To be honest, greasemonkey is the equivalent of a spam filter. Without it, you're drowned by stupid apps updates you don't give a damn about. And facebook become unusable and utter crap.
So let them disable whatever and shoot themselves in the foot. I won't drop a tear when that happens.
Personally, I can't type three consecutive letters on the iPod Touch or an iPhone without screwing it up. But I can burn through text like a sonofabitch with my Blackberry.
Funny, it's the exact opposite for me. Maybe it's because you're used to your BB an I'm used to my iPhone? Really this typing test is a poor joke. I'd bet a lot that his primary phone is the one having the better score. Guess why....
To be absolutely fair, most "heavy" pages such as slashdot involves several dozens of http queries leading the total weight of the http headers being transmitted to well over 10KB. On an edge connection, it *is* painful.
For sure, it is nothing compared to the rest of the crap being downloaded, but still!
Nobody cares to know if Apple makes it for the greater good or the greater evil. I'm very happy with no flash on my Phone. I barely installed flash on my Linux, and even then, just to watch Youtube videos. On the iPhone, it is built in, so I don't need flash.
If Apple could push by 0.01% Adobe off the cliff, I'd be eternally grateful to Steve the Almighty;-)
And HTML5+CSS3 is clearly showing great promises, judging by all the sites that now use it, at least in their mobile version. Less images, less crap for the same result, only lighter and faster. The only hurdle to a broad adoption if Internet Explorer, as usual. No doubt they'll support it when they realize that it is catching up on HTML4, and no doubt they'll realize that very late. Again, as usual.
So GM went under and nobody talked about it. Now Toyota has a massive recall and all about GM is forgotten. Instead of criticizing foreign car makers (even if they deserve it), can the Americans bury decently their own car industry? Isn't that worth a minute of silence?
Font variation can give weird things at times. Plus, if they use the same rendering engine (which is not true, it is customized at least in Apple's case) they use different versions.
This is my take on it. And it is why you can customize the text inside the popup to whatever you like. The point is to let the message through. The wording is up to the site owner.
Why should it matter if browsers are multi-threaded? Is your browser maxing out the one cpu it's on at the moment? I don't know about the rest of you, but if my browser is holding at 99%+ cpu usage, historically that's told me that something is -wrong-, not that I need more cpu power.
Hiding comments in a slashdot story that has more than 400 comments?
If you dare to read the whole thing again, you'll realize it has nothing to do with phones, but everything with smartphone. Nokia is far far away from being number one there, and RIM and Apple are number 1 and 2 respectively.
He also says: "It's not just a buzzword, it's a real problem. Quite possibly it's the problem that could sink the Android platform as a whole.". So, what gives?
The statement I quoted suggests the guy is an elitist.
You quoted the story, which almost always is a distorted and truncated view of a bit of the article. I'd refrain from making suggestions about a quote of a/. story.
I'm not going to RTFA as it'll probably piss me off.
Sure, you're much better off with the distorted and truncated piece of info that doesn't inform you.
While true in theory, how could it feel more accurate when it is in fact less accurate? If the line is not straight, it just means that the screen thought your finger was somewhere, when it was in fact somewhere else.
How does that translate into user feeling is something else, granted, but if it is less accurate, I have a hard time believing that it's going to feel more accurate.
1. Tell people the apocalypse is coming 2. Tell them you're the only one to be able to communicate with the divine, but it cost money. Ask for subsidizes for your "expenses". 3. Profit !!!
But by now everyone should at least have some sense for it, especially policy makers. At this point, it's like saying you don't understand these "horseless carriage" things, and that you should be required to feed them once a day.
Fear is a great motivation. You will overcome any sort of logical explanation with it in mind...
But helping the artistic community from sinking because of pirates should be a benefit for the population. The fact that it does not help them is incidental here.
No don't want spend any time at the prison, but I do benefit (use) from them. The prison keeps the bad guys contianed so they don't harm me. These subsities for artist who's music I DON'T pirate so I don't want to pay for!
Taxes on CDs are supposed to keep the music industry afloat. It is supposed to be a benefit for all (or most)
What I would like to know is how much of that tax money ends up in the hands of the artist it is collected for????
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To be honest, greasemonkey is the equivalent of a spam filter. Without it, you're drowned by stupid apps updates you don't give a damn about. And facebook become unusable and utter crap.
So let them disable whatever and shoot themselves in the foot. I won't drop a tear when that happens.
Personally, I can't type three consecutive letters on the iPod Touch or an iPhone without screwing it up. But I can burn through text like a sonofabitch with my Blackberry.
Funny, it's the exact opposite for me. Maybe it's because you're used to your BB an I'm used to my iPhone?
Really this typing test is a poor joke. I'd bet a lot that his primary phone is the one having the better score. Guess why....
To be absolutely fair, most "heavy" pages such as slashdot involves several dozens of http queries leading the total weight of the http headers being transmitted to well over 10KB. On an edge connection, it *is* painful.
For sure, it is nothing compared to the rest of the crap being downloaded, but still!
Precisely!
Nobody cares to know if Apple makes it for the greater good or the greater evil. I'm very happy with no flash on my Phone. I barely installed flash on my Linux, and even then, just to watch Youtube videos. On the iPhone, it is built in, so I don't need flash.
If Apple could push by 0.01% Adobe off the cliff, I'd be eternally grateful to Steve the Almighty ;-)
And HTML5+CSS3 is clearly showing great promises, judging by all the sites that now use it, at least in their mobile version. Less images, less crap for the same result, only lighter and faster. The only hurdle to a broad adoption if Internet Explorer, as usual. No doubt they'll support it when they realize that it is catching up on HTML4, and no doubt they'll realize that very late. Again, as usual.
So GM went under and nobody talked about it. Now Toyota has a massive recall and all about GM is forgotten. Instead of criticizing foreign car makers (even if they deserve it), can the Americans bury decently their own car industry? Isn't that worth a minute of silence?
Wouldn't it be easier to ban children directly?
I would suggest to stop feeding the troll...
That said, "No cube can be solved in fewer moves than it took to set it up" is just plain wrong when you think about it for more than a second.
Font variation can give weird things at times. Plus, if they use the same rendering engine (which is not true, it is customized at least in Apple's case) they use different versions.
This is my take on it. And it is why you can customize the text inside the popup to whatever you like. The point is to let the message through. The wording is up to the site owner.
Well, this is why I did set up the Internet Explorer Awareness Initiative.
IE6 is mandatory as it is still in use by more than 5% of our audience. But warning them gently is one option to try and push the users to upgrade !
Why should it matter if browsers are multi-threaded? Is your browser maxing out the one cpu it's on at the moment? I don't know about the rest of you, but if my browser is holding at 99%+ cpu usage, historically that's told me that something is -wrong-, not that I need more cpu power.
Hiding comments in a slashdot story that has more than 400 comments?
I stand corrected. Thanks for the info.
I must have skipped a couple of refresh cycles on my main brain memory, and some stuff looks like it's been garbled. And I knew this article...
If you dare to read the whole thing again, you'll realize it has nothing to do with phones, but everything with smartphone. Nokia is far far away from being number one there, and RIM and Apple are number 1 and 2 respectively.
One solution: The IE Awareness Initiative !!
He also says: "It's not just a buzzword, it's a real problem. Quite possibly it's the problem that could sink the Android platform as a whole.". So, what gives?
More evidence that opensource=fewerbugs?
After reading the article, no it is not.
The statement I quoted suggests the guy is an elitist.
You quoted the story, which almost always is a distorted and truncated view of a bit of the article. I'd refrain from making suggestions about a quote of a /. story.
I'm not going to RTFA as it'll probably piss me off.
Sure, you're much better off with the distorted and truncated piece of info that doesn't inform you.
No wonder Microsoft hates open source so much.
Huh... How did you slip MS in there?
Is this guy primarily an MS dev?
Nope, it doesn't look like he is.
While true in theory, how could it feel more accurate when it is in fact less accurate? If the line is not straight, it just means that the screen thought your finger was somewhere, when it was in fact somewhere else.
How does that translate into user feeling is something else, granted, but if it is less accurate, I have a hard time believing that it's going to feel more accurate.
Read TFA again. Apart from the debugging humor, the rest is real.
Finally, FINALLY! We have the 2nd item!!!
1. Tell people the apocalypse is coming
2. Tell them you're the only one to be able to communicate with the divine, but it cost money. Ask for subsidizes for your "expenses".
3. Profit !!!
I'm off to the USPTO this minute!
Not this week-end then!
But by now everyone should at least have some sense for it, especially policy makers. At this point, it's like saying you don't understand these "horseless carriage" things, and that you should be required to feed them once a day.
Fear is a great motivation. You will overcome any sort of logical explanation with it in mind...
But helping the artistic community from sinking because of pirates should be a benefit for the population. The fact that it does not help them is incidental here.
No don't want spend any time at the prison, but I do benefit (use) from them. The prison keeps the bad guys contianed so they don't harm me. These subsities for artist who's music I DON'T pirate so I don't want to pay for!
Taxes on CDs are supposed to keep the music industry afloat. It is supposed to be a benefit for all (or most)
What I would like to know is how much of that tax money ends up in the hands of the artist it is collected for????
What makes you think any of it does?
Also, the tax is only on music CDRs, not all CDRs.
In France, every media is taxed: CDRs, DVDRs, SD cards, hard drives, mp3 players, phones, etc....
Oh well, the only thing we can say (as french citizens) is that we're sorry our government is so stupid to pave wrong ways for others to follow.
On the other hand, we're not alone in this regard.