So when the JVM is used by an application, it'll be launched/terminated each time the app is switched to?
Yes and no.
It sounds like you're taking "launched/terminated" to mean "jumps to main()/gets a kill signal". I'm sure a hibernate/resume cycle will be just fine, in terms of meeting that requirement. The point is that when it's not in front, the app can't have any RAM footprint, any CPU cycles, respond to any interrupts, et cetera.
But Sun has Lawyers too, surely they've read the license as well. They wouldn't say they're going to make iPhone-java unless they saw a way to actually do it (albeit, their way to do it may just be to say they're doing it even though they know it's forbidden, and then try to drum up public support if Apple stops them).
Sure, and there's a very easy way for them to do it.
They make the JDK/JVM available only to developers. Then it's essentially just a library that a developer can use. The finished app still needs to go through Apple, and be posted as an individual app. And installing such an app on the iPhone doesn't enable the end-user to install any other apps on the iPhone.
I don't see Apple's terms as forbidding that.
Also, note that if you're a developer, you can install whatever you want on your own iPhone. That $99/year gives you the tools to install apps on your own phone by a mechanism other than the consumer-oriented ones. So, a more conventional JDK/JVM could be made available to developers pretty easily.
And there's also that talk about corporate centralized app-loading. We don't know what the rules for that are going to be, yet.
But it does seem likely that ordinary consumers are not going to be able to load a conventional JVM or Perl interpreter or PalmOS emulator or MAME implementation onto iPhones.
Sadly, the only mechanism I know for this which I've actually seen work is essentially the "good ol'e boy" network.
The last time I got a real job that wasn't even indirectly via some contact I already had was in the mid 1980s. What I'm used to is, networks of at least reasonably competent people remain loosely in touch with each other and get a vibe for when someone is dissatisfied where they are, and correlate those vibes with needs they observe elsewhere.
A disadvantage is, it can be hard to get the first competent person. An advantage is, once you do, if you really have a good environment to work in, you might get a steady stream from that point on.
I mean, it's quite possible now that both of the people who buy music from iTunes to play it on a portable device other than an iPod may switch vendors!
I'd call it 'differently vulnerable' rather than 'more vulnerable'--all things come with inherent risks, and the risks of any particular action must be weighed against the rewards thereof. Yeup, it's almost exactly analogous to using locks in the real world. If your car does not use locks, someone can steal it. If your car does use locks, someone can steal your keys, and deny you access to your own car. Most people use keys anyway.
1) Things that we believe we can't distinguish now, we may demonstrate that we can distinguish in the future. Just because you can't tell the difference consciously when you listen to two samples doesn't mean that some subconscious part of your brain can't determine a difference. We cannot rule out subsonics, subliminal effects, and so on.
2) There are technologies that would benefit from having more information available. Imagine being able to extract enough information from a recording to simulate that vocalist singing something else. Heck, for an example of a technology that benefits from much fancier recordings than some people ever thought they would need, consider the game "Rock Band". You can't (today) use a master recording in Rock Band unless each drum in the drum kit has a separate recording track. This is why the old Rush songs in the game are covers and not masters. Almost nobody imagined they'd actually have a need for those more detailed recordings, but now we do. (I say "you can't today" because the software to de-mix the drums isn't advanced enough yet. Once it is advanced enough... we may determine that common digital recordings aren't as good for this purpose as straight-up analog recordings!)
3) This is the far-out one -- go ahead and warm up your mockery engines... what about superhuman hearing? Are you sure that, by technology (biotech, cybernetics, whatever), human hearing won't ever be improved? What about... here it comes... uplifted dolphins? (This is really just a sensationalist version of #2: "applications we haven't thought of yet".)
I'd use this. I have ADD, and one of my problems is paying enough attention to take the meds at the right time. Years ago I actually wrote software for the Apple Newton to help me solve that problem. (Huh, I wonder how hard it'll be to port it to the iPhone? Dev kit comes out soon, right?)
I still want to make one of those pin-on buttons that simply consists of a red circle-slash on top of a simple stick figure.
When people ask what it means, I can explain that it's an iconic representation of the idea that there should be no graphical representations of Mohammed.
Some people will be offended because the button promotes censorship, and other people will be offended because the button uses a (poor) representation of Mohammed to do so! Everybody wins!
As far as I know (and I know quite a few people in the field), most people getting these prescriptions don't even pass a fraction of the tests that would be required to make a proper diagnostic. The psychiatrist just go by "guts feeling".
FWIW, I had to go through tests to get my prescription. And I've tried a few -- tried to switch to the non-stimulant Stratera a few years back, and some of the side effects from that attempt have still not gone away yet.
I've never once seen someone taking off their shoes with a smile on their face.
I do.
Mind you, I think it's bullshit. But the people at the airport are not the ones who caused the problem. The people around me have nothing to do with the decision making that went into it. The people it's appropriate to get mad at are nowhere around. A hostile reaction to the security theater while being subjected to it is itself an emotional, illogical response to the situation.
So, why get worked up about it while there? That'd make my day even less pleasant. So I smile, and chat with folks. If the topic comes up (and as you can imagine, sometimes it does), the fact that none of it makes us any more secure is one of the things we chat about. That helps more than grumbling or ranting.
Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" -- she always called me Elwood -- "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.
I think a major uptick for HD media will be the elimination of analog broadcast next year - people will get fed up with converter boxes and just get newer TV's (especially since you get HD programming for free). At that point HD media sales can also really take off. So it's important to have a good solid format at that point that's easy for consumers to choose.
We'll see. You may be right, but I'm not convinced.
I don't think I know anyone who uses broadcast at all right now. It's all sattelite or cable. Not only will those keep working in SD for the forseeable future, the HD option is still more expensive!
So, considering my own household for example, there is a chance that we'll get an HD set this year, for use with my XB360. But there is no chance that we'll upgrade our DirecTV subscription to include the HD content.
If DirecTV with HD were cheaper than DirecTV for SD, and if I could still use my DirecTiVo unit with it, then it'd become pretty likely.
But as things stand today? Naw, I'm sorry, I'm not paying extra to see Alton Brown and Aqua Teen Hunger Force in HD, NTSC is just fine.
And upscaling DVDs are going to look better than that, as are downloads played back on my XB360. I cannot think of anything that would persuade me that I need optical media with better video quality than DVD any time soon.
You could tell the route your mail was gonna take! And we LIKED it that way!
No, you couldn't. It depended on the order in which various hosts used various parsing rules, and there wasn't always a standard for that. I mean, how did mail to "kremvax!drycas!doug%fnord!wubba%diddle@bletch.com" route? If you only used UUCP, then it was easy, but the moment you became more interconnected...
Oh god, the flashbacks have started. Quick, someone hold me down and hit me in the face with the second edition of the bat book...
Even typical users like to play games, and I see that the Mac Mini has the rather basic Intel GMA 950 processor.
Mmm... most MacOS users I know who care much about games are playing 'em on consoles. I'm in this boat myself. Most of my gaming these days is on an XB360 (hopefully I'll soon add a Wii to the living room).
My wife does play games on her Mini... casual games, stuff like "Bejeweled". Those all work just fine.
Heh. My employers are great. We've got a lounge with a big 1080i plasma screen and a 5.1 surround system. It's got an XBox 360 hooked up to it, and two "Xplorer"-model Guitar Hero guitars.
When more than one of us has downtime at the same time, we actually play "Rock Band"! There's no room for the drum kit, but we routinely have three people playing at the same time. The addition of vocals (compared to the Guitar Hero series) means we actually get a lot more of the ladies at our office to participate. (Though sometimes they force me to try and sing "Roxanne".)
Ok, now for desktop: cheap, all-in-one, and powerhouse workstation. Problem is: where is the regular computer? For anybody who wants a reasonably specced system (better than Mini, not as tricked out as the Pro) with no monitor added, there's just no good choice.
I think the problem here is, the typical user would consider the mini a "reasonably specced system". The mini is a "regular computer". To accommodate the people who want something in between the mini and the Pro, well, they're all going to want slightly different things, and that breaks away from the "small number of standardized systems" philosophy at Apple.
If you're looking for a platform where you can have very fine-grained tuning of the hardware options across the whole product range, that's not Apple and it's not going to be. Is that what you dislike?
I mean, I really don't know many people who wouldn't be happy with either a mini or an iMac. My wife uses a Mini. All my co-workers use iMacs. I am considering getting a Mini or iMac for home myself (right now I use my MacBook Pro and nothing else, no desktop system at all unless you count the Linux server farm in the basement). I think the market for something in between a Mini/iMac and a Pro really would be a niche market.
"Sales" are not "harm" in and of themselves. Even drug use is not "harm" in and of itself. "Harm" is an objective consequence you can point at that's actually pretty inarguably harmful.
"Harm" is something like "huh, you know, IV drug users have a higher incidence of disease, and it's killing them".
So for that specific example, a "harm reduction" program would be something like "let's run a needle exchange program". Does it reduce drug usage? Not very much directly, although they do couple the program with education, so it can a little bit. But it's definitely directly and repeatably observable that it reduces the harm from drug usage (ie. empiricism shows it works). And once the people aren't dying, you have more time to educate them.
(Various co-workers of mine are involved in or have friends and relatives who are involved in running needle exchange programs and methadone clinics, so this is based on second- and third-hand "real life" information, not random factoids from teh interweb.)
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It sounds like you're taking "launched/terminated" to mean "jumps to main()/gets a kill signal". I'm sure a hibernate/resume cycle will be just fine, in terms of meeting that requirement. The point is that when it's not in front, the app can't have any RAM footprint, any CPU cycles, respond to any interrupts, et cetera.
They make the JDK/JVM available only to developers. Then it's essentially just a library that a developer can use. The finished app still needs to go through Apple, and be posted as an individual app. And installing such an app on the iPhone doesn't enable the end-user to install any other apps on the iPhone.
I don't see Apple's terms as forbidding that.
Also, note that if you're a developer, you can install whatever you want on your own iPhone. That $99/year gives you the tools to install apps on your own phone by a mechanism other than the consumer-oriented ones. So, a more conventional JDK/JVM could be made available to developers pretty easily.
And there's also that talk about corporate centralized app-loading. We don't know what the rules for that are going to be, yet.
But it does seem likely that ordinary consumers are not going to be able to load a conventional JVM or Perl interpreter or PalmOS emulator or MAME implementation onto iPhones.
Sadly, the only mechanism I know for this which I've actually seen work is essentially the "good ol'e boy" network.
The last time I got a real job that wasn't even indirectly via some contact I already had was in the mid 1980s. What I'm used to is, networks of at least reasonably competent people remain loosely in touch with each other and get a vibe for when someone is dissatisfied where they are, and correlate those vibes with needs they observe elsewhere.
A disadvantage is, it can be hard to get the first competent person. An advantage is, once you do, if you really have a good environment to work in, you might get a steady stream from that point on.
I mean, it's quite possible now that both of the people who buy music from iTunes to play it on a portable device other than an iPod may switch vendors!
My way to handle this is to remember something non-abstract as a start and a rule to change it.
Here is a very simple example. I don't actually recommend using this particular one.
"What is your pet?"
"A fish!"
"How many letters are in that?"
"4!"
"What's his name?"
"Bob!"
"How many letters are in that?"
"3!"
"How about using 'fish4Bob3' as your password? Could you remember that?"
1) Things that we believe we can't distinguish now, we may demonstrate that we can distinguish in the future. Just because you can't tell the difference consciously when you listen to two samples doesn't mean that some subconscious part of your brain can't determine a difference. We cannot rule out subsonics, subliminal effects, and so on.
... here it comes ... uplifted dolphins? (This is really just a sensationalist version of #2: "applications we haven't thought of yet".)
2) There are technologies that would benefit from having more information available. Imagine being able to extract enough information from a recording to simulate that vocalist singing something else. Heck, for an example of a technology that benefits from much fancier recordings than some people ever thought they would need, consider the game "Rock Band". You can't (today) use a master recording in Rock Band unless each drum in the drum kit has a separate recording track. This is why the old Rush songs in the game are covers and not masters. Almost nobody imagined they'd actually have a need for those more detailed recordings, but now we do. (I say "you can't today" because the software to de-mix the drums isn't advanced enough yet. Once it is advanced enough... we may determine that common digital recordings aren't as good for this purpose as straight-up analog recordings!)
3) This is the far-out one -- go ahead and warm up your mockery engines... what about superhuman hearing? Are you sure that, by technology (biotech, cybernetics, whatever), human hearing won't ever be improved? What about
I'd use this. I have ADD, and one of my problems is paying enough attention to take the meds at the right time. Years ago I actually wrote software for the Apple Newton to help me solve that problem. (Huh, I wonder how hard it'll be to port it to the iPhone? Dev kit comes out soon, right?)
Anyhow. Yeah. I'd actually use this.
See, I've managed to get to the age of 40 without ever learning how to drive. I have no car!
(If we let fear prevent us from making really lame offensive jokes, then the terrorists have already won.)
I still want to make one of those pin-on buttons that simply consists of a red circle-slash on top of a simple stick figure.
When people ask what it means, I can explain that it's an iconic representation of the idea that there should be no graphical representations of Mohammed.
Some people will be offended because the button promotes censorship, and other people will be offended because the button uses a (poor) representation of Mohammed to do so! Everybody wins!
FWIW, I had to go through tests to get my prescription. And I've tried a few -- tried to switch to the non-stimulant Stratera a few years back, and some of the side effects from that attempt have still not gone away yet.
I do.
Mind you, I think it's bullshit. But the people at the airport are not the ones who caused the problem. The people around me have nothing to do with the decision making that went into it. The people it's appropriate to get mad at are nowhere around. A hostile reaction to the security theater while being subjected to it is itself an emotional, illogical response to the situation.
So, why get worked up about it while there? That'd make my day even less pleasant. So I smile, and chat with folks. If the topic comes up (and as you can imagine, sometimes it does), the fact that none of it makes us any more secure is one of the things we chat about. That helps more than grumbling or ranting.
We'll see. You may be right, but I'm not convinced.
I don't think I know anyone who uses broadcast at all right now. It's all sattelite or cable. Not only will those keep working in SD for the forseeable future, the HD option is still more expensive!
So, considering my own household for example, there is a chance that we'll get an HD set this year, for use with my XB360. But there is no chance that we'll upgrade our DirecTV subscription to include the HD content.
If DirecTV with HD were cheaper than DirecTV for SD, and if I could still use my DirecTiVo unit with it, then it'd become pretty likely.
But as things stand today? Naw, I'm sorry, I'm not paying extra to see Alton Brown and Aqua Teen Hunger Force in HD, NTSC is just fine.
And upscaling DVDs are going to look better than that, as are downloads played back on my XB360. I cannot think of anything that would persuade me that I need optical media with better video quality than DVD any time soon.
No, you couldn't. It depended on the order in which various hosts used various parsing rules, and there wasn't always a standard for that. I mean, how did mail to "kremvax!drycas!doug%fnord!wubba%diddle@bletch.com" route? If you only used UUCP, then it was easy, but the moment you became more interconnected...
Oh god, the flashbacks have started. Quick, someone hold me down and hit me in the face with the second edition of the bat book...
My wife does play games on her Mini... casual games, stuff like "Bejeweled". Those all work just fine.
Heh. My employers are great. We've got a lounge with a big 1080i plasma screen and a 5.1 surround system. It's got an XBox 360 hooked up to it, and two "Xplorer"-model Guitar Hero guitars.
When more than one of us has downtime at the same time, we actually play "Rock Band"! There's no room for the drum kit, but we routinely have three people playing at the same time. The addition of vocals (compared to the Guitar Hero series) means we actually get a lot more of the ladies at our office to participate. (Though sometimes they force me to try and sing "Roxanne".)
(God, I love my job sometimes.)
If you're looking for a platform where you can have very fine-grained tuning of the hardware options across the whole product range, that's not Apple and it's not going to be. Is that what you dislike?
I mean, I really don't know many people who wouldn't be happy with either a mini or an iMac. My wife uses a Mini. All my co-workers use iMacs. I am considering getting a Mini or iMac for home myself (right now I use my MacBook Pro and nothing else, no desktop system at all unless you count the Linux server farm in the basement). I think the market for something in between a Mini/iMac and a Pro really would be a niche market.
Ha! Mine's "so is the existence of a gas called oxygen".
"Sales" are not "harm" in and of themselves. Even drug use is not "harm" in and of itself. "Harm" is an objective consequence you can point at that's actually pretty inarguably harmful.
"Harm" is something like "huh, you know, IV drug users have a higher incidence of disease, and it's killing them".
So for that specific example, a "harm reduction" program would be something like "let's run a needle exchange program". Does it reduce drug usage? Not very much directly, although they do couple the program with education, so it can a little bit. But it's definitely directly and repeatably observable that it reduces the harm from drug usage (ie. empiricism shows it works). And once the people aren't dying, you have more time to educate them.
(Various co-workers of mine are involved in or have friends and relatives who are involved in running needle exchange programs and methadone clinics, so this is based on second- and third-hand "real life" information, not random factoids from teh interweb.)
So, do these rules only kick in for ID cards issued by the DMV? Drivers licences and non-driver IDs?
Cool. I've managed to go this long without either, I'll just keep doing what I've been doing and I can ignore this.
Okay, does anyone else think would be an awesome guild name?
My solution was "marry a librarian". Worked very well for me, you might consider trying it.
Folks are going to YouTube for medical information? Isn't that like taking investment advice from the (few remaining) music videos on MTV?
Ah well, I guess this will speed up Darwinian selection, so it's probably a good thing.
Forget rhythm-based RTS. Give me a rhythm-based RPG, where I can play it with the guitar controller.
Maybe... I don't know... "The Bard's Tale"?