Apple sort of does this all the time, but usually in the reverse of what you'd usually want to do...
They used to dis Microsoft products. Then they made deals with MS to introduce Internet Explorer for Macs.
They used to say two buttons were "too many" on a mouse to go along with the keyboard that has more than 100 keys. Then they introduced the multi-buttoned Mighty Mouse.
They used to say how Intel CPUs just suck! Then they transitioned their entire product line to Intel CPUs.
When the flat panel iMacs were introduced, Jobs denounced vertical disc drives as bad design. Then they introduced vertical disc drives in their next revision of the iMac.
Even if the changes were just bug fixes to the rendering engine, it's still something to be hugely grateful of from a web developer's perspective. Without the bugs, web developers can eventually stop adding bizzare hacks and trickeries that work around IE6 bugs, which is time wasted. Sure, partly it was a response to Firefox, but they also just need to fix their damn product. Many Web 2.0 reccommended Firefox not just because of bias towards it, but because IE6 was too buggy to develop for.
Besides the rendering engine fix, I think the phishing site warning feature and tabbed browsing are major improvements. However, they should also consider going back to a more retro UI with IE6-like menu bar and tool bar so that users feel more comfortable migrating away from IE6. After those priorities, sure, continuing to better support web standards would be a plus. (Same thing goes for Firefox -- please also just fix the old bugs, as opposed to ignoring them and spending time adding new features instead).
Oops, looks like the AC's post was Score: 1 when I looked at it because of my Anonymous Modifier preference setting. Never mind, nobody upvoted it. Slashdot is still safe.
Looks and smells like a troll... but marked as score: 1! Anyway, you'll get sued if you violated the licensing terms of closed source commercial software, too. So, this story demonstrates nothing of the sort you mention.
Sheesh, I tell the truth and I get moderated to -1. Couldn't the moderator consider that both are correct? Ask any student who's taken Linguistics 101 and he or she'll tell you that people actually don't use hyphens or spaces in Japan, and topics like what constitutes a "word," let alone where to add hyphens, is notoriously difficult to define. In the end, hyphenation and spacing is largely up to personal taste and neither correct nor incorrect.
"Harakiri" and "hara-kiri" are each correct and incorrect at the same time, since the word is actually written in hiragana and kanji. In the end it's up to personal preference.
I got QR code stamped on my passport at immigration when entering Japan, back in 2003. In Japan, virtually all new phones that have a camera can also recognize QR code (pretty much like 99.999% of them).
This technology has been available since way way way way back in 1994. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code Welcome to technology three years older than this website.
What a piece of flamebait. He doesn't give a single explanation of what was causing the crashes. It could have been the non-Leopard ready kernel extension app Application Enhancer. Of course, some applications that weren't written for Leopard won't run on Leopard.
"Only" 800 deaths from the after-effects of Hiroshima bombing, because 140,000 already died by the end of 1945, half of them on the day of the bombing. Oh, and thousands more died from the after-effects according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Plus, even if one doesn't die from the after-effects, they might have become vegetables, etc. People who think radiation is safe should go live in Chernobyl.
I agree. TFA describes the author's future speculation, not an observation of how Zune is currently doing in the market success-wise, hence describing Zune as "still failing" is inaccurate.
I'm a Mac user and an iPod owner, but I don't share the author's perspective. If Zune is supposedly competing with the iPods of 2006, how come the Zunes of equal display resolution and equal storage capacity are priced at the same point as the iPods of this year? Sure, price isn't everything. So Zune has Wi-Fi, radio, bigger screen, and growing market share. "Still failing?" Not at all.
Also, thin is overrated. CD players didn't fit in jean pockets. Modern MP3 players do, and that's pretty much what matters.
Wrong. The radius of the laser is directly proportional to the distance from the energy source. The area covered by the laser is directly proportional to the square of the distance. The illuminance is inversely proportional to the distance. In equations:
R (radius) ~ D (distance)
A (area) ~ R^2 ~ D^2
L (illuminance) ~ 1 / A ~ 1 / R^2 ~ 1 / D^2
(~ means "proportional to")
If you actually remembered what the inverse square law was, you could determine that it was an irrelevant law. Grandparent post was correct.
Thanks to the RIAA, I hardly buy music anymore, ever since I stopped downloading from illegal sources. Their lawsuit profiteering directly hurts the artists.
In the case of Apple + Adobe, I don't think their products will be competing with each other anyway with or without a merger. Apple doesn't want to compete with Adobe because if they piss Adobe off, Adobe can easily ditch the Mac market and go Windows-only, screwing Apple.
I know it's a joke, but he didn't need to use the terminal for those tasks, but could have used GUI instead. (Boot from the OS X disc by pressing C during startup)
I'm a little confused as well as some other users. You didn't like the 160 kbps quality of the download, so that made you decide NOT to get the higher audio quality box set? I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish by boycotting this first step in a novel business method. Although 160 kbps MP3 wasn't my preferred format either. (I would've preferred AAC for the smaller size.)
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Even if the changes were just bug fixes to the rendering engine, it's still something to be hugely grateful of from a web developer's perspective. Without the bugs, web developers can eventually stop adding bizzare hacks and trickeries that work around IE6 bugs, which is time wasted. Sure, partly it was a response to Firefox, but they also just need to fix their damn product. Many Web 2.0 reccommended Firefox not just because of bias towards it, but because IE6 was too buggy to develop for.
Besides the rendering engine fix, I think the phishing site warning feature and tabbed browsing are major improvements. However, they should also consider going back to a more retro UI with IE6-like menu bar and tool bar so that users feel more comfortable migrating away from IE6. After those priorities, sure, continuing to better support web standards would be a plus. (Same thing goes for Firefox -- please also just fix the old bugs, as opposed to ignoring them and spending time adding new features instead).
Oops, looks like the AC's post was Score: 1 when I looked at it because of my Anonymous Modifier preference setting. Never mind, nobody upvoted it. Slashdot is still safe.
Looks and smells like a troll... but marked as score: 1! Anyway, you'll get sued if you violated the licensing terms of closed source commercial software, too. So, this story demonstrates nothing of the sort you mention.
Sheesh, I tell the truth and I get moderated to -1. Couldn't the moderator consider that both are correct? Ask any student who's taken Linguistics 101 and he or she'll tell you that people actually don't use hyphens or spaces in Japan, and topics like what constitutes a "word," let alone where to add hyphens, is notoriously difficult to define. In the end, hyphenation and spacing is largely up to personal taste and neither correct nor incorrect.
"Harakiri" and "hara-kiri" are each correct and incorrect at the same time, since the word is actually written in hiragana and kanji. In the end it's up to personal preference.
Hmm... Microsoft's homepage lists a bunch of Windows Mobile phones that support QR codes, hence this is nothing new:
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/windowsmobile/wm50/prodinfo/device/default.mspx
I got QR code stamped on my passport at immigration when entering Japan, back in 2003. In Japan, virtually all new phones that have a camera can also recognize QR code (pretty much like 99.999% of them).
This technology has been available since way way way way back in 1994. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code Welcome to technology three years older than this website.
What a piece of flamebait.
He doesn't give a single explanation of what was causing the crashes.
It could have been the non-Leopard ready kernel extension app Application Enhancer. Of course, some applications that weren't written for Leopard won't run on Leopard.
As long as Java 6 is not available on all major platforms, it restricts developers from using it, which means suckier apps on other platforms as well.
"Only" 800 deaths from the after-effects of Hiroshima bombing, because 140,000 already died by the end of 1945, half of them on the day of the bombing. Oh, and thousands more died from the after-effects according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Plus, even if one doesn't die from the after-effects, they might have become vegetables, etc. People who think radiation is safe should go live in Chernobyl.
I agree. TFA describes the author's future speculation, not an observation of how Zune is currently doing in the market success-wise, hence describing Zune as "still failing" is inaccurate.
I'm a Mac user and an iPod owner, but I don't share the author's perspective. If Zune is supposedly competing with the iPods of 2006, how come the Zunes of equal display resolution and equal storage capacity are priced at the same point as the iPods of this year? Sure, price isn't everything. So Zune has Wi-Fi, radio, bigger screen, and growing market share. "Still failing?" Not at all.
Also, thin is overrated. CD players didn't fit in jean pockets. Modern MP3 players do, and that's pretty much what matters.
I found the Slashdot article on it:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/06/035218
Indeed, he did admit ignorance with his apology, so let's leave it at that...
Just tried it on both. Only a Firefox 3.0 feature, not available on Firefox 2.0.
Oh my god why did they dig coal mines in the first place? This is an earthquake prone country we're speaking of! (/sarcasm)
Hell, why would anyone do anything at all in Japan? It's routinely hit by earthquakes, that would be dubious.
5 seconds for light to travel from one end to another...
http://www.google.com/search?q=1500000+km+%2F+c
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R (radius) ~ D (distance)
A (area) ~ R^2 ~ D^2
L (illuminance) ~ 1 / A ~ 1 / R^2 ~ 1 / D^2
(~ means "proportional to" here)
/me goes to change
4 minutes later... Apparently
Wrong. The radius of the laser is directly proportional to the distance from the energy source. The area covered by the laser is directly proportional to the square of the distance. The illuminance is inversely proportional to the distance. In equations: R (radius) ~ D (distance) A (area) ~ R^2 ~ D^2 L (illuminance) ~ 1 / A ~ 1 / R^2 ~ 1 / D^2 (~ means "proportional to") If you actually remembered what the inverse square law was, you could determine that it was an irrelevant law. Grandparent post was correct.
Thanks to the RIAA, I hardly buy music anymore, ever since I stopped downloading from illegal sources. Their lawsuit profiteering directly hurts the artists.
In the case of Apple + Adobe, I don't think their products will be competing with each other anyway with or without a merger. Apple doesn't want to compete with Adobe because if they piss Adobe off, Adobe can easily ditch the Mac market and go Windows-only, screwing Apple.
I know it's a joke, but he didn't need to use the terminal for those tasks, but could have used GUI instead. (Boot from the OS X disc by pressing C during startup)
That will inevitably run into personality conflict between host and guest consciousnesses.
What about P2P? Like as if it's not going to be uploaded to a bittorrent tracker anyway, why bother avoiding it if it could cut costs.
I'm a little confused as well as some other users. You didn't like the 160 kbps quality of the download, so that made you decide NOT to get the higher audio quality box set? I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish by boycotting this first step in a novel business method. Although 160 kbps MP3 wasn't my preferred format either. (I would've preferred AAC for the smaller size.)