Re: Avoiding people with clipboards and television cameras is a very basic skill
What are you talking about, I refuse to believe in the existence of more than 3 Star Wars films.
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Is that the end of environments like WINE (a Linux implementation of the Windows), Mono (a multi-platform port of .NET), Haiku (a open source implentation of the BeOS API), and AROS (an open source implementation of the Amiga OS).
A major part of all these projects is API-level compatibility. This could kill innovation and alternative O/S.
My issue with the "Universal App" model is that so far it is intimately tied to the Windows Store model, making MS the curator, censor, and adjudicator of what we can distribute as apps.
Its an old style "freedom" issue. They really need to open this up to sideloading apps. Maybe with humongous warnings about the security implications, but I'm not happy with a world where the company running the app store gets to decide what we can do.
(Note, much the same comments apply to Apple and Google - I'm not an MS hater here)
Personally, as those seem to be the main differentiating factors of this distro. I found the article raised a number of valid points. It seems very dodgy to me their approach to raising money, particularly trying to claim "years of development", when the vast majority of that has been done in the FOSS community.
VB6 was very bad in other ways. String-handling in particular had notoriously bad performance. It had a habit of reallocating the string every time you appended a single character. One of our applications had to have large chunks rewritten in C++ because performance dropped off exponentially due to string handling.
Personally, I find the idea that the best we can do with the capabilities of a computer is build representatives of our real-world physical desks. I'm absolutely in favour of building new interactions that surpass those.
Reminds me of Zuckerburgers vision for VR, which involved being to able to meet up with mates and watch a film, without actually meeting up with mates. Crap, and a total lack of imagination.
"Microsoft is saying the other major browsers are all wrong and not rendering web pages correctly but their browser is the only one in the right. Okay ..."
No, they're saying they have to pretend to be another browser because Web authors are failing to use the standards correctly, and instead coding to a particular browser.
Try reading the article next time.
Next time try reading the article - many of the fixes are due to lazy web developer's using safari-specific elements rather than the standardised elements, not due to older IE compatibility.
It seems that Chrome/Safari are becoming the new IE - implementing features ahead of standardisation in an attempt to define what is actually standard.
"The only murdering being done, you anti semite; is by Hamas deliberately taking their rockets to launch from areas that are known to be occupied by Palestinians.
You sound like a terrorist sympathizer to me. Israel has done plenty of homework, expect a knock on your door."
Targetting a UNRWA school sounds like a warcrime and murder for me, I go with the definition of terrorist as using terror to achieve political ends, making Israel a terrorist state, orders of magnitude worse than the Palestinians, and a hell of a lot better equiped thanks to US tax dollar subsidies.
As a cyclist, who regularly sees this behaviour in the UK (similar laws apply), I canniot recommend attempting to photograph the driver - many drivers get irate when you do such things, and you're pretty vulnerable on a bike.
Personally, I've had drivers swerve to try and hit, or at least scare me, while cycling for such small things as giving them the finger (after they'd nearly killed me), so attempting to photograph them could lead to a drastically decreased life expectancy for the cyclist.