I already posted twice about it in this thread (The first time I mistyped the URL).
It works very similarly to Apple's App Store and it's up and running TODAY. It's called Bodega.
I prefer it the way it is: The police are investigating inconsistencies.
Finally, would your response be the same if this was Microsoft?
Yes. If someone found a super-secret XBox Phone on the floor of a bar disguised as a regular SideKick and took it home, took off it's disguise, discovered it was a super-secret prototype, called MS tech support in a paper-thin-CYA move, then sold it to Gizmodo... I would feel the exact same way I do now.
Especially if they found (and kept!!) the name and work information of the actual owner of the phone on it
There are actually quite a few stories on Gizmodo about this entire chain of events and I would invite you to read them.
We should all take their word for it. After all, they have no reason to fudge the timeline, leave out details/damaging correspondence, or even make the whole thing up.
If anything this is going to come squarely back on Apple for filing a false police report.
Link to the report, please... or are you a.s.s.u.m.i.n.g.?
I have a feeling that, like 5th Generation iPod app downloads, this is just a small-scale test.
Apple loves beta testing in the marketplace. When the Mighty Mouse came out, everyone just assumed it was arrogance that kept Apple from putting 2-physical buttons on it, but the actual reason was to perform a real-world test of multi-touch. When Apple added multi-finger gestures to the trackpads everyone called it a gimmick, but it was actually an unrecognized real-world debugging of future iPhone gestures.
My take is that iTunes LP is a test of the format for the unnamed "iProd".
When iProd 1,0 comes out I expect the LP format to have a few additions to the bundle, but also for current bundles to be backward compatible. This would be consistent with Apple's M.O. I also expect iLife '10 to introduce the format to the masses.
If unofficial versions of iTLPs are made and traded, then that plays right into Apple's hand. If the Apple-designed bundle becomes standard, then that keeps any bundle with proprietary components from leveraging power over Apple's hardware designs. (cough, Adobe, cough, Microsoft, cough.)
For archiving, I just right-click and choose "Compress [Foldername]." For unarchiving The Unarchiver. My workflow is different from my years of WinZip, but only slightly.
For FTP/SFTP there's Cyberduck for free, but I paid for Transmit. I was a WS-FTP user for years and love the 2-pane view.
When the Slashdot crowd can't make the distinction, what chance does Joe Consumer?
The difference between a touchscreen and multitouch screen is what make the iPhone's (once-)unique method of implementing its OS features possible.
You may think that "touch is touch is touch, it's all the same" (Not YOU in particular, as I don't know you or what you think, but you the straw-man I'm railing against), but a swipe gesture with a finger is not the same as a swipe gesture with a stylus, no matter what your Slashdot reading self may think.
Because of the iPhone, the method of interacting with the feature-set of one's smartphone has changed on all phones.
Apple's total method has defined the rules of multi-touch Phone UI, and Apple defined having a multi-touch capable screen as what it is to BE a "touch screen phone".
If Joe Consumer hears "touch-screen", it better do what the iPhone's screen does.
You're fine with "gook", "kraut" and "haji" but can't bring yourself to say "nigger"?
Don't get me wrong. I think racism is despicable, but surely referencing the term like that shouldn't offend anyone.
Excellent question.
Answer: That one hits too close to home for me to use.
I'm not black, but I grew up in the racist south. It stings. I didn't type it because I didn't want to offend me.
Apparently, I'm either thoughtless or callous enough to not care if I offended others - or worse, I fell victim to the/. mindset that this is an all_U.S._all_white_all_male group.
I will assume you were ignorant of this second fact, but have a hard time believing you didn't know the first.
Manufacturing a fictional cheaper coder named Haji for the sake of discussion may not have been willfully bigoted, but to claim that your fictional Haji was anything other than a person with brown skin insults the intelligence of everyone reading this thread.
Of one thing you are correct: Nationalism and Racism are not (strictly speaking) the same thing. Xenophobia has many shades, but they all divide the world into "us" and "them".
I don't believe there was any malice in your choice of names. If only you said "If Bob next door can write a app and sell it for $1.99 that you want to write and sell for $29.99...", but you didn't. You used a stereotype and an epithet to create a "them" to compare someone to and got called out on it.
Patents are for IMPLEMENTATIONS of ideas, not for ideas themselves.
How Apple's liquid-cool system is unique from other liquid-cool systems is the basis of the patent.
They are not claiming to have invented the idea of using liquid to cool a laptop nor are they somehow claiming "dibs" on liquid cooling.
By filing this patent application, they are attempting to prevent other hardware builders from tearing down a liquid-cooled MacBook Pro, slapping themselves in the forehead, changing their design to mimic Apple's way of doing it, then claiming the design is "obvious" while never explaining why they themselves didn't do it that way in the first place.
The liquid-cooled G5 is a relative rarity. How long was it on the market, anyway?
It seems that it was available in that sweet spot between "too many to replace as they fail" and "enough real-world failure data to put us years ahead of anyone else".
Was Apple using their customers as a beta test group for liquid cooling?
If something is happening in my computer that causes it to physically come apart as it sits on my lap, a tablespoon of liquid nitrogen will be the LEAST of my worries.
If you got your pre-recorded entertainment off of the internet instead of waiting for a broadcaster to send it out, it wouldn't matter how few channels you got.
.
Can you imagine if pre-recorded music tracks were distributed just like pre-recorded episodic video currently is?
Once per week, at a scheduled time, one track would come on the radio. Next week, you'll get another track. Be sure to set your Digital Audio Recorder if you want to hear it again, or want to listen to it at a time other than when it's broadcast!
Check out tvrss.net and stop suckling on the linear-delivery teet.
Between internet streaming/downloads and VOIP, closed/proprietary networks are doomed.
Because it's not doing any re-encoding, MacTheRipper rips in one full sweep rther than the spin-up/spin-down/spin-up-again nature of Handbrake.
THEN I drop the VIDEO_TS folder into Handbrake. It puts a lot less wear and tear on your DVD Drive's motor and the over-all rip/conversion time is about the same.
I use MacTheRipper to time-shift Netflix rentals and get the most out of my 2-discs at a time membership. (I also have the $99 Roku player and stream old TV shows almost every night, but that's a tale for another thread.) MactheRipper rips to a folder (named after the DVD's Label) directly into my "Movies" folder, and Front Row treats it like a regular DVD.
I get a DVD and mail back a DVD 4-6 days per week.
Everyone knows that people in trailer parks don't deserve entertainment. If they're awake, they should be working - preferably doing physical labor so they can't get too uppity.
If $25 for a movie is too much for you, wank off!
More than 50% of the US population is suffering an economic downturn vs their situation 8 years ago. Who cares? The other ~50% has increased their wealth by numbers big enough to make the "average" go up.
That's all that counts. The overall average. Math is everything!
Poor people just throw off the curve.
BluRay will remain a niche offering, as there are relatively few compelling reasons for the majority of consumers to upgrade from DVDs.
The studios will not stop releasing DVDs as long as the majority of the market is purchasing them.
My fear is that BluRay is the "New Laserdisc".
It's better than what "everyone else is watching" (upscaled DVD... and with a quality scaler, it looks breathtaking) and appeals mostly to cinemaphiles and AV geeks. (I'm both).
Imagine the speed of your connection at the END of BluRay's lifespan.
In 1998, the largest cities were testing various flavors of residential DSL and everyone else was on dial-up or paying through the nose for ISDN.
Now you've got 1MBps to your home.
Do you think 1Mbps will make you happy in 2018? In 2013?
Everyone and their brother is putting out a "custom" Linux nowadays (I'm running gOS m'self), why doesn't Dell?
Moreso, why doesn't Dell make a PROPRIETARY shell for Linux?
It can come with Gnome, KDE, and Enlightenment pre-installed as well, but DellShell will be the default desktop. Get out from under Microsoft's thumb and spend that money on R&D! Give Apple a run for their money!
(Of course, if they put out a Darwin/BSD operating system, they can thumb their nose at Microsoft, Linux, and the Mac all at once!)
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in Mail, in iBooks, in the Dropbox app...
I already posted twice about it in this thread (The first time I mistyped the URL). It works very similarly to Apple's App Store and it's up and running TODAY. It's called Bodega.
Damn typos!! http://appbodega.com/
It's been around for a while. http://www.appbodgea.com/ And what about Cydia? You think those guys aren't ALL OVER this?
Rather than assuming, I decided to look. http://macalope.com/2010/04/27/apple-gave-the-orders/
Then I suggest you find the inconsistancies.
I prefer it the way it is: The police are investigating inconsistencies.
Finally, would your response be the same if this was Microsoft?
Yes. If someone found a super-secret XBox Phone on the floor of a bar disguised as a regular SideKick and took it home, took off it's disguise, discovered it was a super-secret prototype, called MS tech support in a paper-thin-CYA move, then sold it to Gizmodo... I would feel the exact same way I do now. Especially if they found (and kept!!) the name and work information of the actual owner of the phone on it
There are actually quite a few stories on Gizmodo about this entire chain of events and I would invite you to read them.
We should all take their word for it. After all, they have no reason to fudge the timeline, leave out details/damaging correspondence, or even make the whole thing up.
If anything this is going to come squarely back on Apple for filing a false police report.
Link to the report, please... or are you a.s.s.u.m.i.n.g.?
"Freedom" is what he calls his beard.
I have a feeling that, like 5th Generation iPod app downloads, this is just a small-scale test. Apple loves beta testing in the marketplace. When the Mighty Mouse came out, everyone just assumed it was arrogance that kept Apple from putting 2-physical buttons on it, but the actual reason was to perform a real-world test of multi-touch. When Apple added multi-finger gestures to the trackpads everyone called it a gimmick, but it was actually an unrecognized real-world debugging of future iPhone gestures. My take is that iTunes LP is a test of the format for the unnamed "iProd". When iProd 1,0 comes out I expect the LP format to have a few additions to the bundle, but also for current bundles to be backward compatible. This would be consistent with Apple's M.O. I also expect iLife '10 to introduce the format to the masses. If unofficial versions of iTLPs are made and traded, then that plays right into Apple's hand. If the Apple-designed bundle becomes standard, then that keeps any bundle with proprietary components from leveraging power over Apple's hardware designs. (cough, Adobe, cough, Microsoft, cough.)
To drag those people into the next decade.
For FTP/SFTP there's Cyberduck for free, but I paid for Transmit. I was a WS-FTP user for years and love the 2-pane view.
And as you said, TextWrangler for text editing.
Well, there's FreeMacWare.com, OpenSourceMac.org, Fink, MacPorts, and even VersionTracker lets you sort by license.
When the Slashdot crowd can't make the distinction, what chance does Joe Consumer?
The difference between a touchscreen and multitouch screen is what make the iPhone's (once-)unique method of implementing its OS features possible.
You may think that "touch is touch is touch, it's all the same" (Not YOU in particular, as I don't know you or what you think, but you the straw-man I'm railing against), but a swipe gesture with a finger is not the same as a swipe gesture with a stylus, no matter what your Slashdot reading self may think.
Because of the iPhone, the method of interacting with the feature-set of one's smartphone has changed on all phones.
Apple's total method has defined the rules of multi-touch Phone UI, and Apple defined having a multi-touch capable screen as what it is to BE a "touch screen phone".
If Joe Consumer hears "touch-screen", it better do what the iPhone's screen does.
You're fine with "gook", "kraut" and "haji" but can't bring yourself to say "nigger"?
Don't get me wrong. I think racism is despicable, but surely referencing the term like that shouldn't offend anyone.
Excellent question.
Answer: That one hits too close to home for me to use.
I'm not black, but I grew up in the racist south. It stings. I didn't type it because I didn't want to offend me.
Apparently, I'm either thoughtless or callous enough to not care if I offended others - or worse, I fell victim to the /. mindset that this is an all_U.S._all_white_all_male group.
Mea Culpa. I am an assface.
I didn't know that [...] only Indians can be named Haji. Aren't you being racist by assuming that names are tied to race?
A) Because of the outsourcing of tech jobs to India, the "cheaper Indian tech worker" is a stereotype - especially in tech circles.
B) Haji is a racial epithet for all people with brown skin or of non-Christian belief. It is a blanket term for "the other" or "them", and is used by US military personnel in Iraq like "gook" was used in Vietnam, "Kraut" in Germany, and the way the "N word" is used in the United States by rednecks: As a way to dehumanize and demoralize.
I will assume you were ignorant of this second fact, but have a hard time believing you didn't know the first.
Manufacturing a fictional cheaper coder named Haji for the sake of discussion may not have been willfully bigoted, but to claim that your fictional Haji was anything other than a person with brown skin insults the intelligence of everyone reading this thread.
Of one thing you are correct: Nationalism and Racism are not (strictly speaking) the same thing. Xenophobia has many shades, but they all divide the world into "us" and "them".
I don't believe there was any malice in your choice of names. If only you said "If Bob next door can write a app and sell it for $1.99 that you want to write and sell for $29.99...", but you didn't. You used a stereotype and an epithet to create a "them" to compare someone to and got called out on it.
Man up and move on. Don't dig any deeper.
How Apple's liquid-cool system is unique from other liquid-cool systems is the basis of the patent.
They are not claiming to have invented the idea of using liquid to cool a laptop nor are they somehow claiming "dibs" on liquid cooling.
By filing this patent application, they are attempting to prevent other hardware builders from tearing down a liquid-cooled MacBook Pro, slapping themselves in the forehead, changing their design to mimic Apple's way of doing it, then claiming the design is "obvious" while never explaining why they themselves didn't do it that way in the first place.
The liquid-cooled G5 is a relative rarity. How long was it on the market, anyway? It seems that it was available in that sweet spot between "too many to replace as they fail" and "enough real-world failure data to put us years ahead of anyone else". Was Apple using their customers as a beta test group for liquid cooling?
If something is happening in my computer that causes it to physically come apart as it sits on my lap, a tablespoon of liquid nitrogen will be the LEAST of my worries.
Can you imagine if pre-recorded music tracks were distributed just like pre-recorded episodic video currently is?
Once per week, at a scheduled time, one track would come on the radio. Next week, you'll get another track. Be sure to set your Digital Audio Recorder if you want to hear it again, or want to listen to it at a time other than when it's broadcast!
Check out tvrss.net and stop suckling on the linear-delivery teet.
Between internet streaming/downloads and VOIP, closed/proprietary networks are doomed.
Worst Superhero Ever.
THEN I drop the VIDEO_TS folder into Handbrake. It puts a lot less wear and tear on your DVD Drive's motor and the over-all rip/conversion time is about the same.
I use MacTheRipper to time-shift Netflix rentals and get the most out of my 2-discs at a time membership. (I also have the $99 Roku player and stream old TV shows almost every night, but that's a tale for another thread.) MactheRipper rips to a folder (named after the DVD's Label) directly into my "Movies" folder, and Front Row treats it like a regular DVD.
I get a DVD and mail back a DVD 4-6 days per week.
Poor people quibble over nickels and dimes.
Everyone knows that people in trailer parks don't deserve entertainment. If they're awake, they should be working - preferably doing physical labor so they can't get too uppity.
If $25 for a movie is too much for you, wank off!
More than 50% of the US population is suffering an economic downturn vs their situation 8 years ago. Who cares? The other ~50% has increased their wealth by numbers big enough to make the "average" go up.
That's all that counts. The overall average. Math is everything! Poor people just throw off the curve.
BluRay will remain a niche offering, as there are relatively few compelling reasons for the majority of consumers to upgrade from DVDs.
The studios will not stop releasing DVDs as long as the majority of the market is purchasing them.
My fear is that BluRay is the "New Laserdisc".
It's better than what "everyone else is watching" (upscaled DVD... and with a quality scaler, it looks breathtaking) and appeals mostly to cinemaphiles and AV geeks. (I'm both).
Do you think 1Mbps will make you happy in 2018? In 2013?
Everyone and their brother is putting out a "custom" Linux nowadays (I'm running gOS m'self), why doesn't Dell? Moreso, why doesn't Dell make a PROPRIETARY shell for Linux? It can come with Gnome, KDE, and Enlightenment pre-installed as well, but DellShell will be the default desktop. Get out from under Microsoft's thumb and spend that money on R&D! Give Apple a run for their money! (Of course, if they put out a Darwin/BSD operating system, they can thumb their nose at Microsoft, Linux, and the Mac all at once!)