They've already reported that New Hampshire turnout from Democratic projections is much lower than the Obama campaign had stipulated and hoped would reveal.
The only thing I can think of is that Google's browser is based on WebKit and Safari is at least partially based on WebKit.
You've got that a bit backwards. Safari relies upon Webkit for rendering. Chrome uses Webkit for some rendering and their homegrown javascript engine for javascript (instead of JavaScriptCore which is part of Webkit). If you're going to refer to one of them as partially based on Webkit, it should be Chrome.
But this fact has nothing whatsoever to do with Opera Mini.
Apple's licensing requires iPhone browsers to use the built in rendering engine in the iPhone SDK (which happens to be Webkit).
Webkit is fine and there are several fine browsers available based on Webkit in various stages of maturity and development. Opera's proprietary renderer is also very good. However, as far as being the most efficient, the most recent benchmarks show Firefox 3 clearly beating both in terms of performance.
What benchmarks are those? For javascript at least the Safari/Webkit nightlies seem to be beating the Firefox nightlies by a significant margin, or were last few times I ran them.
Or from another view:
Both Safari and Chrome use the WebKit (not to be confused with WebKitCore, JavascriptCore, JavascriptGlue).
Both use their own Javascript engines. Apple has 2 Javascript Engines (codenames SquirrelFish and SquirrelFish Extreme) which eventually fold under the JavascriptCore portion of the Webkit Project.
Chrome uses it's own Javascript Engine.
Apple uses WebKit for OS X's HTML rendering system, Safari and any piece of hardware running OS X.
...would they port the JavaME version? Doesn't that seem a bit circuitous when Apple provides a sophisticated toolkit to compile their Mac codebase down? It's not like the iPhone is underpowered.
Something doesn't quite seem right here.
I know little about Opera, but:
it works like this: You request a URL in Opera Mini. Opera Mini makes the request to a proxy server run by Opera. Operaâ(TM)s proxy server connects to the web server hosting the requested URL, and renders the page into an image. This image is then transmitted (in a proprietary format called OBML â" Opera Binary Markup Language) to the Opera Mini client. Opera Mini displays the rendered image on screen. This may sound convoluted, but apparently the result is very effective â" itâ(TM)s faster to transmit, because only OBML (a compressed binary format) is transmitted to the mobile device over the phone network, and far faster to render on slow mobile processors.
Opera Mini is probably a Java app, so it can run on the most number of phones. Porting a JVM that only needs to support a few select bits is vastly easier than porting a full-blown rendering engine from c/cpp to obj c.
Correct. However, seeing as Qt 4.5 with Cocoa is now in Beta, one would surmise that it makes sense to port Opera to that code base and re-use much of it for the iPhone (even if it's not an Opera Mini, but a subset of it).
IIRC, NASA used the terrain around Ajo as testing grounds for the first lunar missions.
I've been to Ajo, I spent a week there one day. It's a perfect location for simulate the moon; rugged, desolate, and devoid of any signs of human habitation.
The basic principles are the same (it's all Objective-C and Cocoa), but the GUI SDK for the iPhone is not the same as that of a normal OS X GUI application.
The MVC/KVC models are the same. Sorry, but if you can't design your UI to be intuitive, that not a limitation of Interface Builder but your inability to design to the iPhone/iTouch form factor.
Apple may be ready to downplay the merits of FireWire, but the Auto Industry, Aerospace, DoD, and much more dealing with high bandwidth control systems and much more are just beginning to implement FW800 with FW3200 next up.
I'm a huge Mac fan (I'm typing this on an older MacBook Pro), but man, I really think these new laptops are ugly as sin. I really prefer the look of previous model MacBooks and MacBook Pros, though when the Air came out it was probably inevitable that the other laptops would follow its lead.
When Nuclear Power generation finally switches to Pebble bed Modular Reactors [first invented in the US and blocked by the Atomic Energy Commission (1944) for it's lack of military options] using Liquid Cooled Helium then I'm sure someone would rather adapt a small-scale solution, using a material medium other than water, for motherboards to do this than just using a giant water sink to account for the data center, as a whole.
We have quite a mathematical conundrum on our hands.
For sufficient quantities of beer this equality you mention becomes ambiguous. If only we had a way to statistically model this phenomenon...
How about we just call it a F(x) = e^(-x) : x(sober) = 1; x(piss drunk) = Infinity. *Note: think of these as x0 and x1 but without the subscripts.
The more beer you give the woman who won't talk to you when sober [1 over the exponential to the first power] the more forcefully she becomes in telling you off [1 over the exponential to the n number of beers whose absurd limit rapidly approaches infinity and thus F(x) probability of hooking up goes to 0] and thus you being more and more drunk, thinking you're getting somewhere realize that somewhere is a bitter mood and out however much you wasted trying to get anywhere.
This is one reason a University experience to experiment in social settings are not only healthy but help fertilize in one's mind the fiscally prudent ways of spending your limited cash.
My favorite experiment was buying a pack of cigarettes and every damn good looking woman would come out of the woodwork to bum a smoke off of you. The average looking women either weren't so callous or brought their own to smoke.
In the end, you were out less money and you end up wasting time smoking and telling your friends what a f***ed up scenario that turns out to be.
In the end, social circles still exist throughout life and if you're not willing to join said circles because you think they suck don't expect to ever date any of the women in those circles you can't help but long to touch.
Great link!
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Download from your favorite distro: Debian Experimental already has it in and works well within KDE 4.1.2 and Gnome. I've been using the RC candidates for a while.
Microsoft have contributed to open source, and they include some open source stuff in Windows, but it would be ridiculous to claim that Windows is "largely an open source OS".
You can't download Darwin? Are your digits broken?
Also, for those people who've never touched a lathe, solid blocks of metal are expensive. Especially if you want high-grade metal, and you would for a laptop.
I hope to hell you meant a mill. Just thinking about making a generally rectangular object on a lathe makes my head asplode.
Funny sh**. Can someone please stop this damn thing from rotating? I can't keep the corner orthogonal to one another.
On the other end though, there are tons of Mac rumor websites that paint Apple in a very favorable light, by saying all kinds of unverified things that could cause Apple's stock to skyrocket. Such as new models of iPods, Macs, new releases of iTunes, etc.
Mac fanatics aren't writing stories on the threat of their favorite CEO on the brink of death. Whether or not a Macbook Pro gets released with this bell or whistle is not even a boil on the Ass of Bulls*** that CNN site created and irresponsibly enacted, without the regard for how his death may or may not influence the future of a > $100 Billion Business.
I'm a registered Republican and made the mistake of voting for Bush once.
So in other words, you have really bad judgment.
And anybody that was stupid enough to vote for Bush the first time was still that stupid 4 years later. He was elected again, after all. You seriously expect us to believe you are one of the <1% of the Bush voters that somehow grew a couple of brain cells? Come on.
If you are going to admit to voting for Bush the fist time, you might as well just own up to voting for him a second time. Because voting is anonymous so everybody is 99/100 sure you did anyway.
That took a lot of thought. Not! Between Kerry and Bush the Country was clearly choosing between two sacks of s***.
Developing for the iPhone platform is exactly like slaves manufacturing shackles to be used on other slaves.
When shiny is more important than freedom, it says something about one's lack of intelligence/integrity.
IMHO. Heh, I laugh in the face of bad karma...
Do you know whether there are any plans to 'interleave' the gimp with layers that do vector-drawing as well ? It would be so cool to be able to designate a layer for the one purpose or the other. I know that these newfangled text-layers are a step in this direction, but do you know whether they plan on going all the way ?
They better solution would be to use the upcoming Inkscape Inkcore to deal with Vectors. Whether that happens is to be seen.
I'd rather they leverage communications with Inkscape where you create a layer objects that reference, by Inscape file or within Inkscape file->specific layer of file objects that dynamically update after changes are made from Inkscape and later resynched within Gimp, manually after knowing you have those changes available. In other words, if the file objects have changed in characteristics, then upon returning to Gimp, apply a granularity by object or layer all changes, or just a general globe update all changes to file.
Back in the days when Tech Support was real support--ObjectLine Support at NeXT Software Inc, we sure as hell didn't follow a script. You followed your knowledge of NeXTSTEP, Dev Tools and the dedicated second tier of accounts owned by dedicated Dev Engineers and then the third tier of Engineering proper, based upon the area of QA that needs cross-referencing.
It was a Professional Services<-->Engineering Department synergy that was often combative when business requirements came into the mix, but it ultimately was a rapid approach to solving problems, improving products where necessary and providing service that improves the client's solutions where necessary.
I have enjoyed reading the opinions and expressed concerns regarding drug legalization, here tonight.
But, there are three main areas where drugs impact the Economy:
The cost of the substances, domestically
The cost of law enforcement, judicial proceedings and incarceration
Civil impact: Lost production, lawsuits from victims of the intoxicated, etc
Costs of the drugs. I have bought kilos of coke in Bogota, and kilos of great weed in Mexico, and the price/cost differential between the source and the domestic, consumer Market, is astounding. The US produces many tons of codeine here. It's actually a by-product of one of the ingredients of Coca-Cola. And that means that the same source of the codeine, is also all about heroin, or the refined, less efficacious pain killer, morphine. The notion that legalization would divert the same bottom-line 'expenses' [In terms of 'street' consumption] to foreign criminals is absolutely false and misleading. Less-efficient morphine and 'alternatives' like 'Demerol' are only used in the US because the FBI criminalized heron in the Twenties (1926, I think, look it up, google Harry Anslinger). Heroin is far more efficient in pain management. That means a lower burden on Health Care expenses, also, if it were legally available in the US medical industry.
Law Enforcement. Okay, assuming we can ignore, for now, the notion that the War on Drugs is chiefly about establishing hegemony in the trade, and a steady source of for-profit incarcerated individuals for Wackenhut and other beneficiaries of the 'three-strike' laws, the savings in manpower, and other budgetary aspects, would be staggering. This would allow two things, besides real dollar savings: Diverting of manpower toward crimes with victims, and a huge resulting savings in incarceration. [The US taxpayer is underwriting the profits of private enterprise in the Prison Business, under the current paradigm.] As well, parts of the current law enforcement budget could be diverted towards intervention and treatment, which, besides being a necessary effort, would also lower the costs on the current Health Care system, and would allow the Churches to go back to preaching, and butt out of social policy.
Civil impact changes would be too broad for a quick summary like this. But, obviously, the lowered price of drugs, themselves, and the reality that drugs would be regulated insofar as content, purity and manufacturing safety are concerned, would lower the overall impact of drug use on total expendable income in the US by factors that might be difficult to imagine, at first. Drug legalization would involve the use of the same mechanisms of judicial and insurance realities, as well as the ability of individual States to regulate how, where and when they would be made available, as well as civil penalties for irresponsible usage, etc.
Is it a be all, end all? I seriously doubt it. I have been clean & sober for well over a decade. I don't recommend drug use. But I also don't recommend the criminalization of drug use, at all. It should be an individual's choice, with rights and responsibilities in the exercise of that choice. The 'right' being the ability to know that something is what it purports to be, and that help is available if someone needs to walk away from something they can't, apparently 'handle.' And the 'responsibility' is obvious: That the exercise of choice does not negatively impact others. Just my 2 cents, that's all.
Then again, we first need the money invested so all of M.E., C.E., E.E., ChemE., etc., looking for more excitement can pitch in with our years in both CS and traditional Engineering.
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They've already reported that New Hampshire turnout from Democratic projections is much lower than the Obama campaign had stipulated and hoped would reveal.
Sounds great to me.
The only thing I can think of is that Google's browser is based on WebKit and Safari is at least partially based on WebKit.
You've got that a bit backwards. Safari relies upon Webkit for rendering. Chrome uses Webkit for some rendering and their homegrown javascript engine for javascript (instead of JavaScriptCore which is part of Webkit). If you're going to refer to one of them as partially based on Webkit, it should be Chrome.
But this fact has nothing whatsoever to do with Opera Mini.
Apple's licensing requires iPhone browsers to use the built in rendering engine in the iPhone SDK (which happens to be Webkit).
Webkit is fine and there are several fine browsers available based on Webkit in various stages of maturity and development. Opera's proprietary renderer is also very good. However, as far as being the most efficient, the most recent benchmarks show Firefox 3 clearly beating both in terms of performance.
What benchmarks are those? For javascript at least the Safari/Webkit nightlies seem to be beating the Firefox nightlies by a significant margin, or were last few times I ran them.
Or from another view:
Both Safari and Chrome use the WebKit (not to be confused with WebKitCore, JavascriptCore, JavascriptGlue).
Both use their own Javascript engines. Apple has 2 Javascript Engines (codenames SquirrelFish and SquirrelFish Extreme) which eventually fold under the JavascriptCore portion of the Webkit Project.
Chrome uses it's own Javascript Engine.
Apple uses WebKit for OS X's HTML rendering system, Safari and any piece of hardware running OS X.
...would they port the JavaME version? Doesn't that seem a bit circuitous when Apple provides a sophisticated toolkit to compile their Mac codebase down? It's not like the iPhone is underpowered.
Something doesn't quite seem right here.
I know little about Opera, but:
it works like this: You request a URL in Opera Mini. Opera Mini makes the request to a proxy server run by Opera. Operaâ(TM)s proxy server connects to the web server hosting the requested URL, and renders the page into an image. This image is then transmitted (in a proprietary format called OBML â" Opera Binary Markup Language) to the Opera Mini client. Opera Mini displays the rendered image on screen. This may sound convoluted, but apparently the result is very effective â" itâ(TM)s faster to transmit, because only OBML (a compressed binary format) is transmitted to the mobile device over the phone network, and far faster to render on slow mobile processors.
Opera Mini is probably a Java app, so it can run on the most number of phones. Porting a JVM that only needs to support a few select bits is vastly easier than porting a full-blown rendering engine from c/cpp to obj c.
Correct. However, seeing as Qt 4.5 with Cocoa is now in Beta, one would surmise that it makes sense to port Opera to that code base and re-use much of it for the iPhone (even if it's not an Opera Mini, but a subset of it).
Then again Opera hasn't ported Opera to Qt4, yet.
IIRC, NASA used the terrain around Ajo as testing grounds for the first lunar missions.
I've been to Ajo, I spent a week there one day. It's a perfect location for simulate the moon; rugged, desolate, and devoid of any signs of human habitation.
That's one long day.
Wrong.
The basic principles are the same (it's all Objective-C and Cocoa), but the GUI SDK for the iPhone is not the same as that of a normal OS X GUI application.
The MVC/KVC models are the same. Sorry, but if you can't design your UI to be intuitive, that not a limitation of Interface Builder but your inability to design to the iPhone/iTouch form factor.
20,000 leagues under the sea just got all wet.
Too bad 9,999,999 lines of that code were ripped off from SCO.
What was strange was all the duplicate Planet of the Apes references citing Heston's character damning you all to hell.
DOA.
Apple may be ready to downplay the merits of FireWire, but the Auto Industry, Aerospace, DoD, and much more dealing with high bandwidth control systems and much more are just beginning to implement FW800 with FW3200 next up.
I'm a huge Mac fan (I'm typing this on an older MacBook Pro), but man, I really think these new laptops are ugly as sin. I really prefer the look of previous model MacBooks and MacBook Pros, though when the Air came out it was probably inevitable that the other laptops would follow its lead.
I never figured Jobs for a closet Raiders fan.
When Nuclear Power generation finally switches to Pebble bed Modular Reactors [first invented in the US and blocked by the Atomic Energy Commission (1944) for it's lack of military options] using Liquid Cooled Helium then I'm sure someone would rather adapt a small-scale solution, using a material medium other than water, for motherboards to do this than just using a giant water sink to account for the data center, as a whole.
ME Magazine: Pebbles making Waves, ME Magazine
PBMR Corporation
US Westinghouse takes stake in PBMR
Oh well. Ten years was a good ride.
Because speech != beer?
...and yet for me at parties, beer = speech.
We have quite a mathematical conundrum on our hands.
For sufficient quantities of beer this equality you mention becomes ambiguous. If only we had a way to statistically model this phenomenon...
How about we just call it a F(x) = e^(-x) : x(sober) = 1; x(piss drunk) = Infinity. *Note: think of these as x0 and x1 but without the subscripts.
The more beer you give the woman who won't talk to you when sober [1 over the exponential to the first power] the more forcefully she becomes in telling you off [1 over the exponential to the n number of beers whose absurd limit rapidly approaches infinity and thus F(x) probability of hooking up goes to 0] and thus you being more and more drunk, thinking you're getting somewhere realize that somewhere is a bitter mood and out however much you wasted trying to get anywhere.
This is one reason a University experience to experiment in social settings are not only healthy but help fertilize in one's mind the fiscally prudent ways of spending your limited cash.
My favorite experiment was buying a pack of cigarettes and every damn good looking woman would come out of the woodwork to bum a smoke off of you. The average looking women either weren't so callous or brought their own to smoke.
In the end, you were out less money and you end up wasting time smoking and telling your friends what a f***ed up scenario that turns out to be.
In the end, social circles still exist throughout life and if you're not willing to join said circles because you think they suck don't expect to ever date any of the women in those circles you can't help but long to touch.
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Download from your favorite distro: Debian Experimental already has it in and works well within KDE 4.1.2 and Gnome. I've been using the RC candidates for a while.
Link to the OS X source download, please?
Microsoft have contributed to open source, and they include some open source stuff in Windows, but it would be ridiculous to claim that Windows is "largely an open source OS".
You can't download Darwin? Are your digits broken?
I hope to hell you meant a mill. Just thinking about making a generally rectangular object on a lathe makes my head asplode.
Funny sh**. Can someone please stop this damn thing from rotating? I can't keep the corner orthogonal to one another.
You know.... a real lap dance would probably cost less than that holographic machine.
I'm pretty sure the parent is inferring a clothes off experience.
On the other end though, there are tons of Mac rumor websites that paint Apple in a very favorable light, by saying all kinds of unverified things that could cause Apple's stock to skyrocket. Such as new models of iPods, Macs, new releases of iTunes, etc.
Mac fanatics aren't writing stories on the threat of their favorite CEO on the brink of death. Whether or not a Macbook Pro gets released with this bell or whistle is not even a boil on the Ass of Bulls*** that CNN site created and irresponsibly enacted, without the regard for how his death may or may not influence the future of a > $100 Billion Business.
I'm a registered Republican and made the mistake of voting for Bush once.
So in other words, you have really bad judgment.
And anybody that was stupid enough to vote for Bush the first time was still that stupid 4 years later. He was elected again, after all. You seriously expect us to believe you are one of the <1% of the Bush voters that somehow grew a couple of brain cells? Come on.
If you are going to admit to voting for Bush the fist time, you might as well just own up to voting for him a second time. Because voting is anonymous so everybody is 99/100 sure you did anyway.
That took a lot of thought. Not! Between Kerry and Bush the Country was clearly choosing between two sacks of s***.
Developing for the iPhone platform is exactly like slaves manufacturing shackles to be used on other slaves. When shiny is more important than freedom, it says something about one's lack of intelligence/integrity. IMHO. Heh, I laugh in the face of bad karma...
Dem sum rich f'n slaves, masser.
Do you know whether there are any plans to 'interleave' the gimp with layers that do vector-drawing as well ? It would be so cool to be able to designate a layer for the one purpose or the other. I know that these newfangled text-layers are a step in this direction, but do you know whether they plan on going all the way ?
They better solution would be to use the upcoming Inkscape Inkcore to deal with Vectors. Whether that happens is to be seen.
I'd rather they leverage communications with Inkscape where you create a layer objects that reference, by Inscape file or within Inkscape file->specific layer of file objects that dynamically update after changes are made from Inkscape and later resynched within Gimp, manually after knowing you have those changes available. In other words, if the file objects have changed in characteristics, then upon returning to Gimp, apply a granularity by object or layer all changes, or just a general globe update all changes to file.
Back in the days when Tech Support was real support--ObjectLine Support at NeXT Software Inc, we sure as hell didn't follow a script. You followed your knowledge of NeXTSTEP, Dev Tools and the dedicated second tier of accounts owned by dedicated Dev Engineers and then the third tier of Engineering proper, based upon the area of QA that needs cross-referencing.
It was a Professional Services<-->Engineering Department synergy that was often combative when business requirements came into the mix, but it ultimately was a rapid approach to solving problems, improving products where necessary and providing service that improves the client's solutions where necessary.
That's not snow! It's falling Ash! Run little lander, ruuuuun!
I have enjoyed reading the opinions and expressed concerns regarding drug legalization, here tonight.
But, there are three main areas where drugs impact the Economy:
Costs of the drugs. I have bought kilos of coke in Bogota, and kilos of great weed in Mexico, and the price/cost differential between the source and the domestic, consumer Market, is astounding. The US produces many tons of codeine here. It's actually a by-product of one of the ingredients of Coca-Cola. And that means that the same source of the codeine, is also all about heroin, or the refined, less efficacious pain killer, morphine. The notion that legalization would divert the same bottom-line 'expenses' [In terms of 'street' consumption] to foreign criminals is absolutely false and misleading. Less-efficient morphine and 'alternatives' like 'Demerol' are only used in the US because the FBI criminalized heron in the Twenties (1926, I think, look it up, google Harry Anslinger). Heroin is far more efficient in pain management. That means a lower burden on Health Care expenses, also, if it were legally available in the US medical industry.
Law Enforcement. Okay, assuming we can ignore, for now, the notion that the War on Drugs is chiefly about establishing hegemony in the trade, and a steady source of for-profit incarcerated individuals for Wackenhut and other beneficiaries of the 'three-strike' laws, the savings in manpower, and other budgetary aspects, would be staggering. This would allow two things, besides real dollar savings: Diverting of manpower toward crimes with victims, and a huge resulting savings in incarceration. [The US taxpayer is underwriting the profits of private enterprise in the Prison Business, under the current paradigm.] As well, parts of the current law enforcement budget could be diverted towards intervention and treatment, which, besides being a necessary effort, would also lower the costs on the current Health Care system, and would allow the Churches to go back to preaching, and butt out of social policy.
Civil impact changes would be too broad for a quick summary like this. But, obviously, the lowered price of drugs, themselves, and the reality that drugs would be regulated insofar as content, purity and manufacturing safety are concerned, would lower the overall impact of drug use on total expendable income in the US by factors that might be difficult to imagine, at first. Drug legalization would involve the use of the same mechanisms of judicial and insurance realities, as well as the ability of individual States to regulate how, where and when they would be made available, as well as civil penalties for irresponsible usage, etc.
Is it a be all, end all? I seriously doubt it. I have been clean & sober for well over a decade. I don't recommend drug use. But I also don't recommend the criminalization of drug use, at all. It should be an individual's choice, with rights and responsibilities in the exercise of that choice. The 'right' being the ability to know that something is what it purports to be, and that help is available if someone needs to walk away from something they can't, apparently 'handle.' And the 'responsibility' is obvious: That the exercise of choice does not negatively impact others. Just my 2 cents, that's all.
It's a byproduct from Coca Leaf, not Coca Cola.
..are what we need for Infrastructure renewal.
Then again, we first need the money invested so all of M.E., C.E., E.E., ChemE., etc., looking for more excitement can pitch in with our years in both CS and traditional Engineering.