any Android phone without "Nexus" in its name is more locked-down than an iPhone.)
Not true. Android devices can install applications from any network address, or a USB connection. With iOS you have to buy through the apple app store, or pay for a developer license to use on a limited number of devices.
Shouldn't this be something Microsoft and Sony should be doing anyway?
No it should be done by an entrepreneur who will fill a niche and make a living doing do. That's how capitalism is supposed to work.
Bespoke engineering in small quantities would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit. It would be right up there with custom military equipment. At that price nobody would buy the units.
I have been involved with a few user interface development projects over the years. One trend I have noticed is that the product is often influenced by the development tools being used by the developers. One product looked exactly like microsoft visual c++, it had the same panes performing functions analogous to the functions in the development tool. I think these recent UI environments are heavily influenced by IDE software development tools. When working with an IDE the environment decides what information to show you. Rarely does the user set out to open a different window, and doing this is often a clumsy process.
you can't complain about my hairy ass if I decide to walk around naked in my apartment with open windows
Yeah, try buying a house in front of school and walking around naked in front of your picture window for a few days, then call us and tell us how far your freedom to expose your hairy ass extends.
Yeah I compiled that hello.c program. Seriously while IT at my work regulate all operating systems on their network, they haven't told me not to run this virtual machine. Additionally I am surprised it is so fast and lean on memory, while other virtual machines use all my RAM and CPU.
The desktop metaphor was a necessity in the 80s but is terribly suited for the amount of information we have today.
The new user interfaces (iOS, Android, Gnome3, etc) are generally a subset of older ones, generally with the features favoured by the developers left in. How does making a less versatile user interface help people cope with the "amount of information we have today", whatever that is?
Do you think the minimalist trend is temporary? Or should I really be worried?
Now that user interfaces have pretty much been done, developers have to justify their existence by breaking their product, and fixing it again. Don't worry, the buttons will be back; Bigger and better than ever.
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To answer the question you could charge it from a petrol powered generator.
Whats it like to drive?
You can go very fast in a short time by pointing things downwards...
There will be actually no porn to download for free if not enough people pay for it.
Maybe (NSFW link, BTW).
Plain stupid idiots like you make me very angry! I could beat the hell out of your stupid face.
Maybe you should take a stress pill and lie down.
CMC & MEA: Malaysian communications and multimedia commission. It is possible that these accounts are for research purposes.
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Anybody owning up to this one?
My favourite password so far is "remember".
I seem to have heard this name before...
Not sure what's going on in the mind of the person who used "children" as his/her password.
Looks like a lot of those people use their phone number as their password.
Do they not realise that Apple own the letter 'i'?
Oh yeah. Wait'll they infringe on my iWank trademark!
Can you prove that you have been using it?
any Android phone without "Nexus" in its name is more locked-down than an iPhone.)
Not true. Android devices can install applications from any network address, or a USB connection. With iOS you have to buy through the apple app store, or pay for a developer license to use on a limited number of devices.
Shouldn't this be something Microsoft and Sony should be doing anyway?
No it should be done by an entrepreneur who will fill a niche and make a living doing do. That's how capitalism is supposed to work.
Bespoke engineering in small quantities would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit. It would be right up there with custom military equipment. At that price nobody would buy the units.
I have been involved with a few user interface development projects over the years. One trend I have noticed is that the product is often influenced by the development tools being used by the developers. One product looked exactly like microsoft visual c++, it had the same panes performing functions analogous to the functions in the development tool. I think these recent UI environments are heavily influenced by IDE software development tools. When working with an IDE the environment decides what information to show you. Rarely does the user set out to open a different window, and doing this is often a clumsy process.
Welcome oldtimer.
Me, old? (pushes a vertebrae back into position, ah thats better).
I wonder if using different processes for each tab would help by releasing memory to the OS whenever a tab is closed?
qmail FTW.
you can't complain about my hairy ass if I decide to walk around naked in my apartment with open windows
Yeah, try buying a house in front of school and walking around naked in front of your picture window for a few days, then call us and tell us how far your freedom to expose your hairy ass extends.
It depends on where you live.
In fact, Google already does this. They do not need google.kz but they want it only to increase trust among Kazakh users.
And to prevent somebody else from registering google.kz
Yeah I compiled that hello.c program. Seriously while IT at my work regulate all operating systems on their network, they haven't told me not to run this virtual machine. Additionally I am surprised it is so fast and lean on memory, while other virtual machines use all my RAM and CPU.
The desktop metaphor was a necessity in the 80s but is terribly suited for the amount of information we have today.
The new user interfaces (iOS, Android, Gnome3, etc) are generally a subset of older ones, generally with the features favoured by the developers left in. How does making a less versatile user interface help people cope with the "amount of information we have today", whatever that is?
And now that you can boot Linux inside a VM written for javascript in a browser a web shell should be able to do pretty much anything.
Do you think the minimalist trend is temporary? Or should I really be worried?
Now that user interfaces have pretty much been done, developers have to justify their existence by breaking their product, and fixing it again. Don't worry, the buttons will be back; Bigger and better than ever.
Great operating system. If it had had a good text editor it might have taken over the world.
I am sure Netscape had this in 1999.