This is not a change, it was clear in the previous thread that the article was completely misinterpreted. The Slashdot summary made no sense at all once it was pointed out that G1 was GPL+Classpath.
Yes, with streaming we can drive the Internet to the Clear Channel Radio where you hear the same songs played over and over everywhere as quickly as possible, by reducing the charges just enough to allow advertising supported radio but not so far that it doesn't keep that independent riffraff out of the loop.
Key word: reasonable. Don't go in saying your friend Mel sells them to you for a penny unless you have a verifiable receipt. And if the can find out you colluded to give an incorrect price to avoid taxes, then you will be truly screwed.
If Mel sells them to me for $1 but Mel bought them for $10 and gave a resale number to avoid paying 80c on the tax, then you're in trouble. But that logic makes no sense for digital goods where Mel doesn't have to buy a product (and either pay sales tax on or give a resale number for) for each copy he sells.
So if I follow 3hive for a few months and download 300 demo tracks from 180 different groups, there's no "sales tax" owed, anywhere, even though The Happies "sold" me a copy of their latest track for $0.00. There's no "base price" for digital data, because nobody avoided paying sales tax on the raw 1s and 0s.
Bottom line, Apple has opened up the iPhone enough that people can build their own software for it with a model that protects the vast majority from malicious code.
Apple had already demonstrated that ability with Mac OS X, and later versions of Mac OS (once they disabled autorun). Microsoft demonstrated that with MS-DOS. Most people were at no risk from malicious code because there was no mechanism for automatically installing or executing untrusted content in the OS or applications shipped with the OS, and the majority of users never installed untrusted code. In the handheld realm, Palm OS, Symbian, Windows CE, all of these handheld operating systems supported the execution of native code without most people being at risk of running untrusted code.
The problem that you're concerned about is so minor that the digital equivalent of washing your hands after handling biotoxins is enough to keep you safe.
And providing a link to a completely unrelated area of programming is evidence that iframe-based popups were invented by advertisers rather than being one of the things that absolutely positioned iframes were explicitly designed to do?
without popup abuse, popup blockers wouldn't have been created
I'm kind of missing where this actually involves an advance in anything. Popup ads and popup blockers are BOTH evils.
That works just fine until a computer illiterate employee didn't back up their files, spent weeks making a file, the HD gives the click of death and your boss says how he read about recovering data from a broken HD and if you can't do it he can "find someone else".
Been there, done that, got quotes from vendors, got approval from the CFO, hand-carried the disk over to the top data recovery house in Houston, and they failed to get the files back,
Professionals don't fight battles they can only lose, and always have a plan B.
Jails aren't the low end, even. UNIX is a multiuser environment, and simply running multiple instances of the server in separate directory trees provides all the isolation you need. If that's not enough, you can use chroot, then jails or the various equivalents on Linux, then lightweight VMs, and full VMs, blades, separate servers...
It's a continuum. The best solution depends on the overhead you can afford to lose and how tight the compartmentalization has to be. For a lot of problems I've seen people using VMs to solve, even jails are kind of heavyweight.
Windows, of course, has a different application model and it's harder to use some of these intermediate solutions... but you should still be able to do things like run multiple Apache servers bound to different addresses in different directory trees and user IDs, instead of taking on the overhead of a VM.
Pros make sure they have good backups. Pros tell their users "nothing on your laptop/desktop is backed up", make that corporate policy, and respond to virus infestations by re-imaging the victim's computers to make sure that everyone's too damn scared of Mordac the Preventer to keep anything on local storage.
I've seen a number of games like this, including one that came with a webcam I bought a couple of years ago. It let you "play" drums displayed on the screen by whaling about with your hands.
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This is not a change, it was clear in the previous thread that the article was completely misinterpreted. The Slashdot summary made no sense at all once it was pointed out that G1 was GPL+Classpath.
I've been blindsided by things too
This seems to have been a bug that ONLY bit you if you selected "classic view" AND "low bandwidth".
Try checking "low bandwidth", "simple design", and/or "no icons"?
Turn off the damn stupid "beta" index.
I wish they'd just frozen the interface about three years ago, but at least you CAN disable most of the gratuitous Javascript crap.
I guess they're not getting enough resale value from those brains they're slurping.
Dumping the USB registers: cool.
Commentator confusing USB registers with code: not cool.
Mod DVD Jon +1
Mod Slashdot -1
Yes, with streaming we can drive the Internet to the Clear Channel Radio where you hear the same songs played over and over everywhere as quickly as possible, by reducing the charges just enough to allow advertising supported radio but not so far that it doesn't keep that independent riffraff out of the loop.
Mod parent up "voice of experience". :(
Key word: reasonable. Don't go in saying your friend Mel sells them to you for a penny unless you have a verifiable receipt.
And if the can find out you colluded to give an incorrect price to avoid taxes, then you will be truly screwed.
If Mel sells them to me for $1 but Mel bought them for $10 and gave a resale number to avoid paying 80c on the tax, then you're in trouble. But that logic makes no sense for digital goods where Mel doesn't have to buy a product (and either pay sales tax on or give a resale number for) for each copy he sells.
So if I follow 3hive for a few months and download 300 demo tracks from 180 different groups, there's no "sales tax" owed, anywhere, even though The Happies "sold" me a copy of their latest track for $0.00. There's no "base price" for digital data, because nobody avoided paying sales tax on the raw 1s and 0s.
Don't forget to buy your drug tax stamps while you're at the post office.
Bottom line, Apple has opened up the iPhone enough that people can build their own software for it with a model that protects the vast majority from malicious code.
Apple had already demonstrated that ability with Mac OS X, and later versions of Mac OS (once they disabled autorun). Microsoft demonstrated that with MS-DOS. Most people were at no risk from malicious code because there was no mechanism for automatically installing or executing untrusted content in the OS or applications shipped with the OS, and the majority of users never installed untrusted code. In the handheld realm, Palm OS, Symbian, Windows CE, all of these handheld operating systems supported the execution of native code without most people being at risk of running untrusted code.
The problem that you're concerned about is so minor that the digital equivalent of washing your hands after handling biotoxins is enough to keep you safe.
And providing a link to a completely unrelated area of programming is evidence that iframe-based popups were invented by advertisers rather than being one of the things that absolutely positioned iframes were explicitly designed to do?
without popup abuse, popup blockers wouldn't have been created
I'm kind of missing where this actually involves an advance in anything. Popup ads and popup blockers are BOTH evils.
Hold on.
You're saying that you believe some functionality of AJAX wouldn't be there if it wasn't for these people who abuse it?
You're kidding, right? Pulling our legs? Extracting the urine?
It's a prank, right?
You're not serious, surely?
Why should I care about what some AC posted?
Seriously.
That works just fine until a computer illiterate employee didn't back up their files, spent weeks making a file, the HD gives the click of death and your boss says how he read about recovering data from a broken HD and if you can't do it he can "find someone else".
Been there, done that, got quotes from vendors, got approval from the CFO, hand-carried the disk over to the top data recovery house in Houston, and they failed to get the files back,
Professionals don't fight battles they can only lose, and always have a plan B.
And middle-management tells pros "we don't have budget for backup systems!"
Pros implement backup systems anyway.
I've "accidentally" deleted many files that only had one copy over the years.
Files more than a day old? You must be doing something silly like keeping files you care about on a Windows desktop or laptop.
I wrote: "simply running multiple instances of the server in separate directory trees provides all the isolation you need".
Of course, I meant: "simply running multiple instances of the server in separate directory trees often provides all the isolation you need".
Note to self: preview your posts, idiot.
Jails aren't the low end, even. UNIX is a multiuser environment, and simply running multiple instances of the server in separate directory trees provides all the isolation you need. If that's not enough, you can use chroot, then jails or the various equivalents on Linux, then lightweight VMs, and full VMs, blades, separate servers...
It's a continuum. The best solution depends on the overhead you can afford to lose and how tight the compartmentalization has to be. For a lot of problems I've seen people using VMs to solve, even jails are kind of heavyweight.
Windows, of course, has a different application model and it's harder to use some of these intermediate solutions... but you should still be able to do things like run multiple Apache servers bound to different addresses in different directory trees and user IDs, instead of taking on the overhead of a VM.
Pros make sure they have good backups. Pros tell their users "nothing on your laptop/desktop is backed up", make that corporate policy, and respond to virus infestations by re-imaging the victim's computers to make sure that everyone's too damn scared of Mordac the Preventer to keep anything on local storage.
Is that all it takes these days to hit the antisocial psychopath arsehole level? Man, all this work for nothing.
It really sucks, doesn't it? And then you have to beat all of Usenet just to get to the Boss fight.
You're right, it must have been a rigged demo, just like Microsoft's.
I Do Not Want to have a video start playing when my mouse happens to hover over it.
Vibrant adspam is bad enough.
I've seen a number of games like this, including one that came with a webcam I bought a couple of years ago. It let you "play" drums displayed on the screen by whaling about with your hands.
I think you must be reading a different thread. The OP was making a joke, not asking a question.