BeagleBoards are big. There's the BeagleBoard XM which is pretty powerful by the way. Also the LeopardBoard which I believe has HDMI, but probably not SATA.
I want OMAP4+Gumstix for ultra light video processing at HD quality (720p)
The current common OMAP 3530 (also on the BeagleBoard - standard version)'s DSP just doesn't cut it for HD video encoding. (It's just ok for decoding)
true that. Not that VP8 is bad or whatever, but, give us OMAP4. Not that it's the best or anything either but it's rather cheap, rather open and rather good. A gumstix OMAP4 would be like a little piece of hacking paradise.
actually current firefox is extremely better than firebird or phoenix (or even firefox 1) in javascript it's also extremely good in FF4 (as in better than everything else in many ways - remember than sunspider/chrome v8 are really benchs that are benching their own engine to "look good", and FF4 matches their perf on sunspider now, nearly on v8 at very quick progression rate)
memory consumption is much better in FF4 than chrome as well. even HTML rendering is extremely good and fast, even thus it doesnt support *everything* no browser does (especially when most of the so called standards have not been standardized/finalized yet, but hey there's still some CSS3 stuff..)
I also find it extremely stable (except minefield which crashes from time to time) compared to chrome at least. Yes chrome interface doesn't crash but the tabs crash all the time. Can blame flash or whatever, but the same tabs in FF just don't crash and FF itself rarely ever crash.
Now, you're right, the interface of FF is slow. They do have a plan to fix that, but it's not yet there... I would wish they include it in FF4 but we'll see (it's electrolysis btw - separates browser into 1 process and UI in another - instead of UI in 1 process and 1 process per tab in chrome - i like the FF way better, uses way less memory) This includes FF startup time, tab switching/moving around, going through menus etc when heavy stuff is going on.
They should have fixed that first, as it's the part users feel bad about - users use the interface (incredible lol)
Now I don't think it's too little too late, Firefox has a huge market share and is respected in many companies, unlike Chrome (it will eventually happen).
On the other hand they must not fail FF4 and they know that, hence the delay for the release..
Err it was done to split the browser from the mail client. Last I checked Firefox does not operate as mail client by default (one could always make/use a plugin or extension for it, but so could they for chrome and even IE actually)
Sorry but most of the time, the customer has no fucking idea what they want. They want something, but they just don't know what. they're going to ask changes for the hell of it and need some time to then decide it was a bad idea and request the change to be reverted.
now that doesn't mean developers always know what the customer wants, far from it. but he has all the tools and knowledge to figure it out, because he knows how everything works. the customer, is clueless basically. (in most cases at least)
that's because usually it's not about typing a date in a field, also.
of course you're not. i'm getting this kind of stories every week at work. It pisses me off major time. usually I just implement the features i think are the best and the way *i* think are the most efficient, and the way i would like them if i was the user (of course being a programmer and all might not always be spot on but still) then usually many people like, and eventually some stupid customer (really) wants to change a useful feature into a bad one, or add useless things to it. i warn that it's going to be bad, etc ec but since i'm not the boss eventually i usually have to implement it it never fails, a few weeks later there's complains due to that new feature or modification, and a lot more of complains than the single request we had in the beginning.
but no.. mr boss never understand that the customer isnt always right and that all this is just psychological issues, not software issues.
StarCraft 2 has cheat codes in it, their use just disables achievements until you start a new game or load an old one. Part of the issue is that this guy was using a program that let him cheat while still earning achievements and, according to the comments on the Rock Paper Shotgun article, cheat in the multiplayer too - both of which messes with the ranking system and in turn, causes all kinds of weirdness with their online matchmaking.
But of course news items wouldnt bring hits if they wrote it that way, so distorting the truth just enough to sound likely correct and spamming it around is the rule. Especially if it's bashing on a big company, since they're no angels, most of the people who notice the truth has been bended yet again most likely let it go.
I certainly would have been happy too. Sure the original act is bad blabla but hey, when you get 10y of data back, you're happy. Thieves are stealing from people or companies directly, but they don't usually mean harm.
The lobbies, companies, government, etc, steal for people far larger amounts every single day - and they don't give you "your data back" all that easily either.
It's all a matter of perception and point of view. I'm all for respectful thiefs. Be it common ones or larger ones I wrote about. Since we can't actually suppress thieves:p
The thing is, OOo is so crappy by it's UI and by it's bugs that it makes office ribbon a non issue:p
When I actually want to do something I'd rather start MS Office since it actually works.
I'm not using zillion features etc, I just want the useful stuff to actually work consistently.
That's something OOo doesn't really deliver. OOo is probably a much better tool for recovery bad word documents, than for writing them:P
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Microsoft will pay you well and you feel you are part of a community.
The downside is that you have to hide your MacBookPro and iPhone from public view.
You're modded funny of course but it has quite a bit of truth. Apple does not pay well. Microsoft pays better. Microsoft makes you part of their community, Apple does not, everything is segmented and you have no access to other's information.
Arguably, Google is more Microsoft-like, except you're also allowed to bring your MacBook at Google:P (however, forget about the iPhone, it's N1!!)
Let's keep it simple: Because open office plain sucks for real office work.
It's fine when you need to do your home works, a quite doc or demo, etc. Basically while it's not great, it's for for everyone who wasn't going to pay for MS Office anyway. It works and it's free.
Now if you're doing real office work, and I happen to do that sometimes, OpenOffice just sucks.
It's not (always) the missing functionality, although it sometimes is. It's not always the horrible GUI, although it often is. It's not the speed, although it may annoy (MS Office is extremely fast in comparison) It's the bugs. The million bugs. If you start filling reports (that won't get fixed most likely) you've no time to actually work. Oh god the bugs. You don't see them until you start using the features of the program above the "super notepad clone with tables" stage.
Just to list a few recurrent ones that make my life hell: - autocomplete failures, even when disabled. some autocompletions cannot be disabled and sometimes just complete it wrongly, like a wrong date format, even if you change it or force it not to complete.. it does it anyway. - properties updates - you need to quit OOo and start it again - autosave - its useless, you'd rather check auto backup complete file, sometimes OOo is going to break while saving the XML inner file and 100% of the data is lost - UI options: wtf ? - split view: "open a new window" I could go on forever.
I do not like OpenOffice one bit, yet it's the only office suite you can use on Linux, aka the less "bad".
Feel free to to down rank and talk about how OpenOffice is great and you're an office worker while you're actually never using OpenOffice and probably have no job. That's how things get fixed!
Same logic they already applied you pay 200% price (yes its that much) on many medias such as DVD to pay taxes directly to the media companies already. Even thus most of the DVDs are not used for music. If you like to pay hard drives 200 eurs (only slightly exagerated, depends on capacity, but if you want 2To, bad luck) more than in the rest of the world, france is also a good country for that
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BeagleBoards are big. There's the BeagleBoard XM which is pretty powerful by the way.
Also the LeopardBoard which I believe has HDMI, but probably not SATA.
I want OMAP4+Gumstix for ultra light video processing at HD quality (720p)
The current common OMAP 3530 (also on the BeagleBoard - standard version)'s DSP just doesn't cut it for HD video encoding. (It's just ok for decoding)
true that.
Not that VP8 is bad or whatever, but, give us OMAP4. Not that it's the best or anything either but it's rather cheap, rather open and rather good. A gumstix OMAP4 would be like a little piece of hacking paradise.
while they're not all free, the ones from google are, aren't they?
also the ones in ffmpeg
actually current firefox is extremely better than firebird or phoenix (or even firefox 1)
in javascript it's also extremely good in FF4 (as in better than everything else in many ways - remember than sunspider/chrome v8 are really benchs that are benching their own engine to "look good", and FF4 matches their perf on sunspider now, nearly on v8 at very quick progression rate)
memory consumption is much better in FF4 than chrome as well. even HTML rendering is extremely good and fast, even thus it doesnt support *everything* no browser does (especially when most of the so called standards have not been standardized/finalized yet, but hey there's still some CSS3 stuff..)
I also find it extremely stable (except minefield which crashes from time to time) compared to chrome at least. Yes chrome interface doesn't crash but the tabs crash all the time. Can blame flash or whatever, but the same tabs in FF just don't crash and FF itself rarely ever crash.
Now, you're right, the interface of FF is slow. They do have a plan to fix that, but it's not yet there... I would wish they include it in FF4 but we'll see (it's electrolysis btw - separates browser into 1 process and UI in another - instead of UI in 1 process and 1 process per tab in chrome - i like the FF way better, uses way less memory)
This includes FF startup time, tab switching/moving around, going through menus etc when heavy stuff is going on.
They should have fixed that first, as it's the part users feel bad about - users use the interface (incredible lol)
Now I don't think it's too little too late, Firefox has a huge market share and is respected in many companies, unlike Chrome (it will eventually happen).
On the other hand they must not fail FF4 and they know that, hence the delay for the release..
i heard firefox has memleaks when the computer is off!
Err it was done to split the browser from the mail client.
Last I checked Firefox does not operate as mail client by default (one could always make/use a plugin or extension for it, but so could they for chrome and even IE actually)
The nightly are 32 and 64 bits so i guess we can assume that yes, it will most likely exist as 32 and 64 bits
After it lets you in, eat the evidence.
Thats the part i like =)
i figured out a while ago that if you're too insightful and not very "popular" you'll be modded down eventually xD
if you're flaming hard but with a popular topic and add some "ok that's flamebait but[..]" you'll get +5 insightful nearly every time
oh the world.
for apple, for sure ^^
30% profit on every app is such a huge benefit
let's not get lost on the subject that software is not your property it's only licensed to you (i agree it sucks but it's like that)
exactly.
Sorry but most of the time, the customer has no fucking idea what they want.
They want something, but they just don't know what. they're going to ask changes for the hell of it and need some time to then decide it was a bad idea and request the change to be reverted.
now that doesn't mean developers always know what the customer wants, far from it. but he has all the tools and knowledge to figure it out, because he knows how everything works. the customer, is clueless basically. (in most cases at least)
that's because usually it's not about typing a date in a field, also.
of course you're not. i'm getting this kind of stories every week at work. It pisses me off major time.
usually I just implement the features i think are the best and the way *i* think are the most efficient, and the way i would like them if i was the user (of course being a programmer and all might not always be spot on but still)
then usually many people like, and eventually some stupid customer (really) wants to change a useful feature into a bad one, or add useless things to it.
i warn that it's going to be bad, etc ec but since i'm not the boss eventually i usually have to implement it
it never fails, a few weeks later there's complains due to that new feature or modification, and a lot more of complains than the single request we had in the beginning.
but no.. mr boss never understand that the customer isnt always right and that all this is just psychological issues, not software issues.
Memories :)
StarCraft 2 has cheat codes in it, their use just disables achievements until you start a new game or load an old one. Part of the issue is that this guy was using a program that let him cheat while still earning achievements and, according to the comments on the Rock Paper Shotgun article, cheat in the multiplayer too - both of which messes with the ranking system and in turn, causes all kinds of weirdness with their online matchmaking.
But of course news items wouldnt bring hits if they wrote it that way, so distorting the truth just enough to sound likely correct and spamming it around is the rule. Especially if it's bashing on a big company, since they're no angels, most of the people who notice the truth has been bended yet again most likely let it go.
I certainly would have been happy too. Sure the original act is bad blabla but hey, when you get 10y of data back, you're happy.
Thieves are stealing from people or companies directly, but they don't usually mean harm.
The lobbies, companies, government, etc, steal for people far larger amounts every single day - and they don't give you "your data back" all that easily either.
It's all a matter of perception and point of view. I'm all for respectful thiefs. Be it common ones or larger ones I wrote about. Since we can't actually suppress thieves:p
The thing is, OOo is so crappy by it's UI and by it's bugs that it makes office ribbon a non issue :p
When I actually want to do something I'd rather start MS Office since it actually works.
I'm not using zillion features etc, I just want the useful stuff to actually work consistently.
That's something OOo doesn't really deliver. OOo is probably a much better tool for recovery bad word documents, than for writing them :P
Microsoft will pay you well and you feel you are part of a community.
The downside is that you have to hide your MacBookPro and iPhone from public view.
You're modded funny of course but it has quite a bit of truth.
Apple does not pay well. Microsoft pays better.
Microsoft makes you part of their community, Apple does not, everything is segmented and you have no access to other's information.
Arguably, Google is more Microsoft-like, except you're also allowed to bring your MacBook at Google :P (however, forget about the iPhone, it's N1!!)
Let's keep it simple:
Because open office plain sucks for real office work.
It's fine when you need to do your home works, a quite doc or demo, etc. Basically while it's not great, it's for for everyone who wasn't going to pay for MS Office anyway. It works and it's free.
Now if you're doing real office work, and I happen to do that sometimes, OpenOffice just sucks.
It's not (always) the missing functionality, although it sometimes is.
It's not always the horrible GUI, although it often is.
It's not the speed, although it may annoy (MS Office is extremely fast in comparison)
It's the bugs. The million bugs. If you start filling reports (that won't get fixed most likely) you've no time to actually work. Oh god the bugs.
You don't see them until you start using the features of the program above the "super notepad clone with tables" stage.
Just to list a few recurrent ones that make my life hell:
- autocomplete failures, even when disabled. some autocompletions cannot be disabled and sometimes just complete it wrongly, like a wrong date format, even if you change it or force it not to complete.. it does it anyway.
- properties updates - you need to quit OOo and start it again
- autosave - its useless, you'd rather check auto backup complete file, sometimes OOo is going to break while saving the XML inner file and 100% of the data is lost
- UI options: wtf ?
- split view: "open a new window"
I could go on forever.
I do not like OpenOffice one bit, yet it's the only office suite you can use on Linux, aka the less "bad".
Feel free to to down rank and talk about how OpenOffice is great and you're an office worker while you're actually never using OpenOffice and probably have no job. That's how things get fixed!
Another meaningless benchmark that claims to replace all the previous meaningless benchmarks. Yawn.
Same logic they already applied
you pay 200% price (yes its that much) on many medias such as DVD to pay taxes directly to the media companies already.
Even thus most of the DVDs are not used for music.
If you like to pay hard drives 200 eurs (only slightly exagerated, depends on capacity, but if you want 2To, bad luck) more than in the rest of the world, france is also a good country for that
they as individual yes
the government is not exactly rich.
lobbies are. people in the government are. france, aka the governement, is not.
of course, that's not right.
that's because they don't give them free music.
they are forcing them to pay for music with that card actually. and the lobbies get the money.
Sometimes you need some lube to make it through. Cards are the lub.