Oh come on, dude. Bitmaps, SVG, web fonts. You cherry-picked only the elements of HTML that can be described accurately. But those features are only spices, not the base of a typical web page.
What other downsides are there in using NDK? How much will it hurt portability? I'm generally excited about writing high-performance native games for Android.
Yes, it's me, Internet Explorer... But I have changed! Please believe me... I'm not the sluggish bastard who screws up your surroundings and does not play along with common agreements, anymore... It's all gonna be different with version 11! You have to trust me...
If you browse the old Slashdot articles, you can see that it has been mostly the same all the time. Others blame CmdrTaco leaving, others Dice. Slashdot has always be more about fun than being a high-quality journalistic publication. There is no convincing proof that the site is going downhill.
These days a lot of information about engineering various things is possessed by companies with availability to a small group of people. When they abandon the product, the internal information may be just nuked instead of publishing it openly. Many inventions, which are useful to the humankind in general, are produced in proprietary manner. I think this is problematic.
That is the worst problem with open source these days. Little bugs and misfunctioning parts everywhere. Quality assurance is needed more than anything.
There has to be a substantial, paid, fulltime project team to do UI, feature work, localization, QA and regression testing, doc, and document interoperability/backwards compatibility for each release. Testing has to cover many OS releases, video drivers, and targeted display devices as well as end user natural language, and include reduced RAM/swap space installations. That's what Microsoft has. That's why I don't consider OpenOffice a bargain even for free.
Wise words, my brother. That's exactly the problem with many OSS projects. Modern software is so complex that you really want solid funding and good bunch of full-time developers and quality assurance people to make a perfect product. If this was the case with OpenOffice too, it would have already steamrolled MS Office.
43.5 million kilowatt hours ?? And then what - they'll dismantle it?
Yes. Then all the data has been processed. In that power budget all programs should have finished and returned the Final Result which is then archived and the computers will be shut down. Then the building is transformed into a generic concrete slab factory.
If the company is hacked or sells your email address to spammers, just delete the alias.
Additionally, shame the company in public...
Another classic trick you can use is to include a plus sign and some text after your username, i.e. john.doe+ubisoft@example.com. The '+ubisoft' part is ignored when the mail is delivered, but you can still see it in the "To" field.
Security update regarding your Ubisoft account
- please create a new password
Dear Member,
We recently found that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorised access to some of our online systems. We instantly took steps to close off this access, investigate the incident and begin restoring the integrity of any compromised systems.
During this process, we learned that data had been illegally accessed from our account database, including user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Please note that no personal payment information is stored with Ubisoft, meaning your debit/credit card information was safe from this intrusion.
As a result, we are recommending that you change the password for your account: <account name>
Out of an abundance of caution, we also recommend that you change your password on any other Web site or service where you use the same or a similar password.
Sure. My original silly comment reads "Let me guess that most of Slashdotters didn't even know that there was a person called Don Mattrick at Microsoft and thought that all the games division big decisions were once again made by Steve Ballmer only."
Let me guess that most of Slashdotters didn't even know that there was a person called Don Mattrick at Microsoft and thought that all the games division big decisions were once again made by Steve Ballmer only.
Slashdot Mirror
A real word would still be better. It should be made able to write a natural language completely without special symbols.
It's a troll article. The news is on Slashdot probably only to collect comments which brag about the stupidity of this idea.
Oh come on, dude. Bitmaps, SVG, web fonts. You cherry-picked only the elements of HTML that can be described accurately. But those features are only spices, not the base of a typical web page.
It's still often clunky for any software which is acquired from outside the distribution's repository.
What other downsides are there in using NDK? How much will it hurt portability? I'm generally excited about writing high-performance native games for Android.
Why do yanks have so crappy Internet connections? They are a superpower after all.
Yes, it's me, Internet Explorer... But I have changed! Please believe me... I'm not the sluggish bastard who screws up your surroundings and does not play along with common agreements, anymore... It's all gonna be different with version 11! You have to trust me...
If you browse the old Slashdot articles, you can see that it has been mostly the same all the time. Others blame CmdrTaco leaving, others Dice. Slashdot has always be more about fun than being a high-quality journalistic publication. There is no convincing proof that the site is going downhill.
Damn. This guy did way more than Steve Jobs ever hoped to. :(
They were both influential. Steve did a huge amount of important stuff in marketing and leading a company. Doug in engineering.
"you can thank Doug Engelbart, who passed away today"
Then, no. No, we can't.
The sad part is that frankly, before this news item, I could not have told who is "Doug Engelbart". The media does not talk about the real engineers.
HTML still cannot be accurately reproduced.
Thanks, but can you please specify WHAT are you linking to, instead of just pouring a bunch of obscure YouTube links?
These days a lot of information about engineering various things is possessed by companies with availability to a small group of people. When they abandon the product, the internal information may be just nuked instead of publishing it openly. Many inventions, which are useful to the humankind in general, are produced in proprietary manner. I think this is problematic.
That is the worst problem with open source these days. Little bugs and misfunctioning parts everywhere. Quality assurance is needed more than anything.
There has to be a substantial, paid, fulltime project team to do UI, feature work, localization, QA and regression testing, doc, and document interoperability/backwards compatibility for each release. Testing has to cover many OS releases, video drivers, and targeted display devices as well as end user natural language, and include reduced RAM/swap space installations. That's what Microsoft has. That's why I don't consider OpenOffice a bargain even for free.
Wise words, my brother. That's exactly the problem with many OSS projects. Modern software is so complex that you really want solid funding and good bunch of full-time developers and quality assurance people to make a perfect product. If this was the case with OpenOffice too, it would have already steamrolled MS Office.
43.5 million kilowatt hours ?? And then what - they'll dismantle it?
Yes. Then all the data has been processed. In that power budget all programs should have finished and returned the Final Result which is then archived and the computers will be shut down. Then the building is transformed into a generic concrete slab factory.
If the company is hacked or sells your email address to spammers, just delete the alias.
Additionally, shame the company in public...
Another classic trick you can use is to include a plus sign and some text after your username, i.e. john.doe+ubisoft@example.com. The '+ubisoft' part is ignored when the mail is delivered, but you can still see it in the "To" field.
Security update regarding your Ubisoft account
- please create a new password
Dear Member,
We recently found that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorised access to some of our online systems. We instantly took steps to close off this access, investigate the incident and begin restoring the integrity of any compromised systems.
During this process, we learned that data had been illegally accessed from our account database, including user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Please note that no personal payment information is stored with Ubisoft, meaning your debit/credit card information was safe from this intrusion.
As a result, we are recommending that you change the password for your account: <account name>
To enter your new password, click the link below: https://secure.ubi.com/register/ResetPassword.aspx?...
Out of an abundance of caution, we also recommend that you change your password on any other Web site or service where you use the same or a similar password.
You can find more information here https://support.ubi.com/en-GB/FAQ.aspx?platformid=60&brandid=2030&productid=3888&faqid=kA030000000eYYxCAM.
For any additional support enquiries, please contact our customer service via our support web site at https://support.ubi.com/
We sincerely apologise to all of you for the inconvenience. Please rest assured that your security remains our priority.
The Ubisoft team
Actually, "should of" has been clearly gaining popularity lately for some reason.
Sure. My original silly comment reads "Let me guess that most of Slashdotters didn't even know that there was a person called Don Mattrick at Microsoft and thought that all the games division big decisions were once again made by Steve Ballmer only."
Makes my recent comment look kind of funny...
Let me guess that most of Slashdotters didn't even know that there was a person called Don Mattrick at Microsoft and thought that all the games division big decisions were once again made by Steve Ballmer only.
This is correct. The Linux Foundation pays for Linus to develop Linux.
I think he means "though I'm also aware of the Linus' "fuck you, NVIDIA" moment".
Wrong. It's impossible to use higher revisions of OpenGL on the open source AMD drivers, and the AMD binary drivers are complete shit.
I recently tried the open source Radeon drivers and to my surprise they exposed a OpenGL 3.0 core profile.