|
Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi took the stage to debut the update, focusing on upgrades to Spotlight, the operating system’s built-in apps, and window management features. They didn't want to change the default desktop image?
|
|
|
|
|
You can now create Windows or web applications using other web frameworks, while still having access to the rich set of controls that WinJS provides. Even more of the OS you need, in the language you don't
|
|
|
|
|
Me, I think HTML is done. Which doesn’t mean I think that the whole Web-programming platform is in a good state. "It's not dead - it's done."
|
|
|
|
|
HTML is like a zombie. You can't kill it.
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
At least someone killed it once. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
|
|
|
|
|
What author means here is that HTML is done and 'basically OK', but other parts of the web platform need change, like DOM with jQuery and CSS with SASS and JavaScript with Dart, or whatever combination you think...
There is a huge problem however...HTML is not 'basically OK' and all the replacement suggested are only syntactical replacements and not real ones...After all Angular.js is JavaScript library and LESS compiling to CSS...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
HTML is not even remotely close to done. The author forgets to mention HTTP/2. What we are need of is low to no latency. It needs to be lightweight, and hell fast. It needs to embrace modern concepts like asynchrony baked right in the browser. It needs to work smarter.
|
|
|
|
|
The internet and networked applications is done, stick a fork in it.
What could possibly go wrong? 
html, browsers and the like need to be tossed (see other article about internet privacy and the raging issue of security).
If you could operate a browser (otherwise known as a thin client) on a secure network, sure, keep on expanding that there software. But it's not a thin client. The browsers now have FULL access to your phone, desktop, laptop, tablet. ISPs are monitoring your searches in real time to inject ads. Goodness.
We now have malware embedding itself inside of graphics cards.
I'd say the issue is moot.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
|
|
|
|
|
</end>
I'd rather be phishing!
|
|
|
|
|
There's a problem, however, according to a recent review study in the Communications of the ACM: The standardization that's made the internet what it is also carries with it "the risks of reducing variability and slowing the pace of progress." "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
|
|
|
|
|
Wasn't giving researchers a playground to test advance tech supposed to be one of the objectives of the Internet 2 project. Speaking of which, did anything other than buzzwords and snark come of it?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
No yearly fee to run Windows 10 after July 2016. So, it's monthly then?
|
|
|
|
|
No, it's pay for what you use. Must dumb down side projects to what you can afford
|
|
|
|
|
The only problem with that, that 9 out of 10 people do not believe Microsoft...(hint: see what going on with Office)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
A new report into U.S. consumers’ attitude to the collection of personal data has highlighted the disconnect between commercial claims that web users are happy to trade privacy in exchange for ‘benefits’ like discounts. "I am not a number! I am a free man!"
|
|
|
|
|
Science is building storage mediums for the distant future. but what information will we preserve? and will anyone be able to read it? Post-it notes(tm)?
|
|
|
|
|
Talks about 'supported lifetime of the device,' but skimps on critical details. "So if you define 'definition' for this conversation in a loose way, then I'll understand what you mean. "
|
|
|
|
|
I think that means the normal 30-90 warranty times that companies put on their computers.
|
|
|
|
|
Now what if I upgrade my four year old notebook when Windows 10 comes out but the supported lifetime of the device - in this case a notebook PC - is defined as only being, let's say... three years? I'll never get updates from the start? Help!  But wait, I see! Now it makes sense the upgrade is free - what's it worth if I cannot update it? And if it really was just three years, do they really expect everybody to ditch their perfectly working PC and buy a new one just to get an up-to-date OS? Do they really want to introduce this insanity from the mobile smartphone world to PCs?
|
|
|
|
|
Debates about the present state of C++ in the programming world divide the participants into two camps: some dislike C++ and predict it’s soon death, while others believe that it will persist as it has before. "Too many dreams have been laid at her door, but the modern girl will ride on"
|
|
|
|
|
Camp three:
some dislike C++ and believe that it will persist as it has before
|
|
|
|
|
I'm definitely, and sadly, in camp 3.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
|
|
|
|
|
The problem with C++ is the slow compilation. And unfortunately it's templates are build in way that require a lot of code generation and because of that make fast compilation impossible.
Slow compilation makes it difficult to prototype and try various approaches in C++.
So we can add tons of features to C++ - lambdas, default templates and what not - it will still be less productive than C# and Java because of very slow compilation.
Nick Polyak
|
|
|
|
|
You do get a lot more free time while the build happens though 
|
|
|
|
|
The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. "Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash."
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
