I wish. I live in a large city area where a low budget means that the whole district has to use a small number of buses, so school start times are staggered, as early as 7:15 am. So on top of what you point out, kids are walking to school and it's still dark. Every couple of years it flip-flops between the lower grades starting early (high schoolers aren't getting enough sleep!) and the upper grades (little kids are walking in the dark!) Fan-freaking-tabulous.
Yeah. Sounds really useful. They support MOST of a SEVEN YEAR OLD VERSION. Woo hoo, sign me up!
And by the way, who's to say that Gnash is free of bugs and/or exploitable holes? One problem with re-implementing something is that you're likely to (and sometimes need to) reproduces the original, bug for bug and flaw for flaw. Just ask the WINE guys.
... this makes me very wary of buying a device where all apps, and the OS/UI itself are written in Adobe AIR (which is pretty much Flash.) So when a vulnerability comes along you... what... quit using the whole device? I'm sure that will go over really well with the large businesses that are BlackBerry's intended customers. And for those who think I'm hyperbolizing, watch the video and listen close--the head of RIM says (at the 2:20 mark) "what we've done is... really embed AIR right into 'the metal' and the operating system." By "metal" I think he means "as low-level as we possibly could."
Wait, scratch that... large businesses have been buying Windows for two decades, so never mind me. I be this thing will fly off the shelves. Hmm, maybe I should write an antivirus app in Flash so it can run on a PlayBook.:-)
"sitting inside one"--nice. Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes:
As a Delta Air Lines jet was flying over Arizona on a clear day, the copilot was providing his passengers with a running commentary about landmarks over the PA system.
"Coming up on the right, you can see the Meteor Crater, which is a major tourist attraction in northern Arizona. It was formed when a lump of nickel and iron, roughly 150 feet in diameter and weighing 300,000 tons struck the earth at about 40,000 miles an hour, scattering white-hot debris for miles in every direction. The hole measures nearly a mile across and is 570 feet deep."
From the cabin, a blonde passenger was heard to exclaim, "Wow! It just missed the highway!"
"... flustered employees -- unable to sort through a pile of information fast enough -- end up submitting work that's substandard. Almost three quarters of the survey's respondents declared their work has suffered as a result."
-- but they filled out the survey without any problems?
>> Because somehow the "jailbreak" vernacular has replaced every instance of "hacking"
> It's a way to make it sound more evil.
No, I'm pretty sure the name's origins are strictly technical as it involves breaking out of a chroot jail. Right? If anyone knows for sure, please reply.
80%-90% of the time I was able to buy used textbooks in the first place (about 1/3 off) and sell them back at the end of the term for 1/2. So a book might cost $60 new, I'd buy it for about $45 and sell it back at the end for $30. I didn't see a lot of new-version-every-year that a lot of people complain about and I think I had exactly one class where the teacher wrote the text. (And I think it was just something they had bound at Kinko's.) A couple teachers even said things like "There's a fifth edition out now. If you buy the fourth edition, it's the same except chapters 4 and 8 are swapped." This was in a California state school in the early 1990s.
From the show "Silver Spoons" in the mid/late-1980s: "What's not to like about Italian food? It's meat, cheese, tomatoes, pasta..." "Exactly! That's all it is--meat, cheese, tomatoes, and pasta!"
Did you even read the summary? He specifically points out where desktop I/O has different requirements from server I/O: "When I'm copying a large amount of data in the background, everything else slows down to a crawl while the CPU utilization stays at 1-2%." So I think he's talking about things like video playback, web browsing, and general UI responsiveness--things that 100% do not matter on a server.
I've noticed this myself--start a complex task and all of a sudden the UI becomes really jerky. If I'm trying to multitask and some mundane task is making the whole UI slow, that's bad. I it takes me 10 seconds to do something with an unresponsive UI instead of 5 just so a bunch of files can copy in 1:00:00 instead of 1:00:01, that's bad.
And he had to SSH to another machine (look at the title bar) to run it and nab the screenshot because OS X doesn't ship with Lynx or Links. I generally don't miss it much but it's occasionally handy, especially the 'dump' option to render HTML as plain text.
I think Classic is gone. I set mine to classic ages ago, only seeing the craptastic version when I visited without logging in, but here it is and I didn't do anything to any of my settings.
Thanks, I had thought they were a lot more, like in the several-thousand neighborhood. store.amkerbot.com says $1,225 right now. I googled 3D printers a while ago and the ones I found were expensive, now I see a Wikipedia page which has several listed with prices. Thanks! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing
I am totally amazed (no, wait, I'm totally not) that you got modded all the way up to +5, Insightful for that. You're not just getting bandwidth and a web page for that 30%. First of all, you're getting an absolutely HUGE audience. Every person browsing in the App store is LOOKING TO BUY AN APP. Apple is giving you tools to be found: if you make an app to schedule pet feedings, anyone searching for 'pet feeding scheduler' will find you.
Now, lets look at it from the customer's side. Do you know why I DON'T buy a lot of random apps off the Internet? - first I have to find it somewhere on the Internet - then I have to find reviews, if any - then I have to deal with the guy's (possibly non-U.S.) payment system, or PayPal, or whatever - then I've got to give this stranger an email address so I can - wait for my activation code, which I then get to keep track of forever. (Yay!) - then I have to keep en eye on the site FOREVER for updates - all the while hoping that he's honest and that there's not anything bad in there - and that it even does what I want in the first place.
You know how much random software I buy off the Internet? DAMN LITTLE.
Now, granted, not EVERY app has ALL of these problems. Many apps can alert you if there's an update, for example. Now, compare this to what I go through when buying an app from an App store: - it's easy to find - it has screenshots so I can get a pretty good idea of exactly what it does and how it works. - I'm probably not the first to use it so there are probably reviews -- built into the store - I'm already set up to pay. Click, enter a password, it downloads - no activation codes (at least, I've never seen on, and I've got over 100 apps on my phone) - the system is all set up for updates - it has been checked, to some extent, by Apple. 300k apps and there have been bad stories about... 2? 3? Hell, let's say 30. That's still only ONE IN TEN THOUSAND.
This is econ 101 and grade-school math: as a developer, I'd let Apple take NINETY percent of my money if they can get me a thousand times more customers than I can get on my own.
I'm not saying the app store is good for all apps and all developers. But it is GREAT for a lot of them.
... until 3D printers are affordable and everywhere, like Cory Doctorow describes in Makers. Now that I've got a kid, I keep wanting to print small, one-off plastic bits to repair and enhance toys.
I think there might be some crap on your screen obstructing your view. Here are four consecutive stories I can see right now:
Pirated Software Could Bring Down Predator Drones
Linux To Take Over Microsoft In Enterprises
Why Microsoft Is So Scared of OpenOffice
MS Gives Free Licenses To Oppressed Nonprofits
So I'd say yes, Slashdot is becoming more grown up: they're actually striking a nice balance now, instead of giving us nothing but "victory in imminent!" like we've had for the last dozen years.
Let's do some math, shall we? He has $14,500,000,000 and he has to pay a $4,000,000 fine. Let's knock six zeroes off each of those. He has to pay $4 for for every $14,500 he has. That's 4/14500 or 1/3625 of his net wealth. Let's just pretend I'm worth a million dollars (because I don't know how to calculate net worth when your house is upside down and you are carrying lots of other debt.) That would be the equivalent of me paying a $275 fine.
THE GOVERNMENT JUST GAVE MICHAEL DELL THE EQUIVALENT OF A SPEEDING TICKET. Now, that might sound low, but take heart, we're not talking about just any speeding ticket here--we're talking about a bad one, like those "fines doubled when workers present" kinds. Or maybe a school zone. ($310, I think.) Running a red light in my neigborhood costs $202.50, according to the signs they just put up next to the cameras. And that's if I was a millionaire. Compared to my actual net worth, this is probably in the "Taco Bell Combo Meal" zone.
If you google the names in the article you can see what happened to the folks mentioned in the last nine years. I wish there was a clickable "request followup" button on articles.
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I wish. I live in a large city area where a low budget means that the whole district has to use a small number of buses, so school start times are staggered, as early as 7:15 am. So on top of what you point out, kids are walking to school and it's still dark. Every couple of years it flip-flops between the lower grades starting early (high schoolers aren't getting enough sleep!) and the upper grades (little kids are walking in the dark!) Fan-freaking-tabulous.
From the source: "Gnash... supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9. SWF v10 is not supported by GNU Gnash."
Yeah. Sounds really useful. They support MOST of a SEVEN YEAR OLD VERSION. Woo hoo, sign me up!
And by the way, who's to say that Gnash is free of bugs and/or exploitable holes? One problem with re-implementing something is that you're likely to (and sometimes need to) reproduces the original, bug for bug and flaw for flaw. Just ask the WINE guys.
... this makes me very wary of buying a device where all apps, and the OS/UI itself are written in Adobe AIR (which is pretty much Flash.) So when a vulnerability comes along you... what... quit using the whole device? I'm sure that will go over really well with the large businesses that are BlackBerry's intended customers. And for those who think I'm hyperbolizing, watch the video and listen close--the head of RIM says (at the 2:20 mark) "what we've done is... really embed AIR right into 'the metal' and the operating system." By "metal" I think he means "as low-level as we possibly could."
Wait, scratch that... large businesses have been buying Windows for two decades, so never mind me. I be this thing will fly off the shelves. Hmm, maybe I should write an antivirus app in Flash so it can run on a PlayBook. :-)
"sitting inside one"--nice. Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes:
As a Delta Air Lines jet was flying over Arizona on a clear day, the copilot was providing his passengers with a running commentary about landmarks over the PA system.
"Coming up on the right, you can see the Meteor Crater, which is a major tourist attraction in northern Arizona. It was formed when a lump of nickel and iron, roughly 150 feet in diameter and weighing 300,000 tons struck the earth at about 40,000 miles an hour, scattering white-hot debris for miles in every direction. The hole measures nearly a mile across and is 570 feet deep."
From the cabin, a blonde passenger was heard to exclaim, "Wow! It just missed the highway!"
"... flustered employees -- unable to sort through a pile of information fast enough -- end up submitting work that's substandard. Almost three quarters of the survey's respondents declared their work has suffered as a result."
-- but they filled out the survey without any problems?
C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN, DOS, RUN!
OK, so Slashdot doen't like all caps, so I'll include another comment: it would be cool to have Win3.1 running on an iPhone too.
>> Because somehow the "jailbreak" vernacular has replaced every instance of "hacking"
> It's a way to make it sound more evil.
No, I'm pretty sure the name's origins are strictly technical as it involves breaking out of a chroot jail. Right? If anyone knows for sure, please reply.
80%-90% of the time I was able to buy used textbooks in the first place (about 1/3 off) and sell them back at the end of the term for 1/2. So a book might cost $60 new, I'd buy it for about $45 and sell it back at the end for $30. I didn't see a lot of new-version-every-year that a lot of people complain about and I think I had exactly one class where the teacher wrote the text. (And I think it was just something they had bound at Kinko's.) A couple teachers even said things like "There's a fifth edition out now. If you buy the fourth edition, it's the same except chapters 4 and 8 are swapped." This was in a California state school in the early 1990s.
From the show "Silver Spoons" in the mid/late-1980s:
"What's not to like about Italian food? It's meat, cheese, tomatoes, pasta..."
"Exactly! That's all it is--meat, cheese, tomatoes, and pasta!"
From over a decade ago: Taco Bell's Five Ingredients Combined In Totally New Way
I think of that every time Taco Bell adds a "new" item to their menu.
Did you even read the summary? He specifically points out where desktop I/O has different requirements from server I/O: "When I'm copying a large amount of data in the background, everything else slows down to a crawl while the CPU utilization stays at 1-2%." So I think he's talking about things like video playback, web browsing, and general UI responsiveness--things that 100% do not matter on a server.
I've noticed this myself--start a complex task and all of a sudden the UI becomes really jerky. If I'm trying to multitask and some mundane task is making the whole UI slow, that's bad. I it takes me 10 seconds to do something with an unresponsive UI instead of 5 just so a bunch of files can copy in 1:00:00 instead of 1:00:01, that's bad.
And he had to SSH to another machine (look at the title bar) to run it and nab the screenshot because OS X doesn't ship with Lynx or Links. I generally don't miss it much but it's occasionally handy, especially the 'dump' option to render HTML as plain text.
And yet here we are, in a thread full of retards yelling "Apple said netbooks are crap and now they're making one!"
I think Classic is gone. I set mine to classic ages ago, only seeing the craptastic version when I visited without logging in, but here it is and I didn't do anything to any of my settings.
Thanks, I had thought they were a lot more, like in the several-thousand neighborhood. store.amkerbot.com says $1,225 right now. I googled 3D printers a while ago and the ones I found were expensive, now I see a Wikipedia page which has several listed with prices. Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing
I am totally amazed (no, wait, I'm totally not) that you got modded all the way up to +5, Insightful for that. You're not just getting bandwidth and a web page for that 30%. First of all, you're getting an absolutely HUGE audience. Every person browsing in the App store is LOOKING TO BUY AN APP. Apple is giving you tools to be found: if you make an app to schedule pet feedings, anyone searching for 'pet feeding scheduler' will find you.
Now, lets look at it from the customer's side. Do you know why I DON'T buy a lot of random apps off the Internet?
- first I have to find it somewhere on the Internet
- then I have to find reviews, if any
- then I have to deal with the guy's (possibly non-U.S.) payment system, or PayPal, or whatever
- then I've got to give this stranger an email address so I can
- wait for my activation code, which I then get to keep track of forever. (Yay!)
- then I have to keep en eye on the site FOREVER for updates
- all the while hoping that he's honest and that there's not anything bad in there
- and that it even does what I want in the first place.
You know how much random software I buy off the Internet? DAMN LITTLE.
Now, granted, not EVERY app has ALL of these problems. Many apps can alert you if there's an update, for example. Now, compare this to what I go through when buying an app from an App store:
- it's easy to find
- it has screenshots so I can get a pretty good idea of exactly what it does and how it works.
- I'm probably not the first to use it so there are probably reviews -- built into the store
- I'm already set up to pay. Click, enter a password, it downloads
- no activation codes (at least, I've never seen on, and I've got over 100 apps on my phone)
- the system is all set up for updates
- it has been checked, to some extent, by Apple. 300k apps and there have been bad stories about... 2? 3? Hell, let's say 30. That's still only ONE IN TEN THOUSAND.
This is econ 101 and grade-school math: as a developer, I'd let Apple take NINETY percent of my money if they can get me a thousand times more customers than I can get on my own.
I'm not saying the app store is good for all apps and all developers. But it is GREAT for a lot of them.
... until 3D printers are affordable and everywhere, like Cory Doctorow describes in Makers . Now that I've got a kid, I keep wanting to print small, one-off plastic bits to repair and enhance toys.
Understandable, though--LOTS of people refused to watch Episode 1.
I think there might be some crap on your screen obstructing your view. Here are four consecutive stories I can see right now:
So I'd say yes, Slashdot is becoming more grown up: they're actually striking a nice balance now, instead of giving us nothing but "victory in imminent!" like we've had for the last dozen years.
But it has the wifi's and the bigger GBs.
According to Forbes he's worth 14.5 billion--number 37 on their list of the world's billionaires and the 15th richest person in the United States. (Think about that for a second: there are only FOURTEEEN PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES RIGHT NOW WITH MORE MONEY THAN MICHAEL DELL.)
Let's do some math, shall we? He has $14,500,000,000 and he has to pay a $4,000,000 fine. Let's knock six zeroes off each of those. He has to pay $4 for for every $14,500 he has. That's 4/14500 or 1/3625 of his net wealth. Let's just pretend I'm worth a million dollars (because I don't know how to calculate net worth when your house is upside down and you are carrying lots of other debt.) That would be the equivalent of me paying a $275 fine.
THE GOVERNMENT JUST GAVE MICHAEL DELL THE EQUIVALENT OF A SPEEDING TICKET. Now, that might sound low, but take heart, we're not talking about just any speeding ticket here--we're talking about a bad one, like those "fines doubled when workers present" kinds. Or maybe a school zone. ($310, I think.) Running a red light in my neigborhood costs $202.50, according to the signs they just put up next to the cameras. And that's if I was a millionaire. Compared to my actual net worth, this is probably in the "Taco Bell Combo Meal" zone.
How about "married, one child, living in anything that could be called 'a city' anywhere in California"?
a = b
a^2 = ab
a^2 - b^2 = ab - b^2
(a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)
a + b = b
2b = b
2 = 1
Wired magazine, August 2001.
If you google the names in the article you can see what happened to the folks mentioned in the last nine years. I wish there was a clickable "request followup" button on articles.
Mac sales are more than a blip, but you're right, consumer gear is king right now. And that graph was made pre-iPad.