It does not require encrypted connections, although it does have extensions to indicate that future connections should occur over TLS (through the optional `tls` extension in IRCv3.1) and there is discussion for standardizing IRC over SCTP in IRCv3.3
I can't speak to its accuracy, but, June 2013 wasn't yesterday. It isn't that old -- and it isn't like there's been a release of Photoshop in the past month and a half, so, it seems pretty recently updated.
I still don't get why this has to be a full-sized TV. What if the AppleTV (sized as it is) had the sensors in it to detect motion?
(Of course, I still don't see the appeal in using motion to control my TV, after using a Kinect on-and-off since it was released. But, there's more to the market than just me, so, who knows.)
While its great to have a small image that doesn't require much I/O to read, "small" shouldn't only refer to file size.
Instead, a "small" image should be one that has a small resolution, and is stretchable. This lets the GPU tile the portions of the image that are being stretched and reuse GPU memory, instead of having to waste space in ram to hold duplicate pixel data.
(And when something's as small as it can be, it doesn't minify very well anymore -- not much left to strip from the PNG.)
I was referring to actual images used or featured in the table cell, not tiled backgrounds via UIColor colorWithPatternImage like you mentioning. But yes, it is important to do that as well.
It wasn't mentioned in the article, but, it is very important to note: CAGradientLayer is not GPU-backed.
In other words, the comparison is between the CPU redrawing a gradient 60x a second, and, an image being moved around on screen. Not entirely surprising that the one that does less rendering is going to be faster.
Saying "Always rasterize" isn't necessarily the solution, either. Its actually pretty bad advice to follow all the time ;)
I suspect (but can't confirm without the source code to the demo) that shouldRasterize would actually hurt performance in one of the two cases in the article. Specifically, I imagine that it would make the score for adding and removing views from screen even worse than it already is.
Yes, it renders into a bitmap, and reduces CPU usage, once you've paid the upfront rendering cost. But, it doesn't rasterize opacity, and, will use up a ton of memory (because it doesn't result in stretchable images).
Selected "I read multiple books a few times a week", but, I'm not sure if thats the best fit. I read for some amount of time every day, but, its rare for me to be on the same book for longer than a few days -- and if I finish a book in the evening, I'll probably wait till the next day to pick up another one.
Basically, my target for the year is to read 104 new[1] books cover-to-cover, or, two books a week, and I'm currently a bit ahead of schedule.
1. Books that I haven't read before, not that are published in 2013.
The typeface in many new OS X 10.8 apps is Helvetica. The typeface of OS X is Lucida Grande.
I bet this changes in 10.9. At least, for Retina machines. There's a reason why iOS uses Helvetica Neue as the system font, and not Lucida Grande. It looks better on sharper displays.
The new iMessage app in 10.8 lacks instant messenger integration with services such as MSN, AIM, and Jabber, forcing the use of a different application for these features.
Erm. Those services are still there. Same as ever -- which never included MSN in the first place. Hell, theres a new framework, IMServices, which lets you add support for new services to Messages.app.
..sometimes programmers are just different and work environments can be rigid.
No. Just, no.
While I can totally relate to not wanting to have a 9-5 job (and even moreso when it comes to holding out for the right job) a dislike of working 9-5 jobs this is not unique to some (but not all, remember that) programmers.
