I heard there is an other problem, it seems the Bee keepers are also a dying breed. There are very few new Bee keepers. Most of them are old men and ready for retirement. If the experience (and possible knowledge) is lost that would be a problem too.
That version of Firefox was the first to support Ogg Theora, the streaming in particular isn't very good. Firefox 4 will be a lot better in that regard.
I think he/she means, HTML5 actually specifies everything HTML4 did, but with the bits which were not in HTML4. There was a lot of behavior in browsers which was not defined by any standard, HTML5 now includes all that. So to make sure everyone knows how HTML should work.
My problem with their efforts is they used Ruby. Which might be really nice and all, but not that many people use it. Thus it is really hard to find people who understand it well enough to help them work on the code and or just check the code for bugs.
I've seen figures for newspapers which says something like: if you compare the amount of work which is demanded/required from a journalist 10 years ago to now, a journalist now has to write 20 times more articles/text.
That means that journalist used to do factchecking and so on, now, they will probably do a google search and a glance over on wikipedia and think, maybe this is ok and print it.
"This is where you hit your biggest resistance: they will have to re-learn things, which will take time, effort and money. People will get upset, they will hate the new system, and they will complain about it, loudly, and to anyone who will listen."
They do the same thing at every upgrade, what is your point ? Bad PR for GNU/Linux ?
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I heard there is an other problem, it seems the Bee keepers are also a dying breed. There are very few new Bee keepers. Most of them are old men and ready for retirement. If the experience (and possible knowledge) is lost that would be a problem too.
Actually HTML5 would not have existed if we let W3C figure it all out by themselves.
It was actually the WHATWG which started on HTML5, W3C only has XHTML2 as a plan, but it wasn't even backwards compatible with XHTML.
The WHATWG has really done a lot to get HTML5 'out there' fast.
I think the people who do the work on HTML5 probably also need to work on CSS3. And it's a lot of work, so it seems.
That version of Firefox was the first to support Ogg Theora, the streaming in particular isn't very good. Firefox 4 will be a lot better in that regard.
I think he/she means, HTML5 actually specifies everything HTML4 did, but with the bits which were not in HTML4. There was a lot of behavior in browsers which was not defined by any standard, HTML5 now includes all that. So to make sure everyone knows how HTML should work.
"The worst case is we just default back to the Flash/HTML4 route."
Actually the worst would probably be silverlight ;-)
You mean something like this:
"Wasn't there report recently about a spate of Android apps tracking users without consent?"
http://www.osnews.com/story/23865/Studies_Show_Android_iOS_Transmit_Private_Data_to_3rd_Parties
Why did the parent get modded a score of 0 ?:
See http://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent
Exactly applies to the subject at hand.
It's a Linux distribution which can use bittorrent to download new software & updates.
Not a lot of people use it and the number of mirrors for Debian is very large.
I think it could be possible to use it with Ubuntu as well.
He may or may not be an asshole, but it is his attitude what made this possible. Without the attitude nothing would have happend.
There is also this ofcourse:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-200909-201009
If you actually look at the numbers, mobile is the one putting a dent in Windows (and Mac and Linux):
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
(I think Android and other Linux-based mobile devices go in the 'other'-catagory ?)
Thanks, that was a typo. :-)
Silly me.
You could also use Firefox Sync. It used to be called, Mozilla Weave and was an add-on, which will not be included in Firefox 4 proper.
With Xmarks, they would be able to read your bookmarks, etc. With Firefox Sync everything that is stored/transfered is encrypted.
It is even possible to setup your own 'server', have a look for "Weave Minimal Server", so you don't have to depend on Mozilla or anyone else.
Actually as I understood it, the current downloads on the LibreOffice site are actually based on the go-oo-source:
"A beta version of LibreOffice is available for download at the LibreOffice Web site. The current release is basically a rebranded version of Go-oo."
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/LibreOffice-OpenOffice.org-Liberated
What I meant to say was, a more populair language would/could have helped the project.
Yes, I know quiet a few people use Ruby, but not so much as the many other languages.
But if you want to do for example security auditing you have to know the language intimidately.
The less people use a language, the less people there are to help/audit.
Euh... What I meant to say was, a more populair language would/could have helped the project.
Yes I know quiet a few people use Ruby, but not so much as the many other languages.
I have such a device, but the TV-out doesn't cut it. It is an s-video connector and it doesn't have a lot of resolution.
I think I've seen wireless connections for projectors.
I want one for my TV, maybe that would work.
My problem with their efforts is they used Ruby. Which might be really nice and all, but not that many people use it. Thus it is really hard to find people who understand it well enough to help them work on the code and or just check the code for bugs.
It's all a time-constraint (read:money) issue.
I've seen figures for newspapers which says something like: if you compare the amount of work which is demanded/required from a journalist 10 years ago to now, a journalist now has to write 20 times more articles/text.
That means that journalist used to do factchecking and so on, now, they will probably do a google search and a glance over on wikipedia and think, maybe this is ok and print it.
Wikipedia is also an obvious MySQL user.
AFAIK, some examples:
Skype and PIR (they handle the .org top level domain ) use PostgreSQL
Yahoo and Youtube use MySQL
I think it is a great example of what would happen if nothing was patented.
The mouse/wimp and ethernet and so on all came from there, had they patented it like crazy, they would probably never had much succes.
I prefer climate change, instead of global warming. Climate change doesn't add to the confusion. But it was "colder in winter this year", etc.
Ohh, sorry, I missed that. I actaully read the article in German. I guess I didn't pay proper attention. :-)
"This is where you hit your biggest resistance: they will have to re-learn things, which will take time, effort and money. People will get upset, they will hate the new system, and they will complain about it, loudly, and to anyone who will listen."
They do the same thing at every upgrade, what is your point ? Bad PR for GNU/Linux ?
You know, that is the first time I've read somewhere that people don't like using a webinterface.
The problem is usually they don't like webinterface x, just like they don't like desktop app y.