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Authored by: kuroshima on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 04:46 PM EST |
Obligatory
linky
Personally, I originally was a Netscape user, then
Netscape 4 happened. I persevered, and used Opera, until
Mozilla came. I used
Mozilla until both Firefox AND
thunderbird were mature enough (I always found
that
Netscape/Mozilla/Thunderbird suited me as email programs).
Now, I use
Chromium and Thunderbird still. Mozilla also gets
some use, for when I need two
simultaneous independent
accounts in some web service, and for accessing
government
web forms (they are slowly leaving IE6 land, thank goodness,
but
they still don't support non-mozilla non Microsoft
browsers, and do so by
actually sniffing the user agent and
if it doesn't match what they like, they
redirect you to a
"please use IE6+ or Firefox 2+" page. That is, when the
servers aren't choking and the sites don't barf on you due
to Java or
JavaScript errors).
That being said, I find that Mozilla is making
a gross
generalization here. Android apps are easy to made into
resolution
independent and DPI independet pieces of work.
The Android class library helps
you here, because unlike
other platforms, you will find multiple resolutions,
pixel
densities, aspect ratios, etc etc, and the app must work on
all of them.
Tablet apps? just use the right elements, and
the app will adapt, without
greatly increased weight. iOS
has issues here, but don't conflate iOS and
Android. Mind
you, if you want (and I'm looking at you Square Enix), you
can
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 08:13 PM EST |
Siri doesn't work Macs has nothing to do with CPU architecture :p. If Apple
wanted to, they could make it work in no time (that's assuming they don't
already have it working). The main advantage of switching to ARM for Apple is
more control on the hardware. Intel doesn't always produce the most suitable
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- Same for MS - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 12:33 PM EST
- Same for MS - Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 05:01 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 11:18 PM EST |
How about this for a plan? It seems to me that it would really cut down on the
possibilities of fraud:
1. There is electronic balloting, using a machine. Then the quick count can be
done. But as a safeguard:
2. The machine prints two copies of the ballot, with an accompanying serial
number printed on them, too, which matches the ballot. This is done immediately,
while the voter is standing right there. The voter then can look at the paper
ballots, inspect whether the paper ballot matches the vote just cast, and hit a
reset button if the paper ballot does not match the cast ballot. Assuming the
voter is satisfied:
3. The voter deposits one of the two duplicate paper ballots in an old-fashioned
ballot box and takes the other copy home. The voter can not put both of them in
the box because if any recount were to occur one of the two with matching serial
numbers will be invalidated.
4. In case of any challenge to the ballot, the paper ballots have to be counted
in addition to re-inspecting the machine tallies. The possibility of any wide
divergence between the paper record and the electronic record might then serve
as a strong deterrent to fudging the electronic record.
It seems to me that this kind of redundancy really might help. Cheating on the
vote count was already invented when we had nothing but paper ballots. It did
not suddenly become possible or fashionable with the advent of electronic voting
machines. But something like this might help with the very real problem that
with nothing but an electronic vote counting machine the real vote can disappear
without a trace and the actual totals can then never be actually known or
recovered.
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 12:33 AM EST |
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/11/05/is-apples-tablet-dominance-coming-to-an-e
nd/
Wall Street Jornal:
"In the third quarter through September, Apple’s share of the tablet market
dropped sharply to 50.4% from 65.4% in the previous quarter, according to
research firm IDC."
"By trying to maintain its profit margins on its devices, Apple could end
up targeting a narrower segment of the fast-growing tablet market."
"IDC said that the iPad Mini’s “relatively high $329 starting price leaves
plenty of room for Android (tablet) vendors to build upon the success they
achieved in the third quarter."
The beginning? <pant pant pant>
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 06 2012 @ 02:32 AM EST |
Business Insider .
Parallel to this is a
story on arstechnica, not
usually a Redmond lackey, saying that Windows 8 is not a green flag for Linux on
the desktop, and
that people forced to upgrade from XP will go to Win7.
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