In the corporate world, people will use the Win7 style desktop. Chances are obviousy pretty good that a group policy setting will make it easy for corporate IT to decide whether to even have the Metro interface show up.
I've never looked at the source for Qt, but, when I was first looking for how big pieces of software got coded, the MINIX source was easier to read than a programming textbook IMO.
MINIX started as an educational tool and now is also being developed to be an OS for real world use on low resource systems. So it has thorough, useful comments, and it compiles into a stable and usable system. I learned a lot from it.
But the prime difference between closed and open source is you can hire or contract someone and have the features you want added, regardless of what the software originator thinks, whereas with closed, you're at the mercy of the company making it.
That is a false dichotomy. Closed source software is not automatically locked from further development or customizations. To use MS as an example, SharePoint developers seem pretty common these days and I've worked with a few companies that contracted out the work of adding features to Microsoft Office. It adds costs on top of the cost of the software, but, if the software covers the majority of your needs and developers can quickly add features using some simple Visual Studio add-ons, then it could still end up being a better price overall than going with an open source software package.
That doesn't mean open source always costs more or anything, but when you factor in development and support costs, it doesn't often boil down to "Open Source is cheaper." It can turn out to be far more nuanced than that.
And they are especially useful for all those times you are looking at your keyboard while playing a game. I know I spend at least 50% of the time I play video games staring at the keyboard thinking "What does W do again?" Now it'll change to an arrow or a picture of a person walking or something.
Up until now, gaming computers really dropped the ball because they were only displaying beautiful game content on the screen. Razer has stepped it up a notch by bringing game content to where your eyes are always looking: the keyboard.
I take back everything terrible I ever said about Razer. It is now obvious that they have a firm understanding of how gamers use their input devices.
You are acting like the fact this guy was running a Tor exit node somehow means it was impossible for him to commit the crime. That is a ridiculous line of thought and if things operated that way, every criminal could simply operate a Tor exit node and be out of reach of investigation.
I love the vid. But,/. seems to be the place to mention, the perspective of the view through the portals when she first creates portals seems wrong and it immediately bugged me.
If you look at the still image used as a placeholder for the vid, the image you see in the blue portal is from the perspective of the camera, not from the perspective of the other portal. You should be able to see her whole body in the blue portal.
Being a great browser and doing what people wanted wasn't enough to make it succeed. That's rarely enough for any product to succeed. It succeeded because it was a decent browser that was well marketed. And that marketing depended heavily on the org's stance on free software inspiring people to try it.
Anybody with knowledge on the topic: is there a way to add a Thermocouple element to this to increase the potential for power generation? Or is that an insanely expensive proposition or just a flat out bad idea?
2 weeks is not a long time for a software review process. I hope this guy never tries to publish to a console, he'll have an aneurysm.
I was pleased with Amazon for their blocking his app for not using HTTPS. That is a good standard to set. And it is irrelevant how big or small a change it is to the software. Crying about it being one letter is pointless since it's not like they could have changed it for him. They saw it wasn't using HTTPS, I assume by monitoring its traffic, and rejected it.
Ignoring the manifest is idiotic. And the inability to respond to comments is very silly, but I think that is just a symptom of a system that lets people publish from any country but only buy from the US.
So, I guess the point of my post is, a lot of us read TFA, understand it, and still have reasons to slam the guy, at least a little bit. It's not an attempt to be mean or anything, it's just some of the rant is misguided, and that takes away from the overall validity of what he has to say.
Drowning is a matter of percentages. PC has tons of shovelware, but a high enough percentage of games are good to save it. PC is also different in that old games don't have to be retired because a new version of the PC is out. The garbage games tend to vanish quickly, and the good games have been known to stick around for a very long time. StarCraft and Counter-Strike are obvious examples.
I refer to Sturgeon's Law when looking at the catalog of games for a console. I assume that if a console is decent, 80% of the games are crap. If the percentage is higher, the good games are likely to drown. If the percentage is lower, the console is godly. But that's just my random observation.
I thought that too. But I found the browser would actually lock up more with the plugins disabled. I read on the Opera forums about someone getting a performance boost from enabling plugins. I did that and saw a big difference. With them disabled, any time a plugin was requested, the browser locked. On a particularly grueling test page I found it would take up to 25 seconds more to load the page from an empty cache with plugins disabled than with them enabled.
That's on my windows computers only though. The same page on Ubuntu with plugins disabled would take less than half the time and enabling plugins slowed down the page loading.
Also, I have found that disabling plugins doesn't actually disable plugins. There is javascript code that can still load Flash content onto the page even if you disable plugins in Opera.
I've watched the requests the browser makes and tried to make test pages with different elements to see if I could intentionally trigger problems, but so far I haven't found any rhyme or reason to the performance issues.
In this case I am surprised he bothered to mention that. It sounds like bragging. I think Opera's problems take a lot less than 60 tabs to become apparent. I am an Opera user for over a decade. Nowadays I tend to have 5 to 10 tabs open at the most. And, even then, I experience a lot of slow down and generally terrible performance in the Windows version (same problems on XP Pro 32 bit, XP Home 32 bit, and 7 pro 64bit). I started to notice the problems with version 11 and since 11.50b1 came out I have reverted my Windows machines back to 10.63 for performance sake.
The XP Pro 32 bit machine is dual boot Ubuntu 11.04. On Ubuntu there is no performance issue for me. It really seems to be the case that they borked their Windows version somehow.
The native skin is what you are probably looking for. Every version of Opera that has had skins has had the option for a native skin. Right click a UI element, choose Customize, then Appearance, and click the Skins tab. In Windows at least it makes it look like a generic/standard Windows program.
A very valid point. The PR people I referred to didn't care so much about the audience as about doing what they knew. They could manipulate any market figures to make it look like a success, even if things like sales didn't improve.
But it could just be that the target audience for this is better served by a page turner as the main display. The fact that a PDF was posted that can be searched and that you can copy-pasta makes this discussion academic. They didn't screw anything up in this case. They didn't really pick the wrong way to do it. They picked 2 ways to do it: the page turner and the PDF. And in my opinion those 2 ways are an acceptable method to get this out to the largest audience possible. The page turner for the completely non-tech savvy and the PDF for those that want to save it, print it, or search it.
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In the corporate world, people will use the Win7 style desktop. Chances are obviousy pretty good that a group policy setting will make it easy for corporate IT to decide whether to even have the Metro interface show up.
I've never looked at the source for Qt, but, when I was first looking for how big pieces of software got coded, the MINIX source was easier to read than a programming textbook IMO.
MINIX started as an educational tool and now is also being developed to be an OS for real world use on low resource systems. So it has thorough, useful comments, and it compiles into a stable and usable system. I learned a lot from it.
That is a false dichotomy. Closed source software is not automatically locked from further development or customizations. To use MS as an example, SharePoint developers seem pretty common these days and I've worked with a few companies that contracted out the work of adding features to Microsoft Office. It adds costs on top of the cost of the software, but, if the software covers the majority of your needs and developers can quickly add features using some simple Visual Studio add-ons, then it could still end up being a better price overall than going with an open source software package.
That doesn't mean open source always costs more or anything, but when you factor in development and support costs, it doesn't often boil down to "Open Source is cheaper." It can turn out to be far more nuanced than that.
And they are especially useful for all those times you are looking at your keyboard while playing a game. I know I spend at least 50% of the time I play video games staring at the keyboard thinking "What does W do again?" Now it'll change to an arrow or a picture of a person walking or something.
Up until now, gaming computers really dropped the ball because they were only displaying beautiful game content on the screen. Razer has stepped it up a notch by bringing game content to where your eyes are always looking: the keyboard.
I take back everything terrible I ever said about Razer. It is now obvious that they have a firm understanding of how gamers use their input devices.
You are acting like the fact this guy was running a Tor exit node somehow means it was impossible for him to commit the crime. That is a ridiculous line of thought and if things operated that way, every criminal could simply operate a Tor exit node and be out of reach of investigation.
I love the vid. But, /. seems to be the place to mention, the perspective of the view through the portals when she first creates portals seems wrong and it immediately bugged me.
If you look at the still image used as a placeholder for the vid, the image you see in the blue portal is from the perspective of the camera, not from the perspective of the other portal. You should be able to see her whole body in the blue portal.
I'm in New Jersey. I felt it. If you're from California, you probably wouldn't have noticed it.
They added the games to Google+ a few days ago. So far, not too bad. Hopefully they don't go the route of Facebook.
Being a great browser and doing what people wanted wasn't enough to make it succeed. That's rarely enough for any product to succeed. It succeeded because it was a decent browser that was well marketed. And that marketing depended heavily on the org's stance on free software inspiring people to try it.
Anybody with knowledge on the topic: is there a way to add a Thermocouple element to this to increase the potential for power generation? Or is that an insanely expensive proposition or just a flat out bad idea?
This was the story in 2007 when they first tried this: New Mozilla working group aims to simplify enterprise Firefox deployment
...tune in next week for the continuing drama.
So Anonymous should wait to release these emails until it has been proven that The Sun and News of the World employees hacked people.
I don't know what's more beautiful, the finished product or the documentation they put together on that forum.
2 weeks is not a long time for a software review process. I hope this guy never tries to publish to a console, he'll have an aneurysm.
I was pleased with Amazon for their blocking his app for not using HTTPS. That is a good standard to set. And it is irrelevant how big or small a change it is to the software. Crying about it being one letter is pointless since it's not like they could have changed it for him. They saw it wasn't using HTTPS, I assume by monitoring its traffic, and rejected it.
Ignoring the manifest is idiotic. And the inability to respond to comments is very silly, but I think that is just a symptom of a system that lets people publish from any country but only buy from the US.
So, I guess the point of my post is, a lot of us read TFA, understand it, and still have reasons to slam the guy, at least a little bit. It's not an attempt to be mean or anything, it's just some of the rant is misguided, and that takes away from the overall validity of what he has to say.
I didn't even realize there were places that really stocked PC games any more. The video game stores I visit have made 10 or 12 PC games at a time.
Drowning is a matter of percentages. PC has tons of shovelware, but a high enough percentage of games are good to save it. PC is also different in that old games don't have to be retired because a new version of the PC is out. The garbage games tend to vanish quickly, and the good games have been known to stick around for a very long time. StarCraft and Counter-Strike are obvious examples.
I refer to Sturgeon's Law when looking at the catalog of games for a console. I assume that if a console is decent, 80% of the games are crap. If the percentage is higher, the good games are likely to drown. If the percentage is lower, the console is godly. But that's just my random observation.
I thought that too. But I found the browser would actually lock up more with the plugins disabled. I read on the Opera forums about someone getting a performance boost from enabling plugins. I did that and saw a big difference. With them disabled, any time a plugin was requested, the browser locked. On a particularly grueling test page I found it would take up to 25 seconds more to load the page from an empty cache with plugins disabled than with them enabled.
That's on my windows computers only though. The same page on Ubuntu with plugins disabled would take less than half the time and enabling plugins slowed down the page loading.
Also, I have found that disabling plugins doesn't actually disable plugins. There is javascript code that can still load Flash content onto the page even if you disable plugins in Opera.
I've watched the requests the browser makes and tried to make test pages with different elements to see if I could intentionally trigger problems, but so far I haven't found any rhyme or reason to the performance issues.
Strange. I installed it on Ubuntu 11.04 and everything just worked. I guess mileage can always vary.
In this case I am surprised he bothered to mention that. It sounds like bragging. I think Opera's problems take a lot less than 60 tabs to become apparent. I am an Opera user for over a decade. Nowadays I tend to have 5 to 10 tabs open at the most. And, even then, I experience a lot of slow down and generally terrible performance in the Windows version (same problems on XP Pro 32 bit, XP Home 32 bit, and 7 pro 64bit). I started to notice the problems with version 11 and since 11.50b1 came out I have reverted my Windows machines back to 10.63 for performance sake.
The XP Pro 32 bit machine is dual boot Ubuntu 11.04. On Ubuntu there is no performance issue for me. It really seems to be the case that they borked their Windows version somehow.
The native skin is what you are probably looking for. Every version of Opera that has had skins has had the option for a native skin. Right click a UI element, choose Customize, then Appearance, and click the Skins tab. In Windows at least it makes it look like a generic/standard Windows program.
Yesh me lord.
Being asleep does not mean being unconscious. If you can be awoken by sound, light, or movement you weren't unconscious.
A very valid point. The PR people I referred to didn't care so much about the audience as about doing what they knew. They could manipulate any market figures to make it look like a success, even if things like sales didn't improve.
But it could just be that the target audience for this is better served by a page turner as the main display. The fact that a PDF was posted that can be searched and that you can copy-pasta makes this discussion academic. They didn't screw anything up in this case. They didn't really pick the wrong way to do it. They picked 2 ways to do it: the page turner and the PDF. And in my opinion those 2 ways are an acceptable method to get this out to the largest audience possible. The page turner for the completely non-tech savvy and the PDF for those that want to save it, print it, or search it.