"Apple's iPhone and iTunes combination represents a near-perfect convergence of concept, design, usability, technology and commerce in a highly polished, well executed package."
Yeah, this 'article' isn't biased or anything. My droid runs twice as smoothly and even faster than my brother's iPhone.
I have no problem finding apps, and if I want something some misinformed developer wants to charge me $20 for, there's probably a slightly less-used version available for free somewhere. I have more entertainment on my phone than on my actual computer now, and I didn't pay a cent for it.
"Include the cost of Solaris with the cost of whatever software runs on top of it."
I think a big point of this article is that Oracle won't be 'including' anything for free. They're some money grubbers.
I really liked Sun Microsystems. I thought they were very non-evil and supportive of the software community as a whole. They came up with some great tech, and they did well with Java.
Oracle has always been an evil corporation to me. Every time I've encountered anyone from their company it was a hassle. On the phone, on-site, email, always a hassle. Ordering, service, updates, maintenance, always a bunch of hoops. They sure don't strike me as the people who will keep Sun's product lines in the public favor, and I sure won't deal with them - even for a Sun product.
Activision has always been concerned primarily about money from the beginning, and creativity and quality products second.
It's pretty apparent they could give less of a shit about any of their customers.
In fact, Activision is only CALLED Activision because they wanted to supercede ATARI on all of the alphabetical listings to drive up sales.
If you're really good your $400/hour lawyer is a good friend of yours who will help you out with legit legal advice a personal issue like this in his free time for a $1 retainer fee.
Also, you don't necessarily have to sue them. I have gotten months and months of free internet, cable, phone, all for bitching everytime their service goes out. I feel a bit like a tool for doing so sometimes, especially if it's just 20 minutes or something, but on principle I AM paying for a service, and I'm not getting it.
It's very convenient to say they're pretentious and old, but they're extremely smart. More than 12 Nobel Lauriates and all Nuclear Scientists? Methinks they know what they sayeth.
Why don't they just make it save the image to the HDD/Flash Mem displaying it from there, and say "We're not previewing an image after we took it, we're displaying an image from our devices storage to the screen." Then they can just claim that the camera only stores images without preview and use the phone's OS to preview stored images.
I'm not positive about why they do it, I would think that it's to prevent some sort of burn-in but I've never left it to find out. If you remove the battery while it's displaying something, it stays on the screen, and the battery does seem to drain faster than when it's just sitting on a page in reader mode. I also have mine setup to play mp3s off the SD card. You can rig it to display images and I'm pretty sure you can rework it to use custom pics for the screensaver, though it might require getting a terminal on the kindle(crazy wiring and PuTTY required). There's a lot in the kindle(at least the first gen one that I have) that they don't advertise. The wireless module has a GPS chip in it.If you bring up the experimental web browser and press 'ALT-1' it brings up your location in google maps, 'ALT-2' will bring up gas stations nearby, 'ALT-3' restaurants, etc. The music player has alt- shortcuts to play/stop and skip tracks from anywhere in the menus or in a book.
Is it just me or is that impossibly cold? I thought 0 Kelvin was absolute 0... I was pretty sure you couldn't go below it without taking the experiment out of the known universe entirely.
Surprise surprise, Apple invests all its time and money in marketing and promotion for it's barely-improved plastic crap. I'm so sure they give a shit about browser performance or security. I'll stick with a functional browser like FireFox, thanks.
That's just a record. Who cares? They have a fingerprint and your picture. I'm sure they could get the same by watching a security video of you in the airport and picking up a glass after you use it. Not exactly invasive.
Japan has always been notoriously 'cautious' of foreigners. I've yet to see them do anything overbearing with this information they collect.
FTA: "If anything, comments make code less readable. Nine times out of ten, I ignore comments unless I'm stumped. In fact, I'm tempted to make emacs hide all comments unless I explicitly expand them."
I stopped reading at this point, because the author is clearly a terrible programmer and not someone I want to take coding/commenting advice from. If you do comments right, which this guy clearly doesn't, they can save your ass repeatedly and avoid having to go to deeper, harder-to-reach documentation to make it work. Clearly not someone with any real programming experience behind this 'article' (although it looks more like a twitter feed).
If I have to wear a uniform to work at a help desk, I want it to be a Level 4 haz-mat suit with the biohazard symbol all over it. I'm sure that would make me very approachable to all the people who infect their computers with spyware or fuck it up in some other moronic menial way and expect me to fix it.
Seriously though, a company that requires me to wear any sort of 'uniform' to answer moronic questions about computers for internal staff, is a company I no longer work for.
I'm not on either side on this one, but I would have to say the answer to your question, pale, is that the people who make the decisions to send those subs out to 'deter' someone most likely have vested interests in the companies making them. That's just how this country works now, regardless of how you feel about it. Pharmaceutical companies, insurance, tobacco, weapons, defense - anyone who has a huge lobbying force in DC - stands to get their way in our present system of government.
Holy crap, Deja Vu!
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I seem to remember something similar like "Oh they'll never be able to make 1,000,000 laptops at that pricepoint and distribute them effectively."
OLPC: Proving you wrong, again and again.
Whenever I do that iTunes spits out something like "We're gonna go ahead and index everything in folders the way we want anyway, since we run this bitch and you better recognize."
Sarcasm aside, when you're transferring >100GB of music iTunes sucks balls. Also the overhead of iTunes makes it pretty annoying when you just want to pop a file to preview real quick, or watch a DVD without all the fucking waiting and protection bullshit.
My personal opinion, as a longtime programmer of many languages, is that it's just too much of a pain in the ass to write anything for the Apple OS.
Most of it will need to be done in Objective-C (which is a horribly strange and awkward language) or it will need to somehow be compiled from a simpler language to run under OSX. It doesn't surprise me in the least that even a huge open source project like VLC is dropping OSX support. With any luck, every company with common sense will follow, and Apple will be back where it belongs crying "monopoly" and begging money off slightly more competent computer companies like Microsoft or Sun. If you're going to charge an extra $1000 for your hardware, it should be worth that extra value. If you're going to lock your system down so tight everything requires company approval, good luck in the open source world.
Wow, really? You mean people prefer functional efficient browsing with modular add-ons rather than the buggy built-in half-mandated browser that hasn't really changed much in 10 years?
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Yeah, this 'article' isn't biased or anything. My droid runs twice as smoothly and even faster than my brother's iPhone.
I have no problem finding apps, and if I want something some misinformed developer wants to charge me $20 for, there's probably a slightly less-used version available for free somewhere. I have more entertainment on my phone than on my actual computer now, and I didn't pay a cent for it.
"Include the cost of Solaris with the cost of whatever software runs on top of it." I think a big point of this article is that Oracle won't be 'including' anything for free. They're some money grubbers. I really liked Sun Microsystems. I thought they were very non-evil and supportive of the software community as a whole. They came up with some great tech, and they did well with Java. Oracle has always been an evil corporation to me. Every time I've encountered anyone from their company it was a hassle. On the phone, on-site, email, always a hassle. Ordering, service, updates, maintenance, always a bunch of hoops. They sure don't strike me as the people who will keep Sun's product lines in the public favor, and I sure won't deal with them - even for a Sun product.
Activision has always been concerned primarily about money from the beginning, and creativity and quality products second.
It's pretty apparent they could give less of a shit about any of their customers.
In fact, Activision is only CALLED Activision because they wanted to supercede ATARI on all of the alphabetical listings to drive up sales.
If you're really good your $400/hour lawyer is a good friend of yours who will help you out with legit legal advice a personal issue like this in his free time for a $1 retainer fee.
Also, you don't necessarily have to sue them. I have gotten months and months of free internet, cable, phone, all for bitching everytime their service goes out. I feel a bit like a tool for doing so sometimes, especially if it's just 20 minutes or something, but on principle I AM paying for a service, and I'm not getting it.
I'd be lucky if I could change a sparkplug without screwing it up.
I can program complex algorithms AND get my drivers to work though. Does that make me a freak?
I had no idea Win-L did something. I just hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and then Enter and my term locks.
I can feel my Game Dev degree getting more valuable! Muhahahaha!
It's very convenient to say they're pretentious and old, but they're extremely smart.
More than 12 Nobel Lauriates and all Nuclear Scientists? Methinks they know what they sayeth.
Why don't they just make it save the image to the HDD/Flash Mem displaying it from there, and say "We're not previewing an image after we took it, we're displaying an image from our devices storage to the screen." Then they can just claim that the camera only stores images without preview and use the phone's OS to preview stored images.
It doesn't discriminate, lawmakers are just morons. Also, the Kindle plays AUDIO BOOKS as well as any MP3 file you can put on it.
I'm not positive about why they do it, I would think that it's to prevent some sort of burn-in but I've never left it to find out. If you remove the battery while it's displaying something, it stays on the screen, and the battery does seem to drain faster than when it's just sitting on a page in reader mode. I also have mine setup to play mp3s off the SD card. You can rig it to display images and I'm pretty sure you can rework it to use custom pics for the screensaver, though it might require getting a terminal on the kindle(crazy wiring and PuTTY required). There's a lot in the kindle(at least the first gen one that I have) that they don't advertise. The wireless module has a GPS chip in it.If you bring up the experimental web browser and press 'ALT-1' it brings up your location in google maps, 'ALT-2' will bring up gas stations nearby, 'ALT-3' restaurants, etc. The music player has alt- shortcuts to play/stop and skip tracks from anywhere in the menus or in a book.
So are these going to be zero-point mirrors?
Surprise surprise, Apple invests all its time and money in marketing and promotion for it's barely-improved plastic crap. I'm so sure they give a shit about browser performance or security. I'll stick with a functional browser like FireFox, thanks.
Japan has always been notoriously 'cautious' of foreigners. I've yet to see them do anything overbearing with this information they collect.
I stopped reading at this point, because the author is clearly a terrible programmer and not someone I want to take coding/commenting advice from. If you do comments right, which this guy clearly doesn't, they can save your ass repeatedly and avoid having to go to deeper, harder-to-reach documentation to make it work. Clearly not someone with any real programming experience behind this 'article' (although it looks more like a twitter feed).
Seriously though, a company that requires me to wear any sort of 'uniform' to answer moronic questions about computers for internal staff, is a company I no longer work for.
I'm a little disappointed with Canada for just shutting down the domain block instead of proactively going after these guys specifically.
I'm not on either side on this one, but I would have to say the answer to your question, pale, is that the people who make the decisions to send those subs out to 'deter' someone most likely have vested interests in the companies making them. That's just how this country works now, regardless of how you feel about it. Pharmaceutical companies, insurance, tobacco, weapons, defense - anyone who has a huge lobbying force in DC - stands to get their way in our present system of government.
Holy crap, Deja Vu! P I seem to remember something similar like "Oh they'll never be able to make 1,000,000 laptops at that pricepoint and distribute them effectively." OLPC: Proving you wrong, again and again.
Wake me up when it can use OneNote documents and you can put more than just text on the pad.
The guy in the video on that page looks exactly like the stereotype of the guy I'd expect to do this sort of thing.
Sarcasm aside, when you're transferring >100GB of music iTunes sucks balls. Also the overhead of iTunes makes it pretty annoying when you just want to pop a file to preview real quick, or watch a DVD without all the fucking waiting and protection bullshit.
My personal opinion, as a longtime programmer of many languages, is that it's just too much of a pain in the ass to write anything for the Apple OS. Most of it will need to be done in Objective-C (which is a horribly strange and awkward language) or it will need to somehow be compiled from a simpler language to run under OSX. It doesn't surprise me in the least that even a huge open source project like VLC is dropping OSX support. With any luck, every company with common sense will follow, and Apple will be back where it belongs crying "monopoly" and begging money off slightly more competent computer companies like Microsoft or Sun. If you're going to charge an extra $1000 for your hardware, it should be worth that extra value. If you're going to lock your system down so tight everything requires company approval, good luck in the open source world.
Amen to that. NVidia > ATI (price, quality, and reliability). Who you fly for in EVE?
"For your enjoyment, consumption is being standardized..."
Wow, really? You mean people prefer functional efficient browsing with modular add-ons rather than the buggy built-in half-mandated browser that hasn't really changed much in 10 years?