This is a problem for Google. I complained to Google about some software bugs, but no one listened. I have a friend at Google, and finally they listened because of his bridging.
BTW, the support from Apple is relatively good, compared to the complaints here. I did get Apple support’s help. In one occasion, I got some follow-up when I complained to Steve Jobs with an e-mail address found on the Web!:-)
How the F can they sell this phone in northern climates? I live in WI and in Feb I will frequently go outside on a nice day to take a conf call and get some fresh air. A nice day being, at least, in the upper 20's.
Seriously dude, WTF?
Do you use laptops outside in such weather? My laptop has a narrower range. iPhone is more a computer than a phone. Even a Nokia phone can only do 14 F.
Or a better media player. iTunes on Windows is superior only to Quicktime on Windows. Both are (in terms of usability) inferior to... well, pretty much everything else.
Is Slashdot full of Apple haters? The parent post gives no evidence of why iTunes is inferior, but it got a (ridiculous) "insightful" rating.
I am a happy user of iTunes, since the time I became an iPod owner. iTunes simply gives the best experience when using an iPod. It is true that I did not try iTunes before buying the iPod, but I have kept using since that time. It is a bit slow and bloated, but it is good otherwise.
I am Chinese, and my ID card has my photo on it. I think there are some potential privacy issues, since a reader can retrieve my information from it, if I take the card close to the reader. However, I do not feel it a real issue. In fact, I do not really understand why Americans hate the ID card ideas so much.:-)
Yes, this card is needed to show your identity, when you open an account in a mobile operator (prepaid accounts are currently exceptions, but it may not be the case in the future, since there are too many spam SMS messages). I have known of fake cards in the first generation, but have never known of a second-generation fake card (IC embedded).
There seem to be a lot of people who oppose copyright here. I saw a reasonable post modded down to -1 as troll. I do not think everybody gets the point. Copyright as is being advocated by RIAA is of course problematic, but it was intended to be, and should still be, a balance between the right of the content creator and the freedom of consumer. The US constitution explicitly says:
Congress has the power to promote the Progress of Science and
useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors
the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
As to your statement about "antithesis of free speech", one phrase is enough: fair use.
I do not want to argue with you the real status of things in the US (or Europe): it is bad. However, what we should advocate is to restore the original spirit and letters of the law, but not to abolish copyright completely.
it is not insightful. if the spec is so highly broken on fundamental thing like formulas, you cannot exxpect ANYthing to interoperate. whatever microsoft's motivations may have been, fact remains that odf is a shit spec and needs to be fixed before demanding someone else to follow it.
I do not know whether I will be modded down, but I feel the same. One can claim that OOXML is an impossible-to-implement Microsoft-proprietary "standard", but now it looks to me that ODF is an inadequate standard. Dammit, if Microsoft needs to follow the OOo behaviour (instead of the ODF standard) to implement the ODF standard properly, are people suggesting replacing the Microsoft Office Overlord with the SUN Office Overlord?
As a Chinese, I also found that some behaviour of ODF documents in either OOo or MSO unacceptable. Things are OK in.doc or.docx files when they are opened by MSO. I would say I prefer the MSO Overlord, because it is at least more competent.
That is the reason of the performance. With this amount of memory, I bet Vista is really faster than XP. People complained about Vista, because it required much more memory than XP did. And that is where Windows 7 much improved.
The testers have no sense what real-world configurations are.
MSO 2007sp2 won't read ODF 1.1 from any other existing application, and its ODF is only readable by the CleverAge plugin.
My first reaction is what the f***! I have tested an ODF document create in OpenOffice, and it worked in MSO 2007 SP2. After reading the link, I understood that it was the formula part that caused problems (Excel, but not Word). Of course, this is bad. But the original post is just exaggeration.
Apparently the big corportations are not hurt enough to change their attitudes towards patents. May more ridiculous patent suits appear, and clear everybody's eyes that patents are sucking and they are obstacles to (rather than protection of) innovation.
I have avoided this addon since the mid Fx 2.x days as it has become rather bloaty for my liking.
Firefox lacks many features in TabMixPlus, which allows restoring the session at a later time than start-up; allows undoing the close window operation; keeps a list of closed tabs/windows; saves/restores sessions (which can contain multiple windows and remembers the postion/history of tabs); etc. It is just superb, and Firefox really should integrate all these functionalities.
Neither review recommends this book. Francis Glassborow even said "there is nothing in this book that is appropriate to the needs of someone learning C++ in the twenty-first century". Brian Bramer was kinder, and said "this a very readable book with clear up-to-date explanations... Suitable for beginner self- teaching who finds the more academic books hard to read", but he also mentioned it was heavily C-based, and did not talk enough about STL. In fact, the author also wrote C Primer Plus, and that may explain something.
They make the claim that the "display" supports "millions of colors".
According to some other information sources, this is correct (w/ dithering). Generally speaking, 16.7 M colours mean full 8-bit, and 16.2 M or just millions means 6-bit. This seems the tradition in the industry.
I am not an Apple fanboy. I was disappointed first at reading this, but after spending more time I would rather think it was just lawyers grabbing money from Apple. Most laptop do not use 8-bit LCD panels, why blaming Apple specifically?
I am 100% sure, the Chinese army would not do that.
You mean, the same Chinese army that shot and killed unarmed and peaceful demonstrators in 1989?
Each army shoots, but not each army rapes. Some even mentioned that one Chinese army in fact refused orders in 1989, and the government had to manoeuvre another one to Beijing.
We also know that Americans soldiers raped Japanese girls several times. Does that prove the American army is the worst in the world? Unless people can show evidence there was a large-scale rape in Tibet in the 1950s, I am not convinced that proves anything.
The Dalai lama wrote to Mao saying basically: "How can the tibetan people accept rule as liberation when their homes are being burnt, and people are being raped and murdered." Mao wrote back (officially) and said that these crimes would subside, and it's all for the best of the Tibetan people.
What you're describing has nothing to do with Firefox. Even if Firefox frees it's memory, that freed memory doesn't get reflected in the Task Manager until the program is minimized or you wait long enough...
Minimizing it had no effect, and I waited long enough.
"The Windows OS employs something like a memory cache for each actively running program. This cache may grow as the needs of a particular program require using magical algorithms Microsoft developers have produced for determining the optimal size for that program. For instance a program over the course of it's life time may require 20 megs of memory but occasionally needs to load data requiring allocations of up to 10 additional megs which is released seconds after it is loaded and processed. The Windows OS may determine then, that the memory cache for this program must increase from the base 20 megs to 25 megs instead. Looking at the Windows Task Manager then, you may see that this program is now using 25 megs of memory, even though currently, it may only be using 20 megs.
That is, the Windows Task Manager is reporting the memory cache allotment and not the memory allocated and used by the program. This is not the same as a memory leak. The program has little to no control over the memory cache allotment the OS has given it."
This seems to me utterly wrong. If you try to allocate some memory and then free it without more allocations in between, you probably will see the memory change immediately—and I tested and can confirm this behaviour. However, if you allocate in small chunks (< 4 KB), and do not release them in order, you'll probably end up in memory fragmentation, and no memory can be returned to the OS.
BTW, I do not remember the memory problem occurs only in Windows—another proof this is a problem of Firefox instead of the OS. It seems to me one of the following will hold:
Firefox has memory leaks; or
Firefox calls the memory routines (malloc/free or the likes) in a naïve way—totally on demand instead of something like per-page allocations—and has memory fragmentation problems
Not only it is true, but I played it a few weeks ago on the Apple II emulator as well. I even like the Apple version, because the emulator allows me to save at any time:-).
Is it truly international that there won’t be any country restrictions? I would love to see that. ITMS only supports limited countries, and my country is not one of them. Also it may be weird that a Chinese wants to buy music, I did tried once and could not even pass the credit card validation. I have credit cards usable in the US, but the billing address is in China, of course.
if they show up for their normal time, but spend all day on Slashdot or on personal projects, they still get their regular pay...
If they are able to do that, they have to be exempt employees. Non-exempt employees are generally busy on something concrete (picking phone calls, etc.) instead of meditating on abstract stuff (creating an algorithm, etc.), and their performance are measured differently from an exempt employee.
OLPC is not a laptop project, it is an educational project
If it really is, why should it be worried by Classmate PC, which provides another educational PC solution? Maybe it is for its future revenue, but Intel really cares about education, and has its own view about this area.—Intel even trains teachers, but sadly its view is different from OLPC’s.—OLPC’request, if it is true, proves that it is a laptop project.
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This is a problem for Google. I complained to Google about some software bugs, but no one listened. I have a friend at Google, and finally they listened because of his bridging.
BTW, the support from Apple is relatively good, compared to the complaints here. I did get Apple support’s help. In one occasion, I got some follow-up when I complained to Steve Jobs with an e-mail address found on the Web! :-)
You have got to be kidding me!!!
*Minimum* operating temp of 32 F?!?!?!
How the F can they sell this phone in northern climates? I live in WI and in Feb I will frequently go outside on a nice day to take a conf call and get some fresh air. A nice day being, at least, in the upper 20's.
Seriously dude, WTF?
Do you use laptops outside in such weather? My laptop has a narrower range. iPhone is more a computer than a phone. Even a Nokia phone can only do 14 F.
That was the initial marketing fad. The official name is now the iPhone OS. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS
Or a better media player. iTunes on Windows is superior only to Quicktime on Windows. Both are (in terms of usability) inferior to... well, pretty much everything else.
Is Slashdot full of Apple haters? The parent post gives no evidence of why iTunes is inferior, but it got a (ridiculous) "insightful" rating.
I am a happy user of iTunes, since the time I became an iPod owner. iTunes simply gives the best experience when using an iPod. It is true that I did not try iTunes before buying the iPod, but I have kept using since that time. It is a bit slow and bloated, but it is good otherwise.
I am Chinese, and my ID card has my photo on it. I think there are some potential privacy issues, since a reader can retrieve my information from it, if I take the card close to the reader. However, I do not feel it a real issue. In fact, I do not really understand why Americans hate the ID card ideas so much. :-)
Yes, this card is needed to show your identity, when you open an account in a mobile operator (prepaid accounts are currently exceptions, but it may not be the case in the future, since there are too many spam SMS messages). I have known of fake cards in the first generation, but have never known of a second-generation fake card (IC embedded).
Just my 2 cents.
Copyright is the antithesis of free speech.
You are exaggerating.
There seem to be a lot of people who oppose copyright here. I saw a reasonable post modded down to -1 as troll. I do not think everybody gets the point. Copyright as is being advocated by RIAA is of course problematic, but it was intended to be, and should still be, a balance between the right of the content creator and the freedom of consumer. The US constitution explicitly says:
As to your statement about "antithesis of free speech", one phrase is enough: fair use.
I do not want to argue with you the real status of things in the US (or Europe): it is bad. However, what we should advocate is to restore the original spirit and letters of the law, but not to abolish copyright completely.
it is not insightful. if the spec is so highly broken on fundamental thing like formulas, you cannot exxpect ANYthing to interoperate. whatever microsoft's motivations may have been, fact remains that odf is a shit spec and needs to be fixed before demanding someone else to follow it.
I do not know whether I will be modded down, but I feel the same. One can claim that OOXML is an impossible-to-implement Microsoft-proprietary "standard", but now it looks to me that ODF is an inadequate standard. Dammit, if Microsoft needs to follow the OOo behaviour (instead of the ODF standard) to implement the ODF standard properly, are people suggesting replacing the Microsoft Office Overlord with the SUN Office Overlord?
As a Chinese, I also found that some behaviour of ODF documents in either OOo or MSO unacceptable. Things are OK in .doc or .docx files when they are opened by MSO. I would say I prefer the MSO Overlord, because it is at least more competent.
I did not check the preview results carefully enough. I could not type the > verbatim. I meant to say ">= 3GB...".
That is the reason of the performance. With this amount of memory, I bet Vista is really faster than XP. People complained about Vista, because it required much more memory than XP did. And that is where Windows 7 much improved.
The testers have no sense what real-world configurations are.
While it's entirely possible to get that into a netbook, I'm yet to see anyone market a netbook tablet.
Check out Intel-powered convertible classmate PC. E.g. http://www.2gopc.com/ in the US.
My first reaction is what the f***! I have tested an ODF document create in OpenOffice, and it worked in MSO 2007 SP2. After reading the link, I understood that it was the formula part that caused problems (Excel, but not Word). Of course, this is bad. But the original post is just exaggeration.
Apparently the big corportations are not hurt enough to change their attitudes towards patents. May more ridiculous patent suits appear, and clear everybody's eyes that patents are sucking and they are obstacles to (rather than protection of) innovation.
I have avoided this addon since the mid Fx 2.x days as it has become rather bloaty for my liking.
Firefox lacks many features in TabMixPlus, which allows restoring the session at a later time than start-up; allows undoing the close window operation; keeps a list of closed tabs/windows; saves/restores sessions (which can contain multiple windows and remembers the postion/history of tabs); etc. It is just superb, and Firefox really should integrate all these functionalities.
This book is often criticized, and it should not be confused with the C++ Primer by Stanley Lippman, a real C++ expert. I found two reviews on ACCU:
http://accu.org/index.php/book_reviews?url=view.xqy?review=cp003131
http://accu.org/index.php/book_reviews?url=view.xqy?review=cp001702
Neither review recommends this book. Francis Glassborow even said "there is nothing in this book that is appropriate to the needs of someone learning C++ in the twenty-first century". Brian Bramer was kinder, and said "this a very readable book with clear up-to-date explanations ... Suitable for beginner self- teaching who finds the more academic books hard to read", but he also mentioned it was heavily C-based, and did not talk enough about STL. In fact, the author also wrote C Primer Plus, and that may explain something.
According to some other information sources, this is correct (w/ dithering). Generally speaking, 16.7 M colours mean full 8-bit, and 16.2 M or just millions means 6-bit. This seems the tradition in the industry.
I am not an Apple fanboy. I was disappointed first at reading this, but after spending more time I would rather think it was just lawyers grabbing money from Apple. Most laptop do not use 8-bit LCD panels, why blaming Apple specifically?
Each army shoots, but not each army rapes. Some even mentioned that one Chinese army in fact refused orders in 1989, and the government had to manoeuvre another one to Beijing.
We also know that Americans soldiers raped Japanese girls several times. Does that prove the American army is the worst in the world? Unless people can show evidence there was a large-scale rape in Tibet in the 1950s, I am not convinced that proves anything.
[citation needed]
Pi = 3.141592653589 ... Remove 6 and you get it. Were you stuck when you posted? :-)
As title.
Minimizing it had no effect, and I waited long enough.
More info: http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/4517/11311"The Windows OS employs something like a memory cache for each actively running program. This cache may grow as the needs of a particular program require using magical algorithms Microsoft developers have produced for determining the optimal size for that program. For instance a program over the course of it's life time may require 20 megs of memory but occasionally needs to load data requiring allocations of up to 10 additional megs which is released seconds after it is loaded and processed. The Windows OS may determine then, that the memory cache for this program must increase from the base 20 megs to 25 megs instead. Looking at the Windows Task Manager then, you may see that this program is now using 25 megs of memory, even though currently, it may only be using 20 megs.
That is, the Windows Task Manager is reporting the memory cache allotment and not the memory allocated and used by the program. This is not the same as a memory leak. The program has little to no control over the memory cache allotment the OS has given it."
This seems to me utterly wrong. If you try to allocate some memory and then free it without more allocations in between, you probably will see the memory change immediately—and I tested and can confirm this behaviour. However, if you allocate in small chunks (< 4 KB), and do not release them in order, you'll probably end up in memory fragmentation, and no memory can be returned to the OS.
BTW, I do not remember the memory problem occurs only in Windows—another proof this is a problem of Firefox instead of the OS. It seems to me one of the following will hold:
I do not believe the OS is here to blame.
Not only it is true, but I played it a few weeks ago on the Apple II emulator as well. I even like the Apple version, because the emulator allows me to save at any time :-).
Is it truly international that there won’t be any country restrictions? I would love to see that. ITMS only supports limited countries, and my country is not one of them. Also it may be weird that a Chinese wants to buy music, I did tried once and could not even pass the credit card validation. I have credit cards usable in the US, but the billing address is in China, of course.
If they are able to do that, they have to be exempt employees. Non-exempt employees are generally busy on something concrete (picking phone calls, etc.) instead of meditating on abstract stuff (creating an algorithm, etc.), and their performance are measured differently from an exempt employee.
If it really is, why should it be worried by Classmate PC, which provides another educational PC solution? Maybe it is for its future revenue, but Intel really cares about education, and has its own view about this area.—Intel even trains teachers, but sadly its view is different from OLPC’s.—OLPC’request, if it is true, proves that it is a laptop project.
Has not anyone else noticed the tag ‘DRAMA’? It is a drama!