Better yet: One key decrypts your regular files. Letters to grandma, pictures of your baby, etc. And the other decrypts your super secret terrorist plans. Both from the same encrypted volume.
Give them them only the former and it will look like it worked, yet they still won't have access to the secret data.
Sounds like a good business move to me. An extra $200 earned on those who must have black. But the black model looks like it belongs in a generic PC manufacturer's line-up, so I'm not sure who would actually want one. Maybe it will look better in real life.
The system should be designed so that emails can never be silently lost.
Care to share exactly how you would ensure that is true? It can't be solved at the protocol level, the receiving end could make a mistake, or simply lie.
What if the admin accidently pointed my mailbox to/dev/null. Once/dev/null reads the contents of the e-mail, it is read as far as the software is concerned. You'll think I read the e-mail while I'm blissfully unaware that you ever sent it. Redesign e-mail all you want, but it's impossible to guarantee that any form of computer information exchange happens successfully when you aren't in control of the receiving end.
Yes it's annoying having to guess if your e-mail made it or not, but this problem can only truly be solved socially.
The term operating system gets thrown around to mean a lot of things. I don't think you're going to see a BT kext. But it's not unreasonable to have it show up farther up the abstraction level, such as in the software update application. Strictly speaking, that may not be part of the operating system, but it is in the minds of many.
When I was in high school a few years back, our programming lesson consisted of looking at Fortran code on the overhead. We didn't have access to a compiler so we couldn't even put the program to use.
Here in Ontario our farmers are about ready to get out of the business altogether. The crop prices are so low that it's impossible to maintain the operation any longer.
Granted the majority of the problem is due to U.S. food subsidies, but even still, if the food supply was as short as you claim they should still have no problem selling their crops for a fair price.
Distribution may be a problem, but there is still plenty of surplus food.
I'm not a big software patent fan, but I fail to see how a software patent is different from a physical object patent.
For example, I don't like software patents because when computer company A patents their great new widget that improves computer usage efficiency by 99%, no other program can use that widget. That hurts me as a computer user.
But the same problem exists in the real world. When car company A patents a great new fuel system that cuts fuel usage by 99%, no other car company can use it. Just buy car company A's car you say? But car company B has a patent on tires that never wear out, which is just as desirable as the fuel system. We'll assume for all intents and purposes that the patent holders aren't willing to license their patent, thus it's impossible to buy the car you want.
The patent system may work where the patent covers the entire product, but when the patent only covers a small part of a larger system it starts to fall apart rather quickly.
Web 2.0, in my opinion, is the machine web (i.e. web services). Where web 1.0 was designed for human consumption, web 2.0 allows the computers to have the same abilities we have with HTML services. All of the web 2.0 companies are web 2.0 companies because they provide an API, not because they use AJAX and large fonts.
But nobody agrees with me, and the name is pretty silly anyway, so feel free to encompass all the social/AJAX/web services/betas/large fonts/gradients/ruby on rails/etc. terms under the web 2.0 umbrella.
Even on a brand new system, XP always feels sluggish to me. Perhaps some tuning is possible to help the situation, but the out of box experience is very important.
Compare that with the Mac where I've had the load into the 9s and the GUI was still as responsive as ever. Windows with a load that high would be totally unusable in my experience.
"The reason for that is they expect that sales of computers as gifts during the Christmas season will be slow since people will see that the new version of ms-windows is 1-3 months away so will delay purchasing."
Unless the company is running on such a thin budget that they'll be broke in 1-3 months after Christmas, that should be seen as a good thing. They will get their sale anyway, albeit delayed. And they just might sell something else at Christmas time to fill the gap.
What if someone else has the same name? If I search for my name through Google I come up with another guy who works on the same kind of stuff I do. Someone who is just casually searching for me might not even notice that it's actually someone else. I've even had a client who did the search thing and asked if I had moved, thinking the other guy was me.
I already subscribe to a couple of job sites that offer feeds and have had great results using them. I wouldn't even consider manually searching for jobs at this point.
Perhaps what he means is that Apple will release Cocoa support in Windows. Applications natively built for OS X, will look like OS X on Windows (which people seem to like for whatever reason), and that means more OS X apps since it you've got a great cross-platform toolkit at your disposal.
and it's targetted at the average non-technical Mac user who thinks that you are supposed to turn a computer off by pressing the power button.;P
I turn my Mac off with the power button:/ It's nice and handy beside the keyboard and pops up a nice display asking me what I want to do. Much easier than finding my way to the Apple menu or remembering keyboard shortcuts.
the MacOS APIs (Carbon and Cocoa) do not exist on other platforms.
In a loose sense, Cocoa does. There's YellowBox, which is essentially Cocoa, not to mention GNUstep. Cocoa on OS X has evolved so they aren't entirely compatible anymore, but with some care you can technically write a Cocoa program that will run on other platforms.
Also, Photoshop is no stranger to X11. It's doubtful they maintained the X11 version, but who knows? It might just be a recompile away from running on Linux.
Warm day? The entire winter has been a "warm day" here in this part of Canada. I'm not sure we've even had a day that remained below the freezing point during the entire season thus far.
Even an entire year of abnormal weather is no indication of an real trends, but it's more than just a single day abnormality.
If you're so stoned out that you can't keep a normal job, you'll probably steal stuff.
It's too bad there wasn't a law against stealing... oh wait. By that logic we should make downloading any type of file illegal because the downloaded file might infringe on someone's copyright.
We're talking about Apple: one of the most proprietary computing companies ever.
Despite the relatively low market share, Apple seems to be one of the only companies that is able to push open standards on the industry.
I don't thing they're going to worry about avoiding vendor lock-in.
Why not? Every business, no matter what you do, should worry about vendor lock-in. Look how many times Apple has jumped ship already. If they somehow found themselves using a chip that made it impossible to switch to anything else in the future it would be a terrible business move on their part.
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Better yet: One key decrypts your regular files. Letters to grandma, pictures of your baby, etc. And the other decrypts your super secret terrorist plans. Both from the same encrypted volume.
Give them them only the former and it will look like it worked, yet they still won't have access to the secret data.
Sounds like a good business move to me. An extra $200 earned on those who must have black. But the black model looks like it belongs in a generic PC manufacturer's line-up, so I'm not sure who would actually want one. Maybe it will look better in real life.
The system should be designed so that emails can never be silently lost.
/dev/null. Once /dev/null reads the contents of the e-mail, it is read as far as the software is concerned. You'll think I read the e-mail while I'm blissfully unaware that you ever sent it. Redesign e-mail all you want, but it's impossible to guarantee that any form of computer information exchange happens successfully when you aren't in control of the receiving end.
Care to share exactly how you would ensure that is true? It can't be solved at the protocol level, the receiving end could make a mistake, or simply lie.
What if the admin accidently pointed my mailbox to
Yes it's annoying having to guess if your e-mail made it or not, but this problem can only truly be solved socially.
The term operating system gets thrown around to mean a lot of things. I don't think you're going to see a BT kext. But it's not unreasonable to have it show up farther up the abstraction level, such as in the software update application. Strictly speaking, that may not be part of the operating system, but it is in the minds of many.
When I was in high school a few years back, our programming lesson consisted of looking at Fortran code on the overhead. We didn't have access to a compiler so we couldn't even put the program to use.
The X in AJAX stands for XmlHttpRequest, which, despite the name, actually has nothing to do with XML.
Here in Ontario our farmers are about ready to get out of the business altogether. The crop prices are so low that it's impossible to maintain the operation any longer.
Granted the majority of the problem is due to U.S. food subsidies, but even still, if the food supply was as short as you claim they should still have no problem selling their crops for a fair price.
Distribution may be a problem, but there is still plenty of surplus food.
I'm not a big software patent fan, but I fail to see how a software patent is different from a physical object patent.
For example, I don't like software patents because when computer company A patents their great new widget that improves computer usage efficiency by 99%, no other program can use that widget. That hurts me as a computer user.
But the same problem exists in the real world. When car company A patents a great new fuel system that cuts fuel usage by 99%, no other car company can use it. Just buy car company A's car you say? But car company B has a patent on tires that never wear out, which is just as desirable as the fuel system. We'll assume for all intents and purposes that the patent holders aren't willing to license their patent, thus it's impossible to buy the car you want.
The patent system may work where the patent covers the entire product, but when the patent only covers a small part of a larger system it starts to fall apart rather quickly.
More sales?
Why would you buy a run of the mill generic PC that can only run Windows, when you can buy a Mac that runs Windows and MacOS X?
Web 2.0, in my opinion, is the machine web (i.e. web services). Where web 1.0 was designed for human consumption, web 2.0 allows the computers to have the same abilities we have with HTML services. All of the web 2.0 companies are web 2.0 companies because they provide an API, not because they use AJAX and large fonts.
But nobody agrees with me, and the name is pretty silly anyway, so feel free to encompass all the social/AJAX/web services/betas/large fonts/gradients/ruby on rails/etc. terms under the web 2.0 umbrella.
The only people who care about proper rendering are the people who make the site.
As long as the user can access the information with ease, it doesn't matter to Joe Average that the is in the wrong spot.
As long as the site was still viewable in FF, they aren't going to complain. There is no reason to.
Even on a brand new system, XP always feels sluggish to me. Perhaps some tuning is possible to help the situation, but the out of box experience is very important.
Compare that with the Mac where I've had the load into the 9s and the GUI was still as responsive as ever. Windows with a load that high would be totally unusable in my experience.
"The reason for that is they expect that sales of computers as gifts during the Christmas season will be slow since people will see that the new version of ms-windows is 1-3 months away so will delay purchasing."
Unless the company is running on such a thin budget that they'll be broke in 1-3 months after Christmas, that should be seen as a good thing. They will get their sale anyway, albeit delayed. And they just might sell something else at Christmas time to fill the gap.
A terabyte of terrestrial (GIS) data?
What if someone else has the same name? If I search for my name through Google I come up with another guy who works on the same kind of stuff I do. Someone who is just casually searching for me might not even notice that it's actually someone else. I've even had a client who did the search thing and asked if I had moved, thinking the other guy was me.
What's so hard about that?You're not confusing ActiveRecord with Scaffolding are you? Nobody uses the latter in the real world.
Because migrations...
The real question is, why not use migrations?
I want the jobs to come to me.
I already subscribe to a couple of job sites that offer feeds and have had great results using them. I wouldn't even consider manually searching for jobs at this point.
Perhaps what he means is that Apple will release Cocoa support in Windows. Applications natively built for OS X, will look like OS X on Windows (which people seem to like for whatever reason), and that means more OS X apps since it you've got a great cross-platform toolkit at your disposal.
and it's targetted at the average non-technical Mac user who thinks that you are supposed to turn a computer off by pressing the power button. ;P
:/ It's nice and handy beside the keyboard and pops up a nice display asking me what I want to do. Much easier than finding my way to the Apple menu or remembering keyboard shortcuts.
I turn my Mac off with the power button
the MacOS APIs (Carbon and Cocoa) do not exist on other platforms.
In a loose sense, Cocoa does. There's YellowBox, which is essentially Cocoa, not to mention GNUstep. Cocoa on OS X has evolved so they aren't entirely compatible anymore, but with some care you can technically write a Cocoa program that will run on other platforms.
Also, Photoshop is no stranger to X11. It's doubtful they maintained the X11 version, but who knows? It might just be a recompile away from running on Linux.
Warm day? The entire winter has been a "warm day" here in this part of Canada. I'm not sure we've even had a day that remained below the freezing point during the entire season thus far.
Even an entire year of abnormal weather is no indication of an real trends, but it's more than just a single day abnormality.
It's too bad there wasn't a law against stealing... oh wait. By that logic we should make downloading any type of file illegal because the downloaded file might infringe on someone's copyright.
I think you mean: xPod Micro
Despite the relatively low market share, Apple seems to be one of the only companies that is able to push open standards on the industry.
Why not? Every business, no matter what you do, should worry about vendor lock-in. Look how many times Apple has jumped ship already. If they somehow found themselves using a chip that made it impossible to switch to anything else in the future it would be a terrible business move on their part.