This is a practice done for many programs nowadays. It is good because end user should never be faced with the application's destruct routines. Having big window applications just cluttering the desktop with unresponsive behemoths is plain bad UX. That is why all IDEs and productivity applications have splash loaders. Google chrome and chromium do that as well. you just don't notice it on them because they are multi instanced by design so when you accidentally close chromium you (theoretically) can re-launch it immediately because all you will do is create another instance of the application. You might argue that FF and Opera should not be single instance apps but that is another story entirely.
I don't know what security model you are referring to, can you elaborate?
I know that perceptive speed is not the key point of an app but it matters in workflows and UX more than you think (apparently). Chrome might be better than FF on handling resource hungry webGL implementations but for the average facebooks I don't think js engine differences are of matter.
I am happy with ff8(aurora) best memory performance I experienced in ff and as far as I can tell the fast development schedule has actually made that devs think about what new functionality they will include.
in media archival you can solve anything with 35mm film.
IMO: for the actual data protection go high end. Have a good file server (n>5 raid) with some disks offline and off location, as mentioned above. For the emotional impact stuff go as low tech as possible. Print personal img favs on normal photo paper, the normal photos will age but that's the point. Print video media on 35mm film (probably standard sound-on-film 1.85:1). Getting hold of a 35mm projector might be an issue, money wise and you might have to do some research to find a good one. You can always go old school and just get an analogue one (ie one that will just translate the visual sound streams) and that is what you should do actually. Going with a low tech solution is also nice because those analogue projectors can basically be mended by anyone with a screw driver and have quite generic or upgradeable parts.
So that would be about 2 grand for the file server (im thinking 6tb effective disk size for starters) about 20k for projector and screening gizmos and 200K for the shed that will store all that film:-P Ok, if you want to really go over the top you can scrap the 35 for a 15/70mm IMAX projector:-)
By "the linked-to conference" do you mean the one that was supposed to have a web stream? I wanted to watch it but couldn't get the stream up from any of the providers...
this reminds me of the standards Only that instead of standards it's linux type OSs comunities that get populated and perpetuated.
<drivel><halfbaked> This is sad, very very sad... Can we at least now acknowledge that the FOSS community has to build the OS top down on their own so that we actually get a product? I mean there is Actually arch for arm devices. Just convince some desktop devs to throw together a basic tablet/touch UI from spare code left and right (lets call it gnome 3.3) And then just start writing rom flashers so that it can be hacked onto all existing Android phones. </halfbaked></drivel>
Anyway, parent is unpopular but correct. Gnome did everything right except of two things: second) it made jump onto linux for a non-geek a tiny bit more difficult by dropping the conventional menu/taskbar paradigm first) it jumped the gun on release because they got scared from teh youbuntooz
Try to open up yahoo from a noisy public AP. The page might not even load. I think the real benefit for this will be on mobile devices and low bandwidth connections like overutilized public APs.
Yes, popular theory is that your options and the diversity of the content will shrink if the filtering is done without some heuristic to add outside trends that fit your profile. But I think most content filters atm have nothing to worry about that because the theory implies you do semantically correct filtering.
hmm... I think I wasn't very clear when I initially stated my complaint.
I am not nagging about the versioning information itself but the huge label that comes with each release. It is just marketing ('display progress through number incrementation®'). The end user has no real benefit (ignoring braging rights) to know what version of browser he is actually using. The only important information to the end user is that his browser is/isn't up to date. This is rendered mute since firefox automatically updates itself. If the end user finds himself in the position to need a version number (I guess some very specific 3rd party problem) he can find it in the about tab/menu. Usually up to that point someone more skilled will probably have showed up to try and fix the bug.
I am not very annoyed by the major version upgrades every 5 minutes but what I am annoyed about is that mozilla make a big deal out of it "Hey look we made another, newer, browser thingie just now!".... Guys, we know that you are working. Just put down the attention whoring megaphones and fix the memory leaks. Actually you just seem to just have done that, so I should find some other suggestion....
Well, You personally can scan your network for machines that sing "Santa Claus is coming to town". The smart person would scan for a build identifier anyway. Scanning for major version number will only end up with two people that both have a mercedes SL. Hint, one of them is a 60's classic while the other is a three year old pile of German Büro garbage.
I can't understand what programming skills have to do with trademarks or copyrights.
Neither do I think the phrase
why do you think Notch is adding all the RPG adventure elements to the game before calling it "Scrolls"
qualifies as an argument on it's own, nor do I see any coding excellence in Notch.
Please restate your argument in a way it can be positively comprehended by an intelligent being. If you do it right and are argumentative enough we might actually debate something.
Yes, lock the L stick to the up position and set X to auto fire and eventually you will get to gran pulse.
If you do that you are missing the point though. FF13 tells a story about being hunted down by prejudice and propaganda, if you pay just enough attention to the world and story and stop thinking "arg, this is not a Final Fantasy" everything will make sense. The corridors add to the feeling of being led on by some undefinable scheme. The static pace and nonexistent room for deviation are the characters' unescapable fate.
IMO every openly criticized part of the game added to its atmosphere and story the only problem is that people have to stop thinking they are unhappy before they can be happy. In other words: "Stop complaining and enjoy the game already!"
Police Academy 7 was exactly the same as Police Academy 1. It tanked because after six iterations the recipe wasn't authentic anymore. I am not suggesting all successful franchises take the artsy road, I am suggesting that in order to be at the top you have to lead. In order to lead you have to be leading you have to be authentic. In order to be authentic you have to evolve.
Entertainment is not Ketchup. If SE were pushing out FF1 clones they would have been out of busyness a long time ago. Evolution, great worlds(intellectually) and pushing boundaries are the reasons why they create the most recognized jrpg franchise in history.
Yep, I am on aurora (so @ version 8 atm) and firefox has actually begun to be quite lightweight. Good news for my netbooks.
Also, I might be only using some very standard extentions (noscript, proxy, blah...) but I never had an extention fail on me so I really don't know what all the fuss is about.
just one more thing dear mozilla, please quit numbering the damned thing and call it just 'the new firefox'. After all the main version number is the least significant one for people who need a version number (build/commit count is much more descriptive anyway).
Indeed, had FFX-2 been a bit less girly and silly (I don't mind it being upbeat) It would have been a much better game. Your complaint about the storyline is also quite interesting. I think the story devs didn't wan't to steer the story into these waters though. mostly because they would have needed to add a lot more `game` to it then:-)
So you don't like futuristic fantasy and want FF only be classical fantasy titles? It is Final Fantasy. It is meant to take fantasy to wherever it needs to go to complete the story or world.
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Now that's what is a testing suite! ;-)
This is a practice done for many programs nowadays. It is good because end user should never be faced with the application's destruct routines. Having big window applications just cluttering the desktop with unresponsive behemoths is plain bad UX. That is why all IDEs and productivity applications have splash loaders. Google chrome and chromium do that as well. you just don't notice it on them because they are multi instanced by design so when you accidentally close chromium you (theoretically) can re-launch it immediately because all you will do is create another instance of the application. You might argue that FF and Opera should not be single instance apps but that is another story entirely.
I don't know what security model you are referring to, can you elaborate?
I know that perceptive speed is not the key point of an app but it matters in workflows and UX more than you think (apparently). Chrome might be better than FF on handling resource hungry webGL implementations but for the average facebooks I don't think js engine differences are of matter.
I am happy with ff8(aurora) best memory performance I experienced in ff and as far as I can tell the fast development schedule has actually made that devs think about what new functionality they will include.
way to go
in media archival you can solve anything with 35mm film.
IMO: for the actual data protection go high end. Have a good file server (n>5 raid) with some disks offline and off location, as mentioned above. For the emotional impact stuff go as low tech as possible. Print personal img favs on normal photo paper, the normal photos will age but that's the point. Print video media on 35mm film (probably standard sound-on-film 1.85:1). Getting hold of a 35mm projector might be an issue, money wise and you might have to do some research to find a good one. You can always go old school and just get an analogue one (ie one that will just translate the visual sound streams) and that is what you should do actually. Going with a low tech solution is also nice because those analogue projectors can basically be mended by anyone with a screw driver and have quite generic or upgradeable parts.
So that would be about 2 grand for the file server (im thinking 6tb effective disk size for starters) about 20k for projector and screening gizmos and 200K for the shed that will store all that film :-P :-)
Ok, if you want to really go over the top you can scrap the 35 for a 15/70mm IMAX projector
By "the linked-to conference" do you mean the one that was supposed to have a web stream? I wanted to watch it but couldn't get the stream up from any of the providers...
this reminds me of the standards
Only that instead of standards it's linux type OSs comunities that get populated and perpetuated.
<drivel><halfbaked>
This is sad, very very sad...
Can we at least now acknowledge that the FOSS community has to build the OS top down on their own so that we actually get a product? I mean there is Actually arch for arm devices.
Just convince some desktop devs to throw together a basic tablet/touch UI from spare code left and right (lets call it gnome 3.3)
And then just start writing rom flashers so that it can be hacked onto all existing Android phones.
</halfbaked></drivel>
Patent on software? Yes!
I think GP found 'a dumb' and is pushing it on his parent
No replies?
<news_bulletin>"Anonymous coward scares away the gnome 3 trolls"</news_bulletin>
WTF? the war to the anonymous cowards???
Anyway, parent is unpopular but correct. Gnome did everything right except of two things:
second) it made jump onto linux for a non-geek a tiny bit more difficult by dropping the conventional menu/taskbar paradigm
first) it jumped the gun on release because they got scared from teh youbuntooz
Actual gnome 3.0 should be this release.
Try to open up yahoo from a noisy public AP. The page might not even load. I think the real benefit for this will be on mobile devices and low bandwidth connections like overutilized public APs.
Yes, popular theory is that your options and the diversity of the content will shrink if the filtering is done without some heuristic to add outside trends that fit your profile. But I think most content filters atm have nothing to worry about that because the theory implies you do semantically correct filtering.
sift through a trillion porn
Maybe they want to use amazon as a human filter? You know, to get to the good stuff faster!
Why would the GSA possibly want your tweets?
Fair enough, I don't remember it being written in the article but if these are the facts you can't really disagree can you?
well, maybe the (one to many) art exhibitions I was dragged into finally did their damage....
on the wooden crate thing: that depends, did you break through them in a chestburster fashion?
hmm... I think I wasn't very clear when I initially stated my complaint.
I am not nagging about the versioning information itself but the huge label that comes with each release. It is just marketing ('display progress through number incrementation®'). The end user has no real benefit (ignoring braging rights) to know what version of browser he is actually using. The only important information to the end user is that his browser is/isn't up to date. This is rendered mute since firefox automatically updates itself. If the end user finds himself in the position to need a version number (I guess some very specific 3rd party problem) he can find it in the about tab/menu. Usually up to that point someone more skilled will probably have showed up to try and fix the bug.
I am not very annoyed by the major version upgrades every 5 minutes but what I am annoyed about is that mozilla make a big deal out of it "Hey look we made another, newer, browser thingie just now!".... Guys, we know that you are working. Just put down the attention whoring megaphones and fix the memory leaks. Actually you just seem to just have done that, so I should find some other suggestion....
Well, You personally can scan your network for machines that sing "Santa Claus is coming to town".
The smart person would scan for a build identifier anyway.
Scanning for major version number will only end up with two people that both have a mercedes SL. Hint, one of them is a 60's classic while the other is a three year old pile of German Büro garbage.
I can't understand what programming skills have to do with trademarks or copyrights.
Neither do I think the phrase
why do you think Notch is adding all the RPG adventure elements to the game before calling it "Scrolls"
qualifies as an argument on it's own, nor do I see any coding excellence in Notch.
Please restate your argument in a way it can be positively comprehended by an intelligent being. If you do it right and are argumentative enough we might actually debate something.
cheers
Yes, lock the L stick to the up position and set X to auto fire and eventually you will get to gran pulse.
If you do that you are missing the point though. FF13 tells a story about being hunted down by prejudice and propaganda, if you pay just enough attention to the world and story and stop thinking "arg, this is not a Final Fantasy" everything will make sense. The corridors add to the feeling of being led on by some undefinable scheme. The static pace and nonexistent room for deviation are the characters' unescapable fate.
IMO every openly criticized part of the game added to its atmosphere and story the only problem is that people have to stop thinking they are unhappy before they can be happy. In other words: "Stop complaining and enjoy the game already!"
Police Academy 7 was exactly the same as Police Academy 1. It tanked because after six iterations the recipe wasn't authentic anymore.
I am not suggesting all successful franchises take the artsy road, I am suggesting that in order to be at the top you have to lead. In order to lead you have to be leading you have to be authentic. In order to be authentic you have to evolve.
Entertainment is not Ketchup. If SE were pushing out FF1 clones they would have been out of busyness a long time ago. Evolution, great worlds(intellectually) and pushing boundaries are the reasons why they create the most recognized jrpg franchise in history.
Yep, I am on aurora (so @ version 8 atm) and firefox has actually begun to be quite lightweight. Good news for my netbooks.
Also, I might be only using some very standard extentions (noscript, proxy, blah...) but I never had an extention fail on me so I really don't know what all the fuss is about.
just one more thing dear mozilla, please quit numbering the damned thing and call it just 'the new firefox'. After all the main version number is the least significant one for people who need a version number (build/commit count is much more descriptive anyway).
Well, I guess the only option here is to just use DRM free torrents. Right?
Indeed, had FFX-2 been a bit less girly and silly (I don't mind it being upbeat) It would have been a much better game. :-)
Your complaint about the storyline is also quite interesting. I think the story devs didn't wan't to steer the story into these waters though. mostly because they would have needed to add a lot more `game` to it then
Amen. Exactly as I mentioned at the top of this thread. All true FFs are excellent games. Some are more excellent than others but all are excellent.
So you don't like futuristic fantasy and want FF only be classical fantasy titles? It is Final Fantasy. It is meant to take fantasy to wherever it needs to go to complete the story or world.