... than being dependent on their biggest competitor.
If they had waited until they had *all* the features in *all* countries to roll it out it could mean several more years of Google Maps, which had a severely limited API on the iPhone. The new maps app may be limited, but it's also far more extensible. IIRC they added the ability for an app to register as a data-source for transit or bike paths or walking directions. That's something you couldn't do with the old API. This allows cities and/or transit companies to make their own apps that can account for train/bus schedule a lot more reliably. Maps have turned out to be a critical feature of Mobile OS's. Why wouldn't Apple want to have more direct control over what the Maps in their OS can and can't do?
Dock's weren't the only accessory that used that connector. Example: I have a dongle for connecting to Ant+ sensors (Heart-Rate, Cadence, Stride, etc..). That's not going to charge it while consuming the extra power.
If Apple follows their previous patterns, most apps that use native API's will probably just need to be recompiled after some minimal work (flipping a switch in InterfaceBuilder or ProjectSettings or something) to become universal (ie: a table view would display more rows).
It's a little extra vertical space, so it shouldn't be too hard to work in somehow.
IIRC this behavior is why they added a term to Drake's Equation to include a Jovian planet in the system to keep the inner planets safe from most impact events (thus allowing complex life to develop).
[rolls up newspaper]
[smacks FAA on the nose with rolled newspaper]
Bad! Bad FAA! We encrypt and authenticate our CRITICAL systems!
[smacks FAA on the nose with rolled newspaper]
Oh, I agree. Apple took NeXT and ramped it up, built on it, etc... The original innovation behind it however wasn't theirs, though I guess you could say that about a lot of other things. Either way, my main point was that all the innovation referred to in the article came *after* Jobs came back and rescued the company from near death.
"But it's what happened next that's really fascinating. Apple didn't stop innovating at all"
That's a pretty asinine statement. Apple *did* stop innovating for a while (or at least nearly did as all attempts to innovate were dismal failures). They started copying the IBM-clone business model and started looking to outside OS's for the next-gen Mac OS. IIRC BeOS was a strong contender until Apple decided to buy NeXT and turn NeXTStep into Mac OS X. The innovation began again after they brought Steve Jobs back and he killed everything that had been done in the 1990's (after he was ousted). Apple very nearly died not long after that original trial and most analysts thought that even the second coming of Jobs wasn't going to save the company.
All "evidence" of innovation in this article happened *after* Jobs came back when the company was at death's doorstep. Even more damning for the author is that all of that "evidence" was patented trade dress, design, and technology that Apple has successfully defended (e.g. eMachines tried to make a rip-off of the iMac and got sued by Apple, I owned one because it's what my parents bought me in High School).
-OS X - Not really Apple's big innovation. It was their acquisition of NeXTStep that lead to OS X and the return of Steve Jobs and innovation at Apple.
-iMac (original CRT version) - Design championed by Steve Jobs after his return, successfully sued eMachines over copying nearly exactly (even came in several bright colors, I had blue)
-iPod - Several years *after* the company had regained some footing, IIRC several patents involved with the iPod were also successfully defended
-iPhone - MANY years *after* the company had become a powerhouse even bigger than before
Shouldn't the OSI and the OSHWA be working together anyways? They have similar goals and challenges. Petty bickering between the two organizations is silly and counter-productive to their goals. They should create a central governing body to cover both, call it the OSA (Open Source Alliance) and dedicate it to all things Open Source. This would grant both groups a LOT more power to direct industry, champion patent and copyright reform, and even take down some patent trolls.
In OS X and iOS this is called the Keychain. It already exists as an encrypted database that you can only get into with the password you put on it. Ideally this is something other than your login password, but most people probably don't think about it and use the same one anyways.
So for them to get at the private keys and/or stored passwords he must have used the same password for both login and the Keychain...
He should also look into FileVault... Even if Apple resets the login password, they don't have the decrypt password for the account or the master decrypt password (set by the primary user or an admin when setting up FileVault the first time). Prior to Lion FileVault stored your user directory as an encrypted volume that would be "unlocked" and mounted at login. If the password is reset, none of that data loads (causing some errors) and only giving the attacker access to system level resources. From Lion on, FileVault2 has been Whole-Disk Encryption which is even better.... Can't decrypt the drive contents if you don't have the password. Apple Support isn't ever supposed to ask for, know, or give out those kinds of things, so you're safe from a Social Engineering attack on your personal system.
The smartphone SMS spam might be relevant (though your average Slashdotter should know better anyways).
Regardless of what users seem to think, people *here* should already know better. This *could* be considered newsworthy somewhere that the target demographic may not know this already. Slashdot's target demographic (somewhat tech-literate people) should know better regardless.
Seriously, how did this get past the fire-hose? This isn't a new idea, practice, or form of attack. It's actually many many years old (likely dating back to the days of floppy disks).
Most company Security and/or IT policies state that you should bring found USB Drives to Security and/or IT, and expressly forbid just plugging them into a company computer on the company network.
I have no idea how anyone at Slashdot would have found this remotely news-worthy.
Yeah, but you really should try to code for a single standard... Mixing them because one or even most implementations support it is bad juju IMHO.
GCC and Clang/LLVM may support using _Thread_local with a pthread, but some other compiler you may need to use (for some strange reason) might not and then you would need to do a lot of work to get things going with that compiler.
It's a pet peeve of mine when I see a lot of mixed standards... If you're going to use pthread, use pthread. Don't try to mix it with something else just because you think you can (or your compiler lets you). Even if the new threads.h is just an abstraction layer on top of pthreads, it's best to stick to the threads.h method calls if you go that route. Mixing calls can sometimes lead to unexpected results.
In terms of customer enjoyment and desire? Point & Click adventure games have never really been dead. In terms of Media Coverage and Industry Production? Yeah, it's been flopping on the ground gasping for air.
With one exception. Tell Tale Games has made some amazing Point & Click Adventure Games, re-launching the much loved Sam & Max and Monkey Island series.
I have played all of their Sam & Max games and they are pretty excellent, even if they did start to focus too much on making them console accessible:P
Older games have been enjoying a comeback via Steam and mobile ports. I know the old Monkey Island games are available for iOS. Space Quest and King's Quest available on Steam, as well as the classic Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis. The classic Leisure Suit Larry games are out there on the nets somewhere (no clue if anyone is actually repackaging them for sale)... The new Leisure Suit Larry "reboot" games are just better off avoided at all costs. They're beyond awful and make the originals look incredibly classy, subtle, and tasteful (which says a lot IMHO).
The genre is enjoying a lot of renewed interest, but not enough (apparently) to justify major developers doing anything other than yet another clone of DDR, Guitar Hero, or Call of Duty. Maybe the Double Fine Kickstarter will wake the Industry and Media up. I haven't seen one word about either of these efforts on Wired.com and they tend to jump on these sorts of things in the way that a kitten jumps on a toy full of catnip.
His days shall be an hundred and twenty years. - "His days" are the days of man, not the individual, but the race, with whom the Lord still strives. Hence, they refer to the duration, not of the life of an individual, but of the existence of the race. From this we learn that the narrative here reverts to a point of time before the birth of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, recorded in the close of the preceding passage as there were only a hundred years from their birth to the deluge. This is according to the now well-known method of Scripture, when it has two lines of events to carry on. The former narrative refers to the godly portion of mankind; this to the ungodly remnant.
Not forever will the Lord strive with man; but his longsuffering will still continue for one hundred and twenty years. Meanwhile he does not leave himself or his clemency without a witness. He sent Noah with the message of warning, who preached by his voice, by his walking with God, and also by his long labor and perseverance in the building of the ark. The doomed race, however, filled up the measure of their iniquity, and when the set number of years was accomplished, the overwhelming flood came.
Taken in context of Genesis (as a whole) it would seem that "yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years" means something quite different. [Source]
If they win (which they probably won't) it would set a dangerous precedent that would effectively kill all future MMO's from ever existing...
Imagine this:
Blizzard, 3-4 years from now, decides it's time to finally shutdown World of Warcraft... It's remaining 6 Million users plus a couple Million former users decide to sue for damages for lost time and money from subscription fees and game time. The amount would be somewhere in the ridiculous amount of a couple hundred Billion dollars. "I lost my job to get my toon to level 150 first! Now they just want to take that achievement away from me?!? All those thousands of days of game-time... No, I will be compensated for lost time and money (from not going to work like boring people)."
I'm curious how this really made it to "Ask Slashdot" when a quick Google Search shows that this kind of tech has been around for some time (though not always setup or implemented well).
If you knew anything about either plane, you would know that they have absolutely nothing in common. The A380 can carry nearly twice as many passengers, so if you're going to compare it to a Boeing plane it should be the 747.
Agreed, but it is firmly entrenched as "THE" tool of choice for most schools. Yes, I know that makes no sense, but they probably marketed heavily to School District Superintendents and University Presidents/Chancellors. They're the ones who ultimately make the decisions.
Stanford throwing their name behind the startup and making use of it will actually make a good selling point. "Hey, Stanford's doing this? It must be awesome!" Not a great selling point from a technical perspective, but good technical selling points rarely make good marketing selling points when you're dealing with most high-level upper managers.
"Does anyone here doubt Acacia is assessing its patient portfolio in light of this now becoming a startup?"
Who?
That was my thought too. I recognized the name, but the closest I can find to anything related to this topic is Acacia Social Fraternity. Maybe I'm just ignorant or missing something, but I fail to see why/how they would *have* patents relating to this; much less be able to defend such patents.
Based on what I can tell, KnowLabs is very much played-down on the ai-class.com website and Stanford's role is played up. It looks like the start-up is looking to act as a contractor to Universities to help them setup, run, and possibly maintain better, more useable, more scalable online education services. Keep in mind that the free AI Class gives you no real credit, it's just there if you're interested in the subject and want to learn a bit more before taking the plunge (back) into academia.
Personally, I applaud what they're doing. Maybe they can help unseat Blackboard and other god-awful "Online Education Tools".
To nay-sayers who think this kind free offering dilutes the "value" of their education when they pay for an equivalent class... You get degree and/or continuing education credits, the people taking a free class like this one do not. They get nothing but some extra knowledge. For someone like me, who is considering a Masters in CS, these classes are a great way to get my feet wet and figure out what I want to focus on.
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... than being dependent on their biggest competitor.
If they had waited until they had *all* the features in *all* countries to roll it out it could mean several more years of Google Maps, which had a severely limited API on the iPhone. The new maps app may be limited, but it's also far more extensible. IIRC they added the ability for an app to register as a data-source for transit or bike paths or walking directions. That's something you couldn't do with the old API. This allows cities and/or transit companies to make their own apps that can account for train/bus schedule a lot more reliably. Maps have turned out to be a critical feature of Mobile OS's. Why wouldn't Apple want to have more direct control over what the Maps in their OS can and can't do?
Dock's weren't the only accessory that used that connector. Example: I have a dongle for connecting to Ant+ sensors (Heart-Rate, Cadence, Stride, etc..). That's not going to charge it while consuming the extra power.
If Apple follows their previous patterns, most apps that use native API's will probably just need to be recompiled after some minimal work (flipping a switch in InterfaceBuilder or ProjectSettings or something) to become universal (ie: a table view would display more rows). It's a little extra vertical space, so it shouldn't be too hard to work in somehow.
IIRC this behavior is why they added a term to Drake's Equation to include a Jovian planet in the system to keep the inner planets safe from most impact events (thus allowing complex life to develop).
I wish I had some mod points for this one :D
[rolls up newspaper]
[smacks FAA on the nose with rolled newspaper]
Bad! Bad FAA! We encrypt and authenticate our CRITICAL systems!
[smacks FAA on the nose with rolled newspaper]
Oh, I agree. Apple took NeXT and ramped it up, built on it, etc... The original innovation behind it however wasn't theirs, though I guess you could say that about a lot of other things. Either way, my main point was that all the innovation referred to in the article came *after* Jobs came back and rescued the company from near death.
That's a pretty asinine statement. Apple *did* stop innovating for a while (or at least nearly did as all attempts to innovate were dismal failures). They started copying the IBM-clone business model and started looking to outside OS's for the next-gen Mac OS. IIRC BeOS was a strong contender until Apple decided to buy NeXT and turn NeXTStep into Mac OS X. The innovation began again after they brought Steve Jobs back and he killed everything that had been done in the 1990's (after he was ousted). Apple very nearly died not long after that original trial and most analysts thought that even the second coming of Jobs wasn't going to save the company.
All "evidence" of innovation in this article happened *after* Jobs came back when the company was at death's doorstep. Even more damning for the author is that all of that "evidence" was patented trade dress, design, and technology that Apple has successfully defended (e.g. eMachines tried to make a rip-off of the iMac and got sued by Apple, I owned one because it's what my parents bought me in High School).
-OS X - Not really Apple's big innovation. It was their acquisition of NeXTStep that lead to OS X and the return of Steve Jobs and innovation at Apple.
-iMac (original CRT version) - Design championed by Steve Jobs after his return, successfully sued eMachines over copying nearly exactly (even came in several bright colors, I had blue)
-iPod - Several years *after* the company had regained some footing, IIRC several patents involved with the iPod were also successfully defended
-iPhone - MANY years *after* the company had become a powerhouse even bigger than before
Expert Scientists announce that the sky is blue, and not, in fact, green as was previously believed by nobody at all.
Shouldn't the OSI and the OSHWA be working together anyways? They have similar goals and challenges. Petty bickering between the two organizations is silly and counter-productive to their goals. They should create a central governing body to cover both, call it the OSA (Open Source Alliance) and dedicate it to all things Open Source. This would grant both groups a LOT more power to direct industry, champion patent and copyright reform, and even take down some patent trolls.
In OS X and iOS this is called the Keychain. It already exists as an encrypted database that you can only get into with the password you put on it. Ideally this is something other than your login password, but most people probably don't think about it and use the same one anyways.
So for them to get at the private keys and/or stored passwords he must have used the same password for both login and the Keychain...
He should also look into FileVault... Even if Apple resets the login password, they don't have the decrypt password for the account or the master decrypt password (set by the primary user or an admin when setting up FileVault the first time). Prior to Lion FileVault stored your user directory as an encrypted volume that would be "unlocked" and mounted at login. If the password is reset, none of that data loads (causing some errors) and only giving the attacker access to system level resources. From Lion on, FileVault2 has been Whole-Disk Encryption which is even better.... Can't decrypt the drive contents if you don't have the password. Apple Support isn't ever supposed to ask for, know, or give out those kinds of things, so you're safe from a Social Engineering attack on your personal system.
Now why one nutritional calorie equals 1kCal (4.18kJ) - from where you confusion most likely arises - is anyone's guess.
Because if Science wasn't confusing, then anyone could do it ;)
The smartphone SMS spam might be relevant (though your average Slashdotter should know better anyways).
Regardless of what users seem to think, people *here* should already know better. This *could* be considered newsworthy somewhere that the target demographic may not know this already. Slashdot's target demographic (somewhat tech-literate people) should know better regardless.
Yeah, but this probably happens every day somewhere in the world.
Seriously, how did this get past the fire-hose? This isn't a new idea, practice, or form of attack. It's actually many many years old (likely dating back to the days of floppy disks). Most company Security and/or IT policies state that you should bring found USB Drives to Security and/or IT, and expressly forbid just plugging them into a company computer on the company network. I have no idea how anyone at Slashdot would have found this remotely news-worthy.
Yeah, but you really should try to code for a single standard... Mixing them because one or even most implementations support it is bad juju IMHO.
GCC and Clang/LLVM may support using _Thread_local with a pthread, but some other compiler you may need to use (for some strange reason) might not and then you would need to do a lot of work to get things going with that compiler.
It's a pet peeve of mine when I see a lot of mixed standards... If you're going to use pthread, use pthread. Don't try to mix it with something else just because you think you can (or your compiler lets you). Even if the new threads.h is just an abstraction layer on top of pthreads, it's best to stick to the threads.h method calls if you go that route. Mixing calls can sometimes lead to unexpected results.
In terms of customer enjoyment and desire? Point & Click adventure games have never really been dead. In terms of Media Coverage and Industry Production? Yeah, it's been flopping on the ground gasping for air.
:P
With one exception. Tell Tale Games has made some amazing Point & Click Adventure Games, re-launching the much loved Sam & Max and Monkey Island series. I have played all of their Sam & Max games and they are pretty excellent, even if they did start to focus too much on making them console accessible
Older games have been enjoying a comeback via Steam and mobile ports. I know the old Monkey Island games are available for iOS. Space Quest and King's Quest available on Steam, as well as the classic Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis. The classic Leisure Suit Larry games are out there on the nets somewhere (no clue if anyone is actually repackaging them for sale)... The new Leisure Suit Larry "reboot" games are just better off avoided at all costs. They're beyond awful and make the originals look incredibly classy, subtle, and tasteful (which says a lot IMHO).
The genre is enjoying a lot of renewed interest, but not enough (apparently) to justify major developers doing anything other than yet another clone of DDR, Guitar Hero, or Call of Duty. Maybe the Double Fine Kickstarter will wake the Industry and Media up. I haven't seen one word about either of these efforts on Wired.com and they tend to jump on these sorts of things in the way that a kitten jumps on a toy full of catnip.
Taken in context of Genesis (as a whole) it would seem that "yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years" means something quite different.
[Source]
If they win (which they probably won't) it would set a dangerous precedent that would effectively kill all future MMO's from ever existing...
Imagine this:
Blizzard, 3-4 years from now, decides it's time to finally shutdown World of Warcraft... It's remaining 6 Million users plus a couple Million former users decide to sue for damages for lost time and money from subscription fees and game time. The amount would be somewhere in the ridiculous amount of a couple hundred Billion dollars. "I lost my job to get my toon to level 150 first! Now they just want to take that achievement away from me?!? All those thousands of days of game-time... No, I will be compensated for lost time and money (from not going to work like boring people)."
It's bound to happen eventually...
(Disclaimer: I play WoW)
You should read Apple's spec for Bonjour, their implementation of Zero Configuration Networking.
I'm curious how this really made it to "Ask Slashdot" when a quick Google Search shows that this kind of tech has been around for some time (though not always setup or implemented well).
They never touched, but they did stay intact under stress that would have shattered conventional metal wings.
Old wired article about the test
If you knew anything about either plane, you would know that they have absolutely nothing in common. The A380 can carry nearly twice as many passengers, so if you're going to compare it to a Boeing plane it should be the 747.
Agreed, but it is firmly entrenched as "THE" tool of choice for most schools. Yes, I know that makes no sense, but they probably marketed heavily to School District Superintendents and University Presidents/Chancellors. They're the ones who ultimately make the decisions.
Stanford throwing their name behind the startup and making use of it will actually make a good selling point. "Hey, Stanford's doing this? It must be awesome!" Not a great selling point from a technical perspective, but good technical selling points rarely make good marketing selling points when you're dealing with most high-level upper managers.
"Does anyone here doubt Acacia is assessing its patient portfolio in light of this now becoming a startup?"
Who?
That was my thought too. I recognized the name, but the closest I can find to anything related to this topic is Acacia Social Fraternity. Maybe I'm just ignorant or missing something, but I fail to see why/how they would *have* patents relating to this; much less be able to defend such patents.
Based on what I can tell, KnowLabs is very much played-down on the ai-class.com website and Stanford's role is played up. It looks like the start-up is looking to act as a contractor to Universities to help them setup, run, and possibly maintain better, more useable, more scalable online education services. Keep in mind that the free AI Class gives you no real credit, it's just there if you're interested in the subject and want to learn a bit more before taking the plunge (back) into academia.
Personally, I applaud what they're doing. Maybe they can help unseat Blackboard and other god-awful "Online Education Tools".
To nay-sayers who think this kind free offering dilutes the "value" of their education when they pay for an equivalent class... You get degree and/or continuing education credits, the people taking a free class like this one do not. They get nothing but some extra knowledge. For someone like me, who is considering a Masters in CS, these classes are a great way to get my feet wet and figure out what I want to focus on.