When making the lessons they should include a quick Google button somewhere inside. Learning to use Google to seek or ask for help is vital. So many problems would be solved in seconds or minutes if people simple just knew how to look for the answers to the questions they're asking...
I used to wear headphones regularly. But now I only used them sometimes at work.
My favourite phones would have to be Brainwavz HM5
Very clean and unbiased. Avoid these if you like overly harsh, bright, flat or the patented Sennheiser 'heavy mud bass .'
Don't have much of an opinion on earphones, though. Just that they make me feel like an 80 year old with how little they give in terms of clarity & depth .
Edit: I also used to use Alessandro MS1, basically the Grado 125. If you like metal/rock, get these. My favourite brights. Not for the faint of ears...
Don't worry dreamer! I bet in a year or two (if this is mainstream that is) we will be seeing Super HD coming in. Imagine Retina HMD. All in good time we will be transcend the confines of our mere monitors and reach for the realm of <insert dream>.
Windows 7 is the last Microsoft OS I will buy. There's no way I'm supporting Microsoft anymore with these dangerous decisions they're making. I wish them all the best and that they see what damage they will do to everyone that supports/supported them.
Why is it bad to make big decisions, especially when an extremely flawed model that has been in place for the past ~20 years is finally changing? (Fear of change aside)
To compare, Apple makes big decisions like this fairly often. People complain, get over it, and the world is usually a better place afterwards.
You may not think about it but by NOT supporting those 5% or telling them they have to upgrade (which is unbelievably easy) saves much, MUCH more than 25,000. Hell, my friends dev team wasted thrice that just adding support for a heavy JS web app.
They complain about the cost and later said it'd cost a 1/10 to just get their admins off their fat hairy arse and update their computers. If not that, you could even use Chrome frame!
Read the article. It pushes Progressive Enhancement, so if you are building an app that relies on JS your only choice is to either strip back the JS or ditch older browsers. My beef is with normal websites that don't support legacy browsers.
Regardless, you don't get a choice in what your users use, and more often than not they don't have a choice in what they can use or install. Chrome Frame is a good option, but the average user isn't going to jump through hoops to view your site and if the average marketing manager looked through a site the requirement for an external tool before a user can use the site would be the first issue flagged.
As I said above, it's not hard to get a typical website working in IE6-8.
How many times are we going to have the same argument?!?!?!?
There is always a choice. IT departments can, and do, install modern browsers on people's desktops. IE6 can run along side Chrome, for example.
The guy sitting in the cubicle doesn't have much say when the upgrade happens. When the guy in the corner office starts to feel the pain, a few phone calls are made and something gets done. If you keep pushing progressive enhancement then we can support IE7 and IE8 for another decade. Of course, the amount of Javascript that you can use on your site will be limited.
As many times as it takes for you to realise that you don't have power over everyone's IT department.
Yes, installing a browser is trivial, but people are at this offices to do work. The argument is that these people shouldn't be browsing the Internet in the first place.
The only thing keeping these dead browsers alive is legacy operating systems, and Microsoft needs to find a way to get people off of XP. If Microsoft can kill XP and get people on Windows 7 then IE6-8 are gone from the equation. This is the real battle, not whether you can be a lazy developer.
Everyone already realizes that. Now when you realize that we do realize then we can make some progress.
Once it becomes uncomfortable enough for enough people, or the right people, then IT departments will respond. That's how many departments work. Push change out as far as possible.
As I have already explained, there's an opportunity cost for supporting legacy. Companies like Apple are quick to drop legacy, and move forward. It works quite well for them. Google doesn't support less than IE8 for their apps (are they being lazy?). They claim to only support the last two browsers. It'll be interesting to see what happens when IE10 ships.
One thing that I think would be useful is to tell people that your site no longer "officially support" browser X before you actually stop supporting it.
Why are all these gaming tech "pundits" jumping on the internet hate bandwagon. It stifles innovation and is regressive. There's no telling if this will be a success because that's entirely up to the developers/community/designers that may or may not lead it.
I donated because I want to see that consoles by definition not need to be the latest and greatest (I have my PC for that and most people will have extensive "fanboy" wars over the next console put out by either Sony or MS).
Not only that but I support the idea that Android could be THE entry level to game development. It could be an amazing learning tool for beginners, everywhere.
I'm starting to hate using HN... Anyone found good alternatives?
Wow, you're comparing Apple, a company that has had
half a decade or more to setup a decent eStore
to Google who has never personally sold devices
till a few months ago?
The surprise, shock & horror!
Ever heard of the woes (which is a universal law
which affects all businesses at some point) of "early adoption?"
>>>Wow, you're comparing Apple, a company that has had half a decade or more to setup a decent eStore to Google who has never personally sold devices till a few months ago?
And why not? Is the entire process so arcane and mysterious that only Apple can do it? He could have used any other company as an example and probably settled on Apple since it's a top dog right now. But to excuse the incompetency of a multi-billion corporation like Google, which brags about how smart its staff is, is ridiculous. Some things are just so damn basic that not doing them either shows gross negligence or willful stupidity or I just don't know what. Google could have sorted this out well beforehand. There is just no excuse.
Google has been selling devices for years, not months. And, yes, I actually agree it's unfair to compare them with Apple -- but that's what the market will do, and the market doesn't care about fairness.
When making the lessons they should include a quick Google button somewhere inside. Learning to use Google to seek or ask for help is vital. So many problems would be solved in seconds or minutes if people simple just knew how to look for the answers to the questions they're asking...