Mobile devices just don't have the CPU power and battery life to do HTML5 anywhere close to the efficiency of native code. WebOS made this point painfully clear many years ago.
Am I the only one who loves KDE? I like the desktop. I like Dolphin. I think kio_slaves (if they are still called that) provide enormous out-of-the-box connectivity to nearly every remote system I need to connect to.
Another good question, is assuming you "make it illegal" how in the world would you enforce that? What would the reg look like?
That's really easy: Nobody (and I mean nobody) gets access to flash orders. No stock exchange should be allowed to let a third party inspect the details of a pending trade, and then make their own transaction before the initial trade is complete.
That is so painfully obvious I can't believe you would have to ask.
Stick with what you're good at! There's no reason to look at something like PHP if you are skilled in another, arguably more useful language.
Oracle shenanigans aside, Java is a good platform for web development. PHP may be quicker to put something up, but it has a bunch of rough edges to it (like multibyte character strings, really poor consistency for database drivers) that I wish I didn't have to deal with.
Besides, modern IE isn't exactly that difficult to support. Most browsers are much more forgiving and less picky than they were just a couple of years ago so if it displays right in Chrome/Firefox, chances are it does actually work just as well in say, IE7+ anyway.
I wish this lie would simply go away.
There is something fundamentally broken when your web browser requires non-standard markup in order to display standards-based markup.
But Microsoft just posted a very profitable quarter. According to their "investor relations" page, their profit margins increased in servers & tools, their business division and their Windows & Live divisions.
Worst CEO? Not by a long shot. Incredibly out of touch? Sure, but he's not the only one in the business.
Microsoft isn't banning browser per se, it is limiting access to APIs that might be insecure and could be used for hacking the system.
Limiting access to APIs that Microsoft is using for themselves for their own browser is downright shady.
It has different APIs from standard Windows APIs and is much more secured.
How do we know it's secure at all? I trust Firefox and Google to provide far better security to me than some black box dumped by Microsoft and pumped by you shills.
Oh dear, your language makes me immediately reach for a -1 modifier. But then I catch the content of your post and suddenly it's +1 Informative, Funny and Insightful all at once.
Thanks for the laughs, or in other words, I'm fresh out of mod points.
Thanks for weakening our infrastructure, FBI! Also, after seeing how widely abused CALEA is, it's the last thing I want to see pushed on the American public.
This strikes at the very heart of Microsoft's problem with consumers. Who the hell wants to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a PC that can't do the job of a $20 DVD player from Walmart?
Since the very first release of Windows XP, Microsoft has been fucking up enormously in the eyes of every user that has ever tried to do something as simple as watching a DVD. And for what? The $1.25 it costs for the MPEG license?
And now they're going to offer this "feature" as an additional purchase that you can make? I guess that's better than where they sat with Windows XP (just a "Sorry, you don't have teh right softwarez" error) because they are at least offering to fix the problem. But any slim monetization they manage to work up with this scheme will hurt them 100 times worse on their bottom line, as consumers will continue to avoid *anything* as bad as Microsoft. Just go look at the new Windows phone -- it may have some compelling features in there somewhere, but who the hell wants to trust Microsoft with their personal devices any more?
I can't wait for you to explain me what exactly were strikes against Iraq and Afghanistan about.
The US had some highly justified reasons for striking in Afghanistan. Please don't lump those "operations" together as if they were both equally frivolous wars.
I like your analogy to condoms. I don't use them because there are better solutions to birth control. Same goes for anti-malware, you can avoid it altogether by making better choices when it comes to the software that you run on your computer.
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Mobile devices just don't have the CPU power and battery life to do HTML5 anywhere close to the efficiency of native code. WebOS made this point painfully clear many years ago.
Of course the Supreme Court found it Constitutional. When was the last time they told the government "no" to having any power that matters?
Am I the only one who loves KDE? I like the desktop. I like Dolphin. I think kio_slaves (if they are still called that) provide enormous out-of-the-box connectivity to nearly every remote system I need to connect to.
And KWrite rocks.
OCZ Agility 3
Have you ever benchmarked that thing? Moves more MB/s than any other technology I've ever been lucky enough to touch... Kind of makes my head spin.
since the Playbook requires a Blackberry phone for network connectivity.
Where in the world are you getting this??
a Windows Phone on Virgin Mobile would be a lot better than the cheap, often laggy Android devices they have.
My experience on VM has left me in the "Anything but Android" camp. Their current offerings are almost 100% Android based, much to my dismay.
If you have a moderately busy smartphone with lots of apps
Ugh, no thanks. I guess simplicity is what I prefer about the large tiles, and keeping the app count low is also something that appeals to me too.
** Probably not a typical user, like most of Slashdot.
If there's one thing I like about WP7, it's those big, unmistakable, easy-to-press tiles.
Android, IMO, suffers from usability problems caused from cramming too many small buttons on the screen.
I'm not disappointed in a slower release cycle. It should improve the quality of each release.
2^168 provides a pretty damn good space to search.
My fucking tools and workbench are not you damn designer plaything Microsoft
As long as you continue to purchase your tools from Microsoft, that's exactly what they are!
I won't buy any PC or motherboard with UEFI unless it can be disabled
I have a motherboard with UEFI but it doesn't enforce any of this secure boot nonsense.
Another good question, is assuming you "make it illegal" how in the world would you enforce that? What would the reg look like?
That's really easy: Nobody (and I mean nobody) gets access to flash orders. No stock exchange should be allowed to let a third party inspect the details of a pending trade, and then make their own transaction before the initial trade is complete.
That is so painfully obvious I can't believe you would have to ask.
Stick with what you're good at! There's no reason to look at something like PHP if you are skilled in another, arguably more useful language.
Oracle shenanigans aside, Java is a good platform for web development. PHP may be quicker to put something up, but it has a bunch of rough edges to it (like multibyte character strings, really poor consistency for database drivers) that I wish I didn't have to deal with.
Besides, modern IE isn't exactly that difficult to support. Most browsers are much more forgiving and less picky than they were just a couple of years ago so if it displays right in Chrome/Firefox, chances are it does actually work just as well in say, IE7+ anyway.
I wish this lie would simply go away.
There is something fundamentally broken when your web browser requires non-standard markup in order to display standards-based markup.
3 comments in your entire account history and they are all in this article. You stink.
But Microsoft just posted a very profitable quarter. According to their "investor relations" page, their profit margins increased in servers & tools, their business division and their Windows & Live divisions.
Worst CEO? Not by a long shot.
Incredibly out of touch? Sure, but he's not the only one in the business.
Whoosh.
Microsoft isn't banning browser per se, it is limiting access to APIs that might be insecure and could be used for hacking the system.
Limiting access to APIs that Microsoft is using for themselves for their own browser is downright shady.
It has different APIs from standard Windows APIs and is much more secured.
How do we know it's secure at all? I trust Firefox and Google to provide far better security to me than some black box dumped by Microsoft and pumped by you shills.
Oh dear, your language makes me immediately reach for a -1 modifier. But then I catch the content of your post and suddenly it's +1 Informative, Funny and Insightful all at once.
Thanks for the laughs, or in other words, I'm fresh out of mod points.
Thanks for weakening our infrastructure, FBI! Also, after seeing how widely abused CALEA is, it's the last thing I want to see pushed on the American public.
This strikes at the very heart of Microsoft's problem with consumers. Who the hell wants to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a PC that can't do the job of a $20 DVD player from Walmart?
Since the very first release of Windows XP, Microsoft has been fucking up enormously in the eyes of every user that has ever tried to do something as simple as watching a DVD. And for what? The $1.25 it costs for the MPEG license?
And now they're going to offer this "feature" as an additional purchase that you can make? I guess that's better than where they sat with Windows XP (just a "Sorry, you don't have teh right softwarez" error) because they are at least offering to fix the problem. But any slim monetization they manage to work up with this scheme will hurt them 100 times worse on their bottom line, as consumers will continue to avoid *anything* as bad as Microsoft. Just go look at the new Windows phone -- it may have some compelling features in there somewhere, but who the hell wants to trust Microsoft with their personal devices any more?
I can't wait for you to explain me what exactly were strikes against Iraq and Afghanistan about.
The US had some highly justified reasons for striking in Afghanistan. Please don't lump those "operations" together as if they were both equally frivolous wars.
I like your analogy to condoms. I don't use them because there are better solutions to birth control. Same goes for anti-malware, you can avoid it altogether by making better choices when it comes to the software that you run on your computer.