"give subscribers a new, Microsoft-formatted* version of any song they've purchased from the iTunes store so those songs can be played on devices** other than an iPod." "
* Microsoft "formatted" version of song is blank, due to being formatted. ** "Devices" includes Microsoft's portable media player only.
Here's a question. What's stopping a malicious hacker from taking half-ass tested patch and inserting a payload into it and then publishing it as "stable & tested"?? How do you know its good when you can get patches from untrusted/unknown sources or someone's personal page?
Uhhh... don't use untrusted sources? Trust sources only after they demonstrate integrity? Replace malicious with ill-tested, buggy and the same applies.
are you seriously suggesting you'd just release a brand new patch into the wild without even cursory testing?
You can always release a patch to the patch if any problems are found with it:)
But seriously, it makes most sense to correct most bugs (that will be caught in the short-term) before a wide release, where there is a single copy of the source, rather than after release, where there are as many copies as there are users.
With open-source anybody is free to provide this service. If the author only has the time/motivation to do barely-tested releases, why reject his code? Someone else with the desire can do testing and make releases to a wider audience that are more stable, and users can choose between the two options (or more). These can even form without any direct arrangement between the various parties.
I haven't RTFA, but I'm guessing there will be mention of lots of monkeys banging away at keyboards and one big balding monkey boss who is able to speak one word of English starting with the letter 'D'.
The other thing is that applications spend significant time in system libraries, especially since Mac OS X provides heavy math functions (FFT etc) that are implemented with the vector unit. It was the same thing many years ago running 68K applications under emulation; many ran just as well as "native" versions since most of the processor time was used copying graphics (CopyBits(), drawing the user-interface, doing file I/O, etc.). Applications which do significant number crunching themselves will be most affected.
People who read the outgoing emails of the people who read outgoing emails of all employees. This way the outgoing email monitors monitor each other. They can even spin off a whole division that does nothing but monitor itself, for maximum efficiency!
The Linux Kernel is now getting automatically tested within 15 minutes of a new version being released, across a variety of hardware and the results are being published for all to see.
How about they test it 15 minutes before being released (or longer)? Otherwise you get a seriously broken release and find out 15 minutes later "it's majorly broken".
Shock! Horror! What next - "The Sky is Blue"? I'm a mac user, and am all for increading market share, but this editorial seems rather vapid...where's the news?
What, Windows is running on the sky and it's BSOD'd?!? Run for the hills, the sky is crashing!
One reason I've held off on getting a PC is the mess of an architecture it is, down to the CPU. If Apple switches to x86, I'll have nowhere to turn and my life will be meaningless! Please Apple, don't do it!
25 M MB of information about the "initial" state?
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It required 25 million megabytes of memory to take our universe's initial conditions along with the known laws of physics to create this simulated universe.
That's quite a bit of information pulled out of their a... about the initial state of the universe. Wanna bet the filled a few billion blanks?
I would hope that by the time of any mass-market availability or application that ways and means of testing would be available for those environments that require 100% impartiality.
Better put a test for the presence of humans too...
Just because e-mail has become a social necessity (like checking your answering machine) doesn't mean you're ADDICTED.
E-mail is a form of communication, I use it to talk with my e-friends.
I tried "checking" my normal friends for communication requests five times a day and they stopped talking to me. They claimed I was ignoring them! Sorry guys, I just not going to let myself get addicted to checking you for communication requests.
Occasionally I hear the music being played in another vehicle whether I like it or not, without a "roadcast" receiver. It usually sounds like "mmm mmm mmm mmm..."
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"give subscribers a new, Microsoft-formatted* version of any song they've purchased from the iTunes store so those songs can be played on devices** other than an iPod." "
* Microsoft "formatted" version of song is blank, due to being formatted. ** "Devices" includes Microsoft's portable media player only.
Here's a question. What's stopping a malicious hacker from taking half-ass tested patch and inserting a payload into it and then publishing it as "stable & tested"?? How do you know its good when you can get patches from untrusted/unknown sources or someone's personal page?
Uhhh... don't use untrusted sources? Trust sources only after they demonstrate integrity? Replace malicious with ill-tested, buggy and the same applies.
are you seriously suggesting you'd just release a brand new patch into the wild without even cursory testing?
:)
You can always release a patch to the patch if any problems are found with it
But seriously, it makes most sense to correct most bugs (that will be caught in the short-term) before a wide release, where there is a single copy of the source, rather than after release, where there are as many copies as there are users.
With open-source anybody is free to provide this service. If the author only has the time/motivation to do barely-tested releases, why reject his code? Someone else with the desire can do testing and make releases to a wider audience that are more stable, and users can choose between the two options (or more). These can even form without any direct arrangement between the various parties.
I haven't RTFA, but I'm guessing there will be mention of lots of monkeys banging away at keyboards and one big balding monkey boss who is able to speak one word of English starting with the letter 'D'.
Unfortunately he forgot to provide a sound recording of the case in operation (and that's *with* music playing in the background!).
(apologies to the unfortunate site that matched my "fan noise mp3" google search)
The other thing is that applications spend significant time in system libraries, especially since Mac OS X provides heavy math functions (FFT etc) that are implemented with the vector unit. It was the same thing many years ago running 68K applications under emulation; many ran just as well as "native" versions since most of the processor time was used copying graphics (CopyBits(), drawing the user-interface, doing file I/O, etc.). Applications which do significant number crunching themselves will be most affected.
You forgot one...
Apple gives in and switches to x86.
Oh...nevermind... still in the denial stage, keep forgetting it's true.
Please, oh please use laser-equipped sharks to map near the coast!
People who read the outgoing emails of the people who read outgoing emails of all employees. This way the outgoing email monitors monitor each other. They can even spin off a whole division that does nothing but monitor itself, for maximum efficiency!
The only thing that pisses me off than bad statistical analyses is people like this troll who discount the entire field because of their ignorance.
Not as bad as your pissy rant.
The Linux Kernel is now getting automatically tested within 15 minutes of a new version being released, across a variety of hardware and the results are being published for all to see.
How about they test it 15 minutes before being released (or longer)? Otherwise you get a seriously broken release and find out 15 minutes later "it's majorly broken".
Draw a line down the center of your screen. Boom, two screens!
What's the difference? Resolution? OK, run at a higher resolution. Not big enough? Use a larger monitor.
Since when has the pentagon been a measuring stick for computing power?
And more importantly, how many pentagons of performance does a Pentium deliver?
Maybe it's a religious reference.
I'd like to know in which field America is leading the world.
You just described it; we lead the world in being the most wasteful! Top that!
Shock! Horror! What next - "The Sky is Blue"? I'm a mac user, and am all for increading market share, but this editorial seems rather vapid...where's the news?
What, Windows is running on the sky and it's BSOD'd?!? Run for the hills, the sky is crashing!
I heard that you can make Windows secure by changing 106,351,876 bytes before installing.
So that's how big the diff between Windows and Linux is.
One reason I've held off on getting a PC is the mess of an architecture it is, down to the CPU. If Apple switches to x86, I'll have nowhere to turn and my life will be meaningless! Please Apple, don't do it!
It required 25 million megabytes of memory to take our universe's initial conditions along with the known laws of physics to create this simulated universe.
That's quite a bit of information pulled out of their a... about the initial state of the universe. Wanna bet the filled a few billion blanks?
1) Profit!!!
I would hope that by the time of any mass-market availability or application that ways and means of testing would be available for those environments that require 100% impartiality.
Better put a test for the presence of humans too...
I get $50 in Apple credit, and the lawyers get up to $2,768,000. I really don't know who to cheer for here.
...do people not even think of the batteries. Think of the poor batteries won't you? Where's their cut?
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Only in America...
For those who don't want to watch the video, the new format will supposedly offer a %75 improvement in file size.
1) Make file format really bulky (pad it with a liberal number of zeros)
2) Announce new automatic compression
3) Profit!
Just because e-mail has become a social necessity (like checking your answering machine) doesn't mean you're ADDICTED.
E-mail is a form of communication, I use it to talk with my e-friends.
I tried "checking" my normal friends for communication requests five times a day and they stopped talking to me. They claimed I was ignoring them! Sorry guys, I just not going to let myself get addicted to checking you for communication requests.
Well, with all the security holes..... ...and with DRM, it definitely isn't your computer; it's theirs.
Occasionally I hear the music being played in another vehicle whether I like it or not, without a "roadcast" receiver. It usually sounds like "mmm mmm mmm mmm..."