Couldn't agree more with parent. I don't even own a cell phone, because it's too little functionality in exchange for someone else having a tether on ME. A (full featured) laptop (of any manufacture) barely makes the grade. And that just happened in the last 3 years or so.
The iPhone doesn't meet my required minimum specs for a mobile phone, which so far no one has been able to achieve. I need to be able to access and duplicate anything I want on my secure VPN at any time, and the security provided on the device should be transparent, not implied. I admit that I'm not the average user, but there you go. but, to get back to parent's bullet points:
1. yes. 2. hell yes. 3. double hell yes. 4. exactly. talk to me when you can give me at least 100Gb storage, given my current storage reqs. 5. hell yes. 6. double hell yes.
Don't whine. The iPhone == "enh" unless you can fix all of the above problems plus make me not hate you for flaming me because you bought an overpriced doorstop for some bizarre reason.
Multitouch? Jeff Han is probably wondering where his iPhone royalties will start arriving. Right?
Everything on my iPod is either 224 or 192kbps VBR mp3s ripped with LAME. I can even tell the difference between that and source and am considering reripping all my CDs to a lossless format, which I am NOT looking forward to, as I have over 1000 CDs.
The 128kbps AAC files from the ITMS don't do it for me. They sound highly compressed and you can occasionally here aural artifacts in the high-end, like flanging in the cymbal washes. It's a lot worse with 128kbps mp3s, for sure, but the quality just isn't high enough for me to even spend a dollar there.
Why... did governments-- those people in *charge* of protecting rights-- never do this?
Laughing out loud at this, quite literally. Governments aren't in charge of protecting rights. That's a lie you've been sold. Governments are purchased and propped up by those with wealth for the purpose of protecting the privileges of same wealthy people.
(feeling very cynical today. my post is myopic but only half-sarcastic, i understand your post was also sarcastic)
Osama bin Laden is a psychopath. But you have a point. His supporters are often wealthy too. They have no reason to envy the US.
Great post, seriously. Let me fix that typo there though:
They have no reason not to envy the US.
All that money and wealth and power and what-not. Anyway, thanks.
The truth is that we are hated for the same reason that we hate Al Qaeda. We are hated just as they are for our crimes against humanity. And those of us who truly love our country have an obligation to try to turn this around.
I don't understand why this is so hard to get across to other Americans. It's as if the phrase "having your family killed by {bombs|bullets}" simply doesn't mean anything.
Can't we all just get along? Sadly, the answer is no: the people pulling the big strings have no vested interest in getting along.:'-(
Yeah, but I think the question we all really want to know is: will this run on one of Apple's new Macs running on an Intel chip running on Windows inside of Wine via Mac OS X's BSD compatibility layer?
Because even though the new Macs haven't been released yet, I just don't know if I can jump on board this Acrylic wagon unless they can promise me that kind of support.
I have my music ordered in nested folders, structured by artist, album then track - eg, I:\MP3s\Coldplay\A Rush Of Blood To The Head\The Scientist.mp3 - which is a far better way of organising my music than relying on any one application.
Umm, this is exactly how iTunes organizes the music inside an iTunes-managed music library.
Well, except for albums imported using iTunes, where the person submitting the CD track names to Gracenote checked 'Compilation' when it was definitely not a compilation. Urg.
Watch this one closely folks, because it gets tricky...
1) Get totally unfounded rumor about Apple switching to Intel posted to major news sites about a month before WWDC.
2) Let rumor mill churn.
3) Right before WWDC, get article posted to cnet about how Apple will jump ship to Intel.
4) Get cnet article posted to slashdot weekend before WWDC.
5) Let rumor mill churn at high speed.
6) Prep Steve Jobs keynote full of buzzwords and bleeding edge technology goodness ready for June 6.
7) Pump rumor mills on Saturday, June 4, with something really outrageous.
8) Have a respected online news source post complete rebuttel of unfounded rumors on June 5.
9) Have the whole frickin' geek world drooling and panting by 9:59 on Monday.
10) Announce something neat at WWDC.
11) PROFIT!!!
This has been a public service announcement.
Fascinating, shocking, all of it, really.
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What I find really amusing about all of this is that clearly from the links others have provided here, the KHTML devs and Apple really aren't terribly concerned about the mechanics of how code is shared (or not) between them. But, the KHTML devs are pissed off at people on Slashdot for claiming that there's a relationship there when there isn't. They share code, but only at the most basic level and there's little-to-no active dialogue between them.
So, someone posts a link to one of the KHTML dev blogs to this effect on slashdot with a flamebait story description. True to form, slashdotters pound out hundreds upon hundreds of comments that are often uninformed, many inflammatory. (We really need to be able to moderate whole stories, this one would definitely get a -1 Flamebait)
Cnet wants to generate a bunch of hits, sees original flamebait story on slashdot, posts their own. This gets linked back to slashdot with another inflammatory story description, and true to form all the Linux and Mac crazies go head to head for several hundred more often uninformed, often inflammatory posts.
All of this while the actual parties involved in fact barely care about what is apparently so important that it generates hundreds of comments on slashdot. And what they do care about is uninformed, inflammatory idiots posting to Slashdot about what they apparently care about.
God, I love this place. Sometimes the irony's so thick it's like being in a bank vault.
Re:Here's a quote from Zack Rusin
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gp is either brilliantly ironic, or totally stupid. maybe both.
IBM has already written their own JVM. But they made the mistake of looking at Sun's source code and signing a license agreement with Sun for said source code. Now they can't write an actually free-as-in-speech one themselves without Sun suing that JVM out of existence for 'contamination' issues and IBM proper for breaking licensing agreements.
So, all they can do now is encourage other people to hurry up and write a free-as-in-speech JVM and, for example, provide financial incentive to that end without actually providing anyone to do the work itself.
We have begun the process of outsourcing your freedom! The stormtroopers will be by shortly to collect any remaining freedoms, so we can send them to a foreign country where it will be cheaper to maintain them. In the meantime, sit tight, don't go anywhere, and please refrain from speaking with other citizens or posting to the Interweb with those blog thingies. Don't like it? Maybe you should have spoken up before the process began, like they did in India. Have a nice day.
However, Justice Ronald Sackville ruled in favour of Mr Stevens after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission intervened in the case. The competition watchdog argued that Sony was using the copy control mechanism to erect artificial trade barriers between Australian consumers and overseas games and DVD markets.
Really? No kidding? It seems to me like erecting trade barriers has been the only use of the DMCA and related copyright legislation's restriction on copy control mechanisms. DVDs and region coding/CSS, Lexmark and printer cartridges, Sony and modchips. Can someone please give me a valid instance of the DMCA's copy control mechanism clauses being invoked in a case that didn't involve keeping a potential competitor out of a specific market?
You forgot about the fight. Are you asking for a fight? Because I think the grandparent poster here wants to fight. And he and Gandhi are right ready to kick your frickin' ass! Are you ready to take on Gandhi and his buddies?
I modded my keyboard to have an optical sensor and, by assigning various keyboard shortcuts, I now have a 101-button mouse. I don't know what I would do without those extra hundred buttons. Even my old 5-button mouse seems puny and worthless in the face of my keymouseboard.
Does anyone know where this was filmed? It's pretty dark and hard to tell, but it looks like this was filmed at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Can anyone confirm this?
(If you read this post very carefully, you'll notice that if you remove all the buzzwords, what remains is hogwash. Literally.)
If the glove don't fit, you must acquit.
Lawyers and marketiers deserve the same slow boat to the deepest circle of hell, in my opinion.
Oh, wait... unless I need one to get me out of trouble or swindle some other fool out of a whole bunch of money on my behalf. In that case, they should get a handsome reward and deserve a holiday in their favorite place of leisure.
Apple didn't have a usable OS until they built it on the excellent FreeBSD kernel.
Well, Mac OS 9 and below weren't very modern, but they were at least usable. Apple didn't have a modern OS until they bought NeXT and it's operating system, NextStep, and turned it into Mac OS X. NextStep had been based on open source software from the beginning, and its crown jewel was a custom RAD toolkit based on Objective-C. The NextStep kernel was based primarily on the Mach microkernel and FreeBSD. Check out the Wikipedia article on NextStep. The application development toolkit lives on today as Cocoa and GnuStep.
Apple's previous attempts at building a new, modern OS themselves failed. See Pink and Copland.
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Couldn't agree more with parent. I don't even own a cell phone, because it's too little functionality in exchange for someone else having a tether on ME. A (full featured) laptop (of any manufacture) barely makes the grade. And that just happened in the last 3 years or so.
The iPhone doesn't meet my required minimum specs for a mobile phone, which so far no one has been able to achieve. I need to be able to access and duplicate anything I want on my secure VPN at any time, and the security provided on the device should be transparent, not implied. I admit that I'm not the average user, but there you go. but, to get back to parent's bullet points:
1. yes.
2. hell yes.
3. double hell yes.
4. exactly. talk to me when you can give me at least 100Gb storage, given my current storage reqs.
5. hell yes.
6. double hell yes.
Don't whine. The iPhone == "enh" unless you can fix all of the above problems plus make me not hate you for flaming me because you bought an overpriced doorstop for some bizarre reason.
Multitouch? Jeff Han is probably wondering where his iPhone royalties will start arriving. Right?
Maybe they meant 'tagging' as in 'graffiti'?
Everything on my iPod is either 224 or 192kbps VBR mp3s ripped with LAME. I can even tell the difference between that and source and am considering reripping all my CDs to a lossless format, which I am NOT looking forward to, as I have over 1000 CDs.
The 128kbps AAC files from the ITMS don't do it for me. They sound highly compressed and you can occasionally here aural artifacts in the high-end, like flanging in the cymbal washes. It's a lot worse with 128kbps mp3s, for sure, but the quality just isn't high enough for me to even spend a dollar there.
Why ... did governments-- those people in *charge* of protecting rights-- never do this?
Laughing out loud at this, quite literally. Governments aren't in charge of protecting rights. That's a lie you've been sold. Governments are purchased and propped up by those with wealth for the purpose of protecting the privileges of same wealthy people.
(feeling very cynical today. my post is myopic but only half-sarcastic, i understand your post was also sarcastic)
Great post, seriously. Let me fix that typo there though:
They have no reason not to envy the US.
All that money and wealth and power and what-not. Anyway, thanks.
I don't understand why this is so hard to get across to other Americans. It's as if the phrase "having your family killed by {bombs|bullets}" simply doesn't mean anything.
Can't we all just get along? Sadly, the answer is no: the people pulling the big strings have no vested interest in getting along.
wow, or you could just let the joke fly right over your head
If you can afford to live in the SF area, can you buy the rest of us some shiny toys?
Methinks you are underestimating the amount of money it takes to actually live in the SF area and have anything left over for buying shiny toys.
Yeah, but I think the question we all really want to know is: will this run on one of Apple's new Macs running on an Intel chip running on Windows inside of Wine via Mac OS X's BSD compatibility layer?
Because even though the new Macs haven't been released yet, I just don't know if I can jump on board this Acrylic wagon unless they can promise me that kind of support.
I have my music ordered in nested folders, structured by artist, album then track - eg, I:\MP3s\Coldplay\A Rush Of Blood To The Head\The Scientist.mp3 - which is a far better way of organising my music than relying on any one application.
Umm, this is exactly how iTunes organizes the music inside an iTunes-managed music library.
Well, except for albums imported using iTunes, where the person submitting the CD track names to Gracenote checked 'Compilation' when it was definitely not a compilation. Urg.
Watch this one closely folks, because it gets tricky...
1) Get totally unfounded rumor about Apple switching to Intel posted to major news sites about a month before WWDC.
2) Let rumor mill churn.
3) Right before WWDC, get article posted to cnet about how Apple will jump ship to Intel.
4) Get cnet article posted to slashdot weekend before WWDC.
5) Let rumor mill churn at high speed.
6) Prep Steve Jobs keynote full of buzzwords and bleeding edge technology goodness ready for June 6.
7) Pump rumor mills on Saturday, June 4, with something really outrageous.
8) Have a respected online news source post complete rebuttel of unfounded rumors on June 5.
9) Have the whole frickin' geek world drooling and panting by 9:59 on Monday.
10) Announce something neat at WWDC.
11) PROFIT!!!
This has been a public service announcement.
What I find really amusing about all of this is that clearly from the links others have provided here, the KHTML devs and Apple really aren't terribly concerned about the mechanics of how code is shared (or not) between them. But, the KHTML devs are pissed off at people on Slashdot for claiming that there's a relationship there when there isn't. They share code, but only at the most basic level and there's little-to-no active dialogue between them.
So, someone posts a link to one of the KHTML dev blogs to this effect on slashdot with a flamebait story description. True to form, slashdotters pound out hundreds upon hundreds of comments that are often uninformed, many inflammatory. (We really need to be able to moderate whole stories, this one would definitely get a -1 Flamebait)
Cnet wants to generate a bunch of hits, sees original flamebait story on slashdot, posts their own. This gets linked back to slashdot with another inflammatory story description, and true to form all the Linux and Mac crazies go head to head for several hundred more often uninformed, often inflammatory posts.
All of this while the actual parties involved in fact barely care about what is apparently so important that it generates hundreds of comments on slashdot. And what they do care about is uninformed, inflammatory idiots posting to Slashdot about what they apparently care about.
God, I love this place. Sometimes the irony's so thick it's like being in a bank vault.
gp is either brilliantly ironic, or totally stupid. maybe both.
IBM has already written their own JVM. But they made the mistake of looking at Sun's source code and signing a license agreement with Sun for said source code. Now they can't write an actually free-as-in-speech one themselves without Sun suing that JVM out of existence for 'contamination' issues and IBM proper for breaking licensing agreements.
So, all they can do now is encourage other people to hurry up and write a free-as-in-speech JVM and, for example, provide financial incentive to that end without actually providing anyone to do the work itself.
We have begun the process of outsourcing your freedom! The stormtroopers will be by shortly to collect any remaining freedoms, so we can send them to a foreign country where it will be cheaper to maintain them. In the meantime, sit tight, don't go anywhere, and please refrain from speaking with other citizens or posting to the Interweb with those blog thingies. Don't like it? Maybe you should have spoken up before the process began, like they did in India. Have a nice day.
Thanks,
The Government
Are you kidding me? People around here seem to love writing jokes in all your base.
From the article:
However, Justice Ronald Sackville ruled in favour of Mr Stevens after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission intervened in the case. The competition watchdog argued that Sony was using the copy control mechanism to erect artificial trade barriers between Australian consumers and overseas games and DVD markets.
Really? No kidding? It seems to me like erecting trade barriers has been the only use of the DMCA and related copyright legislation's restriction on copy control mechanisms. DVDs and region coding/CSS, Lexmark and printer cartridges, Sony and modchips. Can someone please give me a valid instance of the DMCA's copy control mechanism clauses being invoked in a case that didn't involve keeping a potential competitor out of a specific market?
You forgot about the fight. Are you asking for a fight? Because I think the grandparent poster here wants to fight. And he and Gandhi are right ready to kick your frickin' ass! Are you ready to take on Gandhi and his buddies?
Are you? PUNK!?!
Cuz if you are, you're going DOWN. GANDHI style!
yeah!
Sorry, I'm holding out for the WHAT-WJD!
Personally, I'm holding out for the WHAT-TF!?!? Shouldn't be long now...
Microsoft hedgonomy
The word you were looking for is 'hegemony' - but I really like hedgonomy! The science of bushes!
And hey, we can call the current U.S. administration a hedgocracy!
AYBBTU
All Your Bells Belong Together, United?
I modded my keyboard to have an optical sensor and, by assigning various keyboard shortcuts, I now have a 101-button mouse. I don't know what I would do without those extra hundred buttons. Even my old 5-button mouse seems puny and worthless in the face of my keymouseboard.
wow, yeah, i'm an idiot. That would make much more sense, although it does look similar to Davies on the inside. Thanks!
Does anyone know where this was filmed? It's pretty dark and hard to tell, but it looks like this was filmed at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Can anyone confirm this?
(If you read this post very carefully, you'll notice that if you remove all the buzzwords, what remains is hogwash. Literally.)
If the glove don't fit, you must acquit.
Lawyers and marketiers deserve the same slow boat to the deepest circle of hell, in my opinion.
Oh, wait... unless I need one to get me out of trouble or swindle some other fool out of a whole bunch of money on my behalf. In that case, they should get a handsome reward and deserve a holiday in their favorite place of leisure.
Apple didn't have a usable OS until they built it on the excellent FreeBSD kernel.
Well, Mac OS 9 and below weren't very modern, but they were at least usable. Apple didn't have a modern OS until they bought NeXT and it's operating system, NextStep, and turned it into Mac OS X. NextStep had been based on open source software from the beginning, and its crown jewel was a custom RAD toolkit based on Objective-C. The NextStep kernel was based primarily on the Mach microkernel and FreeBSD. Check out the Wikipedia article on NextStep. The application development toolkit lives on today as Cocoa and GnuStep.
Apple's previous attempts at building a new, modern OS themselves failed. See Pink and Copland.