I suspect some of the annoyance with him comes from the fact that MS lives on FUD and vapor. MS is known for announcing products well before they are ready to be released and touting them as being the next big thing. They frequently do what they are accusing google of doing.
one issue I have found with spaces is the inability to set finder to "all spaces". I want to have finder windows in every space for drag and drop. I don't want to change spaces just to browse the file system.
This is a bit of a pain... but if it pisses me off enough I will just stop using spaces. Not a huge loss.
I don't think this guy cares if they are movies or if they are rendered in the game engine (though movies are more jarring especially if they look better than the game play). I think this guys complaint is that you don't have control over the character.
In the Splinter Cell example he likes the fact that the player always has control. I haven't played the game but I wonder. He describes the actions the character goes though and says that they player has control, but is this still basically on rails or could the player choose to do something completely different?
The signing, from what I can see, is only about trust. If install acrobat (an example, I don't know if acrobat is being signed or not) it will ask you if you want to run it the first time, tell you its signed by Adobe. From then on it will run just fine.
If some hacker manages to get you to run a script that changes the acrobat executable then the signature wont match up and the app will no longer just run. Thats the only protection it provides you beyond asking you the first time if you trust the application. There is no guarantee that Adobe didn't fuck up and make a version of acrobat that wipes your system the first time you run it.
No, we just fear that the wii will encourage studios to repackage old games but replace "mash A" with "shake controller" (rayman rabits) and stop making any deep or quality games
Ill start worrying about that when the industry starts producing deep or quality games with any regularity.
While it is true that you are more likely to be killed in a taxi or bus accident I think the chance of the accident needs to be taken into account.
People survive taxi and bus accidents all the time, but they happen a lot and some are fatal. The perception is that if you are in a plane crash you are dead (I dont have survival numbers handy but I think this is what most people imagine) while most people believe you have a non trivial chance of surviving a car crash.
I think its the perception of certain death that makes plane crashes more scary even if they are less common.
I dunno, if the culture of the populations in the 'urban' areas valued education (instead of ridiculing those that try) above the aspirations of being a star athlete or rap star, then I think you'd see a much larger change.
you might be right, but I would argue that an influx of upper middle class people into the cities would result in a cultural shift toward valuing education.
Then get on one of the other 10 editing bays and get it done.
The internet connection is a single point of failure at a TV studio. Im actually kind of curious how many editing bays are even internet connected at places like that. Downtime is just too expensive to risk those getting infected.
and considerably fewer people will know how to use photoshop (or after effects or any other app) at all. You will be more likely to end up with graphic designers who use something else because they couldn't afford photoshop when they learned photo editing.
Student piracy is not always a bad thing... of course this could be solved with very aggressive student pricing.
Lets assume for a minute that it can be done and that it performs well and they can implement good keyboard shortcuts and a usable UI in the browser.
FireFox crashes a hell of a lot more often than my Mac does. It crashes way more often than my windows machine does. Im Imagining myself editing a document with one of these things and loosing a bunch of work because firefox decides to shit the bed. Never mind any crashes that are actually caused by the application adobe writes. All this does is add another failure point to the application. One more thing that can go wrong and cause you to loose your work.
Besides, what if I want to edit a photo when Im *gasp* not connected to the internet!
sure, but that puts you in the position of saying (to the public anyway) "hey, the other guy did the same thing" where "the other guy" is the least approved of president in history.
While clearly Hillary would be granted the same powers on a legal basis I think she would be more likely to get roasted in the public eye than Bush has been (which is quite a bit honestly). I believe it is the potential ballot box fallout that would keep her from using some of these tactics (or punish the dems if they decide to use them anyway).
Generally speaking the republicans can get away with quite a bit more than the democrats from a PR standpoint. They have fanatical followers and run tight administrations with few leaks or public disagreements. Also, they have a killer PR machine. The democrats don't have these advantages.
my point was that they don't have to... they just have to get her out in 4 years and further discredit the Dems in the process. They can do this by making her look like a cold hearted, godless monster. They have the PR to do it and Hillary is a fairly easy target because of her image, being the first woman president and being associated with Bill.
Hillary will have to tread fairly lightly in her first term.
If Hillary every abuses power like bush did (and gets caught) she will be out on her ass. Even if the republicans don't have the power in congress to get her impeached they would drag her through the mud for it. It wouldn't take much to turn the tide against her and have her out in 4 years. She is controversial enough without pulling any shit like this.
It would be a lot easier to run a smear campaign against the wife of a known adulterer, first female president, and "liberal" new age new york type than it is to smear a down home conservative country type like bush.
wouldn't there be something to gain by trying and failing at the senate though? it only makes it easier to unseat someone if you can say "hey, you voted against this thing, allowing the (hated) president to get away with spying on good, wholesome American citizens."
Of course if there is an attack before the next election this wont work, but then, if there is an attack, all bets are off.
I assure you that when they do the republicans will raise holly hell. They wont need a majority to whip the middle into a conservative frenzy when its those godless heathens taking advantage of these powers. If the dems get power and use these same tricks they could be out in 4 years (2 for congress) if they aren't careful .
if it doesnt cost anything to sign an application (assuming the signature is only to establish who wrote the code and not actually certifying that it wont fuck with your iPhone or the network) then there is no reason to create unsigned apps unless you are writing viruses.
I cant seem to find that much detail on the signed apps feature of leopard but it looks like you will be able to run unsigned apps. Even if they use the same system for the iphone that would be different from the nokia system described which wont allow you to run unsigned apps.
I wouldnt be surprised if it was the ability to sign apps that has held apple back from releasing an SDK for the iPhone, you don't want users running old versions of the phone OS running unsigned apps. The iPhone version of the os is going to lag behind the desktop version, hence the February release date.
Whether this means you have to buy the latest OS X is up to you.
This is an important point. If there is nothing in the new OS version that really blows you away you only have to wait a year, maybe a year and a half for the one after that. Maybe you will find that version more compelling and you haven't spent that long behind the curve (and if you don't find the leading edge of the curve appealing this shouldn't be a big deal). If you don't find vista compelling you are more likely to run into compatibility problems, possibly forced into an upgrade by some new hardware, because it will be 6 years before the next release.
Don't waste your time. People who continue to trot out this service pack crap every time apple releases an OS have heard all this over and over again. They will continue to troll as long as it gets a reaction. Don't even bother.
If you wanted to reply to this you could have said something like "If I got a Dell with XP instead of vista I woudl be psyched that I didnt have to look at that vista UI all day, it would save me wiping vista out and replacing it with XP"
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I suspect some of the annoyance with him comes from the fact that MS lives on FUD and vapor. MS is known for announcing products well before they are ready to be released and touting them as being the next big thing. They frequently do what they are accusing google of doing.
Cool, I didn't know where Finder.app lived. Ill give that a try, thanks.
one issue I have found with spaces is the inability to set finder to "all spaces". I want to have finder windows in every space for drag and drop. I don't want to change spaces just to browse the file system.
This is a bit of a pain... but if it pisses me off enough I will just stop using spaces. Not a huge loss.
I don't think this guy cares if they are movies or if they are rendered in the game engine (though movies are more jarring especially if they look better than the game play). I think this guys complaint is that you don't have control over the character.
In the Splinter Cell example he likes the fact that the player always has control. I haven't played the game but I wonder. He describes the actions the character goes though and says that they player has control, but is this still basically on rails or could the player choose to do something completely different?
The signing, from what I can see, is only about trust. If install acrobat (an example, I don't know if acrobat is being signed or not) it will ask you if you want to run it the first time, tell you its signed by Adobe. From then on it will run just fine.
If some hacker manages to get you to run a script that changes the acrobat executable then the signature wont match up and the app will no longer just run. Thats the only protection it provides you beyond asking you the first time if you trust the application. There is no guarantee that Adobe didn't fuck up and make a version of acrobat that wipes your system the first time you run it.
I like the way you phrased #2.
If you define a next generation console as a console that is the next generation...
a bit self referential I think.
Ill start worrying about that when the industry starts producing deep or quality games with any regularity.
they don't seem to be in stock very often at my local target, but then I own one so I'm not in there every week looking for them.
I got mine by finding out what day they came in as well and showing up early to get one.
While it is true that you are more likely to be killed in a taxi or bus accident I think the chance of the accident needs to be taken into account.
People survive taxi and bus accidents all the time, but they happen a lot and some are fatal. The perception is that if you are in a plane crash you are dead (I dont have survival numbers handy but I think this is what most people imagine) while most people believe you have a non trivial chance of surviving a car crash.
I think its the perception of certain death that makes plane crashes more scary even if they are less common.
you might be right, but I would argue that an influx of upper middle class people into the cities would result in a cultural shift toward valuing education.
I'm not sure I agree with the grandparent but I can assure you that if rich white people lived in cities the schools would be fantastic.
no doubt this is an issue, but I do think that hefty student discounts do help recover some of the exposure lost by reducing casual piracy.
But really... individual, non commercial piracy of photoshop should not be a big issue for adobe.
Then get on one of the other 10 editing bays and get it done.
The internet connection is a single point of failure at a TV studio. Im actually kind of curious how many editing bays are even internet connected at places like that. Downtime is just too expensive to risk those getting infected.
and considerably fewer people will know how to use photoshop (or after effects or any other app) at all. You will be more likely to end up with graphic designers who use something else because they couldn't afford photoshop when they learned photo editing.
Student piracy is not always a bad thing... of course this could be solved with very aggressive student pricing.
This is a poor idea.
Lets assume for a minute that it can be done and that it performs well and they can implement good keyboard shortcuts and a usable UI in the browser.
FireFox crashes a hell of a lot more often than my Mac does. It crashes way more often than my windows machine does. Im Imagining myself editing a document with one of these things and loosing a bunch of work because firefox decides to shit the bed. Never mind any crashes that are actually caused by the application adobe writes. All this does is add another failure point to the application. One more thing that can go wrong and cause you to loose your work.
Besides, what if I want to edit a photo when Im *gasp* not connected to the internet!
sure, but that puts you in the position of saying (to the public anyway) "hey, the other guy did the same thing" where "the other guy" is the least approved of president in history.
While clearly Hillary would be granted the same powers on a legal basis I think she would be more likely to get roasted in the public eye than Bush has been (which is quite a bit honestly). I believe it is the potential ballot box fallout that would keep her from using some of these tactics (or punish the dems if they decide to use them anyway).
Generally speaking the republicans can get away with quite a bit more than the democrats from a PR standpoint. They have fanatical followers and run tight administrations with few leaks or public disagreements. Also, they have a killer PR machine. The democrats don't have these advantages.
OK, I guess "you voted against the closure of a bill that would have..." just doesn't have the same ring to it.
my point was that they don't have to... they just have to get her out in 4 years and further discredit the Dems in the process. They can do this by making her look like a cold hearted, godless monster. They have the PR to do it and Hillary is a fairly easy target because of her image, being the first woman president and being associated with Bill.
Hillary will have to tread fairly lightly in her first term.
If Hillary every abuses power like bush did (and gets caught) she will be out on her ass. Even if the republicans don't have the power in congress to get her impeached they would drag her through the mud for it. It wouldn't take much to turn the tide against her and have her out in 4 years. She is controversial enough without pulling any shit like this.
It would be a lot easier to run a smear campaign against the wife of a known adulterer, first female president, and "liberal" new age new york type than it is to smear a down home conservative country type like bush.
Not that thats fair, its just the way it is.
wouldn't there be something to gain by trying and failing at the senate though? it only makes it easier to unseat someone if you can say "hey, you voted against this thing, allowing the (hated) president to get away with spying on good, wholesome American citizens."
Of course if there is an attack before the next election this wont work, but then, if there is an attack, all bets are off.
I assure you that when they do the republicans will raise holly hell. They wont need a majority to whip the middle into a conservative frenzy when its those godless heathens taking advantage of these powers. If the dems get power and use these same tricks they could be out in 4 years (2 for congress) if they aren't careful .
if it doesnt cost anything to sign an application (assuming the signature is only to establish who wrote the code and not actually certifying that it wont fuck with your iPhone or the network) then there is no reason to create unsigned apps unless you are writing viruses.
I cant seem to find that much detail on the signed apps feature of leopard but it looks like you will be able to run unsigned apps. Even if they use the same system for the iphone that would be different from the nokia system described which wont allow you to run unsigned apps.
I wouldnt be surprised if it was the ability to sign apps that has held apple back from releasing an SDK for the iPhone, you don't want users running old versions of the phone OS running unsigned apps. The iPhone version of the os is going to lag behind the desktop version, hence the February release date.
Whether this means you have to buy the latest OS X is up to you.
This is an important point. If there is nothing in the new OS version that really blows you away you only have to wait a year, maybe a year and a half for the one after that. Maybe you will find that version more compelling and you haven't spent that long behind the curve (and if you don't find the leading edge of the curve appealing this shouldn't be a big deal). If you don't find vista compelling you are more likely to run into compatibility problems, possibly forced into an upgrade by some new hardware, because it will be 6 years before the next release.
Don't waste your time. People who continue to trot out this service pack crap every time apple releases an OS have heard all this over and over again. They will continue to troll as long as it gets a reaction. Don't even bother.
If you wanted to reply to this you could have said something like "If I got a Dell with XP instead of vista I woudl be psyched that I didnt have to look at that vista UI all day, it would save me wiping vista out and replacing it with XP"
IF you wanted to reply.