if the average person downloads a file - obviously with the intention of opening it - and is told that the file is verified by apple then i think it's pretty obvious that a LOT of people would be susceptible to this kind of attack.
The hardware is, in a way, but it has very fast, efficient, and accessible bus.
Huh? It's the same hardware.
In terms of hardware I find it more open because I do not need a driver for every device.
Of course you do, are you sure you understand what a driver is?
I can hook an HP printer to it without installing a driver that takes over my computer and crashes it.
if it's crashing your computer then it is almost certainly an old version of Windows (XP or older) and the fault of the printer manufacturer only providing a kernel-mode print driver.
I can hook any standard still or video camera without having to install a driver that may or may not be safe.
What version of Windows are you running? You shouldn't have any issues with this on any recent version of the OS.
I can't even hook up a USB drive to a MS Windows machine without installing proprietary spyware.
The USB mass storage driver is spyware? You're going to have to be specific about this one because it sounds like a lie to me, an attempt to spread FUD and complete rubbish.
All the above issues seem to be the result of either use of an old, outdated OS/hardware or user error.
Why should average users have control over their computer?
Don't you think it's better that the USER be the one to decide whether they want, say Google Voice, running on their hardware rather than have the manufacturer be able to say to them that it isn't in the best interests of the company to allow it?
Sure you don't want every person running every.scr,.vbs or other shell script they come into contact with but at some point you let the user make that decision otherwise you end up with the solution that is good for the manufacturer rather than what is good for the user.
performance is the main issue, all of a sudden the usually predictable performance of the device from an application developer's perspective now depends on what the user decides to run in the background. apple doesn't like that, much of the device's success is the slickness of it's user interface, which is lost - or at least degraded to some degree - when you have multiple user apps running concurrently. It's not just a matter of RAM, it's also processor time and storage I/O.
i think you are misinterpreting the use of the 'sheep' analogy. it's more a matter of the user blindly going along with the crowd even though it is not the best thing to do. for example in this case accepting the ipad as the best web browsing experience as touted by the manufacturer even though it doesn't support any flash or silverlight.
it's about following the shepherd (in this case steve jobs) blindly regardless of the obvious deficiencies of the path he has chosen for you. otherwise, as you say, everyone could be considered a 'sheep' since everyone follows the crowd in some way, be it laws, society (having a job, home, etc...), etc...
i don't really have an issue with your argument, just your failed analogies.
If a person follows the directions on a frozen dinner and it is too cold but they consume it anyway - as opposed to just heat it up a bit more - that is akin to someone getting an ipad for the supposed 'best way to experience the web', finding out it doesn't support flash and changing their browsing to fit the device instead of choosing a device that fits them.
personally i couldn't care less about whether a device is open or closed, what i care about is whether it does everything i want. if that's on an elegant closed platform then so much the better but most likely the open device will be the one that is capable of that though it may not be as elegant and fashionable.
it's pretty lame if you'll just accept that you don't need a feature like flash because apple says you dont.
Read the article you linked to and/or use some common sense. Number of pixels is NOT resolution, 30 years of experience and you don't know what you're talking about is pretty lame.
Resolution is number of pixels in a given area, hence to compare resolutions you need a COMMON size for that given area, which is one square inch. Number of pixels tells you nothing without the screen size and so comparing displays of different sizes with different amounts of pixels means you use that common term DPI (or PPI).
I hate to have to be Captain Obvious but seriously in 30 years you haven't figured that out? Resolution is measured in DPI because it's obvious that you cannot compare 2 displays of differing sizes and differing numbers of pixels otherwise.
Why not just read the article you linked to? Not only have you managed to disprove your own argument with the link YOU posted but you have done exactly the same thing as a previous poster did with the exact same link. At least READ the article before linking to it.
Note that the use of the word resolution here is misleading. The term “display resolution” is usually used to mean pixel dimensions (e.g., 1920×1200), which does not tell anything about the resolution of the display on which the image is actually formed. In digital measurement the display resolution would be given in pixels per inch.
Failure to read your own link makes you look like an idiot:
The term “display resolution” is usually used to mean pixel dimensions (e.g., 1920×1200), which does not tell anything about the resolution of the display on which the image is actually formed. In digital measurement the display resolution would be given in pixels per inch.
Whoa these guys will be loving these new tablets. Replacement screens for an iphone are expensive enough, the cost to replace the glass on a broken 9.7" screen is going to be huge!
PPI measures dot pitch (well, the reciprocal of dot pitch), not resolution (screen size, resolution, and dot pitch are all related, of course, but they aren't the same thing.)
You're then defining resolution as number of pixels which is useless, the Image Resolution is what you care about because it determines how sharp the image can be and therefore how good the display will look and that is the number of pixels relative to the size of the display, hence the use of dot pitch.
Obviously 1024x768 is larger than 480x320 but when you compare the screen size as well you will see that an image will look sharper on the iPhone screen than the iPad screen.
The difference here is that they have re-created their own device, down to even running virtually the same operating system and just given it a bigger screen (making it less practical) and removed the ability to make phone calls (making it less useful).
With regard to eBooks who knows, sure it's not as good for reading as an e-ink display but they made a phone that has horrible call quality and that was still successful.
As for "applications that Apple doesn't [sic] like", you must mean malware, trojans, and data theft mechanisms. If you want to run those by all means do so. You could save yourself some trouble and just write your date of birth and credit card numbers on a placard and hang that around your neck when you head to the mall.
Yeah cos that's what apps like Google Voice were all about. Don't spout rubbish like that just because you don't know what you're talking about.
Apple either supplies a default root password or it has to build in a backdoor. Otherwise there is no way to upgrade the OS. Which way do you think is more secure?
Or, i dunno, have the user set a password?! Which is then entered when modifications need to be made.
You really think it's a good system to base it all on having a default root password do you?
+1, and all these companies offering 'cloud computing services' are just offering server rental. Cloud computing is just an umbrella buzzword for things we've had since the dawn of the internet, albeit many of them have been through evolutionary changes.
if you're looking to point out incompetence then look to whoever is hiring these people because they are hiring the wrong people!
I primarily work in lower level languages (C/C++, Fortran) but I know a fair amount of C# as well and most certainly understand that ripping on higher level languages and referring to them as 'kiddie' languages will get you technologically left behind and makes you look like an elitist douchebag...you'll end up akin to the grandpa auto mechanic that complains that "real cars didn't have these new-fangled computers in 'em".
They are fairly involved and they are committing patches that they make to the kernel in their use of it but just because they don't need to make that many modifications for it to work effectively doesn't mean they aren't contributing and just because they use linux doesn't mean they are going to donate developers to work on features that they don't need.
Google are doing a lot of good in the open source community contributing to projects that they themselves use, just because you think their relative size doesn't match their contribution doesn't mean they aren't helping out.
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if the average person downloads a file - obviously with the intention of opening it - and is told that the file is verified by apple then i think it's pretty obvious that a LOT of people would be susceptible to this kind of attack.
The hardware is, in a way, but it has very fast, efficient, and accessible bus.
Huh? It's the same hardware.
In terms of hardware I find it more open because I do not need a driver for every device.
Of course you do, are you sure you understand what a driver is?
I can hook an HP printer to it without installing a driver that takes over my computer and crashes it.
if it's crashing your computer then it is almost certainly an old version of Windows (XP or older) and the fault of the printer manufacturer only providing a kernel-mode print driver.
I can hook any standard still or video camera without having to install a driver that may or may not be safe.
What version of Windows are you running? You shouldn't have any issues with this on any recent version of the OS.
I can't even hook up a USB drive to a MS Windows machine without installing proprietary spyware.
The USB mass storage driver is spyware? You're going to have to be specific about this one because it sounds like a lie to me, an attempt to spread FUD and complete rubbish. All the above issues seem to be the result of either use of an old, outdated OS/hardware or user error.
Why should average users have control over their computer?
Don't you think it's better that the USER be the one to decide whether they want, say Google Voice, running on their hardware rather than have the manufacturer be able to say to them that it isn't in the best interests of the company to allow it?
Sure you don't want every person running every .scr, .vbs or other shell script they come into contact with but at some point you let the user make that decision otherwise you end up with the solution that is good for the manufacturer rather than what is good for the user.
performance is the main issue, all of a sudden the usually predictable performance of the device from an application developer's perspective now depends on what the user decides to run in the background. apple doesn't like that, much of the device's success is the slickness of it's user interface, which is lost - or at least degraded to some degree - when you have multiple user apps running concurrently. It's not just a matter of RAM, it's also processor time and storage I/O.
i think you are misinterpreting the use of the 'sheep' analogy. it's more a matter of the user blindly going along with the crowd even though it is not the best thing to do. for example in this case accepting the ipad as the best web browsing experience as touted by the manufacturer even though it doesn't support any flash or silverlight.
it's about following the shepherd (in this case steve jobs) blindly regardless of the obvious deficiencies of the path he has chosen for you. otherwise, as you say, everyone could be considered a 'sheep' since everyone follows the crowd in some way, be it laws, society (having a job, home, etc...), etc...
i don't really have an issue with your argument, just your failed analogies. If a person follows the directions on a frozen dinner and it is too cold but they consume it anyway - as opposed to just heat it up a bit more - that is akin to someone getting an ipad for the supposed 'best way to experience the web', finding out it doesn't support flash and changing their browsing to fit the device instead of choosing a device that fits them. personally i couldn't care less about whether a device is open or closed, what i care about is whether it does everything i want. if that's on an elegant closed platform then so much the better but most likely the open device will be the one that is capable of that though it may not be as elegant and fashionable. it's pretty lame if you'll just accept that you don't need a feature like flash because apple says you dont.
Learn how to program, you likely don't need more than 128 megs of RAM anyways. Learning how to write tight code is the trick.
what makes 128mb the magic number? or was that just a random selection?
Read the article you linked to and/or use some common sense. Number of pixels is NOT resolution, 30 years of experience and you don't know what you're talking about is pretty lame.
Resolution is number of pixels in a given area, hence to compare resolutions you need a COMMON size for that given area, which is one square inch. Number of pixels tells you nothing without the screen size and so comparing displays of different sizes with different amounts of pixels means you use that common term DPI (or PPI).
I hate to have to be Captain Obvious but seriously in 30 years you haven't figured that out? Resolution is measured in DPI because it's obvious that you cannot compare 2 displays of differing sizes and differing numbers of pixels otherwise.
Why not just read the article you linked to? Not only have you managed to disprove your own argument with the link YOU posted but you have done exactly the same thing as a previous poster did with the exact same link. At least READ the article before linking to it.
Note that the use of the word resolution here is misleading. The term “display resolution” is usually used to mean pixel dimensions (e.g., 1920×1200), which does not tell anything about the resolution of the display on which the image is actually formed. In digital measurement the display resolution would be given in pixels per inch.
And i'd say that - for that very reason - the iPad has put the kibosh on any hopes of a ~5" iPhone, which would be MUCH more practical!
Failure to read your own link makes you look like an idiot:
The term “display resolution” is usually used to mean pixel dimensions (e.g., 1920×1200), which does not tell anything about the resolution of the display on which the image is actually formed. In digital measurement the display resolution would be given in pixels per inch.
There are a class of people who would buy Steve Jobs' dump if he shrink wrapped it and put an 'i' in front of it.
Whoa these guys will be loving these new tablets. Replacement screens for an iphone are expensive enough, the cost to replace the glass on a broken 9.7" screen is going to be huge!
This coupled with a car kit will be an amazing GPS device.
No better than an iphone, worse in fact since it's too large to stick on the windshield.
PPI measures dot pitch (well, the reciprocal of dot pitch), not resolution (screen size, resolution, and dot pitch are all related, of course, but they aren't the same thing.)
You're then defining resolution as number of pixels which is useless, the Image Resolution is what you care about because it determines how sharp the image can be and therefore how good the display will look and that is the number of pixels relative to the size of the display, hence the use of dot pitch. Obviously 1024x768 is larger than 480x320 but when you compare the screen size as well you will see that an image will look sharper on the iPhone screen than the iPad screen.
The difference here is that they have re-created their own device, down to even running virtually the same operating system and just given it a bigger screen (making it less practical) and removed the ability to make phone calls (making it less useful). With regard to eBooks who knows, sure it's not as good for reading as an e-ink display but they made a phone that has horrible call quality and that was still successful.
Watching movies? Maybe, but of course Flash is how one watches movies online that is right out.
But who wants to watch movies on a 4:3 screen anyway.
better resolution that iPhone
Actually it has a WORSE resolution than the iPhone (132ppi Vs 163ppi), the screen is just bigger, but not as sharp.
applications that Apple doesn't [sic] like
are not
malware, trojans, and data theft mechanisms.
or do you have no concept of what the above actually are?
As for "applications that Apple doesn't [sic] like", you must mean malware, trojans, and data theft mechanisms. If you want to run those by all means do so. You could save yourself some trouble and just write your date of birth and credit card numbers on a placard and hang that around your neck when you head to the mall.
Yeah cos that's what apps like Google Voice were all about. Don't spout rubbish like that just because you don't know what you're talking about.
Apple either supplies a default root password or it has to build in a backdoor. Otherwise there is no way to upgrade the OS. Which way do you think is more secure?
Or, i dunno, have the user set a password?! Which is then entered when modifications need to be made. You really think it's a good system to base it all on having a default root password do you?
+1, and all these companies offering 'cloud computing services' are just offering server rental. Cloud computing is just an umbrella buzzword for things we've had since the dawn of the internet, albeit many of them have been through evolutionary changes.
if you're looking to point out incompetence then look to whoever is hiring these people because they are hiring the wrong people! I primarily work in lower level languages (C/C++, Fortran) but I know a fair amount of C# as well and most certainly understand that ripping on higher level languages and referring to them as 'kiddie' languages will get you technologically left behind and makes you look like an elitist douchebag...you'll end up akin to the grandpa auto mechanic that complains that "real cars didn't have these new-fangled computers in 'em".
Especially if Cedega runs on the kernel
??? wtf does that even mean?
They are fairly involved and they are committing patches that they make to the kernel in their use of it but just because they don't need to make that many modifications for it to work effectively doesn't mean they aren't contributing and just because they use linux doesn't mean they are going to donate developers to work on features that they don't need. Google are doing a lot of good in the open source community contributing to projects that they themselves use, just because you think their relative size doesn't match their contribution doesn't mean they aren't helping out.