What you link to doesn't seem to be about availability of news or covering events per se (BBC is well capable of doing that by themselves); Murdoch is just frustrated at quality competition he can't subdue by old and tried methods. As far as I'm concerned, the only stories from News corp which should finds its way to BBC (and can't finds its way there other than via News corp) are...commentaries about News corp type of coverage. BBC will be well allowed to do that even with paywall.
(funny thing, Times often gives me 404 already for some time; maybe I'm not in the proper part of the world?)
If he can get people to subscribe on the iPads/Kindles/Nooks/etc. of the world, more power to him. However, the majority of news readership will still be people on computers looking at websites.
Also, we'll see how Google approach to tablets will turn out (they are doing fine with mobile phones...); I wouldn't be surprised if Google cooks up a nicely optimised, for such device, version of Google News.
Thing which are relevant and worth putting on Slashdot will most likely find their way on large websites certainly remaining free. Or is, say, BBC suddenly a "niche"?
Or it will simply make people read BBC (which is most likely way at the top already) more often; considering they are also one of the most sensible news services on the web, I can see only benefits.
More generally, dreams seem to have, quite often, much in common (in various weird ways...) with the thing on which we were fixated before going to sleep - and it's hard to find many examples (except for one obvious one) of people being so totally fixated on something, just before their sleep, as gamers / late night gaming zombies.
So it doesn't seem weird at all that they will often basically continue; hence "safe" dreams & being the aggresor (around what most games revolve)
Supposedly Opera uses "now" (still in beta version, as far as current one for Linux goes; they concentrated on Win probably due to browser ballot) both gtk+ and Qt, depeding where it runs, in the place where Qt was exclusive previously; something like that.
And IIRC their general UI/etc. has some common roots; I seem to remember they were basically across the street from Trolltech, took Qt as a starting point and refined it over the years for their needs...something like that.
4 -> 5 will be most likely about ironing it out; big changes they felt are needed were made quite recently after all, they have foundations they wanted.
Major versioning of KDE simply follows major versioning of Qt.
Google Chrome is your example of "big software projects still not flocking to Qt"? It's a separate thing from KDE, and a great toolkit. Chrome was mostly ill thought out as a single platform app initially, and afterwards - perhaps the team was more used to Gtk+; or they convinced themselves that Qt makes sense "only" when it would be used across all platforms (and with huge work done already on Win version...)
Here, a short list of apparently "not big" software projects using Qt: Autodesk Maya, Mathematica, Google Earth, Symbian, MeeGo, Opera, Skype, VLC, VirtualBox, Adobe Photoshop Album, , Last.fm Player, Scribus, Xconfig; not very exhaustive, too.
Sure, music/video players, phones, GPS (not like those devices are separate nowadays) - but I suspect not in the way people imagine (really, doesn't this tech seem good to cover most / whole surface of the device, for example?). Things we have are already quite pocket sized and besides, the main problem with miniaturisation is battery nowadays - that won't improve much in coming years.
Or...how many constantly used or "wearable" devices / etc. have similar levels of awkwardness? (one which still might not improve on the problems much in this case) Plus we already have quite workable solution
And I take it you've seen Batman Begins recently?;)
I guess you thinking that I was talking merely about the price (plus that's in relation to costs acceptable in given place, as always) ilustrates the issue...
The only small consumer product (to be most general) with large and thin retracting/rollup part that I can think of is a measurement equipment. Similar idea with the stripe being much wider and containing a screen probably can't be made sturdy enough... (and cheaply enough)
I suspect one should look at rollup screens, that are shown now and then, mostly as a nice demo with easy appeal. Not much more perhaps even until the time of things like Nokia Morph (which is a quite different ballgame) or contact lenses with video overlay.
You really should look closer at what oftem happens after your average revolution...especially in places which aren't known for low crime rates or, generally, civic society (how much the US falls under that?)
Plus take note that the most "nice" places to live are for a long, long time quite stable; changes being gradual / mostly reflecting...the positive direction in which those societies manage to take themselves. Over generations.
In Greece you don't see a revolution, you see external "violence", essentially (and resistance to it...), in face of possible collapse. Sure, violence which is undeniably positive, but still. And collapse - nope, not really happening (the closest to it will be social disorder which is already happening in Greece for some time; but that's a show of sentiments which caused the problems)
Sorry if I have a bit of a grim outlook at revolutions, being from an ex-Soviet Block place that is in the EU now.
Or perhaps they just want to have somewhat oval screen on some of their devices; or even most of the surface of the device being a screen. Highly flexible display should come handy during manufacturing...and then simply remain in place, under protective layer.
I imagine such screens would be useful during the process of manufacture of various gadgets (and after production remaining in one shape, with hard translucent shell around it; otherwise it would be damaged too easily). In that case distortion shouldn't be a problem.
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What you link to doesn't seem to be about availability of news or covering events per se (BBC is well capable of doing that by themselves); Murdoch is just frustrated at quality competition he can't subdue by old and tried methods.
As far as I'm concerned, the only stories from News corp which should finds its way to BBC (and can't finds its way there other than via News corp) are...commentaries about News corp type of coverage. BBC will be well allowed to do that even with paywall.
(funny thing, Times often gives me 404 already for some time; maybe I'm not in the proper part of the world?)
If he can get people to subscribe on the iPads/Kindles/Nooks/etc. of the world, more power to him. However, the majority of news readership will still be people on computers looking at websites.
Also, we'll see how Google approach to tablets will turn out (they are doing fine with mobile phones...); I wouldn't be surprised if Google cooks up a nicely optimised, for such device, version of Google News.
The community will ensure that stories with those links never get modded up enough to appear on the home page.
As a side note, I have not found any UK media worth reading or watching. US media is the best anyway.
Make sarcasm more clear next time, some AC already didn't notice it and there are surely more to follow...
Thing which are relevant and worth putting on Slashdot will most likely find their way on large websites certainly remaining free. Or is, say, BBC suddenly a "niche"?
He will buy BBC? How exactly?
Or it will simply make people read BBC (which is most likely way at the top already) more often; considering they are also one of the most sensible news services on the web, I can see only benefits.
How relevant can it really be considering that often in dreams, as far as FPP & TPP goes, you're doing both at the same time...or neither? ;)
Oh, don't be so hard on him; age shows its toll; it awaits us, too. ;p
Should I be scared if things like that sometimes turn out accurate, but..."damn, I shouldn't ought to know that!"?
More generally, dreams seem to have, quite often, much in common (in various weird ways...) with the thing on which we were fixated before going to sleep - and it's hard to find many examples (except for one obvious one) of people being so totally fixated on something, just before their sleep, as gamers / late night gaming zombies.
So it doesn't seem weird at all that they will often basically continue; hence "safe" dreams & being the aggresor (around what most games revolve)
Supposedly Opera uses "now" (still in beta version, as far as current one for Linux goes; they concentrated on Win probably due to browser ballot) both gtk+ and Qt, depeding where it runs, in the place where Qt was exclusive previously; something like that.
And IIRC their general UI/etc. has some common roots; I seem to remember they were basically across the street from Trolltech, took Qt as a starting point and refined it over the years for their needs...something like that.
4 -> 5 will be most likely about ironing it out; big changes they felt are needed were made quite recently after all, they have foundations they wanted.
Major versioning of KDE simply follows major versioning of Qt.
Google Chrome is your example of "big software projects still not flocking to Qt"?
It's a separate thing from KDE, and a great toolkit. Chrome was mostly ill thought out as a single platform app initially, and afterwards - perhaps the team was more used to Gtk+; or they convinced themselves that Qt makes sense "only" when it would be used across all platforms (and with huge work done already on Win version...)
Here, a short list of apparently "not big" software projects using Qt: Autodesk Maya, Mathematica, Google Earth, Symbian, MeeGo, Opera, Skype, VLC, VirtualBox, Adobe Photoshop Album, , Last.fm Player, Scribus, Xconfig; not very exhaustive, too.
Sure, music/video players, phones, GPS (not like those devices are separate nowadays) - but I suspect not in the way people imagine (really, doesn't this tech seem good to cover most / whole surface of the device, for example?). Things we have are already quite pocket sized and besides, the main problem with miniaturisation is battery nowadays - that won't improve much in coming years.
Or...how many constantly used or "wearable" devices / etc. have similar levels of awkwardness? (one which still might not improve on the problems much in this case)
Plus we already have quite workable solution
And I take it you've seen Batman Begins recently? ;)
You know, or you can just get normal (and sturdy! in this case that really matters) measuring tape with all units needed by you already on it...
With magification you're thinking about totally different type of device; with high quality optical system and for which such screen is not required.
I guess you thinking that I was talking merely about the price (plus that's in relation to costs acceptable in given place, as always) ilustrates the issue...
No, waste is about much more (X axis)
The only small consumer product (to be most general) with large and thin retracting/rollup part that I can think of is a measurement equipment. Similar idea with the stripe being much wider and containing a screen probably can't be made sturdy enough... (and cheaply enough)
I suspect one should look at rollup screens, that are shown now and then, mostly as a nice demo with easy appeal. Not much more perhaps even until the time of things like Nokia Morph (which is a quite different ballgame) or contact lenses with video overlay.
I would hope we, as societies, would be able to resist such waste...
But I don't hold by breath.
You really should look closer at what oftem happens after your average revolution...especially in places which aren't known for low crime rates or, generally, civic society (how much the US falls under that?)
Plus take note that the most "nice" places to live are for a long, long time quite stable; changes being gradual / mostly reflecting...the positive direction in which those societies manage to take themselves. Over generations.
In Greece you don't see a revolution, you see external "violence", essentially (and resistance to it...), in face of possible collapse. Sure, violence which is undeniably positive, but still. And collapse - nope, not really happening (the closest to it will be social disorder which is already happening in Greece for some time; but that's a show of sentiments which caused the problems)
Sorry if I have a bit of a grim outlook at revolutions, being from an ex-Soviet Block place that is in the EU now.
It doesn't have to be meant for screens foldable to end user. Just for fab making gadgets.
Or perhaps they just want to have somewhat oval screen on some of their devices; or even most of the surface of the device being a screen. Highly flexible display should come handy during manufacturing...and then simply remain in place, under protective layer.
I imagine such screens would be useful during the process of manufacture of various gadgets (and after production remaining in one shape, with hard translucent shell around it; otherwise it would be damaged too easily). In that case distortion shouldn't be a problem.
the fact that I didn't properly proofread by one sentence post
Not a big deal really, considering the "editing" of TFS...
If you think your government "sucks" or is a "parasite"...then you must realise that ultimatelly governments are a reflection of the society.
The type of society is what allows it, nothing else (isn't "get rich quick" generally admired and desired among most of that society?)