iTunes continues to be Carbon because it eases cross-platform development.
Sure, but Safari is Cocoa. If Apple were serious about ditching Carbon, wouldn't it make sense to write any multi-platform applications using a cocoa-lite runtime for Win32? 'Cocoa' for Windows existed in the form of openstep in the dying days of NeXT.
not to mention those devices have unremarkable rendering chips by tomorrow's standards. If the existing nvidia binary blob or nouveau equivalent could be used with a tegra2 we might have some serious grunt!
Nokia aren't lying down as far as iPhone/Android challenges go. Both Meego and Symbian will be based on Qt.
So my idea of a tablet probably resembles something like KDE desktop once the touch-screen goodies filter down. We get the best of both worlds - a 'proper' Linux with gesture support based on a toolkit that's very much at home on a touchscreen and to potentially re-use existing codebases re-skinned for mouse/keyboard or digit-based input.
None of the linked products are competitors to the iPad or a typical netbook. With a 800x480 screen and puny single-core ARM they have specs equivalent to a high end phone - except that a phone can fit in a standard trouser pocket and make voice calls.
The government does need some wins before the election. Being tough on enemies of the state such as people smugglers and Internet predators may appeal to conservative voters who might otherwise switch back to the coalition.
So don't expect this to necessarily be swept under the carpet as the govt don't want to give Tony Abbott any further ammunition on backflips.
Unless your boss is big on pair programming, hire competent people and save on a building.
As the comments re: blocking out background noise via headphones attest, frequent interruptions from co-workers do stress people out and destroy productivity. Skype/Jabber can substitute for brief chats. VNC can substitute for showing a problem on someone else's machine. Record incidents by screencast for bug reporting - Often far more productive being summoned to a co-worker's machine to view a problem that is then mysteriously not reproducible at that precise moment.
Having worked on a project with staff in multiple timezones I can relate that 'the process' is more important than cramming as many people into a physical location.
Oh, and commuting sucks. Flexible hours from home fit in better with modern family life than worker bees who leave home at 8am and return at 6pm. I for one would prefer the Spanish model of a mid-afternoon recharge...
One of the pro/cons of direct election, in the context of an Australian republic, was that you'd end hand-picked appointments - such as Hollingworth. So if the public voted for say, Geoffrey Rush, then thus it would be the will of the people.
Oracle and IBM ruthlessly compete in similar markets, so it's hardly fair. DB2 and Websphere are open source? IBM consultants are hardly going to recommend mysql and jboss when they could sell you their own solutions. Single vendor lock-in is just as bad!
Oh and Oracle's core DB business? Hmmm, I could have sworn they'd moved beyond that, strategically acquiring Peoplesoft, Siebel, BEA and now Sun in recent years - employing an army of consultants to compete with IBM's.
i think netbeans is still coming along - at least for 6.9. Not sure if there'll be a 7 any time soon though! i.e. Larry may have too much of a vested interested in JDev's tooling for Fusion Middleware. Still, keeping Java vibrant through the status quo is in Oracle's interests since their whole platform is built on Java EE running on Weblogic. While NetBeans is small fry, it contributes to the overall ecosystem.
From what I hear, any additional resources for Java will be going into the core - merging jrockit with hotspot.
These days, most distributions package the OpenJDK. This doesn't include the offending source but rather IcedTea replacements written by some clever Canadians at Red Hat.
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RSS is alive and well, at least on my phone handset.
It's the most convenient means of accessing content summaries for sites that (a) were designed for desktop resolutions, (b) choke a 3G connection.
Neology is a religion centered around a make-believe Messiah in a highly successful sci-fi trilogy by the Wachowski brothers.
As for 'neologism', well that's just some obnoxious term Wikipedia uses, as parodied by the recent malamanteau xkcd entry.
Is Labor is deliberately sabotaging their chances of re-election???
Sure, but Safari is Cocoa. If Apple were serious about ditching Carbon, wouldn't it make sense to write any multi-platform applications using a cocoa-lite runtime for Win32? 'Cocoa' for Windows existed in the form of openstep in the dying days of NeXT.
not to mention those devices have unremarkable rendering chips by tomorrow's standards. If the existing nvidia binary blob or nouveau equivalent could be used with a tegra2 we might have some serious grunt!
I mean like 2 months ago?!
Qtopia is dead, long live... KDE?
Nokia aren't lying down as far as iPhone/Android challenges go. Both Meego and Symbian will be based on Qt.
So my idea of a tablet probably resembles something like KDE desktop once the touch-screen goodies filter down. We get the best of both worlds - a 'proper' Linux with gesture support based on a toolkit that's very much at home on a touchscreen and to potentially re-use existing codebases re-skinned for mouse/keyboard or digit-based input.
Indeed, that's the purpose of qemu. As clips on youtube of wine running on an N900 attest. (x86 --> ARM)
Cowbuntu.
Who cares how fast it is if it looks bad?
Some of us just prefer gecko's rendering over webkit. Always have, always will.
Except when an earthquake destroys all the transmission towers.
None of the linked products are competitors to the iPad or a typical netbook. With a 800x480 screen and puny single-core ARM they have specs equivalent to a high end phone - except that a phone can fit in a standard trouser pocket and make voice calls.
These scientists are forced to used subversion???
Crikey, it's a new decade - better alternatives such as mercurial, git and a host of others exist.
Sorry to be a grammar nazi but your submission was probably rejected due to the use of the present participle, i.e. -ing.
Shuttleworth prefers adjectives, so in this case "Menstrual Mongoose" may have made the short list!
The government does need some wins before the election. Being tough on enemies of the state such as people smugglers and Internet predators may appeal to conservative voters who might otherwise switch back to the coalition.
So don't expect this to necessarily be swept under the carpet as the govt don't want to give Tony Abbott any further ammunition on backflips.
I know this is Slashdot but please be more precise. :-)
The confusion seems to have arisen by virtue of:
insane-policy blockers vs. insane policy-blockers. The Greens are often polarised as such, depending on the political side of the fence one sits.
Unless your boss is big on pair programming, hire competent people and save on a building.
As the comments re: blocking out background noise via headphones attest, frequent interruptions from co-workers do stress people out and destroy productivity. Skype/Jabber can substitute for brief chats. VNC can substitute for showing a problem on someone else's machine. Record incidents by screencast for bug reporting - Often far more productive being summoned to a co-worker's machine to view a problem that is then mysteriously not reproducible at that precise moment.
Having worked on a project with staff in multiple timezones I can relate that 'the process' is more important than cramming as many people into a physical location.
Oh, and commuting sucks. Flexible hours from home fit in better with modern family life than worker bees who leave home at 8am and return at 6pm. I for one would prefer the Spanish model of a mid-afternoon recharge...
Spock is half-human.
One of the pro/cons of direct election, in the context of an Australian republic, was that you'd end hand-picked appointments - such as Hollingworth. So if the public voted for say, Geoffrey Rush, then thus it would be the will of the people.
Anyway, Denny Crane has Alzheimer's. :-)
Oracle and IBM ruthlessly compete in similar markets, so it's hardly fair. DB2 and Websphere are open source? IBM consultants are hardly going to recommend mysql and jboss when they could sell you their own solutions. Single vendor lock-in is just as bad!
Oh and Oracle's core DB business? Hmmm, I could have sworn they'd moved beyond that, strategically acquiring Peoplesoft, Siebel, BEA and now Sun in recent years - employing an army of consultants to compete with IBM's.
i think netbeans is still coming along - at least for 6.9. Not sure if there'll be a 7 any time soon though! i.e. Larry may have too much of a vested interested in JDev's tooling for Fusion Middleware. Still, keeping Java vibrant through the status quo is in Oracle's interests since their whole platform is built on Java EE running on Weblogic. While NetBeans is small fry, it contributes to the overall ecosystem.
From what I hear, any additional resources for Java will be going into the core - merging jrockit with hotspot.
Only those using the 'official' Sun binary too.
These days, most distributions package the OpenJDK. This doesn't include the offending source but rather IcedTea replacements written by some clever Canadians at Red Hat.
If Cell were serious about becoming anything more than an experimental niche arch, they'd release a development kit ala BeagleBoard for such purposes.
I'm not sure if TI makes much of a loss out of the BeagleBoard but it has spawned numerous hobbyist projects...
The update was released on April 1, 2010.
C'mon Sony, it ain't funny any more.
Conroy barracks for Collingwood. Enough said.