Too bad it's a resistive touch screen, capacitive would be much better.
A while ago someone said in/. that a capacitive touchscreen requires glass, glossy surface to function. Thus the possibility of making a matte screen would still speak for resistive ones. And, the accuracy with a stylus, as tepples said.
It doesn't add clarity at all, especially when mixed with interchangeable != True and == False instead of (!func()) and != False in other places, probably for completeness. And such code usually doesn't stop at this level of redundancy.
That reminded me - I have sometimes pondered if programs should only have "positive" configuration options, for example "[x] Load tabs before being selected" instead of "[ ] Don't load tabs until selected". Is there some written GUI guidelines as to whether or not use "don't" to negate the statement?
I would also be interested to know the reason. I'm not sure I'd want an external drive the size of a pizza, but many tower cases have 5.25" slots available and could use something à la Quantum Bigfoot.
Also, good luck playing Angry Birds without a touch screen.
Only if the Android version requires a presence of touch screen to work correctly (?). In concept Angry Birds is playable with a normal mouse too - that's how the desktop version works.
Still, I don't even think HTML5 is the right tool for the job anymore, we need a stronger push for something to replace HTML and HTTP that better supports interactive web applications for interactive web applications, HTML at this point would be better left as a document markup language to handle informational documents, whilst applications are built using a new language. There's no reason the two couldn't interoperate well, just have web apps use app:// or whatever and the existing URL scheme can happily handle linking between them. There has been a few attempts at this sort of technology but nothing serious.
Extremely well said, this is something I've wanted to have to some time already. HTML/HTTP has never worked very well for applications, and it's becoming more and more a mess of bubblegum.
It's funny see if the release of iTV makes people spin it "Apple was the one to invent HD digital television" or something, just like some people have claimed Apple to have invented the smartphone.;)
If you want a good, relatively cheap general purpose computer, get an AMD Zacate system either as a netbook or, a mini-ITX system with some 120€ 1080p display.
There are a lot of people in the world who have sensitive eyes. A lot more than the blind. And still there is a lot of software that uses the black-text-on-white-background color scheme. Of all the possible choices, this is the one that causes the worst eyestrain. So if you are a software developer, take pity on hurting and watering eyes and allow us to use a darker color scheme. Windows Aero, I'm (not) looking at you!
Also websites, as people spend a lot of time with those. Currently the situation is that when you set your web browser to force some kind of black theme, it breaks so much that it's not worth it. So a good (and quite simple) solution would be a trend among web developers to make sites offer a black color theme.
I have also been using the Compiz "Invert colors" effect with some success, but it's not the nicest way to do it.:)
There exists a manufacturing process for a CD/DVD disc: DualDisc. Your details are correct, though, and even that method involves creating a slightly thicker disc (1.5mm).
I just wonder how a blind user knows whether the install CD is inserted the right way up in the first place.
Well...
1) When taking out of the case, it is usually the label side up
2) By feel
3) If the user does not hear the drive seeking or eventually the drum sound, it's worth trying flipping around
4) You can simply try both ways without it causing any damage
5) Ultimately, ask someone else
I have an old (2004-era) laptop that I still use for a testbed. It's a 1GHz Athlon-M with 1GB of RAM. I formatted it asext2 to save some CPU cycles, so yes, the old ways can come in handy.
I suspect you are not getting any meaningful savings. A FS driver is mostly just copying some buffers around, not much CPU needed.
Interesting question, actually. I guess general altruism could be one explanation. Wishing well for some nice guy gives a kind of warm feeling to a person.
How on earth you need 700MB for a printer driver and software is beyond me..
Well, let's try to crack this. Has anyone here dissected those monstrous driver packages and looked at what there takes so much space? Or, can make an insightful guess?
In that capacity you could create a complete operating system with all applications. Even I am not stupid enough to roll a driver package of that size. Let me just jump out of the window.
Considering the (mostly) invincible state of good encryption, this seems unnecessary. Sure, it is a fun idea, but not a practical one.
Even for encrypted data this can be added as an extra measure to the user's security toolkit. Maybe there was some problem in the encryption process, or the cipher is found weak, or someone will be able to crack the data in the future with brute force. This gives you the last bit of extra protection, the kind of "nuking it from the orbit is the only way to be sure".
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Only minor share of P2P is used for legal purposes. Most of it is warez.
Too bad it's a resistive touch screen, capacitive would be much better.
A while ago someone said in /. that a capacitive touchscreen requires glass, glossy surface to function. Thus the possibility of making a matte screen would still speak for resistive ones. And, the accuracy with a stylus, as tepples said.
I just tested out 32-bit linux mint cinnamon in VirtualBox. Most of the text is missing!
http://i.imgur.com/F0af2.jpg
This is a good example case of some weird broken stuff you come across every now and then when using desktop Linux.
Can someone explain what happens there? Someone suggested it's about video memory. Then why does it not check if there's enough available?
Whatever the reason is, there's not enough robustness in the GUI.
It doesn't add clarity at all, especially when mixed with interchangeable != True and == False instead of (!func()) and != False in other places, probably for completeness. And such code usually doesn't stop at this level of redundancy.
That reminded me - I have sometimes pondered if programs should only have "positive" configuration options, for example "[x] Load tabs before being selected" instead of "[ ] Don't load tabs until selected". Is there some written GUI guidelines as to whether or not use "don't" to negate the statement?
I would also be interested to know the reason. I'm not sure I'd want an external drive the size of a pizza, but many tower cases have 5.25" slots available and could use something à la Quantum Bigfoot.
Also, good luck playing Angry Birds without a touch screen.
Only if the Android version requires a presence of touch screen to work correctly (?). In concept Angry Birds is playable with a normal mouse too - that's how the desktop version works.
where PHP became a language of choice, with people writing things like: if (myfunc() == True)
I remember a story about a PHP coder who used things like $jep (Finnish for "yeah") extensively for variable names.
Still, I don't even think HTML5 is the right tool for the job anymore, we need a stronger push for something to replace HTML and HTTP that better supports interactive web applications for interactive web applications, HTML at this point would be better left as a document markup language to handle informational documents, whilst applications are built using a new language. There's no reason the two couldn't interoperate well, just have web apps use app:// or whatever and the existing URL scheme can happily handle linking between them. There has been a few attempts at this sort of technology but nothing serious.
Extremely well said, this is something I've wanted to have to some time already. HTML/HTTP has never worked very well for applications, and it's becoming more and more a mess of bubblegum.
It's funny see if the release of iTV makes people spin it "Apple was the one to invent HD digital television" or something, just like some people have claimed Apple to have invented the smartphone. ;)
If you want a good, relatively cheap general purpose computer, get an AMD Zacate system either as a netbook or, a mini-ITX system with some 120€ 1080p display.
So, how's the life in Soviet Russia?
in spotlight (or similar windows search engine)
We use a yellow dog.
The problem with trying to do absolutely everything is it takes awhile to implement.
http://perl6.org/compilers/features
That list shows "Rakudo" having most of the features in place already...
There are a lot of people in the world who have sensitive eyes. A lot more than the blind. And still there is a lot of software that uses the black-text-on-white-background color scheme. Of all the possible choices, this is the one that causes the worst eyestrain. So if you are a software developer, take pity on hurting and watering eyes and allow us to use a darker color scheme. Windows Aero, I'm (not) looking at you!
Also websites, as people spend a lot of time with those. Currently the situation is that when you set your web browser to force some kind of black theme, it breaks so much that it's not worth it. So a good (and quite simple) solution would be a trend among web developers to make sites offer a black color theme.
I have also been using the Compiz "Invert colors" effect with some success, but it's not the nicest way to do it. :)
There exists a manufacturing process for a CD/DVD disc: DualDisc. Your details are correct, though, and even that method involves creating a slightly thicker disc (1.5mm).
I just wonder how a blind user knows whether the install CD is inserted the right way up in the first place.
Well...
1) When taking out of the case, it is usually the label side up
2) By feel
3) If the user does not hear the drive seeking or eventually the drum sound, it's worth trying flipping around
4) You can simply try both ways without it causing any damage
5) Ultimately, ask someone else
Wow. I wonder if that is actually the longest summary ever posted to /.
I have an old (2004-era) laptop that I still use for a testbed. It's a 1GHz Athlon-M with 1GB of RAM. I formatted it asext2 to save some CPU cycles, so yes, the old ways can come in handy.
I suspect you are not getting any meaningful savings. A FS driver is mostly just copying some buffers around, not much CPU needed.
Why would you wish him either?
Interesting question, actually. I guess general altruism could be one explanation. Wishing well for some nice guy gives a kind of warm feeling to a person.
How on earth you need 700MB for a printer driver and software is beyond me..
Well, let's try to crack this. Has anyone here dissected those monstrous driver packages and looked at what there takes so much space? Or, can make an insightful guess?
In that capacity you could create a complete operating system with all applications. Even I am not stupid enough to roll a driver package of that size. Let me just jump out of the window.
How about an Atom mini-ITX board?
I recommend taking a look at openSUSE, too. It gives a very responsive classic Windows-style UI with lots of configurability.
It's of course possible that there is no need. Was just pondering from a neutral standpoint.
What I have wanted to ask macheads for a while is, do you see any need for MacOS 11 yet?
Considering the (mostly) invincible state of good encryption, this seems unnecessary. Sure, it is a fun idea, but not a practical one.
Even for encrypted data this can be added as an extra measure to the user's security toolkit. Maybe there was some problem in the encryption process, or the cipher is found weak, or someone will be able to crack the data in the future with brute force. This gives you the last bit of extra protection, the kind of "nuking it from the orbit is the only way to be sure".