I can sympathize with Proteron, but LiteSwitch X isn't the most complicated app in town - it's simple as a concept and a common sense improvement over the old dock-based app switcher. It was a matter of time, and time's what they got.
Proteron made their money for a year and a half, and by the time Apple finally caught up with the functionality they should have moved on. They can't sit around on their thumb and milk a simple idea forever.
Analog networks won't even be around soon, with E911 requirements kicking in. There's no way for them to triangulate the caller's position accurately enough - that requires CDMA or GSM.
Apple likes to build up stocks of computers before selling them. Building and shipping computers in the same month would be a ridiculous strain on their resources.
Er, no. Apple prides itself on having a low inventory (a couple of weeks, at the most) - all personal computer manufacturers do. If they had any more, they'd wind up in the December 2001 "5+ weeks of unsellable inventory" glut problem.
WWDC isn't exactly a place Steve Jobs likes to announce hardware products, it is really the wrong venue for such announcements. MacWorld Expo is a much better place to do things like that and is only two months away.
Except that Apple isn't going to be at MWNY this year.
Yeah, but it doesn't make money. Last time id ported to Linux (Q3A) Carmack said the proceeds didn't even cover costs. I know, that sucks, but it's reality.
Does AJ show pics and video of Iraqi troops hiding among civilians and using them as shields? No
There's still no proof that this is actually happening. The only source of this information is from the American military.
Does AJ show report on the Iraqi troops using a hospital for a weapons cache? No
See previous answer.
Does AJ report on the use of explosives at the oil well heads? No
Yes, they do. But in fact, only 7 out of some 450 oil wells in southern Iraq have been ignited - as has been reported by CNN
Does AJ report on the ecological disaster of lighting oil filled trenches on fire? No
I don't think even CNN, MSNBC, or the BBC has mentioned the ecological impact of this. They're probably more worried about covering the flashier, more explosive side of the war at this point. You know, the lazer-guided lightshows & all...
The Nokia bug was just that - a bug. It crashed, and yes you could quite easily turn the phone back on without bringing it to a service provider for flashing.
(BTW the bug was fixed in a firmware update.)
If you have any information on this special interpretation of which you speak, let's hear it.
Er, no. SMS messages (and MMS for that matter) cannot invoke a phone call by any means. It's technically impossible for an SMS message, which is plain text, to initiate a phone call or data session.
Got any proof or documentation about this, or are you just perpetuating an urban myth?
Any economic system which REQUIRES foreign labor to constantly flow in is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed - period.
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Much easier is to just flash your brights thrice and the photoreceptors (present on top of/within most urban traffic controllers) will assume yours is an emergency vehicle and cycle to green ASAP.
Aparantly, the worst offender is the new Nokia camera phone - that had a more than 90% return rate due to hardware faults.
Bullshit. If any product had a 90% return rate, especially the Nokia 7650 which is based on the new Series 60 platform, it would be front page news on every telecoms publication. Got some references, or were you just pulling that bit out of your ass?
I got to play with a few of the in Redmond a couple of weeks ago, and have to say they do look pretty cool. The pen thing is particularly neat - you can hold the pen up to about two inches away from the screen and the cursor still follows the pen. You can hover the pen just above the screen and drag it around. Really weird at first...
Anybody care to summarize exactly what a Token Ring connection is? I remember Comic Book Guy asking Homer if he could accomodate his One Megabit Token Ring Ethernet connection when Homer opened up HyperGlobalCompuMegaNet, but never really got it.
*Mac OS X v10.2 system requirements: A minimum of 128MB of memory and one of the following Apple products: Power Mac G3 or G4, iMac, eMac, iBook, and PowerBook G3 or G4. (The original PowerBook G3 and processor upgrade cards are not supported.)
Note that a previous version of Mac OS X is not listed, so it must be the full package. Woohoo!
I really doubt anyone is running a website on a 100 CPU server.
He didn't say a 100 CPU server, he said a 100 CPU website. And he's right. The site we run has hundreds of CPUs behind it (web servers, app servers, databases), and they're all spread across Solaris machines. I've never seen a commercial company run a similar service using Linux.
You're right in that none of our boxes has 100 CPUs in it, but that's missing his point...
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I can sympathize with Proteron, but LiteSwitch X isn't the most complicated app in town - it's simple as a concept and a common sense improvement over the old dock-based app switcher. It was a matter of time, and time's what they got.
Proteron made their money for a year and a half, and by the time Apple finally caught up with the functionality they should have moved on. They can't sit around on their thumb and milk a simple idea forever.
Analog networks won't even be around soon, with E911 requirements kicking in. There's no way for them to triangulate the caller's position accurately enough - that requires CDMA or GSM.
Er, no. Apple prides itself on having a low inventory (a couple of weeks, at the most) - all personal computer manufacturers do. If they had any more, they'd wind up in the December 2001 "5+ weeks of unsellable inventory" glut problem.
WWDC isn't exactly a place Steve Jobs likes to announce hardware products, it is really the wrong venue for such announcements. MacWorld Expo is a much better place to do things like that and is only two months away.
Except that Apple isn't going to be at MWNY this year.
Yeah, but it doesn't make money. Last time id ported to Linux (Q3A) Carmack said the proceeds didn't even cover costs. I know, that sucks, but it's reality.
And free, too!
"If You Cant Feed Your Baby (Yeah, Yeah)
Then Don't Have A Baby (Yeah, Yeah)
And Don't Think Maybe (Yeah, Yeah)
If You Can't Feed Your Baby (Yeah, Yeah)
You'll Be Always Tryin'
To Stop That Child From Cryin'
Hustlin', Stealin', Lyin'
Now Baby's Slowly Dyin'"
Michael Jackson, 1983
There's still no proof that this is actually happening. The only source of this information is from the American military.
Does AJ show report on the Iraqi troops using a hospital for a weapons cache? No
See previous answer.
Does AJ report on the use of explosives at the oil well heads? No
Yes, they do. But in fact, only 7 out of some 450 oil wells in southern Iraq have been ignited - as has been reported by CNN
Does AJ report on the ecological disaster of lighting oil filled trenches on fire? No
I don't think even CNN, MSNBC, or the BBC has mentioned the ecological impact of this. They're probably more worried about covering the flashier, more explosive side of the war at this point. You know, the lazer-guided lightshows & all...
Ballmer: Developers, developers, developers, developers!!!
I don't know which OS he's talking about, but Microsoft pinched their TCP/IP stack from *BSD. So open code has fewer bugs than, what, open code?
The Nokia bug was just that - a bug. It crashed, and yes you could quite easily turn the phone back on without bringing it to a service provider for flashing.
(BTW the bug was fixed in a firmware update.)
If you have any information on this special interpretation of which you speak, let's hear it.
Er, no. SMS messages (and MMS for that matter) cannot invoke a phone call by any means. It's technically impossible for an SMS message, which is plain text, to initiate a phone call or data session.
Got any proof or documentation about this, or are you just perpetuating an urban myth?
Any economic system which REQUIRES foreign labor to constantly flow in is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed - period.
Much easier is to just flash your brights thrice and the photoreceptors (present on top of/within most urban traffic controllers) will assume yours is an emergency vehicle and cycle to green ASAP.
You mean Cowboy Neal?
Bullshit. If any product had a 90% return rate, especially the Nokia 7650 which is based on the new Series 60 platform, it would be front page news on every telecoms publication. Got some references, or were you just pulling that bit out of your ass?
Sheesh, I don't think I've ever seen anyone hit the karma cap (RIP) by commenting on a single article before!!!
Dude, he's member # 137, you don't wanna make him mad =)
Only on Slashdot :-)
You're just a bit behind the times.
I got to play with a few of the in Redmond a couple of weeks ago, and have to say they do look pretty cool. The pen thing is particularly neat - you can hold the pen up to about two inches away from the screen and the cursor still follows the pen. You can hover the pen just above the screen and drag it around. Really weird at first...
*Mac OS X v10.2 system requirements:
A minimum of 128MB of memory and one of the following Apple products: Power Mac G3 or G4, iMac, eMac, iBook, and PowerBook G3 or G4. (The original PowerBook G3 and processor upgrade cards are not supported.)
Note that a previous version of Mac OS X is not listed, so it must be the full package. Woohoo!
He didn't say a 100 CPU server, he said a 100 CPU website. And he's right. The site we run has hundreds of CPUs behind it (web servers, app servers, databases), and they're all spread across Solaris machines. I've never seen a commercial company run a similar service using Linux.
You're right in that none of our boxes has 100 CPUs in it, but that's missing his point...
And remember, the Pentium 3 "opened the door" to the Internet!!!
What did the Pentium 2 do?
Wouldn't it be interesting if, in ten years' time, open source solutions were the standard by which European governments operate?