They should. The CrackBerry 8900 is *amazingly* slick and usable. I used it for thirty seconds and I want one - the only phone I've ever been able to use my Gmail on *comfortably*. The loved one appears to have had it surgically grafted to her left hand. They're called CrackBerries for a reason.
Note: I got the last line from RoughlyDrafted, which slurps heartily at the anus of Steve Jobs but is usually good with actual facts (even if the opinions are made of speculation). But I am told by someone I know who I was surprised to learn was one of those who had to clean up the mess that she was a few managerial levels up from the Sidekick mess and wasn't the person (if any) who authorised being cavalier with backups.
Microsoft has unveiled its new Zune One and Zune Two mobile phones, target-marketed at unusually stupid social-networking enthusiasts in their late teens and early twenties with a higher income than their IQ.
Team leader Roz Ho said the company had tried to create a Microsoft gadget that people actually wanted to have, like the XBox 360, but that actually worked properly.
"Get your Friendster and your MySpace!" said Ms Ho. "We studied consumer habits and built the perfect phone for the, uh, 'social generation,'" she air-quoted, "to make it 'fab' and 'bling' — I mean, of course, 'Bing!' — for people too stupid to work an iPhone to share their lives moment to moment."
The handset is of simple design for simple people. The keyboard automatically switches caps lock on at random and interjects common "chat" acronyms like "LOL" and "OMG" and "RTFM" should too many words in a row be spelt correctly. A breathalyzer automatically switches on the video camera in the event of excessive alcohol consumption. As well as the usual daily crashes, the Blue Screen of Death can be invoked by the user so as to have a suitable excuse not to answer a text. Later revisions of the phone may include making voice calls.
"We are excited to be the exclusive carrier for this exciting new Microsoft phone in the exciting US," said John Harrobin, Senior Vice President of Paperclip Filing and Vacuous Press Release Quotes at Verizon Wireless. "Because we fucking hate you people. We really do."
Roz Ho was previously leader of the Microsoft team that lost all the data on everyone's T-Mobile Sidekick phones last year when she told the systems team not to bother with backups.
iPhone developers are up in arms at Apple requiring them to use only Apple toolkits, sacrifice a Windows developer at their local Apple Shop every Sunday and maintain an altar to Steve Jobs in their homes. And eat a bug.
Apple is famous for its rigid control over its devices, in its quest to maintain user quality. Developers have worked under increasing restrictions in their attempts to provide quality applications for the iPhone such as I Am Rich, Magic 8 Ball and iFart.
"Not a big deal," said Mr Jobs in a personal email. "Cross-platform development leads to a worse user experience every time. Also, the video of you eating the bug has to be H.264 QuickTime or your app is out. Extra points for cockroaches."
"This clause shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the creative freedom developers need," said iPhone developer Greg Slepak. "Software is an infinitely malleable creation of pure thought. Toolkits, languages and frameworks are only a way to develop something people will want. It's like telling Rembrandt what brand of brushes he's allowed to use."
He paused to chow down on a palmetto bug for his MacBook's camera. "I'll tell you, a lot of iPhone developers are seriously considering Android, just as soon as Google develops a suitably exploitable stream of mindless thralls that will generate us a gushing torrent of money."
"Thanks for the video, Greg," said Mr Jobs, "but we've just added section 3.3.1.a: 'In particular, when Greg Slepak submits an application, the bucket of cockroaches in the video have to be Apple-branded and genetically assembled in Cupertino.' So we've rejected your application, cancelled your membership and zeroed your account.
"Of course, you're free to apply again. Or not, if you don't want a goddamn dumptruck full of money backed up to your house. It's a free country."
In fact, they could have used Ogg Vorbis, whose bitstream was fixed as of 2000 and whose encoder was finalised in 2002 - AAC is only just getting to Vorbis levels of quality.
"Theora is still not as high quality as later codecs."
Indeed. However, I didn't say otherwise, the xiph.org page doesn't say otherwise and that isn't what your original assertion said. You are answering in a manner difficult to distinguish from being evasive.
Could you please address the original questions, and the findings detailed on that page?
Chris DiBona of the Google open source group claimed that "If [youtube] were to switch to theora and maintain even a semblance of the current youtube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the Internet."
I know Julian Assange slightly. He used to be the sysadmin at Suburbia.net. That's where my critic of Scientology website lives. He and Mark Dorset of Suburbia have assiduously defended that site against baseless legal threats from Scientology for the past fifteen years. The guy's got balls of titanium.
The newspapers whine about "who's going to do journalism without us around?" The answer is the same as who'll do it with them around, i.e. someone else. So far it's Wikileaks.
I gave 'em GBP50 (~US$100) last pay and will again this pay. So should you.
This was actually discussed at length on foundation-l. Basically, as long as they keep to the licence, there isn't much the Wikimedia Foundation or even the individual contributors can do to stop them. That they don't mention Wikipedia is actually in their favour because they then aren't abusing the trademark. Etc., etc.
Unfortunately, freedom to reuse for any purpose includes freedom to cut'n'paste into spam.
"But Microsoft said it would respect me in the morning! And call me later!"
The best bit of this gushing fountain of schadenfreude is the comments. Rob Weir pointing out that they were entirely fucked over precisely as Tim Bray predicted, and Alex and Rick Jelliffe still insisting that Microsoft will love them really once it sees just how pure and worthy their love is.
Guys. You got fucked over. Ballmer had his sweaty way with you and got his ISO number. He deleted your number on his way back home. He is never going to light up your phone.
This. DO LOTS OF OPEN SOURCE. It proves your ability to code something that someone else will actually accept into their project. And starts building that all-important professional network!
memcached is most useful when the underlying app is hideously inefficient, e.g. it's pretty much essential to a MediaWiki installation that gets any appreciable number of users.
Considering the whole point is to be a "free content" encyclopedia, your dismissal of this as "religious reasons" is a bit clue-deficient. Perhaps if Miguel had said "some sort of web-based encyclopedia" - but no, he said "Wikipedia."
It could be, but it wasn't. It had to be open source at the very start, the whole stack through, because free content is not free without the machinery needed to use it also being free..NET fails the test dismally.
There's also the minor detail that the wikitext parser's behaviour is literally defined as "whatever the parser PHP code happens to do" and is provably not describable in EBNF. This is a source of profound headaches and is basically unfixable because of the gigabytes of legacy text that must continue to render correctly, i.e. per whatever the PHP parser happens to do.
(Best hope for speeding things up is HipHop, which Domas Mituzas of WMF is hard at work on porting MediaWiki to.)
.NET could have been free all the way down only if Microsoft had created it free all the way down, including a lack of patent encumbrances, i.e. if it hadn't been done by Microsoft. So Miguel is basically saying "we could write all this stuff in.NET, if only Microsoft had put it out on Linux as completely unencumbered open source that worked on Linux in 2001!" He might as well add "and a flying unicorn pony that ejaculates rainbows."
But the main reason is that you're an aggressive socially-crippled nerd who shouts rather than bothering to do his own homework and who thinks other people have to prove an assertion isn't true.
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They should. The CrackBerry 8900 is *amazingly* slick and usable. I used it for thirty seconds and I want one - the only phone I've ever been able to use my Gmail on *comfortably*. The loved one appears to have had it surgically grafted to her left hand. They're called CrackBerries for a reason.
Note: I got the last line from RoughlyDrafted, which slurps heartily at the anus of Steve Jobs but is usually good with actual facts (even if the opinions are made of speculation). But I am told by someone I know who I was surprised to learn was one of those who had to clean up the mess that she was a few managerial levels up from the Sidekick mess and wasn't the person (if any) who authorised being cavalier with backups.
OTOH, facts, comedy, cruelty. Ballmer probably Fucking Killed Sidekick personally.
Microsoft has unveiled its new Zune One and Zune Two mobile phones, target-marketed at unusually stupid social-networking enthusiasts in their late teens and early twenties with a higher income than their IQ.
Team leader Roz Ho said the company had tried to create a Microsoft gadget that people actually wanted to have, like the XBox 360, but that actually worked properly.
"Get your Friendster and your MySpace!" said Ms Ho. "We studied consumer habits and built the perfect phone for the, uh, 'social generation,'" she air-quoted, "to make it 'fab' and 'bling' — I mean, of course, 'Bing!' — for people too stupid to work an iPhone to share their lives moment to moment."
The handset is of simple design for simple people. The keyboard automatically switches caps lock on at random and interjects common "chat" acronyms like "LOL" and "OMG" and "RTFM" should too many words in a row be spelt correctly. A breathalyzer automatically switches on the video camera in the event of excessive alcohol consumption. As well as the usual daily crashes, the Blue Screen of Death can be invoked by the user so as to have a suitable excuse not to answer a text. Later revisions of the phone may include making voice calls.
"We are excited to be the exclusive carrier for this exciting new Microsoft phone in the exciting US," said John Harrobin, Senior Vice President of Paperclip Filing and Vacuous Press Release Quotes at Verizon Wireless. "Because we fucking hate you people. We really do."
Roz Ho was previously leader of the Microsoft team that lost all the data on everyone's T-Mobile Sidekick phones last year when she told the systems team not to bother with backups.
iPhone developers are up in arms at Apple requiring them to use only Apple toolkits, sacrifice a Windows developer at their local Apple Shop every Sunday and maintain an altar to Steve Jobs in their homes. And eat a bug.
Apple is famous for its rigid control over its devices, in its quest to maintain user quality. Developers have worked under increasing restrictions in their attempts to provide quality applications for the iPhone such as I Am Rich, Magic 8 Ball and iFart.
"Not a big deal," said Mr Jobs in a personal email. "Cross-platform development leads to a worse user experience every time. Also, the video of you eating the bug has to be H.264 QuickTime or your app is out. Extra points for cockroaches."
"This clause shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the creative freedom developers need," said iPhone developer Greg Slepak. "Software is an infinitely malleable creation of pure thought. Toolkits, languages and frameworks are only a way to develop something people will want. It's like telling Rembrandt what brand of brushes he's allowed to use."
He paused to chow down on a palmetto bug for his MacBook's camera. "I'll tell you, a lot of iPhone developers are seriously considering Android, just as soon as Google develops a suitably exploitable stream of mindless thralls that will generate us a gushing torrent of money."
"Thanks for the video, Greg," said Mr Jobs, "but we've just added section 3.3.1.a: 'In particular, when Greg Slepak submits an application, the bucket of cockroaches in the video have to be Apple-branded and genetically assembled in Cupertino.' So we've rejected your application, cancelled your membership and zeroed your account.
"Of course, you're free to apply again. Or not, if you don't want a goddamn dumptruck full of money backed up to your house. It's a free country."
The comparison was typical to typical - "highly tweaked" Thusnelda is actually the reasonable way to encode Theora.
In fact, they could have used Ogg Vorbis, whose bitstream was fixed as of 2000 and whose encoder was finalised in 2002 - AAC is only just getting to Vorbis levels of quality.
"Theora is still not as high quality as later codecs."
Indeed. However, I didn't say otherwise, the xiph.org page doesn't say otherwise and that isn't what your original assertion said. You are answering in a manner difficult to distinguish from being evasive.
Could you please address the original questions, and the findings detailed on that page?
Because the version of Dirac that gives significant advantage is nowhere near usable. I understand it's progressing nicely, though.
Chris DiBona of the Google open source group claimed that "If [youtube] were to switch to theora and maintain even a semblance of the current youtube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the Internet."
This was shown to be false.
Mr DiBona then mysteriously vanished without trace.
Could he please manifest and either (a) support his claims or (b) concede his error?
Thanks ever so much.
M-x demodulate, amirite?
Personally I telnet to port 80. By whistling down my phone line really precisely. Using only zeroes, no ones.
Overpaid geeks reading this: GIVE WIKILEAKS MONEY.
I know Julian Assange slightly. He used to be the sysadmin at Suburbia.net. That's where my critic of Scientology website lives. He and Mark Dorset of Suburbia have assiduously defended that site against baseless legal threats from Scientology for the past fifteen years. The guy's got balls of titanium.
The newspapers whine about "who's going to do journalism without us around?" The answer is the same as who'll do it with them around, i.e. someone else. So far it's Wikileaks.
I gave 'em GBP50 (~US$100) last pay and will again this pay. So should you.
Overpaid geeks reading this: GIVE WIKILEAKS MONEY.
Thank you.
"calling this 'collateral murder' is not appropriate and borders on criminal in itself."
You sound like a Vatican spokesman saying the Pope's hard done by, and ignoring all the child rape.
This was actually discussed at length on foundation-l. Basically, as long as they keep to the licence, there isn't much the Wikimedia Foundation or even the individual contributors can do to stop them. That they don't mention Wikipedia is actually in their favour because they then aren't abusing the trademark. Etc., etc.
Unfortunately, freedom to reuse for any purpose includes freedom to cut'n'paste into spam.
It's all IBM's fault. IBM aren't Dutch enough.
He's still in denial and lashing out at people who dast say "I told you so" too early for his liking.
And implying Jeremy had no experience of Microsoft to base his opinions on. It's class all the way down.
"But Microsoft said it would respect me in the morning! And call me later!"
The best bit of this gushing fountain of schadenfreude is the comments. Rob Weir pointing out that they were entirely fucked over precisely as Tim Bray predicted, and Alex and Rick Jelliffe still insisting that Microsoft will love them really once it sees just how pure and worthy their love is.
Guys. You got fucked over. Ballmer had his sweaty way with you and got his ISO number. He deleted your number on his way back home. He is never going to light up your phone.
This. DO LOTS OF OPEN SOURCE. It proves your ability to code something that someone else will actually accept into their project. And starts building that all-important professional network!
Every dayyyy is liiiike Monday.
Ya know, there's nothing quite like the complaints of people getting something for free. It's what makes Monday feel like Monday.
memcached is most useful when the underlying app is hideously inefficient, e.g. it's pretty much essential to a MediaWiki installation that gets any appreciable number of users.
Considering the whole point is to be a "free content" encyclopedia, your dismissal of this as "religious reasons" is a bit clue-deficient. Perhaps if Miguel had said "some sort of web-based encyclopedia" - but no, he said "Wikipedia."
It could be, but it wasn't. It had to be open source at the very start, the whole stack through, because free content is not free without the machinery needed to use it also being free. .NET fails the test dismally.
There's also the minor detail that the wikitext parser's behaviour is literally defined as "whatever the parser PHP code happens to do" and is provably not describable in EBNF. This is a source of profound headaches and is basically unfixable because of the gigabytes of legacy text that must continue to render correctly, i.e. per whatever the PHP parser happens to do.
(Best hope for speeding things up is HipHop, which Domas Mituzas of WMF is hard at work on porting MediaWiki to.)
.NET could have been free all the way down only if Microsoft had created it free all the way down, including a lack of patent encumbrances, i.e. if it hadn't been done by Microsoft. So Miguel is basically saying "we could write all this stuff in .NET, if only Microsoft had put it out on Linux as completely unencumbered open source that worked on Linux in 2001!" He might as well add "and a flying unicorn pony that ejaculates rainbows."
But the main reason is that you're an aggressive socially-crippled nerd who shouts rather than bothering to do his own homework and who thinks other people have to prove an assertion isn't true.
Indeed it is. Lucene, however, is Java. With a C# port that (as I understand it) was, at the time, done by line-by-line translation.