Because Windows XP, that came out in 2002, was not designed with resolution independence in mind, and has a UI that is not passed through 3d hardware for nice scaling to any size (unlike all of the recent smartphones with their 3d hardware) is worthy of comparison/
You're fucking JOKING, right? Google may wave hands and publicly pretend to care about privacy, etc - but if you actually check what info they have about you on file via the never expiring cookie and your account (if signed in) its pretty damn invasive.
At least Facebook is opt in - basically you need to become a member for a start. Google search does all sorts of tracking via non-expiring cookie, and realistically trying to avoid google in your usage of the internet is pretty difficult due to them having about 90% of the search market.
I think you'll find that europe quitting gasoline will mean SFA for the expected supplies, given the rate the USA burns it. Your average petrol car in europe is a 1.0-1.6L econobox that gets around 45mpg or better.
However, by 2050, oil will perhaps have run out. Cars in city centres are fucking useless anyhow due to congestion, and europe actually has half-decent public transport.
Also, "by 2050" conveniently makes enforcement/delivery of this ban Somebody Else's Problem. If they want to do something with some sort of serious level of commitment, make it by 2020.
Alternatively, I would suggest that having a different environment for development will show up portabilitiy issues in your code AS YOU WRITE rather than when the poor bastard 10 years down the track has to migrate off [blah] product and onto something more modern.
Sure, you probably don't care about your broken code being shown up as non portable today, but in 5-10 years time when the next guy has to migrate it, he'll be glad if you abstracted away everything you could that was platform specific.
Here here. Free the coder up to think about the important shit, like what the code is actually attempting to do, rather than counting tabs and curly braces.
Reinventing the wheel is retarded and a waste of resources that can be better deployed doing something else. If the IDE can write boilerplate code for you to save time and reduce bugs (i.e., stop wheel re-invention), then why not.
Also, with more limited operating system support. Given that you can run any home user operating system on a Mac, but can't run OS X on commodity hardware (legally, or reliably) I say its a no brainer. How else can you test OS X functionality/compatibility on the client side?
... standards compliant browser, built in apache, largely compatible with BSD userland (and BSD hosting is readily available), good included media apps, simple enough to maintain that even a web developer can handle it...
however, more importantly... If your fucking WEB PAGE is touching kernel stuff so that it is not portable between different platforms, you've got more serious problems than web development OS zealotry to worry about. If you've hard-coded file paths like a dumbass then you won't even necessarily be portable between different distributions of linux, never mind anything else.
Re-think your code and figure out why its so badly broken and non-portable. Its NOT the OSes problem.
BSD doesn't restrict what anyone can do with the code released under BSD license. Derivitive works can be restricted yes, but they don't remove the original BSD licensed code from circulation. If the original implementation of TCP/IP was GPLv3 licensed, where do you think the internet would be today?
Back in real life, people want a browser to render the content they require to get shit done. If it can't do that, then it fails - irrespective of shiny support for new unused standard X.
I've been critical of FF for becoming less stable, slower and more of a memory hog getting worse with each release since FF1.5 / FF2.0.
Here here! I'm not sure what happened between 2.0 (the last released I found to be preferable to the alternatives of the day) and now, but its been going backwards in stability, and UI responsiveness at a vast rate of knots in my subjective experience. or maybe I'm simply becoming less tolerant and the opposition is getting better.
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"speaking as a mother". To fox news. Ffs do you want to try and find something more inaccurate/less informed?
Because Windows XP, that came out in 2002, was not designed with resolution independence in mind, and has a UI that is not passed through 3d hardware for nice scaling to any size (unlike all of the recent smartphones with their 3d hardware) is worthy of comparison/
If you RTFA, the apple "pixel doubling" of iphone apps are not included in the 65,000 figure.
You're fucking JOKING, right? Google may wave hands and publicly pretend to care about privacy, etc - but if you actually check what info they have about you on file via the never expiring cookie and your account (if signed in) its pretty damn invasive.
At least Facebook is opt in - basically you need to become a member for a start. Google search does all sorts of tracking via non-expiring cookie, and realistically trying to avoid google in your usage of the internet is pretty difficult due to them having about 90% of the search market.
Uh no... We had 2 megabit (down) satellite internet (i.e., from earth station, to satellite and to the other side of the world) in 1998.
From satellite down is only one transmission - from sky to ground.
I think you'll find that europe quitting gasoline will mean SFA for the expected supplies, given the rate the USA burns it. Your average petrol car in europe is a 1.0-1.6L econobox that gets around 45mpg or better.
However, by 2050, oil will perhaps have run out. Cars in city centres are fucking useless anyhow due to congestion, and europe actually has half-decent public transport.
Also, "by 2050" conveniently makes enforcement/delivery of this ban Somebody Else's Problem. If they want to do something with some sort of serious level of commitment, make it by 2020.
Eve online is largely written in Python. Civ 4 has a lot of the AI, etc written in Python.
Alternatively, I would suggest that having a different environment for development will show up portabilitiy issues in your code AS YOU WRITE rather than when the poor bastard 10 years down the track has to migrate off [blah] product and onto something more modern.
Sure, you probably don't care about your broken code being shown up as non portable today, but in 5-10 years time when the next guy has to migrate it, he'll be glad if you abstracted away everything you could that was platform specific.
Here here. Free the coder up to think about the important shit, like what the code is actually attempting to do, rather than counting tabs and curly braces.
Reinventing the wheel is retarded and a waste of resources that can be better deployed doing something else. If the IDE can write boilerplate code for you to save time and reduce bugs (i.e., stop wheel re-invention), then why not.
If you're a developer worth shit, you've got a technet sub (500/yr) and can run up to 10 copies of pretty much anything in the MS catalogue.
Also, with more limited operating system support. Given that you can run any home user operating system on a Mac, but can't run OS X on commodity hardware (legally, or reliably) I say its a no brainer. How else can you test OS X functionality/compatibility on the client side?
however, more importantly... If your fucking WEB PAGE is touching kernel stuff so that it is not portable between different platforms, you've got more serious problems than web development OS zealotry to worry about. If you've hard-coded file paths like a dumbass then you won't even necessarily be portable between different distributions of linux, never mind anything else.
Re-think your code and figure out why its so badly broken and non-portable. Its NOT the OSes problem.
What you expect from a license from the same guy who doesn't believe in passwords being necessary for computers (RMS, google it)?
GCD was post 2004, as is CLANG, which is totally open and BSD licensed.
BSD doesn't restrict what anyone can do with the code released under BSD license. Derivitive works can be restricted yes, but they don't remove the original BSD licensed code from circulation. If the original implementation of TCP/IP was GPLv3 licensed, where do you think the internet would be today?
Ditto here. I ran vista and quite happily between 2007 and 2010.
Can't say i've experienced any difference in text rendering with IE9 compared to IE8. Video driver issues perhaps? I run cleartype on everything...
No conviction yet doesn't mean they're not involved in a lot of dubious stuff.
I've been waiting for proper 3d support in Linux since about 1997 when I got my Nvidia TNT. I gave up waiting in about 2004.
Your geography fails - christmas island is in the indian ocean.
Back in real life, people want a browser to render the content they require to get shit done. If it can't do that, then it fails - irrespective of shiny support for new unused standard X.
Here here! I'm not sure what happened between 2.0 (the last released I found to be preferable to the alternatives of the day) and now, but its been going backwards in stability, and UI responsiveness at a vast rate of knots in my subjective experience. or maybe I'm simply becoming less tolerant and the opposition is getting better.
Why abandon the dominant desktop OS when it provides sandboxing features that other apps can and do make use of?
I mean if you want to marginalise your browser and kill your market share, fine - but otherwise that idea would be stupid.