Windows phones are gone. Why would they want to make MS Office touch friendly? I don't understand why they removed the lines between buttons. This is what made the old UI look organized.
> Windows phones are gone. Why would they want to make MS Office touch friendly?
Windows Phones are gone, but people still use Office on touch devices: MS Surface tablet, and other manufacture's Windows tablets or hybrid laptop/tablet devices, or just touch-screen laptops¹ which are a thing, and increasingly the web versions of office that might be used on anything modern including iPads.
> I don't understand why they removed the lines between buttons.
The usual reason for things like this is that it makes things look cleaner, or more modern⁴, which it does. Though IMO it has a detrimental effect on discoverability (it that a button, a link, or just some text?!) and navigation, even for the modern touch-first idea it is sometimes aiming at (where are the edges of what I can touch?).
My biggest irritation with modern UIs is focus indication on the desktop. It has been a problem for many years but only gets worse as time goes on: it can be difficult to see at a glance, especially over multiple screens, which window currently has input focus because many app families use different window decorations and even within one app the active/not distinction can come down to the difference between one shade of off-white/black and another shade of off-white/black (MS Office and Firefox are both guilty of this).
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[1] I know people really like touching their screen where possible instead of using a mouse or trackpad, I sometimes find it preferable myself² though not for Office & similar tasks.
[2] and for the most part I'm an old-fashioned keyboard-or-die person, regularly bemoaning bad design decisions³ (or simple laziness of not implementing standard shortcuts) that force me to leave the keyboard to mouse/trackpad/touch
[3] which can't be good for accessibility reasons, as well as not-irritating-the-like-of-me reasons
[4] though given how quickly fashion changes, I'm of the opinion that “to look modern” should never be a design consideration in a product intended to last into next year!
Mobile first touch friendly design dominates designer minds. It looks modern and fresh. Desktop friendly UI unfortunately looks dated, old-school and rarely used nowadays even for desktop only apps.
I predict that in a couple years, someone will produce an app that uses old "dated" UI styles and people will suddenly praise it for being clear and intuitive.
I would say that the terminology is pretty good in this space, and BDWGC is a conservativetracing GC. A tracing GC determines reachability by following (i.e. tracing) chains of references. A precise GC will retain exactly the set of reachable objects, a conservative GC will retain potentially more.
Tracing GCs might be precise (or not), they might handle internal-pointers (or not), they might move the data (or not), they might handle variable sized allocations (or not).
The HTTPS certificate expired on my privacy policy page and Google delists the app when that happens. After you renew they require that you resubmit the app and I didn't bother since there were barely any downloads then.
For circuit-switched voice, 3G/4G dongles have undocumented commands to enable an audio-only virtual serial port that sends/receives raw audio data to the host (and you control the call via good old AT commands).
For VoWiFi/VoLTE it's just SIP with custom auth (involving the SIM card, so you need to be able to talk to it - most modems provide a way to send/receive raw APDUs to the card) on a dedicated APN so you just need to implement support for this custom auth in any SIP client (Linphone?).
Not sure precisely why you're being downvoted for bringing some additional light to the conversation. Been busy here but appreciate the insights; this isn't my field. Are there good sources that clarify the complexities of Roman naming conventions?
You're thinking along the lines of generational suffixes? There were Roman emperors who's family name (nomen gentilicium) was a number, the same number being used by son, father, grandfather... not incrementing with each generation.
There were also Roman emperors who's fathers had been slaves.
Lucius Septimius Severus - family name means 7th
Publius Helvius Pertinax - family name means honey-yellow. Son of a freed slave.
How do I play it? "gzdoom myhouse.wad" doesn't work. "gzdoom -wad myhouse.wad" doesn't work either. There's also a pk3 file in the drive. What is it for?
Follow the download link from [1], download `myhouse.zip`, put `myhouse.wad`
from the zip where your other WADs are. Run GZDoom and use the [Browse…] button in the initial dialog to load `myhouse.wad`. Voilà.
I'm pretty sure the .wad was always there. It was just hidden in the .zip file in the Google Drive download as a red herring. It's not something to be avoided, just play the .pk3 file afterwards.
Your purchased Doom copy of course ; ) (just search for it, come on, the top results give it to you - just like the search results for "how to run myhouse.wad")
GOG's installers are made with InnoSetup, you can use a tool like InnoExtract to get the files out of them (source at https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ or in MacPorts/Homebrew).
You're going to have not the same textures as regular Doom 2 so plenty of designs and custom textures based on the originals used alongside them will look out of place. For playing with MyHouse for the proper experience, it would be best to get proper Doom 2.
What makes Symbolics Genera interesting is not the fact it’s a Common Lisp implementation; there’s SBCL, ABCL, and plenty of others. It’s the development environment inside Genera that many users fondly remember and make it stand out even today. The excitement about the broader availability of Genera centers around its development environment.
