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posted by google_ninja on Thu 20th Dec 2007 17:57
Noticed what looks like a bug here http://www4.osnews.com/permalink?292329
The quote box is around the whole post, including the bottom bits.
posted by google_ninja on Mon 17th Dec 2007 03:10
Even though I agree with almost everything he says, Thoms recent article was a bit, shall we say, controversial? It actually directly grew out of a massive flame war in another comment section. If his statement in the previous comment section was enough to cause a huge flamewar, why didn't he realize what would happen if he made an article about it? Don't get me wrong, I love to argue about operating systems as much as the next guy, but saying the same thing over and over gets kinda boring after awhile if no new ground is really covered. I have gotten into some fantastic conversations in the comment section of this site, and learned alot from other people. Those kinds of comments sections are much more enjoyable then the flamey kind.
So anyways, all I'm saying is it may be worth instituting a policy that "guaranteed to turn the comments section into a roiling mass of bickering" should be one of the things taken into consideration when choosing whether or not to post someth
posted by google_ninja on Tue 20th Nov 2007 15:32
First beta of firefox 3.0 came out today. someone may want to link to it http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/11/19/firefox-3...
posted by google_ninja on Sun 18th Nov 2007 19:45
I have to say, I have really gotten used to v4. The only problem is that if I use my news agregator or google/ig, I end up with crappy old v3 links. Is there any v4 feeds currnetly up? If there isn't, could there be?
posted by google_ninja on Wed 8th Aug 2007 22:33
Saw it disappear and come over here to see what was up. While I agree with Adam that the score was warped, it did at least provide *some* indication of the persons posting history. If someone with a score of -3 rips me a new one, it is a big difference then someone with +3. Not saying that it was perfect or anything, just wondering if anything is in the works to replace it.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/15/12 23:42 UTC
"Last week, I promised you an outline of the webOS governance model. Today, we're publishing that model and announcing the leaders of the Project Management Committees. As you will see below, we've based the model on the Apache Way." Open governance, something Android decidedly lacks. Too bad nobody (with money and factories) seems to give a toss about webOS. The world's an unfair place.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/15/12 23:40 UTC
"We learned on January 31 that Barnes & Noble had suffered a major setback in a patent-infringement lawsuit filed against the company by Microsoft. That day, an administrative law judge at the International Trade Commission had tossed out the company's key defense, that Microsoft was engaging in 'patent misuse' as part of a larger scheme to 'kill Android'. Today the full opinion has been made public." Microsoft's protection racket might be legal, but that doesn't make it moral. It's based on software patents, and is thus, by definition, morally reprehensible and sleazy.
Linked by David Adams on 02/14/12 17:25 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
It looks like a new "locally integrated menu" will make it into Unity, starting with version 5.6.0. There's basically no information about the new locally integrated menubar, except for two bug reports which link to some custom Unity, Compiz, Metacity and Light Themes branches so to see "LIM" in action, I've compiled all these branches and here's the result. The "locally integrated menubar" can be displayed on the panel (for maximized windows) as well as in the window decoration (unmaximized windows). But it's not displayed on both in the same time.
Linked by David Adams on 02/14/12 17:24 UTC
Today Samsung AV product lead Chris Moseley had comments about Apple's rumored entrance into the television marketplace that sound eerily similar to that which Palm CEO Ed Colligan's said a few years back about how Apple's ability to simply walk into this market and figure it out like they had managed to do after years of research.
Linked by snydeq on 02/14/12 17:23 UTC
What your interface communicates to users can be just as important as what your software does, writes Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister in discussing the latest edition of the 'Microsoft Manual of Style,' a style guide aimed at designers and developers who create Microsoft software, as well as those who write about it. 'The gist of much of Microsoft's advice is that a user's relationship with computer software is a unique one, and it's important to craft the language of software UIs accordingly,' McAllister writes. 'Occasionally, Microsoft's recommendations verge on the absurd. For example, you might not think it necessary to admonish developers to "not use slang that may be considered profane or derogatory, such as 'pimp' or 'bitch,'" but apparently it is.'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/14/12 1:07 UTC
"It's tough being a journalist, especially if you're covering technology and living in Silicon Valley, because it seems as if everyone around you is getting fabulously rich while you're stuck in a job that will never, ever make you wealthy. What's worse is that all these people who are getting rich don't seem to be any brighter than you are and in fact many of them don't seem very bright at all. So of course you get jealous. And then you start thinking maybe you could find a way to cash in on this gold rush. But how do you make gobs of money when your only marketable skill involves writing blog posts?" Absolutely brilliant down to the last letter. Coincidentally, I hold no shares, interests, or anything, in any company whatsoever. I'm a freelance translator by day. Not that anyone cares, but hey, full disclosure and all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/13/12 23:51 UTC
"A hybrid solution that takes the best parts of iOS's one-by-one acceptance and Android's expressed and obvious intents seems like a proper model here. In fact, Apple has many of the pieces in place elsewhere." This is a big issue. Nor Android's model (just list a bunch of confusing permissions), nor Apple's model (individual modal dialogs for each permission) is particularly workable - I doubt regular users check them on Android before installing an application, and in the case of iOS, Apple didn't think it was necessary to secure the address book, so every application has access to it without alerting users. Justin Williams proposes a hybrid solution.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/13/12 23:44 UTC
"Although current discussion of the Linux desktop tends to focus on the disharmony around Unity and the GNOME shell, the true revolution on the desktop is taking place out of sight of users. The Wayland display server is expected to reach version 1.0 later this year, and is seen by many as the long term replacement for the X Window System, with real potential to improve and transform the performance of the desktop for Linux users."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/13/12 23:40 UTC
Mozilla has announced plans to integrate its Firefox web browser with Metro for Windows 8 - including Gecko. "Windows 8 contains two application environments, 'Classic' and 'Metro'. Classic is very similar to the Windows 7 environment at this time, it requires a simple evolution of the current Firefox Windows product. Metro is an entirely new environment and requires a new Firefox front end and system integration points. The feature goal here is a new Gecko based browser built for and integrated with the Metro environment. Firefox on Metro, like all other Metro apps will be full screen, focused on touch interactions, and connected to the rest of the Metro environment through Windows 8 contracts." I haven't checked - does Microsoft allow different rendering engines?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 02/12/12 23:23 UTC
"One of the things that the GNOME design crew have been focusing on recently is creating a new approach to application design for GNOME 3. We want GNOME applications to be thoroughly modern, and we want them to be attractive and a delight to use. That means that we have to do application design differently to how we've done it in the past."More News »
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