Right, so we'll just use the emulator forever, shall we? Hard to develop when we can't even test it on the fucking units.
I don't drive into the office and take a seat at one of the workstations in the QA lab every time I want to do some web browsing.
Why would anybody use their personal mobile phone as an experimental testbed for software development when the risk of exactly this kind of thing is so prevalent?
Is it too conservative to point out that you don't introduce new technology to a culture by selling it to the poorest of them, or even the "average"?
Where's the new technology in this device? It's just the latest generation of trailing-edge "budget" components, packaged to minimize price, rather than maximize performance as has been the trend in personal computer sales for the past twenty years or more.
1.6 GHZ VIA processor and "crappy" (by today's standards) graphics, if even remotely able to run Vista home edition (which is likely the "Vista" referred to) is still enough to do MAME and just about any other emulation you come up with. Think about it, really.
Depends on what you mean by "doing MAME". That machine should be able to handle "classic" games like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong without breaking a sweat, but any arcade game that ran on hardware more recent than Neo-Geo will likely stutter to the point of unplayability.
As any f-transform will tell you a human voice is going at about an infinite number of different sized, distinct sin waves. Maybe I just have a huge pet peave when I hear things like this because the only thing that actually produce a single frequency is an object
Any Fourier transform will also tell you that a pitched sound (like a piano note, or a flute, or a human voice singing) has a 'fundamental' frequency that's noticeably stronger than other frequencies. And the next-strongest frequencies are usually multiples of that fundamental within the harmonic series.
With this type of frequency analysis, it is not hard to quantize a sung note to one of the 12 equal-tempered pitches, even in real time.
I'm sure there is a hidden back door to the RIAA to get your IP address so they can come knock on your door because you stole someones music in singing your own songs
The Recording Industry Association of America only gives a damn if you steal recordings of music.
Steal a melody or chord progression and the thugs that come to cap your ass will be ASCAP's.
developers are more content to repackage old code, than to rewrite it. This is the same mentality thats screwing Vista development too. Developers are just plain LAZY.
Laziness is a virtue to developers, and it rightly should be. Why rewrite something that works as -is?
And it's not like Adobe's developers had a year to spend Cocoafying the Photoshop codebase, anyway. "All the same features, different windowing API" is not exactly a selling point that customers would be willing to pay upgrade prices for, therefore management isn't going to make it a priority.
Microsoft will be recreating OOXML with every new release, so it will be the same old game of catch up.
Wouldn't Microsoft have to either: a) submit and get approved revisions to the ISO OOXML standard, or b) deviate intentionally from the established ISO OOXML standard in order to keep up their old routines?
Engadget don't sell phones, or airtime, and so there is no room for potential consumer confusion.
No, but they regularly enga(d)ge in phone reviews and commentary on the industry in which T-Mobile operates. They are part of the mobile phone business.
If Engadget were to post rumors regarding the specs of an upcoming T-Mobile handset, there could be a real risk of consumer confusion over whether the information is from an official T-Mo source or not.
T-Mobile's request seems perfectly cromulent to me.
Afterwhich Rambus was never trusted in a standards committee again...
Furthermore the OEM industry as a whole moved away from Rambus technology towards less patent-encumbered alternatives once the extent of the clusterfuck came to light.
And that is why I don't care whether or not OOXML gets adopted as an ISO standard, and skip the daily Slashdot stories about it, because it WILL get found out sooner or later that Microsoft's offering is useless garbage.
has Microsoft ever produced a product where they focused on providing better quality than the competition?
MicroSoft 4K BASIC?
Facetiousness aside, the company's history is littered with products where initially, the focus was on providing more value than the competition (where "value" was typically measured in number of features per dollar). Look at Internet Explorer vs. Netscape Navigator, or Word vs. WordPerfect, or Excel vs. Lotus 1-2-3.
Invariably, though, once Microsoft has cornered a market, they lose interest in improving their products any more than is minimally necessary to sell the next version upgrade.
Everybody who's seen "Happy Days" knows that Fonzie is 'cool'.
But what if, instead of only one Fonzie, there had been three dozen characters who all looked, talked, and acted like Fonzie? Would all those Fonzii still have been 'cool'?
Would Ralph Malph -- of whom there would still be only one -- have been the 'cool' one because he was NOT a Fonzie?
I would explain in more detail but this comment space is about to be converted into a new Starbucks location. No longer will you have to interrupt your Slashdot comment reading to go buy a venti one-pump no-whip mocha valencia and a Feist CD!
It's a fricking dollar seventy to make it and get it to the store, but the "price" is fifteen bucks?
No.
It's $1.70 to make a BLANK disc and get it to the store. If you want there to be, y'know, some MUSIC on that disc, then the label needs to pay for some musicians, some songwriters, studio time, etc...
the moral of the story is that if someone wants to steal your unattended laptop, they will.
The moral is that if someone wants to steal anything -- including a stationary LCD panel or a desktop mini-tower -- they will. It's not like having to unscrew the DVI cable is going to be an effective deterrent.
Am I the only one who read this as Sausage Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux?
I read it as "Salsa Saga". (I think it's the next-gen console sequel to the NES game "Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom".)
Why must open source software projects have such silly names? Yes, I know that many commercial products have silly names too--but why should their lead be followed?
These companies should also talk to their web site coder and see why their search engine doesn't work as well as googles.
I'm going to guess that there are at least two common factors:
1) Google has teams of people with doctorates in Computer Science working on their search algorithms; the e-commerce company has "their web site coder".
2) The company has provided insufficient specifications for how their site search is expected to work to the person or team responsible for implementing it.
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Right, so we'll just use the emulator forever, shall we? Hard to develop when we can't even test it on the fucking units.
I don't drive into the office and take a seat at one of the workstations in the QA lab every time I want to do some web browsing.
Why would anybody use their personal mobile phone as an experimental testbed for software development when the risk of exactly this kind of thing is so prevalent?
Is it too conservative to point out that you don't introduce new technology to a culture by selling it to the poorest of them, or even the "average"?
Where's the new technology in this device? It's just the latest generation of trailing-edge "budget" components, packaged to minimize price, rather than maximize performance as has been the trend in personal computer sales for the past twenty years or more.
1.6 GHZ VIA processor and "crappy" (by today's standards) graphics, if even remotely able to run Vista home edition (which is likely the "Vista" referred to) is still enough to do MAME and just about any other emulation you come up with. Think about it, really.
Depends on what you mean by "doing MAME". That machine should be able to handle "classic" games like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong without breaking a sweat, but any arcade game that ran on hardware more recent than Neo-Geo will likely stutter to the point of unplayability.
As any f-transform will tell you a human voice is going at about an infinite number of different sized, distinct sin waves. Maybe I just have a huge pet peave when I hear things like this because the only thing that actually produce a single frequency is an object
Any Fourier transform will also tell you that a pitched sound (like a piano note, or a flute, or a human voice singing) has a 'fundamental' frequency that's noticeably stronger than other frequencies. And the next-strongest frequencies are usually multiples of that fundamental within the harmonic series.
With this type of frequency analysis, it is not hard to quantize a sung note to one of the 12 equal-tempered pitches, even in real time.
I'm sure there is a hidden back door to the RIAA to get your IP address so they can come knock on your door because you stole someones music in singing your own songs
The Recording Industry Association of America only gives a damn if you steal recordings of music.
Steal a melody or chord progression and the thugs that come to cap your ass will be ASCAP's.
I'm puzzled by your use of the term "developers" to mean "middle-management schlubs who do most of their 'work' in Outlook and Excel."
developers are more content to repackage old code, than to rewrite it. This is the same mentality thats screwing Vista development too. Developers are just plain LAZY.
Laziness is a virtue to developers, and it rightly should be. Why rewrite something that works as -is?
And it's not like Adobe's developers had a year to spend Cocoafying the Photoshop codebase, anyway. "All the same features, different windowing API" is not exactly a selling point that customers would be willing to pay upgrade prices for, therefore management isn't going to make it a priority.
Then they run the resulting executable through some tests and if it passes, they release it, if it crashes, they try with a different random bits.
I think you got the cases backwards there.
Really, what do you expect the links to do when the original docs are NOT available yet?
The parent document should not validate.
Microsoft will be recreating OOXML with every new release, so it will be the same old game of catch up.
Wouldn't Microsoft have to either:
a) submit and get approved revisions to the ISO OOXML standard, or
b) deviate intentionally from the established ISO OOXML standard
in order to keep up their old routines?
I noticed that some of the links in the PDF document do not work, presumably because the file has been re-hosted on a third party's server.
I bet this would not have happened if ISO had distributed the memorandum in an ISO-approved document format.
Engadget don't sell phones, or airtime, and so there is no room for potential consumer confusion.
No, but they regularly enga(d)ge in phone reviews and commentary on the industry in which T-Mobile operates. They are part of the mobile phone business.
If Engadget were to post rumors regarding the specs of an upcoming T-Mobile handset, there could be a real risk of consumer confusion over whether the information is from an official T-Mo source or not.
T-Mobile's request seems perfectly cromulent to me.
Afterwhich Rambus was never trusted in a standards committee again...
Furthermore the OEM industry as a whole moved away from Rambus technology towards less patent-encumbered alternatives once the extent of the clusterfuck came to light.
And that is why I don't care whether or not OOXML gets adopted as an ISO standard, and skip the daily Slashdot stories about it, because it WILL get found out sooner or later that Microsoft's offering is useless garbage.
We're laughing because we hate hypocrites
Does that include ourselves?
How would we feel if it were any company other than Sony that was being subjected to an involuntary audit of their software licensing compliance?
has Microsoft ever produced a product where they focused on providing better quality than the competition?
MicroSoft 4K BASIC?
Facetiousness aside, the company's history is littered with products where initially, the focus was on providing more value than the competition (where "value" was typically measured in number of features per dollar). Look at Internet Explorer vs. Netscape Navigator, or Word vs. WordPerfect, or Excel vs. Lotus 1-2-3.
Invariably, though, once Microsoft has cornered a market, they lose interest in improving their products any more than is minimally necessary to sell the next version upgrade.
Everybody who's seen "Happy Days" knows that Fonzie is 'cool'.
But what if, instead of only one Fonzie, there had been three dozen characters who all looked, talked, and acted like Fonzie? Would all those Fonzii still have been 'cool'?
Would Ralph Malph -- of whom there would still be only one -- have been the 'cool' one because he was NOT a Fonzie?
Sadly, Adams only got it part-wrong.
I would explain in more detail but this comment space is about to be converted into a new Starbucks location. No longer will you have to interrupt your Slashdot comment reading to go buy a venti one-pump no-whip mocha valencia and a Feist CD!
We only had a finite (if large) number of predictors, but unlike monkeys most of them wont just write down "j ,kmdsxzqw3i98" either.
,kmdsxzqw3i98" actually did come true, in late 2004.
Ironically, "j
It's a fricking dollar seventy to make it and get it to the store, but the "price" is fifteen bucks?
No.
It's $1.70 to make a BLANK disc and get it to the store. If you want there to be, y'know, some MUSIC on that disc, then the label needs to pay for some musicians, some songwriters, studio time, etc...
If [Halo] had gone to Mac first, as planned, we'd all be playing the iBox
Right, except Apple's console would have been named "Pippin 360@World" -- not "iBox".
the moral of the story is that if someone wants to steal your unattended laptop, they will.
The moral is that if someone wants to steal anything -- including a stationary LCD panel or a desktop mini-tower -- they will. It's not like having to unscrew the DVI cable is going to be an effective deterrent.
Am I the only one who read this as Sausage Fills Flash Creation Hole for Linux?
I read it as "Salsa Saga". (I think it's the next-gen console sequel to the NES game "Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom".)
Why must open source software projects have such silly names? Yes, I know that many commercial products have silly names too--but why should their lead be followed?
I'd contend that it is harder to please a complex mind than a simple one.
Would you also contend that you, Naughty Bob, are in possession of such a complex mind?
How do you think the "humility center" of Naughty Bob's brain would compare to those of his peers?
These companies should also talk to their web site coder and see why their search engine doesn't work as well as googles.
I'm going to guess that there are at least two common factors:
1) Google has teams of people with doctorates in Computer Science working on their search algorithms; the e-commerce company has "their web site coder".
2) The company has provided insufficient specifications for how their site search is expected to work to the person or team responsible for implementing it.