Yeah, why does anyone trust any root server located in China? (They can set up servers that claim to be root servers all they like, but that doesn't mean the rest of the root servers have to trust them, so why do they?)
In general, the closed and bureaucratic nature of the App Store, combined with the lockdown on the iPad and iPhone, discourages large and complex software products from anyone other than Apple.
In general, you're exactly wrong. As noted there are already many other word processors and other office applications in the AppStore.
Your first statement is not supported by your second. A few complex non-Apple apps exist in spite of the lockdown, not because of it.
Life isn't all that "must-have" after a bunch of decades, even if you're in perfect health.
Sorry you feel that way. I'm over 40, and even if the world becomes a postapocalyptic wasteland, I'd like to be able to stay around and see it happen.
Of course, I reserve the right to terminate myself before the zombie hordes start devouring my flesh.
If MS decided to write an office varient for iPad, they could certainly put it in the App Store.
Actually, it's anything but certain that Apple would let them put it in the App Store--which is exactly why Microsoft are unlikely to throw the resources into developing Office for iPad.
In general, the closed and bureaucratic nature of the App Store, combined with the lockdown on the iPad and iPhone, discourages large and complex software products from anyone other than Apple.
ruby-core, messages in the range 5600-6000 or so, mostly titled "RubyGems in Ruby HEAD". Be sure to read the comments from Lucas Nussbaum.
Also, he says (pers. comm.) he's going to write an article for his blog stating that APT will not be integrated with Gem. Quote from e-mail: "That approach has many problems. We are working on solutions, but they don't involve calling gem from dpkg scripts."
OK, I e-mailed Lucas Nussbaum, and he's still adamantly against having APT call Gem to install gems: "That approach has many problems. We are working on solutions, but they don't involve calling gem from dpkg scripts."
So there's your source. Please feel free to confirm it with him yourself if you think I'm making it up.
Except in practice, Debian's packages of Ruby and Gems are broken or out of date, so everyone ends up compiling Ruby from source and installing all the Gems using gem. Anyone who has a problem with anything Ruby-related on Debian gets told "Oh, Debian is broken, install Ruby from source". So their reputation gets trashed far more.
The source is that I was on the Ruby mailing list when it happened, as one of the people using Debian and contributing to Ruby.
Their rationale was that APT installing binary blobs is the right way to do it, and they are unwilling to have deb packages that call some other utility such as gem to install files.
It seems spurious to me, because packages already call things like the locale compiler to handle installs... But that's the reason that was stated, and talks stalled at that point.
I've had much the same experience. My VIA Mini-ITX box has excellent audio output. My Macintosh, on the other hand, sounds like crap, so I have a USB audio box.
The fact that generics can't handle ints goes back to the very first release of Java, and the decision to have both object and non-object types. It's the same reason you have foo.size() for the size of everything except arrays, which have foo.length. The same reason why some arguments are passed by value, and some are passed by reference, and you have to just know which are which.
i.e. Java is broken as originally designed, and generics are just another feature that shows it up.
I still finish almost all the games I play. That is, I finish the main story of all the games I play; I don't necessarily do any side-quests, and tend not to care about how many trophies or other meaningless objects I collect.
There are three games I haven't finished this year.
The first was Whiplash, an old PS2 game. I gave up on it part way through because of a particularly frustrating section that was made almost impossible by horrible camera angle problems. I suspect that the game got the good reviews it did because none of the reviewers had played it through more than half way.
The second was Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. I finished everything except the final battle, which is a stupid boss fight in (at least) three different stages, where if you fail stage 3 you have to go all the way back to the beginning of the battle. It's way more difficult than any other part of the game.
The third was Oblivion, which I stopped playing because it was crap. Horrible leveling system that utterly broke my suspension of disbelief. (The wolves have been practicing and leveled up into timberwolves? Yeahright) Laughable plot. (Let's go through the giant flaming vagina to the land of blood everywhere and battle the evil demon Menses... or whatever it was called.)
But I finished GTA: TLaD, Prince of Persia, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Uncharted 2, Katamari Forever, Folklore, and a bunch of other games.
I agree that OS X is nowhere, outside the desktop. I also agree that iOS will ultimately be a niche platform because of the lockdown, developer hostility, and lack of hardware choice.
However, Linux still has a huge way to go in many significant areas before it can compete with OS X. Sure, OS X may not have had any brand new filesystems recently, but that's because HFS+ pretty much does the job. Meanwhile, Linux has terrible sound support, with a half dozen competing APIs and sound servers. Even when sound works, the UI is generally horrible.
When I try to make a VoIP call and can't because some random tab in my browser happens to have an instance of Flash running, or I'm playing a CD, or my IM client recently went ping, I groan and quit applications and close windows until I can dial out. The average user is more likely to say "This blows", and go back to Windows or OS X.
Of course, ideally I'd use my Bluetooth headset, but those don't work with Linux either.
It doesn't matter that there's no single Android phone outselling the iPhone, just like it doesn't matter that there's no single Windows laptop outselling the MacBook. What matters is platform market share, and Android as a phone platform is outselling iOS as a phone platform. The fact that the MacBook is the #1 selling laptop hasn't made all the software developers flock to write games for the Mac.
If you don't think iPhone will become a niche product like the Mac (or even worse), you're the fool. I think you secretly know that, which is why you're posting anonymously.
Honestly, Apple needs to pull the stupid exclusivity with AT&T, it's the #1 thing keeping people from even considering an iPhone.
Possibly, but Android is also outselling the iPhone in countries where there is no carrier exclusivity. Ending the tie-in with AT&T wouldn't be enough to save the iPhone from eventual niche status.
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Yeah, why does anyone trust any root server located in China? (They can set up servers that claim to be root servers all they like, but that doesn't mean the rest of the root servers have to trust them, so why do they?)
In general, the closed and bureaucratic nature of the App Store, combined with the lockdown on the iPad and iPhone, discourages large and complex software products from anyone other than Apple.
In general, you're exactly wrong. As noted there are already many other word processors and other office applications in the AppStore.
Your first statement is not supported by your second. A few complex non-Apple apps exist in spite of the lockdown, not because of it.
Life isn't all that "must-have" after a bunch of decades, even if you're in perfect health.
Sorry you feel that way. I'm over 40, and even if the world becomes a postapocalyptic wasteland, I'd like to be able to stay around and see it happen. Of course, I reserve the right to terminate myself before the zombie hordes start devouring my flesh.
Actually, it's anything but certain that Apple would let them put it in the App Store--which is exactly why Microsoft are unlikely to throw the resources into developing Office for iPad. In general, the closed and bureaucratic nature of the App Store, combined with the lockdown on the iPad and iPhone, discourages large and complex software products from anyone other than Apple.
IBM doesn't make laptops. You're thinking of Lenovo.
Also, he says (pers. comm.) he's going to write an article for his blog stating that APT will not be integrated with Gem. Quote from e-mail: "That approach has many problems. We are working on solutions, but they don't involve calling gem from dpkg scripts."
OK, I e-mailed Lucas Nussbaum, and he's still adamantly against having APT call Gem to install gems: "That approach has many problems. We are working on solutions, but they don't involve calling gem from dpkg scripts." So there's your source. Please feel free to confirm it with him yourself if you think I'm making it up.
Except in practice, Debian's packages of Ruby and Gems are broken or out of date, so everyone ends up compiling Ruby from source and installing all the Gems using gem. Anyone who has a problem with anything Ruby-related on Debian gets told "Oh, Debian is broken, install Ruby from source". So their reputation gets trashed far more.
The source is that I was on the Ruby mailing list when it happened, as one of the people using Debian and contributing to Ruby.
Their rationale was that APT installing binary blobs is the right way to do it, and they are unwilling to have deb packages that call some other utility such as gem to install files.
It seems spurious to me, because packages already call things like the locale compiler to handle installs... But that's the reason that was stated, and talks stalled at that point.
I've had much the same experience. My VIA Mini-ITX box has excellent audio output. My Macintosh, on the other hand, sounds like crap, so I have a USB audio box.
Personally, the change I'm most looking forward to is JSR310 and getting rid of the godawful date and time classes in the current API.
The fact that generics can't handle ints goes back to the very first release of Java, and the decision to have both object and non-object types. It's the same reason you have foo.size() for the size of everything except arrays, which have foo.length. The same reason why some arguments are passed by value, and some are passed by reference, and you have to just know which are which. i.e. Java is broken as originally designed, and generics are just another feature that shows it up.
The Debian maintainers flatly refused to work with the Ruby developers on making Gems interface with APT. Just FYI.
I can't think of any reason that someone would need this much bandwidth at home, other than geek bragging rights or a heavy porn/bittorrent fetish.
Home office. My cable connection starts to get a bit painful when I need to move 4GB of database around.
Yes, that's why I used the word "desktop" in my first sentence.
I notice that twitter.com/911 has been suspended... I expect they got too many people thinking it was real.
I still finish almost all the games I play. That is, I finish the main story of all the games I play; I don't necessarily do any side-quests, and tend not to care about how many trophies or other meaningless objects I collect.
There are three games I haven't finished this year.
The first was Whiplash, an old PS2 game. I gave up on it part way through because of a particularly frustrating section that was made almost impossible by horrible camera angle problems. I suspect that the game got the good reviews it did because none of the reviewers had played it through more than half way.
The second was Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. I finished everything except the final battle, which is a stupid boss fight in (at least) three different stages, where if you fail stage 3 you have to go all the way back to the beginning of the battle. It's way more difficult than any other part of the game.
The third was Oblivion, which I stopped playing because it was crap. Horrible leveling system that utterly broke my suspension of disbelief. (The wolves have been practicing and leveled up into timberwolves? Yeahright) Laughable plot. (Let's go through the giant flaming vagina to the land of blood everywhere and battle the evil demon Menses... or whatever it was called.)
But I finished GTA: TLaD, Prince of Persia, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Uncharted 2, Katamari Forever, Folklore, and a bunch of other games.
Who has time for games anymore? I didn't even find the time to finish reading your comment.
I didn't even have time to finish repl
I finished Half-Life, but I didn't finish Half-Life 2. By the time I got to Black Mesa, I was bored with it.
I agree that OS X is nowhere, outside the desktop. I also agree that iOS will ultimately be a niche platform because of the lockdown, developer hostility, and lack of hardware choice.
However, Linux still has a huge way to go in many significant areas before it can compete with OS X. Sure, OS X may not have had any brand new filesystems recently, but that's because HFS+ pretty much does the job. Meanwhile, Linux has terrible sound support, with a half dozen competing APIs and sound servers. Even when sound works, the UI is generally horrible.
When I try to make a VoIP call and can't because some random tab in my browser happens to have an instance of Flash running, or I'm playing a CD, or my IM client recently went ping, I groan and quit applications and close windows until I can dial out. The average user is more likely to say "This blows", and go back to Windows or OS X.
Of course, ideally I'd use my Bluetooth headset, but those don't work with Linux either.
It doesn't matter that there's no single Android phone outselling the iPhone, just like it doesn't matter that there's no single Windows laptop outselling the MacBook. What matters is platform market share, and Android as a phone platform is outselling iOS as a phone platform. The fact that the MacBook is the #1 selling laptop hasn't made all the software developers flock to write games for the Mac.
If you don't think iPhone will become a niche product like the Mac (or even worse), you're the fool. I think you secretly know that, which is why you're posting anonymously.
The sad thing is, that scene would have worked much better in its intended place under the end credits.
I think you'll find that Linux is a long way from winning over OS X. (Speaking as someone who uses both every day.)
Possibly, but Android is also outselling the iPhone in countries where there is no carrier exclusivity. Ending the tie-in with AT&T wouldn't be enough to save the iPhone from eventual niche status.
So you're telling me that Microsoft PlayReady DRM has access to hardware security features on the iPhone and iPad? That sounds a little far fetched.