What's the ethernet connectivity in the monitor for? I suppose it could be well-intentioned, for cable or IPTV say, but I'm concerned it might be for validating DRM against public key servers.
Saying that apple isn't going to sell software because they're a hardware company is like saying a grocer isn't going to sell apples because he sells oranges.
There are two majors: GTK+ and Qt. If you start counting WX, you also need to consider Fox, and fltk, and GNUStep, and EVAS or whatever Enlightenment uses, and probably some others I've forgotten about.
I tried ext4 as soon as it hit 2.28. I never ran into the KDE bugs, but I did notice it complaining that the filesystem was full despite many GB being free (and we're not talking about the relatively small amount reserved for root here).
It certainly wasn't fit to be renamed from ext4dev at that stage.
They certainly did break the windows HIG. Then again, I'm a big fan of standards, and yet I've deliberately broken HIGs when I knew they didn't apply well to a new kind of application. I feel justified in doing that, since I've been around since the basically the dawn of GUIs and been able to slowly watch the standardisation process of most widget types. None of that means that I want to start from scratch on a platform though, without any standard HIG already in place. It's one thing breaking the HIG when necessary. It's quite another if no one has bothered to agree on the HIG necessary for even the most typical apps.
Anyway... google are quite right here, I think. When are Linux standards people going to wake up and realise that ANY good, standardised library is better than two that are both great? Especially in open source, the fact that it's a standard allows people to focus on improving it. The whole point of an API is to have something to target your software to. It's also a standard which can be evolved later, even if the next version is as different as Qt is from GTK+. I don't give a crap if the standard is Qt or GTK+ --- whichever is chosen will eventually gain the features necessary for modern apps --- but SOME standard needs to be set.
The same argument applies (arguably doubly so) to people running pirated copies of Windows. Personally, I stick with Linux.
That said, if OS X would work reasonably on my system, I'd (at least) dual-boot it for sure. It runs perfectly well on a relative's store-bought standard PC though, and I can easily see why people would run it rather than Windows.
Apple are really being dumb by sticking with their own hardware, imho. They could probably kill windows overnight if they invested in mainstream hardware drivers, and got quickly to the critical mass where hardware manufacturers have to develop drivers for them. Even Linux has managed that, so Apple definitely could.
Uhm... yes. "Interesting insights" are not objective, accurate, interference-free measurements. "Minimum framerate" has a clear, long-established meaning, and it has nothing to do with how long your HD takes to access and load textures, nor how much caching your OS is doing, nor how much the game is doing, nor its texture management algorithms, nor the game logic time, nor rendering time, nor the interrupts and bus contention, nor the video sync. If you're going to promote this measurement, you might as well start promoting the measurement of car speed on a hot day by how many people give in and roll down the window before they get to their destination. Yes, there's a correlation. Is it a clear, unambiguous, reliable, justifiable measurement? No.
Then ditch your Windows anti-virus. I've been running Windows XP for 2.5 years without it and it's great !
It's just plain irresponsible recommending that on Windows. Maybe you got lucky with your particular workflow, but for the most part, AV is very necessary on windows.
As I understand it, cloud computing is just "vague" deployment; kind of like roaming hosting, in the sense of roaming mobile phone connections. You don't care what computer you're running on, where it is, or even how powerful it is... you just write the software to a specific API, and the cloud computing services guarantee to meet that API, wherever they put your app. If you need more power, you just buy more resources, and your software scales using the fixed API. So you write your webapp (or supercomputing app, or search engine, or MMO server, or whatever), and the underlying OS/hosting/deployment/administration are handled for you.
The first thing that struck me was the name...So Microsoft innovates the only way they know how by...
stealing an already used name?
$ apt-cache show bing Package: bing... Description: Empirical stochastic bandwidth tester
Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'),
based on ping.
.
Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average)
throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests' round trip times
for different packet sizes at each end of the link. Homepage: http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/bing_src-readme-1st.shtml
A lot of CC domain registrars are assholes still living in the 1950's, who make you send snail mail documents and all sorts of crap just to get a domain registered. Nominet in the UK make you PAY to change the registered owner of a domain, even if it was their fault that the details were wrong to begin with. There's nothing unusual about going through your local/usual registry agent to get specific domains in other countries either; no more than asking your stock broker to get you shares in a company in Australia when he's served you well when trading shares of local companies.
Asus is also known as Asustek, and many big (and even small) companies have subsidiaries etc., especially when they're dealing with different projects, international zones, etc.
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What's the ethernet connectivity in the monitor for? I suppose it could be well-intentioned, for cable or IPTV say, but I'm concerned it might be for validating DRM against public key servers.
Whatever. They were good practice for hitting Gungans later.
Saying that apple isn't going to sell software because they're a hardware company is like saying a grocer isn't going to sell apples because he sells oranges.
Well that was insightful.
If firefox wasn't free, it wouldn't have had ANY chance against the monopolistic bundling of IE.
There are two majors: GTK+ and Qt. If you start counting WX, you also need to consider Fox, and fltk, and GNUStep, and EVAS or whatever Enlightenment uses, and probably some others I've forgotten about.
Blame your your firewall, your proxy, your router, or your ISP, in about that order.
I tried ext4 as soon as it hit 2.28. I never ran into the KDE bugs, but I did notice it complaining that the filesystem was full despite many GB being free (and we're not talking about the relatively small amount reserved for root here).
It certainly wasn't fit to be renamed from ext4dev at that stage.
They certainly did break the windows HIG. Then again, I'm a big fan of standards, and yet I've deliberately broken HIGs when I knew they didn't apply well to a new kind of application. I feel justified in doing that, since I've been around since the basically the dawn of GUIs and been able to slowly watch the standardisation process of most widget types. None of that means that I want to start from scratch on a platform though, without any standard HIG already in place. It's one thing breaking the HIG when necessary. It's quite another if no one has bothered to agree on the HIG necessary for even the most typical apps.
Anyway... google are quite right here, I think. When are Linux standards people going to wake up and realise that ANY good, standardised library is better than two that are both great? Especially in open source, the fact that it's a standard allows people to focus on improving it. The whole point of an API is to have something to target your software to. It's also a standard which can be evolved later, even if the next version is as different as Qt is from GTK+. I don't give a crap if the standard is Qt or GTK+ --- whichever is chosen will eventually gain the features necessary for modern apps --- but SOME standard needs to be set.
The same argument applies (arguably doubly so) to people running pirated copies of Windows. Personally, I stick with Linux.
That said, if OS X would work reasonably on my system, I'd (at least) dual-boot it for sure. It runs perfectly well on a relative's store-bought standard PC though, and I can easily see why people would run it rather than Windows.
Apple are really being dumb by sticking with their own hardware, imho. They could probably kill windows overnight if they invested in mainstream hardware drivers, and got quickly to the critical mass where hardware manufacturers have to develop drivers for them. Even Linux has managed that, so Apple definitely could.
Well, that and another lifetime or so hand-crafting 1GB+ of memory chips, yeah.
Uhm... yes. "Interesting insights" are not objective, accurate, interference-free measurements. "Minimum framerate" has a clear, long-established meaning, and it has nothing to do with how long your HD takes to access and load textures, nor how much caching your OS is doing, nor how much the game is doing, nor its texture management algorithms, nor the game logic time, nor rendering time, nor the interrupts and bus contention, nor the video sync. If you're going to promote this measurement, you might as well start promoting the measurement of car speed on a hot day by how many people give in and roll down the window before they get to their destination. Yes, there's a correlation. Is it a clear, unambiguous, reliable, justifiable measurement? No.
Yeah, right. If you can't tell that your computer is running slow on Vista, you've no idea what a modern computer can do with good software.
It's just plain irresponsible recommending that on Windows. Maybe you got lucky with your particular workflow, but for the most part, AV is very necessary on windows.
As I understand it, cloud computing is just "vague" deployment; kind of like roaming hosting, in the sense of roaming mobile phone connections. You don't care what computer you're running on, where it is, or even how powerful it is... you just write the software to a specific API, and the cloud computing services guarantee to meet that API, wherever they put your app. If you need more power, you just buy more resources, and your software scales using the fixed API. So you write your webapp (or supercomputing app, or search engine, or MMO server, or whatever), and the underlying OS/hosting/deployment/administration are handled for you.
It may seem convoluted and unlikely to you, but (working for an ISP) I've seen stuff like that on an almost daily basis.
Any reviewer measuring FPS in relation to SSD performance should go get a job painting fences.
stealing an already used name?
$ apt-cache show bing ...
Package: bing
Description: Empirical stochastic bandwidth tester
Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'),
based on ping.
.
Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average)
throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests' round trip times
for different packet sizes at each end of the link.
Homepage: http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/bing_src-readme-1st.shtml
"Bong: Searches for sure."
Sounds like they're going for business-like non-repudiation, rather than private-citizen-like anonymity.
A lot of CC domain registrars are assholes still living in the 1950's, who make you send snail mail documents and all sorts of crap just to get a domain registered. Nominet in the UK make you PAY to change the registered owner of a domain, even if it was their fault that the details were wrong to begin with. There's nothing unusual about going through your local/usual registry agent to get specific domains in other countries either; no more than asking your stock broker to get you shares in a company in Australia when he's served you well when trading shares of local companies.
There, fixed that for you.
Asus is also known as Asustek, and many big (and even small) companies have subsidiaries etc., especially when they're dealing with different projects, international zones, etc.
The very fact that you think this is about property is why you're unfit to judge it. It's about community, and shared guardianship.
That's because you're an American.
Too much porn.