Essentially 50 million instant, unique visitors at launch with little growth since. Granted, this doesn't appear to have December numbers in it, and I can't attest to the accuracy or inaccuracy of Compete -- but it still made for an interesting data point.
Yes, malware could grab data from stock iPhones in much the same way that I could be President of the United States. Wikipedia has the scoop, plus a lot of other juicy details, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
Granted, the probability of my becoming Prez is likely lower; particularly if my opponents find out that I hang out around here.
What? This patent keeps the planet from from being destroyed? I need to read those claims more carefully. Did I miss a big deflector shield or something? Although, if SciFi/SyFy Channel Original Movies have taught me anything, it's that the majority of planetary threats can be averted by nukes, and I know I didn't see any references to nukes in there.
Oh.... you meant an innovative way to save energy and possibly the humans, or at least their current way of life. Never mind. That's a shame though. I was starting to envision a franchise of "Armagoogleddon", "Mothra vs Google", etc. movies. Sigh.
I guess my point is, until the iPhone platform is opened up to where it can be used to solve custom business issues, iPhone development will be little more than a side hobby for most developers.
Assuming you have 500 or more employees in your company, you can...
You lack persistence. I'm nearly done entering all of the DATA statements for a full assembler. Probably only need a few more weeks and then a few nights of verifying what I've entered. I've tacked on a bit of code to poke the whole thing into REM statements, at which point I'll be ready to recreate Zaxxon.
It's mostly the lack of mathematics. Even the 4-year programs at places like ITT-Tech & Devry are incredibly lacking in math. And with Devry (for example) available at the "bargain" price of $330/credit-hour -- the appearance that you bought your degree because you couldn't handle earning a university degree is a bit difficult to overlook.
I suppose I should have added a sarcasm tag on there as it seems that there are more people than not who won't get my point. Glad to see at least you did.
It would be interesting to know how many of the people expressing outrage and indignation on this thread actually even use a hacked OS X install on an Atom processor. Given how many of them are obviously lacking in hardware knowledge as well as software development experience (Can you say "regression testing?" Sure. I knew you could.) I think it's unlikely that many of them actually have the nerd 'nads necessary to deal with a hackintosh. Then again, script kiddies generally show the same level of ignorance (the jailbreak "exploit" *cough* *cough* being a fine example), so who knows.
Why do I think I've just set myself up for a stream of worthless, anecdotal replies?
Well, I RTFA and followed the links there. I found the part where this build isn't working with the Atom processor. However, I was unable to find the "official" part. Any links to that?
Never put down to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Exactly. I'm pretty sure that both the original story stating that it was "broken" and the followup story that it's "fixed... for now " are due more to stupidity than malice.
Since when has kdawson let the facts get in the way of a frothy anti-Apple story? Yeah, I know it was only approved by kdawson and not authored by, but the trend is definitely "if it's anti-Apple, approve it without verifying any detail in it" -- especially if it's likely to rile up the "Free as in Food Stamps" crowd.
Ah. So that explains the massive SQL Server crashes, cluster crashes, lengthy unplanned downtime, disastrous upgrades, and login queues. Thanks -- I was wondering. Although, maybe MS is just working the kinks out of StacklessPython.net.
Reviews on third-party websites are generally more reliable as there's usually less of a conflict of interest but even those aren't always real so buyer beware.
That's a good point. Consumer Reports is one of those 3rd party review sites that everyone assumes has no bias whatsoever (the major claim being they don't accept advertisements, even though they are funded in part by Consumer's Union, which is in turn funded by donations, some of the larger ones being from politically motivated groups).
Anyway, one of their problems is that the actual reports from consumers have emotional bias in them. I would use cars as my example, but since this is/., I'll do the reverse and make a computer analogy. Imagine the average consumer reports from people who own Macs* of various sorts. In all likelihood, there would be a pretty large emotional bias that would make the Mac look far better than it truly is. Their emotional attachment would tend to make them gloss over most problems as being minor and not worth reporting. Also, many of them have likely purchased the Mac with the idea that it was a smart purchase (works better, no problems, doesn't crash, etc.) which means they are less likely to admit any problems.
I recall glancing at a Consumer Reports a few years ago (I dug around for a link but can't find one) and the Toyota Matrix got much higher marks than the Pontiac Vibe (same vehicle). Since I can't actually find that report, I don't know why the difference (perhaps it was customer service or something), but ultimately, they should have really come out with extremely similar scores.
Anyway, I think CR can be fine for many things, but once emotion gets involved, you're not reading an objective review anymore.
*Disclaimer: I'm a somewhat long-term Mac owner/user and remain extremely satisfied with them, so take that for whatever it's worth (i.e., I may very well have emotional biases involved in my example).
External components? Really? Not like there's a market for external hard drives, CD/DVD players/burners, digital cameras, scanners, printers, phone interfaces, music players, and all the other things that we only wish we could connect to our computers from the outside rather than having them built in. First, there would really need to be some way of connecting them to your computer. And hopefully it would be some sort of standard.
I think you're possibly overstating things out of frustration, and I pretty much agree with some of your points. However, I'm relatively certain that file name extensions are a PDP/TOPS-10 thing (and later PDP/DOS-11/RT-11 followed by VAX/VMS) that CP/M copied along the way. In much the same way that C and 68xx/68xxx copied the DEC instruction set.
Some of the issue is that Apple does have to live in a DOS inspired world, where files are flat and extensions embed information. Although I think I might have read that in a Linux README.txt file somewhere.
Yeah - because we all know that crime didn't exist in the past. This just *must* be due to the unemployment rate going from the normal 4-6% up to an astonishing 9.6%.
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Perhaps I'm missing something here, but the technological input methods *all* beat out actual writing speeds.
I personally found this interesting: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/bing.com/
Essentially 50 million instant, unique visitors at launch with little growth since. Granted, this doesn't appear to have December numbers in it, and I can't attest to the accuracy or inaccuracy of Compete -- but it still made for an interesting data point.
'nss' is the tag for 'No Shit, Sherlock!', right? Just want to make sure I tag this story correctly.
Yes, malware could grab data from stock iPhones in much the same way that I could be President of the United States. Wikipedia has the scoop, plus a lot of other juicy details, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
Granted, the probability of my becoming Prez is likely lower; particularly if my opponents find out that I hang out around here.
What? This patent keeps the planet from from being destroyed? I need to read those claims more carefully. Did I miss a big deflector shield or something? Although, if SciFi/SyFy Channel Original Movies have taught me anything, it's that the majority of planetary threats can be averted by nukes, and I know I didn't see any references to nukes in there.
Oh.... you meant an innovative way to save energy and possibly the humans, or at least their current way of life. Never mind. That's a shame though. I was starting to envision a franchise of "Armagoogleddon", "Mothra vs Google", etc. movies. Sigh.
Do enough of that and you could work your way up to lifting multiple fingers. Perhaps, one day, even your entire hand.
Don't be afraid -- it's a process.
Assuming you have 500 or more employees in your company, you can...
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/distribute.html
s/Firefox/iPhone/g
THEN you've got a story. One worthy of kdawson even...
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You lack persistence. I'm nearly done entering all of the DATA statements for a full assembler. Probably only need a few more weeks and then a few nights of verifying what I've entered. I've tacked on a bit of code to poke the whole thing into REM statements, at which point I'll be ready to recreate Zaxxon.
It's mostly the lack of mathematics. Even the 4-year programs at places like ITT-Tech & Devry are incredibly lacking in math. And with Devry (for example) available at the "bargain" price of $330/credit-hour -- the appearance that you bought your degree because you couldn't handle earning a university degree is a bit difficult to overlook.
I suppose I should have added a sarcasm tag on there as it seems that there are more people than not who won't get my point. Glad to see at least you did.
It would be interesting to know how many of the people expressing outrage and indignation on this thread actually even use a hacked OS X install on an Atom processor. Given how many of them are obviously lacking in hardware knowledge as well as software development experience (Can you say "regression testing?" Sure. I knew you could.) I think it's unlikely that many of them actually have the nerd 'nads necessary to deal with a hackintosh. Then again, script kiddies generally show the same level of ignorance (the jailbreak "exploit" *cough* *cough* being a fine example), so who knows.
Why do I think I've just set myself up for a stream of worthless, anecdotal replies?
Well, I RTFA and followed the links there. I found the part where this build isn't working with the Atom processor. However, I was unable to find the "official" part. Any links to that?
Exactly. I'm pretty sure that both the original story stating that it was "broken" and the followup story that it's "fixed... for now " are due more to stupidity than malice.
Since when has kdawson let the facts get in the way of a frothy anti-Apple story? Yeah, I know it was only approved by kdawson and not authored by, but the trend is definitely "if it's anti-Apple, approve it without verifying any detail in it" -- especially if it's likely to rile up the "Free as in Food Stamps" crowd.
In reality, it ends January 31, 2010. At least that's the last date on my wall calendar, so applying the same "logic"...
Thanks for the quick overview. I had just assumed he was maligned here because he was a Republican or something...
The iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. Exaggerate much?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_iPhone
Ah. So that explains the massive SQL Server crashes, cluster crashes, lengthy unplanned downtime, disastrous upgrades, and login queues. Thanks -- I was wondering. Although, maybe MS is just working the kinks out of StacklessPython.net.
That's a good point. Consumer Reports is one of those 3rd party review sites that everyone assumes has no bias whatsoever (the major claim being they don't accept advertisements, even though they are funded in part by Consumer's Union, which is in turn funded by donations, some of the larger ones being from politically motivated groups).
Anyway, one of their problems is that the actual reports from consumers have emotional bias in them. I would use cars as my example, but since this is /., I'll do the reverse and make a computer analogy. Imagine the average consumer reports from people who own Macs* of various sorts. In all likelihood, there would be a pretty large emotional bias that would make the Mac look far better than it truly is. Their emotional attachment would tend to make them gloss over most problems as being minor and not worth reporting. Also, many of them have likely purchased the Mac with the idea that it was a smart purchase (works better, no problems, doesn't crash, etc.) which means they are less likely to admit any problems.
I recall glancing at a Consumer Reports a few years ago (I dug around for a link but can't find one) and the Toyota Matrix got much higher marks than the Pontiac Vibe (same vehicle). Since I can't actually find that report, I don't know why the difference (perhaps it was customer service or something), but ultimately, they should have really come out with extremely similar scores.
Anyway, I think CR can be fine for many things, but once emotion gets involved, you're not reading an objective review anymore.
*Disclaimer: I'm a somewhat long-term Mac owner/user and remain extremely satisfied with them, so take that for whatever it's worth (i.e., I may very well have emotional biases involved in my example).
External components? Really? Not like there's a market for external hard drives, CD/DVD players/burners, digital cameras, scanners, printers, phone interfaces, music players, and all the other things that we only wish we could connect to our computers from the outside rather than having them built in. First, there would really need to be some way of connecting them to your computer. And hopefully it would be some sort of standard.
Perhaps, one day, that dream will be realized.
OMG! You can use light to transmit data over a cable? That's freaking crazy!! Wow.
What's next? Some way to switch circuits without using tubes or relays? Yeah -- like that would ever happen.
One of only twelve states? That's nearly 1/4 of all states. I wouldn't call that "only".
I think you're possibly overstating things out of frustration, and I pretty much agree with some of your points. However, I'm relatively certain that file name extensions are a PDP/TOPS-10 thing (and later PDP/DOS-11/RT-11 followed by VAX/VMS) that CP/M copied along the way. In much the same way that C and 68xx/68xxx copied the DEC instruction set.
Some of the issue is that Apple does have to live in a DOS inspired world, where files are flat and extensions embed information. Although I think I might have read that in a Linux README.txt file somewhere.
Yeah - because we all know that crime didn't exist in the past. This just *must* be due to the unemployment rate going from the normal 4-6% up to an astonishing 9.6%.
Who'll think about the children?