Christ, don't go there. Here in Germany when the first year of school starts all the kids from town go on a stage to be greeted by the teacher and blessed by the local religious figure. It is an old and ancient tradition, called einschulung. I could not see my daughter cause of all the frikking parents crowding the stage with their cellphones to film THEIR little honeys. The rest of the parents, grandmas, grandpas and friends in the hall had nothing except the asses of cellphone-wielding parents.
Not so great, considering that USB-C is the future. And what about Apple, who still uses Lightning ports (although I hear the next iPhone is also going to be USB-C)
ppk, the god of mobile web design thinks blocking zoom should be a criminal offense. He knows about a cases where an emergency durgeon almost could not reach a patient because of zoom-blocking thing.
Uhm, the whole point of responsive web design is to NOT use JS to run a layout engine and only use CSS to cover the tricky cases by...leveraging the layout engine.
And since this is very hard (and CSS is waaaay behind the curve) sometimes you do need JS.
In addition, browser layout engines can't handle quite a few cases where Apple's iOS constraint system works very well, which is another plus for apps.
Agreed. I have an app for Deutsche Bahn. The UI is better (waaaaay better) than their website, and notably, I can buy tickets on their website and they appear on my phone and the guy on the train can scan the phone screen. I like that. It is also useful when I am offline, which happens quite often on a train. The ticket is still there.
I also run a weather app on my ipad. This app has a handy rain radar. Now it DOES have a web version, but that is full of ads and I have to log in every time (and since I clear all my cookies about 2 times per day, I HAVE to log in again) if I don't want ads. I figured that spending 4 Euros on the app is worth it, and the UI is much better and tailored for my locations.
There are also a few games and music synths, Arturia emulation for Prophet and Oberheim, and a few others. Great fun to play with during my commute. Those things would not run in a web browser in any case, and I do not want my synth to be online.
So for things you use a lot, app. For things that need a bit more performance, or low lag times, app. For transient things that I occasionally look at? No way.
A year or two? Unless you are a very serious gaming geek, probably not. I have not upgraded my graphics card in 5 years.
The problem is that all the whiners here are freaks who have to have the greatest and latest discrete component every minute. Nobody in the real world does this, and certainly not the sort of content-creator who would use a 5K monitor.
I had to upgrade a not-too-big codebase from Rails 2 to Rails 4 a few months ago. That was a looooot of work. Swift 2-3 is a joke. The moaners here will moan. Besides, this sort of stuff keep us in work!
Yes, they still used it. Just like they still used 8086 assembler back in the day when they knew 16 bit and 32 bit was coming and just like they used Word v1 knowing that v2 would come soon.
Crap. I have C++ programs I wrote 10 years ago that does not even remotely come close to compiling today.
Besides, the problem with C++ is that it always accumulates cruft, even when people know that something is badly designed. Apple has the balls to toss out old obsolete things. There was just as much uproar when they move away from ADB to USB for their keyboards.
True. I wrote a raytracer in C++ back in 1995. A few weeks back I discovered the source on an old CDROM and typed 'make'. Funny idea that. I got more errors than anything I ever wrote. Id DID work quite well back then:(
The 64K limits came from Intel's chip architecture. I am pretty sure Gates did not do that intentionally. On a 8086 the pointers were 16 bits and you could shift around the segments, but 64K was a real hardware limitation caused by 16 bit addressing.
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That they are going to watch once in their lives because the sound and quality is so bad.
Christ, don't go there. Here in Germany when the first year of school starts all the kids from town go on a stage to be greeted by the teacher and blessed by the local religious figure. It is an old and ancient tradition, called einschulung. I could not see my daughter cause of all the frikking parents crowding the stage with their cellphones to film THEIR little honeys. The rest of the parents, grandmas, grandpas and friends in the hall had nothing except the asses of cellphone-wielding parents.
Considering that rabid fans are part of some emotional cult that is a good idea, sure
Same thing I thought. And connection machine died because the architecture was not actually that great.
What task is a RaspberryPI Beowulf cluster good for?
But he still needs to compile the stuff he edited with emacs/vi so there is the last bit
You can't really DJ these days without a computer...
Not so great, considering that USB-C is the future. And what about Apple, who still uses Lightning ports (although I hear the next iPhone is also going to be USB-C)
Oh christ, not another one
Jquery syntax is also muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch easier to work with than standard dom calls, so there is that
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I am sure your little friend called "Interest" has peaked but your change to poke tonight would be better if you learn to spell "piqued" correctly
PS. Curious name you have for the little fella!
ppk, the god of mobile web design thinks blocking zoom should be a criminal offense. He knows about a cases where an emergency durgeon almost could not reach a patient because of zoom-blocking thing.
Uhm, the whole point of responsive web design is to NOT use JS to run a layout engine and only use CSS to cover the tricky cases by...leveraging the layout engine.
And since this is very hard (and CSS is waaaay behind the curve) sometimes you do need JS.
In addition, browser layout engines can't handle quite a few cases where Apple's iOS constraint system works very well, which is another plus for apps.
Agreed. I have an app for Deutsche Bahn. The UI is better (waaaaay better) than their website, and notably, I can buy tickets on their website and they appear on my phone and the guy on the train can scan the phone screen. I like that. It is also useful when I am offline, which happens quite often on a train. The ticket is still there.
I also run a weather app on my ipad. This app has a handy rain radar. Now it DOES have a web version, but that is full of ads and I have to log in every time (and since I clear all my cookies about 2 times per day, I HAVE to log in again) if I don't want ads. I figured that spending 4 Euros on the app is worth it, and the UI is much better and tailored for my locations.
There are also a few games and music synths, Arturia emulation for Prophet and Oberheim, and a few others. Great fun to play with during my commute. Those things would not run in a web browser in any case, and I do not want my synth to be online.
So for things you use a lot, app. For things that need a bit more performance, or low lag times, app. For transient things that I occasionally look at? No way.
A year or two? Unless you are a very serious gaming geek, probably not. I have not upgraded my graphics card in 5 years.
The problem is that all the whiners here are freaks who have to have the greatest and latest discrete component every minute. Nobody in the real world does this, and certainly not the sort of content-creator who would use a 5K monitor.
That was because Apple used PPC, which means the code for ROM on the card had to be recompiled. Not that hard.
At least your PDP skills are not obsolete:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/sho...
I had to upgrade a not-too-big codebase from Rails 2 to Rails 4 a few months ago. That was a looooot of work. Swift 2-3 is a joke. The moaners here will moan. Besides, this sort of stuff keep us in work!
Yes, they still used it. Just like they still used 8086 assembler back in the day when they knew 16 bit and 32 bit was coming and just like they used Word v1 knowing that v2 would come soon.
Crap. I have C++ programs I wrote 10 years ago that does not even remotely come close to compiling today.
Besides, the problem with C++ is that it always accumulates cruft, even when people know that something is badly designed. Apple has the balls to toss out old obsolete things. There was just as much uproar when they move away from ADB to USB for their keyboards.
True. I wrote a raytracer in C++ back in 1995. A few weeks back I discovered the source on an old CDROM and typed 'make'. Funny idea that. I got more errors than anything I ever wrote. Id DID work quite well back then :(
The 64K limits came from Intel's chip architecture. I am pretty sure Gates did not do that intentionally. On a 8086 the pointers were 16 bits and you could shift around the segments, but 64K was a real hardware limitation caused by 16 bit addressing.
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