PDF is not an eBook format - it's a publishing format. PDF is the total opposite of an eBook format:
1) And eBook format should be light weight, easy to implement on small devices. PDF is the opposite. 2) And eBook format should support re-flow to work on different screen sizes. PDF is specificity designed for support exactly one target size.
Suggesting PDF means you have no idea whatsoever about the issue at hand. Bit like suggesting that Mack should join the formula one.
One of the problems with mobile apps is the "allow and install" vs "deny and not install". You read the list of privileged operations and you are left with a tough decision and no middle ground - which would be "deny and still install". If I read the list of requested privileged applications I often get a shiver.
You are doing a little hair splitting here (Most people will say it's a "diesel car" when they mean "a car with a diesel engine" - and why not - it's clear it is not the steering wheel which needs diesel to function) but in general I agree with you. NOKIA should have adopted UIQ instead which was designed for mobile use from the beginning.
I think they (NOKIA and Sony Ericsson) will pay dearly for there mistakes in the Smart-phone area.
It't the S60 user interface which NOKIA puts on top of Symbian. UIQ which was used by Sony and Motorola as user interface was a lot better. But that water under the bridge and the next generation Symbian will have Qt as user interface.
Have you overlooked that apart from Command.COM there is also CMD.EXE? All you have to do is rename your file from.BAT to.CMD and you move up to the area of 32bit computing. And yes CMD's are faster for it.
The most hard liner will only eat the part of a plants which meant to be eaten. Like Apple trees produces apple because they want the apple to be eaten so the seeds get profiled.
He'll have to prove that his work was done before his employment
This is why my private projects always start with a visit to the "Create a new project page" on SourceForge. That way no one can take them away from me.
For starters: vim comes with an optional GUI as well. So it is not just a command line editor. In fact the GUI version is pretty neat.
And secondly Vim just does more. At least more then Eclipse or Net beans does in the edit department. It might not compete against SlickEdit without tons of plug-ins but then a 3+ platform licence cost $649.00. Note that I have use Vim on 5 different platforms - one for which SlickEdit is not even available.
The notion of "precise" only comes into play when the number is presented to humans. And humans expect 1/5 to be precisely 0.2. And especially when that 0.2 is to appear on your bank statement.
If you never plan to display your data to humans then it does not matter which floating point you use.
BCD and floating point do not exclude each other. There is BCD floating point as well. And this is what we are talking about. Integer and fix point are always precise.
Correction: COBOL, PL/I and Ada. Ada has both fixed and floating point BCD arithmetic. And yes I too wonder why it is not in wider use. Perhaps it has to do with the ill conceived notion of "light weight languages" - most of which are not light weight at all any more once they are on the market for decade or so.
That is called initial investment. Then the developer tries to sell the software to get money in for continued investment. Which is basically the way closed source software works as well.
The problem really is that free has a double meaning in english. It might be the short form of freedom and might mean gratis. And free software is freedom software and not gratis software.
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PDF can re-flow and rescale.
Actually ePUB is XHTML in a zip file
PDF is not an eBook format - it's a publishing format. PDF is the total opposite of an eBook format:
1) And eBook format should be light weight, easy to implement on small devices. PDF is the opposite.
2) And eBook format should support re-flow to work on different screen sizes. PDF is specificity designed for support exactly one target size.
Suggesting PDF means you have no idea whatsoever about the issue at hand. Bit like suggesting that Mack should join the formula one.
One of the problems with mobile apps is the "allow and install" vs "deny and not install". You read the list of privileged operations and you are left with a tough decision and no middle ground - which would be "deny and still install". If I read the list of requested privileged applications I often get a shiver.
... but it uses Android instead of Windows Mobile ;-)
Qt mobile will support multi touch. Probably the main reason why NOKIA and Apple are in a patent war right now.
You are doing a little hair splitting here (Most people will say it's a "diesel car" when they mean "a car with a diesel engine" - and why not - it's clear it is not the steering wheel which needs diesel to function) but in general I agree with you. NOKIA should have adopted UIQ instead which was designed for mobile use from the beginning.
I think they (NOKIA and Sony Ericsson) will pay dearly for there mistakes in the Smart-phone area.
It't the S60 user interface which NOKIA puts on top of Symbian. UIQ which was used by Sony and Motorola as user interface was a lot better. But that water under the bridge and the next generation Symbian will have Qt as user interface.
The next generation NOKIAs will be Linux+Qt and Symbian+Qt. Why would Nokia need Microsoft with Qt in there pocket?
Martin
PS: Symbain+S60E5 was just a stop gap, never meant to last. And yes that is cheaty.
What you just described is called ePUB - a format for ebooks. Basicly XHTML in a zip file ad some optional DRM.
Actualy ePUB is better for smaller screens. But apart from that you are right.
Could have used an eBook with DRM then.
Have you overlooked that apart from Command.COM there is also CMD.EXE? All you have to do is rename your file from .BAT to .CMD and you move up to the area of 32bit computing. And yes CMD's are faster for it.
You could argue that a gcc cross compiler and cross bintools are a "general-purpose tools". But have you ever tried to create them from source
I take is you have never actually tried to create a GCC cross compiler.
the most hard-line won't eat any animal at all
The most hard liner will only eat the part of a plants which meant to be eaten. Like Apple trees produces apple because they want the apple to be eaten so the seeds get profiled.
Martin
A god who could not save his own son from being crucified.
That what I heard too. But then I also heard that "they" haven given up on it.
So version 2.6 is is not at fix level 34. Will there ever be another minor or even mayor version?
He'll have to prove that his work was done before his employment
This is why my private projects always start with a visit to the "Create a new project page" on SourceForge. That way no one can take them away from me.
For starters: vim comes with an optional GUI as well. So it is not just a command line editor. In fact the GUI version is pretty neat.
And secondly Vim just does more. At least more then Eclipse or Net beans does in the edit department. It might not compete against SlickEdit without tons of plug-ins but then a 3+ platform licence cost $649.00. Note that I have use Vim on 5 different platforms - one for which SlickEdit is not even available.
The notion of "precise" only comes into play when the number is presented to humans. And humans expect 1/5 to be precisely 0.2. And especially when that 0.2 is to appear on your bank statement.
If you never plan to display your data to humans then it does not matter which floating point you use.
Martin
I'm not comparing BCD to floating point
BCD and floating point do not exclude each other. There is BCD floating point as well. And this is what we are talking about. Integer and fix point are always precise.
Martin
Correction: COBOL, PL/I and Ada. Ada has both fixed and floating point BCD arithmetic. And yes I too wonder why it is not in wider use. Perhaps it has to do with the ill conceived notion of "light weight languages" - most of which are not light weight at all any more once they are on the market for decade or so.
Martin
That is called initial investment. Then the developer tries to sell the software to get money in for continued investment. Which is basically the way closed source software works as well.
The problem really is that free has a double meaning in english. It might be the short form of freedom and might mean gratis. And free software is freedom software and not gratis software.
Martin