I completely forgot to add that they really horked QuickTime. Major downgrade. Maybe they counted that as a negative against new features and called it a net new feature set of zero.
I'm using it and, despite what you may have heard, it does have several new features. But, primarily, it's a major optimization (somewhat akin to Win7 vs Vista, although Win7 got bigger interface changes, at least as I understand their design team). That's particularly true in the Finder which was lagging way the hell behind the rest of the OS in performance -- for example, it's quite obvious they're now rendering all of the icons asynchronously rather than the f'd-up synchronous way they were before. They also included OpenCL with it so I don't need CUDA for NVIDIA carded systems and Stream for ATI carded systems, which makes dispatching MPI jobs far simpler. Plus lots of other stuff, but the other reply pretty much says that there's lots of developer goodness in it (like GCD - Grand Central Dispatch -- not sure I'm completely into it though).
A console is made to play games, you can run whatever game you want on it, as long as it is compatible. A smartphone is made to surf the web, and you SHOULD be able to access every website you want, as long as it is compatible (and Flash websites ARE, because Flash support is ready).
So you obviously would fully support an antitrust inquiry into why Microsoft doesn't provide an ActiveX plugin for Linux and Mac OS, right? Because not providing that capability restricts what websites you can surf on anything that isn't a Windows PC. Now, this is different from your example because by Microsoft not providing that plugin, the site then isn't compatible. I get that. However, what it means is that Microsoft is creating an incompatibility by not allowing you to surf the web due to restrictions on their part. To me, that's different sides of the same coin.
Regardless, I personally would be against that, if only because the last thing I want invading any of my systems is ActiveX crap. Although that's probably not much of an issue anymore since ActiveX seems to be nearly dead.
It seems to me that the real solution to this particular problem would be for Apple to provide the ability to optionally enable a Flash plugin in for Safari. I wouldn't turn it on because a) I hate Flash "enabled" sites -- the sooner they die the better, AFAIC (and the sites I do use from my iPhone that once required Flash have iPhone versions now -- not that I necessarily love them either), and b) I don't play Flash games, etc. so I have no use for it. It's already enough overhead on my actual computer, let alone having to deal with it on my cellphone too. But people that did want or need to do so could.
But to really return to my original point: I am 100% restricted by Sony regarding the tools that I am allowed to use to develop against their platform. Where's the antitrust inquiry?
I don't feel sorry for you about your bike. I feel mildly sorry for you about your car. I have no sympathy in either case for the criminal. However, if the police had found the criminal in either case, I think you should have paid them thousands of dollars for the recovery plus court costs for the prosecution. Not. Turns out the DA, cops, and prosecuting attorney already get paid to do that job via our taxes.
Again, as the AC said (quite astutely), it's the mindset that equates the victims own lack of security with a waive for the criminal that also puts companies in the position of having DRM. So, realistically, I would hope that you at least aren't one of those people crying and gnashing their teeth about the evils of DRM (and if you weren't the one that originally cast blame on Palin for not having security questions as tough as you would have liked, then sorry -- I'm pointing this particular comment at that person, not you).
Anyway, rant aside, I am also about personal responsibility -- but it's more about admitting where you could have reasonably changed the outcome (which is exactly what you did in your post, so pat on the back there) so that you have an opportunity to grow rather than buying into the victim culture, which does nothing but keep you at the level of victim (a very handy political device, in my opinion). However, it in no way diminishes the culpability of the criminal -- they're still just as guilty due to the same personal responsibility issues.
isn't DjVu more suited for the digitization of manuscripts?
You apparently misread the abstract. They're going to digtize them. I'm not sure if that means they're creating digg buttons for them, or they're creating DNS entries for them.
Quite right, although I'm not sure why its location in the file system is relevant. When you browse a computer on the network that has Screen Sharing enabled, there's a button on the Finder window that launches the screen sharing system.
BTW, as far as I can tell, it's VNC made robust for Aqua (that is, unless VNC has progressed substantially on the Mac compared to the last time I used it -- which has been a while). One would think you could connect via any VNC client, but I haven't actually bothered to check that WAG.
I really don't see how this has anything to do with PowerPoint*. Yes, it's a complicated graph. But that really has nothing to do with PowerPoint. You might as well bitch about the evils of the overhead projector while you're at it.
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*I'm certainly not a fan of somebody reading a bunch of bullet points to me as if that's an effective way to communicate information, so don't take this as a defense of PowerPoint.
Well they are. Jailbreak one and put Android on it, and you'll be close to a working product.
1. Start with a working product. 2. Jailbreak and install Android. 3. Be close to a working product (this step is traditionally supposed to be PROFIT!!!)
Okay Philip. It's obvious that you haven't really read & comprehended the U.S. Constitution. Either that, or you've been drinking a bit too much. Might want to get a breathalyzer lock for the keyboard.
Yes, the police can do absolutely nothing to find the original owner. After a set period of time of them doing absolutely nothing (including not making a public notice of it -- which they are required to do, but we'll just assume they're incompetent), then the person who turned it in can claim it. I'm sure there are many variations of that from locality to locality, but that's the basic process.
I still don't know why the fact that Soviets haven't said anything doesn't convince them. They were technologically in a position to absolutely and horribly shame the United States if no human beings actually travelled to the moon. But nothing of the sort was ever claimed by them.
That's because we game them Nikola Tesla and the location of Atlantis in exchange for their silence on the matter. I'm not sure what we gave them to keep quiet about 9/11; perhaps the location of Tesla's base on Mars after he escaped from Earth.
I agree with your analysis and want to add another mitigating factor. OS/2 was positioned to take back the desktop from Microsoft with release of version 2.0 back in '92. A lot of people were excited to finally be able to run a real operating system rather than a shell on top of a shell (Win 3.x). Given the fact that it ran Windows software in its own process, it meant people could keep their investment in existing software (maybe IBM learned a lesson from their Microchannel-only PS/2?) with the promise of greater stability. As I recall, IBM did a pretty big run-up to the release. Unfortunately, the installer was absolutely abysmally broken. While the die hard geeks were willing to put in the (sometimes days) of effort to get the POS/2 to install, the average user just wasn't.
As far as I'm concerned, that was the precise point in time when IBM gave away the desktop to Microsoft.
It seems to me this entire sequence started because there are people in this thread that think this is an HTML/Standards thing rather than MS announcing (with pride, no less) that they've finally figured out how to use their own APIs from within IE. Gosh. We down here are oh so impressed let me tell you.
As an aside, I ran the SVG "Asteroids" clone as well as the bouncing balls, bubbles, and the spinning logos and they worked well on Safari/OS X/Macbook Polycarb. But then OS X has had hardware acceleration hooked into their AppKit frameworks for a while, so I would have been surprised if it had been otherwise.
I'm still using my first gen iPhone (EDGE). Perhaps I'll update when the next one comes out, but so far the only compelling reason I've had is hardware voice recognition. Just because you're unhappy with the speed doesn't make it unusable for everyone. Plus, I like the savings of not having to pay AT&T's 3G surcharge.
Frankly, had I not wanted to update the OS I could have just refused the update, and I could always rollback if I changed my mind. But having to remember to click "No" might be asking too much of some people. Although, there may be some AT&T forced updates buried in their somewhere -- I somewhat lost track because I run developer beta's frequently.
Ah, okay. I haven't maintained any Oracle installations for a while, so I really didn't know whether they were still running the same clustered tech or not. Last I paid any attention, they were still doing the Sun/Oracle turnkey clusters. Then again, last I paid attention, Amazon and eBay were Oracle on the backend. I have no idea if that's still the case.
The current math curriculum my kids are using (which isn't anything magical - just the standard Houghton-Mifflin stuff) starts algebraic concepts in the 4th grade. Fractions get started up in 3rd grade. And, in general, many concepts are started much earlier than they once were. However, I'm not seeing any improvement in attention.
On the one hand, not adding math until later ages may have some merit - I'm not really sure. On the other hand, it may just be the ways in which that math is presented that's the real problem. Memorizing tables of basic arithmetic operations isn't likely to keep anyone's attention for very long, and yet it's still necessary to be able to do arithmetic if you want to be able to handle more advanced math [where advanced means algebra, trig, calc, linear, etc.].
I've been looking into this: http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/ The coolest thing I've found about it so far is that it has workbooks for the *parents* so that they can help their kids with their homework. Nice idea.
there would be a LOT more iPhones and they would be a lot cheaper,
And yet there are a lot of iPhone clones that are cheaper and not locked in. I read on Slashdot everyday about the multitude of phones that are far superior to the iPhone as well as much touting of every Android phone that crops up. So, if we could just slap an iPhone label on all of these it would somehow be okay then? Scarcity magically gone?
Perhaps the GP didn't have the best example, but the point I think that you are missing is that the GGP knows exactly *zero* about economics aside from a few buzzwords, and his incredible ignorance on the subject while attempting to look knowledgeable irritated a lot of people (including the GP). That's my take on it anyway.
Don't you have multistory carparks ? Surely it would be better financially to build buildings and use multistory parking for cars?
Just because that post got an insightful doesn't mean the author actually knew what they were talking about. Hence the number of people responding with bemused "wtf?"
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I completely forgot to add that they really horked QuickTime. Major downgrade. Maybe they counted that as a negative against new features and called it a net new feature set of zero.
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I'm using it and, despite what you may have heard, it does have several new features. But, primarily, it's a major optimization (somewhat akin to Win7 vs Vista, although Win7 got bigger interface changes, at least as I understand their design team). That's particularly true in the Finder which was lagging way the hell behind the rest of the OS in performance -- for example, it's quite obvious they're now rendering all of the icons asynchronously rather than the f'd-up synchronous way they were before. They also included OpenCL with it so I don't need CUDA for NVIDIA carded systems and Stream for ATI carded systems, which makes dispatching MPI jobs far simpler. Plus lots of other stuff, but the other reply pretty much says that there's lots of developer goodness in it (like GCD - Grand Central Dispatch -- not sure I'm completely into it though).
You can peruse the Jobsified list of stuff here.
And they bent me over and charged me a whopping $29. Gosh. I'm still sore.
So you obviously would fully support an antitrust inquiry into why Microsoft doesn't provide an ActiveX plugin for Linux and Mac OS, right? Because not providing that capability restricts what websites you can surf on anything that isn't a Windows PC. Now, this is different from your example because by Microsoft not providing that plugin, the site then isn't compatible. I get that. However, what it means is that Microsoft is creating an incompatibility by not allowing you to surf the web due to restrictions on their part. To me, that's different sides of the same coin.
Regardless, I personally would be against that, if only because the last thing I want invading any of my systems is ActiveX crap. Although that's probably not much of an issue anymore since ActiveX seems to be nearly dead.
It seems to me that the real solution to this particular problem would be for Apple to provide the ability to optionally enable a Flash plugin in for Safari. I wouldn't turn it on because a) I hate Flash "enabled" sites -- the sooner they die the better, AFAIC (and the sites I do use from my iPhone that once required Flash have iPhone versions now -- not that I necessarily love them either), and b) I don't play Flash games, etc. so I have no use for it. It's already enough overhead on my actual computer, let alone having to deal with it on my cellphone too. But people that did want or need to do so could.
But to really return to my original point: I am 100% restricted by Sony regarding the tools that I am allowed to use to develop against their platform. Where's the antitrust inquiry?
So, when does the Sony PS3 inquiry start? Right after Adobe complains?
I don't feel sorry for you about your bike. I feel mildly sorry for you about your car. I have no sympathy in either case for the criminal. However, if the police had found the criminal in either case, I think you should have paid them thousands of dollars for the recovery plus court costs for the prosecution. Not. Turns out the DA, cops, and prosecuting attorney already get paid to do that job via our taxes.
Again, as the AC said (quite astutely), it's the mindset that equates the victims own lack of security with a waive for the criminal that also puts companies in the position of having DRM. So, realistically, I would hope that you at least aren't one of those people crying and gnashing their teeth about the evils of DRM (and if you weren't the one that originally cast blame on Palin for not having security questions as tough as you would have liked, then sorry -- I'm pointing this particular comment at that person, not you).
Anyway, rant aside, I am also about personal responsibility -- but it's more about admitting where you could have reasonably changed the outcome (which is exactly what you did in your post, so pat on the back there) so that you have an opportunity to grow rather than buying into the victim culture, which does nothing but keep you at the level of victim (a very handy political device, in my opinion). However, it in no way diminishes the culpability of the criminal -- they're still just as guilty due to the same personal responsibility issues.
As opposed to the reasonable and highly plausible guy with spider powers?
You apparently misread the abstract. They're going to digtize them. I'm not sure if that means they're creating digg buttons for them, or they're creating DNS entries for them.
Quite right, although I'm not sure why its location in the file system is relevant. When you browse a computer on the network that has Screen Sharing enabled, there's a button on the Finder window that launches the screen sharing system.
BTW, as far as I can tell, it's VNC made robust for Aqua (that is, unless VNC has progressed substantially on the Mac compared to the last time I used it -- which has been a while). One would think you could connect via any VNC client, but I haven't actually bothered to check that WAG.
I really don't see how this has anything to do with PowerPoint*. Yes, it's a complicated graph. But that really has nothing to do with PowerPoint. You might as well bitch about the evils of the overhead projector while you're at it.
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*I'm certainly not a fan of somebody reading a bunch of bullet points to me as if that's an effective way to communicate information, so don't take this as a defense of PowerPoint.
1. Start with a working product.
2. Jailbreak and install Android.
3. Be close to a working product (this step is traditionally supposed to be PROFIT!!!)
Who are the idiots again?
If I had to guess, I'd say it's because they called people who bought iPads "idiots."
Okay Philip. It's obvious that you haven't really read & comprehended the U.S. Constitution. Either that, or you've been drinking a bit too much. Might want to get a breathalyzer lock for the keyboard.
Yes, the police can do absolutely nothing to find the original owner. After a set period of time of them doing absolutely nothing (including not making a public notice of it -- which they are required to do, but we'll just assume they're incompetent), then the person who turned it in can claim it. I'm sure there are many variations of that from locality to locality, but that's the basic process.
That's because we game them Nikola Tesla and the location of Atlantis in exchange for their silence on the matter. I'm not sure what we gave them to keep quiet about 9/11; perhaps the location of Tesla's base on Mars after he escaped from Earth.
I agree with your analysis and want to add another mitigating factor. OS/2 was positioned to take back the desktop from Microsoft with release of version 2.0 back in '92. A lot of people were excited to finally be able to run a real operating system rather than a shell on top of a shell (Win 3.x). Given the fact that it ran Windows software in its own process, it meant people could keep their investment in existing software (maybe IBM learned a lesson from their Microchannel-only PS/2?) with the promise of greater stability. As I recall, IBM did a pretty big run-up to the release. Unfortunately, the installer was absolutely abysmally broken. While the die hard geeks were willing to put in the (sometimes days) of effort to get the POS/2 to install, the average user just wasn't.
As far as I'm concerned, that was the precise point in time when IBM gave away the desktop to Microsoft.
It seems to me this entire sequence started because there are people in this thread that think this is an HTML/Standards thing rather than MS announcing (with pride, no less) that they've finally figured out how to use their own APIs from within IE. Gosh. We down here are oh so impressed let me tell you.
As an aside, I ran the SVG "Asteroids" clone as well as the bouncing balls, bubbles, and the spinning logos and they worked well on Safari/OS X/Macbook Polycarb. But then OS X has had hardware acceleration hooked into their AppKit frameworks for a while, so I would have been surprised if it had been otherwise.
I'm still using my first gen iPhone (EDGE). Perhaps I'll update when the next one comes out, but so far the only compelling reason I've had is hardware voice recognition. Just because you're unhappy with the speed doesn't make it unusable for everyone. Plus, I like the savings of not having to pay AT&T's 3G surcharge.
Frankly, had I not wanted to update the OS I could have just refused the update, and I could always rollback if I changed my mind. But having to remember to click "No" might be asking too much of some people. Although, there may be some AT&T forced updates buried in their somewhere -- I somewhat lost track because I run developer beta's frequently.
Ah, okay. I haven't maintained any Oracle installations for a while, so I really didn't know whether they were still running the same clustered tech or not. Last I paid any attention, they were still doing the Sun/Oracle turnkey clusters. Then again, last I paid attention, Amazon and eBay were Oracle on the backend. I have no idea if that's still the case.
Oracle no longer runs on clusters? When did they drop clustering support?
The current math curriculum my kids are using (which isn't anything magical - just the standard Houghton-Mifflin stuff) starts algebraic concepts in the 4th grade. Fractions get started up in 3rd grade. And, in general, many concepts are started much earlier than they once were. However, I'm not seeing any improvement in attention.
On the one hand, not adding math until later ages may have some merit - I'm not really sure. On the other hand, it may just be the ways in which that math is presented that's the real problem. Memorizing tables of basic arithmetic operations isn't likely to keep anyone's attention for very long, and yet it's still necessary to be able to do arithmetic if you want to be able to handle more advanced math [where advanced means algebra, trig, calc, linear, etc.].
I've been looking into this: http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/ The coolest thing I've found about it so far is that it has workbooks for the *parents* so that they can help their kids with their homework. Nice idea.
And yet there are a lot of iPhone clones that are cheaper and not locked in. I read on Slashdot everyday about the multitude of phones that are far superior to the iPhone as well as much touting of every Android phone that crops up. So, if we could just slap an iPhone label on all of these it would somehow be okay then? Scarcity magically gone?
Perhaps the GP didn't have the best example, but the point I think that you are missing is that the GGP knows exactly *zero* about economics aside from a few buzzwords, and his incredible ignorance on the subject while attempting to look knowledgeable irritated a lot of people (including the GP). That's my take on it anyway.
Just because that post got an insightful doesn't mean the author actually knew what they were talking about. Hence the number of people responding with bemused "wtf?"
I suppose the next link I'll have to provide is one for the word "or." Unfortunately, I suspect you're a bit too obtuse to understand what it means.
From the Google dictionary:
Who knows. Maybe Google is just projecting on that particular definition.