Words are not petty. Language is not irrelevant. It is the primary form of communication for our species, and to suggest that you are unaffected by it is to be disingenuous in the extreme.
If we are to have meaningful relationships with other members of our species, then we must of necessity allow ourselves to be "hurt by words".
This is kind of a good point - no-one really cares that much if FBs pages break a little bit (as they often to, friends lists changing at random, comments not showing up, etc etc). You just refresh and (mostly) everything comes right.
I'm not saying that FB isn't impressive, just that they don't have to hit especially high standards of data consistency in order to be a success.
Camera are cheap, computers are cheap, locations are everywhere. All you need to make movies now is time, and talent. And talent of course, is the hardest part.
Now I've not seen the film, and don't care to, but from the comments about the schlong being "blue and glowing" I don't think we can call it 100% normal can we?
Not as much as how well the software is written, especially on a simple device like an iPad. I saw that video of the Dell Streak (terrible name...) lagging behind the user's finger by an appreciable amount - and it had some dual core whatsit running the show.
We're all here used to complaining about how for all our high-spec machines, Windows (for example) still runs like shit.
I don't understand how anyone can consider OSX to be closed. I can lookup the source for the kernel, for god's sake. Last time I checked the same wasn't possible for windows (and I'd love to see some windows source code...).
I know lots of OSX is closed, but certainly not all. Last time the kernel paniced on my mac (it doesn't seem to like restoring from hibernate after I put more RAM in it - which is most irritating) I was able to find the actual line of code that crashed. Not that it helped me solve the problem (although in another circumstance it may have) - but it was pretty cool.
That's a very good question, and not an easy one to answer.
Here's my answer though, for what it's worth. The Internet is a right, in very much the same sense that water and shelter and being allowed to own and read whatever books your please are all rights.
Facebook is not a right, in the same sense that access to coca-cola, and having a swimming pool, and being allowed to nick whatever books you please from the public library are not rights.
All grey areas (except the book theft part obviously), all debatable, but I would think that this is pretty much how a court is going to see it.
Linux failed there because the sound stopped working. That it could be rebooted is unimportant, any OS can be rebooted and start working again.
I thought your point was that Linux was superior in this instance because it "did the job and got out of the way". I was just pointing out that it hadn't done it's job, if it's job included keeping the sound working (which I presume it did).
In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if airlines started using ipads for their inflight entertainment systems. (and lo and behold, a quick google search led me to this : http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/25218/ )
Yeah great, looks like flash probably did about ten years ago.
Actually no - flash has never looked as bad as that animation. It was jerky, the audio didn't start until halfway through and the antialiasing was horrible. When things were moving slowly it became obvious that there was no sub-pixel positioning, which just looks nasty.
If this is the best you can do with CSS3, then flash has nothing to fear.
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what exactly is to stop them from locking down the hardware of a Mac in the same way they currently lock down the hardware of a iPhone or iPad?
Because. It. Makes. No. Sense. To. Do. So.
And the concern is that, if Apple has its way, you won't be able to do that on your Mac anymore either.
This makes no sense, there is no evidence, it would be very damaging to their userbase, and I personally am not in the least bit worried about it.
To be honest, it astonishes me that anyone would imagine that scenario actually occurring.
Really? Gonna biff your PS3? Can I have it?
All of your 'don't compile' examples compile perfectly fine for me (VS2008) - and I have no trouble understanding what they do.
Which is to say of course, that none of them do anything except pass types around templates, but I'm sure you see what I mean.
I just don't care.
Ok. Good on you. I do, which I guess is my problem.
Words are not petty. Language is not irrelevant. It is the primary form of communication for our species, and to suggest that you are unaffected by it is to be disingenuous in the extreme.
If we are to have meaningful relationships with other members of our species, then we must of necessity allow ourselves to be "hurt by words".
A Creole is a complete and not simple language. You're thinking of a Pigin.
That doesn't really make any sense, since safari runs javascript and it's possible to make reasonably nice apps using that isn't it?
I don't know if he's wrong or right, but the bottom 50% of earners don't on average earn the average income - if you see what I mean.
In Christchurch, on Tuesday, we had this:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/4698487/Christchurch-quake-at-a-glance
A few seconds warning would I'm sure have made a difference to at lease some of those people.
This is kind of a good point - no-one really cares that much if FBs pages break a little bit (as they often to, friends lists changing at random, comments not showing up, etc etc). You just refresh and (mostly) everything comes right.
I'm not saying that FB isn't impressive, just that they don't have to hit especially high standards of data consistency in order to be a success.
Two examples:
Monsters : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/ Budget $800k - CGI effect allegedly done on the director's home computer.
Primer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/ Budger $7k - no CGI to speak of, but one of the best SciFi films of recent years.
Camera are cheap, computers are cheap, locations are everywhere. All you need to make movies now is time, and talent. And talent of course, is the hardest part.
Now I've not seen the film, and don't care to, but from the comments about the schlong being "blue and glowing" I don't think we can call it 100% normal can we?
Not as much as how well the software is written, especially on a simple device like an iPad. I saw that video of the Dell Streak (terrible name...) lagging behind the user's finger by an appreciable amount - and it had some dual core whatsit running the show.
We're all here used to complaining about how for all our high-spec machines, Windows (for example) still runs like shit.
That's not a beta version, it's just a really bad port.
Well I didn't actually. I thought that this was the kernel source, but I could certainly be wrong:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1504.9.26/
I don't understand how anyone can consider OSX to be closed. I can lookup the source for the kernel, for god's sake. Last time I checked the same wasn't possible for windows (and I'd love to see some windows source code...).
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1066/
I know lots of OSX is closed, but certainly not all. Last time the kernel paniced on my mac (it doesn't seem to like restoring from hibernate after I put more RAM in it - which is most irritating) I was able to find the actual line of code that crashed. Not that it helped me solve the problem (although in another circumstance it may have) - but it was pretty cool.
sounds like libc to me
That's a very good question, and not an easy one to answer.
Here's my answer though, for what it's worth. The Internet is a right, in very much the same sense that water and shelter and being allowed to own and read whatever books your please are all rights.
Facebook is not a right, in the same sense that access to coca-cola, and having a swimming pool, and being allowed to nick whatever books you please from the public library are not rights.
All grey areas (except the book theft part obviously), all debatable, but I would think that this is pretty much how a court is going to see it.
All ideas beginning "Why don't they just ...." are rubbish.
There are no exceptions to this rule.
Hmm.
Linux failed there because the sound stopped working. That it could be rebooted is unimportant, any OS can be rebooted and start working again.
I thought your point was that Linux was superior in this instance because it "did the job and got out of the way". I was just pointing out that it hadn't done it's job, if it's job included keeping the sound working (which I presume it did).
In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if airlines started using ipads for their inflight entertainment systems. (and lo and behold, a quick google search led me to this : http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/25218/ )
"the sound was dead. So they rebooted it for me."
There's no reason whatsoever that an embedded OS should need a reboot to get the audio working again. I'd say linux failed there, wouldn't you?
Not that windows would necessarily fare any better, just sayin' is all.
Yeah great, looks like flash probably did about ten years ago.
Actually no - flash has never looked as bad as that animation. It was jerky, the audio didn't start until halfway through and the antialiasing was horrible. When things were moving slowly it became obvious that there was no sub-pixel positioning, which just looks nasty.
If this is the best you can do with CSS3, then flash has nothing to fear.
Here you go:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/idkjdjficifbfjjkdkiimioljbloddpl
I don't understand - the condom broke in the middle so she asked him to stop, he didn't - and that's rape?
Yes.
Not that I know anything about Assange at all, but the scenario you describe is rape. Yes.