I found luxury brands generally to overuse form over content, or very often usability, because there's generally, uh not much information to give about luxury products beside style.
So those brands generally have fixed layouts or - god forbid - autofullscreen with lots of flash, bizarre UI (or original) because the point of those sites is generally not to provide information, so why be clear when you don't have anything to tell.
I don't know if for a luxury product such as Apple this is a good thing or not strategy and consumer targetting-wise, but those are, for me, completely useless web sites (whether I like their product has no relationship whatsoever - what is exciting about a web site about champaign ? especially on a mobile phone ? ).
Flash can be good and has its niches (games, unified video viewer) ; HTML5 can - or cannot replace some or part of them, but luxury brands is no measure for it. (And those kind of sites are rarely at the edge of tech).
What's next, usage rate of flash vs html 5 on http://www.zombo.com/ as a measure of html5 acceptability ? (I found it hard to think of a more useless kind of website in fact)
aaah there. it's all good now. I'm calm, I'm calm.
* bootsplash should work fine with nvidia drivers. Although to be honest i've never tried that, why do I care what the boot process when it at most every kernel release, or less. kernel patch release. That, and when the suspend crashes, which happens quite often with my nvidia card. this is a desktop here so it gets shut down quite often.
* HW compatability should be as good as anything running the linux kernel. except the kernel is not vanilla if I remember correctly, and has features backported and misc patches.;
* Seeing as the x86 version is compiled for a 386, slow as all hell. Yes i run gentoo but with sane flags, "-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe". I'm not saying they should add -funroll-loops or anything, but maybe a x86 version with SSE SSE2, and 686?
Dunno if it's more related to CPU flags used in kernel or with the proper tuning or misc parameters and patches !
* Config apps are known as gvim/xemacs. On debian servers, slackware or gentoo yes. (my choice would be vim / gedit) On Ubuntu, well you generally choose this distro for ease of use and graphical access to those config tools...
* The sisters should be re-spinning soon. Also why is there a whole new distro for just using XFCE or KDE instead of GNOME? shouldn't it just be a check box? maybe for the said tools which need to be integrated to kde control center ? not sure here.
Thanks for the answers, but a linux distro is not a linux kernel release, (and a review is generally better done when you actually use the distro - but thanks anyway).
Actually, not currently as the home page issues a warning about a "in development" version for lucid...
btw, the review seems to provide little more than the press release : what about bugs ? speed ? HW compatibility and performance besides boot times - it's an OS ! - , system configuration apps, boot splash with nvidia proprietary drivers..., what about other sister as mint, Kubuntu, or Lubuntu)
for your particular example : that's why this use case has been captured and in python, in the standard library, you call random.shuffle(container) and you're done with it. Time spent : 3 s , already implmented, tested, debugged and profiled.
(other languages / frameworks have their own I assume)
besides, using container.sort(key=random) is about 2s to type, 15s to test and discover it's bad, 1 minute top to search the python std library + 3s to implement preceding solution. 2 minutes for a corner-case tested solution. Try that with a coded fro scratch solution.
Django ORM (not the best ORM by their own say but simple and has largely worked for 90%+ of my needs) let you define your "tables" as an object with some field types and let you create your tables in SQL.
Schema migration solutions does exist however it's a HARD solution, you'd better write SQL scripts when you're there. (having separate sql structure and code is a good thing imo and the reason why n the long term / larger projects with a life of its own an "orm" like sqlalchemy is better than a simple ActiveRecord-like ORM).
Anyway, the real hard problems for a OODB or ORM are : - inheritance (multiple, change of father object & other subtle semantics) - schema (change your object definition, how does that reflect your _current data_ ? - polymorphism (query base table A, shall returned objects be of derived type of not ?)
I haven't seen a uniform definition of those in programmig languages. How do you tie this to a DB (which should be multi language I hope..)
But in the end, having tables for data with stable schema linked to it + OO code in your language is the simplest way, to each its own semantics.
totally approve (no mod points, but plz mod parent up). the point of this media is to be secondary to the main medie (ie print) that is to be disposed once read. What next ? Movies sold with their own throwable screen ?
This is ecological nonsense. Economically, I'm not sure about the cost of those things once the novelty wears off. Let's hope it's only one shot. (remember those Charlie Chaplin IBM ads with blipping and blinking leds in the 80s? Those were the rage.
Yes, however, the hacking opportunity is appealing.
well, many people I know had their first computer experience with AtariST / Amiga. Thay were not vaxen , existed without them and were vastly more capable.
Of course not. (Office) People have rather long working days, typically longer than US/UK.
However, 35h/w is average and that is compensated by unheard of weeks of vacation per year. Which I do enjoy:) This leads to less work average, but is compensated by the fact that french workers have one of the best productivity in the world. (too lazy to find the needed citation) What was the topic ?
of course, if you decide to change from int to long or long long or to char or to unsigned, (if it were possible in php, but the remark is valid in C), good luck.
* Remove save and open. They belong to the past. Manage memory-disk transfers as needed, not manually ! (as a first step auto save +save on close)
* file menu and file dialog belong to the file manager. Just provide a shortcut to it if needed. (like open this document folder in explorer)
* Get rid of "applications" and implement functionalities as file / folder views of the file manager (view as..) use file metadata. (or make apps act like simple apps & use embedding of - any - apps) : integrate.
The CYCLADES packet switching network was a French network system in the early 1970s, similar to the ARPANET. It was extremely influential on the Internet's final design.
Jesus. Here come one hundred thousand posts how awesome linux is, and how Internet on windows servers sucks, etc.
My father was a linuxian. Yes, linux is awesome. In their nutty little useful-once-in-a-lifetime, semi-Luddite way. We love you, linuxians. We're glad you're out there. But please, seriously, shut the fuck up. On the Internet. Feel free to blather on your Slashdot.
Trying to show people that you cared enough to learn "Bonjour", a few words (whatever the quality) and then switching when you've shown enough interest to the local place goes a long tway to show people you're not snubbing THEM.
And I try to learn a few words as well when I go to a foreign country before switching to english.
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But I like to be able to go to the bar & drink a beer or two there ! Try to do THAT with a keyboard !
id=616, there's a swoosh around, dunno if it's me or you, however. If it was intentional, I'll mod up Funny .. ah crap.
I found luxury brands generally to overuse form over content, or very often usability, because there's generally, uh not much information to give about luxury products beside style.
So those brands generally have fixed layouts or - god forbid - autofullscreen with lots of flash, bizarre UI (or original) because the point of those sites is generally not to provide information, so why be clear when you don't have anything to tell.
I don't know if for a luxury product such as Apple this is a good thing or not strategy and consumer targetting-wise, but those are, for me, completely useless web sites (whether I like their product has no relationship whatsoever - what is exciting about a web site about champaign ? especially on a mobile phone ? ).
Flash can be good and has its niches (games, unified video viewer) ; HTML5 can - or cannot replace some or part of them, but luxury brands is no measure for it.
(And those kind of sites are rarely at the edge of tech).
What's next, usage rate of flash vs html 5 on http://www.zombo.com/ as a measure of html5 acceptability ? (I found it hard to think of a more useless kind of website in fact)
aaah there. it's all good now. I'm calm, I'm calm.
* bootsplash should work fine with nvidia drivers. Although to be honest i've never tried that, why do I care what the boot process when it at most every kernel release, or less.
kernel patch release.
That, and when the suspend crashes, which happens quite often with my nvidia card. this is a desktop here so it gets shut down quite often.
* HW compatability should be as good as anything running the linux kernel.
except the kernel is not vanilla if I remember correctly, and has features backported and misc patches.;
* Seeing as the x86 version is compiled for a 386, slow as all hell.
Yes i run gentoo but with sane flags, "-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe". I'm not saying they should add -funroll-loops or anything, but maybe a x86 version with SSE SSE2, and 686?
Dunno if it's more related to CPU flags used in kernel or with the proper tuning or misc parameters and patches !
* Config apps are known as gvim/xemacs. ...
On debian servers, slackware or gentoo yes. (my choice would be vim / gedit)
On Ubuntu, well you generally choose this distro for ease of use and graphical access to those config tools
* The sisters should be re-spinning soon. Also why is there a whole new distro for just using XFCE or KDE instead of GNOME? shouldn't it just be a check box?
maybe for the said tools which need to be integrated to kde control center ? not sure here.
Thanks for the answers, but a linux distro is not a linux kernel release, (and a review is generally better done when you actually use the distro - but thanks anyway).
Actually, not currently as the home page issues a warning about a "in development" version for lucid ...
btw, the review seems to provide little more than the press release : what about bugs ? speed ? HW compatibility and performance besides boot times - it's an OS ! - , system configuration apps, boot splash with nvidia proprietary drivers ..., what about other sister as mint, Kubuntu, or Lubuntu)
for your particular example : that's why this use case has been captured and in python, in the standard library, you call random.shuffle(container) and you're done with it. Time spent : 3 s , already implmented, tested, debugged and profiled.
(other languages / frameworks have their own I assume)
besides, using container.sort(key=random) is about 2s to type, 15s to test and discover it's bad, 1 minute top to search the python std library + 3s to implement preceding solution. 2 minutes for a corner-case tested solution. Try that with a coded fro scratch solution.
I have a P4 / 256MB fully functional under my TV as a HTPC.
I tossed (put to recycle) my Amstrad PC2086, 8086 + 20 Gb HDrive (with at least 5% bad sectors ..) a month ago. (SVGA + 14' CRT, no less)
(that and an overclocked abacus)
given Facebook, Twitter, Friendster and LinkedIn, point to Twitter
you know that this challenge could be achieved by anyone living in the 19th century ? (who knows how to read, that is)
or you license it, now. I think the real question is when does those patent expires, 20 years for GIFs were ... a tad long indeed
Django ORM (not the best ORM by their own say but simple and has largely worked for 90%+ of my needs) let you define your "tables" as an object with some field types and let you create your tables in SQL.
Schema migration solutions does exist however it's a HARD solution, you'd better write SQL scripts when you're there. (having separate sql structure and code is a good thing imo and the reason why n the long term / larger projects with a life of its own an "orm" like sqlalchemy is better than a simple ActiveRecord-like ORM).
Anyway, the real hard problems for a OODB or ORM are :
- inheritance (multiple, change of father object & other subtle semantics)
- schema (change your object definition, how does that reflect your _current data_ ?
- polymorphism (query base table A, shall returned objects be of derived type of not ?)
I haven't seen a uniform definition of those in programmig languages. How do you tie this to a DB (which should be multi language I hope ..)
But in the end, having tables for data with stable schema linked to it + OO code in your language is the simplest way, to each its own semantics.
totally approve (no mod points, but plz mod parent up). the point of this media is to be secondary to the main medie (ie print) that is to be disposed once read. What next ? Movies sold with their own throwable screen ?
This is ecological nonsense. Economically, I'm not sure about the cost of those things once the novelty wears off. Let's hope it's only one shot. (remember those Charlie Chaplin IBM ads with blipping and blinking leds in the 80s? Those were the rage.
Yes, however, the hacking opportunity is appealing.
well, many people I know had their first computer experience with AtariST / Amiga. Thay were not vaxen , existed without them and were vastly more capable.
Of course, you shouldn't try ACID operations on this storage ..
Well, for e17 you certainly need enlightenment to achieve eternal life ...
wow ! processing images with no relationship in parallel ! damn, that's awesome, (except you can do that with a simple bash script+ "&") !
SNMP ? (uugh ..)
Of course not. (Office) People have rather long working days, typically longer than US/UK.
However, 35h/w is average and that is compensated by unheard of weeks of vacation per year. Which I do enjoy :) This leads to less work average, but is compensated by the fact that french workers have one of the best productivity in the world. (too lazy to find the needed citation) What was the topic ?
of course, if you decide to change from int to long or long long or to char or to unsigned, (if it were possible in php, but the remark is valid in C), good luck.
DOCUMENT keyboard shortcut prominently. I would use them, but I'm too lazy to look at the docs ...
* Remove save and open. They belong to the past. Manage memory-disk transfers as needed, not manually ! (as a first step auto save +save on close)
* file menu and file dialog belong to the file manager. Just provide a shortcut to it if needed. (like open this document folder in explorer)
* Get rid of "applications" and implement functionalities as file / folder views of the file manager (view as ..) use file metadata. (or make apps act like simple apps & use embedding of - any - apps) : integrate.
* TABbed views belong to the window manager !
here, I'm calm now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES :
quote
The CYCLADES packet switching network was a French network system in the early 1970s, similar to the ARPANET. It was extremely influential on the Internet's final design.
As seen in 10 years :
Jesus. Here come one hundred thousand posts how awesome linux is, and how Internet on windows servers sucks, etc.
My father was a linuxian. Yes, linux is awesome. In their nutty little useful-once-in-a-lifetime, semi-Luddite way. We love you, linuxians. We're glad you're out there. But please, seriously, shut the fuck up. On the Internet. Feel free to blather on your Slashdot.
(alt. : linux,windows = bsd,linux)
Right. And encouraging piracy is different than actually performing it. What if I would encourage piracy in a forum (not that I do)
Snoopy.
This is they key (french guy speaking).
Trying to show people that you cared enough to learn "Bonjour", a few words (whatever the quality) and then switching when you've shown enough interest to the local place goes a long tway to show people you're not snubbing THEM.
And I try to learn a few words as well when I go to a foreign country before switching to english.