The necessary foundation to make scripting work would break process and application isolation.
Making portable OSes more and more like desktop OSes would make them worse, not better.
I've yet looked at my phone and went, "Gee, I wish I could just do this with curl instead of safari."
The only thing that would make iOS even better would be some way to add media from inside apps. Apps can already write to the available movies. Just wish they could add podcasts and music.
(Which is odd because movies are DRMed on the iTunes store, and music is not; but audio is the one place they won't let you fiddle with)
If you look at Apple's profit statements, the iOS App Store is break-even for them and they're not pushing profitability in that area.
So I really don't think that's why they don't let users break down the walled garden. I think it's because the nature of modern computing, breaking down the walled garden also means breaking down things about iOS that make it so nice. Thread safety, sandboxing, etc kind of break when you've got free reign to run whatever you want on the phone.
Also, who would really want a command line on their *phone*? Are you upset that iOS doesn't support CP/M apps too?
If Agile isn't working for you, you *are* doing it wrong.
"We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more."
Now, this kind of thinking is usually reserved for cults and awfully abusive schemes, but hear me out.
Agile isn't about sprints, planning, etc. it's about understanding the human element of software engineering and understanding how brittle that piece of the equation is. The various things that have sprung up from the agile concept really kind of betray the agile vision. Sprint planning, Kanban Boards, asshole "agile experts" etc.
These things do help, but if you're not communicating like human beings to each other and not caring about the software being shipped but instead getting bogged down in process... well... The problem is that you, your team or someone on your team are/is an asshole(s)
if it was anything i needed for work, I wouldn't have upgraded it. Or I'd run it in a VM.
You do realize A) this was *5* years ago(and I was on an 80 gig disk because fuck it didn't want to upgrade at the time). B) It was a joke of installing an OS and it taking up negative megabytes? I mean it actually happened, but the OS took up negative 1 gig. Actually might be 3 or 4 now that I think about it. But still. When was the last time you installed anything and got disk back?
what i find amazing is that in the many years that mobile devices have been common place, no one's yet actually produced evidence that they're being used for nefarious purposes. Just lots of claim and bullshit.
Yes, yes, there's PRISM and god knows what else. But show me a case where the NSA or the CIA or the FBI used a built in backdoor off an off the shelf product.
The obligation to the share holders isn't anything other than what the shareholders want out of the company. With Google's growth leveling off, at this point, keeping the ship afloat and profitable, not growth is what's important.
The whole "obligation to it's shareholders" notion is only true when you're selling the company. Google's probably not going to be sold to anyone anytime soon. so...
I'm willing to bet that the problem isn't that Apple made the order for sapphire screens, it's probably that GTAT made promises to deliver screen parts for Apple, then failed to do so within reasonable parameters.
Given this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...... I'm willing to bet GTAT promised to sell Apple sapphire glass screens but couldn't get production costs down below 30 bucks a part. By contrast, Apple right now I believe spends much less per unit. Something like 5 bucks per unit.
How do we know that Apple let this rumor slip unlike other controlled leaks?
That's the problem with these kinds of rumors. Sometimes they're well sourced, like someone at the Wall Street Journal could be tipped off by an Apple engineering manager, and sometimes they're horribly sourced, like some schmuck tries to extrapolate from shipping and sourcing documents that product A will have part B from supplier C.
Since we don't know the exact source of the leak, we have nothing to go on.
There's APIs that allow developers to tap into the accelerometer directly. Don't think it's an officially supported API, but it does mean that I can wave my MacBook around and have it make lightsaber noises with the right app:)
Get a spare disk and do a clean Windows 8.1 install on it and bench mark it compared to the ages old install of Windows.
This problem hits OSX too, and always makes me lose my Smug Mac User grin. It's even worse in OSX because the filesystem, HFS+, is absolutely bonkers about cruft that builds up. HFS+ is worse than Panic at the Disco. HFS+ is almost worse than scabies.
Even with an SSD, if applications are leaving behind shit in the various places shit can run on startup, you might be losing CPU or memory to some task that doesn't need to be there.
You can have this problem on other OSes like OSX and Linux too, but Windows is the only OS where the SOP is to make a mess of things. Don't like an app on OSX or linux? Just delete them. most of the garbage goes with it.
CPUs and GPUs do matter for things like battery usage and screen quality though(well, GPUs do; if you have a 1440p screen your GPU better be able to cope with it). Also memory still matters in some ways. I'm kind of disappointed that the iPhone 6 is still 1gb of RAM, but I suspect that has more to do with issues of power consumption than it does Apple being cheap.
It's all a balancing act, and if the final goal isn't UX, then everything is going to come crashing down.
(Yes, there's nothing magical about doubling the CPU's data paths, but doing so also gives you a convenient excuse to also throw out all of the garbage in the 32bit ISA; or at least, not require it on 64 bit applications).
I don't think right wing policies have ever actually worked. It always seems like they just consume whatever was working in the system and leave behind a broken, incoherent, and ineffective shell of its former self.
By apps on the cloud, I mean, you can't have apps that your phone can use in the cloud. Deleting and shuffling apps around just because you're on the 16 gig tier phone isn't great a UX either. I think they'd rather just throw in more storage if people had that problem.
I've made a similar point earlier. If they're out to sell iCloud, they're doing a bad job of it. You can't store apps on the cloud, and not a lot of apps store app specific data to make the iCloud free tier feel constrained.
There's a massive difference, in so far as I know, that the Quebecois separatists were facing a different sociopolitical economic set of problems.
The Canadian Prime Minister isn't thumbing his nose as the Quebecois concerning oil revenue from Quebec for instance. Nor do conservative policies generally negatively impact quebec.
The Tories fucked up pretty bad, and will probably continue to fuck it up for union.
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Actually I'm willing to speculate that the reason why it's 16/64/128 isn't for any insane conspiracy theory reason, but rather that Apple may have just gone overboard on the 8 gig chips in their supplier chain(Keep in mind, iOS devices use flash in pairs; so a 64gb phone is really 2x32; etc). Given that at their size, they need to order their parts well in advance, it's easy to get trapped with an excess of parts.
They figured most people wouldn't notice or care. The 6s probably will go 32/64/128.
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The necessary foundation to make scripting work would break process and application isolation.
Making portable OSes more and more like desktop OSes would make them worse, not better.
I've yet looked at my phone and went, "Gee, I wish I could just do this with curl instead of safari."
The only thing that would make iOS even better would be some way to add media from inside apps. Apps can already write to the available movies. Just wish they could add podcasts and music.
(Which is odd because movies are DRMed on the iTunes store, and music is not; but audio is the one place they won't let you fiddle with)
The real legitimate reason to drop PPC support is if the supporting software sucks. There might be more to the Rosetta story than we know.
If you look at Apple's profit statements, the iOS App Store is break-even for them and they're not pushing profitability in that area.
So I really don't think that's why they don't let users break down the walled garden. I think it's because the nature of modern computing, breaking down the walled garden also means breaking down things about iOS that make it so nice. Thread safety, sandboxing, etc kind of break when you've got free reign to run whatever you want on the phone.
Also, who would really want a command line on their *phone*? Are you upset that iOS doesn't support CP/M apps too?
If Agile isn't working for you, you *are* doing it wrong.
"We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more."
Now, this kind of thinking is usually reserved for cults and awfully abusive schemes, but hear me out.
Agile isn't about sprints, planning, etc. it's about understanding the human element of software engineering and understanding how brittle that piece of the equation is. The various things that have sprung up from the agile concept really kind of betray the agile vision. Sprint planning, Kanban Boards, asshole "agile experts" etc.
These things do help, but if you're not communicating like human beings to each other and not caring about the software being shipped but instead getting bogged down in process... well... The problem is that you, your team or someone on your team are/is an asshole(s)
if it was anything i needed for work, I wouldn't have upgraded it. Or I'd run it in a VM.
You do realize A) this was *5* years ago(and I was on an 80 gig disk because fuck it didn't want to upgrade at the time). B) It was a joke of installing an OS and it taking up negative megabytes? I mean it actually happened, but the OS took up negative 1 gig. Actually might be 3 or 4 now that I think about it. But still. When was the last time you installed anything and got disk back?
Dropping PPC on OS X meant when I installed snow leopard I gained like a gig of disk back.
I'm sad I can't Starcraft 1 anymore but whatever
what i find amazing is that in the many years that mobile devices have been common place, no one's yet actually produced evidence that they're being used for nefarious purposes. Just lots of claim and bullshit.
Yes, yes, there's PRISM and god knows what else. But show me a case where the NSA or the CIA or the FBI used a built in backdoor off an off the shelf product.
The obligation to the share holders isn't anything other than what the shareholders want out of the company. With Google's growth leveling off, at this point, keeping the ship afloat and profitable, not growth is what's important.
The whole "obligation to it's shareholders" notion is only true when you're selling the company. Google's probably not going to be sold to anyone anytime soon. so...
I'm willing to bet that the problem isn't that Apple made the order for sapphire screens, it's probably that GTAT made promises to deliver screen parts for Apple, then failed to do so within reasonable parameters.
Given this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ... I'm willing to bet GTAT promised to sell Apple sapphire glass screens but couldn't get production costs down below 30 bucks a part. By contrast, Apple right now I believe spends much less per unit. Something like 5 bucks per unit.
How do we know that Apple let this rumor slip unlike other controlled leaks?
That's the problem with these kinds of rumors. Sometimes they're well sourced, like someone at the Wall Street Journal could be tipped off by an Apple engineering manager, and sometimes they're horribly sourced, like some schmuck tries to extrapolate from shipping and sourcing documents that product A will have part B from supplier C.
Since we don't know the exact source of the leak, we have nothing to go on.
There's APIs that allow developers to tap into the accelerometer directly. Don't think it's an officially supported API, but it does mean that I can wave my MacBook around and have it make lightsaber noises with the right app :)
Going from boot to login is one metric, but overall usability is another.
http://arstechnica.com/staff/2...
Hfs+ is a fucking dog. John Siracusa isn't some Johnny come lately to the Mac world. He's been one of the faithful since well into the classic days.
Get a spare disk and do a clean Windows 8.1 install on it and bench mark it compared to the ages old install of Windows.
This problem hits OSX too, and always makes me lose my Smug Mac User grin. It's even worse in OSX because the filesystem, HFS+, is absolutely bonkers about cruft that builds up. HFS+ is worse than Panic at the Disco. HFS+ is almost worse than scabies.
Even with an SSD, if applications are leaving behind shit in the various places shit can run on startup, you might be losing CPU or memory to some task that doesn't need to be there.
You can have this problem on other OSes like OSX and Linux too, but Windows is the only OS where the SOP is to make a mess of things. Don't like an app on OSX or linux? Just delete them. most of the garbage goes with it.
Why are completely free as in freedom markets a good thing?
That's one thing I've never heard a good answer for.
If you have the device in hand, you've pretty much won.
I'm worried more about the "secure enclave."
It has been a year and it's still not broken. I hope it stays that way.
Ding.
We have a winner.
CPUs and GPUs do matter for things like battery usage and screen quality though(well, GPUs do; if you have a 1440p screen your GPU better be able to cope with it). Also memory still matters in some ways. I'm kind of disappointed that the iPhone 6 is still 1gb of RAM, but I suspect that has more to do with issues of power consumption than it does Apple being cheap.
It's all a balancing act, and if the final goal isn't UX, then everything is going to come crashing down.
64 bit ARM was last year's tech :)
Oh, wait... Poor Android fans...
(Yes, there's nothing magical about doubling the CPU's data paths, but doing so also gives you a convenient excuse to also throw out all of the garbage in the 32bit ISA; or at least, not require it on 64 bit applications).
For most non games? A few megs. For things like, specialized medical scanners or tools to interface with random heavy equipment? Probably way more.
It's games really that fill my iPhone. Well, games and podcasts. :)
UKIP also is hideously racist and right wing.
I don't think right wing policies have ever actually worked. It always seems like they just consume whatever was working in the system and leave behind a broken, incoherent, and ineffective shell of its former self.
By apps on the cloud, I mean, you can't have apps that your phone can use in the cloud. Deleting and shuffling apps around just because you're on the 16 gig tier phone isn't great a UX either. I think they'd rather just throw in more storage if people had that problem.
I've made a similar point earlier. If they're out to sell iCloud, they're doing a bad job of it. You can't store apps on the cloud, and not a lot of apps store app specific data to make the iCloud free tier feel constrained.
Other than display, why is it benchmarking better than the Samsung Galaxy S5?
Half the cores, half the ram, and ... no appreciable gain in performance.
Never mind last year's 300 dollar phones.
There's a massive difference, in so far as I know, that the Quebecois separatists were facing a different sociopolitical economic set of problems.
The Canadian Prime Minister isn't thumbing his nose as the Quebecois concerning oil revenue from Quebec for instance. Nor do conservative policies generally negatively impact quebec.
The Tories fucked up pretty bad, and will probably continue to fuck it up for union.
Actually I'm willing to speculate that the reason why it's 16/64/128 isn't for any insane conspiracy theory reason, but rather that Apple may have just gone overboard on the 8 gig chips in their supplier chain(Keep in mind, iOS devices use flash in pairs; so a 64gb phone is really 2x32; etc). Given that at their size, they need to order their parts well in advance, it's easy to get trapped with an excess of parts.
They figured most people wouldn't notice or care. The 6s probably will go 32/64/128.