When did nerds stop saying "wow, technically impressive" and start saying "ooh, shiny?"
The same geeks never stopped or started.
There's the Linux crowd who prefer openness and always did, believing that the best way to stay on the technological frontier and staying out of bueracracy is to stay open and close to the community.
And then there's the Apple crowd who prefer coherence and functionality whatever the cost. It's not as important to those to always do the very latest hip stuff technology-wise, but the stuff should always work and it should be an ultra-smooth experience that may very well be the result of an iron fist. They also agree with the iron fist's philosophy in design, minimalism, and ease-of-use. There's no reality distortion field. That's an annoying myth. There's an agreement in philosophy though, a philosophy that is miles away both the Linux one and the Windows one.
And then there's Windows. Windows is neither open, on the technological edge, coherent, or well-engineered. So there's no surprise here that it's bashed from both sides.
I don't think many Linux users jump ship to Apple or vice versa though, as you seem to believe.
Between this, the Piratebay farce and the victories for far-right parties, it's now clear that Sweden is not the "neutral" political paradise it once was.
Wait a minute here... Sweden isn't revealing their reasons because this is Julian Assange -- Sweden aren't revealing the reasons because they never do in these cases. If Assange wants to however, it's up to him. It's to protect his privacy. On that topic, you won't hear doctors going into depth in an operation either, but feel free to ask the patient...
This guy should have checked out Scrivener. It's not focusing on layout and stuff like that, but useful features that keeps a larger work (novel or other things) together. Keeping track of your loose ends with a storyboard feature and much more. There are more tools like this too.
Actually, you can run the entire ecosystem of Windows apps on it! Isn't it awesome, and that with an OS you're used to!
Yes, it looks good on paper. Until you start mispressing your finger on a close widget instead of maximize, or try to resize a window to make it smaller and give room for another window, and accidentally missing the 5 pixel window border and clicking to give a completely unrelated app underneath focus.
Using Windows 7 on a touch device is, from my experience, resulting in approximately 10.8 FPM. Frustrations per Minute.
Repackaging WinMo or Win7 into an iPad like form factor will not result in success
This is a very good point. I've actually used Windows 7 on a tablet PC, yes, complete with touch screen. It's horrible!
Imagine having to do window management on a device like that, stuff you don't even have to bother about on iOS or Android OS. Imagine an OS where lots of apps aren't designed for e.g. changed dpi settings (to at least be able to put your thumb on a maximize widget and not hit the restore widget!) and have their UI's crap out completely at that. Imagine how no text box in the OS will automatically pop up a virtual keyboard, and that the built-in Windows 7 virtual keyboard that's there consumes a third of the entire display on a 1024x600 touch screen. It's like how polished Windows XP 64-bit is for 64-bit apps. That's where Windows 7 is today, at best. They haven't even thought about how you're supposed to *use* Windows 7 as a touch OS yet, it's just a cobbled together mess of mouse interfaces, touch-oriented keyboards, small widgets, and API's for multi-touch features, for the 0.32% that use such devices on Windows 7. And they're already talking of a HP Slate this christmas. This will risk ending up a huge disappointment for HP.
Google wins in their test! (that curiously heavily exploit recursion and other good parts of the V8 engine)
Microsoft wins in their tests! (that curiously heavily test only DirectX acceleration)
... and now, Firefox wins in their test! (which has yet to be disassembled to reveal how they dodge Opera and Chrome from winning, when they use to in all others, including independent tests like Peacekeeper)
How about IE performance? Too bad to even mention?
I started it on the latest IE 9 Preview, but it seems like it's taking at least around 3-4 times as long time to finish as Chrome or Firefox, so I aborted it.:-(
That's ages in this business! If MS is talking about next-generation features in this tablet, well, that's what the competition will offer by then as well. What happened three years ago? Well, we saw the first pictures of the iPhone. Yeah, I'm talking about the iPhone "1".
If MS is giving these timeframes, it seems to just be about wanting to create some buzz and focus on Microsoft, rather than them willing to discuss product releases.
Ubuntu is a very popular Linux distro, which I can only assume is pulling quite a bit of interest to Linux. A fraction of these new Linux users are also logically speaking developers. And these would then be potential Linux contributors.
I have a hard time seeing how spending a lot of effort into making the most popular desktop Linux distro on the market could be a bad thing even when going as specific as Linux contributions. Developers are just a subset of users! Any successful distro is a good distro for Linux, and heck, it's not even important to be successful. That's kind of what this whole open OS is about. Play around and have fun. If you're doing well too, well, that's a nice bonus for Linux!
The two last links have nothing to do with JaegerMonkey (and only Direct2D + HTML5 Audio), so they are not links giving on overview of this feature. They discuss the latest beta release, not the merge with JaegerMonkey on the trunk / nightly builds.
Another way to look at the study is that iPhone owners are insufferable idiots not prepared to make the compromises necessary to stay in a long term relationship, hence the greater number of "partners".
Either way I hope they enjoy their HPV induced cervical cancer and other sexually transmitted diseases.
You don't have many nice words to say to iPhone users, do you?
There is such a trend? I thought it was the opposite. Ever raising bars for triple-A games making them push out new game no more often than every three years or so, not counting minor expansion sets.
The microsoft software stack is designed so that service providers can siphon money off at the point of delivery. Antivirus is a good example. Yeah we sold you an OS but you need this extra thing to make it secure, didn't you know that?
No, it's not because MS offers a free antivirus now, that ranks far ahead of McAffee and others according to a recent test by AV Comparatives.
Truer words haven't been spoken! I am filled with jubilant delight to hear that the Compiz team could exploit the wildly successful merge of the object-oriented and functional programming paradigms of C++!
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When did nerds stop saying "wow, technically impressive" and start saying "ooh, shiny?"
The same geeks never stopped or started.
There's the Linux crowd who prefer openness and always did, believing that the best way to stay on the technological frontier and staying out of bueracracy is to stay open and close to the community.
And then there's the Apple crowd who prefer coherence and functionality whatever the cost. It's not as important to those to always do the very latest hip stuff technology-wise, but the stuff should always work and it should be an ultra-smooth experience that may very well be the result of an iron fist. They also agree with the iron fist's philosophy in design, minimalism, and ease-of-use. There's no reality distortion field. That's an annoying myth. There's an agreement in philosophy though, a philosophy that is miles away both the Linux one and the Windows one.
And then there's Windows. Windows is neither open, on the technological edge, coherent, or well-engineered. So there's no surprise here that it's bashed from both sides.
I don't think many Linux users jump ship to Apple or vice versa though, as you seem to believe.
Between this, the Piratebay farce and the victories for far-right parties, it's now clear that Sweden is not the "neutral" political paradise it once was.
Wait a minute here... Sweden isn't revealing their reasons because this is Julian Assange -- Sweden aren't revealing the reasons because they never do in these cases. If Assange wants to however, it's up to him. It's to protect his privacy. On that topic, you won't hear doctors going into depth in an operation either, but feel free to ask the patient...
It's not different, so that part is actually a non-story.
These decisions are always secret here, no matter how benign, but if Assange want to speak up, it's up to him.
I think it's just there to protect his privacy. Like if he had been subject to a medical operation or something.
It's the first OS X / Mac event in a while, with strong hints it's about an upcoming version.
I wonder how the milky way is *maybe* more square-like is a better story here. :p
Honestly, it was quite a while since Apple had an event like this.
This guy should have checked out Scrivener. It's not focusing on layout and stuff like that, but useful features that keeps a larger work (novel or other things) together. Keeping track of your loose ends with a storyboard feature and much more. There are more tools like this too.
Well this certainly makes it much more easier to move your nonsense-data around, but how long untill all the data is available on piratebay?
Install the Facebook application "Access others private profiles" and give it full access rights to your account, I heard that'll do the trick!
You can easily find a MacBook Pro 15" with 1680x1050. But they complain those are expensive... :p
there's a physical button for alt-control-delete
Hahaha! This is comedy gold right there. :D
The eternal heritage of Windows.
Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
The awkwardness from decades of backwards compatibility embodied in a keyboard salute.
Actually, you can run the entire ecosystem of Windows apps on it! Isn't it awesome, and that with an OS you're used to!
Yes, it looks good on paper. Until you start mispressing your finger on a close widget instead of maximize, or try to resize a window to make it smaller and give room for another window, and accidentally missing the 5 pixel window border and clicking to give a completely unrelated app underneath focus.
Using Windows 7 on a touch device is, from my experience, resulting in approximately 10.8 FPM. Frustrations per Minute.
Repackaging WinMo or Win7 into an iPad like form factor will not result in success
This is a very good point. I've actually used Windows 7 on a tablet PC, yes, complete with touch screen. It's horrible!
Imagine having to do window management on a device like that, stuff you don't even have to bother about on iOS or Android OS. Imagine an OS where lots of apps aren't designed for e.g. changed dpi settings (to at least be able to put your thumb on a maximize widget and not hit the restore widget!) and have their UI's crap out completely at that. Imagine how no text box in the OS will automatically pop up a virtual keyboard, and that the built-in Windows 7 virtual keyboard that's there consumes a third of the entire display on a 1024x600 touch screen. It's like how polished Windows XP 64-bit is for 64-bit apps. That's where Windows 7 is today, at best. They haven't even thought about how you're supposed to *use* Windows 7 as a touch OS yet, it's just a cobbled together mess of mouse interfaces, touch-oriented keyboards, small widgets, and API's for multi-touch features, for the 0.32% that use such devices on Windows 7. And they're already talking of a HP Slate this christmas. This will risk ending up a huge disappointment for HP.
FFFFFUUUUUUUUU...
I just had a rage guy moment here. >:-(
It doesn't even contain any code, being a markup language? It's not even Turing complete.
[italic attribute="question"]Is this invented markup language of mine also vulnerable?[/italic]
*shrug*
Here:
http://www.cafepress.co.uk/HDCP
Based on this:
http://jedsmith.org/hdcp/ (see the bottom for info on how it should be interpreted)
Google wins in their test! (that curiously heavily exploit recursion and other good parts of the V8 engine)
Microsoft wins in their tests! (that curiously heavily test only DirectX acceleration)
How about IE performance? Too bad to even mention?
I started it on the latest IE 9 Preview, but it seems like it's taking at least around 3-4 times as long time to finish as Chrome or Firefox, so I aborted it. :-(
That's ages in this business! If MS is talking about next-generation features in this tablet, well, that's what the competition will offer by then as well. What happened three years ago? Well, we saw the first pictures of the iPhone. Yeah, I'm talking about the iPhone "1".
If MS is giving these timeframes, it seems to just be about wanting to create some buzz and focus on Microsoft, rather than them willing to discuss product releases.
Ubuntu is a very popular Linux distro, which I can only assume is pulling quite a bit of interest to Linux. A fraction of these new Linux users are also logically speaking developers. And these would then be potential Linux contributors.
I have a hard time seeing how spending a lot of effort into making the most popular desktop Linux distro on the market could be a bad thing even when going as specific as Linux contributions. Developers are just a subset of users! Any successful distro is a good distro for Linux, and heck, it's not even important to be successful. That's kind of what this whole open OS is about. Play around and have fun. If you're doing well too, well, that's a nice bonus for Linux!
And Ubuntu is among those that are doing well.
The two last links have nothing to do with JaegerMonkey (and only Direct2D + HTML5 Audio), so they are not links giving on overview of this feature. They discuss the latest beta release, not the merge with JaegerMonkey on the trunk / nightly builds.
> comment-out or "noauto" the problem filesystem in fstab.
I don't intend to be a troll, but this is why I'm on a Mac and OS X as my personally perferred desktop *nix system. :-/
Seriously - why is this a bug in 10.04? Shouldn't their QA process catch these things? Like, in 2005?
My MacBook had nothing of the like. It just didn't.
Yep, and same goes for bloatware and trialware that doesn't belong to Windows.
Actually, there were stickers for my Mac now that I think about it. Free for you to use, but not stuck to the computer.
What a novel idea! Let the user decide!
Another way to look at the study is that iPhone owners are insufferable idiots not prepared to make the compromises necessary to stay in a long term relationship, hence the greater number of "partners".
Either way I hope they enjoy their HPV induced cervical cancer and other sexually transmitted diseases.
You don't have many nice words to say to iPhone users, do you?
There is such a trend? I thought it was the opposite. Ever raising bars for triple-A games making them push out new game no more often than every three years or so, not counting minor expansion sets.
The microsoft software stack is designed so that service providers can siphon money off at the point of delivery. Antivirus is a good example. Yeah we sold you an OS but you need this extra thing to make it secure, didn't you know that?
No, it's not because MS offers a free antivirus now, that ranks far ahead of McAffee and others according to a recent test by AV Comparatives.
Truer words haven't been spoken! I am filled with jubilant delight to hear that the Compiz team could exploit the wildly successful merge of the object-oriented and functional programming paradigms of C++!
I'm excited to learn about more software using this new programming language of the future!