The infamous "every-tab white-out" that breaks the browser session across all tabs and windows is a pretty serious issue IMO, even though it's a bit of an edge case. Google acknowledged this once, and essentially said "fuck off and use a different browser if you care about such an issue that never affects anyone" in somewhat more placated, but not really nicer terms.
I'm still using an extension from 3.0 that works just fine in the latest Firefox. While there are actual architectural problems that break old extensions when a new revision comes out, the majority of compatibility 'issues' rest with that minor little version number in the XPI that should be ignored by default, but isn't.
They ignore my update settings, hell, all of my settings when they feel it's convenient. They force new revisions upon me because, obviously if I'm using an older version I'm some old bitty and should be forced to upgrade.
And of course, if that somehow fails to work, they have to nag me day and night until they finally get around to forcing an update clandestinely.
Seems like a perfect fit for the classic MS ecosystem.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM. How's a TV manufacturer supposed to get more money if people aren't buying new TVs/their current doesn't have planned obsolescence? Then there's that pesky "internet" that's killing the cable cash cow.
Firefox still doesn't desegregate tabs properly like Chrome does. As in, if you remove a tab from a windows to form its own new window, Chrome does it seamlessly while Firefox sort of trudges along. It's better than it used to be, when it would just refresh the whole bloody page, but it's still pretty mediocre. Plugins like Flash also lose orientation if you do so from a non-fullscreen window while they're operating. That's a big usability glitch with Firefox.
They also seem to be getting the "white page only rendering" glitch that Chrome has after a couple hundred tabs in multiple windows, wherein each tab contains a large amount of data or images. It's one of the main reasons I switched back to Firefox, and now a reason I'll have to jump to another browser as it gets worse with each version release.
The 'release' schedule didn't really change. Instead of being 4.0.1 and 4.0.2... to the latest coming version (4.1.1) they just started incrementing whole numbers.
Don't allow telecoms to buy other telecoms. Allow them to bid for the assets if no suitable replacement is found for a floundering agency, sure. But no mergers or takeovers.
In the United States, as was somewhat recently decided by the Supreme Court, a TOS, EULA or contractual agreement for services/products provided can and does override any consumer protections or laws it desires so long as it's stated in the agreement; That is, if you sign it, and it says that they never have to actually provide a service, then they don't have to provide the service, EOD.
Intel is pushing forward because it's beneficial to them at the moment not to rest on their laurels. AMD is underperforming, yes, but not so much that Intel is given any real leeway to slack off; That is to say, if the i5/i7 lines were only a 5% increase over C2D performance for 1/3 higher price, AMD would have destroyed them, so while AMD hasn't been "real" competition for Intel for quite some time now, they've been good enough to keep the industry trudging along.
If AMD outright left the market, there would be absolutely no incentive or real immediate threat necessitating actual improvements until desktop ARM chips actually started getting established.
Actually, copyright laws outright make this entirely illegal; Canada is a bit stricter on it than the US (the limit is around 17 pages allowed to be photocopied or scanned if the book is educational; 10 if it's, say, a novel) but there's still a fine copying limit.
No, really. Well, them and the Sales and Marketing departments, combined with general PHB syndrome permeating all of the publishers' management and general employee base.
"X people pirated our book! There's X seeds on a torrent and it's been up for Y days, thus there's X*Y people pirating our book instead of buying! Of course that's why it sold poorly!" followed by "Our new DRM is/will be impenetrable and is the perfect choice for any author/publisher to use!" and a general self-feeding cycle.
I think it's around for the same reason that Adobe's official Flash-to-iOS and Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tools and tutorials are.
They want to reposition themselves in the ecosystem such that they'll still have a slice of the pie if/when their primary investment (the actual BlackBerry) fades into obscurity or irrelevance. Even if this means accelerating that slide.
It's transitional (or rather, I assume, coexistent) software for businesses that are already using RIM's offerings. A gamble to keep them sort of under their same umbrella under the guise of "it's part of our overall cohesive ecosystem so it'll work better than option X."
But is not a good replacement for e-mail entirely.
The goal of a chat program or social message board is to communicate in a quick, instant and off-and-on manner. To get a message across or make a quick inquiry about a subject, and get a quick response.
While it's more than possible to punch through full tutorials and make backups of chat conversations, it's certainly cumbersome compared to the relatively longer shelf life and easy retrieval format of e-mails.
Eliminating the internal e-mail system entirely just seems brash.
You can get the full Kobo/Touch source code if you e-mail their support staff and wait two to four weeks. And then you can't really do jack-squat with it. Which is infuriating because the features most people want to steal from the Kindle are amazingly easy to implement in the Qt environment the Kobo uses.
I certainly learned some very, very basic facets of engineering in elementary school science classes. Sometimes Math, through the problem sets, though that was quite some time ago and I couldn't really delve into an example.
So, yes, that's actually a good idea.
The key behind studying CS is twofold; first, they learn the general background to how one of the most influential components of everyday life works, and two, they gain practical problem solving skills.
His point was that the syntax for various languages favors language-specific mechanisms and practicalities, whereas pseudocode does not (strictly).
That is to say, you're actually agreeing with him; each language has various syntax caveats that exist to serve a particular strength of the language rather than a programming paradigm directly, and thus there's pitfalls with each and pseudocode is a good answer due to flexibility, portability and the general idea of getting an idea across to the reader.
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At least Microsoft will actually tell you that they're trying to rip you off. Sony pretends like they're doing you a favor.
They're spending it on not fixing bugs that have been reported since version 2.
The infamous "every-tab white-out" that breaks the browser session across all tabs and windows is a pretty serious issue IMO, even though it's a bit of an edge case. Google acknowledged this once, and essentially said "fuck off and use a different browser if you care about such an issue that never affects anyone" in somewhat more placated, but not really nicer terms.
I'm still using an extension from 3.0 that works just fine in the latest Firefox. While there are actual architectural problems that break old extensions when a new revision comes out, the majority of compatibility 'issues' rest with that minor little version number in the XPI that should be ignored by default, but isn't.
They ignore my update settings, hell, all of my settings when they feel it's convenient. They force new revisions upon me because, obviously if I'm using an older version I'm some old bitty and should be forced to upgrade.
And of course, if that somehow fails to work, they have to nag me day and night until they finally get around to forcing an update clandestinely.
Seems like a perfect fit for the classic MS ecosystem.
Nothing.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
How's a TV manufacturer supposed to get more money if people aren't buying new TVs/their current doesn't have planned obsolescence?
Then there's that pesky "internet" that's killing the cable cash cow.
If you're the only game in town and people view you as necessary, they will sacrifice and pay.
Report them to a newspaper and tech sites or something. Business papers, even.
Firefox still doesn't desegregate tabs properly like Chrome does.
As in, if you remove a tab from a windows to form its own new window, Chrome does it seamlessly while Firefox sort of trudges along.
It's better than it used to be, when it would just refresh the whole bloody page, but it's still pretty mediocre.
Plugins like Flash also lose orientation if you do so from a non-fullscreen window while they're operating. That's a big usability glitch with Firefox.
They also seem to be getting the "white page only rendering" glitch that Chrome has after a couple hundred tabs in multiple windows, wherein each tab contains a large amount of data or images. It's one of the main reasons I switched back to Firefox, and now a reason I'll have to jump to another browser as it gets worse with each version release.
The 'release' schedule didn't really change. Instead of being 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 ... to the latest coming version (4.1.1) they just started incrementing whole numbers.
Because marketing.
Don't allow telecoms to buy other telecoms. Allow them to bid for the assets if no suitable replacement is found for a floundering agency, sure. But no mergers or takeovers.
And you are irrelevant.
And quite frankly, eventually they will cripple or legislate away any alternatives you have.
They don't beat the comparative Intel chips at said tasks anywhere near well enough to justify the heat and cost tradeoffs.
What, blank denial, or the idea that they communicate anything of value?
In the United States, as was somewhat recently decided by the Supreme Court, a TOS, EULA or contractual agreement for services/products provided can and does override any consumer protections or laws it desires so long as it's stated in the agreement;
That is, if you sign it, and it says that they never have to actually provide a service, then they don't have to provide the service, EOD.
"x86" in this context means desktop x86 chips, x86_64 chips and AMD64 chips.
Intel is pushing forward because it's beneficial to them at the moment not to rest on their laurels.
AMD is underperforming, yes, but not so much that Intel is given any real leeway to slack off;
That is to say, if the i5/i7 lines were only a 5% increase over C2D performance for 1/3 higher price, AMD would have destroyed them, so while AMD hasn't been "real" competition for Intel for quite some time now, they've been good enough to keep the industry trudging along.
If AMD outright left the market, there would be absolutely no incentive or real immediate threat necessitating actual improvements until desktop ARM chips actually started getting established.
Actually, copyright laws outright make this entirely illegal; Canada is a bit stricter on it than the US (the limit is around 17 pages allowed to be photocopied or scanned if the book is educational; 10 if it's, say, a novel) but there's still a fine copying limit.
No, really.
Well, them and the Sales and Marketing departments, combined with general PHB syndrome permeating all of the publishers' management and general employee base.
"X people pirated our book! There's X seeds on a torrent and it's been up for Y days, thus there's X*Y people pirating our book instead of buying! Of course that's why it sold poorly!" followed by "Our new DRM is/will be impenetrable and is the perfect choice for any author/publisher to use!" and a general self-feeding cycle.
I think it's around for the same reason that Adobe's official Flash-to-iOS and Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tools and tutorials are.
They want to reposition themselves in the ecosystem such that they'll still have a slice of the pie if/when their primary investment (the actual BlackBerry) fades into obscurity or irrelevance.
Even if this means accelerating that slide.
It's transitional (or rather, I assume, coexistent) software for businesses that are already using RIM's offerings. A gamble to keep them sort of under their same umbrella under the guise of "it's part of our overall cohesive ecosystem so it'll work better than option X."
But is not a good replacement for e-mail entirely.
The goal of a chat program or social message board is to communicate in a quick, instant and off-and-on manner. To get a message across or make a quick inquiry about a subject, and get a quick response.
While it's more than possible to punch through full tutorials and make backups of chat conversations, it's certainly cumbersome compared to the relatively longer shelf life and easy retrieval format of e-mails.
Eliminating the internal e-mail system entirely just seems brash.
You can get the full Kobo/Touch source code if you e-mail their support staff and wait two to four weeks.
And then you can't really do jack-squat with it.
Which is infuriating because the features most people want to steal from the Kindle are amazingly easy to implement in the Qt environment the Kobo uses.
I certainly learned some very, very basic facets of engineering in elementary school science classes. Sometimes Math, through the problem sets, though that was quite some time ago and I couldn't really delve into an example.
So, yes, that's actually a good idea.
The key behind studying CS is twofold; first, they learn the general background to how one of the most influential components of everyday life works, and two, they gain practical problem solving skills.
His point was that the syntax for various languages favors language-specific mechanisms and practicalities, whereas pseudocode does not (strictly).
That is to say, you're actually agreeing with him; each language has various syntax caveats that exist to serve a particular strength of the language rather than a programming paradigm directly, and thus there's pitfalls with each and pseudocode is a good answer due to flexibility, portability and the general idea of getting an idea across to the reader.