Whether there's "no ability to multitask" or "no full multitasking support" in the iPhone/iPod Touch, it does somehow manage to play music and run an unrelated program, even a game, at the same time. Mail processes continue even after you've gone to the home screen, to judge from the notification sounds. I suppose it depends on how you care to define "full".
Yes, but it wouldn't be true. The iPhone OS is based on but not the same as OS X, there are important frameworks that are iPhone-only. It's not just a recompile.
Furthermore, the UI constraints for a touch-based interface are such that a simple port would never work except for the most trivial application, you'd have to completely re-think the interface to make it usable at all.
But in this case Kirby signed away his rights for money to provide for his children. He no longer owned the property. Shouldn't we honor his decision, and the new owner of the property rights?
Try reading Spiegelman's Maus, or Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell's From Hell, before you characterize all comics as not "real books". There's a whole world out there without superheroes in it.
I'd rather not be responsible for causing you to read that Roach Motel of a book. Just that you reminded me of the incantatory line from AS, "Who is John Galt?"
Please, read the Illuminatus! Trilogy instead, or Iain M Banks, or Charles Stross' Singularity Sky, or Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal, anything that has a sense of joy in it instead of an ex-totalitarian's exaltation of order. Maybe I'm just doing the universe's work, and my offhand remark is meant somehow to change your life despite my beliefs, and you should read AS; if so, so be it. But as far as I'm concerned the best reason to read it is inoculation and self-defense, just like the Bible, the Book of Mormon, or Lord of the Rings.
While I'm open to try to give most anything a try listen once...I'm guessing I'd not find his 'ambient music' (what is that, muzak?) similar to my favorite style of music (blues based guitar driven rock).
No, but you'd probably like "Baby's on Fire" from his first album, or "Third Uncle" or "The True Wheel" from his second.
Now, If you are reading this and you are one of these assholes that came here and insist on forcing your culture on us, I honestly, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, wish you would leave this country before we kill you and start a war with your homeland that you can never win.
I kept telling the Euro-Americans that but there were too many of them and they used biological warfare along with firearms.
"...If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one of the offices to learn the foreign news by the last arrival, that several large squares of plate glass belonging to the establishment were broken by the pressure -- news which I seriously think a ready wit might write a twelve-month, or twelve years, beforehand with sufficient accuracy."
That is so true. Mere foreign news that, say, there's melamine in your food, or that a tsunami is on its way to your shores, should be ignored, nay, refused. Seen one tornado, seem 'em all, who gives a shit. (This is why philosophers have short lives and are ignored by the rest of humanity.)
And there's no need for more than one instance of any application, either. Thoreau lives!
The iPhone store is NOT an extension if the iTunes Music Store...
If the iTunes Music Store... what? Please complete the sentence, if you can.
Not to mention that you have to go through the iTunes Store to get to the App Store, it's just an item on the main page.
Nintendo was selling Hanafuda cards in a physical stores in 1889. Online stores are just extensions of physical stores.
Like Amazon, eh? And NewEgg? As far as I know you don't go to a brick-and-mortar Apple Store to buy music or iPhone software. Do you? Somehow I doubt you ever have.
You can download the iPhone SDK for free (with a free developer account). It works with Xcode (also free with every OS install disk) and includes a simulator.
What the $100(/year) gets you is the ability to download the app to your phone/iPod, and submit to the App Store.
To be fair, Apple was requiring that $100 for the new OS 3.0 SDK, and I don't know if that will change now that it was released today. But everything through 2.2.1 was freely downloadable.
The "Apple tax" you refer to is about half what a physical retailer will charge you (wholesale price in the US is usually 60% of retail price). And it's arguable that though the App Store approval process needs a serious overhaul, the Nintendo one is even more restrictive.
As an aside, your mention of Proust - especially coming from someone worth listening to - intrigued me, so I looked him up. Judging by his birthday, his works are out of copyright. Any idea where I might find In Search of Lost Time in electronic form? Ideally,.epub, though html or plaintext would serve.
I think it depends on if you read French. Translations get copyrighted too.
Didn't Bill Clinton in fact cut the deficit instead of tripling it like Reagan and Bush II? You must only be counting Republican presidents.
Describing the distinction between microeconomics and macroeconomics, which you also seem to be confused about, I will leave for others better-qualified than I.
Incidentally, use of a sig about Orwell when consigning whole Administrations to the Memory Hole is pretty darn gutsy, if foolish.
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Sorry, I don't read superhero comics. If you assume I do, then your conclusions aren't based on reality -- just like superheroes.
Whether there's "no ability to multitask" or "no full multitasking support" in the iPhone/iPod Touch, it does somehow manage to play music and run an unrelated program, even a game, at the same time. Mail processes continue even after you've gone to the home screen, to judge from the notification sounds. I suppose it depends on how you care to define "full".
Yes, but it wouldn't be true. The iPhone OS is based on but not the same as OS X, there are important frameworks that are iPhone-only. It's not just a recompile.
Furthermore, the UI constraints for a touch-based interface are such that a simple port would never work except for the most trivial application, you'd have to completely re-think the interface to make it usable at all.
But in this case Kirby signed away his rights for money to provide for his children. He no longer owned the property. Shouldn't we honor his decision, and the new owner of the property rights?
Try reading Spiegelman's Maus, or Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell's From Hell, before you characterize all comics as not "real books". There's a whole world out there without superheroes in it.
I think it crashed into a tree in the seventies.
I'd rather not be responsible for causing you to read that Roach Motel of a book. Just that you reminded me of the incantatory line from AS, "Who is John Galt?"
Please, read the Illuminatus! Trilogy instead, or Iain M Banks, or Charles Stross' Singularity Sky, or Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal, anything that has a sense of joy in it instead of an ex-totalitarian's exaltation of order. Maybe I'm just doing the universe's work, and my offhand remark is meant somehow to change your life despite my beliefs, and you should read AS; if so, so be it. But as far as I'm concerned the best reason to read it is inoculation and self-defense, just like the Bible, the Book of Mormon, or Lord of the Rings.
While I'm open to try to give most anything a try listen once...I'm guessing I'd not find his 'ambient music' (what is that, muzak?) similar to my favorite style of music (blues based guitar driven rock).
No, but you'd probably like "Baby's on Fire" from his first album, or "Third Uncle" or "The True Wheel" from his second.
You haven't read Atlas Shrugged?
Not as true as you think: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt
Nice straw man. Time to learn about realpolitik.
Has been for years. That's the excuse they use to infiltrate activist groups.
Now, If you are reading this and you are one of these assholes that came here and insist on forcing your culture on us, I honestly, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, wish you would leave this country before we kill you and start a war with your homeland that you can never win.
I kept telling the Euro-Americans that but there were too many of them and they used biological warfare along with firearms.
Not reading iPhone articles is always an option, unless you've got OCD, in which case ask for medical advice (if you don't think medicine is a cult).
"...If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a
myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their
tea. Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one of the offices to learn the foreign news by
the last arrival, that several large squares of plate glass belonging to the establishment were broken by the pressure -- news which I seriously
think a ready wit might write a twelve-month, or twelve years, beforehand with sufficient accuracy."
That is so true. Mere foreign news that, say, there's melamine in your food, or that a tsunami is on its way to your shores, should be ignored, nay, refused. Seen one tornado, seem 'em all, who gives a shit. (This is why philosophers have short lives and are ignored by the rest of humanity.)
And there's no need for more than one instance of any application, either. Thoreau lives!
The iPhone store is NOT an extension if the iTunes Music Store...
If the iTunes Music Store... what? Please complete the sentence, if you can.
Not to mention that you have to go through the iTunes Store to get to the App Store, it's just an item on the main page.
Nintendo was selling Hanafuda cards in a physical stores in 1889. Online stores are just extensions of physical stores.
Like Amazon, eh? And NewEgg? As far as I know you don't go to a brick-and-mortar Apple Store to buy music or iPhone software. Do you? Somehow I doubt you ever have.
Just an update, the SDK (officially "iPhone SDK 3.0") is now free. I'm downloading it now (2 gigs!).
You can download the iPhone SDK for free (with a free developer account). It works with Xcode (also free with every OS install disk) and includes a simulator.
What the $100(/year) gets you is the ability to download the app to your phone/iPod, and submit to the App Store.
To be fair, Apple was requiring that $100 for the new OS 3.0 SDK, and I don't know if that will change now that it was released today. But everything through 2.2.1 was freely downloadable.
The "Apple tax" you refer to is about half what a physical retailer will charge you (wholesale price in the US is usually 60% of retail price). And it's arguable that though the App Store approval process needs a serious overhaul, the Nintendo one is even more restrictive.
As an aside, your mention of Proust - especially coming from someone worth listening to - intrigued me, so I looked him up. Judging by his birthday, his works are out of copyright. Any idea where I might find In Search of Lost Time in electronic form? Ideally, .epub, though html or plaintext would serve.
I think it depends on if you read French. Translations get copyrighted too.
Correlation != causation
Hell yes! Please do.
Note to self: never go insane.
...Or Teegeeack.
I'll third this. It's an excellent book.
Didn't Bill Clinton in fact cut the deficit instead of tripling it like Reagan and Bush II? You must only be counting Republican presidents.
Describing the distinction between microeconomics and macroeconomics, which you also seem to be confused about, I will leave for others better-qualified than I.
Incidentally, use of a sig about Orwell when consigning whole Administrations to the Memory Hole is pretty darn gutsy, if foolish.