Where it fits seems pretty obvious to me, Apple used the carrot of exclusivity to operators in return for the operators breaking rank and doing a lot of things they didn't do before (unlimited data tariffs, out of sequence voicemail, and now the ability to 'push').
All high end monitors are calibrated the way you explained, that's what the SWOP certification in my post refers to.
Monitors can never really reproduce accurate Pantone ink colours, since they are lit from within, not by ambient light (and that's before considering the metallic pantone inks), hence my scepticism that "considered color critical" might be less meaningful than SWOP is.
That's not an accurate comparison, because models tend to creep up the range over the years. The 1979 Honda Civic was the bottom of the range, the 2008 model is mid-range, with the smaller Jazz (aka. Fit) below it. Below that there is a 79 Civic-sized car that is (as far as I can tell) not sold in the US, called the Zest, which weighs 880kg.
Is "considered color critical" anything other than meaningless hype? Is there a graphics card that can feed it with more than 24bits of color information, and any software that works with that combination? More importantly, what's the resolution of the display, how black is it's black, and is it's colour gamut any larger than a normal monitor?
I'd need a lot more information before I consider this to be a competitor to the SWOP certified 2560x1600 pixel screen I'm using now.
Yes, because as Google explain in their Labs Blog but the BBC failed to explain in the linked article, these labs features are not intended to be mainstream mail features, they are little tweaks written by Google staff in their '20% time', the time that Google gives their developers to work on pet projects.
It sounds like you are being tested less than I was. I sat a senior school entrance exam at age 10, then from year 11 I had exams at the end of the next 4 years, then mock 'o' levels, 'o' levels, mock 'ao' levels, actual 'ao' levels, mock 'a' levels then actual 'a' levels.
The difference was that the end of year exams back then were not standardised, so they were useless for comparing one school to another. All these complaints about 'over testing' seem to me to be down to teachers looking for an excuse not to have the success or failure of their teaching abilities measured.
In my time at school (late 80s), universities selected their students by looking at their A-level grades. 4 good A levels was enough to guarantee you a place at a top university. Today I read that universities are starting to set entrance exams of their own because they can't tell who the good students are anymore, as they ALL have 4 or 5 A-levels. More details in the story from todays Guardian
From TFA "I know what you're thinking: why not do the experiment with antiprotons or positrons instead.
People have tried but it's been impossible to completely remove any residual electromagnetic fields from such experiments. These are many orders of magnitude stronger than gravity and so even the smallest trace of them deflects charged particles by an amount that overwhelms the effect of gravity. That's why neutral antihydrogen is so important."
If you buy a machine with a preinstalled OS, it's the vendor's reponsibility to ensure that it's compatible, and all the relevant drivers exist and perform reasonably well. If you roll your own, then you take that responsibility.
If you consider the ability to say 'hey, this doesn't work, I want my money back' without the reply being 'works for us, you messed up the install, your problem' to have a monetary value, then it's probably worth paying for the 'free' software.
The reference to Gravitas was an in-joke. The superintelligent AI-run spaceships of the Culture are rather more playful than one might expect in a traditional space opera. Names the ships have chosend for themselves include "Zero Gravitas", "Very Little Gravitas Indeed" and in "Matter", "Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall".
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Iain Banks and Iain M. Banks are actually the same person. He uses the M. when he's writing SciFi, and omits it when writing less futuristic fiction.
You don't need an app to do that, just find your current location using the built in google map app, switch to hybrid view and use compare landmarks you can see in real life and on the map. Turn your phone until the orientation of the map matches reality, and the top of the phone will be facing North and the bottom South.
I don't know about the USA, but here in Britain, all iPhone contracts have unlimited data built in, so call charges are always higher than data charges for us. I'll give you stupidly redundant, but as for stupidly expensive, skype calls to the USA look mighty appealing compared to what O2 would charge for a voice call.
Given that we are discussing the presentation where Apple specifically announced "that the iPhone can accept pushed mail from an exchange server" with version 2.0 of the firmware, what's your point?
The article does NOT say the investing company will get 30%.
You're mixing up Apple's AppStore distribution method (which takes 30%) with the iFund which is run by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Whatever deal a given developer thrashes out with them is their trade secret.
It's only porn apps that are banned, the built in iPod video player will happily show fullscreen 480x320 porn just fine, same goes for the photo app, which supports both pinching and expanding with multiple touches!
If you download the SDK, you are offered the option of joining the standard programme for $99 or the enterprise programme for $299. As the page says "The Enterprise Program is for developers who are creating proprietary, in-house applications for iPhone and iPod touch."...and as for you being able to run apps on "every other piece of hardware I own", you sure do have a lot fewer games consoles, phones, routers and vehicle engine management systems than most slashdotters.
As I understand it, the SDK is free, but apps made with the free version can only be run on the iPhone simulator. If you pay $99, you can compile apps and beta test them on an iPhone connected to the dev machine with the standard cable, as well as sell your apps through Apple.
The big unanswered question for me is 'can I unplug my iPhone and still use my beta App?'. If the answer is yes, then open source software can be spread without going through Apple simply by sharing the source code. If this is the case then paying the developer fee amounts to unlocking the phone's app restrictions.
Am I missing something, or could business method and software patents be neatly ruled out by adding just 1 sentence to the patent laws, along the lines of: "You can only patent physical devices that are not universal Turing computers".
Slipping in the words "that have been built and can be proved to work" while making the amendment would seem to be a reasonable way of cutting down on a lot of junk patents too.
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If only there was some way to route analogue sounds signals over some unused bandwidth in those internet wires that you have coming into your house...
Why not just set up plain old telephone call forwarding, and get calls to your business number routed to your home number?
Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP, and will run for re-election on the single issue of fighting the 42 day rule.
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Where it fits seems pretty obvious to me, Apple used the carrot of exclusivity to operators in return for the operators breaking rank and doing a lot of things they didn't do before (unlimited data tariffs, out of sequence voicemail, and now the ability to 'push').
All high end monitors are calibrated the way you explained, that's what the SWOP certification in my post refers to.
Monitors can never really reproduce accurate Pantone ink colours, since they are lit from within, not by ambient light (and that's before considering the metallic pantone inks), hence my scepticism that "considered color critical" might be less meaningful than SWOP is.
That's not an accurate comparison, because models tend to creep up the range over the years. The 1979 Honda Civic was the bottom of the range, the 2008 model is mid-range, with the smaller Jazz (aka. Fit) below it. Below that there is a 79 Civic-sized car that is (as far as I can tell) not sold in the US, called the Zest, which weighs 880kg.
Is "considered color critical" anything other than meaningless hype? Is there a graphics card that can feed it with more than 24bits of color information, and any software that works with that combination? More importantly, what's the resolution of the display, how black is it's black, and is it's colour gamut any larger than a normal monitor?
I'd need a lot more information before I consider this to be a competitor to the SWOP certified 2560x1600 pixel screen I'm using now.
Yes, because as Google explain in their Labs Blog but the BBC failed to explain in the linked article, these labs features are not intended to be mainstream mail features, they are little tweaks written by Google staff in their '20% time', the time that Google gives their developers to work on pet projects.
It sounds like you are being tested less than I was. I sat a senior school entrance exam at age 10, then from year 11 I had exams at the end of the next 4 years, then mock 'o' levels, 'o' levels, mock 'ao' levels, actual 'ao' levels, mock 'a' levels then actual 'a' levels.
The difference was that the end of year exams back then were not standardised, so they were useless for comparing one school to another. All these complaints about 'over testing' seem to me to be down to teachers looking for an excuse not to have the success or failure of their teaching abilities measured.
In my time at school (late 80s), universities selected their students by looking at their A-level grades. 4 good A levels was enough to guarantee you a place at a top university. Today I read that universities are starting to set entrance exams of their own because they can't tell who the good students are anymore, as they ALL have 4 or 5 A-levels. More details in the story from todays Guardian
From TFA "I know what you're thinking: why not do the experiment with antiprotons or positrons instead.
People have tried but it's been impossible to completely remove any residual electromagnetic fields from such experiments. These are many orders of magnitude stronger than gravity and so even the smallest trace of them deflects charged particles by an amount that overwhelms the effect of gravity. That's why neutral antihydrogen is so important."
All Linux browsers ... and so on
Firefox (Macintosh)
Safari (all platforms)
Firefox 3 (all platforms)
Opera (all platforms)...
So, L is offering a prize for Light?
If you buy a machine with a preinstalled OS, it's the vendor's reponsibility to ensure that it's compatible, and all the relevant drivers exist and perform reasonably well. If you roll your own, then you take that responsibility.
If you consider the ability to say 'hey, this doesn't work, I want my money back' without the reply being 'works for us, you messed up the install, your problem' to have a monetary value, then it's probably worth paying for the 'free' software.
"what kind of DBA is unable to create views and restrict access to tables?"
One that works for EDS, who are famous for their incompetence. Next question!
The reference to Gravitas was an in-joke. The superintelligent AI-run spaceships of the Culture are rather more playful than one might expect in a traditional space opera. Names the ships have chosend for themselves include "Zero Gravitas", "Very Little Gravitas Indeed" and in "Matter", "Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall".
Iain Banks and Iain M. Banks are actually the same person. He uses the M. when he's writing SciFi, and omits it when writing less futuristic fiction.
You don't need an app to do that, just find your current location using the built in google map app, switch to hybrid view and use compare landmarks you can see in real life and on the map. Turn your phone until the orientation of the map matches reality, and the top of the phone will be facing North and the bottom South.
I don't know about the USA, but here in Britain, all iPhone contracts have unlimited data built in, so call charges are always higher than data charges for us. I'll give you stupidly redundant, but as for stupidly expensive, skype calls to the USA look mighty appealing compared to what O2 would charge for a voice call.
I heard an even worse rumour, that the software you make with it will only run on an Apple phone! Now developers will have to buy TWO Apple machines!
Given that we are discussing the presentation where Apple specifically announced "that the iPhone can accept pushed mail from an exchange server" with version 2.0 of the firmware, what's your point?
The article does NOT say the investing company will get 30%.
You're mixing up Apple's AppStore distribution method (which takes 30%) with the iFund which is run by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Whatever deal a given developer thrashes out with them is their trade secret.
It's only porn apps that are banned, the built in iPod video player will happily show fullscreen 480x320 porn just fine, same goes for the photo app, which supports both pinching and expanding with multiple touches!
If you download the SDK, you are offered the option of joining the standard programme for $99 or the enterprise programme for $299. As the page says "The Enterprise Program is for developers who are creating proprietary, in-house applications for iPhone and iPod touch." ...and as for you being able to run apps on "every other piece of hardware I own", you sure do have a lot fewer games consoles, phones, routers and vehicle engine management systems than most slashdotters.
As I understand it, the SDK is free, but apps made with the free version can only be run on the iPhone simulator. If you pay $99, you can compile apps and beta test them on an iPhone connected to the dev machine with the standard cable, as well as sell your apps through Apple.
The big unanswered question for me is 'can I unplug my iPhone and still use my beta App?'. If the answer is yes, then open source software can be spread without going through Apple simply by sharing the source code. If this is the case then paying the developer fee amounts to unlocking the phone's app restrictions.
Has anyone tried this yet?
Am I missing something, or could business method and software patents be neatly ruled out by adding just 1 sentence to the patent laws, along the lines of: "You can only patent physical devices that are not universal Turing computers".
Slipping in the words "that have been built and can be proved to work" while making the amendment would seem to be a reasonable way of cutting down on a lot of junk patents too.