In fact, on Kohlberg's Moral Ladder, that would be the way a small child would think. A simple attempt to minimise punishment and maximise reward which does not involve any thought of right or wrong outside the thought of the consequences to the person doing the act. Level I - Preconventional, that is.
If you don't believe that short, small, dynamic bursts of energy from one point to another sometimes happen, then why don't you show us the evidence to refute it?
The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. If you claim these bursts happen, and he says that he doesn't believe it, you have to prove that they happen.
See, I'm no expert but I would think that nVidia's graphics drivers would also 'need to much about at kernel level', and they do not use the GPL. I've heard they have a little LGPL bit that connects the kernel and their driver or something like that.
It's interesting, yes, but not too different from a normal GSM phone. They can triangulate your position with that too to a certain degree, and police have actually used that method to find a dead man whose phone was still on. Then when they got clear they played some other tricks. I think this was in the UK but I cannot dig up the link right now.
Once something went wrong with my wireless router, I'd bought one for the first time a few weeks back, and I'd broken the settings. So I went up to it and hit the reset key at the back but forgot to set the password again. Then one day I came upon one of those list of passwords and I said, "Ha ha, imagine what idiots would leave the default passwords on." So I scrolled right to the bottom and there's my router (it's slightly more than a wireless modem), and there's the password and it suddenly hits me.
It was on digg, that list.
My mom does that all the time. In fact, when I'm there I can make out there's trouble with the computer when I hear a mousepad being ground to dust. But then she does that when the Standby activates too.
You know, I'd count all of that as fairly innovative. However, to go by the same standards as the rest of the comments criticising Open Source Software for not being innovative, it is not.
Here is why:
Visual voicemail is not unique to the iPhone, nor was it first introduced there.
Improving how the touchscreen works is 'evolution', not innovation.
Browsers can already scale web-pages. This is just an improvement, doing it better.
Being able to play music like an iPod is, by definition, not innovative.
Integrating with Google Maps, that's not innovation either. It's 'using existing technologies'.
Now see, I don't actually believe that, but to be objective and accept the reasons for dismissing Open Source Software as not innovative one must also accept these. I believe that neither the iPhone nor any of the numerous examples of OSS provided in other comments are not innovative (sorry for the double negative:) ). Actually, the iPhone is a very attractive device, except that it's locked. Where I live that's simply Not Done®.
I would agree, simply because so much spam comes from those countries. For me, the arranging by number of spam emails/messages/comments: Russia > China > USA.
I've heard this every year, and I don't get it. By making the resolution you've failed at upholding the resolution. There's nothing more to it, no paradox or anything. The time for which you upheld the resolution is zero, that's all. You are the gold standard for the lack of willpower. Congratulations.
Curiosity makes me ask, what is this innovative part of the iPhone? Certainly not the multi-touch interface (done two decades ago), not the OS according to you, and not the fact that it works as any other smartphone does, I suppose. Also, there have been other multi-touch phones before the iPhone notably an LG model whose name I've forgotten.
I wish I had something insightful to say but I'm dumbfounded that you intentionally put double line-break tags in the middle of your sentences. I mean, you actually went to all that trouble to make your comment weird.
Because it's in good fun, just like when Microsoft showed that video with a spoof of the Matrix where the Agents have trouble with Neo/Ballmer because their copy of Linux needed the "kernel to be recompiled with a new device driver", or when all of us made fun of the Linux-sponsored car "crashing" in its first race. Ha ha Linux crashing, get it? It's not some evil propaganda trying to convince you that Windows is bad.
I hate explaining jokes but looking at the Wikipedia entry for Redmond and the looking at which city had this trouble, it's not hard to smile at that.
You know, this happens to me so often too! I was just thinking about it the other day. Perhaps it's just that I check my phone often, and I often get calls and messages, so it's likely that I'm going to get one seconds after I look at it. It's probable that I'm just not factoring in the times that I look at the phone and nothing happens, or the times when something happens without me looking at the phone. Confirmation bias and all that.
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In fact, on Kohlberg's Moral Ladder, that would be the way a small child would think. A simple attempt to minimise punishment and maximise reward which does not involve any thought of right or wrong outside the thought of the consequences to the person doing the act. Level I - Preconventional, that is.
I was actually expecting something like that except it's more like: In Google Earth, Soviet Russia finds you!
The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. If you claim these bursts happen, and he says that he doesn't believe it, you have to prove that they happen.
Personally, I'm in the don't-know camp.
What spinning plastic disk? This is just my flash drive :P
Presumably you named one of those for the Sony Apple Remote. If they do attempt to sue I will laugh at how stupid the world has become.
Crap, you're right. I'm on x86_64 too so I can't access it. Is there any other way of getting to that content?
If I recall correctly, most consumer software comes with the warranty disclaimer.
Oh shit, that's hilarious dude! Ha ha, the tone, the style!
See, I'm no expert but I would think that nVidia's graphics drivers would also 'need to much about at kernel level', and they do not use the GPL. I've heard they have a little LGPL bit that connects the kernel and their driver or something like that.
That's funny. Most Linux distros use CUPS which is owned by Apple now.
Indeed, Chomsky would be proud.
It's interesting, yes, but not too different from a normal GSM phone. They can triangulate your position with that too to a certain degree, and police have actually used that method to find a dead man whose phone was still on. Then when they got clear they played some other tricks. I think this was in the UK but I cannot dig up the link right now.
Once something went wrong with my wireless router, I'd bought one for the first time a few weeks back, and I'd broken the settings. So I went up to it and hit the reset key at the back but forgot to set the password again. Then one day I came upon one of those list of passwords and I said, "Ha ha, imagine what idiots would leave the default passwords on." So I scrolled right to the bottom and there's my router (it's slightly more than a wireless modem), and there's the password and it suddenly hits me. It was on digg, that list.
My mom does that all the time. In fact, when I'm there I can make out there's trouble with the computer when I hear a mousepad being ground to dust. But then she does that when the Standby activates too.
As far as I know, the top level domain is the .de part.
Bah, all this decimal crap is getting to me. I'm waiting for the Top F hacks list.
You know, I'd count all of that as fairly innovative. However, to go by the same standards as the rest of the comments criticising Open Source Software for not being innovative, it is not.
Here is why:
- Visual voicemail is not unique to the iPhone, nor was it first introduced there.
- Improving how the touchscreen works is 'evolution', not innovation.
- Browsers can already scale web-pages. This is just an improvement, doing it better.
- Being able to play music like an iPod is, by definition, not innovative.
- Integrating with Google Maps, that's not innovation either. It's 'using existing technologies'.
Now see, I don't actually believe that, but to be objective and accept the reasons for dismissing Open Source Software as not innovative one must also accept these. I believe that neither the iPhone nor any of the numerous examples of OSS provided in other comments are not innovative (sorry for the double negativeI would agree, simply because so much spam comes from those countries. For me, the arranging by number of spam emails/messages/comments: Russia > China > USA.
I've heard this every year, and I don't get it. By making the resolution you've failed at upholding the resolution. There's nothing more to it, no paradox or anything. The time for which you upheld the resolution is zero, that's all. You are the gold standard for the lack of willpower. Congratulations.
Curiosity makes me ask, what is this innovative part of the iPhone? Certainly not the multi-touch interface (done two decades ago), not the OS according to you, and not the fact that it works as any other smartphone does, I suppose. Also, there have been other multi-touch phones before the iPhone notably an LG model whose name I've forgotten.
I wish I had something insightful to say but I'm dumbfounded that you intentionally put double line-break tags in the middle of your sentences. I mean, you actually went to all that trouble to make your comment weird.
Because it's in good fun, just like when Microsoft showed that video with a spoof of the Matrix where the Agents have trouble with Neo/Ballmer because their copy of Linux needed the "kernel to be recompiled with a new device driver", or when all of us made fun of the Linux-sponsored car "crashing" in its first race. Ha ha Linux crashing, get it? It's not some evil propaganda trying to convince you that Windows is bad.
I hate explaining jokes but looking at the Wikipedia entry for Redmond and the looking at which city had this trouble, it's not hard to smile at that.
You know, this happens to me so often too! I was just thinking about it the other day. Perhaps it's just that I check my phone often, and I often get calls and messages, so it's likely that I'm going to get one seconds after I look at it. It's probable that I'm just not factoring in the times that I look at the phone and nothing happens, or the times when something happens without me looking at the phone. Confirmation bias and all that.
It's a desktop based on the QT (QED Toolkit), and is extensively used in the field of mathematics.
A similar thing happened to me a few years ago. I think it was GoDaddy. I blame GoDaddy.