* Posts by Rob Gr

129 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jul 2014

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Fanbois designing Windows 10 – where's it going to end?

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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.

White House forced to wade into Oracle vs Google Java bickerfest

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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.

Unicode wonks are bringing home the BACON, as an emoji

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To my mind its sad that Unicode has allowed itself to be polluted with this rubbish.

I wasn't in favour of Dingbats either.

A character database should be used for characters in written languages, not this kind of fluff. If they carry on, soon 2^32 characters will be insufficient.

Microsoft's secret weapon in browser wars: Mozilla's supercharged Asm.js

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It's not much of a surprise really, MS announced support back in February.

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/8301-microsoft-supports-asmjs.html

Let’s pull Augmented Reality and climax with JISM

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Re: >> well, a few graphics would help!!

Jan Svankmajer produced easily the best film version many years ago (1988).

Disney et al. aren't fit to wipe his...

Oi. APPLE fanboi! You with the $10k and pocket on fire! Fancy a WATCH?

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Re: Really?

Don't fret, it's one of those people who feel you can measure someone's decency by the size of their disposable income.

In England we have a word for it. Fuckwit.

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Re: Resale Value - not a lot

0010?

When did HMSS start using binary?

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Re: Solid golf neklace

Punctilious Spelling Nazi, shurely!

Microsoft opens kimono on Windows 10 Universal App Platform

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Re: XAML?

WPF is alive still, maybe you meant Silverlight.

Personally, I quite like it.

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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)

Windows XP's market share grows AGAIN!

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The sky may not have fallen in, but I'm not sure I'd be happy using XP to access something like online banking at this point.

Elementary, my dear penguin: It's the second beta of Freya

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Re: Huh?

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.

Valve set for OpenGL BIG REVEAL at upcoming conference

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Re: I'm hopeful

In spite of its name, Open GL is not exactly Open. Hardware vendors have to pay for a license, while software is free to use it.

Frustration with Elite:Dangerous boils over into 'Refund Quest'

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Re: "Too hard"

I preordered, rather than Kickstarted the game, on an understanding it would support a non-online mode. Does that me a fucktard too?

Pity the poor Windows developer: The tools for desktop development are in disarray

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Re: For me

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.

UNIX greybeards threaten Debian fork over systemd plan

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Linux greybeards surely!

After all "Linux Is Not Unix"

Mozilla: Spidermonkey ATE Apple's JavaScriptCore, THRASHED Google V8

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Re: IE doesn't work on Mac or Linux (which is where we benchmark right now)

"Speak for yourself. At home I have Dells running Linux, plus a few Macs running OS X. At work, we have about a 60/40 split Windows/OS X."

He did say "most people", but I guess comprehension is letting you down today.

Apple's OS X Yosemite slurps UNSAVED docs into iCloud

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There's more than one bad Apple.

Microsoft have been bad for this too - new documents are, by default, saved to SkyDrive. This can be overridden (file-by-file), but I'd unintentionally saved a few docs to a cloud based "Documents" folder before I realised.

Windows 10: One for the suits, right Microsoft? Or so one THOUGHT

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Re: The numbering makes sense now...

Except that this meme doesn't actually hold up if you actually examine Windows releases.

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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.

'Windows 9' LEAK: Microsoft's playing catchup with Linux

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Re: Meeeh

"Would you say to your client "You're just holding it wrong, dumbass! You just don't get it, do you? I've spent months working on this and you will use it because I know better"? "

Seemed to work for Apple.

Windows 7 settles as Windows XP use finally starts to slip … a bit

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Inaccurate

"Windows XP lost nearly one per cent of global market share during August, according to both Netmarketshare and StatCounter, but there's not been a corresponding bounce in the prevalence of other Microsoft operating systems."

Basic arithmetic failing you?

Microsoft: IE11 for Windows Phone 8.1 is TOO GOOD. So we'll cripple it like Safari

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Re: Let me understand this

"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.

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Re: MS crippling IE

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.

Microsoft's Brit kid Cortana lands on UK WinPhone 8.1, but China's is the real cutie

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Good news, however I'm not holding my breath as my Nokia 1020 is still awaiting the WinPhone 8.1 Update. (Carrier is EE - anyone having better joy with other carriers?)

Israel's Iron Dome missile tech stolen by Chinese hackers

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Re: Oh Goody, Chinese Knock-offs On Their Way

"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.

Banning handheld phone use by drivers had NO effect on accident rate - study

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Re: Typing texts at the wheel is incredibly dangerous

I'm waiting for the report from traffic police that Mike Bell had an accident while checking their phone now. Please, for your sake, just shell out on a cradle.

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Re: re : James 51

A majority? Really. Empirical evidence please, or is it just that they're the only one's you notice.

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Yeah, nothing could go wrong...

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.

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