Well, users aren't always right about what they want either, especially when they request specific technical implementation details. The parent poster didn't say what they wanted to actually do or accomplish, just listed a specific technical item that hasn't been fixed. When "users" start asking for implementation details, you're probably better off either not doing anything or getting to the heart of the user's actual needs before implementing anything.
1. The SIP app should be no problem. In fact I think there's already a VOIP app in the app store. The JRE is explicitly forbidden by the default contract, so you'd have to negotiate with Apple.
2. Yet. I would be surprised if this stayed true, especially in hospitals and other fields that use lots of vertical apps.
3. Yep.
So anyway, yeah... porn, some interpreted stuff, etc. isn't allowed. Is that really reason enough to jailbreak? There's a big difference between no apps and some apps; versus lots of apps and a little bit more apps. If you decide to release your apps via a jailbreak method instead of Apple's store, expect to get a LOT less attention now.
Of course; otherwise, it would just be called "R" instead of "R&D".
A company doing research for purely altruistic reasons is probably going to get sued by its shareholders someday. Microsoft plans to make plenty of money by controlling future markets through its R&D efforts. That, and sequestering researchers who had a chance to make a difference behind a "silicon curtain" of obscurity so they don't threaten the status quo. ("If we give those graphics professors from CMU enough toys, maybe we can make them irrelevant without them caring.")
The LLVM approach is interesting. They're basically following Apple's lead here, whose drivers use LLVM intermediate bytecode to compile shaders to either a GPU or CPU depending on hardware availability and heuristics. It basically makes it easier to support new hardware and provide relatively high-performance fallbacks in the case specific hardware capabilities are not present. All using a common architecture instead of one-off development.
There are a lot of people buying iPhones who aren't "Apple fanboys", and these people will start spending actual money on apps. On many phones you'll have some random ringtones and free Java games and such, but you tend not to have a large catalog of apps you paid for. On the iPhone, if you consider moving to another phone after spending a lot of money on apps you'll have to throw it away and re-purchase everything.
Look, I'm not actually complaining. I own an iPod Touch and plan on paying the $10 for the upgrade and buying some of the really cool stuff I've seen. I'm just saying... it's an interesting market trend. It also makes me think Jobs' allergic reaction to Java won't dissipate anytime soon...
The 500+ figure includes each e-book as a separate "app", but still there's a pretty good showing with much more to come. A lot of it is free or very cheap.
Still, if people thought FairPlay DRM was a lock-in factor for iPods, they haven't seen anything yet. Android is going to be about 6 months too late to intercept the wave of lock-in happening right now with the app store. I'll bet Stallman is firing up a good rant as we speak...
Speak for yourself, and don't try to speak for "us geeks". There are a lot of geeks who use the GUI for almost everything. Yes, I like to have tcsh available on my MacOS Terminal (I know some prefer bash), but the idea that preferring a GUI costs me geek cred (finally!) died over a decade ago.
Scientists, sure, but also administrators, politicians, construction workers, businessmen, etc. You can hand-wave and say that perhaps it would have taken twice as long but still gotten done somewhere else. But, with inflation, twice as long means three times more expensive (the price goes up, not down). And then it would eventually be canceled and re-prioritized. So yes, it was the combination of the US's strong economy, lenient immigration policies, talent, organization, etc. It all came together in a way that hasn't been duplicated yet, here or anywhere.
It will be interesting to see if the Chinese succeed next. They've got a lot of people and their policies have come a long way, but I'm not convinced they have a system that really lets the talent bubble to the top yet. If the next Einstein is black, gay, deformed, blind, foreign and/or a woman, I still think the US has a better chance than most countries of bringing out their talents to the benefit of the country and the world.
No, it's a two-party system because of winner-takes-all state counting and the electoral college system. In such a system, any third party takes votes away from whichever of the primary parties most closely matches their goals. Thus, any libertarian or green party candidate running for President is only hurting their cause by making it less likely the representative that best supports their view wins. And since the only way to change it is in Congress and not the Executive branch, and they know this, you know they're doing it intentionally for publicity.
So sure, fall for the publicity stunts if you want, but don't think they have your interests at heart.
The way it's SUPPOSED to work is that the candidates are supposed to campaign hard, build supporters, negotiate concessions from the primary parties, then pledge their supporters to the candidate that agrees to support their interests. Thus even minorities are represented and the will of the people isn't subverted by a split vote.
I would venture to say that no country has ever really produced the quantity and quality of purely home-grown talent necessary for anything like Apollo. The whole point of the United States used to be that it was where the best and brightest could excel, and where hard work could be rewarded. Any time you have a nation that attracts these people you end up ahead. I agree that recent US policy has made it both more difficult and less desirable for such people to come here, but disagree that it has much to do with our educational system. No educational system could compete.
Asimov's short story collections, as opposed to his novels, are great for younger readers. Personally, I prefer them to his longer works anyway even as an adult, but for younger readers they offer more concise stories that are easier to wrap your head around.
Some easier-reading technical science fiction (if you'd like your kid to get interested in geekier lines of thought) includes Rick Cook's Wizardy series, and Xorandor by Christine Brooke-Rose.
The thing with mashups is that they often break the revenue model of the folks providing the content. Stripping ads and/or using content without "signing up" for things is sometimes like demanding value for free. So go ahead and make a mashup of the user interface-- just host it yourself and use your own database.
That is an odd claim to make when you consider that all of the commercially successful open-source software products are GNU licensed.
That is an odd claim to make because it's utterly untrue. The flaw in your logic stems from your assumption that, like GNU requires, all open-sourcing be an all-or-nothing deal. There is a LOT of BSD-style licensed code and libraries used within successful commercial code. My guess is far more than is GNU licensed, but there's no way of knowing since BSD doesn't shove its license down the end-user's throats.
Stress and anxiety can certainly depress the immune system, and it's recently come to light that the immune system in some healthy adults has some non-zero chance of killing off very early-stage cancers. In addition, stress and anxiety are often linked with sedentary lifestyles, and exercise has been shown to actually change which genes are expressed and help fight all sorts of maladies.
So yeah, live a healthy life-- mentally and physically-- and you probably reduce your chances of being diagnosed with cancer. But I still highly doubt the direct causal relationship between bad thought and cancer.
All of what you say is completely false and actually undermines legitimate disagreement with the current US administration. Al Qaeda ("The Base" in arabic) exists, and is fairly clearly delineated from other terrorist organizations. It's true that sometimes the Bush administration makes tenuous claims regarding Al Qaeda collaboration (eg Saddam Hussein pre-9/11), but they pretty clearly don't lump all terrorists in with Al Qaeda. Hamas, Hezbollah, FARC, whatever... there's plenty to go around. Osama Bin Laden tapes have actually been verified as much as possible by plenty of video experts, but these days nothing can ever be proven "beyond any doubt" when it comes to media dispatches.
FOX News is what's tuned in on every military base I've been on, and many of the government contractors. It's being watched. By a lot of people. Who decry CNN as being "left wing".
Please don't try to use Wired as a valid source for an argument. It's the Cosmo of our industry.
As usual, almost no bill that comes before Congress is a single-issue bill. They're all full of a huge number of provisions that any given senator is going to support and oppose. The way our government works is to find a bill that gives everyone enough that it gets the votes despite the opposition. Perhaps Obama feels strongly enough about something else in the bill that even the wiretapping is worth it?
In any case, since it's looking like we'll have a Democratic executive and legislative branch come January, perhaps he's not as worried about the ongoing issues and doesn't see a one-time pardon as THAT big a deal.
licensing it under the CDDL is like dangling a carrot out, but saying only one in ever ten people can have a bite.
Actually, it's like saying that only 9.5 out of every 10 people can have a bite... among all the OSes out there, I think only Linux has problems, and that's a tiny fraction of the desktop OSes out there.
Now that the source of the proof-of-concept is publicly available, we can expect that future trojans won't just politely request your password.
What, is this insinuating that they're going to rudely ask for your password? Because the ARDAgent vulnerability is really easy to patch... you can easily do it yourself and I'm sure Apple will have a patch any day.
But it still comes down to the user. While there aren't any viruses in the wild for MacOS X, there are always going to be trojans for every OS. It's a lot easier to fool the user than to fool the software. Once you've convinced the user somehow to type their password, it doesn't matter how much security you've got.
Nope. Your two sentences are complete non-sequitors. Gates was a bad programmer from all the reports I've heard, and if his skill at such was linked to Microsoft's success, they would have disappeared long ago. No, it was simply his mother's connections with IBM, his trust fund, and his ruthlessness to take others work and resell it that gave Microsoft the MS-DOS and Windows monopoly. And with a cash cow like that, you have plenty of room to get things wrong and make enemies without having to bet the company, which is a great way to succeed.
Bill Gates had a business mind AND he could program. That is why Microsoft came out on top.
No, not really. Bill Gates had a business mind AND a ruthlessness, and was in the software industry at the right time with rich parents. That's why Microsoft came out on top. Bill Gates' ability to program (such as it was) had virtually no effect on Microsoft's success that I can see.
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Well, users aren't always right about what they want either, especially when they request specific technical implementation details. The parent poster didn't say what they wanted to actually do or accomplish, just listed a specific technical item that hasn't been fixed. When "users" start asking for implementation details, you're probably better off either not doing anything or getting to the heart of the user's actual needs before implementing anything.
1. The SIP app should be no problem. In fact I think there's already a VOIP app in the app store. The JRE is explicitly forbidden by the default contract, so you'd have to negotiate with Apple.
2. Yet. I would be surprised if this stayed true, especially in hospitals and other fields that use lots of vertical apps.
3. Yep.
So anyway, yeah... porn, some interpreted stuff, etc. isn't allowed. Is that really reason enough to jailbreak? There's a big difference between no apps and some apps; versus lots of apps and a little bit more apps. If you decide to release your apps via a jailbreak method instead of Apple's store, expect to get a LOT less attention now.
R&D means product development.
Of course; otherwise, it would just be called "R" instead of "R&D".
A company doing research for purely altruistic reasons is probably going to get sued by its shareholders someday. Microsoft plans to make plenty of money by controlling future markets through its R&D efforts. That, and sequestering researchers who had a chance to make a difference behind a "silicon curtain" of obscurity so they don't threaten the status quo. ("If we give those graphics professors from CMU enough toys, maybe we can make them irrelevant without them caring.")
The LLVM approach is interesting. They're basically following Apple's lead here, whose drivers use LLVM intermediate bytecode to compile shaders to either a GPU or CPU depending on hardware availability and heuristics. It basically makes it easier to support new hardware and provide relatively high-performance fallbacks in the case specific hardware capabilities are not present. All using a common architecture instead of one-off development.
There are a lot of people buying iPhones who aren't "Apple fanboys", and these people will start spending actual money on apps. On many phones you'll have some random ringtones and free Java games and such, but you tend not to have a large catalog of apps you paid for. On the iPhone, if you consider moving to another phone after spending a lot of money on apps you'll have to throw it away and re-purchase everything.
Look, I'm not actually complaining. I own an iPod Touch and plan on paying the $10 for the upgrade and buying some of the really cool stuff I've seen. I'm just saying... it's an interesting market trend. It also makes me think Jobs' allergic reaction to Java won't dissipate anytime soon...
The 500+ figure includes each e-book as a separate "app", but still there's a pretty good showing with much more to come. A lot of it is free or very cheap.
Still, if people thought FairPlay DRM was a lock-in factor for iPods, they haven't seen anything yet. Android is going to be about 6 months too late to intercept the wave of lock-in happening right now with the app store. I'll bet Stallman is firing up a good rant as we speak...
Nope. "Appropriate" doesn't imply any such thing. (Don't you even TRY to look your words up before telling someone they got a definition wrong?)
I know Slashdot hates to confront it, but illegal copying really is described by the verb "to steal".
Bootlegging works, but "steal" is just as accurate and descriptive.
Steal: 1 a: to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully
Speak for yourself, and don't try to speak for "us geeks". There are a lot of geeks who use the GUI for almost everything. Yes, I like to have tcsh available on my MacOS Terminal (I know some prefer bash), but the idea that preferring a GUI costs me geek cred (finally!) died over a decade ago.
Scientists, sure, but also administrators, politicians, construction workers, businessmen, etc. You can hand-wave and say that perhaps it would have taken twice as long but still gotten done somewhere else. But, with inflation, twice as long means three times more expensive (the price goes up, not down). And then it would eventually be canceled and re-prioritized. So yes, it was the combination of the US's strong economy, lenient immigration policies, talent, organization, etc. It all came together in a way that hasn't been duplicated yet, here or anywhere.
It will be interesting to see if the Chinese succeed next. They've got a lot of people and their policies have come a long way, but I'm not convinced they have a system that really lets the talent bubble to the top yet. If the next Einstein is black, gay, deformed, blind, foreign and/or a woman, I still think the US has a better chance than most countries of bringing out their talents to the benefit of the country and the world.
No, it's a two-party system because of winner-takes-all state counting and the electoral college system. In such a system, any third party takes votes away from whichever of the primary parties most closely matches their goals. Thus, any libertarian or green party candidate running for President is only hurting their cause by making it less likely the representative that best supports their view wins. And since the only way to change it is in Congress and not the Executive branch, and they know this, you know they're doing it intentionally for publicity.
So sure, fall for the publicity stunts if you want, but don't think they have your interests at heart.
The way it's SUPPOSED to work is that the candidates are supposed to campaign hard, build supporters, negotiate concessions from the primary parties, then pledge their supporters to the candidate that agrees to support their interests. Thus even minorities are represented and the will of the people isn't subverted by a split vote.
I would venture to say that no country has ever really produced the quantity and quality of purely home-grown talent necessary for anything like Apollo. The whole point of the United States used to be that it was where the best and brightest could excel, and where hard work could be rewarded. Any time you have a nation that attracts these people you end up ahead. I agree that recent US policy has made it both more difficult and less desirable for such people to come here, but disagree that it has much to do with our educational system. No educational system could compete.
Asimov's short story collections, as opposed to his novels, are great for younger readers. Personally, I prefer them to his longer works anyway even as an adult, but for younger readers they offer more concise stories that are easier to wrap your head around.
Some easier-reading technical science fiction (if you'd like your kid to get interested in geekier lines of thought) includes Rick Cook's Wizardy series, and Xorandor by Christine Brooke-Rose.
The thing with mashups is that they often break the revenue model of the folks providing the content. Stripping ads and/or using content without "signing up" for things is sometimes like demanding value for free. So go ahead and make a mashup of the user interface-- just host it yourself and use your own database.
That is an odd claim to make when you consider that all of the commercially successful open-source software products are GNU licensed.
That is an odd claim to make because it's utterly untrue. The flaw in your logic stems from your assumption that, like GNU requires, all open-sourcing be an all-or-nothing deal. There is a LOT of BSD-style licensed code and libraries used within successful commercial code. My guess is far more than is GNU licensed, but there's no way of knowing since BSD doesn't shove its license down the end-user's throats.
Stress and anxiety can certainly depress the immune system, and it's recently come to light that the immune system in some healthy adults has some non-zero chance of killing off very early-stage cancers. In addition, stress and anxiety are often linked with sedentary lifestyles, and exercise has been shown to actually change which genes are expressed and help fight all sorts of maladies.
So yeah, live a healthy life-- mentally and physically-- and you probably reduce your chances of being diagnosed with cancer. But I still highly doubt the direct causal relationship between bad thought and cancer.
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All of what you say is completely false and actually undermines legitimate disagreement with the current US administration. Al Qaeda ("The Base" in arabic) exists, and is fairly clearly delineated from other terrorist organizations. It's true that sometimes the Bush administration makes tenuous claims regarding Al Qaeda collaboration (eg Saddam Hussein pre-9/11), but they pretty clearly don't lump all terrorists in with Al Qaeda. Hamas, Hezbollah, FARC, whatever... there's plenty to go around. Osama Bin Laden tapes have actually been verified as much as possible by plenty of video experts, but these days nothing can ever be proven "beyond any doubt" when it comes to media dispatches.
FOX News is what's tuned in on every military base I've been on, and many of the government contractors. It's being watched. By a lot of people. Who decry CNN as being "left wing".
What about the fact that it doesn't say "guns", just "arms"? I want my personal nuclear weapons!
Please don't try to use Wired as a valid source for an argument. It's the Cosmo of our industry.
As usual, almost no bill that comes before Congress is a single-issue bill. They're all full of a huge number of provisions that any given senator is going to support and oppose. The way our government works is to find a bill that gives everyone enough that it gets the votes despite the opposition. Perhaps Obama feels strongly enough about something else in the bill that even the wiretapping is worth it?
In any case, since it's looking like we'll have a Democratic executive and legislative branch come January, perhaps he's not as worried about the ongoing issues and doesn't see a one-time pardon as THAT big a deal.
licensing it under the CDDL is like dangling a carrot out, but saying only one in ever ten people can have a bite.
Actually, it's like saying that only 9.5 out of every 10 people can have a bite... among all the OSes out there, I think only Linux has problems, and that's a tiny fraction of the desktop OSes out there.
Now that the source of the proof-of-concept is publicly available, we can expect that future trojans won't just politely request your password.
What, is this insinuating that they're going to rudely ask for your password? Because the ARDAgent vulnerability is really easy to patch... you can easily do it yourself and I'm sure Apple will have a patch any day.
But it still comes down to the user. While there aren't any viruses in the wild for MacOS X, there are always going to be trojans for every OS. It's a lot easier to fool the user than to fool the software. Once you've convinced the user somehow to type their password, it doesn't matter how much security you've got.
Nope. Your two sentences are complete non-sequitors. Gates was a bad programmer from all the reports I've heard, and if his skill at such was linked to Microsoft's success, they would have disappeared long ago. No, it was simply his mother's connections with IBM, his trust fund, and his ruthlessness to take others work and resell it that gave Microsoft the MS-DOS and Windows monopoly. And with a cash cow like that, you have plenty of room to get things wrong and make enemies without having to bet the company, which is a great way to succeed.
Bill Gates had a business mind AND he could program. That is why Microsoft came out on top.
No, not really. Bill Gates had a business mind AND a ruthlessness, and was in the software industry at the right time with rich parents. That's why Microsoft came out on top. Bill Gates' ability to program (such as it was) had virtually no effect on Microsoft's success that I can see.