Amen, brother. I have 7 screens of apps on my iPhone, many of which I seldom use. There're also, maybe, 5-7 apps I have removed from iPhone, most of which I paid for (within $4 each, I think). There are a few apps I still keep on the phone simply because I think I **might** need them (e.g. PCalc, HearPlanet, iTalk, Sketches). There're also those that I use, but rarely -- since they serve a certain purpose like: show-off (PocketGuitar, MiniPiano), getting stuff on and off the phone (Air Sharing), sharing photos (Darkslide), killing time (lots of games), etc.
There's nothing wrong with such pattern. Think in terms of a number of shareware or demo apps one downloads to give it a try. Except iPhone makes it far easier and cheaper.
Actually, no. Math is flawed in your comment and it is wrong in TFA. Jobs did not say "we will sell 10mln units in 2008," he said "we will sell 10mln units by the end of 2008," and he said it in 2007. Apple sold 5.5mln by March-end and even if the current 600,000 units pace carried on there'd be 0.6*9=5.4 mln units sold by the end of 2008. 5.5 + 5.4 = 10.9. So, even assuming that there'd be no spike in interest with 3G iPhone release, but the current selling pace is carried on, Apple would still beat there target by almost 10%.
I think that what he reallyeans is that FOSS is like his R&D lab in USSR -- does not invent, only re-invents, re-implements. Playing constant catch-up, not being athe forefront of research & development.
And that is the starting point in his view of FOSS that then results in all subsequent conclusions that he makes. This is simply a view of a "celebrity" person who has never really dealt with GNU/Linux, probably use MSIE and MS Office only, etc.
Oh, man... One would think that by 2008 Slashdot should fully support multiple character sets, but it does not. Shocking. Feeling totally lazy to try and cheat it to accept either unicode entities or spelling it out long hand, here's a link to the same (almost) text, but with all Cyrillic letters kept intact
I'd suggest Mr. kdawson next time to take a slightly less political look at the stories he's putting up. This has nothing to do with "Hindering Paraguayan hackers" and even less so with "establishing greater control over a walled-off Internet." TLD '.RU' comes from ISO two-letter country code for Russia which is 'RU' (Notice that it matches first two letters of country name. Coincidence?). When you move to ITLDs, which presumable will allow us all to use domain names written in any language, translating 'RU' to a literal equivalent in Russian '' makes *no* sense at all. Forget about Paraguay here -- it simply makes 0 sense. Options that make a little more sense are '' or '' -- but they contain thee letter each.
Now, official name of the country is not 'Russia' (just as US is not 'America'), it is 'Russian Federation'. In Russian this is ' ', and that is where ITLD '.' is coming from.
Indeed. While I won't say that elections were totally fair, I really don't think that rigging would be happening on the scale implied by TFA. Correlation, indeed, does not mean a causation -- this is the very first thing they tell you in any statistics class. As it happens, for this particular case there's a very good explanation: you get higher turnout *exactly* in the places where it is likelier that Putin's part wins. Like remote villages and smaller towns that care next to nothing about SPS, Yabloko. Putin's United Russia has become new party of choice for many in voters that would have in the past voted for Communists. Now, this is not to say that Yabloko and SPS had an even match over in those places, but one also has to remember that elections are not won out there. Moscow, St. Petersburg + 10-12 cities that have a million+ population make up over 40% of total population of Russia. You have to win there, to really win. And these are the places that are on the left side of the graph -- where turnout is lower (45-65%) and quite a few parties have gone over 10%.
What the LJ article also fails to dwell on, is that you can compare percentages to percentages -- they make no sense taken out of context. 10% of 1 million is a lot more than 100% of 1 thousand, yet on the graph they are made to mean the same. Y axis should have been "% of total votes" not "% of votes for a territory".
As it stands, this "graph" only confirms that there are lies, damn lies and statistics -- you can make numbers tell *any* story you like.
Well... They do look sort of nice, but remember a big dispute of Safari on Windows font rendering? I find the C-fonts too thin on Windows and a but not as crisp as native Mac font on a Mac. Also, I would not go as far as a to say that all of them are *really* as readable as MSFT claims. They're a nice change from the tyranny of Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Georgia. But as far as sans-serif go, I still find Helvetica and Lucida Grande to be much better. And for serifs -- good old Times (not Times New Roman) and a beautiful Garamond all the way (if only all of them had full Unicode set of characters....).
Anything Mac/Apple is more expensive in Europe, full stop. Look at UK proces on MacBooks or iMacs -- they're not explainable by just exchange rate risks and what not. In Russia, a MacBookPro will cost you 30-40% more than in US, and that's Apple's suggested retail price.
There are much more civilised ways of dealing with historical touchy points than the one chosen by (or suggested to) Estonian government. Look at their neighbors, like Latvia, for instance. A very much the same memorial hardly bothers anyone. It may also be advisable not to call Estonian SS batalion "liberators" either, cosidering the flags and masters they have been serving under. And as always, it is important to distinguish the doings of a ruling caste and people of a given country, same as seeing through who really is behind an activity like this DDoS attack.
That said, since this is hardly a simple story of Estonia and Russia having a grave dispute over a bronze soldier and it has a whole cadre of inspirators, I'd say that Russia has taken the bait, the hook and the sinker.
I cannot see why Apple would invest so much in developing a (closed) platform whose underpinnings simply do not exist (BSD not running on ARM).
There is a port of NetBSD to ARM. Also, as pointed out a few times above -- (Free)BSD is Darwin's user land, kernel is CMU Mach-derrived, windowing system (Aqua) is Apple proprietary. Technically, Apple could port both xnu (kernel) and user land to ARM, and as pointed out it could be (if not trivial, then at least) relatively easy, with PowerPC and m68k expereince that they have.
Now, I wonder if anyone could comb through Darwin source tree and see if there might be something hinting to that...
Of course iPhone (especially when judged from a distance) is not going to be a perfect phone. There are many people around who would say that something this was and still is a perfect mobile phone (and to a great degree I can't blame them -- this phone does what a phone should do: makes calls). We can go back to 2001 and check the "predictive powers" of CmdrTaco wrt iPod -- has it panned out?
But is the market really *that* uncertain? Or maybe the analysts are looking at it from a way too US-centric view (and maybe Steve is making a very similar mistake not releasing this phone in US and Europe at the same time)?
Look at it this way, check out current Cingular offering. The cheapest smart phones start at $99 with a 2-year contrct, but these are older BBs 7290s and Treos. WinCE smart phones are between $299 and $399 with a contract (and at a special price). None of them carries nearly as much RAM as iPhone (and I read it that 4G or 8G will be the user available space), packs nearly the same set of features. I don't have a first-hand experience with WinCE phones, but I keep on hearing about dropped calls, reboots, etc. -- not good, and that;s already 2nd or 3rd generation, is it not?
Six months ago I picked up Nokia N80 for nearly $800. When I am looking at it now and comparing it to the iPhone -- I'll pay just about as much for iPhone now (and I bet it will cost just about as much in Europe): it has a much larger display, looks like it is so much faster, would seamlessly sync with my Mac.
But even if we set a nerd like me aside and just look in a different part of the globe, I know of a lot of people that here in Europe (and even more so, here in Russia) will shell out twice that for the iPhone had it been available here sooner. Look at the prices for the stylish high-end from Nokia (8800 and the likes) -- they are priced out side of any sensible ranges, considering what they can do (and don't even start me on Vertu -- a 3320 wrapped in jewels).
So, I think that while Steve may not end up meeting the 1% share target, he may still well make the required breakthrough, and by the 2nd generation of the iPhone it would make the same to smart phones market as 2nd gen iPod to the MP3 player one (or so I want to believe).
> Still, I don't think this was done around Putin's back. He's a serious hardball player, > not some two bit general riding an out of control tiger.
Which may only play in favor of the "not directly involved" story -- considering that Russia is the only country in the world that produces Polonium 210 in industrial quantities, it is way too easy to trace to Russia and a handful of places here, where it can be obtained.
I'll take the bate. Exactly where do US troops in Afghanstan "restoring infrastruture?" And to start with, what business did US troops had coming into the country at all? Oh, the former ally and a bunch of former trainees in tertrorist/partisan warfare have turned their guns against US? Well, does it not go back to the same year when USSR did go to Afghanistan to protect the elected government? Sure, that government was a Commie one -- but don't people have freedom of thought and belief? Oh, that's only "American people" is it not? And only as long as it matches with the current "doctrine," eh? And does not contradict the religious right's view of life, universe and everything...
See -- you can turn this type of thing each and every way.
"Mylo" when voiced in Russian (had/. been able to handle Unicode properly, I'd even write it here) means "soap." It is a bit amusing that a phone does look its Russian name...
Looking at preview picks, it would seem to be fitting for an average basic user, not for anything fancy. It can't do filters. It won't do subtotals. It does not do PivotTables. Not sure whether you can do extensive (if any) {HV}LOOKUP()s.
I am writing this on a G4 PowerBook and can't really say I find it more sluggish than a brand spanking new Windows desktop I've got at work. There are a few things that this baby does not do too well (like running long compiles of things like, say Firefox), but there still is a plenty of things that it does do as good or better, despite the fact that it has half the memory and more than twice "slower" CPU.
That said, I am sure that CoreDuo would blow it away right away -- I'd love to test those out...
This is *exactly* the point I was waiting for. This has been brought up before -- just look at this Daring Fireball article. This dates back to 2004 -- it is a safe option to have default URL handlers turned off in a few cases. Having default action disabled downloads the file -- but double-clicking it in Finder, or even Ctrl-clicking and using "Open" submenu action does not cause any harm...
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Indeed, and let's not forget that a significant amount of cyber crime originates neither in Russia or EE, but China, India and (shudder) US.
Let us also not put into the same bucket media piracy and true "cyber crime" of breaking & entering type (and TFA, thankfully does not fall for this).
Amen, brother. I have 7 screens of apps on my iPhone, many of which I seldom use. There're also, maybe, 5-7 apps I have removed from iPhone, most of which I paid for (within $4 each, I think). There are a few apps I still keep on the phone simply because I think I **might** need them (e.g. PCalc, HearPlanet, iTalk, Sketches). There're also those that I use, but rarely -- since they serve a certain purpose like: show-off (PocketGuitar, MiniPiano), getting stuff on and off the phone (Air Sharing), sharing photos (Darkslide), killing time (lots of games), etc.
There's nothing wrong with such pattern. Think in terms of a number of shareware or demo apps one downloads to give it a try. Except iPhone makes it far easier and cheaper.
You can do what you're looking for with E: http://www.e-texteditor.com/
Actually, no. Math is flawed in your comment and it is wrong in TFA. Jobs did not say "we will sell 10mln units in 2008," he said "we will sell 10mln units by the end of 2008," and he said it in 2007. Apple sold 5.5mln by March-end and even if the current 600,000 units pace carried on there'd be 0.6*9=5.4 mln units sold by the end of 2008. 5.5 + 5.4 = 10.9. So, even assuming that there'd be no spike in interest with 3G iPhone release, but the current selling pace is carried on, Apple would still beat there target by almost 10%.
That's a hoax, and has been known to be for a few days already... http://www.iphones.ru/iNotes/2922/
I think that what he reallyeans is that FOSS is like his R&D lab in USSR -- does not invent, only re-invents, re-implements. Playing constant catch-up, not being athe forefront of research & development.
And that is the starting point in his view of FOSS that then results in all subsequent conclusions that he makes. This is simply a view of a "celebrity" person who has never really dealt with GNU/Linux, probably use MSIE and MS Office only, etc.
Link: http://blog.ceesaxp.org/2008/01/mixing-politics-and-unicode-considered.html
Oh, man... One would think that by 2008 Slashdot should fully support multiple character sets, but it does not. Shocking. Feeling totally lazy to try and cheat it to accept either unicode entities or spelling it out long hand, here's a link to the same (almost) text, but with all Cyrillic letters kept intact
I'd suggest Mr. kdawson next time to take a slightly less political look at the stories he's putting up. This has nothing to do with "Hindering Paraguayan hackers" and even less so with "establishing greater control over a walled-off Internet." TLD '.RU' comes from ISO two-letter country code for Russia which is 'RU' (Notice that it matches first two letters of country name. Coincidence?). When you move to ITLDs, which presumable will allow us all to use domain names written in any language, translating 'RU' to a literal equivalent in Russian '' makes *no* sense at all. Forget about Paraguay here -- it simply makes 0 sense. Options that make a little more sense are '' or '' -- but they contain thee letter each.
Now, official name of the country is not 'Russia' (just as US is not 'America'), it is 'Russian Federation'. In Russian this is ' ', and that is where ITLD '.' is coming from.
Indeed. While I won't say that elections were totally fair, I really don't think that rigging would be happening on the scale implied by TFA. Correlation, indeed, does not mean a causation -- this is the very first thing they tell you in any statistics class. As it happens, for this particular case there's a very good explanation: you get higher turnout *exactly* in the places where it is likelier that Putin's part wins. Like remote villages and smaller towns that care next to nothing about SPS, Yabloko. Putin's United Russia has become new party of choice for many in voters that would have in the past voted for Communists. Now, this is not to say that Yabloko and SPS had an even match over in those places, but one also has to remember that elections are not won out there. Moscow, St. Petersburg + 10-12 cities that have a million+ population make up over 40% of total population of Russia. You have to win there, to really win. And these are the places that are on the left side of the graph -- where turnout is lower (45-65%) and quite a few parties have gone over 10%.
What the LJ article also fails to dwell on, is that you can compare percentages to percentages -- they make no sense taken out of context. 10% of 1 million is a lot more than 100% of 1 thousand, yet on the graph they are made to mean the same. Y axis should have been "% of total votes" not "% of votes for a territory".
As it stands, this "graph" only confirms that there are lies, damn lies and statistics -- you can make numbers tell *any* story you like.
Well... They do look sort of nice, but remember a big dispute of Safari on Windows font rendering? I find the C-fonts too thin on Windows and a but not as crisp as native Mac font on a Mac. Also, I would not go as far as a to say that all of them are *really* as readable as MSFT claims. They're a nice change from the tyranny of Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Georgia. But as far as sans-serif go, I still find Helvetica and Lucida Grande to be much better. And for serifs -- good old Times (not Times New Roman) and a beautiful Garamond all the way (if only all of them had full Unicode set of characters....).
Anything Mac/Apple is more expensive in Europe, full stop. Look at UK proces on MacBooks or iMacs -- they're not explainable by just exchange rate risks and what not. In Russia, a MacBookPro will cost you 30-40% more than in US, and that's Apple's suggested retail price.
There are much more civilised ways of dealing with historical touchy points than the one chosen by (or suggested to) Estonian government. Look at their neighbors, like Latvia, for instance. A very much the same memorial hardly bothers anyone. It may also be advisable not to call Estonian SS batalion "liberators" either, cosidering the flags and masters they have been serving under. And as always, it is important to distinguish the doings of a ruling caste and people of a given country, same as seeing through who really is behind an activity like this DDoS attack.
That said, since this is hardly a simple story of Estonia and Russia having a grave dispute over a bronze soldier and it has a whole cadre of inspirators, I'd say that Russia has taken the bait, the hook and the sinker.
As seen over here: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/video-spoof/boomerang+s haped-microsoft-ophone-takes-cellphone-world-by-st orm-258921.php
There is a port of NetBSD to ARM. Also, as pointed out a few times above -- (Free)BSD is Darwin's user land, kernel is CMU Mach-derrived, windowing system (Aqua) is Apple proprietary. Technically, Apple could port both xnu (kernel) and user land to ARM, and as pointed out it could be (if not trivial, then at least) relatively easy, with PowerPC and m68k expereince that they have.
Now, I wonder if anyone could comb through Darwin source tree and see if there might be something hinting to that...
Of course iPhone (especially when judged from a distance) is not going to be a perfect phone. There are many people around who would say that something this was and still is a perfect mobile phone (and to a great degree I can't blame them -- this phone does what a phone should do: makes calls). We can go back to 2001 and check the "predictive powers" of CmdrTaco wrt iPod -- has it panned out?
But is the market really *that* uncertain? Or maybe the analysts are looking at it from a way too US-centric view (and maybe Steve is making a very similar mistake not releasing this phone in US and Europe at the same time)?
Look at it this way, check out current Cingular offering. The cheapest smart phones start at $99 with a 2-year contrct, but these are older BBs 7290s and Treos. WinCE smart phones are between $299 and $399 with a contract (and at a special price). None of them carries nearly as much RAM as iPhone (and I read it that 4G or 8G will be the user available space), packs nearly the same set of features. I don't have a first-hand experience with WinCE phones, but I keep on hearing about dropped calls, reboots, etc. -- not good, and that;s already 2nd or 3rd generation, is it not?
Six months ago I picked up Nokia N80 for nearly $800. When I am looking at it now and comparing it to the iPhone -- I'll pay just about as much for iPhone now (and I bet it will cost just about as much in Europe): it has a much larger display, looks like it is so much faster, would seamlessly sync with my Mac.
But even if we set a nerd like me aside and just look in a different part of the globe, I know of a lot of people that here in Europe (and even more so, here in Russia) will shell out twice that for the iPhone had it been available here sooner. Look at the prices for the stylish high-end from Nokia (8800 and the likes) -- they are priced out side of any sensible ranges, considering what they can do (and don't even start me on Vertu -- a 3320 wrapped in jewels).
So, I think that while Steve may not end up meeting the 1% share target, he may still well make the required breakthrough, and by the 2nd generation of the iPhone it would make the same to smart phones market as 2nd gen iPod to the MP3 player one (or so I want to believe).
Yeah, but hardly anyone really calls it "ECMA Script" -- maybe there's a reason for it? It's called JavaScript by just about everyone....
> Still, I don't think this was done around Putin's back. He's a serious hardball player,
> not some two bit general riding an out of control tiger.
Which may only play in favor of the "not directly involved" story -- considering that Russia is the only country in the world that produces Polonium 210 in industrial quantities, it is way too easy to trace to Russia and a handful of places here, where it can be obtained.
I'll take the bate. Exactly where do US troops in Afghanstan "restoring infrastruture?" And to start with, what business did US troops had coming into the country at all? Oh, the former ally and a bunch of former trainees in tertrorist/partisan warfare have turned their guns against US? Well, does it not go back to the same year when USSR did go to Afghanistan to protect the elected government? Sure, that government was a Commie one -- but don't people have freedom of thought and belief? Oh, that's only "American people" is it not? And only as long as it matches with the current "doctrine," eh? And does not contradict the religious right's view of life, universe and everything...
See -- you can turn this type of thing each and every way.
It was an intentional part of a pun...
"Mylo" when voiced in Russian (had /. been able to handle Unicode properly, I'd even write it here) means "soap." It is a bit amusing that a phone does look its Russian name...
Looking at preview picks, it would seem to be fitting for an average basic user, not for anything fancy. It can't do filters. It won't do subtotals. It does not do PivotTables. Not sure whether you can do extensive (if any) {HV}LOOKUP()s.
Simone?
:)
Oh, wait, you mean where CG was better than real...
I am writing this on a G4 PowerBook and can't really say I find it more sluggish than a brand spanking new Windows desktop I've got at work. There are a few things that this baby does not do too well (like running long compiles of things like, say Firefox), but there still is a plenty of things that it does do as good or better, despite the fact that it has half the memory and more than twice "slower" CPU.
That said, I am sure that CoreDuo would blow it away right away -- I'd love to test those out...
This is *exactly* the point I was waiting for. This has been brought up before -- just look at this Daring Fireball article. This dates back to 2004 -- it is a safe option to have default URL handlers turned off in a few cases. Having default action disabled downloads the file -- but double-clicking it in Finder, or even Ctrl-clicking and using "Open" submenu action does not cause any harm...