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In the screenshots it appears there's no difference made between menus and toolbars anymore.. the menus just kinda blur into them.
This is intentional - what is the fundamental difference between a MS windows main menu and a toolbar? Both sit at the top of the screen and allow you to select one of the options on offer.
finally catching up with Apple's translucent Ui
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Among the few noted features is that Windows now offers translucent UI, finally catching up with Apple.
Yeah, since every one knows that the primary advantage that Mac OS X has over MS Windows is that the frickin' UI is translucent. As soon as Microsoft gets that right, Apple's advantage will be gone.
PS: A) that was sarcasm B) You can get translucency on Windows Xp. Check out winamp some time.
PPS: you mean "Among the few noted features is that Windows now offers a translucent UI" or "Among the few noted features is that Windows now offers translucent UI elements"
Taking that into consideration, then, would Java with JIT qualify as an interpreted or compiled language?
Oh, it gets blurrier. In.NET, a JIT compiled environemnt, you can put text into a string, call the bytecode compiler on it, and execute it. There is no hard division between comiler and interpreted languages.
If both NVu and tidyHTML are open source, then can't they be integrated? e.g. automatically tidy the page before saving. The tidy project page even says "a library form of Tidy has been created to make it easier to incorporate Tidy into other software."
You may as well ask: are the tunes of this year as good as the greatest hits of the last ten years? They aren't? Decline of civilisation! We're doooomed!
Seriously, everytime I see a study that "proves" one thing, someone else comes out and "proves" the opposite.... As far as I can tell, everyone is still bickering at about the same level as they were 10 yrs ago.
a claimed battery life of 200 hours on standby, or 200-250 minutes when talking.... Linux sure is improving quickly on the power management front. That kind of battery life... is a meaningless statement unless you know how big the bloody batteries are. Why do I have this mental image of a device looking like a matchbox strapped to a brick?
yeah, that reminds me also how they wont transplant an organ from an HIV infected person into another HIV infected person who needs an organ... wtf??
Two reasons - Safety of the people and equipment that will come into contact with the infected blood during the procedure. - There's more than one strain of HIV. Having two of them is worse than having one.
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The part where it's always misquoted as "90% of everything is crap"
as all they see is schlock put together on the cheap
Know your sci-fi: Sturgeon's Law - Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.
Jobstats.co.uk has been doing this for years, and aggregating counts of listings from multiple sites.
complex behavior from a simple model? That just sounds like a parameter-sensitive system of differential eqations.
There are other ways of getting complexity from simple rules. Can the mandelbrot set be generated with differential eqations?
Google is giving a wink and a nod to ... OSS
Erm, they run their multi-bilion dollar business on Linux.
In the screenshots it appears there's no difference made between menus and toolbars anymore.. the menus just kinda blur into them.
This is intentional - what is the fundamental difference between a MS windows main menu and a toolbar? Both sit at the top of the screen and allow you to select one of the options on offer.
Among the few noted features is that Windows now offers translucent UI, finally catching up with Apple.
Yeah, since every one knows that the primary advantage that Mac OS X has over MS Windows is that the frickin' UI is translucent. As soon as Microsoft gets that right, Apple's advantage will be gone.
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A) that was sarcasm
B) You can get translucency on Windows Xp. Check out winamp some time.
PPS: you mean "Among the few noted features is that Windows now offers a translucent UI" or "Among the few noted features is that Windows now offers translucent UI elements"
And The Register: Bush administration annexes internet
(System.out.println()? Yeah, yeah, OO, but come on, three nested levels of scope just to get to a command line?
TFA makes it clear that making "hello world" easier was not the priority, making large systems easier was.
Taking that into consideration, then, would Java with JIT qualify as an interpreted or compiled language?
.NET, a JIT compiled environemnt, you can put text into a string, call the bytecode compiler on it, and execute it. There is no hard division between comiler and interpreted languages.
Oh, it gets blurrier. In
This got modded up? The world is smaller and weirder than I thought.
Joe Baldwin is amnesiac? There's one for the E2 rumour mill.
If both NVu and tidyHTML are open source, then can't they be integrated? e.g. automatically tidy the page before saving. The tidy project page even says "a library form of Tidy has been created to make it easier to incorporate Tidy into other software."
I don't think you can claim to know that there is a clear and present danger.
On the contrary. We don't know that it is certain, but it looks likely. Thus there is a danger of it happening.
you are arguing my side of things
*Shrug*. I didn't know that we were in a competition with sides here. Have a cookie if it makes you feel better.
Stupidest analogy ever.
Clearly, you haven't been on slashdot for long.
We don't know if there's a clear and present danger, like a gun
Really sure?
We definitely don't know enough to justify a 'fix' that could be much, much worse then the problem if we turn out to be wrong.
Yes this space ring thing is a bit drastic, so how about signing up to Kyoto and beyond instead?
You may as well ask: are the tunes of this year as good as the greatest hits of the last ten years? They aren't? Decline of civilisation! We're doooomed!
Or, maybe we could just accept the changes in climate as the natural order of things
It's natural for humans to live around 30 years each. Natural is not the issue. "Disastrous to our affluent lifestyle" is.
Seriously, everytime I see a study that "proves" one thing, someone else comes out and "proves" the opposite. ... As far as I can tell, everyone is still bickering at about the same level as they were 10 yrs ago.
The MA is a very powerful consensus about the unsustainable trajectory that most of the world's ecosystems are now on.
Wrong.
Awesome. Have you a link to a paper in a reputable journal that discusses this finding?
yes, and I posted it on my slashot journal two months ago.
all the men were weird. I don't know what kind of world Rushdie inhabits but it's nothing like the one I know.
If you are expecting strict realism, Rushdie may not be your thing.
It was horrible.
calling his writing objectivly bad is a different matter, and IMHO not waranted.
unless Rushdie's other books are magnitudes above that one
The Moor's Last Sigh may not be his best, but IMHO if you hated it, the others probably won't work for you either.
It has massive massive editing errors: missing comma.
No comma is needed in or after that phrase.
I should have done this. From TFA:
Measures 2 x 3.7 x 0.9 inches (51 x 93 x 23 mm)
Displaces 88.4 cc
Weighs 4.5 ounces (127 grams)
a claimed battery life of 200 hours on standby, or 200-250 minutes when talking. ... Linux sure is improving quickly on the power management front. That kind of battery life... is a meaningless statement unless you know how big the bloody batteries are. Why do I have this mental image of a device looking like a matchbox strapped to a brick?
Microsoft is adding technology into Longhorn?
Yes, but RSS support in the browser is actually so far from "the heart of Longhorn" that it can be added without the OS kernel team knowing or caring.
the house of cards called Longhorn.
They said the same thing about Windows 2000, and while it had it's faults it didn't exactly put MS out of business.
yeah, that reminds me also how they wont transplant an organ from an HIV infected person into another HIV infected person who needs an organ... wtf??
Two reasons
- Safety of the people and equipment that will come into contact with the infected blood during the procedure.
- There's more than one strain of HIV. Having two of them is worse than having one.