indoors, usually a halogen bedside lamp, with no problems at all, same cant be said for reading pdfs etc. on my LCD monitor.
I'm thoroughly sold on reflective displays for reading.
Far Cry 2 is a perfect example of why I no longer give a flying fuck what professional game reviews say.
That game was abysmal and yet hailed as the second coming by just about every single review.
Having said that, I wouldn't mind a GPS tagger inside my DSLR. :-D
There are add-on thingies for that on some DSLR cameras
Those are all natural carbon breasts!
You missed out:
4) Feet / inches - for measuring people
When someone tells you how tall they are in the UK or what size trousers/shirt they are the measurements are generally in feet / inches.
Although if someone asked me how tall a building was i'd probably answer in meters.
Actually you can
Microsoft even tell you how! (last bit)
Steam uses torrents.
Uhmm, no it doesn't?
Have your MySQL servers instead of PHP do some calculations in queries (hashes, query-related math, etc) usually doesn't hurt since you're generally offloading CPU-intensive operations to a disk-bound machine.
Interestingly in the presentation he said they actually do the opposite of that, things like md5 hashes are done in the application rather than on the DB because its much easier to scale up the number of web servers
It was a talk by the Director of Engineering to "an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development".
Of course it was about their LAMP stack and backend infrastucture and not their site design...
Fahrenheit just makes more sense to most of us. 30s = cold, 40s = chilly, 50s = cool, 60s = decent/might need a windbreaker, 70s = nice, 80s = warm, 90s = hot, etc, etc. Celsius is no where near that intuitive and was as arbitrarily defined as Fahrenheit was.
No it makes more sense to Americans (being one of the very few countries left still using Fahrenheit) because they were brought up with it.
How is 30s = cold, 40s = chilly etc any more intuitive than 0-10 = cold, 10-20 = chilly etc? Thats a ridiculous argument.
People used to using Fahrenheit find Celsius unintuitive.
People used to using Celsius find using Fahrenheit unintuitive.
Shocking!
My parents were brought up using Fahrenheit but the UK switched to celsius in the 70's, they occasionally still give temperatures in Fahrenheit but for the most part use celsius, its not that hard to adapt really.
Considering the rest of the world uses Celsius don't you think it might be sensible for the US to switch too? :P
Just FYI the N95 is NOT touch screen.
None of the current n-series are, although iirc there is a new model due with touch screen
I know you were just making a joke but on Vista you can actually update graphics drivers without rebooting. ;)
The installer will tell you to reboot anyway, but the driver has been updated.
This is possibly the best feature in Vista
You get 25fps in GTA4 and 40fps in Crysis
:D
Now, which one (given those numbers) would you expect to look better?
Which one actually looks (a lot) better?
Theres your problem.
Also it has a spectacular memory leak that sees it using up all available physical memory after a while, grinding to a halt and refusing to load any new textures, which is actually pretty funny the first time. Driving around in a flying car avoiding invisible buildings
Yeah those sites are annoying, if you really must do that the very least you can do is use anchors to allow you to link/bookmark directly aswell.
As in www.domain.com/index.html#page3 and then use either server side scripting or JS to pull in the right page when first loaded.
but i don't know what it costs to manufacture rocket fuel compared to hydrogen gas.
rocket fuel is hydrogen
They are "Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall"
Sorry, this is a Gravitas Free Zone.
Only 700MB/s? Battleship Mtron hit 800MB/s sustained and nearly 1200MB/s burst and that was with SSDs that are now 9 months old.
I'd love to see what could be accomplished with the new Intel SLC SSD's
JRun isnt entirely abandonded, its still used to run Coldfusion and is developed a little bit...
It's also the main new feature in the Opera Mobile 9.5 beta.
That and a new much easier to use interface.
Also, the user interface when using Safari on the iPhone 3G is vastly superior to anything else I've experienced on a cellphone, including a bunch of Opera-using ones. My last phone came with Opera and I really tried to like it but the UI made me want to smash my phone into little pieces....
/Mikael
Opera 9.5 beta is definately worth a look, they finally introduced the zooming functionality (similar to Opera Mini and Safari on the iPhone) into Opera Mobile, flash doesnt work in this beta but its supposed to for the final.
The UI has almost completely changed from what i remember of Opera Mobile 8.x too, its a lot better imo.
My browser of choice for mobile devices now.
I'm not fat, im just from a higher latitude :(
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