He's talking about Linux (who the hell runs OS X on a supercomputer?), although that's not really accurate. The Linux kernel running on your Android phone and the one running on the Cray Jaguar are almost certainly very different, and tuned to perform tasks very differently. That's what rocks about Linux: instead of building a kernel from scratch for your specific purpose, and going through the years of hassle and bugfixes in ground-up kernel development, you've got a stable base that everyone understands, which you can then adapt to your purpose. Of course we can't say for sure, but the same thing probably goes for iOS and OS X, I'd be very surprised if the two had the same task scheduler, for instance.
I'm going to be blunt about this: your comment is completely wrong. It makes perfect sense to have a separate operating system for desktops and mobile devices, because they're two completely different things. Trying to run an OS on one designed for the other leads to frustration and unusability. In fact, I think Windows Mobile failed because it wasn't enough of a mobile operating system: it had things like a desktop, the Start Menu, and full multitasking, which make perfect sense in a desktop operating environment and are a terrible idea on a mobile one.
iOS and Mac OS X already do share a lot of code already, but that's just code reuse - proper programming practice. They've got two totally different user interfaces and paradigms, each working best for its target device. Trying to run one on the other would be unusable, and say what you want about Steve Jobs, but it will be a cold day in hell before a product comes out of his company that can be described as "unusable". Such a merger is a horrible idea, there's no evidence it is ever going to take place, and this article is just so much FUD to get the Slashdot crowd ranting and raving about Apple's walled garden.
I know with several services, like Google Voice, they had a link or checkbox to indicate that "this transcription is lousy, I can do better" with an option to do so, which was presumably sent back to improve the service. It really seemed to work, too, the quality of Google Voice's voicemail-to-text transcriptions started off horrible, and has since become awesome. Same goes for the built-in speech-to-text in Android. If Google includes something like that here to tune whatever machine learning algos they're using, I have no doubt it will rapidly progress to a usable state.
You'd think those guys would seize any opportunity to stay relevant. It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot, another to do it when you're inches from death.
Of all the technologies that are supposedly "just around the corner": fusion power, flexible displays, etc., dramatically improved batteries are probably the most wearyingly repetitive. Literally every 3 months since 2005 I've seen an article on Engadget, or wherever, about some university that claims 500% longer-lasting batteries in the lab, to be available to consumers "in 18 months". Ain't happened yet. Let's all claim success about boosting battery capacity when we can actually buy them, until then this is just so much hot air.
The $150K figure is coming from their argument that each song has probably been downloaded by many people (99 cents per song * 150K downloaders, perhaps), and thus represents the total amount of lost revenue. We'll see how well that holds up in court, doesn't seem to have caught on so far.
"You have severe inflammation of the cerebral cortex, human. The only cure is to wire your brain into the AI Overmind. Proceed at once to the nearest Community Conversion Center."
No, you're not. Not minding the sound is perfectly fine, but I've seen a lot of comments around the Internet insinuating that if you hate the sound of vuvuzelas, then you're a colonial racist who hates South African culture. As opposed to, say, someone who hates sounds that are really fucking annoying.
Still, if the BBC and others are going to start filtering them, we get the best of both worlds. Nothing has to be banned, no ugly racial tensions are stirred, and we can watch the World Cup without being driven halfway to insanity. Count me pleased.
With this (assuming it works at scale) you can "push" the oil to where you want it to go, meaning that if they deployed large ones on the surface they could gradually "herd" all the oil into one place to be siphoned off... or rather, they could, if BP hadn't injected all those dispersants making it end up god-knows-where.
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On Macs, Safari has passed the Acid3 test with smoothness for a while now (in fact, I think they were the first). On Windows it's slower for the same reason iTunes on Windows is unbearably slow: Apple insists on using their frameworks, instead of the native Windows ones, to try and get the Apple look-and-feel. That probably hasn't changed.
You could ask the owner of the local gas station to switch to a new franchise. Most of those places are run like fast-food chains: Joe Citizen signs a multi-year renewable contract with the Company X in which he gets to use their branding, in exchange for buying gasoline from them and forking over some percentage of his revenue. Abandoning the contract early would probably cost the owner a great deal of money, though, and those guys are struggling enough as it is with the wild fluctuation in gas prices (the more it changes, the worse off they are). It would all depend on just how angry he was at BP.
Not pretty, but convincing enough of them to switch would be the real way to harm BP. Just boycotting BP stations is pretty much useless.
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This is a joke, right? HTML5 is a W3C standard, and WebKit is an open-source rendering engine with Apple contributing the most development. Get a clue.
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And Chrome 5 is a speed demon itself. The difference is only 3 percent, and those are Apple's numbers.
Man I love this relentless focus on browser speed over the past few years. If it keeps up for a little longer, I might even be able to browse Slashdot.
If you really don't see the difference between a library card and fingerprints, then you are lost.
I really don't see the difference, would you be kind enough to enlighten me? Both can be traced back to you, both can be spoofed, both can be stolen (and the last two are actually harder with fingerprints than library cards).
Your post almost looks like it could be sarcasm*, but you never can tell on this site, so I want to point out that it's not like libraries were havens for privacy before. You could never just walk into a library and anonymously check out a book: you had to have a library card, and the record of everything you've ever checked out was associated with that card, and therefore, with you. The only difference here is that your thumbprint is being substituted for the card.
Move along, folks, nothing to see here but Slashdot sensationalism.
* And if it is, then this post is aimed at the people that modded you Insightful.
By our standards, it's certainly not the most attractive car ever, but you gotta' remember: it was the 70's. Most non-luxury cars from that area, and some of the luxury ones, will set your retinas on fire they're so ugly. For their time, these look pretty good.
Will people please stop with this stupidity? Microsoft isn't releasing IE9 for XP, not out of some evil plan to force you to upgrade, but because XP just doesn't have the technology: IE9 uses the Direct2D and DirectWrite APIs for its hardware acceleration, and these APIs didn't exist until Windows Vista. Writing security patches for an old operating system is one thing, but it's totally unreasonable to expect Microsoft to completely rewrite the graphics layer of a decade-old, non-current OS that will be EOL'd in two years' time.
How useful is this in the long run? What was the burn ratio compared to other scramjet vehicles of recent design?
Are there even any other scramjet vehicles in the operational testing phase? I was under the impression that the X-51, and the other vehicles in the Hyper-X program, are the only ones that've actually flown. Scramjets aren't exactly easy to test in the lab.
I just wanted to provide a counterargument to the gloom-and-doom scenarios that are probably going to permeate this page: I'm studying for my CS degree at an Ivy League school right now, and the University actually just completed a major overhaul of the requirements for CS, which I think are a major improvement. I know Slashdotters love to complain about how useless college graduates are when they first enter the workplace, but I'm optimistic that I can be at least somewhat handy when I end up getting a job.
The biggest change is that you're now required to declare a concentration, ranging from pretty specific (Database Programming), to very general (Security), there are about fifteen of them and you can create your own with approval from your advisor. This means that everyone is still required to take the theoretical courses (which are useful, no matter what the curmudegons say: I'm a way better programmer than I was before I took algorithms and lambda calculus), but now has time to do tons of practical programming in their field of choice: many of the lecture classes now have 1- or 2-credit electives alongside them which are nothing but semester-long practical projects (for one course in particular, we actually have to find someone not affiliated with the CS department, who needs software written for them, and write it, with our grade dependent on the client's satisfaction- definitely not an academic cookie-cutter project), and in many cases these are now required rather than optional. In addition, while the low-level CS classes (which are taken by all kinds of people across the University, not just CS majors, and so sort of have to be dumbed-down) are junk like PHP and writing Swing GUIs with Java, we have to fight it out with C and Ocaml in many of the more advanced classes.
Again, before a million people complain about how naive I'm being, I'm not saying I'm going to walk out with my degree as a world-class programmer or that I won't have plenty to learn in the real world, I'm just saying that this trend towards easier programming languages and more hand-holding isn't occurring everywhere. And yes, most schools aren't the Ivy League, but if the market demands curricula like this from higher education, it will trickle down. There's hope yet.
It turns out Steve Jobs personally requested that the phone be returned, prompting Gizmodo's Brian Lam to try negotiating for a public acknowledgment that the phone was real.
Let me make sure I understand this: these guys were in possession of stolen property, and they tried to negotiate conditions for its return? Gizmodo, you run a decent gadget blog, but Jesus Christ you need better lawyers. You are about to be one-two punched by the law, and you have no one to blame but yourselves.
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He's talking about Linux (who the hell runs OS X on a supercomputer?), although that's not really accurate. The Linux kernel running on your Android phone and the one running on the Cray Jaguar are almost certainly very different, and tuned to perform tasks very differently. That's what rocks about Linux: instead of building a kernel from scratch for your specific purpose, and going through the years of hassle and bugfixes in ground-up kernel development, you've got a stable base that everyone understands, which you can then adapt to your purpose. Of course we can't say for sure, but the same thing probably goes for iOS and OS X, I'd be very surprised if the two had the same task scheduler, for instance.
I'm going to be blunt about this: your comment is completely wrong. It makes perfect sense to have a separate operating system for desktops and mobile devices, because they're two completely different things. Trying to run an OS on one designed for the other leads to frustration and unusability. In fact, I think Windows Mobile failed because it wasn't enough of a mobile operating system: it had things like a desktop, the Start Menu, and full multitasking, which make perfect sense in a desktop operating environment and are a terrible idea on a mobile one.
iOS and Mac OS X already do share a lot of code already, but that's just code reuse - proper programming practice. They've got two totally different user interfaces and paradigms, each working best for its target device. Trying to run one on the other would be unusable, and say what you want about Steve Jobs, but it will be a cold day in hell before a product comes out of his company that can be described as "unusable". Such a merger is a horrible idea, there's no evidence it is ever going to take place, and this article is just so much FUD to get the Slashdot crowd ranting and raving about Apple's walled garden.
I know with several services, like Google Voice, they had a link or checkbox to indicate that "this transcription is lousy, I can do better" with an option to do so, which was presumably sent back to improve the service. It really seemed to work, too, the quality of Google Voice's voicemail-to-text transcriptions started off horrible, and has since become awesome. Same goes for the built-in speech-to-text in Android. If Google includes something like that here to tune whatever machine learning algos they're using, I have no doubt it will rapidly progress to a usable state.
You'd think those guys would seize any opportunity to stay relevant. It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot, another to do it when you're inches from death.
Of all the technologies that are supposedly "just around the corner": fusion power, flexible displays, etc., dramatically improved batteries are probably the most wearyingly repetitive. Literally every 3 months since 2005 I've seen an article on Engadget, or wherever, about some university that claims 500% longer-lasting batteries in the lab, to be available to consumers "in 18 months". Ain't happened yet. Let's all claim success about boosting battery capacity when we can actually buy them, until then this is just so much hot air.
The $150K figure is coming from their argument that each song has probably been downloaded by many people (99 cents per song * 150K downloaders, perhaps), and thus represents the total amount of lost revenue. We'll see how well that holds up in court, doesn't seem to have caught on so far.
"You have severe inflammation of the cerebral cortex, human. The only cure is to wire your brain into the AI Overmind. Proceed at once to the nearest Community Conversion Center."
No, you're not. Not minding the sound is perfectly fine, but I've seen a lot of comments around the Internet insinuating that if you hate the sound of vuvuzelas, then you're a colonial racist who hates South African culture. As opposed to, say, someone who hates sounds that are really fucking annoying.
Still, if the BBC and others are going to start filtering them, we get the best of both worlds. Nothing has to be banned, no ugly racial tensions are stirred, and we can watch the World Cup without being driven halfway to insanity. Count me pleased.
That's "dampers", unless you're talking about devices that make the bridge slightly moist when the ship is subject to acceleration.
"Ow, my hand!"
With this (assuming it works at scale) you can "push" the oil to where you want it to go, meaning that if they deployed large ones on the surface they could gradually "herd" all the oil into one place to be siphoned off... or rather, they could, if BP hadn't injected all those dispersants making it end up god-knows-where.
On Macs, Safari has passed the Acid3 test with smoothness for a while now (in fact, I think they were the first). On Windows it's slower for the same reason iTunes on Windows is unbearably slow: Apple insists on using their frameworks, instead of the native Windows ones, to try and get the Apple look-and-feel. That probably hasn't changed.
You could ask the owner of the local gas station to switch to a new franchise. Most of those places are run like fast-food chains: Joe Citizen signs a multi-year renewable contract with the Company X in which he gets to use their branding, in exchange for buying gasoline from them and forking over some percentage of his revenue. Abandoning the contract early would probably cost the owner a great deal of money, though, and those guys are struggling enough as it is with the wild fluctuation in gas prices (the more it changes, the worse off they are). It would all depend on just how angry he was at BP.
Not pretty, but convincing enough of them to switch would be the real way to harm BP. Just boycotting BP stations is pretty much useless.
This is a joke, right? HTML5 is a W3C standard, and WebKit is an open-source rendering engine with Apple contributing the most development. Get a clue.
And Chrome 5 is a speed demon itself. The difference is only 3 percent, and those are Apple's numbers.
Man I love this relentless focus on browser speed over the past few years. If it keeps up for a little longer, I might even be able to browse Slashdot.
If Tiobe's website is to be believed, the #1 programming language right now is Whitespace.
If you really don't see the difference between a library card and fingerprints, then you are lost.
I really don't see the difference, would you be kind enough to enlighten me? Both can be traced back to you, both can be spoofed, both can be stolen (and the last two are actually harder with fingerprints than library cards).
Your post almost looks like it could be sarcasm*, but you never can tell on this site, so I want to point out that it's not like libraries were havens for privacy before. You could never just walk into a library and anonymously check out a book: you had to have a library card, and the record of everything you've ever checked out was associated with that card, and therefore, with you. The only difference here is that your thumbprint is being substituted for the card.
Move along, folks, nothing to see here but Slashdot sensationalism.
* And if it is, then this post is aimed at the people that modded you Insightful.
By our standards, it's certainly not the most attractive car ever, but you gotta' remember: it was the 70's. Most non-luxury cars from that area, and some of the luxury ones, will set your retinas on fire they're so ugly. For their time, these look pretty good.
Will people please stop with this stupidity? Microsoft isn't releasing IE9 for XP, not out of some evil plan to force you to upgrade, but because XP just doesn't have the technology: IE9 uses the Direct2D and DirectWrite APIs for its hardware acceleration, and these APIs didn't exist until Windows Vista. Writing security patches for an old operating system is one thing, but it's totally unreasonable to expect Microsoft to completely rewrite the graphics layer of a decade-old, non-current OS that will be EOL'd in two years' time.
How useful is this in the long run? What was the burn ratio compared to other scramjet vehicles of recent design?
Are there even any other scramjet vehicles in the operational testing phase? I was under the impression that the X-51, and the other vehicles in the Hyper-X program, are the only ones that've actually flown. Scramjets aren't exactly easy to test in the lab.
There are no Windows fanboys, but there are people who hate OS X and Linux more.
I just wanted to provide a counterargument to the gloom-and-doom scenarios that are probably going to permeate this page: I'm studying for my CS degree at an Ivy League school right now, and the University actually just completed a major overhaul of the requirements for CS, which I think are a major improvement. I know Slashdotters love to complain about how useless college graduates are when they first enter the workplace, but I'm optimistic that I can be at least somewhat handy when I end up getting a job.
The biggest change is that you're now required to declare a concentration, ranging from pretty specific (Database Programming), to very general (Security), there are about fifteen of them and you can create your own with approval from your advisor. This means that everyone is still required to take the theoretical courses (which are useful, no matter what the curmudegons say: I'm a way better programmer than I was before I took algorithms and lambda calculus), but now has time to do tons of practical programming in their field of choice: many of the lecture classes now have 1- or 2-credit electives alongside them which are nothing but semester-long practical projects (for one course in particular, we actually have to find someone not affiliated with the CS department, who needs software written for them, and write it, with our grade dependent on the client's satisfaction- definitely not an academic cookie-cutter project), and in many cases these are now required rather than optional. In addition, while the low-level CS classes (which are taken by all kinds of people across the University, not just CS majors, and so sort of have to be dumbed-down) are junk like PHP and writing Swing GUIs with Java, we have to fight it out with C and Ocaml in many of the more advanced classes.
Again, before a million people complain about how naive I'm being, I'm not saying I'm going to walk out with my degree as a world-class programmer or that I won't have plenty to learn in the real world, I'm just saying that this trend towards easier programming languages and more hand-holding isn't occurring everywhere. And yes, most schools aren't the Ivy League, but if the market demands curricula like this from higher education, it will trickle down. There's hope yet.
It turns out Steve Jobs personally requested that the phone be returned, prompting Gizmodo's Brian Lam to try negotiating for a public acknowledgment that the phone was real.
Let me make sure I understand this: these guys were in possession of stolen property, and they tried to negotiate conditions for its return? Gizmodo, you run a decent gadget blog, but Jesus Christ you need better lawyers. You are about to be one-two punched by the law, and you have no one to blame but yourselves.
Didn't those things have a tendency to go berserk and destroy everything in sight?