Whatever. IPS makes it a typical high quality display -- though it would have been almost scandalous to use a TN panel in the iPad. Having high quality panels in a mobile device is sort of rare, but IPS and other high quality displays are far from rare in "real" display devices; I'm looking at two. The main advantage of LED lighting seems to be the lower power draw, I haven't really found any evidence that it's higher quality (really high end displays mostly still use CCFL) or longer life (other things tend to break before the backlighting). So in most contexts and particularly in the context of visual quality in direct sunlight, the iPad's display can accurately be described as a typical LCD. Untypical displays include eInk and the Nexus One's OLED display; though I'm not sure how well OLED does in bright sunlight and it certainly has it's own downsides.
Literally nobody who's interested in buying an iPad will be surprised that the other side does not contain a second screen (or a second iPad) -- don't be ridiculous. And saying that it's designed to "look like" some MS vaporware product that nobody has ever heard of so far is just as silly. I'd say the case looks a bit odd to me, plasticky; but I've never been one for protective cases, anyway.
My Rhythmbox uses 80m resident as reported by top. But iTunes does have a number of features that Rhythmbox doesn't, and it's a lot flashier. Some people like that.
Incidently, I hate all Linux music players. And I think I have tried pretty much all of them. I've yet to find one where navigating a big library wasn't a chore. The Gnome MPD Client is one of the best in this regard. For instance, for the current song/album/artist you can see similar songs/albums/artists (pulled from Last.fm) and play/enqueue them with a single click. What a nice feature. GMPC has its own share of issues though and the whole MPD backend was kind of a pain for a single-user single-computer system, anyway. I still have hopes for Banshee (133m res), though it recently annoyed me back to using mostly Rhythmbox.
The GP didn't defend wasting memory, he said that on devices that do have ample memory, it's only smart to use it. Hard to find a fault with that.
For instance the String class represents all strings using UCS2 internally - if that isn't bloat I don't know what is!
Seems a fairly widespread practice: "UTF-16 is the native internal representation of text in the Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/CE; Qualcomm BREW operating systems; the Java and.NET bytecode environments; Mac OS X's Cocoa and Core Foundation frameworks; and the Qt cross-platform graphical widget toolkit." (Wikipedia with citation needed, so beware.) I guess for C programs the "internal representation" is just relevant for interacting with the OS API?
Why are programs like Chrome written in C++ anyway? It's because everyone knows you can't make responsive apps in Java, and the reason you can't has nothing to do with fancy runtime compiler optimizations and everything to do with inability to carefully control working set size.
Not saying you're wrong, but for what it's worth that's not a very good example. Chrome is C++ because WebKit is. WebKit is C++ because KDE is. Java's responsiveness has nothing to do with why KDE is C++.
Swing usually doesn't look native to the platform, but Flash/HTML GUIs sure don't either. That said, since it's running in a browser, it's somehow a bit less jarring.
I doubt it's necessary to download an entire movie from a user. We're not talking about a murder trial here, the burden of proof is lower. (Not to mention that it doesn't suddenly start being copyright infringement only when the entire movie is available.) I would say making contact, and downloading one or two pieces (which are often 512k each) from a peer would be sufficient, as long as they match the hash. It's practically inconceivably unlikely that two matching pieces offered in a swarm for a certain file could belong to another file. No need to even upload stuff yourself, although I doubt that would change anything.
The post you replied is a stupid troll, but your argument is pretty weak. If having "created" the Internet had any bearing on getting to control it (it doesn't), and if DARPA "created" the Internet (true only in some senses of the word) then DARPA should control it. DARPA is controlled by the US government, so metaphorically speaking "the USA" is controlling DARPA and should be able to control the net.
The individuals at DARPA were in fact working for DARPA, and gave up the rights to their work for money. Parts of individuals are therefore irrelevant. Humans, as an abstract group, did not create the Internet, even though the people who did were part of the group (or set) of humans. In the same vein, humans are not my father even though my father is part of the group of all humans.
Your post is a huge straw man, you hit the reply button but don't actually reply to anything. Whatever. I agree with most of what you say, anyway, although I don't see the connection between enlarging the EU and the disgusting uprise of right wing populism in Europe. However, like I said, enlarging the EU probably makes reforming (or instituting) democratic structures more difficult rather than easier.
Whether or not "the goal of the EU" (a simplistic notion) is benign or not, the EU is what we have to work with at the moment and when you're talking about European institutions that's what you're dealing with. I think it's futile to want a greater European unification (whatever that means), and dismantle the EU at the same time. Doesn't mean you can't also do something on a personal, local or regional level, which might be more effective in the end.
That's a rather harsh and simplistic characterization.
I think many people think European some of the time. Sadly, it's often easiest to think as part of a group when you've got a common enemy. Anyway, identity is far more complicated than you make it out to be. It always depends on the context. One person might identify themselves as a resident of Marseilles one day, as a resident of France another and as a European the next day.
I also think it's a useful goal to strive towards as long as a sensible federalism is implemented along the way. You just can't govern 500 million people the same way as you can govern 50 million (and so on).
I think we'd need to think about how we could get democracy to scale to those amounts of people (and I doubt the only bigger democracy, India, is a good role model, and neither is the US). I'm not sure if enlarging the EU makes getting those structures right easier; but we're already down the path of fairly rapid expansion, anyway.
In German that construction is, in fact, the "correct" way to refer to citizens of the USA. I always thought that using "America(n)" is inaccurate at best, though I do it myself and fwiw people constantly refer to Europe when they actually mean the countries of the EU, or Western Europe, or some other subset of the European geography.
The lock-in is the worst aspect by far. If the government has the majorities to ratify a treaty, fair enough, that's how government and legislation works. However, a few years later, majorities may shift and the former opposition is now the majority. But due to the way the treaty is designed, they might have a very difficult time repealing the treaty and its legislation. So the treaty effectively increases the length of a government's term of power. I guess there should be some constitutional limits to treaties above and beyond those for normal laws. (IANAL, so maybe those already exist in many countries.)
You may have parsed that wrong. He says voluntary servitude in a private business is not his concern. Voluntary servitude in a public office, OTOH, is his concern since it is a public affair. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, just clearing up the difference. I assume involuntary servitude in either situation would concern him.
I had a translation course where the prof accepted -- encouraged, in fact -- digital copies (PDF, DOC) and then returned the marked printouts during the next session. The only problem he seemed to have was that people didn't follow the instruction to name their files sensibly. Obviously this doesn't help save the environment, it's just more convenient for everybody, you don't have to go to uni just to hand in a paper etc.
Well, yes, being "hostile to manufacturing" as in having some environmental standards (if pathetic) and having effective modern health care for your population ARE reasons why shit is being manufactured in countries like China, which don't have either. Ideally, we'd get them to adopt those, too, instead of fucking up things back home.
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Bizzare website. And their estimate hasn't changed since 2005. I switched to Linux since then -- apparently someone else moved back to Windows!
GBP50 (~US$100)
Haha. Not anymore!
You can develop for (almost) *ANY* Windows Mobile phone, not just 100 phones, without App Store intervention.
It's true, there must be at least 200 people with Windows Mobile phones right now!
Whatever. IPS makes it a typical high quality display -- though it would have been almost scandalous to use a TN panel in the iPad. Having high quality panels in a mobile device is sort of rare, but IPS and other high quality displays are far from rare in "real" display devices; I'm looking at two. The main advantage of LED lighting seems to be the lower power draw, I haven't really found any evidence that it's higher quality (really high end displays mostly still use CCFL) or longer life (other things tend to break before the backlighting). So in most contexts and particularly in the context of visual quality in direct sunlight, the iPad's display can accurately be described as a typical LCD. Untypical displays include eInk and the Nexus One's OLED display; though I'm not sure how well OLED does in bright sunlight and it certainly has it's own downsides.
Literally nobody who's interested in buying an iPad will be surprised that the other side does not contain a second screen (or a second iPad) -- don't be ridiculous. And saying that it's designed to "look like" some MS vaporware product that nobody has ever heard of so far is just as silly. I'd say the case looks a bit odd to me, plasticky; but I've never been one for protective cases, anyway.
Rhythmbox, Banshee, aTunes, Amarok & lots and lots of smaller projects.
My Rhythmbox uses 80m resident as reported by top. But iTunes does have a number of features that Rhythmbox doesn't, and it's a lot flashier. Some people like that.
Incidently, I hate all Linux music players. And I think I have tried pretty much all of them. I've yet to find one where navigating a big library wasn't a chore. The Gnome MPD Client is one of the best in this regard. For instance, for the current song/album/artist you can see similar songs/albums/artists (pulled from Last.fm) and play/enqueue them with a single click. What a nice feature. GMPC has its own share of issues though and the whole MPD backend was kind of a pain for a single-user single-computer system, anyway. I still have hopes for Banshee (133m res), though it recently annoyed me back to using mostly Rhythmbox.
The GP didn't defend wasting memory, he said that on devices that do have ample memory, it's only smart to use it. Hard to find a fault with that.
For instance the String class represents all strings using UCS2 internally - if that isn't bloat I don't know what is!
Seems a fairly widespread practice: "UTF-16 is the native internal representation of text in the Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/CE; Qualcomm BREW operating systems; the Java and .NET bytecode environments; Mac OS X's Cocoa and Core Foundation frameworks; and the Qt cross-platform graphical widget toolkit." (Wikipedia with citation needed, so beware.) I guess for C programs the "internal representation" is just relevant for interacting with the OS API?
Why are programs like Chrome written in C++ anyway? It's because everyone knows you can't make responsive apps in Java, and the reason you can't has nothing to do with fancy runtime compiler optimizations and everything to do with inability to carefully control working set size.
Not saying you're wrong, but for what it's worth that's not a very good example. Chrome is C++ because WebKit is. WebKit is C++ because KDE is. Java's responsiveness has nothing to do with why KDE is C++.
Swing usually doesn't look native to the platform, but Flash/HTML GUIs sure don't either. That said, since it's running in a browser, it's somehow a bit less jarring.
Unlike the other replies so far, I can imagine those numbers being roughly correct. As long as you include sites which serve flash ads, that is.
I think there's an option in xorg.conf to make the mouse wheel do that.
Incredibly interesting, even funny, not gonna happen. Maybe the downloaders should start a union. Or an insurance.
I doubt it's necessary to download an entire movie from a user. We're not talking about a murder trial here, the burden of proof is lower. (Not to mention that it doesn't suddenly start being copyright infringement only when the entire movie is available.) I would say making contact, and downloading one or two pieces (which are often 512k each) from a peer would be sufficient, as long as they match the hash. It's practically inconceivably unlikely that two matching pieces offered in a swarm for a certain file could belong to another file. No need to even upload stuff yourself, although I doubt that would change anything.
The post you replied is a stupid troll, but your argument is pretty weak. If having "created" the Internet had any bearing on getting to control it (it doesn't), and if DARPA "created" the Internet (true only in some senses of the word) then DARPA should control it. DARPA is controlled by the US government, so metaphorically speaking "the USA" is controlling DARPA and should be able to control the net.
The individuals at DARPA were in fact working for DARPA, and gave up the rights to their work for money. Parts of individuals are therefore irrelevant. Humans, as an abstract group, did not create the Internet, even though the people who did were part of the group (or set) of humans. In the same vein, humans are not my father even though my father is part of the group of all humans.
Great. You're bound to lose your license in short order.
Your post is a huge straw man, you hit the reply button but don't actually reply to anything. Whatever. I agree with most of what you say, anyway, although I don't see the connection between enlarging the EU and the disgusting uprise of right wing populism in Europe. However, like I said, enlarging the EU probably makes reforming (or instituting) democratic structures more difficult rather than easier.
Whether or not "the goal of the EU" (a simplistic notion) is benign or not, the EU is what we have to work with at the moment and when you're talking about European institutions that's what you're dealing with. I think it's futile to want a greater European unification (whatever that means), and dismantle the EU at the same time. Doesn't mean you can't also do something on a personal, local or regional level, which might be more effective in the end.
That's a rather harsh and simplistic characterization.
I think many people think European some of the time. Sadly, it's often easiest to think as part of a group when you've got a common enemy. Anyway, identity is far more complicated than you make it out to be. It always depends on the context. One person might identify themselves as a resident of Marseilles one day, as a resident of France another and as a European the next day.
I also think it's a useful goal to strive towards as long as a sensible federalism is implemented along the way. You just can't govern 500 million people the same way as you can govern 50 million (and so on).
I think we'd need to think about how we could get democracy to scale to those amounts of people (and I doubt the only bigger democracy, India, is a good role model, and neither is the US). I'm not sure if enlarging the EU makes getting those structures right easier; but we're already down the path of fairly rapid expansion, anyway.
In German that construction is, in fact, the "correct" way to refer to citizens of the USA. I always thought that using "America(n)" is inaccurate at best, though I do it myself and fwiw people constantly refer to Europe when they actually mean the countries of the EU, or Western Europe, or some other subset of the European geography.
The lock-in is the worst aspect by far. If the government has the majorities to ratify a treaty, fair enough, that's how government and legislation works. However, a few years later, majorities may shift and the former opposition is now the majority. But due to the way the treaty is designed, they might have a very difficult time repealing the treaty and its legislation. So the treaty effectively increases the length of a government's term of power. I guess there should be some constitutional limits to treaties above and beyond those for normal laws. (IANAL, so maybe those already exist in many countries.)
You may have parsed that wrong. He says voluntary servitude in a private business is not his concern. Voluntary servitude in a public office, OTOH, is his concern since it is a public affair. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, just clearing up the difference. I assume involuntary servitude in either situation would concern him.
I gotta say the Amiga one makes for a really cool signature, today.
I had a translation course where the prof accepted -- encouraged, in fact -- digital copies (PDF, DOC) and then returned the marked printouts during the next session. The only problem he seemed to have was that people didn't follow the instruction to name their files sensibly. Obviously this doesn't help save the environment, it's just more convenient for everybody, you don't have to go to uni just to hand in a paper etc.
Well, yes, being "hostile to manufacturing" as in having some environmental standards (if pathetic) and having effective modern health care for your population ARE reasons why shit is being manufactured in countries like China, which don't have either. Ideally, we'd get them to adopt those, too, instead of fucking up things back home.
Votes keep the government in power... fresh?
You're seeing it repeated from time to time because it follows from the analysis of capitalism done by Marx.