No, he's definitely deceased! He's passed on! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-Python!
This is sort of unrelated, but why do you have 60+ tabs open? I never have more than ten, and thats only when I'm wiki-crawling. I've always wondered why people have so many tabs open at the same time.
That's not how you use that bloody phrase! No one in the tech world seems to comprehend that the meaning is "The [old] king is dead, long live the [new] king". In this case, the title should be "Native apps are dead, long live web apps". Does it never occur to anyone that the way it is used here makes no sense at all?
Universally accessible data is the only part of the cloud mess that I like. Assuming you can find somewhere trustworthy to hold your data for you, it's a nice supplement to the computing experience.
Should it be the only way to use the computer experience? Absolutely not. It should be an add-on, if for no other reasons than security and cost-effectiveness. And I'll keep my apps running natively, thank you very much. Sooner or later we'll realise that not everything needs to be cloud-enabled.
I know Google has this whole web-based vision where everything is accessed through the browser, but I'd rather see this as a stand-alone app. I like my web browser to browse the web, my softphone to make calls, my email client to check my email, and my word processor to process my words. Heck, Windows 8 will be written in HTML/Javascript, and Gnome Shell is written in Javascript, so I don't expect to have to wait too long for a native app. I just can't wait for the cloud bubble to burst so we can go back to having traditional software again.
+1.
I didn't even notice I had been upgraded to FF5 until I found a plugin that wouldn't install. Back in the day, a major version number increase would have come with a couple noticeable new features, but all we get here is a speed increase and a DNT checkbox.
Other than shiny marketing-speak, what is the practical difference between something like computers.apple.com and computers.apple? I doubt anyone is going to use brandname.brandname URLs, so are we just waving goodbye to the first section of the domain?
"Write once, run anywhere" is a nice dream, but I'm starting to think it can't be done. Java came close, but it was still more "write once, debug everywhere" in practice. How are we going to get it with HTML5 when Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Mozilla can't agree on which features their browsers are going to support? IE won't do WebGL, Firefox won't do h.264 video, CSS commands to do the same bloody thing have to include the browser prefix... the web page code is STILL full of browser checking and doing different things on different platforms, so why should we expect anything different?
You are far too optimistic. If there was any chance of this actually being overturned, it probably wouldn't have happened in the first place. Has anyone successfully fought the government in a legal battle and won?
In my opinion, smartphones have too much processing power as it is. Will these credit cards be able to stream HD video and run apps, but be serious overkill for actually making purchases?
Yeah, I was really annoyed about that. If you go to all the trouble of calculating the 60 trillionth digit of the freaking number, is it really that much extra work to tell us what that digit actually is?
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What do you mean "still"?
Diaspora and GNU Free Call. In other words, talk to me in about five years when it's ready.
But don't people already just dump all their crap into their Facebook profile?
No, he's definitely deceased! He's passed on! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-Python!
This is sort of unrelated, but why do you have 60+ tabs open? I never have more than ten, and thats only when I'm wiki-crawling. I've always wondered why people have so many tabs open at the same time.
That's not how you use that bloody phrase! No one in the tech world seems to comprehend that the meaning is "The [old] king is dead, long live the [new] king". In this case, the title should be "Native apps are dead, long live web apps". Does it never occur to anyone that the way it is used here makes no sense at all?
http://xkcd.com/723/
I live in Canada, you insensitive clod! I haven't cared about Hulu for years!
With all the crap that's on TV now...
RTFS. It works in any color.
Universally accessible data is the only part of the cloud mess that I like. Assuming you can find somewhere trustworthy to hold your data for you, it's a nice supplement to the computing experience.
Should it be the only way to use the computer experience? Absolutely not. It should be an add-on, if for no other reasons than security and cost-effectiveness. And I'll keep my apps running natively, thank you very much. Sooner or later we'll realise that not everything needs to be cloud-enabled.
I know Google has this whole web-based vision where everything is accessed through the browser, but I'd rather see this as a stand-alone app. I like my web browser to browse the web, my softphone to make calls, my email client to check my email, and my word processor to process my words. Heck, Windows 8 will be written in HTML/Javascript, and Gnome Shell is written in Javascript, so I don't expect to have to wait too long for a native app. I just can't wait for the cloud bubble to burst so we can go back to having traditional software again.
+1. I didn't even notice I had been upgraded to FF5 until I found a plugin that wouldn't install. Back in the day, a major version number increase would have come with a couple noticeable new features, but all we get here is a speed increase and a DNT checkbox.
Other than shiny marketing-speak, what is the practical difference between something like computers.apple.com and computers.apple? I doubt anyone is going to use brandname.brandname URLs, so are we just waving goodbye to the first section of the domain?
"Write once, run anywhere" is a nice dream, but I'm starting to think it can't be done. Java came close, but it was still more "write once, debug everywhere" in practice. How are we going to get it with HTML5 when Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Mozilla can't agree on which features their browsers are going to support? IE won't do WebGL, Firefox won't do h.264 video, CSS commands to do the same bloody thing have to include the browser prefix... the web page code is STILL full of browser checking and doing different things on different platforms, so why should we expect anything different?
You are far too optimistic. If there was any chance of this actually being overturned, it probably wouldn't have happened in the first place. Has anyone successfully fought the government in a legal battle and won?
Wonder what relation, if any, this has to the quantum computer?
I remember hearing somewhere that Linus said if he ever changed the first number, it meant he had snapped and rewritten it in Python.
How about explaining why the picture sucked at my local cinema before this 3D craze took off?
In my opinion, smartphones have too much processing power as it is. Will these credit cards be able to stream HD video and run apps, but be serious overkill for actually making purchases?
I'm sure the developers hate it when the users update their OS and actually bother to read the release notes, too.
After all, never underestimate the bandwidth of a series of donkey carts loaded with tapes...
Come to think of it, that might help with patent reform too.
All three OpenBSD users are thrilled.
Yeah, I was really annoyed about that. If you go to all the trouble of calculating the 60 trillionth digit of the freaking number, is it really that much extra work to tell us what that digit actually is?