I don't know how Chrome development works, but bi-annual releases aren't a very strong sign of agile. I know quite a bit of corporate software on a spring/fall release schedule but are quite traditional all the same.
OK.....And where did the "bi-annual" come from? Did we not come from a discussion of the fact that in 18 months Chrome has gone from version 2 to version 10? Even if we accept that 10 isn't released fully yet, 7 releases in 18 months doesn't seem to fit into "bi-annual", but maybe I just forgot how numbers work;)
So? Pretty bloody obvious why it's worth noting: the task is wholly graphical in nature, so obviously hardware acceleration will give IE9 and FF4 an advantage on Windows (and FF4 is not HW accelerated on OS X). So it's kind of a no-brainer why there's a huge discrepancy
Ummm....but what difference does that make to the end results? That's like saying, "well, of course your car is faster because it's got a turbocharger"...If I wanna go fast, I'll take the one with the turbocharger, not worry about about the mechanics of how it goes fast. The complaint is only relevant if the turbocharger was available on the other car but wasn't used....Is hardware acceleration for any browsers available on OSX? (genuine question, I really don't know)
big company pushing out new releases to a major product as fast as they are
Yeah. They're so great they've caught up with and passed IE (still at v9) in only three years.
I'm not sure if that was a sarcastic reply or not...I suspect it might have been. However, if it was, I already said that I wasn't sure about the version numbering that they were using. I am more interested in them proving that you CAN make regular releases and make it work. It's much easier to sell an "agile" development program to people when you have a good example from a well known company.
Go for a walk, hang out with friends, get something to eat, heck, even do homework or (gasp!) talk to your parents about life. It's okay, and possibly even healthy, to do non-twitch, non-adrenaline things while out and about each day.
Wow....not sure if you remembered where you were posting or not while I read that. "Go for a walk"....sounds like you forgot it was/. "Hang out with friends"....same as above. "Get something to eat"....Hmmm, might be OK for/., but I doubt most forget to do that one. "Do homework"....Really? You might be right and I am out of touch, but is/. really inhabited mainly by people who have "homework" these days? "Talk to your parents about life"....Well, fair enough, assuming the readers can shout loud enough to be heard from the basement. "Out and about each day"....lmao....Nope, you really did forget you were on/. didn't you?:D
Weren't we just on Chrome 1.0 like . . . 18 months ago?
Well, no. Being pedantic, I think that 18 months ago we were actually on Chrome 2. However, I presume the accuracy of versions wasn't really your point and it was more about the rapid releases. You could argue whether the fast increase in version numbering is good or bad, but as far as I am concerned, it's great to see a big company pushing out new releases to a major product as fast as they are....
EARLY 1900s. Before all that radio licensing baloney, and pay-to-play nonsense.
The judge is saying today's redtube (and also youtube) are akin to early Shortwave and AM radio - where companies put-up their goods in hopes people will like it and buy it. i.e. The money is made off the backend, not at the point-of-play.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have wanted the judgement to go the other way, but I'm not sure that comparison holds up very well.
In the early days of radio you got to hear a tune now and then when the radio station played it. If you wanted to hear it any other time you had to go out and buy it, making it a reasonable advertising instrument for the tunes.
How is that similar to a website where you can just dip in and stream something any time you like?
iPhone 3G and iPhone 4 is fair enough. It's pushing too far to make out a variant of memory counts as another model though. And no model earlier than 3GS counts because they don't sell them any more. Market share is how many have been sold in the most recent period. It's not how many have been sold ever.
Did you even read the summary, never mind the article?
It's about how many people, RIGHT NOW, are using a particular phone OS. It's nothing to do with current sales. If someone us using an old, original iPhone, that goes into the iOS count.
They seem to know what they are doing and make some nice hardware....but maybe not everyone would agree with what I think, and that's what's nice about Android compared to iOS. If I don't like one manufacturer's efforts, I can just go off and buy from someone who I do like the work of.
is the fact that we have apparent non-experts deciding whether what he took was in fact proprietary, and the case is sealed so we cannot judge for ourselves. On the other hand, if what he took was legitimately open source, how comes it he couldn't have downloaded that elsewhere and saved himself a trial?
I might be reading too much into this, but it seems unlikely that the code was open source....If it was, it would surely be simple for his lawyers to prove that.
However, I wonder how much the judgement made by the jury was influenced by his "evil commie" name and ancestry!
Surely an investor, of all people, should see the value in doing another print run!
Well, yeah....Unless it bombed when originally released at $25 and he has a shitload of them in his basement and is slowly trying to get rid of them at $500+ a pop:p
And they get their information from?. Why you choose to denigrate that fact when Apple is involved but not for heart attacks is sort of, well, suspicious.
Because apples are good for you, and they keep the doctor away....or something:p
Something DOES need to be done about the way that ISPs market themselves.
I provide 2 quotes from the website of my current ISP, and ask you to guess which one is most prominently shown:)
1. "We think you deserve more. So no matter which of our fibre optic broadband packages you chose, you get unlimited downloads. That means you can download as much music, as many films and as many photos as you want without having to worry about going over any kind of limit."
2. "So to make sure that our service is fair for everybody, we sometimes moderate the speeds for the top 5% of customers who are downloading and/or uploading an unusually large amount."
Lovely....So, you don't need to "worry about going over any kind of limit", but if you go over a limit, you'll get things really, really slow. It's OK. cos you can still download all you want, you'll just not be able to do it at the speed that you paid for...
Gotta love that kind of doublespeak.
There would also need to be able to copy a signature well enough to fool a bank official; especially if they were withdrawing a lot of cash. And regarding photos, remember these are more than simple JPGs stored on the RFID chip. In order for a fake to be passable as a 'real' passport, it would also have to have the so-called 'ghost photo' on a different page; this photo is only readable under UV light.
The last few times that I have had to provide a signature at a bank, it has barely even been glanced at.
Is a signature actually used as a proof of identity these days, or is it just used as an audit record for any future claims against fake transactions? I suspect the latter....
are you talking about the imprinter? (big thing where you lay the card down put a credit slip on top and make it go THUNK to prove you had the actual plate during the transaction) Just about everybody taking credit cards should either have one of those or know one of about a dozen ways to do the same thing.
I'm wondering what percentage of credit card transactions are done remotely these days...I look forward to the next website I make a transaction on asking me to take an imprint of my card:D
iOS 4 updates for iPad have been delayed multiple times.
They have? In July, Jobs said the iPad would get it iOS 4 "in the Fall," and at the beginning of this month he said November.
Doesn't look like it's been delayed to me, looks like it's right on track.
~Philly
Steve is running late according to the classic Celtic calendar....November is very definitely Winter...Steve needs to learn his Irish Calendar before making promises that will be listened to Worldwide:p
No, I don't think that's the right approach, mostly because ChromeOS has a little bit more to offer as a desktop OS for thin clients or netbooks.
They need to make ChromeOS run Android apps.
OK...I guess I am missing something....can you explain how your suggestion of making "ChromeOS run Android apps" fits with you saying that you disagree with the OP suggesting that Google will merge the two? Have you not just perfectly defined a merging of the two?
So, what would you suggest? The publisher sells one ebook to a library that can then GIVE away the book? And if one library has it, why should any other library buy it? Just copy the first sold copy and give THAT away.
There NEEDS to be a financial incentive for a publisher to publish books. And there NEEDS to be a financial incentive for an author to write a book. If you take away their ability to make money on their works, you
will effectively kill the majority of new materials.
I'm not sure if it's the same elsewhere, but in the UK authors get paid every time a book is loaned out from a public library.
Given that this is the case, surely the authors would prefer to have the artificial restriction removed so that more people can borrow their book at the same time. There is no need for the publisher to incur the expense of printing a book to be sold to a library if it's only going to be loaned electronically, so why bother?
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Agreed...It's pretty odd that someone would be using Vista64 ;)
I don't know how Chrome development works, but bi-annual releases aren't a very strong sign of agile. I know quite a bit of corporate software on a spring/fall release schedule but are quite traditional all the same.
OK.....And where did the "bi-annual" come from? ;)
Did we not come from a discussion of the fact that in 18 months Chrome has gone from version 2 to version 10?
Even if we accept that 10 isn't released fully yet, 7 releases in 18 months doesn't seem to fit into "bi-annual", but maybe I just forgot how numbers work
So? Pretty bloody obvious why it's worth noting: the task is wholly graphical in nature, so obviously hardware acceleration will give IE9 and FF4 an advantage on Windows (and FF4 is not HW accelerated on OS X). So it's kind of a no-brainer why there's a huge discrepancy
Ummm....but what difference does that make to the end results?
That's like saying, "well, of course your car is faster because it's got a turbocharger"...If I wanna go fast, I'll take the one with the turbocharger, not worry about about the mechanics of how it goes fast.
The complaint is only relevant if the turbocharger was available on the other car but wasn't used....Is hardware acceleration for any browsers available on OSX? (genuine question, I really don't know)
big company pushing out new releases to a major product as fast as they are
Yeah. They're so great they've caught up with and passed IE (still at v9) in only three years.
I'm not sure if that was a sarcastic reply or not...I suspect it might have been.
However, if it was, I already said that I wasn't sure about the version numbering that they were using.
I am more interested in them proving that you CAN make regular releases and make it work. It's much easier to sell an "agile" development program to people when you have a good example from a well known company.
Go for a walk, hang out with friends, get something to eat, heck, even do homework or (gasp!) talk to your parents about life. It's okay, and possibly even healthy, to do non-twitch, non-adrenaline things while out and about each day.
Wow....not sure if you remembered where you were posting or not while I read that. /. /., but I doubt most forget to do that one. /. really inhabited mainly by people who have "homework" these days? /. didn't you? :D
"Go for a walk"....sounds like you forgot it was
"Hang out with friends"....same as above.
"Get something to eat"....Hmmm, might be OK for
"Do homework"....Really? You might be right and I am out of touch, but is
"Talk to your parents about life"....Well, fair enough, assuming the readers can shout loud enough to be heard from the basement.
"Out and about each day"....lmao....Nope, you really did forget you were on
We aim to please here at Slashdot.
And no, not in THAT way.
Damn, I was gonna bin my fleshlight and just read slashdot....then you ruined it all :(
I am intrigued....Did you actually post twice as an AC and reply to yourself, or was there really someone sad enough to do that for you?
Actually, you probably don't need to answer that... :o
Weren't we just on Chrome 1.0 like . . . 18 months ago?
Well, no. Being pedantic, I think that 18 months ago we were actually on Chrome 2.
However, I presume the accuracy of versions wasn't really your point and it was more about the rapid releases.
You could argue whether the fast increase in version numbering is good or bad, but as far as I am concerned, it's great to see a big company pushing out new releases to a major product as fast as they are....
EARLY 1900s. Before all that radio licensing baloney, and pay-to-play nonsense.
The judge is saying today's redtube (and also youtube) are akin to early Shortwave and AM radio - where companies put-up their goods in hopes people will like it and buy it. i.e. The money is made off the backend, not at the point-of-play.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have wanted the judgement to go the other way, but I'm not sure that comparison holds up very well.
In the early days of radio you got to hear a tune now and then when the radio station played it. If you wanted to hear it any other time you had to go out and buy it, making it a reasonable advertising instrument for the tunes.
How is that similar to a website where you can just dip in and stream something any time you like?
iPhone 3G and iPhone 4 is fair enough. It's pushing too far to make out a variant of memory counts as another model though. And no model earlier than 3GS counts because they don't sell them any more. Market share is how many have been sold in the most recent period. It's not how many have been sold ever.
Did you even read the summary, never mind the article?
It's about how many people, RIGHT NOW, are using a particular phone OS. It's nothing to do with current sales. If someone us using an old, original iPhone, that goes into the iOS count.
Totally agree on the comments about Samsung.
They seem to know what they are doing and make some nice hardware....but maybe not everyone would agree with what I think, and that's what's nice about Android compared to iOS. If I don't like one manufacturer's efforts, I can just go off and buy from someone who I do like the work of.
is the fact that we have apparent non-experts deciding whether what he took was in fact proprietary, and the case is sealed so we cannot judge for ourselves. On the other hand, if what he took was legitimately open source, how comes it he couldn't have downloaded that elsewhere and saved himself a trial?
I might be reading too much into this, but it seems unlikely that the code was open source....If it was, it would surely be simple for his lawyers to prove that.
However, I wonder how much the judgement made by the jury was influenced by his "evil commie" name and ancestry!
Conclusion: Lawyers hate us and want to hurt us. The law is just an excuse.
Why would you think that lawyers hate you?
Lawyers just want to get rich, it's nothing personal! ;)
Surely an investor, of all people, should see the value in doing another print run!
Well, yeah....Unless it bombed when originally released at $25 and he has a shitload of them in his basement and is slowly trying to get rid of them at $500+ a pop :p
And they get their information from?. Why you choose to denigrate that fact when Apple is involved but not for heart attacks is sort of, well, suspicious.
Because apples are good for you, and they keep the doctor away....or something :p
Something DOES need to be done about the way that ISPs market themselves. I provide 2 quotes from the website of my current ISP, and ask you to guess which one is most prominently shown :)
1. "We think you deserve more. So no matter which of our fibre optic broadband packages you chose, you get unlimited downloads. That means you can download as much music, as many films and as many photos as you want without having to worry about going over any kind of limit."
2. "So to make sure that our service is fair for everybody, we sometimes moderate the speeds for the top 5% of customers who are downloading and/or uploading an unusually large amount."
Lovely....So, you don't need to "worry about going over any kind of limit", but if you go over a limit, you'll get things really, really slow. It's OK. cos you can still download all you want, you'll just not be able to do it at the speed that you paid for...
Gotta love that kind of doublespeak.
Pump and dump. Figures.
I think you have confused GoDaddy.com and the "Go Daddy Girls" referred to in the summary....Some of them were certainly "pump and dump" candidates :D
There would also need to be able to copy a signature well enough to fool a bank official; especially if they were withdrawing a lot of cash. And regarding photos, remember these are more than simple JPGs stored on the RFID chip. In order for a fake to be passable as a 'real' passport, it would also have to have the so-called 'ghost photo' on a different page; this photo is only readable under UV light.
The last few times that I have had to provide a signature at a bank, it has barely even been glanced at.
Is a signature actually used as a proof of identity these days, or is it just used as an audit record for any future claims against fake transactions? I suspect the latter....
are you talking about the imprinter? (big thing where you lay the card down put a credit slip on top and make it go THUNK to prove you had the actual plate during the transaction) Just about everybody taking credit cards should either have one of those or know one of about a dozen ways to do the same thing.
I'm wondering what percentage of credit card transactions are done remotely these days...I look forward to the next website I make a transaction on asking me to take an imprint of my card :D
So, some details of English football fans has been "leaked" by FIFA after the German World Cup Finals 4 years ago...
Get over it Englanders.....you are still a long, long way up on them after Bomber Harris and Dresden...
Hmmm....I think I might as well just give up and get a new account here after that drunken comment :p
iOS 4 updates for iPad have been delayed multiple times.
They have? In July, Jobs said the iPad would get it iOS 4 "in the Fall," and at the beginning of this month he said November.
Doesn't look like it's been delayed to me, looks like it's right on track.
~Philly
Steve is running late according to the classic Celtic calendar....November is very definitely Winter...Steve needs to learn his Irish Calendar before making promises that will be listened to Worldwide :p
I'll just chose an iPhone, thanks.
Ahhh.....interesting choice.
Can I interest you in a lovely, black, roll-neck jersey? It will look good for a while, but.....
I find it interesting that you use a smartPHONE as everything *but* a phone. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
At what point did you find yourself shocked that a /. poster didn't have anyone they needed to "speak" to on the phone?
The parents are just upstairs from the basement, and the girlfriend is just.....oh, yeah, nuff sed
smartphones are just for the interwebs, this "phone" thing you talk of is irrelevant here :p
No, I don't think that's the right approach, mostly because ChromeOS has a little bit more to offer as a desktop OS for thin clients or netbooks.
They need to make ChromeOS run Android apps.
OK...I guess I am missing something....can you explain how your suggestion of making "ChromeOS run Android apps" fits with you saying that you disagree with the OP suggesting that Google will merge the two? Have you not just perfectly defined a merging of the two?
So, what would you suggest? The publisher sells one ebook to a library that can then GIVE away the book? And if one library has it, why should any other library buy it? Just copy the first sold copy and give THAT away.
There NEEDS to be a financial incentive for a publisher to publish books. And there NEEDS to be a financial incentive for an author to write a book. If you take away their ability to make money on their works, you
will effectively kill the majority of new materials.
I'm not sure if it's the same elsewhere, but in the UK authors get paid every time a book is loaned out from a public library.
Given that this is the case, surely the authors would prefer to have the artificial restriction removed so that more people can borrow their book at the same time. There is no need for the publisher to incur the expense of printing a book to be sold to a library if it's only going to be loaned electronically, so why bother?