The tiles are dynamic dashboards, feeding real time data.
What? You mean like on my computer where I have things called "windows" that act like dynamic dashboards? Tell me, can I change the sizes of these tiles? Can I put tiles in front of other tiles? Can I minimise tiles to get them out of the way?
Now I haven't yet used the Metro interface, but it seems to me that this idea of tiles would work great on a display with limited real estate but on a PC the tiles seem redundant. Put it this way: why do you need tiles with dynamic content? Because you can't see the windows. Why can't you see the windows? Because the fucking tiles are in the way.
No, he doesn't. He uses "conservative" in the sense of risk averse and "liberal" in the sense of not conservative. He then defines a number of traits which help define whether you are a programming liberal or conservative. For instance, if you like strong and/or static typing (he conflates the two), you are conservative. If you like dynamic/weak typing, you are liberal.
There are several other traits by which you can measure your conservatism/liberalism in programming terms. That exposes the flaw in the paradigm: just like in politics most people are not across the board conservative or across the board liberal. I, for example, would be labelled liberal in terms of the typing issue but conservative is respect of several of his other points - like database normalisation.
Another problem I have with his idea is his choice of terms. For many people, me included, the political label "conservative" has strong associations with US far right politicians, who, from my perspective in the UK, are all mad as a box of frogs. He spends a lot of time at the end of the article arguing that being software conservative is not bad in the way that the political equivalent is bad, but I think he would have done better to have chosen less pejorative terminology.
Who is "they"? You do realise that the film is not totally true to the facts, don't you? For example, it implies that Gene Kranz ran the whole mission, this is simply not true. The Ed Harris character is really a composite of all the flight directors involved.
It's actually much lower than that. Taking into account all the symmetries (i.e. rotations, reflections and the fact that you can swap all instances of any pair of numbers) there are only just over 40,000 different final grids.
I once wrote a brute force solver with a small amount of logic to eliminate illegal solutions i.e. if you put a 1 in the top left corner, it noted in all the there squares on the same row, column and small square, that you weren't allowed a 1. If that left a square with no possibilities, it would back track and try a different number.
I was quite surprised that my solver would solve any puzzle in less than a second.
The user doesn't have to put up with surly condescending attitude on a chat call.
Ah, poor little ice bike with his tiny little five figure user id can't handle a little condescension on the phone.
Fortunately, it is impossible to adopt a condescending tone in a written exchange.
The user doesn't have to put up with poor language skills or a heavy accent, or a shitty phone connection.
Lol yeah, its inpossible to has pore langauge skilz on teh enterwebs*
The user doesn't have to give out a telephone number, and be monitored and recorded for quality control purposes.,
Well most chat programs I know of require me to have a user id. They also tend to log everything in the conversation, which I think is a plus point for a tech support conversation.
*Typing that sentence in made me curse the day somebody invented autocorrect.
I thought one of the shittiest things they did this time around in terms of sponsorship is (in the UK at least) only accept ticket payments made with Visa cards. Mastercard, Amex etc were not accepted. This was because Visa is an official sponsor. Somebody should have called them on that.
I see no reason why overseas subscription isn't an option.
The BBC's contract with the people who provide the programmes almost always only give them the right to broadcast in the UK. If they were to make their Olympic coverage available outside of the UK, they would be in breach of their contract with the IOC.
This is false. You only need a licence to watch broadcast media as it is originally being broadcast. If you want to watch the BBC (or any broadcast media) on a TV as they broadcast or on their streaming feed on the Internet, you need a licence. If you only watch programmes on catch up services, you are OK.
The same can be said for their ridiculous suite of gestures. (Five-finger swipe? Really?) Even RIM got the basic gestures right, with a rather nice set of simple and intuitive gestures which, for the most part, require but a single finger.
Unless you have suffered some horrible industrial accident, you most likely have got four fingers and a thumb on each hand. Why not use them?
They stripped my copyright from the headers and now you wouldn't even know that the vast majority of code they took was done by my hand.
Sections 4 and 5 of the GPL v3 (sections 1 and 2 on GPL v2) expressly prohibit that kind of activity. If they removed your copyright notices, they are in breach of the GPL and thus distributing your software illegally.
So yes, you do have recourse under the GPL in this instance, but only because they have been stupid and not adhered to the T's and C's.
Which software is it anyway? I don't want to be using any software where the original author has been treated as badly as you seem to have been.
Except that the features they want are available to a sandboxed app, except possibly iPhoto integration.
Most of their list of issues seemed to be to do with the limited options for licensing the product e.g. the App Store allows only for free upgrades or full price upgrades.
Or perhaps the "glaring hole" isn't as much a hole as you think.
For instance, archives don't actually contain the code for the objects, only the data, so you would have to inject the code of a malicious object into the executable as well as manipulate the archive. If you can do that, all bets are off anyway.
Not the one that Apple provides a nice UI for. It's based on the application level and doesn't have the ability to block outgoing connections. However, it also has the BSD ipfw software which can be configured to stop this as per jwill7g9's post above.
I don't know if this is meant to be a joke or not, but if it was supposed to be a serious, it doesn't work. All it does is direct traffic for localhost to that IP address instead of 127.0.0.1.
If the malware attempted to connect to li446-37.members.linode.com and you put
Microsoft supplies free service pack 0.1 updates (versus Apple who charges for them).
Apple does not charge for the equivalent of service packs. They do charge for major releases of OS X but the cost of the last two has been more than reasonable ($20 for ML) when you consider that they are DRM free and even the licence says you can install on multiple computers that you own.
My current PC lasted 10 years with no additional money spent..... thus I saved ~$600 by not getting the overpriced Mac.
So you have had to put up with Windows XP for ten years. Good for you. I think it's worth the cost to avoid that operating system whether by getting a Mac or a Windows 7 PC when available or installing Linux.
Oh and it's a mistake to assume Mac's never have administrative problems, and thus have Zero adminstrative costs. I took some time to read ars technica articles on OS X 10.7, and that version had TONS of problems. Apparently some 10.7 Macs couldn't even do a basic function like talk to WiFi. Not until 10.7.3 was that issue resolved..... pathetic.
There is allegedly a bug in early versions of 10.7 that caused the wireless to drop out frequently. I never suffered from it myself but I know of one person who did. Anyway, they eventually fxed it with a (free) update.
OS X Lion was a disappointment in several ways mostly relating to stability. With any luck Apple have put that behind them in much the same way that Microsoft can look back on Vista as a bad dream.
They are probably right to suspect hardware, or maybe it is some software she has with some buggy drivers. Most people's Macs don't kernel panic regularly.
Most people's iPhones don't launch random apps either. I think your daughter and your girlfriend are just unlucky.
So if you have an iPhone, you're expected to carry around this stupid dongle if you want to use anyone else's charger. Lovely. So much for their phone being so thin and efficiently-designed.
No, you'd be expected to carry around your iPhone cable which has a normal USB plug on one end and can therefore plug into any charger with a USB socket, or a PC with a USB socket. This is no different from what you have to do now.
The iPhone buyers are going to be pretty annoyed when they find out the hard way what it's like to go back to having a proprietary and non-ubiquitous connector with iPhone 5
The reverse scrolling is totally counterintuitive for scrolling windows.
The merge of Exposé and Spaces was clunky and the OS randomly reorganises the individual spaces.
Of course, by day two I had found out that there are options to turn off wrong-way-scrolling and auto-reorganisation of Spaces, returning my Mac to normal and you can ignore Launchpad.
One thing still winds me up and that is the fact that the scroll thumb only makes itself visible when you use the scroll wheel or equivalent. I'd like it to appear when I mouse over the scroll bar.
The other thing is that Apple Disneyfied the Address Book and Calendar applications and almost everybody hates that, especially as some functionality was lost as a result.
But that's different than saying Macs are remotely comparable to Linux boxes when it comes to the depth of Unix software.
Well considering that OS X is Unix (officially) and Linux isn't, I'd say that's false. That's not to say that OS X is superior to Linux, only that it is more of a Unix than Linux.
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I have never, ever, once in my life seen someone break something that was important deliberately.
Wow. You're not from Earth then?
I suppose it depends on your definition of "important" but in my country, so called mindless vandalism has been a problem for many years.
The answer to that is clearly yes. It's a sexual assault.
The tiles are dynamic dashboards, feeding real time data.
What? You mean like on my computer where I have things called "windows" that act like dynamic dashboards? Tell me, can I change the sizes of these tiles? Can I put tiles in front of other tiles? Can I minimise tiles to get them out of the way?
Now I haven't yet used the Metro interface, but it seems to me that this idea of tiles would work great on a display with limited real estate but on a PC the tiles seem redundant. Put it this way: why do you need tiles with dynamic content? Because you can't see the windows. Why can't you see the windows? Because the fucking tiles are in the way.
No, he doesn't. He uses "conservative" in the sense of risk averse and "liberal" in the sense of not conservative. He then defines a number of traits which help define whether you are a programming liberal or conservative. For instance, if you like strong and/or static typing (he conflates the two), you are conservative. If you like dynamic/weak typing, you are liberal.
There are several other traits by which you can measure your conservatism/liberalism in programming terms. That exposes the flaw in the paradigm: just like in politics most people are not across the board conservative or across the board liberal. I, for example, would be labelled liberal in terms of the typing issue but conservative is respect of several of his other points - like database normalisation.
Another problem I have with his idea is his choice of terms. For many people, me included, the political label "conservative" has strong associations with US far right politicians, who, from my perspective in the UK, are all mad as a box of frogs. He spends a lot of time at the end of the article arguing that being software conservative is not bad in the way that the political equivalent is bad, but I think he would have done better to have chosen less pejorative terminology.
Who is "they"? You do realise that the film is not totally true to the facts, don't you? For example, it implies that Gene Kranz ran the whole mission, this is simply not true. The Ed Harris character is really a composite of all the flight directors involved.
It's actually much lower than that. Taking into account all the symmetries (i.e. rotations, reflections and the fact that you can swap all instances of any pair of numbers) there are only just over 40,000 different final grids.
I once wrote a brute force solver with a small amount of logic to eliminate illegal solutions i.e. if you put a 1 in the top left corner, it noted in all the there squares on the same row, column and small square, that you weren't allowed a 1. If that left a square with no possibilities, it would back track and try a different number.
I was quite surprised that my solver would solve any puzzle in less than a second.
The user doesn't have to put up with surly condescending attitude on a chat call.
Ah, poor little ice bike with his tiny little five figure user id can't handle a little condescension on the phone.
Fortunately, it is impossible to adopt a condescending tone in a written exchange.
The user doesn't have to put up with poor language skills or a heavy accent, or a shitty phone connection.
Lol yeah, its inpossible to has pore langauge skilz on teh enterwebs*
The user doesn't have to give out a telephone number, and be monitored and recorded for quality control purposes.,
Well most chat programs I know of require me to have a user id. They also tend to log everything in the conversation, which I think is a plus point for a tech support conversation.
*Typing that sentence in made me curse the day somebody invented autocorrect.
I thought one of the shittiest things they did this time around in terms of sponsorship is (in the UK at least) only accept ticket payments made with Visa cards. Mastercard, Amex etc were not accepted. This was because Visa is an official sponsor. Somebody should have called them on that.
I see no reason why overseas subscription isn't an option.
The BBC's contract with the people who provide the programmes almost always only give them the right to broadcast in the UK. If they were to make their Olympic coverage available outside of the UK, they would be in breach of their contract with the IOC.
This is false. You only need a licence to watch broadcast media as it is originally being broadcast. If you want to watch the BBC (or any broadcast media) on a TV as they broadcast or on their streaming feed on the Internet, you need a licence. If you only watch programmes on catch up services, you are OK.
The same can be said for their ridiculous suite of gestures. (Five-finger swipe? Really?) Even RIM got the basic gestures right, with a rather nice set of simple and intuitive gestures which, for the most part, require but a single finger.
Unless you have suffered some horrible industrial accident, you most likely have got four fingers and a thumb on each hand. Why not use them?
They stripped my copyright from the headers and now you wouldn't even know that the vast majority of code they took was done by my hand.
Sections 4 and 5 of the GPL v3 (sections 1 and 2 on GPL v2) expressly prohibit that kind of activity. If they removed your copyright notices, they are in breach of the GPL and thus distributing your software illegally.
So yes, you do have recourse under the GPL in this instance, but only because they have been stupid and not adhered to the T's and C's.
Which software is it anyway? I don't want to be using any software where the original author has been treated as badly as you seem to have been.
Except that the features they want are available to a sandboxed app, except possibly iPhoto integration.
Most of their list of issues seemed to be to do with the limited options for licensing the product e.g. the App Store allows only for free upgrades or full price upgrades.
Or perhaps the "glaring hole" isn't as much a hole as you think.
For instance, archives don't actually contain the code for the objects, only the data, so you would have to inject the code of a malicious object into the executable as well as manipulate the archive. If you can do that, all bets are off anyway.
Not the one that Apple provides a nice UI for. It's based on the application level and doesn't have the ability to block outgoing connections. However, it also has the BSD ipfw software which can be configured to stop this as per jwill7g9's post above.
I don't know if this is meant to be a joke or not, but if it was supposed to be a serious, it doesn't work. All it does is direct traffic for localhost to that IP address instead of 127.0.0.1.
If the malware attempted to connect to li446-37.members.linode.com and you put
127.0.0.1 li446-37.members.linode.com
in your hosts file, that would be fine.
Microsoft supplies free service pack 0.1 updates (versus Apple who charges for them).
Apple does not charge for the equivalent of service packs. They do charge for major releases of OS X but the cost of the last two has been more than reasonable ($20 for ML) when you consider that they are DRM free and even the licence says you can install on multiple computers that you own.
My current PC lasted 10 years with no additional money spent..... thus I saved ~$600 by not getting the overpriced Mac.
So you have had to put up with Windows XP for ten years. Good for you. I think it's worth the cost to avoid that operating system whether by getting a Mac or a Windows 7 PC when available or installing Linux.
Oh and it's a mistake to assume Mac's never have administrative problems, and thus have Zero adminstrative costs. I took some time to read ars technica articles on OS X 10.7, and that version had TONS of problems. Apparently some 10.7 Macs couldn't even do a basic function like talk to WiFi. Not until 10.7.3 was that issue resolved..... pathetic.
There is allegedly a bug in early versions of 10.7 that caused the wireless to drop out frequently. I never suffered from it myself but I know of one person who did. Anyway, they eventually fxed it with a (free) update.
OS X Lion was a disappointment in several ways mostly relating to stability. With any luck Apple have put that behind them in much the same way that Microsoft can look back on Vista as a bad dream.
They are probably right to suspect hardware, or maybe it is some software she has with some buggy drivers. Most people's Macs don't kernel panic regularly.
Most people's iPhones don't launch random apps either. I think your daughter and your girlfriend are just unlucky.
Gatekeeper only applies to files downloaded off the Internet. If you compile an executable from source on your own machine, there is no problem.
So if you have an iPhone, you're expected to carry around this stupid dongle if you want to use anyone else's charger. Lovely. So much for their phone being so thin and efficiently-designed.
No, you'd be expected to carry around your iPhone cable which has a normal USB plug on one end and can therefore plug into any charger with a USB socket, or a PC with a USB socket. This is no different from what you have to do now.
The iPhone buyers are going to be pretty annoyed when they find out the hard way what it's like to go back to having a proprietary and non-ubiquitous connector with iPhone 5
It won't be non ubiquitous for long.
PostScript was Adobe, not Apple.
But it was Apple that put it into a product and marketed it successfully.
Launchpad is an unmitigated disaster.
The reverse scrolling is totally counterintuitive for scrolling windows.
The merge of Exposé and Spaces was clunky and the OS randomly reorganises the individual spaces.
Of course, by day two I had found out that there are options to turn off wrong-way-scrolling and auto-reorganisation of Spaces, returning my Mac to normal and you can ignore Launchpad.
One thing still winds me up and that is the fact that the scroll thumb only makes itself visible when you use the scroll wheel or equivalent. I'd like it to appear when I mouse over the scroll bar.
The other thing is that Apple Disneyfied the Address Book and Calendar applications and almost everybody hates that, especially as some functionality was lost as a result.
Apart from that, Lion is absolutely fine.
But that's different than saying Macs are remotely comparable to Linux boxes when it comes to the depth of Unix software.
Well considering that OS X is Unix (officially) and Linux isn't, I'd say that's false. That's not to say that OS X is superior to Linux, only that it is more of a Unix than Linux.
Actually, the iPad 1 is supported for the current iOS release, it's the next one (iOS 6 in the autumn) that will be dropping support for it.
The word "PC" comes from "IBM PC compatible"
No it doesn't, it is an abbreviation for the term "Personal Computer". It was in use before there even was an IBM PC.