And under the hood it really is just Mac OS X (which is really just BSD)... and XCode is more than happy to do C development. Not difficult at all to port just about anything in. Lack of application level multi-tasking is slightly annoying, but you can multi-thread to your hearts content even to the extent of spawning threads to run what would otherwise be a separate program.
As a developer it is at times slightly challenging, but as a user it's great.
> With the Ipad maybe in 5 years MSFT will make a real windows tablet OS,
Microsoft is fully capable of doing a real phone or tablet OS with a great GUI... but it will not happen in our lifetime as the OS and Office groups will never allow it to happen. It would impact their products and revenue streams far too much or at least that is what they would fear would happen. So they simply won't allow this to be built inside Microsoft.
Apple also wants to have a tablet to make sure that niche is filled with a product from Apple. Even if the iPad doesn't make a lot of money it will help keep competitors getting a toe hold there and then possibly moving down towards the iPhone. Empty niches fill up. It is harder to occupy ones that have a successful incumbent.
About 20000 people die on the roads in North America every year.
Would you be willing to pay (for example) double the current price for new cars that where guaranteed to solve this problem and save about (it appears) 5 people every year?
What exactly do you think the appropriate increase in price should be to save this estimated 5 people a year?
And why are you not worried about the other 19995 people? Shouldn't we be trying to save their lives as well?
We have the current rate of deaths because as a society we have assumed that the cost of driving versus the number of people being killed is acceptable. Agitating about the.025% extra deaths due to a problem that might (or might not) actually exist is just stupid.
Ditto Swift writing Gullivers Travels etc. Political commentary had to be masked behind allegory and satire to avoid prosecution and jail. This was common format. Carroll would have been very aware of the use and construction of satire. It is highly unlikely that Alice is simply a book of nonsense.
No cars currently on the road would get through the review process... And nobody would pay what it would cost to design and test to the same standards.
And you are still far more likely to get killed in a car from just about any other cause. The money spent on any such re-design could be far better spent on any number of other safety issues. Like maybe better driver training and testing.
Ditto.... the only confusing part was realizing that you need to have iTunes installed on your (Windows) laptop to get it to work (so the correct drivers are available.) If your laptop is your main Windows box you probably already have iTunes installed... but if you normally run iTunes elsewhere it can be a bit confusing when it doesn't work.
All one of them.... There is one engineering firm in the world doing them right now... And it is likely they have seen the video. It's not like sliding tracks are popping up in suburbs all over the world.
The Athletes Village owned by and located in downtown Vancouver has nothing to do with Whistler Mountain...
And Whistler Mountain is a going concern... that is being sold be Intrawest who own it and many other places. Intrawest is going bankrupt because of bad investment decisions they made. Whistler Mountain will continue to make money for whoever buys it.
They probably delayed the auction (of Whistler) to after the games to optimize the value for the creditors (of Intrawest.)
It's also possible that Vanoc could have run a profitable set of games if the security costs had gone from the original couple of hundred million to the current (almost) billion... Which makes security about the highest value item in the entire Vanoc budget.
Insurance insures against a losses as specified in the policy.
Warranties and extended warranties only cover problems related to the manufacturing of the product.
When buying either insurance or an extended warranty you need to know three percentages. First the commission paid (which can be to the sales agent or to the store), second the administrative overhead for servicing claims, and finally how much of what you pay goes to actually covering actual losses.
At one end of the spectrum you have (for example) fixed term life which has a low commission, low overhead and thus a high amount of your premium gets used to fund losses (can be as high as 70-80%).
At the other end are things like flight insurance. Over half the premium is sucked up as sales commission and another large amount for administration. Very little of your premium gets used to pay any losses (can be as low as 20-30%).
The former is a great deal. The latter not so much.
Most extended warranties fall closer to the latter. Its just another way for the vendor to increase his margins.
You can find stores that do have good plans. My current iPhone has a $60 extended warranty that I actually paid three years earlier when I bought a different phone. There where no claims so they just refunded the original $60 and applied it to the new phone.
The other side of the extended warranty is that while you tend to think of the current cost of things when buying the item. The replacement cost may be far lower when you actually need it. This is especially true for electronics. That $500 phone may only cost $200 to replace two years from now. And normally they will only replace with equivalent models not the latest and greatest.
Some physicians, some scientists, AND some programmers do plan or hope to move up into administration.
Alternately in all of the above examples some people do not want to advance.
The problem arises when you have someone who is competent at what they do getting promoted to a position where they are not competent (also known as the Peter Principle).
The new distro will be a "splice here" to get you running a pre-started system. You simply won't need startup scripts as you will never actually reboot. Just keep running the one you started. If your hardware crashes just restart at synchronization point and off you go, either with the same or new hardware. The people building the initial builds (i.e. running system with default services) have to worry about getting them started, but after deployment it won't (shouldn't) be necessary.
Had a ride in a Bell Jet Ranger last summer. It had a Garmin GPS stuck on top of the rest of the built in avionics, on the dash so to speak. It was an aviation rated version though... but apparently still a lot cheaper than trying to buy an official upgrade.
The school can issue up to 100 deployment certs good for three months at a time if it gets a $99/year license. That should be enough for a couple of classes of kids and their iPhones / iPods.
Love him or hate, Bill doesn't care what you think.
But Gates has committed to getting rid of his fortune IN HIS LIFETIME. The B&M Gates Foundation will not continue forever. It is setup to ensure that all the money (at this point BGates personal fortune, plus $10B from Buffet) is spent quickly under the control and direction of Bill and Malinda Gates. Buffet gave them $10B because he thought they would be able to spend it on more worthwhile things than he (Buffet) could without doing the same amount of work (Buffet still runs various companies, Bill doesn't.)
Which is actually part of the problem. not withstanding the complete lack of understanding by the person who thinks we ARE raping the third world for all their food...
Most of the Western world has huge tariff barriers to protect local farmers making it difficult for third world farmers to sell their crops into our markets (and thereby make a living.)
It's probable that today's kids will be the last generation that needs to learn to drive. It will be optional for their kids. And it won't be allowed for their grand-children (except perhaps for private roads and tracks.)
Yes, all iPhones and iTouches will forever more be stuck at 3.1... there will never, ever, be another, upgrade to the iPhone OS... in fact they just forget to mention that it is now called iPad OS 3.2.. probably they are going to actually going to drop the current iPhone and iTouch product lines completely.
Or we can assume that at some point 3.2 will move from Beta to official and be released as an upgrade to iPhones and iTouches. And at that point we'll have all the new features there.
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> Between CoreData, and Interface Builder
And under the hood it really is just Mac OS X (which is really just BSD)... and XCode is more than happy to do C development. Not difficult at all to port just about anything in. Lack of application level multi-tasking is slightly annoying, but you can multi-thread to your hearts content even to the extent of spawning threads to run what would otherwise be a separate program.
As a developer it is at times slightly challenging, but as a user it's great.
> With the Ipad maybe in 5 years MSFT will make a real windows tablet OS,
Microsoft is fully capable of doing a real phone or tablet OS with a great GUI... but it will not happen in our lifetime as the OS and Office groups will never allow it to happen. It would impact their products and revenue streams far too much or at least that is what they would fear would happen. So they simply won't allow this to be built inside Microsoft.
> And to top it off, you paid a huge premium for a machine that's less powerful than a similarly sized notebook/laptop.
Which in turn is/was less powerful than a similarly priced desktop.
Apple also wants to have a tablet to make sure that niche is filled with a product from Apple. Even if the iPad doesn't make a lot of money it will help keep competitors getting a toe hold there and then possibly moving down towards the iPhone. Empty niches fill up. It is harder to occupy ones that have a successful incumbent.
About 20000 people die on the roads in North America every year.
Would you be willing to pay (for example) double the current price for new cars that where guaranteed to solve this problem and save about (it appears) 5 people every year?
What exactly do you think the appropriate increase in price should be to save this estimated 5 people a year?
And why are you not worried about the other 19995 people? Shouldn't we be trying to save their lives as well?
We have the current rate of deaths because as a society we have assumed that the cost of driving versus the number of people being killed is acceptable. Agitating about the .025% extra deaths due to a problem that might (or might not) actually exist is just stupid.
Ditto Swift writing Gullivers Travels etc. Political commentary had to be masked behind allegory and satire to avoid prosecution and jail. This was common format. Carroll would have been very aware of the use and construction of satire. It is highly unlikely that Alice is simply a book of nonsense.
Hmmm I wonder if over time we'll see less "experienced" drivers on the road due to Darwinian selection weeding them out.
Alan Turing is rolling in his grave and Donald Knuth is waiting for your phone call to explain how you have solved the Halting Problem.
Its not complicated. But accidental use of same would probably kill more people every year than not having it.
What does a car need computing power for? Fuel economy for one.
No cars currently on the road would get through the review process... And nobody would pay what it would cost to design and test to the same standards.
And you are still far more likely to get killed in a car from just about any other cause. The money spent on any such re-design could be far better spent on any number of other safety issues. Like maybe better driver training and testing.
Ditto.... the only confusing part was realizing that you need to have iTunes installed on your (Windows) laptop to get it to work (so the correct drivers are available.) If your laptop is your main Windows box you probably already have iTunes installed... but if you normally run iTunes elsewhere it can be a bit confusing when it doesn't work.
And other lugers complained vehemently when the course was shortened (men using the womens start, women using the juniors start.)
It was an accident. And weird things can happen when you fall off things at those speeds.
All one of them.... There is one engineering firm in the world doing them right now... And it is likely they have seen the video. It's not like sliding tracks are popping up in suburbs all over the world.
The Athletes Village owned by and located in downtown Vancouver has nothing to do with Whistler Mountain...
And Whistler Mountain is a going concern... that is being sold be Intrawest who own it and many other places. Intrawest is going bankrupt because of bad investment decisions they made. Whistler Mountain will continue to make money for whoever buys it.
They probably delayed the auction (of Whistler) to after the games to optimize the value for the creditors (of Intrawest.)
It's also possible that Vanoc could have run a profitable set of games if the security costs had gone from the original couple of hundred million to the current (almost) billion... Which makes security about the highest value item in the entire Vanoc budget.
Insurance insures against a losses as specified in the policy.
Warranties and extended warranties only cover problems related to the manufacturing of the product.
When buying either insurance or an extended warranty you need to know three percentages. First the commission paid (which can be to the sales agent or to the store), second the administrative overhead for servicing claims, and finally how much of what you pay goes to actually covering actual losses.
At one end of the spectrum you have (for example) fixed term life which has a low commission, low overhead and thus a high amount of your premium gets used to fund losses (can be as high as 70-80%).
At the other end are things like flight insurance. Over half the premium is sucked up as sales commission and another large amount for administration. Very little of your premium gets used to pay any losses (can be as low as 20-30%).
The former is a great deal. The latter not so much.
Most extended warranties fall closer to the latter. Its just another way for the vendor to increase his margins.
You can find stores that do have good plans. My current iPhone has a $60 extended warranty that I actually paid three years earlier when I bought a different phone. There where no claims so they just refunded the original $60 and applied it to the new phone.
The other side of the extended warranty is that while you tend to think of the current cost of things when buying the item. The replacement cost may be far lower when you actually need it. This is especially true for electronics. That $500 phone may only cost $200 to replace two years from now. And normally they will only replace with equivalent models not the latest and greatest.
Some physicians, some scientists, AND some programmers do plan or hope to move up into administration.
Alternately in all of the above examples some people do not want to advance.
The problem arises when you have someone who is competent at what they do getting promoted to a position where they are not competent (also known as the Peter Principle).
The new distro will be a "splice here" to get you running a pre-started system. You simply won't need startup scripts as you will never actually reboot. Just keep running the one you started. If your hardware crashes just restart at synchronization point and off you go, either with the same or new hardware. The people building the initial builds (i.e. running system with default services) have to worry about getting them started, but after deployment it won't (shouldn't) be necessary.
Had a ride in a Bell Jet Ranger last summer. It had a Garmin GPS stuck on top of the rest of the built in avionics, on the dash so to speak. It was an aviation rated version though... but apparently still a lot cheaper than trying to buy an official upgrade.
Not quite as unusual as you might think... Google "dog electrocuted street lamp" for 17100 hits...
Quite the hazard in Brooklyn and other places.
Actually that should read "a lot to loose by opening the platform completely" and "very little to gain by opening the platform completely".
It is very easy for them to open some things up if they determine it is safe and desirable. But almost impossible to take them away once they have.
So I suspect we will see things get better but only slowly. Until then the best we can do is mutter under our breath and live within the restrictions.
The school can issue up to 100 deployment certs good for three months at a time if it gets a $99/year license. That should be enough for a couple of classes of kids and their iPhones / iPods.
Love him or hate, Bill doesn't care what you think.
But Gates has committed to getting rid of his fortune IN HIS LIFETIME. The B&M Gates Foundation will not continue forever. It is setup to ensure that all the money (at this point BGates personal fortune, plus $10B from Buffet) is spent quickly under the control and direction of Bill and Malinda Gates. Buffet gave them $10B because he thought they would be able to spend it on more worthwhile things than he (Buffet) could without doing the same amount of work (Buffet still runs various companies, Bill doesn't.)
Which is actually part of the problem. not withstanding the complete lack of understanding by the person who thinks we ARE raping the third world for all their food...
Most of the Western world has huge tariff barriers to protect local farmers making it difficult for third world farmers to sell their crops into our markets (and thereby make a living.)
This has been referenced before in slashdot... Brad Templeton has a great site discussing robocars: http://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/
It's probable that today's kids will be the last generation that needs to learn to drive. It will be optional for their kids. And it won't be allowed for their grand-children (except perhaps for private roads and tracks.)
Yes, all iPhones and iTouches will forever more be stuck at 3.1... there will never, ever, be another, upgrade to the iPhone OS... in fact they just forget to mention that it is now called iPad OS 3.2.. probably they are going to actually going to drop the current iPhone and iTouch product lines completely.
Or we can assume that at some point 3.2 will move from Beta to official and be released as an upgrade to iPhones and iTouches. And at that point we'll have all the new features there.
Your pick. Feel free. Enjoy.