Man, I don't know why I even bother to visit Slashdot these days. Everything is so much misinformation that you're wiser not reading anything.
If anything, this post is like the one from yesterday about rooting the Nexus 4 phone.
Here's the deal: Some CSS properties, before becoming standard, have vendor-specific prefixes, like -moz, -webkit, -ms and -o. Sometimes their syntax is different (for example with gradients), or things like border-radius-top-left vs border-top-left-radius. As they become standardized. the prefix is dropped.
Now, MS is advising developers to include the W3C-standard property name instead of (or in addition to) the vendor-specific one.
To give a simple example, MS supports the W3C standard border-radius, but if the developer only targets -webkit-border-radius, it will work only in webkit. BTW, webkit also supports W3C border-radius, so there's currently no reason to use the prefix, at least on this property.
Eight years ago I worked with my team of 12 for 110 days at 16 hours per day. We had to because the project was late (due to client's management and internal politics) and because we were paid by the hour.
Financially it was worth it, the pay was very good and let's just say it changed my life. In terms of accomplishing anything however, I think the money was not well spent. Everyone was so tired after 8-10 hours that they just faked it. Productivity was very low, the resulting code was crap, morale was abysmal even with the financial incentives. Luckily most of the team members were single (only 3 of us were married). After 100 days, no one could actually do any real work that required thought, we had to wind down for a month.
Like I said, I think it was a good experience (both financially and in learning one's limits) but I would not do it again. I don't think an artist or programmer can be productive more that 6-8 hours/day, everything else is browsing, chatting, faking it or simply doing bad work.
Anything past occasional shit-happens-needs-to-be-fixed-now overtime is bad management. When young people are involved, it's relatively easy to push them into pulling insane hours, because they may be single and want to prove themselves and don't know their limits and don't know any better, but it's not productive.
Last time I checked them (about 2 months ago), most of their music was in rather poor quality - lots of background noise, soundproofing issues and although I am not a music expert, the performance seemed lacking somewhat.
If you take the time to analyse a modern page, you'll see that the ads usually represent a relatively small chunk.
What really slows the pages down is over reliance on javascript frameworks. Pages that use both jquery and another framework such as scriptaculous are not uncommon. What's worse is that the developers often use these libraries for trivial effects, stuff that can easily done directly in javascript. Then most pages have scripts for at least 3-4 social media sites (Facebook Like box, Twitter counter, G+ counter, etc.), live tweet box, 5-8 different css files...
And then they spend a fortune on bandwidth, CDN services and faster servers, when by optimizing content they'd get more performance.
You can overcome emotion with information and education, otherwise we'd all still be living in caves fearing that the sky might fall. Presenting the information effectively, that's the trick.
Due to negative publicity about this vaccine, the use of the pertussis vaccine decreased in many areas of the world. For example, in Japan, children stopped receiving the pertussis vaccine by 1975. In the three years before the vaccine was discontinued, there were 400 cases of pertussis and 10 deaths from pertussis. In the three years after the pertussis vaccine was discontinued, there were 13,000 cases of pertussis and 113 deaths from pertussis! It should be noted that although the side effects of the old pertussis vaccine were high, no child ever died from pertussis vaccine.
How many babies were hospitalized or died because of the pertussis vaccination during the same period?
Personally I am not afraid of vaccines for me or my children. A clear comparison in health issues and risks between vaccinated vs. non-vaccinated children should (hopefully) clear the whole controversy.
They should do that only when Wallet is available in all countries. Google Wallet is not available in my country, I cannot receive payments so I HAVE TO rely on Paypal for this.
My app is available on Apple's AppStore, Blackberry's AppWorld, Amazon, Intel AppUp and Samsung's store and they all can send payments. It's just Google who doesn't. Even stranger is that they DO make payments to my country in the AdSense program, I just don't understand why they don't do this for apps on the Chrome Webstore or Google Play.
Transnistria is basically a haven for organized crime. A "republic" with virtually no international recognition, a very small economy and ties with international arm dealers.
Yes, parent is correct. We were required by law to register any typewriter with the police. Failure to comply was a major offense, with prison time and if you were flagged as threat to the system you could end up in a forced labor camp (e.g. the infamous "Danube-Black Sea Canal"). Nasty memories and it's incredible how people don't learn from history.
Not to troll or anything, but that's all they could come up with? Where's Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos - representatives of big companies that the congressmen can actually listen to?
OK, I'm a software developer and graphic designer. I know all about GPL and Creative Commons and I released plenty of my stuff under open and proprietary licenses as well.
However, when I buy or download an app (in "consumer mode"), I simply don't care about its license. What matters if it works as advertised, if it contains malware and if it's fun (for games). That's it. I couldn't care less if, say, "Smart Tools" is GPL v3 or Apache or proprietary. It does the job. 99.999% people think the same.
If you want to have only open source software on your tablet or phone, pat yourself on the back, you're so special.
I develop software for tablets (iPad, Playbook, Android) so I have quite a few. I tested them myself and I can compare them first hand.
The best Android tablets right now are Asus Transformer and Samsung Galaxy Tab. I would say that the Tabs have better build quality than Transformers, personally I like TouchWiz and I the Tab 8.9 tablet is just right - small and light enough to be easy to carry yet more comfortable than a 7".
Been there, done that. My email archive dates back to 1995. Over the years I've been using Pine, Eudora, Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator, Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail.
I converted everything to EML. It's a simple format, easy to read and parse, recognized by the OS. With a simple script I renamed each file to YYYYMMDD-From-Subject.eml, so now it's accessible any way I like, gleaming at the file name, or by searching the contents (Windows 7 indexes EML files).
Writing a script to strip attachments is trivial compared to mbox.
The reasons I prefer email for business are: - it forces people to organize ideas somewhat instead of babbling around. - it leaves a trail. There's no argument that someone requested X instead of Y for product Z. - it can be forwarded, shared and printed.
I have clients that insist on using Skype. They spend 30-40 minutes discussing stuff that could be summarized in an one-paragraph email. During all the talk I have to keep notes, then organize the items discussed and make a doc that I send back to the client asking if they're sure this is what they wanted and then share it with my team. Overall I don't save time.
I can't speak for anybody else, but for ME email is still the preferred business communication tool.
Too much paranoia on your part. The things they show at MAX tend to become part of the next software iteration, although usually the UI is completely different. Everything I've seen in the past 2-3 years has materialized one way or another.
Unblurring is not a new idea, the tough part is (was?) figuring out the deconvolution kernel.
If bluetooth transfer is available only between two Apple devices, it won't mean much. I actually hate this attitude.
Why can't I take a photo with my Blackberry and transfer it to my iPad? Why can't I download a pdf on the iPad and transfer it to my Playbook via bluetooth? There's no technical reason why I could not transfer files and settings (such as calendar and address book entries between an Apple device and any other phone). This is old tech.
I managed to find a way to transfer files via ftp, making the iPad an ftp server and connecting with the playbook/torch as a client but this obviously requires a wifi connection and of course I can't transfer photos or music from the ipad this way.
Actually, not to troll or anything, but IE9 feels much lighter and faster than Firefox. Personally, I'm using Chrome 95% of the time, including for development (their dev tools are almost as good as Firebug). I use IE9 from time to time but I open Firefox ONLY when I absolutely need it for Firebug (mostly Firebug plugins and to test).
Some contributors' accounts were compromised, resulting in updates containing backdoors appearing from those contributors. The blog entry mentions AddThis, WPtouch and W3 Total Cache. The WordPress.org plugin repository was not hacked.
Considering that one can make an app in flash and use AIR to deliver apps for iOS, Android and Blackberry, I'm sure it's only a matter of days until such apps will pop up in the app stores.
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Man, I don't know why I even bother to visit Slashdot these days. Everything is so much misinformation that you're wiser not reading anything.
If anything, this post is like the one from yesterday about rooting the Nexus 4 phone.
Here's the deal: Some CSS properties, before becoming standard, have vendor-specific prefixes, like -moz, -webkit, -ms and -o. Sometimes their syntax is different (for example with gradients), or things like border-radius-top-left vs border-top-left-radius. As they become standardized. the prefix is dropped.
Now, MS is advising developers to include the W3C-standard property name instead of (or in addition to) the vendor-specific one.
To give a simple example, MS supports the W3C standard border-radius, but if the developer only targets -webkit-border-radius, it will work only in webkit. BTW, webkit also supports W3C border-radius, so there's currently no reason to use the prefix, at least on this property.
While reading it, I couldn't help thinking about Office Space. Sad really.
Eight years ago I worked with my team of 12 for 110 days at 16 hours per day. We had to because the project was late (due to client's management and internal politics) and because we were paid by the hour.
Financially it was worth it, the pay was very good and let's just say it changed my life. In terms of accomplishing anything however, I think the money was not well spent. Everyone was so tired after 8-10 hours that they just faked it. Productivity was very low, the resulting code was crap, morale was abysmal even with the financial incentives. Luckily most of the team members were single (only 3 of us were married). After 100 days, no one could actually do any real work that required thought, we had to wind down for a month.
Like I said, I think it was a good experience (both financially and in learning one's limits) but I would not do it again. I don't think an artist or programmer can be productive more that 6-8 hours/day, everything else is browsing, chatting, faking it or simply doing bad work.
Anything past occasional shit-happens-needs-to-be-fixed-now overtime is bad management. When young people are involved, it's relatively easy to push them into pulling insane hours, because they may be single and want to prove themselves and don't know their limits and don't know any better, but it's not productive.
Last time I checked them (about 2 months ago), most of their music was in rather poor quality - lots of background noise, soundproofing issues and although I am not a music expert, the performance seemed lacking somewhat.
I hate to break it to you but many apps in the AppStore, including award-winning ones are built in Flash and packaged as apps.
The whole crusade against flash is just the new generation rebelling the old one, not completely unlike the nosql movement.
If you take the time to analyse a modern page, you'll see that the ads usually represent a relatively small chunk.
What really slows the pages down is over reliance on javascript frameworks. Pages that use both jquery and another framework such as scriptaculous are not uncommon. What's worse is that the developers often use these libraries for trivial effects, stuff that can easily done directly in javascript. Then most pages have scripts for at least 3-4 social media sites (Facebook Like box, Twitter counter, G+ counter, etc.), live tweet box, 5-8 different css files...
And then they spend a fortune on bandwidth, CDN services and faster servers, when by optimizing content they'd get more performance.
You can overcome emotion with information and education, otherwise we'd all still be living in caves fearing that the sky might fall.
Presenting the information effectively, that's the trick.
Thanks for the link. It's pretty clear:
How many babies were hospitalized or died because of the pertussis vaccination during the same period?
Personally I am not afraid of vaccines for me or my children. A clear comparison in health issues and risks between vaccinated vs. non-vaccinated children should (hopefully) clear the whole controversy.
They should do that only when Wallet is available in all countries. Google Wallet is not available in my country, I cannot receive payments so I HAVE TO rely on Paypal for this.
My app is available on Apple's AppStore, Blackberry's AppWorld, Amazon, Intel AppUp and Samsung's store and they all can send payments. It's just Google who doesn't. Even stranger is that they DO make payments to my country in the AdSense program, I just don't understand why they don't do this for apps on the Chrome Webstore or Google Play.
Transnistria is basically a haven for organized crime. A "republic" with virtually no international recognition, a very small economy and ties with international arm dealers.
The issue is not Flash games but tricking the users to download a trojan. I could have happen with HTML5 games as well or anything else.
The solution: have a separate non-admin account for kids.
Yes, parent is correct. We were required by law to register any typewriter with the police. Failure to comply was a major offense, with prison time and if you were flagged as threat to the system you could end up in a forced labor camp (e.g. the infamous "Danube-Black Sea Canal"). Nasty memories and it's incredible how people don't learn from history.
Not to troll or anything, but that's all they could come up with? Where's Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos - representatives of big companies that the congressmen can actually listen to?
OK, I'm a software developer and graphic designer. I know all about GPL and Creative Commons and I released plenty of my stuff under open and proprietary licenses as well.
However, when I buy or download an app (in "consumer mode"), I simply don't care about its license. What matters if it works as advertised, if it contains malware and if it's fun (for games). That's it. I couldn't care less if, say, "Smart Tools" is GPL v3 or Apache or proprietary. It does the job. 99.999% people think the same.
If you want to have only open source software on your tablet or phone, pat yourself on the back, you're so special.
I develop software for tablets (iPad, Playbook, Android) so I have quite a few. I tested them myself and I can compare them first hand.
The best Android tablets right now are Asus Transformer and Samsung Galaxy Tab. I would say that the Tabs have better build quality than Transformers, personally I like TouchWiz and I the Tab 8.9 tablet is just right - small and light enough to be easy to carry yet more comfortable than a 7".
Been there, done that.
My email archive dates back to 1995. Over the years I've been using Pine, Eudora, Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator, Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail.
I converted everything to EML. It's a simple format, easy to read and parse, recognized by the OS. With a simple script I renamed each file to YYYYMMDD-From-Subject.eml, so now it's accessible any way I like, gleaming at the file name, or by searching the contents (Windows 7 indexes EML files).
Writing a script to strip attachments is trivial compared to mbox.
The reasons I prefer email for business are:
- it forces people to organize ideas somewhat instead of babbling around.
- it leaves a trail. There's no argument that someone requested X instead of Y for product Z.
- it can be forwarded, shared and printed.
I have clients that insist on using Skype. They spend 30-40 minutes discussing stuff that could be summarized in an one-paragraph email. During all the talk I have to keep notes, then organize the items discussed and make a doc that I send back to the client asking if they're sure this is what they wanted and then share it with my team. Overall I don't save time.
I can't speak for anybody else, but for ME email is still the preferred business communication tool.
Too much paranoia on your part. The things they show at MAX tend to become part of the next software iteration, although usually the UI is completely different. Everything I've seen in the past 2-3 years has materialized one way or another.
Unblurring is not a new idea, the tough part is (was?) figuring out the deconvolution kernel.
If bluetooth transfer is available only between two Apple devices, it won't mean much.
I actually hate this attitude.
Why can't I take a photo with my Blackberry and transfer it to my iPad? Why can't I download a pdf on the iPad and transfer it to my Playbook via bluetooth?
There's no technical reason why I could not transfer files and settings (such as calendar and address book entries between an Apple device and any other phone). This is old tech.
I managed to find a way to transfer files via ftp, making the iPad an ftp server and connecting with the playbook/torch as a client but this obviously requires a wifi connection and of course I can't transfer photos or music from the ipad this way.
Actually, not to troll or anything, but IE9 feels much lighter and faster than Firefox. Personally, I'm using Chrome 95% of the time, including for development (their dev tools are almost as good as Firebug). I use IE9 from time to time but I open Firefox ONLY when I absolutely need it for Firebug (mostly Firebug plugins and to test).
"dude"?
Rovio is not a one-man show, the team is pretty big.
Also, citation needed.
The summary is incorrect as usual.
Some contributors' accounts were compromised, resulting in updates containing backdoors appearing from those contributors. The blog entry mentions AddThis, WPtouch and W3 Total Cache. The WordPress.org plugin repository was not hacked.
The broken window fallacy is old and tired. The misery they caused to companies and users alike benefits no one.
Considering that one can make an app in flash and use AIR to deliver apps for iOS, Android and Blackberry, I'm sure it's only a matter of days until such apps will pop up in the app stores.