If you watched the Atmosphere and I|O events, the developer machines were split about 60/40 over Mac and Ubuntu. I didn't see Windows in either event's demonstrations.
The amount of Macs over Ubuntu's might be changing though. Remember, Apple and Google have in the past worked very close as partners in a lot of projects (YouTube's h.264 overhaul was done in time to be iPhone ready for when the iPhone launched, amoungst other possible codec/computer language standards. And Eric Schmidt had for 3 years been on the Apple board). Thing is now, Apple has been less and less happy with Google and both companies have been slowly distancing themselves from each other since Google started to overlap Apple in fields like smartphones with Googles Android (which compete's against Apple's iPhone) and Google ChromeOS (which will compete against OSX).
Just after a set number of years nobody seems to have done much on the Mac in the wild.
Why?
Because virus/malware writers do it for attention, to show what they can do. When faced with this situation you look at it and go "Do I aim for the Mac/Linux which will effect less then 1 out of every 10 computer users which will have little notice? Or do I aim for Windows that will effect 9 out of every 10 computer users?" If you want attention, you aim for the 9 out of every 10 users. Pwn2Own keeps showing that Macs aren't secure. The hackers don't aim for the Macs to win it since the $10,000 price money would buy a top of the line Mac where the one used isn't the top of the line model, the aim for the Mac because it's the easy target.
Sorry if this is trollish, but Macs are IMO a WORSE security risk than Windows when dealing with spearphishing and other forms of targeted attacks. Security updates are rare. Even if the OS model is better than Microsoft's, it's not a good choice.
Tell me... what IDE runs on ChromeOS? Where's the Emacs for Android? When I see that, we'll talk. Until then, I don't think that Google's going to be able to migrate it's most vital employees (engineers) to "eat their own dogfood." Might be interesting to migrate support staff, but that's not where the heart of Google is.
Well.... since ChromeOS is built on Ubuntu I'll bet that anything that runs on Ubuntu should run on ChromeOS.
Does that mean it's your fault (yes you) that your state has a higher suicide rate than Foxconn? After all, you elected your state government who has done nothing to stamp out suicides... At the end of the day, it's your vote in the box, not your elected representative's.
No, because my vote is in the long run, just a drop in the bucket and doesn't hold any future sway to what actions the elected representative takes while in office. It would be the elected representatives fault though. And in this case, Apple is very capable of taking their business elsewhere, meaning they hold all the power in this deal and hold a LOT of options that can very well control what this business does. If the company is preforming actions that Apple felt was wrong then they take their money elsewhere, not turn away and hope things just get better.
Isn't the suicide rate for FoxConn employees somewhat less than the population of China as a whole?
Getting a job at FoxConn would actually reduce your tendency to commit suicide.
Depends really. What ages are FoxConn employees? From what I know of suicide cases, most are done by either late teens/retiring aged workers, both whom have the most gloomy outlooks on life (the teen by no longer having mom and dad and seeing them having worked all their life and got no where leaving the image of the future is hopeless, the elderly for having no more job options and minimal retirement funds). Now if FoxConn doesn't employee these ages then that could very well make their rate of suicides higher since most of the suicide 'population' isn't part of FoxConn's payroll.
What is the 'proof of concept' here? That if you make a bigger fuel tank you'll be able to go further? Sorry, but electric cars have been around for years. You can buy your own from Tesla Motors.
They made a monster battery to get a large mile range. That to me doesn't seem very functional since its still using the same tech, just a bigger fuel supply.
Build a product that is easy to use, reliable, has easy access to all the content most average people want, and is pretty to boot... and people keep buying it! It isn't rocket science
older games at near native speed with parallels or vmware.
Have you even used this software? It's not "native speed." I spend quite a deal of time in vmware fusion and I can tell you that its no where near native speed.
I've used thing like WINE on Linux for the same things, and found it depends on the game/program. Some games (like WoW) will be slower then on Windows, others have run a little faster/smooth, then there are the odd-balls like the game Septerra Core which players BETTER on WINE then on WIndows (Windows tends to cut the last word or 2 from a spoken message, but on WINE they finish every sentence). All in all, its a mixed grab bag.
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then apple needs a desktop mid tower at $800-$1000+
Apple won't do this, it would hurt their brand image. Part of Apples brand image is in the price, aka 'you get what you pay for' theme. The price is higher to give the idea that your paying for a higher-then-normal quality item (even though thats questionable). Its like many other brand items, like Calvin Klein jeans (made in china with other lower brand jeans), many perfumes are sold at a high price to seem more exclusive, drug companies do this even though generic brands will be identical just lower prices, even brand name food items at the grocery store do this (they typically add a more salt so they 'taste better' and seem like they must be better foods)
You guys can sit around and circle jerk to android all day long, but I've yet to meet a person who actually thought it was great and not one person can provide an actual advantage android has to the iphone other than 'OMG CLOSED APP STORE OMGZ!@$!@%' which no rational/balanced person actually gives a fuck about.
Ok... how about removable/replaceble battery? Upgradable memory? Apps that Apple doesn't feel are worthy of entry? (a friend who owned a iPhone thought my NES and SNES emulators on android were the best things ever) Real innovation? (many companies developing for the android means lots more talent at them, and I've found that the iPhone/iPod have been real lacking in those departments in reality lately. Had a friend mention all the 'cool, new functions' the new iPod (2009) was going to have, read like a list of every of music player I had been reading a few months ago yet the iPod ones still had to come out) How about the ability to just drag and drop videos and music on/off an android? (I get many questions how to take music and videos OFF of those things when iTunes puts it on) Or, if your in the US, no AT&T? Functions like tethering that don't need to wait until Apple feels its ok? Multi-tasking? (iPhones are still waiting for that, and even when it comes its only for the 3gs and the new 4g)
Apple's continued success is mostly due to the fact that it all just works.
The problem with this is I've found from my own experience, it doesn't. Most computer help questions I get now are based on how to fix a Mac. Issue is, doesn't matter what computer you use, they can all have problems and do have problems. Claiming it 'just works' is a wrong answer born from marketing. Think, if it 'just works' why are there so many 'How to fix Max (problems x,y,z)' magazines, books and web articles?
In short, you are part of the 2% of the population that experiences pain when drinking carbonation. Why not try putting your 'supertasting' idea to a real test (and not the bad one listed on Wikipedia of drinking tonic water. That one will test you positive for both supertasting AND carbonation issues). Drink a Guinness, and tell me if it hurts. Why Guinness? Because its a stout beer which is a thick beer (and the easiest to find). Its so thick in fact, that it can't be carbonated. The bubbles in a stout are nitrogen so if I'm right, you'll have no problems drinking a it. If I'm wrong then you more likely are a supertaster. But my money is on your just un-able to drink carbonation (which is why you have no food issues, but issues with beer and pop). You might not like the taste, but it will tell you why you have such problems with drinking beer and it always hurting.
Hum, I hate to say this, but thems the rules. if someone could get sick off of eating these undies (here come the raunchy jokes) then it's a valid concern.
No, it's not - these things are containerized. Yes, if the store were producing the fruit puree there, then there's a matter for concern. But your line of inquiry requires every gas station with a soda machine to have a food-service license, and that's not reasonable or useful.
It's more likely that the local bureaucrats dislike the store on religious reasons than it is that somebody could get sick from the undies themselves (what may come to be on those undies after packaging is certainly the greater risk).
FTFA:
KENS 5 has learned of other stores, like Dillard's department stores and several auto parts stores, that are also required to have food permits. The reason is because they sell chocolate bars.
In short, she's not being targeted for religious reasons. She's being targeted because its the local city bylaw and like other shops, she has to follow the rules.
The article is pretty vague, just mentions she claimed to be addicted to a few prescription meds amoungst other things. Problem is, is that all she did? Or did she make a comment like that while attached to a photo of her in her city employee work uniform while holding some prescription bottles? If it's just the joke a didn't really show what her job was then I don't see why she was fired. If she made that joke while making it obvious that she works for the city then its a whole other can of worms. Like any job, when your in your uniform you are considered a reflection of your company and must always act it, and if she was in uniform (in a picture) with this joke then she is a very poor reflection of her job and discipline actions should very well be expected. Just like in other job.
Thats why I prefer playing Guild Wars. No real grind (maybe cash if you really wanted), and a story you can follow. Its combat is more focused on making skill combos then grinding and stats (though stats do help somewhat).
it's expensive to run lots of trials. Spread that cost to the CDC, NIH, the WHO, various teaching hospitals, universities, pharmacos, foreign medical systems... and yes, research gets cheap per study.
As others have mentioned, why not just tether your phone so it's not vendor locked (not to mention smartphone upgrade friendly) or maybe just buy a smartbook and just use something like Skype for phone calls?
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If you watched the Atmosphere and I|O events, the developer machines were split about 60/40 over Mac and Ubuntu. I didn't see Windows in either event's demonstrations.
The amount of Macs over Ubuntu's might be changing though. Remember, Apple and Google have in the past worked very close as partners in a lot of projects (YouTube's h.264 overhaul was done in time to be iPhone ready for when the iPhone launched, amoungst other possible codec/computer language standards. And Eric Schmidt had for 3 years been on the Apple board). Thing is now, Apple has been less and less happy with Google and both companies have been slowly distancing themselves from each other since Google started to overlap Apple in fields like smartphones with Googles Android (which compete's against Apple's iPhone) and Google ChromeOS (which will compete against OSX).
Just after a set number of years nobody seems to have done much on the Mac in the wild. Why?
Because virus/malware writers do it for attention, to show what they can do. When faced with this situation you look at it and go "Do I aim for the Mac/Linux which will effect less then 1 out of every 10 computer users which will have little notice? Or do I aim for Windows that will effect 9 out of every 10 computer users?" If you want attention, you aim for the 9 out of every 10 users. Pwn2Own keeps showing that Macs aren't secure. The hackers don't aim for the Macs to win it since the $10,000 price money would buy a top of the line Mac where the one used isn't the top of the line model, the aim for the Mac because it's the easy target.
Sorry if this is trollish, but Macs are IMO a WORSE security risk than Windows when dealing with spearphishing and other forms of targeted attacks. Security updates are rare. Even if the OS model is better than Microsoft's, it's not a good choice.
Macs are security risks.
Tell me... what IDE runs on ChromeOS? Where's the Emacs for Android? When I see that, we'll talk. Until then, I don't think that Google's going to be able to migrate it's most vital employees (engineers) to "eat their own dogfood." Might be interesting to migrate support staff, but that's not where the heart of Google is.
Well.... since ChromeOS is built on Ubuntu I'll bet that anything that runs on Ubuntu should run on ChromeOS.
Does that mean it's your fault (yes you) that your state has a higher suicide rate than Foxconn? After all, you elected your state government who has done nothing to stamp out suicides... At the end of the day, it's your vote in the box, not your elected representative's.
No, because my vote is in the long run, just a drop in the bucket and doesn't hold any future sway to what actions the elected representative takes while in office. It would be the elected representatives fault though. And in this case, Apple is very capable of taking their business elsewhere, meaning they hold all the power in this deal and hold a LOT of options that can very well control what this business does. If the company is preforming actions that Apple felt was wrong then they take their money elsewhere, not turn away and hope things just get better.
Isn't the suicide rate for FoxConn employees somewhat less than the population of China as a whole?
Getting a job at FoxConn would actually reduce your tendency to commit suicide.
Depends really. What ages are FoxConn employees? From what I know of suicide cases, most are done by either late teens/retiring aged workers, both whom have the most gloomy outlooks on life (the teen by no longer having mom and dad and seeing them having worked all their life and got no where leaving the image of the future is hopeless, the elderly for having no more job options and minimal retirement funds). Now if FoxConn doesn't employee these ages then that could very well make their rate of suicides higher since most of the suicide 'population' isn't part of FoxConn's payroll.
if Google had told her jump on a bridge...
So, *this* is why they removed "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean -- 3462 miles" as part of the route to go from Boston, MA to London, UK! ;-)
Paul B.
Yeah, but you still get to kayak 5404km across the Pacific Ocean when going from Toyko to Sidney. (step number 48)
Video, video record, radio...
That's something called "proof of concept".
What is the 'proof of concept' here? That if you make a bigger fuel tank you'll be able to go further? Sorry, but electric cars have been around for years. You can buy your own from Tesla Motors.
They made a monster battery to get a large mile range. That to me doesn't seem very functional since its still using the same tech, just a bigger fuel supply.
Build a product that is easy to use, reliable, has easy access to all the content most average people want, and is pretty to boot... and people keep buying it! It isn't rocket science
Macs are reliable...
older games at near native speed with parallels or vmware.
Have you even used this software? It's not "native speed." I spend quite a deal of time in vmware fusion and I can tell you that its no where near native speed.
I've used thing like WINE on Linux for the same things, and found it depends on the game/program. Some games (like WoW) will be slower then on Windows, others have run a little faster/smooth, then there are the odd-balls like the game Septerra Core which players BETTER on WINE then on WIndows (Windows tends to cut the last word or 2 from a spoken message, but on WINE they finish every sentence). All in all, its a mixed grab bag.
then apple needs a desktop mid tower at $800-$1000+
Apple won't do this, it would hurt their brand image. Part of Apples brand image is in the price, aka 'you get what you pay for' theme. The price is higher to give the idea that your paying for a higher-then-normal quality item (even though thats questionable). Its like many other brand items, like Calvin Klein jeans (made in china with other lower brand jeans), many perfumes are sold at a high price to seem more exclusive, drug companies do this even though generic brands will be identical just lower prices, even brand name food items at the grocery store do this (they typically add a more salt so they 'taste better' and seem like they must be better foods)
You guys can sit around and circle jerk to android all day long, but I've yet to meet a person who actually thought it was great and not one person can provide an actual advantage android has to the iphone other than 'OMG CLOSED APP STORE OMGZ!@$!@%' which no rational/balanced person actually gives a fuck about.
Ok... how about removable/replaceble battery? Upgradable memory? Apps that Apple doesn't feel are worthy of entry? (a friend who owned a iPhone thought my NES and SNES emulators on android were the best things ever) Real innovation? (many companies developing for the android means lots more talent at them, and I've found that the iPhone/iPod have been real lacking in those departments in reality lately. Had a friend mention all the 'cool, new functions' the new iPod (2009) was going to have, read like a list of every of music player I had been reading a few months ago yet the iPod ones still had to come out) How about the ability to just drag and drop videos and music on/off an android? (I get many questions how to take music and videos OFF of those things when iTunes puts it on) Or, if your in the US, no AT&T? Functions like tethering that don't need to wait until Apple feels its ok? Multi-tasking? (iPhones are still waiting for that, and even when it comes its only for the 3gs and the new 4g)
Apple's continued success is mostly due to the fact that it all just works.
The problem with this is I've found from my own experience, it doesn't. Most computer help questions I get now are based on how to fix a Mac. Issue is, doesn't matter what computer you use, they can all have problems and do have problems. Claiming it 'just works' is a wrong answer born from marketing. Think, if it 'just works' why are there so many 'How to fix Max (problems x,y,z)' magazines, books and web articles?
In short, you are part of the 2% of the population that experiences pain when drinking carbonation. Why not try putting your 'supertasting' idea to a real test (and not the bad one listed on Wikipedia of drinking tonic water. That one will test you positive for both supertasting AND carbonation issues). Drink a Guinness, and tell me if it hurts. Why Guinness? Because its a stout beer which is a thick beer (and the easiest to find). Its so thick in fact, that it can't be carbonated. The bubbles in a stout are nitrogen so if I'm right, you'll have no problems drinking a it. If I'm wrong then you more likely are a supertaster. But my money is on your just un-able to drink carbonation (which is why you have no food issues, but issues with beer and pop). You might not like the taste, but it will tell you why you have such problems with drinking beer and it always hurting.
Hum, I hate to say this, but thems the rules. if someone could get sick off of eating these undies (here come the raunchy jokes) then it's a valid concern.
No, it's not - these things are containerized. Yes, if the store were producing the fruit puree there, then there's a matter for concern. But your line of inquiry requires every gas station with a soda machine to have a food-service license, and that's not reasonable or useful.
It's more likely that the local bureaucrats dislike the store on religious reasons than it is that somebody could get sick from the undies themselves (what may come to be on those undies after packaging is certainly the greater risk).
FTFA:
KENS 5 has learned of other stores, like Dillard's department stores and several auto parts stores, that are also required to have food permits. The reason is because they sell chocolate bars.
In short, she's not being targeted for religious reasons. She's being targeted because its the local city bylaw and like other shops, she has to follow the rules.
The article is pretty vague, just mentions she claimed to be addicted to a few prescription meds amoungst other things. Problem is, is that all she did? Or did she make a comment like that while attached to a photo of her in her city employee work uniform while holding some prescription bottles? If it's just the joke a didn't really show what her job was then I don't see why she was fired. If she made that joke while making it obvious that she works for the city then its a whole other can of worms. Like any job, when your in your uniform you are considered a reflection of your company and must always act it, and if she was in uniform (in a picture) with this joke then she is a very poor reflection of her job and discipline actions should very well be expected. Just like in other job.
The guys who brought us Guinness give us this?
Not the first drunken mistake made...
Welcome to guilty by association.
Thats why I prefer playing Guild Wars. No real grind (maybe cash if you really wanted), and a story you can follow. Its combat is more focused on making skill combos then grinding and stats (though stats do help somewhat).
Kinda like vampires turning into bats was previously.
Yeah, now vampires don't turn into anything. They just get to be sparkly.
it's not expensive to run one trial.
it's expensive to run lots of trials. Spread that cost to the CDC, NIH, the WHO, various teaching hospitals, universities, pharmacos, foreign medical systems... and yes, research gets cheap per study.
Problem is, the companies spend even more money on ads then medical R&D.
As others have mentioned, why not just tether your phone so it's not vendor locked (not to mention smartphone upgrade friendly) or maybe just buy a smartbook and just use something like Skype for phone calls?
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