The problem involved determining the minimum number of distinct distances between any finite set of points in a plane
So will this assist me in traversing a crowded pub more effeciently to get me more quickly to a well-defined set of interesting girls, according to my parameters?
Huh? I haven't any problems with the quality. Has anyone in actually asked for "better than CD quality"? Can users typically hear a difference? Are users ready to spend more time and bandwidth on downloading "better than CD quality" music?
Let's spend the effort on streaming music support instead. A Spotify alternative with the iTunes catalog would be nice. And actually useful.
In that case, MS has failed beyond belief
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Despite all the evil MS may represent, I'm sure MS don't want to kill Nokia. They clearly want to use them as a leverage for WP7 market penetration. However, the Nokia shareholders seem to be less than impressed to go from an independent company - to be designing and packaging hardware. What has Nokia stock dropped by by now? Last I heard was -14% with many leaving the company. I'm not surprised - I'd feel the same if I went from being a software developer to someone writing marketing material and trying to think up designs for someone elses product, and even have to tell everyone that it's the best software ever, after having dropped my own.
It's humiliation, that's all it is. Pure humiliation for Nokia...
Like accelerating the version number major releases suddenly makes the release cycle better. More bugs?
I don't think so, and I don't think they'll rush the features. To make that equation work, I assume each major release will be less major than before. Like with Google Chrome. Why do that? Marketing? No, I think it's to stay more current with the latest web standards. In today's web, waiting a year for each major release will lead you to hopelessly fall behind. This is the reasoning to why Google are now doing this anyway (and of course, I'm sure they don't mind catching up with IE's version numbers either).
I too prefer Firefox because I don't trust Google. Chrome sends so much data to Google (every keystroke that you type into OmniBar) and I prefer not to give Google any of my data. Firefox has no such issues.
Hmm... Firefox also sends every keystroke you type into its search box to Google. It does this to offer search suggestions, for the same reason Google Chrome does it. Or Google.com, or the regional searches.
In both Firefox and Chrome, this behavior can be disabled.
For "persistent https", I think you have to enable the new option in Account Settings -> Account Security.
I saw that one in a screenshot, but that option doesn't seem to be rolled out here yet, although I am able to manually type in "https://" in front of URL's. However, as you say, that only leads to using https temporarily.
It let me say "a møøse once bit my sister", but I couldn't quote WarGames on "How about a nice game of chess?" and follow it up with a black knight (U+265E).:-(
As the subject as for me. I get my photos from my camera onto my laptop, and then semi-regularly sync them with Time Machine to an external drive of 500 GB. Automatically starts backing up as I connect the drive, which is important to me -- if it's not convenient enough, I'm not going to use it.
Unfortunately, my laptop's drive is "only" 250 GB large and it's one day going to fill up. It's actually taken surprisingly long despite me photographing mostly in 12 MP RAW, but when it do happen, I guess I'll move to a larger hard drive as my primary drive and (surprise!) a larger backup drive. I'll of course still keep my old drives - no point in needlessly throwing away redundancy even if they don't offer complete redundancy.
I think that'll do for me for now. Won't help much against burglary or extreme fires where I won't have time to get out and carry a backup drive with me, but I guess that's my limit then. If I were to go further, I think I'd have looked at online storage despite the storage needs. It's getting cheap today with Amazon S3 and all the services that make use of that as a back-end. You may also wish to look at Google Docs. Stores any file format (including encrypted file archives *hint*), 200 GB there is $50/yr ( http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39567 ).
So Microsoft won't tell their users who have problems WHICH software is offending here? Seriously? I'm sure their affected WP7 users just love being denied that information while paying AT&T the bills for their nightly "activities" due to a "third party service". At least they'd be able to turn it off while waiting for a fix if they knew which software caused the problems.
I wish that would have been left as an extension. Why couldn't it have been one? It's a power user feature, and now there are tons of bugs to fix because of it.
I wish him good luck in a recovery and that it's nothing serious, although I have a feeling he won't be back in his former position once again this time, after the cancer treatment and liver transplant. I don't think he looked to be in the same shape as after the past medical absence, and energy is exactly what a CEO needs to lead a company of this size, and at the pace of the IT industry.:-/ I unfortunately have little doubt in that this is related to his past medical struggles.
But it's right there on the app install warning page. FB isn't silently doing this. "THIS APPLICATION WILL COLLECT YOUR MOBILE PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS."
and so on...
If you are the kind of user that ignores warnings, you have much bigger problems than this on your hands.
Clueless people like the guy in the Twitter screenshot setting his phone number to the FB customer support is an idiot. Why? Just. Do. Not. Approve.
Since it's not a bug in the typical meaning of that word, but actual missing support of a number of features, I'm pretty sure MS is aware of them and has intentionally postponed them for IE 10 or later.
I won't bother spreading these news for now, since IE apologists (yes, they exist) will defend themselves by saying that IE hasn't gone RTM yet, and is expected to reach RC soon. So that features may be missing. I won't bother saying how ridiculous it is to think that MS will implement major HTML5 features to support HTML5 Canvas well in a *release candidate* since these are, again, IE apologists, of all kinds of apologists.
But I expect a crapstorm to be unleashed once this one goes final. MS shouldn't have been so bold and build up expectations so much. They've made it sound like they will support HTML5 in its entirety, except for disputed parts of the standard not yet finalized.
and I fear this whole “app” craze is going to put us back in the “dark ages”.
On the other hand, since we're going this direction and the users like it, that means there is a widespread problem with the traditional way of thinking and marketing software.
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Because despite the sources, it was deemed to consume too much hard drive space on the Wikipedia servers?
The problem involved determining the minimum number of distinct distances between any finite set of points in a plane
So will this assist me in traversing a crowded pub more effeciently to get me more quickly to a well-defined set of interesting girls, according to my parameters?
Huh? I haven't any problems with the quality. Has anyone in actually asked for "better than CD quality"? Can users typically hear a difference? Are users ready to spend more time and bandwidth on downloading "better than CD quality" music?
Let's spend the effort on streaming music support instead. A Spotify alternative with the iTunes catalog would be nice. And actually useful.
If MS not even essentially buying a company in a coup where, conveniently for MS, an ex-Microsoftie replaces their former boss will assist MS in competing with Google and Apple, and instead ends up killing the company, MS has failed in the mobile industry like few others. If that won't cause Ballmer to have to leave, I don't know if anything will.
Despite all the evil MS may represent, I'm sure MS don't want to kill Nokia. They clearly want to use them as a leverage for WP7 market penetration. However, the Nokia shareholders seem to be less than impressed to go from an independent company - to be designing and packaging hardware. What has Nokia stock dropped by by now? Last I heard was -14% with many leaving the company. I'm not surprised - I'd feel the same if I went from being a software developer to someone writing marketing material and trying to think up designs for someone elses product, and even have to tell everyone that it's the best software ever, after having dropped my own.
It's humiliation, that's all it is. Pure humiliation for Nokia...
Like accelerating the version number major releases suddenly makes the release cycle better. More bugs?
I don't think so, and I don't think they'll rush the features. To make that equation work, I assume each major release will be less major than before. Like with Google Chrome. Why do that? Marketing? No, I think it's to stay more current with the latest web standards. In today's web, waiting a year for each major release will lead you to hopelessly fall behind. This is the reasoning to why Google are now doing this anyway (and of course, I'm sure they don't mind catching up with IE's version numbers either).
Someone has caught the chromoenza!
I too prefer Firefox because I don't trust Google. Chrome sends so much data to Google (every keystroke that you type into OmniBar) and I prefer not to give Google any of my data. Firefox has no such issues.
Hmm... Firefox also sends every keystroke you type into its search box to Google. It does this to offer search suggestions, for the same reason Google Chrome does it. Or Google.com, or the regional searches.
In both Firefox and Chrome, this behavior can be disabled.
For "persistent https", I think you have to enable the new option in Account Settings -> Account Security.
I saw that one in a screenshot, but that option doesn't seem to be rolled out here yet, although I am able to manually type in "https://" in front of URL's. However, as you say, that only leads to using https temporarily.
It let me say "a møøse once bit my sister", but I couldn't quote WarGames on "How about a nice game of chess?" and follow it up with a black knight (U+265E). :-(
That the mod has to change name to avoid infringing on some trademark? Change art assets to avoid WoW infringement?
I mean, they never withdrew what they said first, just that they like development to continue.
If they mean that it's OK to use WoW art and music as public domain assets, that'd be news and unique for coming from Blizzard.
As the subject as for me. I get my photos from my camera onto my laptop, and then semi-regularly sync them with Time Machine to an external drive of 500 GB. Automatically starts backing up as I connect the drive, which is important to me -- if it's not convenient enough, I'm not going to use it.
Unfortunately, my laptop's drive is "only" 250 GB large and it's one day going to fill up. It's actually taken surprisingly long despite me photographing mostly in 12 MP RAW, but when it do happen, I guess I'll move to a larger hard drive as my primary drive and (surprise!) a larger backup drive. I'll of course still keep my old drives - no point in needlessly throwing away redundancy even if they don't offer complete redundancy.
I think that'll do for me for now. Won't help much against burglary or extreme fires where I won't have time to get out and carry a backup drive with me, but I guess that's my limit then. If I were to go further, I think I'd have looked at online storage despite the storage needs. It's getting cheap today with Amazon S3 and all the services that make use of that as a back-end. You may also wish to look at Google Docs. Stores any file format (including encrypted file archives *hint*), 200 GB there is $50/yr ( http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39567 ).
So Microsoft won't tell their users who have problems WHICH software is offending here? Seriously? I'm sure their affected WP7 users just love being denied that information while paying AT&T the bills for their nightly "activities" due to a "third party service". At least they'd be able to turn it off while waiting for a fix if they knew which software caused the problems.
I wish that would have been left as an extension. Why couldn't it have been one? It's a power user feature, and now there are tons of bugs to fix because of it.
The Apple A4 in the iPhone 4 is a Cortex A8, and the Apple A5 in the iPhone 5 will be a Cortex A9.
That's what all the rumors are telling, and if this article isn't (I haven't RTFA), it's probably wrong. And confusing.
I was hoping to see this post early. :-)
I wish him good luck in a recovery and that it's nothing serious, although I have a feeling he won't be back in his former position once again this time, after the cancer treatment and liver transplant. I don't think he looked to be in the same shape as after the past medical absence, and energy is exactly what a CEO needs to lead a company of this size, and at the pace of the IT industry. :-/ I unfortunately have little doubt in that this is related to his past medical struggles.
This is a triumph for hideously bad schema
This isn't a relational database. There is no schema. [/matrix]
One of these days, I am going to learn how that can be so efficient and why NoSQL databases are all the rage.
But it's right there on the app install warning page. FB isn't silently doing this.
"THIS APPLICATION WILL COLLECT YOUR MOBILE PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS."
and so on...
If you are the kind of user that ignores warnings, you have much bigger problems than this on your hands.
Clueless people like the guy in the Twitter screenshot setting his phone number to the FB customer support is an idiot. Why? Just. Do. Not. Approve.
Since it's not a bug in the typical meaning of that word, but actual missing support of a number of features, I'm pretty sure MS is aware of them and has intentionally postponed them for IE 10 or later.
I won't bother spreading these news for now, since IE apologists (yes, they exist) will defend themselves by saying that IE hasn't gone RTM yet, and is expected to reach RC soon. So that features may be missing. I won't bother saying how ridiculous it is to think that MS will implement major HTML5 features to support HTML5 Canvas well in a *release candidate* since these are, again, IE apologists, of all kinds of apologists.
But I expect a crapstorm to be unleashed once this one goes final. MS shouldn't have been so bold and build up expectations so much. They've made it sound like they will support HTML5 in its entirety, except for disputed parts of the standard not yet finalized.
With "Panorama" aka "Tab Candy" aka "Bolted on tab management feature that only power users need", I'm not so sure. :-(
and I fear this whole “app” craze is going to put us back in the “dark ages”.
On the other hand, since we're going this direction and the users like it, that means there is a widespread problem with the traditional way of thinking and marketing software.
RARRR WTF, so much FUD blah blah blah... (continue raging in the way that the submitter is hoping for)
Wow, since 2005. Never forget, indeed.
Funny comment to make after Opera kindly endorses Google and open codecs (= not against this, rather the contrary).
Against everything and everyone? Is h.264 really that big?