Well if all other browsers in beta and final are draft spec compliant and the so called beta browser is literally the last to the game it better ought to be better than the rest of the world or it will drown and be ignored.
Yes I find it quite amusing how Microsoft plays the we are html5 ready game currently marketingwise while they literally are three years behind the competition in many areas of html5. IE9 will be html5s IE6 all over again, as it seems to me.
Work for 10 hours than being more productive than with an 8 hour schedule all you get is simply that you burn out the people who work with you. I have been in the industry now for 15 years and this is mostly my personal experience. Your boss thinks in the category of assembly line robots, aka more hours more work done. For people working in creative industries that does not work out that way only for short period of times.
Actually when I had a need for Linux remoting which actually was not do slow, I paid for NX already years ago. It simply was so much better. The glorified plain X remoting is a dog once you get out of the Lan area, and it is one of the reasons why I hate X passionately and wished the protocol finally would be overhauled for modern times.
VNC also almost never is a solution in WAN scenarios due to streaming also being dog slow. RDP and NX simply are the best protocols for such things there is no discussion. And NX is basically X done right or more along the lines, X fixed up so that the glorified remote protocol actually is usable.
The problem simply is X itself, the protocol is in a serious need for an overhaul, maybe now that things are moving towards wayland and push the X protocol on top of the rendering stack than being the base of everything as huge big X server blob will get things moving. Making Cairo remote seems like a sane choice and has been done as websocket demonstration already.
Actually I live in a country where going to University is mostly free. But I dont have any second doubts that the costs will be similar when my kids go to University. They are still babies and toddlers, but I already have started to make university savings so that the money is there when they need it. Btw. 9000 pound per year is dirt cheap if you compare it with the costs of some US elite universities:-(
In case of Java Oracle did not do too much which Sun has not started. It is more or less a timely coincidence that Oracle now gets the blame. The entire TCK issue regarding Apache Harmony already was started by Sun in 2006 and the Google lawsuit was pitched by Sun to Oracle as sales argument. Sun already had this idea but not the balls to do it (after all they were the good guys:-) ) Just to make matters clearer. OpenOffice is a similar situation Sun has dragged things along before the Oracle merger. Although Oracle had its fair share of own sins, some of them were inherited in this regard.
For now the JEE parts are not affected as long as the licensing terms stay the same. Given the deep entrenchement between the various JEE EGs and Apache it is unlikely anything will change there, unless Oracle wants to really hurt itself. Lots of Oracle employees work within the Apache projects and vice versa. What however probably has happened is that Apache members which are Apache representatives are not part anymore of the JEE egs, not really that much of a deal since lots of the specification discussion already happens outside of the EGs in many projects and the EGs are mostly the final voting process.
But I am not sure if even that has happend or if it is just the central JCP committee and with the the JDK project which is affected and the various EGs are not. But the entire TCK issue is completely different within the EGs of JEE they never really had TCK issues there, or only minor ones which were resolved quickly. Nobody knows if Oracle will pull another stunt there, however, they lost a lot of trust lately, but I personally think it wont happen, Oracle would have had a lot to lose by losing the ASF on the JEE front and the problems between the ASF and SUN / Oracle were always around harmony while the rest was unaffected. Have in mind the entire issue is way older than the Oracle merger, Sun has dragged the entire issue along since 2006 or longer, so Oracle just did what Sun had started and added another nail into the coffin of the JDK TCK.
Problem is less the vm, there are other VMs which are basically good enough, Dalvik, Parrot whatever, even Harmony has its own clean room vm which could be changed to a different bytecode. The problem is more along the lines of Patents and APIs even if you do an entire refactoring of the APIs there are still the patents you have to defend in a courtcase and besides that given the reliance of millions of lines of code towards the official java APIs an entire rewrite of the java and jee ecosystem is hard and takes years, you might shortcut some of the stuff by dropping jee apis and going for springsource stuff, but either way, it took Microsoft 10 years to clone JEE up to the level to be usable a rewrite of the existing codebase might take at least 5 years. But either way this thing is entirely about Dalvik for now not, JEE, so lets see where things are heading. Oracle did a lot to hurt java lately, although java will not dissapear, but the entire thing reminds me on the Unix wars of the 80s which gave rise to Microsoft and others and in the end almost killed Unix. Or the entire Parcplace Smalltalk fiasco which killed the entire Smalltalk market. Java is too entrenched in the modern ecosystem, so none of this will happen but it could give a boost to a third party. Microsoft is probably currently lauging out loud.
That situation is unclear, how this will be handled, a mail went out to all committers yesterday with following message:
This action has little impact on existing ASF projects. The board reiterates its commitment to all Apache projects that implement Java specifications. There is nothing being considered that would require any Apache project to stop what it is doing based on the JCP crisis. Projects that currently license TCKs will continue to do so. If maintenance leads for JSRs propose to change the terms of license for existing TCKs then Apache will vigorously lobby against these changes. New projects will continue to be considered on their merits and on the appropriateness of the proposed licenses
So I am not entirely sure what this all means. I guess for now business as usual, except that the EG members are being pulled from their status, if at all.
On the contrary, I am one of those who have portable gaming devices and an iPad. And frankly spoken I use my ipad way more often while the gaming devices collect dust. Reason, the NDS games with some exceptions (mostly nintendo stuff) are not that much better, and the ipad is a universal device while the gaming device is yet another device I have to drag along which serves 99% only for gaming (using the browser or watchting a movie on the psp and nds simply sucks) In reality the ipad has replaced my notebook for 80% of the daily tasks and 20% are ones which theoretically could be done with a pad if a keyboard dock was there and the software, but the software is not there yet.
Add to that NOVA, Dungeon Master, the load of 3d racing games all of them gyroscope controlled, Hero of Sparta etc... There is enough hardcore stuff available. Heck also a load of point and click adventure games (the genre shines on the iPad)
While the number of hardcore games especially in iOS is not that high yet you can find them, and the publishers have smelled the blood they are coming over, even Capcom and Sega already have ported some of their stuff.
a few months ago when I was visiting an electronics store, and I saw a load of kiddies around the ipad displayed playing games, while the ordinary nintendo ds section and also the PSP sections were abandoned mostly. Ok it also has something to do with the device actually been usable while the others merely had the usual console displayed but it was blatantly clear where the train is heading. Add to that that the average handheld game on the ds and psp is around 45-50 euros here while the handheld games are dirt cheap and a no brainer to buy. In the end you spend more on smartphone games than you would on the average console. Classical example of low prices sellls more cashwise than the average console game. What I would say is this is a real thread for Nintendo which always had its stronghold in the handheld gaming sektor from where it could start its console experiments. That stronghold is seriously under attack. And in the usual Nintendo manner they probably will realise it two years after they are stone dead in the market.
Outside of that he is not accused of rape, but of a sex crime apparently only punishable in sweden (sex by surprise, aka refusal to stop after a condome broke)
Actually I have both an ipad and an android device (nexus one) and I cannot really say the android device has more lag although the ipad has superior hardware. Generally the multitasking on Apple and Android is literally very close to each other. I guess apple took a serious lesson how android implemented it post 1.6. Multitasking sucked on Android pre 2.x but it is not like that anymore and apps causing lag are not the norm anymore but it can happen on both, the ipad and the android device under rare circumstances. What the iPad definitely has in advantage is that it uses the gpu way more than android does, but this is a moot argument, pinch and zoom is a little bit more fluid thanks to it, as for the launchers, once you switched away from the standard launcher to launcher pro you have the same smoothness on android as you have on iOS on the UI but with widgets folders and icons instead of just folders and icons only.
Airplay is basically airtunes with video support, so no big difference there. And it still sucks because it just allows you to push the media from itunes 2 itunes or from ios to a speaker or itunes, but not onto your ios device, if you want video streamed onto the ios device you have to use a different option, but why then use it at all.
There are various solutions to achieve that, none by apple which does not like to have its devices as clients as it seems. Twonky media server and a upnp client does it so do various streaming server and client solutions which are readily available.
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Well if all other browsers in beta and final are draft spec compliant and the so called beta browser is literally the last to the game it better ought to be better than the rest of the world or it will drown and be ignored.
Yes I find it quite amusing how Microsoft plays the we are html5 ready game currently marketingwise while they literally are three years behind the competition in many areas of html5. IE9 will be html5s IE6 all over again, as it seems to me.
Work for 10 hours than being more productive than with an 8 hour schedule all you get is simply that you burn out the people who work with you. I have been in the industry now for 15 years and this is mostly my personal experience. Your boss thinks in the category of assembly line robots, aka more hours more work done. For people working in creative industries that does not work out that way only for short period of times.
Actually when I had a need for Linux remoting which actually was not do slow, I paid for NX already years ago. It simply was so much better.
The glorified plain X remoting is a dog once you get out of the Lan area, and it is one of the reasons why I hate X passionately and wished the protocol finally would be overhauled for modern times.
VNC also almost never is a solution in WAN scenarios due to streaming also being dog slow. RDP and NX simply are the best protocols for such things there is no discussion.
And NX is basically X done right or more along the lines, X fixed up so that the glorified remote protocol actually is usable.
The problem simply is X itself, the protocol is in a serious need for an overhaul, maybe now that things are moving towards wayland and push the X protocol on top of the rendering stack than being the base of everything as huge big X server blob will get things moving. Making Cairo remote seems like a sane choice and has been done as websocket demonstration already.
Actually I assume they now closed it up because they have removed the last trace of the old GPL core.
Actually not only Thorvalds dont forget about Mercurial which is as good as GIT (although I prefer GIT over Merc despite its rotten command set)
Actually I live in a country where going to University is mostly free. But I dont have any second doubts that the costs will be similar when my kids go to University. They are still babies and toddlers, but I already have started to make university savings so that the money is there when they need it. Btw. 9000 pound per year is dirt cheap if you compare it with the costs of some US elite universities :-(
In case of Java Oracle did not do too much which Sun has not started. It is more or less a timely coincidence that Oracle now gets the blame. The entire TCK issue regarding Apache Harmony already was started by Sun in 2006 and the Google lawsuit was pitched by Sun to Oracle as sales argument. Sun already had this idea but not the balls to do it (after all they were the good guys :-) )
Just to make matters clearer. OpenOffice is a similar situation Sun has dragged things along before the Oracle merger.
Although Oracle had its fair share of own sins, some of them were inherited in this regard.
Add to that that the ATOM platform is absolutely subpar as platform for tablets compared to the current crop of ARM based processors.
For now the JEE parts are not affected as long as the licensing terms stay the same. Given the deep entrenchement between the various JEE EGs and Apache it is unlikely anything will change there, unless Oracle wants to really hurt itself. Lots of Oracle employees work within the Apache projects and vice versa. What however probably has happened is that Apache members which are Apache representatives are not part anymore of the JEE egs, not really that much of a deal since lots of the specification discussion already happens outside of the EGs in many projects and the EGs are mostly the final voting process.
But I am not sure if even that has happend or if it is just the central JCP committee and with the the JDK project which is affected and the various EGs are not.
But the entire TCK issue is completely different within the EGs of JEE they never really had TCK issues there, or only minor ones which were resolved quickly. Nobody knows if Oracle will pull another stunt there, however, they lost a lot of trust lately, but I personally think it wont happen, Oracle would have had a lot to lose by losing the ASF on the JEE front and the problems between the ASF and SUN / Oracle were always around harmony while the rest was unaffected. Have in mind the entire issue is way older than the Oracle merger, Sun has dragged the entire issue along since 2006 or longer, so Oracle just did what Sun had started and added another nail into the coffin of the JDK TCK.
Problem is less the vm, there are other VMs which are basically good enough, Dalvik, Parrot whatever, even Harmony has its own clean room vm which could be changed to a different bytecode. The problem is more along the lines of Patents and APIs even if you do an entire refactoring of the APIs there are still the patents you have to defend in a courtcase and besides that given the reliance of millions of lines of code towards the official java APIs an entire rewrite of the java and jee ecosystem is hard and takes years, you might shortcut some of the stuff by dropping jee apis and going for springsource stuff, but either way, it took Microsoft 10 years to clone JEE up to the level to be usable a rewrite of the existing codebase might take at least 5 years.
But either way this thing is entirely about Dalvik for now not, JEE, so lets see where things are heading. Oracle did a lot to hurt java lately, although java will not dissapear, but the entire thing reminds me on the Unix wars of the 80s which gave rise to Microsoft and others and in the end almost killed Unix. Or the entire Parcplace Smalltalk fiasco which killed the entire Smalltalk market. Java is too entrenched in the modern ecosystem, so none of this will happen but it could give a boost to a third party.
Microsoft is probably currently lauging out loud.
That situation is unclear, how this will be handled, a mail went out to all committers yesterday with following message:
This action has little impact on existing ASF projects. The board reiterates its commitment to all Apache projects that implement Java specifications. There is nothing being considered that would require any Apache project to stop what it is doing based on the JCP crisis. Projects that currently license TCKs will continue to do so. If maintenance leads for JSRs propose to change the terms of license for existing TCKs then Apache will vigorously lobby against these changes. New projects will continue to be considered on their merits and on the appropriateness of the proposed licenses
So I am not entirely sure what this all means. I guess for now business as usual, except that the EG members are being pulled from their status, if at all.
On the contrary, I am one of those who have portable gaming devices and an iPad. And frankly spoken I use my ipad way more often while the gaming devices collect dust. Reason, the NDS games with some exceptions (mostly nintendo stuff) are not that much better, and the ipad is a universal device while the gaming device is yet another device I have to drag along which serves 99% only for gaming (using the browser or watchting a movie on the psp and nds simply sucks)
In reality the ipad has replaced my notebook for 80% of the daily tasks and 20% are ones which theoretically could be done with a pad if a keyboard dock was there and the software, but the software is not there yet.
No the PSP Phone has another name, the PSP2 is a dedicated gaming device.
Add to that NOVA, Dungeon Master, the load of 3d racing games all of them gyroscope controlled, Hero of Sparta etc...
There is enough hardcore stuff available. Heck also a load of point and click adventure games (the genre shines on the iPad)
While the number of hardcore games especially in iOS is not that high yet you can find them, and the publishers have smelled the blood they are coming over, even Capcom and Sega already have ported some of their stuff.
a few months ago when I was visiting an electronics store, and I saw a load of kiddies around the ipad displayed playing games, while the ordinary nintendo ds section and also the PSP sections were abandoned mostly. Ok it also has something to do with the device actually been usable while the others merely had the usual console displayed but it was blatantly clear where the train is heading.
Add to that that the average handheld game on the ds and psp is around 45-50 euros here while the handheld games are dirt cheap and a no brainer to buy. In the end you spend
more on smartphone games than you would on the average console.
Classical example of low prices sellls more cashwise than the average console game.
What I would say is this is a real thread for Nintendo which always had its stronghold in the handheld gaming sektor from where it could start its console experiments. That stronghold is seriously under attack. And in the usual Nintendo manner they probably will realise it two years after they are stone dead in the market.
Outside of that he is not accused of rape, but of a sex crime apparently only punishable in sweden (sex by surprise, aka refusal to stop after a condome broke)
Hey I have my schnitzel whacked but I am still not able to access the google bookstore!
Lets summarize the deficits:
No upload of your own already owned (non copy protected) ebooks into the cloud to use it as storage.
No shop access outside of the USA...
Nice try Google, execution, failed the exam.
Actually I have both an ipad and an android device (nexus one) and I cannot really say the android device has more lag although the ipad has superior hardware. Generally the multitasking on Apple and Android is literally very close to each other. I guess apple took a serious lesson how android implemented it post 1.6. Multitasking sucked on Android pre 2.x but it is not like that anymore and apps causing lag are not the norm anymore but it can happen on both, the ipad and the android device under rare circumstances. What the iPad definitely has in advantage is that it uses the gpu way more than android does, but this is a moot argument, pinch and zoom is a little bit more fluid thanks to it, as for the launchers, once you switched away from the standard launcher to launcher pro you have the same smoothness on android as you have on iOS on the UI but with widgets folders and icons instead of just folders and icons only.
he probably meant to any ios device and yes he is right in this regard, this is absolutely idiotic.
Airplay is basically airtunes with video support, so no big difference there. And it still sucks because it just allows you to push the media from itunes 2 itunes or from ios to a speaker or itunes, but not onto your ios device, if you want video streamed onto the ios device you have to use a different option, but why then use it at all.
There are various solutions to achieve that, none by apple which does not like to have its devices as clients as it seems. Twonky media server and a upnp client does it so do various streaming server and client solutions which are readily available.
The biggest benefit, I guess by now are flash (which is still flakey as hell) and the various emulators as well as native filesystem access.