The more I look at the whole changes in OS-UIs lately, the more I get the impression that the whole cross-platform thing got lost it's grip to reality.
Sure I like my tablet, my smartphone, my laptop,... and I live with the smudged display I have on my tablet and my smartphone, since the do not really bother me. Probably because I can easily overlook these smudges, but since I can't overlook them on my normal monitor (or laptop display; or my glasses for that matter), I'm no friend of UIs which seem to be designed for tablets&smartphones but get presented to my as 'new' and 'easy' interfaces for my normal displays. I like the idea of having one back-end, but I also like different frontends for different tools.
-> I get that some designers like their tablets and think that one UI should rule them all, but I don't agree with it.
no not retards, simply 'old'-style linux users,... Simply folks who think they lend a helping hand when they send you a friendly "RTFM" or multiple links instead of simply helping out even is they could help out and solve the problem in a few sentences. They might think that unless you fully understand every detail they didn't help properly and sure, some times you can only explain a problem roughly and tell folks to read the man-page / manual / wiki for more details, simply because: a. the problem can't be explained/solved in a simple matter due to it's complexity or b. you can't explained/solved the problem in a simple matter, but instead of posting the infos and noting that you just posted the infos as a general help and can't help more you ended up posting just the infos and look like an ass to a newcomer -> don't think it's only GDK or linux folks with this bad habit (some audio/video/apple forums/channels/mailing-lists/developers,... are not a bit better), but the qt community is made up of more of a variety of characters than the GDK community and so it often delivers a more friendly vibe.
and without them I'm kind of half-blind, so wearing google glasses really wouldn't be that nice. Sure, I might get a nice info overlay, but the 'resolution/sharpness' of everything else would really go down too far to be comfortable,... -> unless these 'tech-glasses' get some near-/far-sight compensation they are nor really that interesting
that of the 36 Java related bugs, "34 of them (are) exploitable remotely without authentication".
"Java 6 users who use equipment or programs that rely on older versions are SOL unless they sign up for a very expensive support contract, as these patches are for Java 7 only." + "Oracle Java JDK and JRE, versions 5.0u55 and earlier, 6u65 and earlier, 7u45 and earlier" -> Muhahahaha,...
they (politicians) are probably monitored as strong as the president, so probably everything that can be monitored get's monitored,... and that then is their (NSA&Co) reason why nobody should control/restrict the NSA,....
might have been interessting to know which OS the poster is using, since there are a lot of different cl-tools which are available on one but not the other OS
1. goto the airport check for people which take a long distance flight 2. check a few names 3. lookup facebook&co to get an idea whether they live alone or not 4. search the local phone book (or similar) to check where they live 5. drive over to their home and rob the place if no one is there
note: step 1. could be replaced with a static camera step 2.-4. could be replaced with a script
Also monitoring someones home with a static camera (could also be mounted on a drone) should make it really easy to create a general schedule plan for when which people regularly come and go -> no more man power intensive stake outs!:)
Face recognition has so many nice applications, can't imagine anything going really wrong.:D
Installed my mom Kubuntu with LibreOffice, Teamviewer, Skype and she too does not have less trouble with Linux than with Windows. Sure at the beginning it was all a bit confusing, but she adapted a lot faster than I would have thought. Switching from Office 2003 and Windows XP to LibreOffice and Kubuntu did seem to be less of a hassle for here than switching to one of the newer Office Suits and Windows 8.1. Installed Windows on here PC and lent her my laptop with linux mint for a month so she could test both and decide. Yes, both systems were installed with shortcuts to here favorite tools&co, getting her scanner running on Linux was a bit of a hurdle, but worth the effort. -> as long as the package maintainers do not mess up or through out support for here hardware she is probably fine. (now that I think about it, she hasn't complained about anything for quite some time now,..)
=> I too would recommend, trying to switch her to Linux, alternatively buying an older Mac might also be an idea. (that worked for my uncle;))
Is this the start of a 'Sports'-subcategory?
I know the number theory behind chess (wrote a decent chess program a few years back), but is this really a topic for slashdot?
Don't get me wrong, I like watching and playing chess, as I like watching football (playing not so much, since I'm physically not so fit), but I wouldn't want a rule discussion and similar on slashdot,...
hmm,...
Apple doesn't provide updates for their older OSs.
Apples business plan seem to sell machines which are normally only supported for a few OS versions.
Apple users don't seem to complain. Not sure if they to not care (may be because they think their OS is secure) or if they 'simply' buy new hardware whenever they can't update to the latest OS (a few might switch to running Linux on their machines, but probably not many).
Virus&Trojan developers don't seem to target those machines much (I wonder why, they should be easier targets and their number increases).
May be Microsoft plans to adapt to Apples example.
what?
- the author commited some patches to x264, quite a while back
- the author is not a main contributor to x264
- the x264 team is not involved in the x265 development
according to https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/wiki/Home there should be some sort of b-frames support:
"With -b 1 you activate a hack which enables a "random access" GOP structure which uses B frames."
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If this was the case wouldn't it then make sence to allow on installation to leave metro out?
Not write code using text? That's like saying, write a book with pictures.
Not really. Isn't a letter also a picture? Aren't Kanji basically pictures (pictograms)?
-> the text video interpretive dance comparison fits better
Am I the only one who's first thought when reading 'Dried Meat' was: beef jerky. (+ foooood :))
The more I look at the whole changes in OS-UIs lately, the more I get the impression that the whole cross-platform thing got lost it's grip to reality.
Sure I like my tablet, my smartphone, my laptop,... and I live with the smudged display I have on my tablet and my smartphone, since the do not really bother me. Probably because I can easily overlook these smudges, but since I can't overlook them on my normal monitor (or laptop display; or my glasses for that matter), I'm no friend of UIs which seem to be designed for tablets&smartphones but get presented to my as 'new' and 'easy' interfaces for my normal displays.
I like the idea of having one back-end, but I also like different frontends for different tools.
-> I get that some designers like their tablets and think that one UI should rule them all, but I don't agree with it.
no not retards, simply 'old'-style linux users,...
Simply folks who think they lend a helping hand when they send you a friendly "RTFM" or multiple links instead of simply helping out even is they could help out and solve the problem in a few sentences. They might think that unless you fully understand every detail they didn't help properly and sure, some times you can only explain a problem roughly and tell folks to read the man-page / manual / wiki for more details, simply because:
a. the problem can't be explained/solved in a simple matter due to it's complexity
or
b. you can't explained/solved the problem in a simple matter, but instead of posting the infos and noting that you just posted the infos as a general help and can't help more you ended up posting just the infos and look like an ass to a newcomer
-> don't think it's only GDK or linux folks with this bad habit (some audio/video/apple forums/channels/mailing-lists/developers,... are not a bit better), but the qt community is made up of more of a variety of characters than the GDK community and so it often delivers a more friendly vibe.
and without them I'm kind of half-blind, so wearing google glasses really wouldn't be that nice.
Sure, I might get a nice info overlay, but the 'resolution/sharpness' of everything else would really go down too far to be comfortable,...
-> unless these 'tech-glasses' get some near-/far-sight compensation they are nor really that interesting
with the rights to edit the initial submission and either:
a. edit the title
or
b. add some text which corrects the mistake about the arrest?
it's only bad if you believe in secure computing and thought java was secure to begin with ;)
that of the 36 Java related bugs, "34 of them (are) exploitable remotely without authentication".
"Java 6 users who use equipment or programs that rely on older versions are SOL unless they sign up for a very expensive support contract, as these patches are for Java 7 only."
+
"Oracle Java JDK and JRE, versions 5.0u55 and earlier, 6u65 and earlier, 7u45 and earlier"
-> Muhahahaha,...
if they found that the sea creatures were all neon-pink or neon-yellow and there was no explanation for it,.. ;)
they (politicians) are probably monitored as strong as the president, so probably everything that can be monitored get's monitored,...
and that then is their (NSA&Co) reason why nobody should control/restrict the NSA,....
"bastard operator from hell" if you wonder about IT support
might have been interessting to know which OS the poster is using, since there are a lot of different cl-tools which are available on one but not the other OS
1. goto the airport check for people which take a long distance flight
2. check a few names
3. lookup facebook&co to get an idea whether they live alone or not
4. search the local phone book (or similar) to check where they live
5. drive over to their home and rob the place if no one is there
note:
step 1. could be replaced with a static camera
step 2.-4. could be replaced with a script
Also monitoring someones home with a static camera (could also be mounted on a drone) should make it really easy to create a general schedule plan for when which people regularly come and go -> no more man power intensive stake outs! :)
Face recognition has so many nice applications, can't imagine anything going really wrong. :D
probably all depends on how much pressure China and similar factions have on Microsoft to persuade them to expend the XP support,..
Installed my mom Kubuntu with LibreOffice, Teamviewer, Skype and she too does not have less trouble with Linux than with Windows.
Sure at the beginning it was all a bit confusing, but she adapted a lot faster than I would have thought.
Switching from Office 2003 and Windows XP to LibreOffice and Kubuntu did seem to be less of a hassle for here than switching to one of the newer Office Suits and Windows 8.1.
Installed Windows on here PC and lent her my laptop with linux mint for a month so she could test both and decide.
Yes, both systems were installed with shortcuts to here favorite tools&co, getting her scanner running on Linux was a bit of a hurdle, but worth the effort.
-> as long as the package maintainers do not mess up or through out support for here hardware she is probably fine.
(now that I think about it, she hasn't complained about anything for quite some time now,..)
=> I too would recommend, trying to switch her to Linux, alternatively buying an older Mac might also be an idea. (that worked for my uncle ;))
Aren't there some Vitamins in it? Don't we need those?
Is this the start of a 'Sports'-subcategory? I know the number theory behind chess (wrote a decent chess program a few years back), but is this really a topic for slashdot? Don't get me wrong, I like watching and playing chess, as I like watching football (playing not so much, since I'm physically not so fit), but I wouldn't want a rule discussion and similar on slashdot,...
I agree there should be an option to make it wider, it's really a lot of (unwanted) free area on FullHD or up resolutions,...
May be all the worlds email traffic should go through (and stay at) archive.org this way one would at least know where ones emails end up,...
hmm,... Apple doesn't provide updates for their older OSs. Apples business plan seem to sell machines which are normally only supported for a few OS versions. Apple users don't seem to complain. Not sure if they to not care (may be because they think their OS is secure) or if they 'simply' buy new hardware whenever they can't update to the latest OS (a few might switch to running Linux on their machines, but probably not many). Virus&Trojan developers don't seem to target those machines much (I wonder why, they should be easier targets and their number increases). May be Microsoft plans to adapt to Apples example.
what? - the author commited some patches to x264, quite a while back - the author is not a main contributor to x264 - the x264 team is not involved in the x265 development
according to https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/wiki/Home there should be some sort of b-frames support: "With -b 1 you activate a hack which enables a "random access" GOP structure which uses B frames."
even so that none of the main x264 developers is involved with the project. -> lame marketing stunt
when the Borg Queen transplanted some of her skin onto Data (-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_HSYB3EPNk)