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The Surpisingly Old Origins of the Fax Machine

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By Matt Blitz – TodayIFoundOut.com

The Surpisingly Old Origins of the Fax Machine

Today, we mostly think of the fax machine as an outdated piece of technology. While there are still some uses for it in an office-setting, technological advances are sending the fax machines to the same pasture as pagers, land-line telephones, and disposable cameras. Even if this is the last we hear of the beeps and bops that echo as an incoming fax is transmitted, the fax machine had a very long life – an amazing 171 years to be exact. Yes, the fax machine was invented in 1843, before the Model-T was even a dream, before the telephone was invented, and even before the American Civil War broke out.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/n10YYn3m3co/the-surpisingly-old-origins-of-the-fax-machine-1661053344

      

Qt Weekly #20: Completing the offering: QOpenGLWindow and QRasterWindow

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By Laszlo Agocs

Together with the introduction of QOpenGLWidget, Qt 5.4 adds two more classes: QOpenGLWindow and QRasterWindow. Let us now look at the list of native window classes and OpenGL container widgets. The list may look long and confusing at first glance, but it is all quite logical so everything will fall into place quickly:

  • QWindow: Represents a native window in the windowing system. The fundamental window class in Qt 5. Every top-level window, be it widget or Quick based, will have a QWindow under the hood. Can also be used directly, without widgets or Quick, both for OpenGL and software rendered graphics. Has no dependencies to the traditional QWidget stack.
  • QRasterWindow: Convenience wrapper over QWindow for software rendered graphics.
  • QOpenGLWindow: Convenience wrapper over QWindow for OpenGL graphics. Optionally backed by a framebuffer object, but the default behavior (and thus performance) is equivalent to QWindow.
  • QOpenGLWidget: The modern replacement for Qt 4′s QGLWidget. A widget for showing OpenGL rendered content. Can be used like any other QWidget. Backed by a framebuffer object.
  • QQuickWindow: A QWindow subclass for displaying a Qt Quick 2 (QML) scene.
  • QQuickView: Convenience wrapper for QQuickWindow for easy setup of scenes loaded from QML files.
  • QQuickWidget: The equivalent of QQuickView in the QWidget world. Like QOpenGLWidget, it allows embedding a Qt Quick 2 scene into a traditional widget-based user interface. Backed by a framebuffer object.

For completeness sake, it is worth noting two additional APIs:

  • QQuickRenderControl: Allows rendering Qt Quick 2 scenes into framebuffer objects, instead of targeting an on-screen QQuickWindow.
  • QWidget::createWindowContainer(): In Qt 5.1 & 5.2 the only way to embed Qt Quick 2 content (or in fact any QWindow) into a widget-based UI was via this function. With the introduction of QQuickWidget and QOpenGLWidget this approach should be avoided as much as possible. Its usage should be restricted to cases where it is absolutely neccessary to have a real native window embedded into the widget-based interface and the framebuffer object-based, more robust alternatives are not acceptable, or where it is known in advance that the user interface layout is such that the embedded window will not cause issues (for example because the embedded window does not care about input, is not part of complex layouts that often get resized, etc.).

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Source:: http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/11/20/qt-weekly-20-completing-the-offering-qopenglwindow-and-qrasterwindow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=qt-weekly-20-completing-the-offering-qopenglwindow-and-qrasterwindow

      

Inhale Oxford’s Word of the Year: ‘Vape’

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By Bonnie Burton Slang terms “clickbait,” “normcore,” and “mansplain” lose to “vape” as Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year, which proves electronic cigarettes might not be a drag.

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Source:: http://cnet.com.feedsportal.com/c/34938/f/645093/s/40a6135a/sc/38/l/0L0Scnet0N0Cnews0Cinhale0Eoxfords0Eword0Eof0Ethe0Eyear0Evape0C0Tftag0FCAD590Aa51e/story01.htm