Or just use spotlight, Mac users have been able to do find files quickly for years.
UNIX systems have had far more powerful text search engines for more than a decade. You could also alway buy far better add-ons for all major platforms.
Spotlight doesn't cover many file types, its ranking suck, and its user interface makes searching through large numbers of files painful. Spotlight is typical Apple: putting lipstick on a dog.
My complaint is against your moronic attempt to equate the Debian package management system to Google's kill switch.
And my complaint is about your moronic attempt to construct a difference where there is none.
Both the Android app store and the Debian package manager run under the user's control and because the user chose to run them. Both of them perform the same functions: they add and remove files, directories, applications, software, and packages. Neither of them has facilities that give users file-by-file control over installations on a day-by-day basis. Both of them can remove files that the user didn't expect them to remove (and Debian certainly has done that to me).
Android has no more and no less of a "kill switch" than Debian does. The Debian maintainers can, with a few keystrokes, set up the Debian package repositories so that hundreds of thousands of machines will die the next day, and they have done so (though, presumably, not deliberately).
In reality, you simply don't like Google, and you're trying to construct any argument you can in order to malign them. If you don't want the Google App store to delete stuff, don't run it. Unlike Debian, which becomes nearly useless without its package manager, Android phones actually will continue to do their job just fine.
Google has pre-sold 1.5 million of G1 phones already. It took the iPhone months to get to that point. Perhaps there are no long lines because it's already sold out and people know it.
As for the 3G network, it appears that the G1 actually works reliably with 3G networks, while the iPhone apparently still has trouble.
Well, the submitter sure sounds like he has an Apple agenda to push.
Microsoft Anti-Piracy Day is also known as a world-wide Linux install fest. When you install Linux, not only do you stop stealing from poor starving Mr. Gates and his poor, overworked and underpaid programmers, you're actually upgrading to something better. So, it's a win for everybody.
Microsoft go the date wrong, though: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex will be released on October 30, not today. Their mistake is understandable, though: the RC is out in a couple of days.
Nonsense. The Debian package management system does what you tell it to do. If you don't tell it to do anything it does nothing. To get packages removed without explicit action on your part would require that you deliberately configure the system in direct contravention to Debian's advice.
The Debian package management system deletes many *files* and *applications* during its normal operations. Debian may also be required legally to remove software (e.g., if it violates patents). And Debian can remove arbitrary files and applications if they want to.
The only difference between Debian and Google is that Google puts it in their contract that they can, while Debian doesn't tell you about it.
In terms of actual operations, there is not a shred of evidence that either Google or Debian do anything nefarious.
Can you use their package manager and be asked for confirmation before packages are removed? That is the default on Debian.
Well, geez, why don't you people find out for yourself before accusing companies of misconduct?
The people who complain about this legal clause are a bunch of morons, you included.
Rubbish. A package manager is invoked by the user.
Maybe if you're a pimply geek living in your mother's basement. On most current Linux installations, the package manager checks regularly with the repository and can even upgrade your software automatically.
I find the notion of a handset checking back with its OS vendor a little un-nerving
This is the same for almost all operating systems these days: they check back with their OS vendor. Open source, commercial, whatever.
especially when said vendor is the the web-marketing giant of the world. What else do you suppose they could use this conduit for?
It's a software package management system, and in order to implement that, they need your permission to install and remove software. If you don't like it, just turn it off.
Well, what do you suppose they use it for? What stupidity are you trying to imply?
A kill switch is a kill switch. The mear capability to invoke such nonsense is what I find unacceptable regardless of how it is (ab)used.
So, you don't use any package management and any automatic software upgrades? All of them contain kill switches, you know. Debian, Apple, Microsoft, BSD, Gentoo, SuSE, RedHat, etc. all can remove installed software from your system, and they frequently do. Google is just making sure they can do so with your consent.
If Android has a "kill switch", then so does Debian: Debian can also remove arbitrary code put on your machine through the package system, and it does so regularly. That's what package managers do. Google is just covering their asses legally.
The difference to the iPhone is simple: with Android, if you don't want to use Google's services or package manager, you don't. With the iPhone, you don't have a choice: Apple controls everything about the iPhone, and all applications and all code on the iPhone come through Apple.
The iPod just works, and that's all there is to it. Apple got it right,
I have an iPod Touch and a Mac. There's a lot of stuff that's broken on the iPod Touch: text input is slow and error prone, screen rotation is sluggish and inconsistent, touch gestures are inconsistent, applications crash with fair frequency, the Mail interface sucks, there is no document viewer, off-line support is nearly non-existent, using it with multiple machines is impossible (laptop+desktop), and on and on. Until fairly recently, syncing often took 1/2h.
Claims that it "just works" or that "Apple got it right" are Apple marketing fluff, not reality. I looked at the iPhone as a phone for my mother (she wants to send SMS and E-mail) and it was just too complicated with syncing and software updates and soft keyboards and all that crap. She now has a phone that really "just works", and it isn't from Apple (or Microsoft).
It works well if you're happy with iTunes as your media manager; there is really little choice on the Mac. Unfortunately, iTunes just isn't very good for large media collections and it has numerous problems with content not purchased through the iTunes store or ripped from CD.
End users don't care about specs, but they do care about functionality.
Features like downloading and syncing over the air, updating podcasts, shopping at multiple music stores, place shifting, better E-mail clients, and laptop Internet access matter even to non-geeks, and Apple is preventing a lot of that from happening.
I think the reason that hasn't mattered for initial iPhone sales is because most US consumers are so inexperienced with smart phones that even the iPhone seems like a big step forward and because the only other smart phones US carriers are pushing are the Blackberry and Windows Mobile shit, often with carrier restrictions. But Android and Symbian are going to change that. We'll have to see whether Apple can reverse course quickly enough, because it won't be long before regular users do care about all this.
Why should she be indicted? None of her emails were very inappropriate.
Government officials have record and reporting requirements. By using an external E-mail provider, she avoided those.
even though her personal emails have been exposed and cleared as appropriate
The account was called "gov.palin" and contained messages like this:
According to the Guardian, who has looked at the Wikileaks data, among the emails in Palin's account were several from addresses belonging to her aides, including a draft letter to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a discussion of nominations to the state court of appeals, and several bearing "DPS", the acronym for the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
Let it go--she obviously wasn't, and we know that thanks to the idiot who accessed her emails.
She was using the account inappropriately, that much is clear. One can argue about whether this should be a big deal, given that there was no obviously incriminating information she was trying to hide.
I'd usually say this shouldn't be a big deal. But given her apparent history of abuse of power, this is quite relevant.
this can be seen in nature as well as in mathematics and AI. for instance, ant colonies demonstrate very complex group behaviors but each ant is simply following a very small set of hard coded behaviors, and on its own is quite stupid.
That's the usual sales pitch for "ant colony algorithms", but it's hype, not established scientific fact. In particular, "small set of hard coded behaviors" and "very complex group behaviors" are handwaving hogwash.
A computer system comprising: a display; a cursor for pointing to a position within said display; a bar rendered on said display and having a plurality of tiles associated therewith; and a processor for varying a size of at least one of said plurality of tiles on said display when said cursor is proximate said bar on said display and for repositioning others of said plurality of tiles along said bar to accommodate the varied size of said one tile.
It doesn't say anything about "Apple" applications. It describes what is basically a sticky fish-eye menu, which is itself a specialization of fisheye views from the 1980s.
There is nothing innovative there: it's a standard combination of standard techniques. Apple should have no right to claim this.
Thus, Nextstep does seem to preceed CDE by quite a few years and with NeXT Apple purchased these IP rights.
"These" IP rights? What IP rights would that be? Even if NeXT had been the first company to do this in the 80's, they would have had to apply for patents then, not more than a decade later.
Second, there were equivalent constructions for X and Smalltalk. Oh, and in case you were wondering, both of those predated NeXT and NeXT liberally copied from both of them.
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Or just use spotlight, Mac users have been able to do find files quickly for years.
UNIX systems have had far more powerful text search engines for more than a decade. You could also alway buy far better add-ons for all major platforms.
Spotlight doesn't cover many file types, its ranking suck, and its user interface makes searching through large numbers of files painful. Spotlight is typical Apple: putting lipstick on a dog.
My complaint is against your moronic attempt to equate the Debian package management system to Google's kill switch.
And my complaint is about your moronic attempt to construct a difference where there is none.
Both the Android app store and the Debian package manager run under the user's control and because the user chose to run them. Both of them perform the same functions: they add and remove files, directories, applications, software, and packages. Neither of them has facilities that give users file-by-file control over installations on a day-by-day basis. Both of them can remove files that the user didn't expect them to remove (and Debian certainly has done that to me).
Android has no more and no less of a "kill switch" than Debian does. The Debian maintainers can, with a few keystrokes, set up the Debian package repositories so that hundreds of thousands of machines will die the next day, and they have done so (though, presumably, not deliberately).
In reality, you simply don't like Google, and you're trying to construct any argument you can in order to malign them. If you don't want the Google App store to delete stuff, don't run it. Unlike Debian, which becomes nearly useless without its package manager, Android phones actually will continue to do their job just fine.
Google has pre-sold 1.5 million of G1 phones already. It took the iPhone months to get to that point. Perhaps there are no long lines because it's already sold out and people know it.
As for the 3G network, it appears that the G1 actually works reliably with 3G networks, while the iPhone apparently still has trouble.
Well, the submitter sure sounds like he has an Apple agenda to push.
Microsoft Anti-Piracy Day is also known as a world-wide Linux install fest. When you install Linux, not only do you stop stealing from poor starving Mr. Gates and his poor, overworked and underpaid programmers, you're actually upgrading to something better. So, it's a win for everybody.
Microsoft go the date wrong, though: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex will be released on October 30, not today. Their mistake is understandable, though: the RC is out in a couple of days.
Nonsense. The Debian package management system does what you tell it to do. If you don't tell it to do anything it does nothing. To get packages removed without explicit action on your part would require that you deliberately configure the system in direct contravention to Debian's advice.
The Debian package management system deletes many *files* and *applications* during its normal operations. Debian may also be required legally to remove software (e.g., if it violates patents). And Debian can remove arbitrary files and applications if they want to.
The only difference between Debian and Google is that Google puts it in their contract that they can, while Debian doesn't tell you about it.
In terms of actual operations, there is not a shred of evidence that either Google or Debian do anything nefarious.
Can you use their package manager and be asked for confirmation before packages are removed? That is the default on Debian.
Well, geez, why don't you people find out for yourself before accusing companies of misconduct?
The people who complain about this legal clause are a bunch of morons, you included.
Yes, and the same is true for Android.
Google was even asking for beta testers.
I think the new iGoogle has some problems, but it's generally better than the old one. I don't think Google should have switched over yet.
Rubbish. A package manager is invoked by the user.
Maybe if you're a pimply geek living in your mother's basement. On most current Linux installations, the package manager checks regularly with the repository and can even upgrade your software automatically.
I find the notion of a handset checking back with its OS vendor a little un-nerving
This is the same for almost all operating systems these days: they check back with their OS vendor. Open source, commercial, whatever.
especially when said vendor is the the web-marketing giant of the world. What else do you suppose they could use this conduit for?
It's a software package management system, and in order to implement that, they need your permission to install and remove software. If you don't like it, just turn it off.
Well, what do you suppose they use it for? What stupidity are you trying to imply?
A kill switch is a kill switch. The mear capability to invoke such nonsense is what I find unacceptable regardless of how it is (ab)used.
So, you don't use any package management and any automatic software upgrades? All of them contain kill switches, you know. Debian, Apple, Microsoft, BSD, Gentoo, SuSE, RedHat, etc. all can remove installed software from your system, and they frequently do. Google is just making sure they can do so with your consent.
If Android has a "kill switch", then so does Debian: Debian can also remove arbitrary code put on your machine through the package system, and it does so regularly. That's what package managers do. Google is just covering their asses legally.
The difference to the iPhone is simple: with Android, if you don't want to use Google's services or package manager, you don't. With the iPhone, you don't have a choice: Apple controls everything about the iPhone, and all applications and all code on the iPhone come through Apple.
Microsoft said it was a new idea:
Of course, those kinds of misrepresentations are the rule rather than the exception for Microsoft.
The iPod just works, and that's all there is to it. Apple got it right,
I have an iPod Touch and a Mac. There's a lot of stuff that's broken on the iPod Touch: text input is slow and error prone, screen rotation is sluggish and inconsistent, touch gestures are inconsistent, applications crash with fair frequency, the Mail interface sucks, there is no document viewer, off-line support is nearly non-existent, using it with multiple machines is impossible (laptop+desktop), and on and on. Until fairly recently, syncing often took 1/2h.
Claims that it "just works" or that "Apple got it right" are Apple marketing fluff, not reality. I looked at the iPhone as a phone for my mother (she wants to send SMS and E-mail) and it was just too complicated with syncing and software updates and soft keyboards and all that crap. She now has a phone that really "just works", and it isn't from Apple (or Microsoft).
It works well if you're happy with iTunes as your media manager; there is really little choice on the Mac. Unfortunately, iTunes just isn't very good for large media collections and it has numerous problems with content not purchased through the iTunes store or ripped from CD.
End users don't care about specs, but they do care about functionality.
Features like downloading and syncing over the air, updating podcasts, shopping at multiple music stores, place shifting, better E-mail clients, and laptop Internet access matter even to non-geeks, and Apple is preventing a lot of that from happening.
I think the reason that hasn't mattered for initial iPhone sales is because most US consumers are so inexperienced with smart phones that even the iPhone seems like a big step forward and because the only other smart phones US carriers are pushing are the Blackberry and Windows Mobile shit, often with carrier restrictions. But Android and Symbian are going to change that. We'll have to see whether Apple can reverse course quickly enough, because it won't be long before regular users do care about all this.
Wozniak must be one of those Apple haters who has never used a Mac in his life. Quick, mod him down! Oh, wait...
Why should she be indicted? None of her emails were very inappropriate.
Government officials have record and reporting requirements. By using an external E-mail provider, she avoided those.
even though her personal emails have been exposed and cleared as appropriate
The account was called "gov.palin" and contained messages like this:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Yahoo_inbox_2008
Let it go--she obviously wasn't, and we know that thanks to the idiot who accessed her emails.
She was using the account inappropriately, that much is clear. One can argue about whether this should be a big deal, given that there was no obviously incriminating information she was trying to hide.
I'd usually say this shouldn't be a big deal. But given her apparent history of abuse of power, this is quite relevant.
No, you missed the part that she really did use the account to avoid government reporting requirements.
Whether Kernell realized that or not is irrelevant.
As for the assertion that it made the GOP look bad, how so? There was nothing incriminating there,
Using a Yahoo account for official government business is a violation of government reporting requirements and security rules.
Fortunately we live in a society where the rule of law prevails.
Apparently not, because Palin doesn't seem to have been indicted yet.
If you think tampering with email is small potatoes, you just got your wake-up call.
It's small potatoes compared to government officials trying to hide from federal reporting requirements by using insecure free E-mail accounts.
Palin's conduct has been unacceptable.
this can be seen in nature as well as in mathematics and AI. for instance, ant colonies demonstrate very complex group behaviors but each ant is simply following a very small set of hard coded behaviors, and on its own is quite stupid.
That's the usual sales pitch for "ant colony algorithms", but it's hype, not established scientific fact. In particular, "small set of hard coded behaviors" and "very complex group behaviors" are handwaving hogwash.
This is the first claim:
It doesn't say anything about "Apple" applications. It describes what is basically a sticky fish-eye menu, which is itself a specialization of fisheye views from the 1980s.
There is nothing innovative there: it's a standard combination of standard techniques. Apple should have no right to claim this.
Once they publish it, they have at most a year to patent it. Afterwards, it's public domain and nobody can patent it.
That's called a fisheye menu, and Apple didn't invent that either.
Thus, Nextstep does seem to preceed CDE by quite a few years and with NeXT Apple purchased these IP rights.
"These" IP rights? What IP rights would that be? Even if NeXT had been the first company to do this in the 80's, they would have had to apply for patents then, not more than a decade later.
Second, there were equivalent constructions for X and Smalltalk. Oh, and in case you were wondering, both of those predated NeXT and NeXT liberally copied from both of them.
TiVo is evil; just don't buy them.