So Apple was doing nothing different than Red Hat is now doing with their kernel patches? Funny how the same people who were flaming Apple defend Red Hat doing the same thing because now "Red Hat is sticking it to Oracle"! Damn hypocrites.
You're never going to convince the fanbois that their shit actually stinks. The only way to have the "correct" opinion in their eyes is to agree with them.
It doesn't matter if it's widescreen or not the "savings" by having autohide scrollbars is on average amounting to a gain of 2 characters horizontally assuming an 8 point font. If losing two characters is that noticeable them these people should think about replacing their 640x480 CRT at some point.
To do some math if we remove the scrollbars which are typical about 15 pixels wide. Assuming we are on a system with a default display DPI at 96 and the 72 ppi for fonts you gain almost a "whopping" 2 extra character horizontally assuming an 8 point font size. OMG what a massive gain!
Yeah because getting back less than 1% of your horizontal pixels makes a huuuuge different. Except it doesn't. Even if you're running at 800x600 the scrollbar only takes up 1.9% of the horizontal resolution. At more common resolutions like 1280 or 1440 we are talking barely 1%. It's a negligible difference for something that ends up being annoying.
Most likely they can't open source it even if they wanted to. I'd bet money it most likely contains licensed code from other people who don't want their code open sourced. Lastly they gain nothing by open sourcing it since their control of the platform ensures consistency.
To elaborate asymmetric key exchange involves passing a key in the clear to setup the secure channel. How does a one-time pad help you securely exchange that key in the clear? Or did you just make your idiotic post hoping to get modded up for trying to sound smarter than you are?
Why is everyone still happy with SSH and RSA with the specter of a quantum menace lurking just around the corner?"
Because the sky isn't falling, chicken little?
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Chrome silently updates and Google doesn't trumpet each release as if it's the second coming like what happens when Mozilla decides to bump the major version for no reason.
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Only they rarely ship new features, unlike Firefox, that the user can actually see.
So what? Featureitis is not a good thing. Secondly, mozilla is only adding all those new features in a desperate attempt to look relevant whilst they lose marketshare continually to chrome.
Why? WinMo allowed you to install what you wanted without having to use an app store and to create apps you could use anything language that could be used for regular windows development. Apple's marketshare and app store success is the reason wp7 is more locked down.
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Except that those same people are the ones telling us that we can't limit corporate involvement in politics because they are "people".
Why is there no pressure to do something, like cap contributions by corporations to political parties, or something, anything?
There have been attempts to do so. They get struck down by the corporatist supreme court.
You do realize they aren't dropping desktop Flash, right?
So Apple was doing nothing different than Red Hat is now doing with their kernel patches? Funny how the same people who were flaming Apple defend Red Hat doing the same thing because now "Red Hat is sticking it to Oracle"! Damn hypocrites.
You're never going to convince the fanbois that their shit actually stinks. The only way to have the "correct" opinion in their eyes is to agree with them.
Or he tried it seriously and found it to suck. No that can't possible!
It doesn't matter if it's widescreen or not the "savings" by having autohide scrollbars is on average amounting to a gain of 2 characters horizontally assuming an 8 point font. If losing two characters is that noticeable them these people should think about replacing their 640x480 CRT at some point.
Ah yes the fanboi excuse of "But you didn't try it with an open mind!" just because someone doesn't share your opinion.
To do some math if we remove the scrollbars which are typical about 15 pixels wide. Assuming we are on a system with a default display DPI at 96 and the 72 ppi for fonts you gain almost a "whopping" 2 extra character horizontally assuming an 8 point font size. OMG what a massive gain!
Less wasted screen space.
Yeah because getting back less than 1% of your horizontal pixels makes a huuuuge different. Except it doesn't. Even if you're running at 800x600 the scrollbar only takes up 1.9% of the horizontal resolution. At more common resolutions like 1280 or 1440 we are talking barely 1%. It's a negligible difference for something that ends up being annoying.
Technology that is probably licensed from a 3rd party who would laugh in Adobe's face for asking to open source it.
Most likely they can't open source it even if they wanted to. I'd bet money it most likely contains licensed code from other people who don't want their code open sourced. Lastly they gain nothing by open sourcing it since their control of the platform ensures consistency.
in reality its much closer to "java
That's supposed to be a good thing?
The thing that makes Adobe money is the Flash IDE not the technology itself. That's why they'll repurpose it to export HTML5.
To elaborate asymmetric key exchange involves passing a key in the clear to setup the secure channel. How does a one-time pad help you securely exchange that key in the clear? Or did you just make your idiotic post hoping to get modded up for trying to sound smarter than you are?
Well the person is an idiot. His estimation of 20 years is laughably naive.
And how is a one-time pad going to help for asymmetric key exchange?
Why is everyone still happy with SSH and RSA with the specter of a quantum menace lurking just around the corner?"
Because the sky isn't falling, chicken little?
Chrome silently updates and Google doesn't trumpet each release as if it's the second coming like what happens when Mozilla decides to bump the major version for no reason.
Only they rarely ship new features, unlike Firefox, that the user can actually see.
So what? Featureitis is not a good thing. Secondly, mozilla is only adding all those new features in a desperate attempt to look relevant whilst they lose marketshare continually to chrome.
Firefox 9 brings big improvements to the JavaScript engine.
Yeah! It'll run that synthetic benchmark 5 nanoseconds faster! Rock on!
I'd call 5.0 a pretty big deal, since that was when they got the browser CSS 3 /HTML 5 compliant in full
Ummm... what? Firefox 5 does not have full CSS3 or Html5 support. No browser does.
How can we, collectively, take action to make them understand that we do not like their mass mailing practice?"
Not your personal army. But doing something in real life rather than whinging on slashdot is a good stay.
Nice straw man,
Except it's not a strawman. Strawman doesn't mean "said something I disagreed with".
Why? WinMo allowed you to install what you wanted without having to use an app store and to create apps you could use anything language that could be used for regular windows development. Apple's marketshare and app store success is the reason wp7 is more locked down.