but user interface? KDE and Gnome is even more complicated than Windows. It's exactly "designed by techies for techies." and the fact you have to perform nearly all the advance configuration via a console is not "user-friendly" either.
for linux to succeed on the desktop market (and i mean home users, not the desktops of programmers), they need to get a group of real art and design graduates to come fix the GUI.
and it's funny...people keep thinking Unix will always be console-bound because no one can design a decent GUI (and let's not discuss the horrendous CDE)...then Apple came in and BAM....Aqua.
you can't install any third-party software either on those Apple iPods or Sony Walkman Cell Phones (non-Symbian, e.g. W800) or the Moto RAZR....
but that didn't prevent them from selling like HOT cakes
"Applications" (or in this case, games) for consoles (e.g. XBox 360, Wii, PS3) must be approved by their manufacturer too, and do you see those teenagers complaining they can't run their own Tetris they wrote in CompSci 101 ?
"Jobs realizes that he does not see perfectly into the minds of all consumers"... true, because every consumer has their own user-requirements, but the iPhone targets the mass market who values the "experience" more than extensibility.
Think of the iPhone not as phone that plays mp3s...but as a high-end iPod that happens to have a larger screen and happens to make calls too
the iPhone (hell with Cisco, Apple created the iPhone, not some crappy eVil-of-Intellectual-Property device they launched) is nearly exactly the same size as the Moto Q (the specs of each dimension are within 5mm of each other), so it really depends on the definition of "everyday phone." if a corporate user can tolerate a Treo or an even thicker Blackberry, then they can certainly carry the iPhone with ease.
It's also the first phone *with a good interface* (ignore ROKR for a moment) that allows users to buy songs online and seamlessly sync them to their phone. None of Blackjack, Moto Q, Treo, Blackberry does that.
It's first and fore-most a phone and a mp3 player, with some nice little bells and whistles add-ons. Then you hear tons of people complaining it's not a GPS receiver and not WiMax-enabled and not 30hrs of batt life...
the majority of Web 2.0 sites require AJAX to do their magic, which will be both CPU and bandwidth intensive.
Given a non-3G phone's connection (GPRS, EDGE, or 1xRTT), AJAX's nonstop connection to the servers will be a huge bottleneck to the usability of the apps.
unless we downgrade the apps to WHTML-compatible, which nullifies any advantage Web 2.0 has over the vanilla 1.0 (whatever that is)
with Citibank e-Savings at 5.00% APY and HSBCDirect at 5.05% APY, these are no longer "mere savings account," esp when you consider the historic return of a 60 stock / 40 bond portfolio to be only 8% annual.
at $19.95 flat, Japan Airlines offered me unlimited access using Connexion at true broadband speeds. Sure the latency is low, but it's a huge boost for productivity. And seriously, how many internet cafes you know offer 13 hours of service for only $20 ?
it'll be really sad if Boeing cancels the service, cuz Connexion is one of my primary reasons I'll fly JAL or Lufthansa.
Microsoft, IBM, HP never was open about their OS to the OSS community (Windows, AIX, HPUX), so shouldn't Apple have the right ?
The BSD camp keeps boasting that the BSD license is more free than GPL because it allows modified distribution without the source code, and now they're complaining Apple is no longer opening Darwin ?
And even Apple did open Darwin, the OSS crowds keeps claiming it's semi-proprietary, and continued praising Linux/BSD instead of Darwin. Apple has to spend the time and resource to keep distribute the kernel portion of Darwin and make sure no private code gets out, yet what's their ROI?
They can easily borrow the best practices from FreeBSD/OpenBSD - i.e. code reviewed and commented by the community.
And the OSS community keeps forgetting the first rule of business - it's ran for the benefit of the shareholders first.
there are already multiple stand-alone speaker systems for the ipod from Bose, JBL, and others, and the Intel Mac mini is simply a retool of the same offering on a faster chip.
these 2 products are more evolutionary than REVolutionary, and hardly deserves the fanfare of a separate launch party hosted by Jobs himself
maybe a true video ipod does, but these 2 products yielded a big YAWN in my mind when i saw the live blogs
the beginning of the end of the globally interoperable internet started when China decided to install a Great Firewall to filter out politically sensitive websites, just like other fascists regimes blocking radio/TV broadcasts that advocate overturning of their governments.
but then, this doesn't necessarily have to end the interoperability of the internet. since most systems on the net can decipher Unicode already, provided that this new Chinese-based domain name system uses Unicode, global routers can easily adopt to resolving their URLs.
because Apple spends extra R&D to research on how to minimize sound propagation from the hardware to the uesr, versus those cheapo Gateways that are just slapped together at lowest costs.
If the loud fan is cheaper, Gateway would choose it. And I would suspect Dell/HP are the same too.
Google scans your emails for ads, Amazon tracks your order history for recommendations, credit card company analyze your transactional pattern to offer balance transfer promotions....
it's all about tayloring for each customer.
provided Apple is not *sharing* this data with 3rd-parties, I don't find anything wrong with internal data mining.
> Converting that code to work well where the cost for fetching data from a register may involve moving other data out of a register first so the physical register can be freed up for another emulated register is a Hard Problem
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i agree on reliability and cost, linux wins.
...then Apple came in and BAM....Aqua.
but user interface? KDE and Gnome is even more complicated than Windows. It's exactly "designed by techies for techies." and the fact you have to perform nearly all the advance configuration via a console is not "user-friendly" either.
for linux to succeed on the desktop market (and i mean home users, not the desktops of programmers), they need to get a group of real art and design graduates to come fix the GUI.
and it's funny...people keep thinking Unix will always be console-bound because no one can design a decent GUI (and let's not discuss the horrendous CDE)
when iPod was launched, Linux geeks *also* complained they can't put open-source OGG Vorbis in it, and it has 0 chance of succeeding...
... =)
not sure they can proclaim the same 60 million units later
you can't install any third-party software either on those Apple iPods or Sony Walkman Cell Phones (non-Symbian, e.g. W800) or the Moto RAZR ....
... true, because every consumer has their own user-requirements, but the iPhone targets the mass market who values the "experience" more than extensibility.
but that didn't prevent them from selling like HOT cakes
"Applications" (or in this case, games) for consoles (e.g. XBox 360, Wii, PS3) must be approved by their manufacturer too, and do you see those teenagers complaining they can't run their own Tetris they wrote in CompSci 101 ?
"Jobs realizes that he does not see perfectly into the minds of all consumers"
Think of the iPhone not as phone that plays mp3s...but as a high-end iPod that happens to have a larger screen and happens to make calls too
the iPhone (hell with Cisco, Apple created the iPhone, not some crappy eVil-of-Intellectual-Property device they launched) is nearly exactly the same size as the Moto Q (the specs of each dimension are within 5mm of each other), so it really depends on the definition of "everyday phone." if a corporate user can tolerate a Treo or an even thicker Blackberry, then they can certainly carry the iPhone with ease.
It's also the first phone *with a good interface* (ignore ROKR for a moment) that allows users to buy songs online and seamlessly sync them to their phone. None of Blackjack, Moto Q, Treo, Blackberry does that.
It's first and fore-most a phone and a mp3 player, with some nice little bells and whistles add-ons. Then you hear tons of people complaining it's not a GPS receiver and not WiMax-enabled and not 30hrs of batt life...
Katherine Harass lost....
Sick Santorum lost....
And finally....Donald Dumbsfeld is fired
World Peace, At Last.
the easiest way to build a BETTER voting machine would be by any company's whose CEO doesn't deliver the Ohioan electoral votes straight to bush
the majority of Web 2.0 sites require AJAX to do their magic, which will be both CPU and bandwidth intensive.
Given a non-3G phone's connection (GPRS, EDGE, or 1xRTT), AJAX's nonstop connection to the servers will be a huge bottleneck to the usability of the apps.
unless we downgrade the apps to WHTML-compatible, which nullifies any advantage Web 2.0 has over the vanilla 1.0 (whatever that is)
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>Oh yes dear me, because information never changes and people should not EVAR be required to >use their brains after their youthful indoctrination.
isn't that what religion is all about - that the "almighty" is absolute and no debate is allowed ?
thank goodness i dont belong to brain-washing propaganda-spewing groups, frequently known as "bible study"
with Citibank e-Savings at 5.00% APY and HSBCDirect at 5.05% APY, these are no longer "mere savings account," esp when you consider the historic return of a 60 stock / 40 bond portfolio to be only 8% annual.
1 EUR = 1.25575 USD
i think u got the exchange rate reversed.
at $19.95 flat, Japan Airlines offered me unlimited access using Connexion at true broadband speeds. Sure the latency is low, but it's a huge boost for productivity. And seriously, how many internet cafes you know offer 13 hours of service for only $20 ?
it'll be really sad if Boeing cancels the service, cuz Connexion is one of my primary reasons I'll fly JAL or Lufthansa.
>I can't wait till we get hydrogen fuel cells in our laptops!
think Space shuttle Challenger from 1986.
Lithium-ion only gets you an exploding Dell in a conference. Let's stick the safe elements on the periodic table ^^
Microsoft, IBM, HP never was open about their OS to the OSS community (Windows, AIX, HPUX), so shouldn't Apple have the right ?
The BSD camp keeps boasting that the BSD license is more free than GPL because it allows modified distribution without the source code, and now they're complaining Apple is no longer opening Darwin ?
And even Apple did open Darwin, the OSS crowds keeps claiming it's semi-proprietary, and continued praising Linux/BSD instead of Darwin. Apple has to spend the time and resource to keep distribute the kernel portion of Darwin and make sure no private code gets out, yet what's their ROI?
They can easily borrow the best practices from FreeBSD/OpenBSD - i.e. code reviewed and commented by the community.
And the OSS community keeps forgetting the first rule of business - it's ran for the benefit of the shareholders first.
i followed the ENTIRE recipe, and now i can laugh at all my friends who still enjoy win32 viruses and trojans and what-have-you
or the fact icq never ever left alpha and beta mode
icq is already being superceded by MSN and AIM for most users, and it's still in beta...
maybe by the the time AOL decides to decommission it, it'll be a sta(b)le release
yea, but imagine trying to explain "MIPS" and pipeline and L1/2/3 Cache to a common-joe... =)
or even better....Best Buy listing the SpecInt and SpecFP of all the comps, and tell consumers to use that number instead of MHz/RAM.
actually when Jake was bottoming for Heath it was more like CowboyBendover
there are already multiple stand-alone speaker systems for the ipod from Bose, JBL, and others, and the Intel Mac mini is simply a retool of the same offering on a faster chip.
these 2 products are more evolutionary than REVolutionary, and hardly deserves the fanfare of a separate launch party hosted by Jobs himself
maybe a true video ipod does, but these 2 products yielded a big YAWN in my mind when i saw the live blogs
> Of course, there might be something I'm missing. Feel free to point it out.
perhaps the generalization of state of human rights in all of Asia due to a handful of totalitarian and fascists regime ?
no need to worry about viruses, adware, spyware, malware...
as user-friendly as Windows, as secure as BSD Unix.
that's called the .lv TLD
the beginning of the end of the globally interoperable internet started when China decided to install a Great Firewall to filter out politically sensitive websites, just like other fascists regimes blocking radio/TV broadcasts that advocate overturning of their governments.
but then, this doesn't necessarily have to end the interoperability of the internet. since most systems on the net can decipher Unicode already, provided that this new Chinese-based domain name system uses Unicode, global routers can easily adopt to resolving their URLs.
because Apple spends extra R&D to research on how to minimize sound propagation from the hardware to the uesr, versus those cheapo Gateways that are just slapped together at lowest costs.
If the loud fan is cheaper, Gateway would choose it. And I would suspect Dell/HP are the same too.
Google scans your emails for ads, Amazon tracks your order history for recommendations, credit card company analyze your transactional pattern to offer balance transfer promotions....
it's all about tayloring for each customer.
provided Apple is not *sharing* this data with 3rd-parties, I don't find anything wrong with internal data mining.
> Converting that code to work well where the cost for fetching data from a register may involve moving other data out of a register first so the physical register can be freed up for another emulated register is a Hard Problem
by "Hard" do you mean NP or PSPACE or neither ?