So the Slashdot summary links to an article in the Huffington Post. And the HuffPo article links to an article in Wired. And the Wired article links to the actual story in the Boston Globe
Slashdot: now a free treasure hunt with every story !
Sure you can, you just have to do it the right way like Goldman-Sachs. First you make some bribes, oops I meant campaign contributions, then you get them to hire your guys to run the place, THEN you defraud the government for trillions. Gotta spend money to steal money.
Have you watched a new user try to figure out one of the new apple trackpads? There is so little feedback that they have a hard time even understanding that there is a button available... and its seriously too bad if they meet up with a highly customized desktop supporting multiple gestures. I've noted that even experienced users need to take some time to figure out a peers configuration (concerning which corners do what).... but can you imagine what will happen as the gestures themselves become more and more customizable and as applications add their own gestures to the mix?
First Apple makes the, reasonable I think, assumption that the person logged in is the one currently at the computer. The guest account (or a new one) is meant for other users and it has a very simple and consistent setup. When you go to configure the gestures they are explained in the preference panel. No doubt gestures will become more configurable but it won't be through Apple but through third party software. It would be out of character for Apple to do anything but offer a basic set of gestures and lock its use down tightly.
The feedback issue is subjective I think. Most gadgets these days are going "touch" and people who have handled something like an iphone would have little difficulty adjusting but I can see how it would be a problem for some.
Magic Mouse -- it doesn't behave the same as a trackpad. In effect having pushed back on movable "mice keyboards" they've also neglected to build a moveable "mice trackpad".
That was never the point. The Magic Mouse is an evolution of the Mighty Mouse, not a trackpad. If it were a trackpad there's be no point in making it movable and you'd end up with something like the Bamboo which looks interesting but is a niche product like trackballs. If you meant moveable as in "wireless" you can get such a thing now by using an app like Touchpad Pro for iphone BTW.
Being able to switch applications isn't multi-tasking. Running several processes in the background is multi-tasking. It helps to know the terms and what they mean before you throw them around (but thanks for playing anyway; it's been great)
The application switcher is keeping the applications running in the background, also the iPhone OS is a cut down version of Darwin (OSX), a UNIX which everyone knows is a multitasking OS. The default GUI itself already is capable of running apps in the background but does this but only for the included Apple apps eg. Mail checking for email or starting apps while using the phone. The switchers (there are several) just offer an option to move non-Apple apps into the background.
I do know what the terms mean, I thought you would be able to figure all of the above out by yourself (being a smartypants Android user and all.) Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to try to impress people at the club with my iPhone nightclub gaming skills.
I wasn't going to respond to this rather insulting rant (ragging on Apple users, how original) but since someone modded you up I'm just going to link to this video of an iPhone application switcher.
Parent is right. KISS : keep it simple & stupid, there's a reason some of those servers have been running for 7 years straight. Don't make the error of over thinking it and planning for more than your organization needs (fun though it may be.) You can overthink your way from a simple install to a Rube Goldberg Machine.
If you're jailbreaking next time you upgrade the issue will solve itself since you flash a new image on the phone. But my guess is these are clueless people who had their phone unlocked and jailbroken by a friend back in the (1.3) days when openssh was automatically installed when jailbreaking and the included passwd utility was broken so people couldn't change the password.
No, he's stating that (at least for games) 60% or more of your users are pirating the app. He's also right.
He's not actually "Just over 60% of paid apps using Pinch have been pirated. This estimate is also low, since application pirates occasionally disable our tracking. When an application is pirated, an average of 34% of all installs are cracked — in other words, about half of legitimate paid downloads."
Doesn't that essentially indicate the apps are overpriced to begin with? (not that this is a legitimate excuse for pirating them).
The Pinchmedia report is a must read. It shows there is a definite link between wealth and piracy ( GDP is negatively correlated with piracy) and pirates use apps intensely for a couple of weeks then mostly abandon them which may indicate that they either lost intrest and wouldn't have bought anyway or bought it after a "trial" piracy period.
There are already several iPhone app review sites, most are crap. I usually end up buying apps though either "word of mouth" (a blog will mention some app or other) or an old fashioned web search (app devs too lazy to make a decent web site need not apply.)
This guy says it best : "So programmers continue to develop iPhone apps, even though Apple continues to maltreat them. [...] Can anything break this cycle? No device I've seen so far could. Palm and RIM haven't a hope. The only credible contender is Android. But Android is an orphan; Google doesn't really care about it, not the way Apple cares about the iPhone. Apple cares about the iPhone the way Google cares about search."
Help me out. Where can I download the source code to OS X and all the software components for a working Mac?
Here you go. There used to be a buch of people who built a full functioning OS out of the source but they had little success because whingers like you don't really care about the source, only about bashing Apple.
With the price of USB sticks today you could just buy 10: use 1 to carry around in your pocket, put another one in an unused port on your main machine and put a script in a cronjob to synchronize regularly. If it breaks replace the main with the backup and plug a new one in the backup slot.
Yeah and all webapps which everyone hated when the iPhone did it but this is Google so be prepared to suddenly have it become brilliant and the wave of the future. Hurrah for hypocrasy.
For single files & quick and dirty: you can use the "crypt" command or "vi -C filename", it's relatively weak DES encryption though. Or you can use openssl. For collections of files and disks : Truecrypt.
Not everyone is helped by reading glasses. I myself suffer from keratoconus and while I can manage right now because I still have 1 good eye in the future having a display that displays everything sharp should enable me to keep doing my job. There are some technical crutches already there which help, zooming and switching to "negative" view on the mac help but why shouldn't technology be adapted to work well for an aging population ? It's a big problem and not getting the attention it deserves.
Cheap clean energy is a lie. Even supposedly clean technology like solar panels has hidden ecological impacts. It's like people think these things spring from the earth ready-made instead of having to mine the toxic materials that go into this stuff and then process them. Of course *that* cost is paid by the third world so who cares, right ? What would save us is frugality and efficiency: do less and do more with what we do use.
A lot of gay men prefer "real" men to the stereotypical effeminate gay man. There's also a subculture of ultra-masculinity known as "bears" (for an example check out the hilarious Bear Force 1). For some there's probably some overcompensating going on due to the fear of being seen as "less of a man" because of their sexual orientation.
This is largely the same risk as people mixing Red Bull with alcohol, except in this case breweries are setting the proportions. You can't regulate stupid - college kids will always do stupid things like this - but at issue here is whether to ask companies to refrain from making this proportion intentionally.
Vodca-Redbull is a popular drink here in Belgium in all major clubs and has been for some time. It definitely meets your GRAS criterium.
I just assumed that this site was either run by the luxury brands as an advertisement (or at least a way to attract ads from luxury brands) or maybe to facilitate things for the middlemen and established auction houses. Who would want to deal with buying and selling on the net if you're swimming in cash ? These guys already have their "people" and in my experience the richer they get the less they are embarrassed by making others jump through hoops for them for a pittance.
Sounds like a godawful mess, glad I've never had to deal with a split-brain. We manage mostly Solaris clusters and they're pretty good about panicking a node when there's a chance the cluster risks becoming inconsistent (loss of quorum). If you're already syncing disks like in this case it shouldn't be too difficult to set up a quorum device or HACMP-like disk heartbeats. Doesn't Linux-HA support this type of setup ?
Slashdot Mirror
So the Slashdot summary links to an article in the Huffington Post. And the HuffPo article links to an article in Wired. And the Wired article links to the actual story in the Boston Globe
Slashdot: now a free treasure hunt with every story !
Sure you can, you just have to do it the right way like Goldman-Sachs. First you make some bribes, oops I meant campaign contributions, then you get them to hire your guys to run the place, THEN you defraud the government for trillions. Gotta spend money to steal money.
Have you watched a new user try to figure out one of the new apple trackpads? There is so little feedback that they have a hard time even understanding that there is a button available... and its seriously too bad if they meet up with a highly customized desktop supporting multiple gestures. I've noted that even experienced users need to take some time to figure out a peers configuration (concerning which corners do what).... but can you imagine what will happen as the gestures themselves become more and more customizable and as applications add their own gestures to the mix?
First Apple makes the, reasonable I think, assumption that the person logged in is the one currently at the computer. The guest account (or a new one) is meant for other users and it has a very simple and consistent setup. When you go to configure the gestures they are explained in the preference panel. No doubt gestures will become more configurable but it won't be through Apple but through third party software. It would be out of character for Apple to do anything but offer a basic set of gestures and lock its use down tightly.
The feedback issue is subjective I think. Most gadgets these days are going "touch" and people who have handled something like an iphone would have little difficulty adjusting but I can see how it would be a problem for some.
Magic Mouse -- it doesn't behave the same as a trackpad. In effect having pushed back on movable "mice keyboards" they've also neglected to build a moveable "mice trackpad".
That was never the point. The Magic Mouse is an evolution of the Mighty Mouse, not a trackpad. If it were a trackpad there's be no point in making it movable and you'd end up with something like the Bamboo which looks interesting but is a niche product like trackballs. If you meant moveable as in "wireless" you can get such a thing now by using an app like Touchpad Pro for iphone BTW.
Being able to switch applications isn't multi-tasking. Running several processes in the background is multi-tasking. It helps to know the terms and what they mean before you throw them around (but thanks for playing anyway; it's been great)
The application switcher is keeping the applications running in the background, also the iPhone OS is a cut down version of Darwin (OSX), a UNIX which everyone knows is a multitasking OS. The default GUI itself already is capable of running apps in the background but does this but only for the included Apple apps eg. Mail checking for email or starting apps while using the phone. The switchers (there are several) just offer an option to move non-Apple apps into the background.
I do know what the terms mean, I thought you would be able to figure all of the above out by yourself (being a smartypants Android user and all.) Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to try to impress people at the club with my iPhone nightclub gaming skills.
doesn't even support multitasking
I wasn't going to respond to this rather insulting rant (ragging on Apple users, how original) but since someone modded you up I'm just going to link to this video of an iPhone application switcher.
Parent is right. KISS : keep it simple & stupid, there's a reason some of those servers have been running for 7 years straight. Don't make the error of over thinking it and planning for more than your organization needs (fun though it may be.) You can overthink your way from a simple install to a Rube Goldberg Machine.
If you're jailbreaking next time you upgrade the issue will solve itself since you flash a new image on the phone. But my guess is these are clueless people who had their phone unlocked and jailbroken by a friend back in the (1.3) days when openssh was automatically installed when jailbreaking and the included passwd utility was broken so people couldn't change the password.
No, he's stating that (at least for games) 60% or more of your users are pirating the app. He's also right.
He's not actually "Just over 60% of paid apps using Pinch have been pirated. This estimate is also low, since application pirates occasionally disable our tracking. When an application is pirated, an average of 34% of all installs are cracked — in other words, about half of legitimate paid downloads."
Doesn't that essentially indicate the apps are overpriced to begin with? (not that this is a legitimate excuse for pirating them).
The Pinchmedia report is a must read. It shows there is a definite link between wealth and piracy ( GDP is negatively correlated with piracy) and pirates use apps intensely for a couple of weeks then mostly abandon them which may indicate that they either lost intrest and wouldn't have bought anyway or bought it after a "trial" piracy period.
Our headlines today:
* DRM doesn't work
* People are assholes
* iPhone the same as any other platform shocker
There are already several iPhone app review sites, most are crap. I usually end up buying apps though either "word of mouth" (a blog will mention some app or other) or an old fashioned web search (app devs too lazy to make a decent web site need not apply.)
This guy says it best : "So programmers continue to develop iPhone apps, even though Apple continues to maltreat them. [...] Can anything break this cycle? No device I've seen so far could. Palm and RIM haven't a hope. The only credible contender is Android. But Android is an orphan; Google doesn't really care about it, not the way Apple cares about the iPhone. Apple cares about the iPhone the way Google cares about search."
Help me out. Where can I download the source code to OS X and all the software components for a working Mac?
Here you go. There used to be a buch of people who built a full functioning OS out of the source but they had little success because whingers like you don't really care about the source, only about bashing Apple.
Everyone? Where's the evidence for that? Most iPhone users I know spend more of their time using Safari versus appstore stuff.
Here's one from a little site you might know: "No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps" and one from a site with a better track record regarding Apple analysis : "iPhone (web) apps emerging in spite of missing SDK" ("As negative feelings towards the web application system for the iPhone cool down, a few applications are emerging.")
I've got a good sized chunk of offline native applications on my iPhone myself, don't know about other users.
With the price of USB sticks today you could just buy 10: use 1 to carry around in your pocket, put another one in an unused port on your main machine and put a script in a cronjob to synchronize regularly. If it breaks replace the main with the backup and plug a new one in the backup slot.
Yeah and all webapps which everyone hated when the iPhone did it but this is Google so be prepared to suddenly have it become brilliant and the wave of the future. Hurrah for hypocrasy.
For single files & quick and dirty: you can use the "crypt" command or "vi -C filename", it's relatively weak DES encryption though. Or you can use openssl.
For collections of files and disks : Truecrypt.
Are you sure ? Check out the illustrated guide to how to tell your cat is plotting to kill you to recognize the signs.
Not everyone is helped by reading glasses. I myself suffer from keratoconus and while I can manage right now because I still have 1 good eye in the future having a display that displays everything sharp should enable me to keep doing my job. There are some technical crutches already there which help, zooming and switching to "negative" view on the mac help but why shouldn't technology be adapted to work well for an aging population ? It's a big problem and not getting the attention it deserves.
Cheap clean energy is a lie. Even supposedly clean technology like solar panels has hidden ecological impacts. It's like people think these things spring from the earth ready-made instead of having to mine the toxic materials that go into this stuff and then process them. Of course *that* cost is paid by the third world so who cares, right ? What would save us is frugality and efficiency: do less and do more with what we do use.
A lot of gay men prefer "real" men to the stereotypical effeminate gay man. There's also a subculture of ultra-masculinity known as "bears" (for an example check out the hilarious Bear Force 1). For some there's probably some overcompensating going on due to the fear of being seen as "less of a man" because of their sexual orientation.
This is largely the same risk as people mixing Red Bull with alcohol, except in this case breweries are setting the proportions. You can't regulate stupid - college kids will always do stupid things like this - but at issue here is whether to ask companies to refrain from making this proportion intentionally.
Vodca-Redbull is a popular drink here in Belgium in all major clubs and has been for some time. It definitely meets your GRAS criterium.
Human Resources ?
I just assumed that this site was either run by the luxury brands as an advertisement (or at least a way to attract ads from luxury brands) or maybe to facilitate things for the middlemen and established auction houses. Who would want to deal with buying and selling on the net if you're swimming in cash ? These guys already have their "people" and in my experience the richer they get the less they are embarrassed by making others jump through hoops for them for a pittance.
Sounds like a godawful mess, glad I've never had to deal with a split-brain. We manage mostly Solaris clusters and they're pretty good about panicking a node when there's a chance the cluster risks becoming inconsistent (loss of quorum). If you're already syncing disks like in this case it shouldn't be too difficult to set up a quorum device or HACMP-like disk heartbeats. Doesn't Linux-HA support this type of setup ?