In the mid-90s Apple wasn't doing well despite the fact their cult was still around. It wasn't until Steve Jobs came back that things turned around. Do you think it is just because he improved Apple's marketing?
Eclipse appears to have significant memory leaks. After using it for a while it starts consuming a significant portion of my system memory and slows things down substantially. I need to restart it to get it running at a decent speed again.
Judging by the wiki articles, perhaps not the best sources but they're readily available, both Himmler and Rosenberg believed in some kind of Aryan religion which was an aspect of the Nazi movement. Neither appear to have publicly declared themselves to be atheists.
Atheist? Perhaps non-Jewish, but I've never heard of the Nazi's having an inclination to promote a person *because* they were atheist, as opposed to Protestant or Catholic.
The Nazi's were at least superficially Christian and opposed atheism:
Can you think of a single consortium of market trailing companies that every created anything worthwhile? Because I can't.
Agreed. The whole effort is bound to lead to petty squabbling amongst the members and a least common denominator approach that no one will end up using. I expect this group to all but vanish in 5 years.
Also, if you look at the list, is there anyone there that has been successful building application software?
I think the UI is visually interesting, but after looking at that video more than once, I couldn't find anything that actually helps you get at your information in a more efficient way.
These kinds of lists get published every now and then, and the problem is that Apple's history is too long. There are many terrible products Apple has released and they've been flailed over and over again. A more interesting list would just cover the last ten years or so.
eWorld had many problems, but the biggest issue was that it was just a repackaged version of AOL that only ran on Macs. There was really little reason to use eWorld instead of AOL.
Google Voice transcribing a call from a mobile phone is better than what you got with Dragon Dictate 5 years ago even with a good microphone, so it is not unlikely that in a few years it will be better than naive human transcription.
This has pretty much been the state of AI-type research ever since it has started. It's always "it's so-so now, but it will be better in x years".
I think we can expect Google's translation system to be a bit better in 5 years, but not an order of magnitude better. In 5 years we'll still be seeing the same kind of errors we see now, just not with commonly used phrases.
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If Apple decided to lock down, who's to say Adobe wouldn't just go with the flow and distribute Photoshop that way too?
It depends on the terms, I doubt Adobe would want to give Apple a 30% cut.
In the mid-90s Apple wasn't doing well despite the fact their cult was still around. It wasn't until Steve Jobs came back that things turned around. Do you think it is just because he improved Apple's marketing?
Steve Jobs exaggerating! Oh noes!
Or "I don't want a boss".
It is even crazier if you throw in the idea that the 1981 release of hostages was manipulated to get Reagan elected. But this is a suspect theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise_conspiracy_theory
Internet radio?
If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Eclipse appears to have significant memory leaks. After using it for a while it starts consuming a significant portion of my system memory and slows things down substantially. I need to restart it to get it running at a decent speed again.
It also supports .jar files, at least for libraries. I'm using a third-party jar in my Android application.
As long as the code doesn't use stuff like awt that doesn't exist on the Android platform you should be good.
Read up on the split infinitive. For many style guides it is perfectly acceptable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive
Judging by the wiki articles, perhaps not the best sources but they're readily available, both Himmler and Rosenberg believed in some kind of Aryan religion which was an aspect of the Nazi movement. Neither appear to have publicly declared themselves to be atheists.
Atheist? Perhaps non-Jewish, but I've never heard of the Nazi's having an inclination to promote a person *because* they were atheist, as opposed to Protestant or Catholic.
The Nazi's were at least superficially Christian and opposed atheism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_religious_views#Hitler.27s_reaction_to_atheism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany
Or perhaps you mistyped and mean Aryan.
Isn't this article a dupe of this one: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/12/02/139243/Google-Abandoning-Gears ?
Are there any cases of people actually being refused service because one of these sensors has been tripped?
Can you think of a single consortium of market trailing companies that every created anything worthwhile? Because I can't.
Agreed. The whole effort is bound to lead to petty squabbling amongst the members and a least common denominator approach that no one will end up using. I expect this group to all but vanish in 5 years.
Also, if you look at the list, is there anyone there that has been successful building application software?
Check out this video previously posted by smackenzie. A flat look without much shading, but plenty of transitions: http://www.windowsphone7series.com/multimedia/Media2
I think the UI is visually interesting, but after looking at that video more than once, I couldn't find anything that actually helps you get at your information in a more efficient way.
The iPhone is in a strong position around the world. Check out this graphic on Mobile Browser market share for Feb. 2010 http://connect.icrossing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mobile-market-share.gif
These kinds of lists get published every now and then, and the problem is that Apple's history is too long. There are many terrible products Apple has released and they've been flailed over and over again. A more interesting list would just cover the last ten years or so.
eWorld had many problems, but the biggest issue was that it was just a repackaged version of AOL that only ran on Macs. There was really little reason to use eWorld instead of AOL.
FYI. The biggest rack is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theogeo/4167451445/
Google Voice transcribing a call from a mobile phone is better than what you got with Dragon Dictate 5 years ago even with a good microphone, so it is not unlikely that in a few years it will be better than naive human transcription.
This has pretty much been the state of AI-type research ever since it has started. It's always "it's so-so now, but it will be better in x years".
I think we can expect Google's translation system to be a bit better in 5 years, but not an order of magnitude better. In 5 years we'll still be seeing the same kind of errors we see now, just not with commonly used phrases.
Well, often when you find a CD store, they often don't have the CD you're looking for, which is another reason why they're vanishing.
This was previously discussed on /., many years back.
You can easily look it up on the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering#History /. isn't wikipedia, you don't need to have a citation, you can easily google these things yourself.
I think he meant Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!