For the first few weeks in Chrome, there was no "if Flash has a problem" caveat: every Flash object would freeze the whole browser, sometimes indefinitely.
Who says it can't print? They just announced that device developers can write their own software & protocols. That means you can make an iPhone printer.
Are you saying you want it to have the printing capabilities of OS X? Because that takes up about 1GB for drivers.
The short answer is that our financial regulatory environment forces them to do so, kinda.
If Apple books profits for iPod Touches at the time of purchase, but then books expenses for iPod Touch development later, they are vulnerable to the accusation that they were hiding expenses on their balance sheet, which is illegal.
After getting burnt by this once in the past (Airport basestations, I think), they started charging for feature updates. When they book expenses for the development of iPod Touch 3.0, they can account for it like a new product for sale, and either make a profit or loss on those sales.
The other solution to this issue is that they book profits for iPhones on a "two year subscription basis". That means they only record 1/8th of the sale profit of an iPhone as profit in the quarter it was purchased. They can then charge further development costs against this same income, and they don't have to account for it like a separate product for sale.
Whether they should account for *everything* on a subscription basis is totally open for debate. It has been suggested that this subscription accounting is one of many factors that could be depressing Apple's share price. When they have a killer quarter for iPhone sales, that profit gets smeared across 8 quarters of earnings statements.
IMHO, it could be argued that this is a good thing, and forces shareholders to consider longer term value. So maybe they really should account for everything this way. The question is how profitable are these $9.95 iPhone OS updates & $100 Mac OS updates. Iduno.
It's Free Software: can't be discontinued by Microsoft, costs nothing, and runs anywhere you can get X Windows. Doesn't matter how excellent your emulation is, WINE still has a purpose. It's not an emulator, after all...
Either I'm crazy, or something about noscript is very slow. Not as slow as loading all the ads, but it seems to do blocking work every time I go to a new site. Kinda irritating.
They do this with regular magnets in cows to make the small pieces of metal that they eat all get clumped together so that they can be removed with a simple surgery rather than individually.
While I am loathe to support Yahoo, considering their willingness to cooperate with law enforcement,
I'm glad Yahoo got dinged for this, but trust that every large communications company has done the same. If there aren't Google engineers in prison, then they've complied with the Patriot Act.
Richard D James famously had a concert where he pressed play on a DAT tape and then proceeded to play Sonic the Hedgehog for the remainder of the show.
I was at an Oscars party and I am ashamed to admit that I asked everyone to quiet down for the iPhone advertisement.
Some guy I didn't know said, "Oh, man, whatever. Fucking iPhone."
I said, "That's funny. You're the first person I've heard from who doesn't like the idea of an iPhone who doesn't work for its competitors. I have one friend who works at OQO and thinks it's dumb because it only has GPRS, and another friend who works at Danger and thinks it's dumb because it doesn't have a keyboard. So you're the first civilian. What don't you like about the iPhone?"
He said, "Wait, who do you know at Danger?"
Because I was wrong. He also works on the SideKick. That is the only reason you might not think the iPhone is fucking awesome: it is about to eat your lunch.
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Does make & autoconf work on your custom-compiled, hardened 64bit gentoo?
For the first few weeks in Chrome, there was no "if Flash has a problem" caveat: every Flash object would freeze the whole browser, sometimes indefinitely.
Now it's flawless.
You are exaggerating. Chrome used to have to be killed quite regularly before they worked out the kinks w/ Flash.
Chrome 2 Beta is totally flawless in the few days I've been using it.
Sucks when localhost has a webserver.
Yes, that sums it up nicely.
The better your used market, the more you can charge for new products. Customers will consider the resale value when making a purchase from you.
* Landscape mode for Calendar. Make it activate week-at-a-glance mode.
I am going to be so jealous of Daylite Touch users, if that's ever released.
Who says it can't print? They just announced that device developers can write their own software & protocols. That means you can make an iPhone printer.
Are you saying you want it to have the printing capabilities of OS X? Because that takes up about 1GB for drivers.
The short answer is that our financial regulatory environment forces them to do so, kinda.
If Apple books profits for iPod Touches at the time of purchase, but then books expenses for iPod Touch development later, they are vulnerable to the accusation that they were hiding expenses on their balance sheet, which is illegal.
After getting burnt by this once in the past (Airport basestations, I think), they started charging for feature updates. When they book expenses for the development of iPod Touch 3.0, they can account for it like a new product for sale, and either make a profit or loss on those sales.
The other solution to this issue is that they book profits for iPhones on a "two year subscription basis". That means they only record 1/8th of the sale profit of an iPhone as profit in the quarter it was purchased. They can then charge further development costs against this same income, and they don't have to account for it like a separate product for sale.
Whether they should account for *everything* on a subscription basis is totally open for debate. It has been suggested that this subscription accounting is one of many factors that could be depressing Apple's share price. When they have a killer quarter for iPhone sales, that profit gets smeared across 8 quarters of earnings statements.
IMHO, it could be argued that this is a good thing, and forces shareholders to consider longer term value. So maybe they really should account for everything this way. The question is how profitable are these $9.95 iPhone OS updates & $100 Mac OS updates. Iduno.
Apple will do firmware updates over the air long, long before Linux anything.
You sound like my libertarian-leaning college roommates discussing GW & Cheney in 2000.
It's Free Software: can't be discontinued by Microsoft, costs nothing, and runs anywhere you can get X Windows. Doesn't matter how excellent your emulation is, WINE still has a purpose. It's not an emulator, after all...
No, no. You misunderstand completely. Following this logic, the Israelis will stay until no living person can remember Palestine.
You fail at Imperialism.
Right, but not running a script shouldn't slow page load. I get the idea it's doing blocking io every time you go to a new page, which isn't cool.
You are not blinding me with science.
Either I'm crazy, or something about noscript is very slow. Not as slow as loading all the ads, but it seems to do blocking work every time I go to a new site. Kinda irritating.
They do this with regular magnets in cows to make the small pieces of metal that they eat all get clumped together so that they can be removed with a simple surgery rather than individually.
Or Linden can just make it so it's impossible to do things to someone else's character without their approval.
Richard D James famously had a concert where he pressed play on a DAT tape and then proceeded to play Sonic the Hedgehog for the remainder of the show.
Does that count?
I was at an Oscars party and I am ashamed to admit that I asked everyone to quiet down for the iPhone advertisement.
Some guy I didn't know said, "Oh, man, whatever. Fucking iPhone."
I said, "That's funny. You're the first person I've heard from who doesn't like the idea of an iPhone who doesn't work for its competitors. I have one friend who works at OQO and thinks it's dumb because it only has GPRS, and another friend who works at Danger and thinks it's dumb because it doesn't have a keyboard. So you're the first civilian. What don't you like about the iPhone?"
He said, "Wait, who do you know at Danger?"
Because I was wrong. He also works on the SideKick. That is the only reason you might not think the iPhone is fucking awesome: it is about to eat your lunch.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Civil issue.