Якщо ви дивилися новини останнім часом, you’ll have noticed that the PlayStation Network, which provides online gameplay and digital game shopping for owners of PlayStation 3 і пристрої PSP, has been down since last Wednesday. Їх на вимогу потоковий сервіс, Qriocity, Також вниз. There’s been a huge buzz about it for the last week, but it’s hard to cut through the buzz to get the actual information. I’ve done a little digging, so here are some of the basics.
Month: Квітень 2011
Бачачи “П'ятниця” в іншому світлі
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Якщо ви не жили під скелею протягом останнього місяця, Ви, напевно, чули (і мав нещастя слухати) Ребекка Блек п'ятницю. Ви знаєте,, що пісню з 13-річного віку водіння автомобілів і ніс підліток цікаво, де сидіти? Це один.
After a shocking experience (more about that later), I’ve had to start questioning why I (and pretty much everyone I know) hate the song. Breaking it down:
- The lyrics are junk, but most pop songs have meaningless lyrics anyway.
- The tune’s pretty catchy, no faults there.
OpenOffice мертвий
The guys at Oracle put out a statement sometime last week about their free and open-source office suite, OpenOffice. Знаєте, що? Вони роблять це “проект спільноти”; i.e. вони залишивши його помирати.
The sad part is that OpenOffice was very popular: багато користувачів Mac використовував його (з Управління з Mac коштує тонна) and plenty of Windows users used it as well (most people aren’t going to use all the features of Microsoft Office, which costs, what, $100?) But don’t be discouraged, it’s not as bad as you might think. Read on to see.
Нова стратегія реліз Firefox,
Назад в день (і під цим я розумію тиждень тому), нові версії Firefox були звільнені “коли вони були готові” – тобто, коли всі функції, які вони хотіли поставити в були в ньому. That’s called feature-based releases, і більшість розробників використовувати цю стратегію.
But there’s another release strategy that focuses on releasing new versions every so often. Some features might not make a version, but that’s OK; a new version is coming in x weeks so it’ll be included then. This is called fixed releases.
Ще один гучні слова про СК:з
Я тільки що отримав листа на ім'я не менш 78 люди, і все 78 адреси електронної пошти людей були в полі. Можна подумати, що відправник буде поставити всі наші електронні листи в поле СК, так як, добре, одержувачі дійсно не потрібно знати листів з інших 77 люди, які отримали електронну пошту. (На свій захист, putting all the emails in the To field makes stalking easier, but isn’t that what Facebook’s for?)
I can understand why Cc isn’t that popular: it does the same thing as To, except it carries a different semantic meaning. Most teenagers (and a bunch of adults too) couldn’t care less about the fancy schmancy semantic meaning, so they just use To.
The quest for a decent home page
I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. Я маю на увазі, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, добре, awkward. Plus they’re not very useful: most of them just serve as a landing page; you don’t really use them except to read news about how kids can’t bring bagged lunch to school (*cough* Yahoo *cough*.) And when you do that kind of stuff, you just get distracted from what you were originally meaning to do all along.
I want to know why that is and how I can help fix it.
DuckDuckGo – the best thing since Google
I was looking on my analytics page (tracking visitors to the site) and noticed someone came to hathix through DuckDuckGo. Being bored, I looked up DuckDuckGo and I was impressed automatically. It’s a great search engine. Here’s why.
Zero-click info
DuckDuckGo’s got this great feature that lets you see some quick background info on a subject when you search it. If I want to know who Nelson Mandela is without having to read a lengthy article about apartheid, South Africa, and that sort of stuff, I can just DDG it and look what I get: