Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Sep 2012 21:15 UTC
The Verge published a video demonstrating how desktop mode and Office 2013 - a desktop application - work on Windows RT, the ARM version of Windows 8. The video showed a desktop mode that clearly didn't work well for touch, and even Office 2013, which has a rudimentary touch mode built-in, didn't work properly either. It looked and felt clunky, often didn't respond properly, and even showed touch lag.
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RE[9]: Window opportuniry
by ilovebeer on Mon 3rd Sep 2012 05:10
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Member since:2011-08-08
As for professional uses, you are so wrong its not even funny.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hollywood-Loves-Linux-45571.shtml
That is just one article from Google. There are tons more like it. Most production houses are using Linux.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hollywood-Loves-Linux-45571.shtml
That is just one article from Google. There are tons more like it. Most production houses are using Linux.
No, I'm not wrong. You're mistaking cgi rendering with film & audio editing.
As for Windows working, I guess thats a matter a perspective. I don't consider the hoops and hoopla that the average Windows user goes through to be "working".
The average Windows user doesn't have to jump through any hoops. Unless of course you consider installing Windows (if it isn't pre-installed), and then booting the computer a hoop.
Considering the vast number of Windows malware and viruses out there, I would say that there are way too many Windows machines out there that are "broken". Otherwise that crap wouldn't spread.
So your criteria for whether a computer is "broken" or not depends on if malware/viruses/etc are able to infect the box.. You do realize that while linux offers a little more control over security, the average user doesn't know how to make use of it, or turns it off. I see just as many if not more typical linux users being scolded for doing stupid things as I do Windows users.
By the way, the vast number of Windows malware and viruses aren't able to infect the vast number of Windows systems anymore so, yeah.
RE[10]: Window opportuniry
by ichi on Mon 3rd Sep 2012 07:31
in reply to "RE[9]: Window opportuniry"
Member since:2007-03-06
No, I'm not wrong. You're mistaking cgi rendering with film & audio editing.
http://www.ovnivfx.com.br/
All their work is done on Blender running on Ubuntu, not just rendering but also video edition.
RE[10]: Window opportuniry
by AdrianoML on Mon 3rd Sep 2012 15:31
in reply to "RE[9]: Window opportuniry"
Member since:2010-08-13
"As for professional uses, you are so wrong its not even funny.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hollywood-Loves-Linux-45571.shtml
That is just one article from Google. There are tons more like it. Most production houses are using Linux.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hollywood-Loves-Linux-45571.shtml
That is just one article from Google. There are tons more like it. Most production houses are using Linux.
No, I'm not wrong. You're mistaking cgi rendering with film & audio editing. "
Read this article from 2001:
http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2001/Volume-24-Issue-9-Septembe...
Linux was the best choice for Hollywood to replace all it's SGI/Irix machines, and to this day it's still their choice not only for rendering but also for workstations.
However, that doesn't means everything is Linux compatible. Smaller studios might find it better to just pay for standard windows/osx tools instead of highly specialized Linux one. Game developers generally use windows tools and Audio artists prefer macs.
Most people in this thread say that Linux is unsuccessful, but for the wrong reasons. It's more a matter of not running your software of preference instead of not having X API and not having OEM backing instead of not working with your hardware X.
RE[10]: Window opportuniry
by TechGeek on Mon 3rd Sep 2012 17:06
in reply to "RE[9]: Window opportuniry"
Member since:2006-01-14
"As for professional uses, you are so wrong its not even funny.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hollywood-Loves-Linux-45571.shtml
That is just one article from Google. There are tons more like it. Most production houses are using Linux.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hollywood-Loves-Linux-45571.shtml
That is just one article from Google. There are tons more like it. Most production houses are using Linux.
No, I'm not wrong. You're mistaking cgi rendering with film & audio editing. "
No, I'm not wrong. You fail at reading. If you would have looked at the article I specifically linked for this reason, you would see that the vast majority of desktops in the company run Linux. For editing. Not for render farming.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.More News »
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Linux has no place in the world or pro audio & video. While a very short list of software may be available, you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone who actually uses it. Real pro audio & video is completely dominated by Windows and OSX systems.
Of course you'll have people who have had good luck with linux. The same can be said for Windows and OSX as well. But, all the linux forums and mailing lists tell another linux story. There IS constant breakage, there IS ongoing problems, there IS no shortage of users fighting to get it to work properly.
Also, claiming that Windows doesn't work for most people doesn't do anything but signal sane people not to take you seriously. "
As for professional uses, you are so wrong its not even funny.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hollywood-Loves-Linux-45571.shtml
That is just one article from Google. There are tons more like it. Most production houses are using Linux.
As for Windows working, I guess thats a matter a perspective. I don't consider the hoops and hoopla that the average Windows user goes through to be "working". Considering the vast number of Windows malware and viruses out there, I would say that there are way too many Windows machines out there that are "broken". Otherwise that crap wouldn't spread.