Nowadays they're so hand-cuffed by not wanting to hurt little Billy's feelings by telling him he can't spell, I can see why she would be ranting about the things she'd like to say.
People need to harden the fuck up. Billy isn't 'differently-abled', he's just bad at it, and he's probably good at something else so just tell him he's bad at this. No-one is going to want to teach if teachers don't have the power to put kids in their place when they get out of line.
It's getting to the stage when a teacher's response to 'fuck you, you fat slut' can be little more than 'thankyou sir may i have another?'.
I personally believe we invaded for long term regional stability and in altruistic hope of bringing democracy. Democracy in of itself brings stability, better human rights and economic expansion. All of which are good for the economy (consumers at some point)
Well it's either selfless or it isn't...if the result is a good US economy then it's extremely highly unlikely to be altruistic.
You decided that one of two things must be wrong, either their assumptions or yours. You implicitly asserted that your assumption was 100% correct and theirs was 100% wrong when you then asked your question.
Lol...ok. I don't know how you derive that from:
"Highend by what metric?"
Clearly you're reading WAY too much into that and letting some personal issue get in the way of being able to comprehend it.
This is the first time you asserted that "performance" was the metric you would default to.
Wrong, i stated it much earlier. Read the comments.
And you still have hinted but never stated that you assert that Apple PC products are of insufficient performance to be classified in the "high end" category.
Wrong again, I didn't hint that at all. Of course many of them are, i agree with you, just not *all* of them, like you stated in the post i originally questioned.
So I'm taking it to mean that you are implicitly asserting that without the balls to actually overtly assert that. If you'd just stated that in the first place, I could have dismissed you as uninformed or biased.
Your failure to be able to comprehend what i've written isn't my problem. I haven't hinted anything, or implicitly asserted anything at all. All i did was ask you a question and somehow you've gotten all bent out of shape over it. I didn't infer anything at all, i just asked a question.
Instead your inability to actually state your opinion, but only question others, was curious.
How is that curious? You stated an opinion and i asked a question about it, I don't *have* to have an opinion on it.
Now it's tiring and obviously intellectually dishonest.
That's obviously a lie, you responded to that and im betting you'll respond to this.
If you weren't a prick, you'd have just said "They may be expensive, but they don't have the performance to back it up." Since that's a factual statement, and incorrect, I could have just given you the attention you deserved - none.
A prick? Asking a question offends you that much? Wow. I think you're taking this a bit too personally and coming to conclusions based on stuff that really isn't there at all. And why would i write that, it's obviously not true because that's not indicative of their entire range. Their lower-end (price) is lower-end (performance) as well.
So if you think the price makes them fall in the "high end" category, as you've asserted, then you have asserted that the performance is as well. If you assert the price is high end and the performance isn't, then you are ignorant or a liar. Either way, have fun with your incorrect prejudices.
Wow, you really ARE taking this WAY too personally and seem to be reading stuff that clearly just isn't written. I didn't come up with that assertion at all.
The two features that make this attack possible - embedding icons into executables and hiding extensions by default - were both introduced in Windows 95. The countermeasure of UAC wasn't introduced until Windows Vista.
No, had i come to a conclusion based on that assumption it would have been wrong, which is why i asked.
and used your wrongness to assume someone else was wrong
No, you'll note that I *asked* what your metric was, I didn't reply under the assumption that it was performance.
and questioned their wrongness indirectly in a manner that
No, i didn't question your 'wrongness' in any manner, indirect or otherwise.
so far in a massive pile of posts, hasn't actually shown what you think and why you think it so strongly that you'd bother to comment repeatedly on it.
I thought I made it quite clear, though you seem to fail to understand it. I would have assumed that 'highend' in terms of computers would generally be referred to in terms of performance, however given that your figures did not support such an assumption i asked what your metric was. Is that so hard to understand? I'm not refuting your argument, i'm not attacking your correctness or anything like that I simply asked a question, and since then i've been answering questions you've been asking me.
I take it you do not think that Apple is "high end" by any reasonable definition, right? If that is correct, can you explain why you think so?
No, that is not correct. I do think they represent the highend in terms of price (and probably a fair percentage in quality too). You'll note i haven't questioned that at all, i've just been answering your questions because you've continued to ask them.
A file name lolcat.jpg.exe is a mighty tempting thing to double click on. Granted, the user is the vector. But then, the OS is not helping by making it easy to dupe people into thinking a file is an image vs an exe.
If, when UAC pops up to tell the user that the *program* lolcat.jpg.exe is about to make changes to the system, the user still clicks allow/yes/whatever then there's really not much more you can do.
So then why not ask for support for the assumed metric, rather than irrelevantly questioning the assumed metric?
Obviously because the assumption was wrong. I'm not going to flat out tell you your comment is wrong without knowing what you're basing it on, I figured i'd ask first.
If you intend on activating a data plan and staying on that data plan then, yes the price is not inflated but what if you wanted a cellular model but did not want to activate right away?
Well obviously that wouldn't be the same circumstances then would it?
Outside of the US at least, you can go month to month so that you can activate it for a month, cancel, then activate it again a few months later in the country you bought it or some other country.
Unlikely they will even have the same sort of activation internationally, just like with the iphone4, it probably won't be tied to any carrier for activation outside the US.
Because the GPL means you have to share the freedoms you receive with others.
BSD-style licenses allow you to take those freedoms away
GPL explicitly takes freedoms away. BSD gives you *more* freedom. BSD allows you to interact with a lot more people who don't share your ideals as it gives you more freedom and places few restrictions, GPL (even more with V3) on the other hand forces any collaborator to conform to a much more restrictive set of ideals.
Which means LG going after Sony in this manner could probably result in a retaliatory action
RTFA...or even the summary. This *is* the retaliatory action, taken by LG after Sony targeted its smartphones. This is how patent disputes work, company one files a complaint against company two, company two files a retaliatory complaint and they settle with a cross-licensing deal.
In fact it's likely to be a good thing, programmers will need to make the most of current hardware rather than skipping out on optimisations just because they know new faster hardware is always around the corner. Just look at the way the graphics quality of games on consoles increases over the lifetime even though the hardware stays the same.
Seems more like major revisions will come in line with consoles, this doesn't necessarily mean the pace of innovation will slow, just the releases will be further apart.
Galaxy Tab literally has less than half the screen of iPad
In terms of size yes, but a higher resolution just like the display of the iphone4 over its larger (size) competitors, resulting in sharper images and text. That's one thing about the ipad that annoys me, the res could be a bit higher, but i prefer the 9.7" screen to use even if it is less portable.
less than half the apps. That is completely indisputable.
While I chose an ipad over a galaxy tab i'd certainly disagree with the amount of apps being a valid metric, there are so many useless apps in the apple app store and so many bad clones of good software.
Apple is known for charging premium prices in the PC market, where they only make high-end PC's and have 90% of the high-end market, which means everyone else only makes cheap, low-end PC's.
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Maximo uses Java. I only know this as my fiance is an admin for a company that uses Maximo.
Good to see some chicks on /.
Can you name one large corporation that doesn't have Java just about everywhere?
Microsoft :D
Just in case someone takes that seriously - there's always a few that sarcasm is wasted on - I'll state it's the exception, not the rule.
Not always. Any JVM language can produce bytecode that converts to Dalvik representation.
The standard Android APIs are in Java though so unless you're not using any standard Android APIs you're going to have to write *some* Java.
duh but he was saying windows was very open for years
While we're at it, new vulnerability discovered in Irix!
Nowadays they're so hand-cuffed by not wanting to hurt little Billy's feelings by telling him he can't spell, I can see why she would be ranting about the things she'd like to say.
People need to harden the fuck up. Billy isn't 'differently-abled', he's just bad at it, and he's probably good at something else so just tell him he's bad at this. No-one is going to want to teach if teachers don't have the power to put kids in their place when they get out of line.
It's getting to the stage when a teacher's response to 'fuck you, you fat slut' can be little more than 'thankyou sir may i have another?'.
But when a teacher does the same to their students, it is justifiable to suspend them?
You can't have it both ways!
Perhaps some derivation of 'the customer is always right'?
For the record I agree with you wholeheartedly, im just thinking of how they are justifying this action.
I personally believe we invaded for long term regional stability and in altruistic hope of bringing democracy. Democracy in of itself brings stability, better human rights and economic expansion. All of which are good for the economy (consumers at some point)
Well it's either selfless or it isn't...if the result is a good US economy then it's extremely highly unlikely to be altruistic.
You decided that one of two things must be wrong, either their assumptions or yours. You implicitly asserted that your assumption was 100% correct and theirs was 100% wrong when you then asked your question.
Lol...ok. I don't know how you derive that from:
"Highend by what metric?"
Clearly you're reading WAY too much into that and letting some personal issue get in the way of being able to comprehend it.
This is the first time you asserted that "performance" was the metric you would default to.
Wrong, i stated it much earlier. Read the comments.
And you still have hinted but never stated that you assert that Apple PC products are of insufficient performance to be classified in the "high end" category.
Wrong again, I didn't hint that at all. Of course many of them are, i agree with you, just not *all* of them, like you stated in the post i originally questioned.
So I'm taking it to mean that you are implicitly asserting that without the balls to actually overtly assert that. If you'd just stated that in the first place, I could have dismissed you as uninformed or biased.
Your failure to be able to comprehend what i've written isn't my problem. I haven't hinted anything, or implicitly asserted anything at all. All i did was ask you a question and somehow you've gotten all bent out of shape over it. I didn't infer anything at all, i just asked a question.
Instead your inability to actually state your opinion, but only question others, was curious.
How is that curious? You stated an opinion and i asked a question about it, I don't *have* to have an opinion on it.
Now it's tiring and obviously intellectually dishonest.
That's obviously a lie, you responded to that and im betting you'll respond to this.
If you weren't a prick, you'd have just said "They may be expensive, but they don't have the performance to back it up." Since that's a factual statement, and incorrect, I could have just given you the attention you deserved - none.
A prick? Asking a question offends you that much? Wow. I think you're taking this a bit too personally and coming to conclusions based on stuff that really isn't there at all. And why would i write that, it's obviously not true because that's not indicative of their entire range. Their lower-end (price) is lower-end (performance) as well.
So if you think the price makes them fall in the "high end" category, as you've asserted, then you have asserted that the performance is as well. If you assert the price is high end and the performance isn't, then you are ignorant or a liar. Either way, have fun with your incorrect prejudices.
Wow, you really ARE taking this WAY too personally and seem to be reading stuff that clearly just isn't written. I didn't come up with that assertion at all.
The two features that make this attack possible - embedding icons into executables and hiding extensions by default - were both introduced in Windows 95. The countermeasure of UAC wasn't introduced until Windows Vista.
If you're still running windows 95 your a moron.
So you were wrong by your own standards
No, had i come to a conclusion based on that assumption it would have been wrong, which is why i asked.
and used your wrongness to assume someone else was wrong
No, you'll note that I *asked* what your metric was, I didn't reply under the assumption that it was performance.
and questioned their wrongness indirectly in a manner that
No, i didn't question your 'wrongness' in any manner, indirect or otherwise.
so far in a massive pile of posts, hasn't actually shown what you think and why you think it so strongly that you'd bother to comment repeatedly on it.
I thought I made it quite clear, though you seem to fail to understand it. I would have assumed that 'highend' in terms of computers would generally be referred to in terms of performance, however given that your figures did not support such an assumption i asked what your metric was. Is that so hard to understand? I'm not refuting your argument, i'm not attacking your correctness or anything like that I simply asked a question, and since then i've been answering questions you've been asking me.
I take it you do not think that Apple is "high end" by any reasonable definition, right? If that is correct, can you explain why you think so?
No, that is not correct. I do think they represent the highend in terms of price (and probably a fair percentage in quality too). You'll note i haven't questioned that at all, i've just been answering your questions because you've continued to ask them.
A file name lolcat.jpg.exe is a mighty tempting thing to double click on. Granted, the user is the vector. But then, the OS is not helping by making it easy to dupe people into thinking a file is an image vs an exe.
If, when UAC pops up to tell the user that the *program* lolcat.jpg.exe is about to make changes to the system, the user still clicks allow/yes/whatever then there's really not much more you can do.
I don't see why Nintendo can't get in on the action too.
They'd cut into their own DS sales.
So then why not ask for support for the assumed metric, rather than irrelevantly questioning the assumed metric?
Obviously because the assumption was wrong. I'm not going to flat out tell you your comment is wrong without knowing what you're basing it on, I figured i'd ask first.
Then why not assume the obvious?
Because i haven't seen anything to support your original assertion based on that metric, so i was wondering what metric you had used.
isn't this pretty obvious? Telling people what opinions they can and can't express in their own time is not going to go down well.
If you intend on activating a data plan and staying on that data plan then, yes the price is not inflated but what if you wanted a cellular model but did not want to activate right away?
Well obviously that wouldn't be the same circumstances then would it?
Outside of the US at least, you can go month to month so that you can activate it for a month, cancel, then activate it again a few months later in the country you bought it or some other country.
Unlikely they will even have the same sort of activation internationally, just like with the iphone4, it probably won't be tied to any carrier for activation outside the US.
lots, but the most obvious one that springs to mind in this context is probably performance.
Because the GPL means you have to share the freedoms you receive with others.
BSD-style licenses allow you to take those freedoms away
GPL explicitly takes freedoms away. BSD gives you *more* freedom. BSD allows you to interact with a lot more people who don't share your ideals as it gives you more freedom and places few restrictions, GPL (even more with V3) on the other hand forces any collaborator to conform to a much more restrictive set of ideals.
Which means LG going after Sony in this manner could probably result in a retaliatory action
RTFA...or even the summary. This *is* the retaliatory action, taken by LG after Sony targeted its smartphones. This is how patent disputes work, company one files a complaint against company two, company two files a retaliatory complaint and they settle with a cross-licensing deal.
So highend in terms of price?
In fact it's likely to be a good thing, programmers will need to make the most of current hardware rather than skipping out on optimisations just because they know new faster hardware is always around the corner. Just look at the way the graphics quality of games on consoles increases over the lifetime even though the hardware stays the same.
Seems more like major revisions will come in line with consoles, this doesn't necessarily mean the pace of innovation will slow, just the releases will be further apart.
Galaxy Tab literally has less than half the screen of iPad
In terms of size yes, but a higher resolution just like the display of the iphone4 over its larger (size) competitors, resulting in sharper images and text. That's one thing about the ipad that annoys me, the res could be a bit higher, but i prefer the 9.7" screen to use even if it is less portable.
less than half the apps. That is completely indisputable.
While I chose an ipad over a galaxy tab i'd certainly disagree with the amount of apps being a valid metric, there are so many useless apps in the apple app store and so many bad clones of good software.
Apple is known for charging premium prices in the PC market, where they only make high-end PC's and have 90% of the high-end market, which means everyone else only makes cheap, low-end PC's.
Highend by what metric?