The problem with HP is that they use high-power automatic weapons to shoot themselves in the foot that also take out everyone else's feet, the floor, part of the walls, some of the landscape and a perfectly innocent asteroid.
They are very good weapons, but semi-automatic. Mind your feet.
This is the reason PHP will never be a well considered language and linux will not pass 1% on the desktop. Dickheads like you giva the bad name to FOSS in general. So Fuck you, asshole.
Oh, I think you just persuaded me to switch to your windows world. You and the shills.
What the article is saying is that WebOS apps running inside WebKit cannot compete with iOS apps running natively.
The article doesn't say that. You infer that. The summary doesn't even mention iOS apps.
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But frankly, I don't agree with the analysis that using webkit must necessarily be less efficient than having another layout and rendering mechanism. Perhaps implementing behavior in javascript instead of C would add a little overhead that might be too much when dealing with slow processors...
Well they can, just not individual photons or individual photon events.
It's exactly the same as an oscilloscope -- you also don't see the shape of an individual pulse. You under-sample, and then add the samples together assuming it was always the same pulse.
That would make an interesting/. poll,
1) I use an analog scope
2) I use a digital scope
3) Cowboy Neal is a my scope
4) Whats an oscilloscope?
Do you think my work computer would be running IE6 and Firefox 3.5 if I could install my own software? Shit, I can't even fire up Task Manager to kill an errant app.
You might have bigger problems than not being able to play Angry Birds...
I still build (assemble is a better word) my own desktops and servers, that way, for the same budget I get better hardware and specs that are better suited to my needs: more memory than the 4GB that seems to be the agreed upon limit these years, no Windows tax, slightly faster and larger HD, no extra unnecessary mouse/keyboard/screen/speakers. Assembly is typically half an hour, installation up to a few hours... It's still worth it.
LTS as in 10.04, so you can dist-upgrade when you have the time and most of the wrinkles are ironed out. I'll may skip another release for my desktop and laptops after reading all this stuff... servers are fine, it's mostly graphical stuff giving problems with upgrades. BTW, Xubuntu LTS has the same version of Firefox as Kubuntu LTS, Lubuntu LTS and Ubuntu LTS.
No. We never needed flash to play internet video. If you link to a video directly, it will play in your system's default video player.
This kind of wisdom has sadly gone the way of the dodo. The marketing department convinced everybody we need in-lined videos because that's so much better
If you think people cannot be modeled, you are deluding yourself. Adam Smith saw it, and came up with a revolutionary theory that worked. Amazingly enough, his model assumes that all people act in their own self interest.
People do not consistently act in their self interest. In fact, most of the time they don't: smoking cigarettes and using heroin are obvious examples of serving someone else's interests. But how many people buy a cars based on rational arguments?
An illusionist uses a mental model of how people perceive their environment to make things appear different from how they are - but I doubt he would know how to make an effective prediction about sales of cars based on that model.
In a similar way an economic model that has been refined and tweaked over decades to estimate economic forces can not predict the impact of e.g. the Japanese floodings earlier this year: the model does not contain a geophysical part, it is an abstraction, a simplification of the real world. The map is not the territory. Or in other words: the model is not the system. You can use the map to find your way around, but if you don't see the bridge that is clearly shown on your map, you better start breaking.
Don't get me wrong - managers SHOULD know how to use models, but managers need to manage PEOPLE - not tweak formulas on spreadsheets.
Well said. I've met quite a lot of those spreadsheet managers. They often think they Excel - but they probably misunderstood that phrase. Another, very similar type of managers are the powerpoint people, if it has been presented on a screen, it must be true.
The core problem with these people is that they confuse the map and the territory, that they give tools a higher weight than the actual objectives, the real world end result. I believe it's the driving force behind bureaucracy.
Francis Gurry studied law. First requirement is removal of logic networks from the brain if present, so that you can convincingly represent any point of view. Some notable exceptions exist. BTW, thanks NYCL, a shining light in the darkness.
Religion is the normative study of how things should be
I don't think so, it is about accepting on faith that there exists some things that we are not allowed to judge for ourselves but have to accept blindly or be punished for eternity.
Religion is not an independent search for anything, it is a frame of reference, a belief system handed to us on authority by parents, social groups etc.
As I understood it, Galileo defined the relativity of motion and Einstein build upon that, actually refining it for "higher" speeds. The basic axiom being that the speed of light is an absolute value in different frames of reference.
It means that everything else has to distort (relative to Newtonian physics) to accommodate that truth: time, space, length,...
And no, I don't think you can go faster than the speed of light in Einsteinian physics: the object needs to cover a certain distance in a certain amount of time to do that. Maybe it's counter intuitive that time is not universal and flowing at a constant rate: it is actually the flow of time that will be different to "make sure" nothing will go faster than the speed of light in any frame of reference - the flow of time is different in different frames of reference and is a consequence . And yes, objects can travel at a speed equal to the speed of light, the photons hitting your retina at this instant do just that.
The issue here is that if ANYTHING is seen travelling faster than the speed of light, Einstein was wrong. Of course, calculating power output of a nuclear reactor could still be done with E=mc as we can still used F=ma to calculate acceleration for aeroplanes etc.
The safest bet is still that something went wrong with the experiment.
Remember that Windows 8 will be an ipad'ish walled garden.
Wrong. It will not be a walled garden, it will contain a walled garden. You can still do most anything you can do today outside of that garden.
You have 20/20 foresight? It is very probable that this is another attempt at getting the "trusted platform". Trusted and owned by MS, RIAA etc. Untrusted by the poor person that will actually pay for it. I hope they will fail again.
2) When I do need to run cable, such as telephone wire for my fax machine, I put the cable in the middle of the room. Then I buy a big rug, and place it over the top of the cable.
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The problem with HP is that they use high-power automatic weapons to shoot themselves in the foot that also take out everyone else's feet, the floor, part of the walls, some of the landscape and a perfectly innocent asteroid.
They are very good weapons, but semi-automatic. Mind your feet.
Well, Belgium didn't have a government for about a year.
Lucky bastards...
Apparently, the rest of the world doesn't need one. Our beloved WWW is ruled by the World Senate in Washington D.C. (Department of Commerce).
Just like we pay 5$ to MS for an Android device, covered by software patents that don't apply over here.
This is the reason PHP will never be a well considered language and linux will not pass 1% on the desktop. Dickheads like you giva the bad name to FOSS in general. So Fuck you, asshole.
Oh, I think you just persuaded me to switch to your windows world. You and the shills.
Apparently, some of their clients are: Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Opera...
If you monitor Apple.com your sample might overestimate the number of iOS browsers, maybe even count iPods and iPads as phones...
I'd rather trust the Nilsen analysis (Android 40%, Apple 28%, RIM 19%, MS 8% of the smartphone market)
What the article is saying is that WebOS apps running inside WebKit cannot compete with iOS apps running natively.
The article doesn't say that. You infer that. The summary doesn't even mention iOS apps.
.
But frankly, I don't agree with the analysis that using webkit must necessarily be less efficient than having another layout and rendering mechanism. Perhaps implementing behavior in javascript instead of C would add a little overhead that might be too much when dealing with slow processors...
Well they can, just not individual photons or individual photon events. It's exactly the same as an oscilloscope -- you also don't see the shape of an individual pulse. You under-sample, and then add the samples together assuming it was always the same pulse.
That would make an interesting /. poll,
1) I use an analog scope
2) I use a digital scope
3) Cowboy Neal is a my scope
4) Whats an oscilloscope?
3) CowboyNeal is out of scope
They said as much: "the MythBusters had been shooting episodes"
But frankly "the MythBusters had shooting episodes" would have covered that as well...
Do you think my work computer would be running IE6 and Firefox 3.5 if I could install my own software? Shit, I can't even fire up Task Manager to kill an errant app.
You might have bigger problems than not being able to play Angry Birds...
I still build (assemble is a better word) my own desktops and servers, that way, for the same budget I get better hardware and specs that are better suited to my needs: more memory than the 4GB that seems to be the agreed upon limit these years, no Windows tax, slightly faster and larger HD, no extra unnecessary mouse/keyboard/screen/speakers. Assembly is typically half an hour, installation up to a few hours... It's still worth it.
LTS as in 10.04, so you can dist-upgrade when you have the time and most of the wrinkles are ironed out. I'll may skip another release for my desktop and laptops after reading all this stuff... servers are fine, it's mostly graphical stuff giving problems with upgrades. BTW, Xubuntu LTS has the same version of Firefox as Kubuntu LTS, Lubuntu LTS and Ubuntu LTS.
dpkg -L and dpkg -S
Three levels of package management if you want to know more, from close to the metal to more abstracted:
I suggest 'man dpkg' or 'man apt-cache' at the terminal, 'man hand in your geek card' in close proximity...
No. We never needed flash to play internet video. If you link to a video directly, it will play in your system's default video player.
This kind of wisdom has sadly gone the way of the dodo. The marketing department convinced everybody we need in-lined videos because that's so much better
If you think people cannot be modeled, you are deluding yourself. Adam Smith saw it, and came up with a revolutionary theory that worked. Amazingly enough, his model assumes that all people act in their own self interest.
People do not consistently act in their self interest. In fact, most of the time they don't: smoking cigarettes and using heroin are obvious examples of serving someone else's interests. But how many people buy a cars based on rational arguments?
An illusionist uses a mental model of how people perceive their environment to make things appear different from how they are - but I doubt he would know how to make an effective prediction about sales of cars based on that model.
In a similar way an economic model that has been refined and tweaked over decades to estimate economic forces can not predict the impact of e.g. the Japanese floodings earlier this year: the model does not contain a geophysical part, it is an abstraction, a simplification of the real world. The map is not the territory. Or in other words: the model is not the system. You can use the map to find your way around, but if you don't see the bridge that is clearly shown on your map, you better start breaking.
Everyone knows the iPhone is the phone for dumb people. Confirming Android as the phones for smart people leaves nothing for Windows.
I think they're going for Exclusivity: no one else will have one.
"My hovercraft is full of eels." [citation]
Well said. I've met quite a lot of those spreadsheet managers. They often think they Excel - but they probably misunderstood that phrase. Another, very similar type of managers are the powerpoint people, if it has been presented on a screen, it must be true.
The core problem with these people is that they confuse the map and the territory, that they give tools a higher weight than the actual objectives, the real world end result. I believe it's the driving force behind bureaucracy.
Francis Gurry studied law. First requirement is removal of logic networks from the brain if present, so that you can convincingly represent any point of view. Some notable exceptions exist. BTW, thanks NYCL, a shining light in the darkness.
Religion is the normative study of how things should be
I don't think so, it is about accepting on faith that there exists some things that we are not allowed to judge for ourselves but have to accept blindly or be punished for eternity.
Religion is not an independent search for anything, it is a frame of reference, a belief system handed to us on authority by parents, social groups etc.
I doubt IBM is well placed to do anything less expensive than anyone else...
As I understood it, Galileo defined the relativity of motion and Einstein build upon that, actually refining it for "higher" speeds. The basic axiom being that the speed of light is an absolute value in different frames of reference.
It means that everything else has to distort (relative to Newtonian physics) to accommodate that truth: time, space, length,...
And no, I don't think you can go faster than the speed of light in Einsteinian physics: the object needs to cover a certain distance in a certain amount of time to do that. Maybe it's counter intuitive that time is not universal and flowing at a constant rate: it is actually the flow of time that will be different to "make sure" nothing will go faster than the speed of light in any frame of reference - the flow of time is different in different frames of reference and is a consequence . And yes, objects can travel at a speed equal to the speed of light, the photons hitting your retina at this instant do just that.
The issue here is that if ANYTHING is seen travelling faster than the speed of light, Einstein was wrong. Of course, calculating power output of a nuclear reactor could still be done with E=mc as we can still used F=ma to calculate acceleration for aeroplanes etc.
The safest bet is still that something went wrong with the experiment.
You're sick.
And you're scared enough to post anonymously.
normal email, im(google, msn, aim.), irc, mobile texting, phones, and the ever useful face to face. :P
I like that! Now where is that f$£19 button???
Remember that Windows 8 will be an ipad'ish walled garden.
Wrong. It will not be a walled garden, it will contain a walled garden. You can still do most anything you can do today outside of that garden.
You have 20/20 foresight? It is very probable that this is another attempt at getting the "trusted platform". Trusted and owned by MS, RIAA etc. Untrusted by the poor person that will actually pay for it. I hope they will fail again.
2) When I do need to run cable, such as telephone wire for my fax machine, I put the cable in the middle of the room. Then I buy a big rug, and place it over the top of the cable.
The pro's call that a ruggedized setup.
3) Is the 2 year limit on XP relevant? Of course not, in 2 years as an XP machine it'll be due for a re-install anyway (if not before).
So basically because an XP installation degrades over time and must be reinstalled rather frequently, you conclude XP is the recommended option?