Maybe it will die as a product and I can go back to using something better for organising events with people. One large message box sure is fun.
Why would it die? To the contrary, even if I dislike ads as anyone else, I have to admit that a hundred million-large social networking backing an ad platform seems like a powerful weapon against AdWords. And if successful, it'll do the opposite of killing it, with even more company acquisitions, etc.
Yeah. Because SPDY is a protocol that's worse than HTTP, and not open to boot...
The author makes it sounds like there's air resistance in space that makes it possible to go to the Moon but not to Mars...
"See, it's the air drag that makes the journey to Mars simply consume too much rocket fuel!"
I think the answer is that small holes don't do anything (i.e. don't start sucking loose papers etc towards them), but huge gaping holes in planes might...
MythBusters tested for bullet-sized holes.
if supposed early builds are to be believed... "Bloggers Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott, in a series of April postings on Rivera’s Within Windows blog, have described the various features of what they claim is an early build of Windows 8: an Office-style ribbon integrated into Windows Explorer, complete with tools for viewing libraries, manipulating images and managing drive assets; an unlock screen that harkens to the 'Metro' design style already present in Windows Phone 7; an 'immersive' user interface and a built-in PDF reader they call 'Modern Reader.'"
Northing here is about why it should be a cross-platform OS.
I may be kind of drunk right now, but I sure know when I read a bad summary!
Let's hope we can finally find out what The Bloop really was then.
I'm kind of surprised how Google has kept failing when trying to become a social network. You'd think they'd have everything. The by far largest search engine to market their network on, a crapload of Google accounts already, and most importantly - lots of smart people that are used to designing stuff for the web.
And yet, I'm not sure they get it this time either. I think Ars Technica put it best so far:
Given the size of the Internet, limiting the crowd that is able to sort through it for you to your circle of friends doesn't seem like the best solution. In the same vein, the assumption that Google users only have contacts whose opinion they respect may be a little off-base. The service could prove useful if you have a cadre of impeccably tasteful friends, but we hope this isn't meant to be the magic bullet for Google's increasingly SEO-burdened results.
Because releasing slower requires more time testing the release instead of fixing bugs.
Why would you need to remember all numbers?
I don't need to remember that I'm using Chrome 10.0.648.204 stable. Chrome 10 is often more than enough. Usually "Chrome since the last year" suffice to give a good idea of the web standards it's supporting, for someone who follows the latest standards developments like a webmaster.
After many years of Firefox being a solid, well performing browser, it appears it's going to end in bloat just like Netscape did...
Why do you think this? More frequent updates != more bloat. The updates are also spent on fixing bugs. You can't say this before you've seen what Firefox 5 will end up covering. Sure, if it'll become much slower and crashy, I don't question you, but we've so far seen no indication that this more frequent schedule of releasing bug fixes and now less features at a time will lead to that...
It used to be versions were about feature sets. If you added a small feature to a program you'd increment the minor version, if you added big features you'd release a major update. The idea of having versions increase on specific dates seem weird.
It's for many reasons - especially to cut down on the QA wind-down time that keep stalling the trunk (less features at a time means less time spent winding down and testing - a long time doing that means web standards will race ahead before you've even tested the version you were working on... the other extreme causes the "Internet Explorer effect" - often outdated before it's done, and not because the devs suck, but because the releases are too rare which causes a crapload of testing requirements for each release).
So this is a more "organic" model that should be able to follow new web standards better, and the needs and wants of Mozilla's user base.
Google explained all this pretty well too when they also moved to this model:
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/07/release-early-release-often.html
What actual features and improvements could they possibly have added in "8 WEEKS" since the release that they have had time to actually put through an Alpha test, Beta test, and then full release that would warrant a VERSION 5!?!
It's not about "warranting" stuff anymore. Forget all about what you learnt about that, like you did with Chrome. The releases are now time-based - period. Not feature-based. Read these version numbers more like "milestones". "Version number" has too many assumptions associated with them nowadays, so maybe we'd be better off to just call them milestones like I know many Chromium devs already do internally today.
So what Firefox 5 will be released with simply depends on how many features Mozilla has finished by June 21.
As for that question... Many features and fixes has already been checked into the Firefox trunk that were too risky to be included in Firefox 4. I don't think Mozilla will have too many problems in "warranting" an update this coming summer.
Of all the stupid features from Chrome to pick up, the version numbers is, by far, the dumbest. Has anyone considered how stupid a version number in the high double digits might be? Firefox 81 seems kind of clunky, doesn't it?
Only because you/we are not used to it. Who cares? By Chrome 26 and Firefox 12 we won't really look at version numbers like we've done in the past (or look at them at all...), and only see two web browsers that are releasing time-based releases as opposed to feature-based releases where the point won't be to market by features and version numbers, but by following the latest web standards and web browsing trends well.
AFAIK, Firefox is also moving to silent updates, yet a move aimed to remove the old "launch party" thing with new releases that were once released as rarely as once per year, with long, long QA phases at the end to test the huge beasts of new features, bogging everything down before the developers could pick up speed again.
QSXGA
Quad Super Xtended Graphics Array... This is among the most annoying acronyms I know! Ahh!
Easier to just say "5 MP" about that, if it's the resolution others are talking about.
But with that out of my system - I wonder who in their right state of mind are actually going to print either 5 MP or 8 MP photos from a mobile phone on an A3-sized (Tabloid-sized for US citizens) sheet of paper?? It's obvious that they're once again just doing the old Megapixel race for no good reason.
Taken all together, it spells a whole lot of potential fail, and IDC needs to do a hell of a lot more than shout Nokia's name, like it were some sort of talisman that defies all logic.
Indeed; especially with Nokia's own developers lashing out at the point of announcement of the new corporate strategy, as well as their shareholders. And that's Microsoft's *strongest* bet the coming years. I look at that deal more like a deal made in panic. Both for Nokia (for obvious reasons), and Microsoft (due to everything but a speedy adoption of WP7). It honestly looks like two losers joining forces more than anything else to me.
Microsoft's main competitor isn't even the iPhone, but the Android. The Android was first to gain foothold in the kind of open development market that Microsoft is interested in, and has strived to be in all the way since Windows 1.0. I consider that the worst problem for Microsoft. I think Android is the platform that is going to hurt Windows Phone platform adoption so bad that they won't get the traction to beat the iPhone anytime soon.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
