Comment UI Update? (Score 1) 282
Well' I'm still waiting for tabs in the title bar on linux/gtk
Comment Bad marketing (Score 2) 68
They reach 1.0 and they don't bother to post even a single screenshot? Now, that's Meego successor for sure
Comment Re:Sony's war on their customers (Score 3, Interesting) 290
Quite surprising their mobile department is quite open. They published many driver source code and also they published an alpha and beta version of android ICS for some models. I guess the mobile department is still more Ericsson than Sony
Comment Structured Programming (Score 1) 624
Even if it's somehow outdated (and no longer in print), every single program we write today is highly influenced by "Structured Programming" by Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, C. A. R. Hoare and Ole-Johan Dahl. Before this book, programs used to be a mess of spaghetti code and the familiar constructs like if-then-else or while loops did not exist.
Comment Not very reassuring slides (Score 1) 479
"Qt will continue to be the development framework for Symbian and Nokia will use Symbian for further devices"
Yes, but they also say this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/02/nokiawebcast-4.pdf-page-30-of-38.jpg
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/02/nokiawebcast-4.pdf-page-32-of-38.jpg
Comment Re:Goodbye Moto (Score 1) 757
Simply because different phone models only differ in their software. Android is a big PITA for all the marketing guys, because it makes all phones the same.
Comment Hypocrite (Score 3, Insightful) 192
Well, they are remaking the same exact game since Knight of the Old Republic. Take a look at KOTOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect. Always the same mechanics, always the same basic plot. While they are very good at it, they are not very "creative".
Comment Re:According to the latest article in "Duh" Magazi (Score 3, Insightful) 534
No, actually pretty everyone in the world is better than native english speakers at spelling, because they learn English mostly by reading it, instead of learning it by listening and speaking it...
Comment Re:Nice Demo... (Score 1) 378
This is pretty old stuff, see http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69211/siggraph05_0265_final.pdf for example (but I'm sure I've read older articles on similar techniques).
At one point there was even a gimp plugin that worked decently well. Here: http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/resynthesizer/removal
Comment Re:It's true (Score 1) 965
It should be said that their SDK and their documentation are *very good*, especially the documentation, and especially if you compare them to what windows or linux have to offer...
Comment Re:Ironic (Score 4, Interesting) 197
I don't know where you found this info, and I never heard anything about it (and I actually have born and live in Torino). Also there are no "cliffs" around Torino, and Torino has nevere been a citystate in ancient times: in fact it was born as a Roman military camp.
Comment Economy laws (Score 1) 763
There is nothing new in this... the laws of offer and demand are always the same
Windows 7 Gaming Performance Tested 179
Timmus writes "Gamers holding onto Windows XP may not have to fear sluggish performance when Windows 7 debuts. While Windows Vista's gaming performance was pretty spotty at launch, the Windows 7 beta build seems to handle most games well. Firingsquad has tested the Windows 7 beta against Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 on midrange and high-end gaming PCs across 7 different games. While the beta stumbles in a couple of cases, overall it performs within a few percentage points of Windows XP, actually outrunning XP in multiple benchmarks."
