If we look at the closest existing Android phone to the iPhone 3G, it lost Cyanogen support around the same time Apple dropped the iPhone 3G. The G1 lost "official" support far earlier, at Android 1.6. Look at my link in the post you replied to about what versions people are actually running in their Android phones. The number that are stuck on 2.1 is a little lame. The glut held back to 2.2 is a flat-out embarrassment. I'd one to see a counter-argument supported with facts, but as far as I can see, Android users can rely on being abandoned by the OEM within two years of release in most (all?) cases. Apple, on the other hand, has supported a given phone for at least three years from release.
Some people need to have their hand held when using gadgets. Those people need Apple to hold them close and assure them that as long as the money flows all will be okay and Apple will protect them from the big bad world out there.
Could you be a more condescending twat? I can hear the arrogance over here.
What I find funniest about your statement is the idea "as long as the money flows...Apple will protect" you, implying that Android is the key to having software support for a much longer period of time. In reality, many Android device manufacturers have seen fit to stop releasing software updates as soon as the stop selling the hardware. It's a huge factor in the crazy-wide distribution of version numbers in use. And Cyanogen doesn't really count; if you're going to run the Android equivalent of jailbreak apps you need to be intellectually honest.
if I am in an FPS, I want an axis for forward/back motion, an axis for side-to-side motion, an axis for left/right turning, and an axis for up/down look control. Four axes = two sticks, easily controlled with two thumbs and leaving the fingers free for triggers.
I haven't really dug into any of the Wii FPSes, so this is based on what "could be," not necessarily "what is." But couldn't the two axes on the nunchuk thumbstick combined with the two axes of pointing control on the wiimote provide exactly what you're asking for?
Session management? Ok, fine. I will totally give you that one. Auto-saving and tracking of current documents, along with version management? What distro supports that, again?
You clearly don't understand what you're commenting on. There's no shame in that, but you have to know that people that have direct experience with the feature may have a bit better insight. For example, AirDrop. It allows a person to quickly set up an ad-hoc drop box with anyone else within WiFi range. There is no configuration required; in fact, you don't even need to be on the same network. The file manager (Finder) sets up a session directly with the WiFi (AirPort) hardware and broadcasts availability. Sans-"network."
You go on to state that this is stuff you could do on "free platforms" "10 years ago." I don't know how short your memory is, but to attribute the word "automatic" to ANY Free Software feature and/or product from fifteen years ago is delusional. We're only recently getting decent automatic X11 configuration. If there is some Free project that can accomplish anything close to AirDrop it's new to me. Note that I'm not saying it doesn't exist or that it's a lie.
Because I realize that stating things as fact when I don't in fact know their factual status is a total dick move.
What's fun about that is that it was a very bad idea in earlier versions od Mac OS X, but as of late is (usually) a non-issue. The Apple-provided packages and Installer are smart enough to relocate most things based on the bundle identifier, meaning that things will get updated without issue. This was definitely a problem in earlier versions of OS X but since about 10.4 or so it's worked as you might expect. It's still a bad idea to move applications around, as other users may not be able to access them, but it should not prevent updates from running properly.
Or it could mean that you don't know how the "multitasking" API works. In short, most applications are suspended when in the background. Only certain pre-determined classes of applications are allowed to continue operating in the background, and when their background functionality is not in use (e.g. Pandora stops playing music) the app is suspended like any other. As such, most apps that may technically still be running are only using RAM but no other system resources.
The sync of meta-info allows all sorts of extra functionality. First of all, people that say "I'll just put it into folders" are rather silly. You're totally disregarding all sorts of really useful metadata.
Playlists generated on the computer - or generated on the portable device - that sync both ways. Play counts and ratings, which feed into dynamic, rule-based playlists. The ability to quickly establish "sets" that synchronize, that include multiple artists, albums, etc, while still maintaining easy access to an alphabetical list of artists. Or albums. Or genres.
It's like somebody trying to manually manage all of their photographs. Works great for 100. Works somewhat alright for 1,000. Totally unworkable with 10,000. It becomes more and more work, which is what computers are supposed to do, right? What Picasa/iPhoto are to photos, iTunes/(insert media player here) are to music. They allow you not just to use your music but to manage it. Let the computer do the work.
Except you're wrong. Memtest86 is largely assembly, based on the (2.2?) Linux kernel. It requires no OS and handles all hardware access on its own. Memtest OS X is a userspace app that one runs from the command line. As it is a "fat binary" that runs on PPC as well as x86, and was around before there even were Intel Macs, I rather doubt it was based on Memtest86 at all. They just happen to share similar names.
Before you drag someon'e name through the mud, please know what you're talking about.
How long is an average call? I'll admit ignorance, and wildly guess it's around 5 minutes. Let's also say setup and tear-down of a call take around 5 seconds each - I'm fairly sure that is generous. So that's a 30:1 ratio of voice traffic to paging data for calls. Dedicating even 4 of the 8 paging channels to voice calls should be sufficient to handle peak demand for 60 voice channels.
As such, there are 4 paging channels left for other data. Add to that the fact that SMS does not need to be real-time and in fact could be intelligently throttled (delaying transmission of one message will most likely delay any replying message) to ease congestion with little to no degradation of service availability. Surely these companies are familiar with the concept of QoS?
Now that you've gotten an under-informed but logical reply, drop some more science on me.
Yeah, I was going to comment - it was the branded Pentium IIIs that had such large caches, but the Celerons made up for it by keeping their lesser caches so close to the core.
Exactly. I've got a "4th generation" Aluminum PowerBook G4. It's excellent. Without a doubt, the best and most finely-honed of the Al PBG4 series - and 2 months after I bought, the MacBook Pro was introduced. The thinner, many-times-as-fast, future-proofed Intel model came out almost as soon as the PPC was perfected. The presence of the MacBook Pro doesn't make my computer any less powerful or capable. Welcome to the world of technology.
Buy what you need when you need it. Any other advice is bad advice.
That said, there are many *many* stable democracies throughout the world that survive and prosper in the absence of corruption...the US included.
Ever heard of "checks and balances?" It's a system to prevent corruption. When any one person has too much power, that entity will exert power in bad ways. I challenge you to show me a stable, fair government that didn't account for corruption in its creation.
I'm not so quick to count Microsoft out. They're not a small, nimble organization, but neither is Mozilla, really. FireFox has a 15+ month lead on passing the test, and still doesn't have production code in the public's hands. It's still not done. I guess it may be a personal failing, but I see it as a piece of boolean logic: does the cirrent version of CompanyName WebBrowser pass Acid2? By that rule, both browsers are quite a bit behind their compatriots. If we're really lucky, Safari will pass Acid3 before IE and/or FF support Acid2. =)
I just want to the Acid2 test in OmniWeb 5.6, FireFox 2.0.0.12, and Safari 3.0.4, all the current stable releases of the browsers I have installed. Only FireFox failed. What good is it to "pass" the test if you don't continue with regression testing to make sure that future versions pass, too? Exactly what version of FireFox did pass Acid2? If "public" versions over a year ago worked, why doesn't the current release version?
I find it very likely that WebKit is going to be every bit as much an agent for change as Gecko has been.
I've decided to modify the script a bit and annoy a co-worker. His download folder shall be more secure than ever! on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving addedItems
repeat with anItem in addedItems
tell application "Finder"
set moveTheItem to false
if not (the folder "quarantine" of home exists) then
try
make new folder at home with properties {name:"quarantine"}
end try
end if
set alert1 to display dialog "Are you sure you want to proceed with this potentially harmful action?" with icon stop with title "Windows Vista Security" buttons ["Allow", "Deny"] default button (random number (1)) + 1
if button returned of alert1 is "Deny" then
set moveTheItem to true
else
set alert2 to display alert "Are you not sure you don't not want to do this?" message "I only ask in the name of security." as warning buttons ["No, I'm sure.", "Yes, I'm not sure."] default button (random number (1)) + 1
if button returned of alert2 is "Yes, I'm not sure." then
set moveTheItem to true
end if
end if
if moveTheItem is true then
display alert "Good." message "I will protect you from this danger." as informational buttons "Thanks" default button 1
move anItem to folder "quarantine" of home
else
display alert "Well okay then, know-it-all." message "Don't blame me if your computer gets hacked." as warning buttons "Okay" default button 1
end if
end tell
end repeat end adding folder items to If you have any suggestions to improve it, I'm all ears.
...except those commands will silently fail. The spaces need to be escaped with backslashes, or the entire file path needs to be in quotes. Getting rid of the.plist may be enough to disable Application Enhancer, but it's not getting rid of the entire haxie. fsck -fy / mount -uw / rm -rf/Library/Preference\ Panes/Application\ Enhancer.prefpane rm -rf/Library/Frameworks/Application\ Enhancer.framework rm -rf/System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Application\ Enhancer.bundle rm/Library/Preferences/com.unsanity.ape.plist exit
Like that.
Bonus tip for shell newbies: The default shell in Mac OS X supports tab-completion. For one of those "rm" commands, start typing "rm -rf/L<tab>" and see what you get. If there's only one valid file/directory, the tab key will fill it in for you. It can really cut down on number of keypresses and chance for error. Type a letter or two, hit tab, type the next letter or two, hit tab, until you have your full command. Magic!
Another key metric for portables is the size and weight.
ThinkPad T61p: 14.1 x 10.0 x 1.4 inches 6.2 pounds
MacBook Pro: 14.1 x 9.6 x 1.0 inches 5.4 pounds
That's around 2/3 the thickness, a little shallower, and nearly a pound lighter. If you can't acknowledge that's worth a premium, explain the pricing of subnotebooks to me.
(No, not the "you" to whom I am replying, but "you" the reader.)
If Apple were still releasing Mac OS X at the rate it were four years back, that might be a valid critique. As it stands now, this release is almost exactly 30 months after the previous release - Tiger (10.4) in April of 2005. The release cycle of Mac OS X has been gradually slowing down as the platform matures.
10.0 - March 2001 - $129 10.1 - September 2001 - free 10.2 - August 2002 - $129 10.3 - October 2003 - $129 10.4 - April 2005 - $129 10.5 - October 2007 - $129
So, yes, if you purchased every version of OS X released you'd have spent a bit more. At the same time, there's an undeniable trend in the length of time between upgrades. They're getting farther in-between, which pushes the cost-per-year down quite a bit.
"With the creation of this new service, we are acknowledging that now, more than ever, viewers want to be in control of how, when and where they consume their favorite entertainment,"...
Commercials will be embedded in the programs and viewers will not be able to skip through them.
That's not really the important part; ads are a necessary evil of broadcast media. Gots to pay the bills somehow, after all.
What really stuck out to me about "...viewers want to be in control of how, when and where..." was that very few consumers want to watch video sitting at their desk, within a week of original airing. I want to watch the shows on my couch, on my TV, in my underwear. Or on the subway, on my iPod. Or even on my Mac. NBC isn't addressing these desires at all.
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If we look at the closest existing Android phone to the iPhone 3G, it lost Cyanogen support around the same time Apple dropped the iPhone 3G. The G1 lost "official" support far earlier, at Android 1.6. Look at my link in the post you replied to about what versions people are actually running in their Android phones. The number that are stuck on 2.1 is a little lame. The glut held back to 2.2 is a flat-out embarrassment. I'd one to see a counter-argument supported with facts, but as far as I can see, Android users can rely on being abandoned by the OEM within two years of release in most (all?) cases. Apple, on the other hand, has supported a given phone for at least three years from release.
Some people need to have their hand held when using gadgets. Those people need Apple to hold them close and assure them that as long as the money flows all will be okay and Apple will protect them from the big bad world out there.
Could you be a more condescending twat? I can hear the arrogance over here.
What I find funniest about your statement is the idea "as long as the money flows...Apple will protect" you, implying that Android is the key to having software support for a much longer period of time. In reality, many Android device manufacturers have seen fit to stop releasing software updates as soon as the stop selling the hardware. It's a huge factor in the crazy-wide distribution of version numbers in use. And Cyanogen doesn't really count; if you're going to run the Android equivalent of jailbreak apps you need to be intellectually honest.
if I am in an FPS, I want an axis for forward/back motion, an axis for side-to-side motion, an axis for left/right turning, and an axis for up/down look control. Four axes = two sticks, easily controlled with two thumbs and leaving the fingers free for triggers.
I haven't really dug into any of the Wii FPSes, so this is based on what "could be," not necessarily "what is." But couldn't the two axes on the nunchuk thumbstick combined with the two axes of pointing control on the wiimote provide exactly what you're asking for?
Session management? Ok, fine. I will totally give you that one. Auto-saving and tracking of current documents, along with version management? What distro supports that, again?
You clearly don't understand what you're commenting on. There's no shame in that, but you have to know that people that have direct experience with the feature may have a bit better insight. For example, AirDrop. It allows a person to quickly set up an ad-hoc drop box with anyone else within WiFi range. There is no configuration required; in fact, you don't even need to be on the same network. The file manager (Finder) sets up a session directly with the WiFi (AirPort) hardware and broadcasts availability. Sans-"network."
You go on to state that this is stuff you could do on "free platforms" "10 years ago." I don't know how short your memory is, but to attribute the word "automatic" to ANY Free Software feature and/or product from fifteen years ago is delusional. We're only recently getting decent automatic X11 configuration. If there is some Free project that can accomplish anything close to AirDrop it's new to me. Note that I'm not saying it doesn't exist or that it's a lie.
Because I realize that stating things as fact when I don't in fact know their factual status is a total dick move.
What's fun about that is that it was a very bad idea in earlier versions od Mac OS X, but as of late is (usually) a non-issue. The Apple-provided packages and Installer are smart enough to relocate most things based on the bundle identifier, meaning that things will get updated without issue. This was definitely a problem in earlier versions of OS X but since about 10.4 or so it's worked as you might expect. It's still a bad idea to move applications around, as other users may not be able to access them, but it should not prevent updates from running properly.
Or it could mean that you don't know how the "multitasking" API works. In short, most applications are suspended when in the background. Only certain pre-determined classes of applications are allowed to continue operating in the background, and when their background functionality is not in use (e.g. Pandora stops playing music) the app is suspended like any other. As such, most apps that may technically still be running are only using RAM but no other system resources.
Not only that, but it's not supported by Apple as of Snow Leopard. The Snow Leopard installer explicitly disallows use on a case-sensitive filesystem.
The sync of meta-info allows all sorts of extra functionality. First of all, people that say "I'll just put it into folders" are rather silly. You're totally disregarding all sorts of really useful metadata.
Playlists generated on the computer - or generated on the portable device - that sync both ways. Play counts and ratings, which feed into dynamic, rule-based playlists. The ability to quickly establish "sets" that synchronize, that include multiple artists, albums, etc, while still maintaining easy access to an alphabetical list of artists. Or albums. Or genres.
It's like somebody trying to manually manage all of their photographs. Works great for 100. Works somewhat alright for 1,000. Totally unworkable with 10,000. It becomes more and more work, which is what computers are supposed to do, right? What Picasa/iPhoto are to photos, iTunes/(insert media player here) are to music. They allow you not just to use your music but to manage it. Let the computer do the work.
Except you're wrong. Memtest86 is largely assembly, based on the (2.2?) Linux kernel. It requires no OS and handles all hardware access on its own. Memtest OS X is a userspace app that one runs from the command line. As it is a "fat binary" that runs on PPC as well as x86, and was around before there even were Intel Macs, I rather doubt it was based on Memtest86 at all. They just happen to share similar names.
Before you drag someon'e name through the mud, please know what you're talking about.
He was talking about a Ford Fusion, not Focus.
How long is an average call? I'll admit ignorance, and wildly guess it's around 5 minutes. Let's also say setup and tear-down of a call take around 5 seconds each - I'm fairly sure that is generous. So that's a 30:1 ratio of voice traffic to paging data for calls. Dedicating even 4 of the 8 paging channels to voice calls should be sufficient to handle peak demand for 60 voice channels.
As such, there are 4 paging channels left for other data. Add to that the fact that SMS does not need to be real-time and in fact could be intelligently throttled (delaying transmission of one message will most likely delay any replying message) to ease congestion with little to no degradation of service availability. Surely these companies are familiar with the concept of QoS?
Now that you've gotten an under-informed but logical reply, drop some more science on me.
Yeah, I was going to comment - it was the branded Pentium IIIs that had such large caches, but the Celerons made up for it by keeping their lesser caches so close to the core.
Exactly. I've got a "4th generation" Aluminum PowerBook G4. It's excellent. Without a doubt, the best and most finely-honed of the Al PBG4 series - and 2 months after I bought, the MacBook Pro was introduced. The thinner, many-times-as-fast, future-proofed Intel model came out almost as soon as the PPC was perfected. The presence of the MacBook Pro doesn't make my computer any less powerful or capable. Welcome to the world of technology.
Buy what you need when you need it. Any other advice is bad advice.
OK, it sounds like "anonymous" is just a really poor spelling of "asshole".
So... now we return to the important task of finding this "Anonymous."
I've got two hands, a map and a flashlight. Let's go!
That said, there are many *many* stable democracies throughout the world that survive and prosper in the absence of corruption...the US included.
Ever heard of "checks and balances?" It's a system to prevent corruption. When any one person has too much power, that entity will exert power in bad ways. I challenge you to show me a stable, fair government that didn't account for corruption in its creation.
I know that "leet" is a hard-to-define grammar, but I believe you said:
"Please geve us root mieeile lenches!"
In the future, it may be best to keep in mind that "3" isn't a wildcard. =)
I'm not so quick to count Microsoft out. They're not a small, nimble organization, but neither is Mozilla, really. FireFox has a 15+ month lead on passing the test, and still doesn't have production code in the public's hands. It's still not done. I guess it may be a personal failing, but I see it as a piece of boolean logic: does the cirrent version of CompanyName WebBrowser pass Acid2? By that rule, both browsers are quite a bit behind their compatriots. If we're really lucky, Safari will pass Acid3 before IE and/or FF support Acid2. =)
I just want to the Acid2 test in OmniWeb 5.6, FireFox 2.0.0.12, and Safari 3.0.4, all the current stable releases of the browsers I have installed. Only FireFox failed. What good is it to "pass" the test if you don't continue with regression testing to make sure that future versions pass, too? Exactly what version of FireFox did pass Acid2? If "public" versions over a year ago worked, why doesn't the current release version?
I find it very likely that WebKit is going to be every bit as much an agent for change as Gecko has been.
I've always referred to it as "metric pantload" - but I'm an American. Metric's not my strong point.
I've decided to modify the script a bit and annoy a co-worker. His download folder shall be more secure than ever!
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving addedItems
repeat with anItem in addedItems
tell application "Finder"
set moveTheItem to false
if not (the folder "quarantine" of home exists) then
try
make new folder at home with properties {name:"quarantine"}
end try
end if
set alert1 to display dialog "Are you sure you want to proceed with this potentially harmful action?" with icon stop with title "Windows Vista Security" buttons ["Allow", "Deny"] default button (random number (1)) + 1
if button returned of alert1 is "Deny" then
set moveTheItem to true
else
set alert2 to display alert "Are you not sure you don't not want to do this?" message "I only ask in the name of security." as warning buttons ["No, I'm sure.", "Yes, I'm not sure."] default button (random number (1)) + 1
if button returned of alert2 is "Yes, I'm not sure." then
set moveTheItem to true
end if
end if
if moveTheItem is true then
display alert "Good." message "I will protect you from this danger." as informational buttons "Thanks" default button 1
move anItem to folder "quarantine" of home
else
display alert "Well okay then, know-it-all." message "Don't blame me if your computer gets hacked." as warning buttons "Okay" default button 1
end if
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to
If you have any suggestions to improve it, I'm all ears.
...except those commands will silently fail. The spaces need to be escaped with backslashes, or the entire file path needs to be in quotes. Getting rid of the .plist may be enough to disable Application Enhancer, but it's not getting rid of the entire haxie.
/Library/Preference\ Panes/Application\ Enhancer.prefpane /Library/Frameworks/Application\ Enhancer.framework /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Application\ Enhancer.bundle /Library/Preferences/com.unsanity.ape.plist
/L<tab>" and see what you get. If there's only one valid file/directory, the tab key will fill it in for you. It can really cut down on number of keypresses and chance for error. Type a letter or two, hit tab, type the next letter or two, hit tab, until you have your full command. Magic!
fsck -fy /
mount -uw /
rm -rf
rm -rf
rm -rf
rm
exit
Like that.
Bonus tip for shell newbies:
The default shell in Mac OS X supports tab-completion. For one of those "rm" commands, start typing "rm -rf
Another key metric for portables is the size and weight.
ThinkPad T61p:
14.1 x 10.0 x 1.4 inches
6.2 pounds
MacBook Pro:
14.1 x 9.6 x 1.0 inches
5.4 pounds
That's around 2/3 the thickness, a little shallower, and nearly a pound lighter. If you can't acknowledge that's worth a premium, explain the pricing of subnotebooks to me.
(No, not the "you" to whom I am replying, but "you" the reader.)
If Apple were still releasing Mac OS X at the rate it were four years back, that might be a valid critique. As it stands now, this release is almost exactly 30 months after the previous release - Tiger (10.4) in April of 2005. The release cycle of Mac OS X has been gradually slowing down as the platform matures.
10.0 - March 2001 - $129
10.1 - September 2001 - free
10.2 - August 2002 - $129
10.3 - October 2003 - $129
10.4 - April 2005 - $129
10.5 - October 2007 - $129
So, yes, if you purchased every version of OS X released you'd have spent a bit more. At the same time, there's an undeniable trend in the length of time between upgrades. They're getting farther in-between, which pushes the cost-per-year down quite a bit.
That's not really the important part; ads are a necessary evil of broadcast media. Gots to pay the bills somehow, after all.
What really stuck out to me about "...viewers want to be in control of how, when and where..." was that very few consumers want to watch video sitting at their desk, within a week of original airing. I want to watch the shows on my couch, on my TV, in my underwear. Or on the subway, on my iPod. Or even on my Mac. NBC isn't addressing these desires at all.