Yes they do - it gives a specific error code where if looked up it says "this machine in unable to run Windows Update because it is infected with malware" or something like that.
How does a first world country's labor compete with third world labor practices?
Take flashlights - I was at the store the other day - the only flashlight on the shelf that was made in the US (in Ontario California) was a Maglight - they wanted 15$ for it. It sat next to a Chinese made plastic piece of junk for 5$. Personally I'm willing to pay 10$ extra for a device that will last the rest of my life, but most won't. The difference is - Maglight probably only made 1 or 2 dollars profit on that flashlight, but the US importer probably made 4.90$ on there flashlight.
Point being - US companies will do whatever it takes to make an extra buck - even if it means hiring children to do their work, never mind they could actually do the same work here in the US and still make a profit - it just wouldn't be as obscenely high.
I have a Nokia smartphone - I'm really alone in this - I've yet to meet another person in the company I work for, or in public who has a Nokia smartphone.
I have a single friend who has a blackberry smart phone, the rest of everyone else I know or have ever met who has a smartphone has an iPhone.
He's not an idiot - he's just been looking around.
If I go to the Walmart across the street from where I work in their cellphone accessory section I can pick up any number of iPhone cases/chargers/docks from about 15+ different manufacturers, yet they have nothing specific for Blackberry, or Symbian phones (which are supposed to be the most popular smart phone platform world-wide).
While your there take a look at their stereos - notice something odd? There's an iPhone dock where the tape deck used to be. When you feel you can't enter the boombox market without an iphone dock attached - I think your approaching ubiquity if not monopoly like status.
In fact if some random person on the street told me that they had a smart phone - it would be a safe bet it was made by Apple.
iPhone dominates now, but Android is growing extremely fast (adoption rate was 4x faster than iPhone in January for instance).
1) Nexus one is about the same size as an iphone physically - its actually thinner (and has user serviceable memory and battery) 2) AMOLED looks better indoors - its a fair tradeoff. Marty Cooper said that over 70% of all cell phone calls are made inside anyhow. 3) ? 4) Not all phones have bad cameras. Everything else on the N97 sucked, except the camera - which takes photo's just as good as many dedicated digital cameras.
Oddly enough a good chunk of all the features in iPhone OS are in Android already - like the multi-account single inbox (which blackberry invented), multi-tasking and the location services. iPhone OS 4 is in fact playing catchup with Android at this point.
Having used an iPhone and Android I'd say the user experience is very very similar - except the Android OS is far more capable of consuming media for the simple fact its not marred down in rules and ego. There's nothing limiting an engineering firm from making an app that runs on Android to fulfill user requirements. But its the apps you say? Every quarter they announce that the marketplace has another 3000-4000 new apps, many of which were made popular on the iPhone:).
One thing about the iPad (not an Apple fan btw!) is that it was designed around being able to touch it with your hands. Testing one out in the lab/store I found it easy to use without a pen.
As the former owner of several Windows tablet pc's - none of them were designed to actually be used with a touch screen. Most of the ones I had the hand writing recognition never worked, the keyboard button had to be used for all input, but the buttons (while resizable) could never be used with your fingers - you always had to use the stylus, and finally - every single app was designed for a mouse.
Office 2007 ribbon is far better metaphor for touch device - so they are going in the right direction, but in the past it wasn't that great a picture - outside of vertical market point of sale/medical apps (the only two places I still seem to see tablets in great use).
Alas - one of the things that has me worried about the hp slate is in fact that it runs a stock copy of Windows 7 with a menu system that starts on top of that (similar to the UMPC tablets, or Windows Media Center) which is great, but the problem there is none of the apps that you want to run are going to have that iPad like motif. Who knows - maybe they'll pull it off.
Have you ever developed in Action Script 3? It is a real language solving some real problems - for instance people have written online word processors, and spreadsheets using it. Premier Express is a video editing tool entirely written in Flash - I'm pretty sure it took a real developer to write that.
Also plenty of game ui's use Flash via Scaleform on a lot of different platforms.
You've only reduced one attack vector from being exploited - it doesn't mean the exploit won't come from any of Apple's other trusted apps, or even any one of the 100,000+ they claim to have on the app store.
Apparently they haven't - because they are letting google do right now, what Microsoft did to them with the PC clones. MS made their platform run on most any PC a manufacturer put together. Google is doing their best to make sure Android runs on as many platforms as manufacturers care to build.
There's one iPhone, but 20+ android phones and counting - and they all run the same apps (more or less), and the rate its growing is really quite phenomenal.
It is obvious. Apple is the ONLY OS company that can move it's ENTIRE product line to new hardware in the span of a couple of years. During the PPC to Intel transition all applications coded with xcode ported over with relative quickness. It took adobe what 4 years to do what apple did with their OS and software in 3?
less than 2 actually - CS2 didn't support Intel Macs, CS3 did - and all these products are on an 18-24 month release cycle.
Mind you - there was a move from Code Warrior to XCode, and that wasn't simple (XCode wasn't all that suited for massive projects the day it was released).
Having actually watched it more than once - I really didn't see any rpg launchers. I heard a bunch of really shellshocked guys flying around in a chopper.
Anyhow if they were carrying rpg's - they were pretty stupid. To illustrate - those guys were walking out in plain daylight, not just daylight, but an area that was completely devoid of buildings on one side of the street. All this while they let two apache gun ships circle around several times.
If that is how "insurgents" carry on - I'm honestly surprised we haven't wiped them out quicker than this.
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I had that update where you couldn't use your controllers without hooking the cable up. Considering I use the thing about 4 times a year I found that rather amusing.
I found the answer on their forums (using an error I discovered when trying to pair the bluetooth remote) and discovered they released a hotfix and to get it you just needed to update.
Doing a google search - there are a lot of people who have had a lot of hassle with firmware updates on the PS3. The wireless controller thing I thought was pretty amusing - it really showed a complete lack of quality assurance (you'd think that being able to control the thing was in the engineering "smoke test" list or something). So to me its not entirely unbelievable that firmware has broken certain model ps3's, or that other users have had similar experiences with past updates.
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Really? The first PC was the Altair 8800 (shipped in 1975 and ran Microsoft Software no less), the first fully assembled PC you could buy ready to run was the Commodore PET in 1977 (shipped in January - Apple ]['s shipped the same year in June).
But neither were made by a couple of hip guys from silicon valley named Steve - so it doesn't count right?
Even html - you can go to any number of websites that will pop up EXE's for you to download without you clicking on anything. Heck - you can even embed executables with Java inside html using browser plugins or its native javascript.
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Yes they do - it gives a specific error code where if looked up it says "this machine in unable to run Windows Update because it is infected with malware" or something like that.
How does a first world country's labor compete with third world labor practices?
Take flashlights - I was at the store the other day - the only flashlight on the shelf that was made in the US (in Ontario California) was a Maglight - they wanted 15$ for it. It sat next to a Chinese made plastic piece of junk for 5$. Personally I'm willing to pay 10$ extra for a device that will last the rest of my life, but most won't. The difference is - Maglight probably only made 1 or 2 dollars profit on that flashlight, but the US importer probably made 4.90$ on there flashlight.
Point being - US companies will do whatever it takes to make an extra buck - even if it means hiring children to do their work, never mind they could actually do the same work here in the US and still make a profit - it just wouldn't be as obscenely high.
Losing trust is probably the worst thing that could ever happen to a MMO...
I have a Nokia smartphone - I'm really alone in this - I've yet to meet another person in the company I work for, or in public who has a Nokia smartphone.
I have a single friend who has a blackberry smart phone, the rest of everyone else I know or have ever met who has a smartphone has an iPhone.
2.1 does have Flashlite support - which is still more than Apple has.
He's not an idiot - he's just been looking around.
If I go to the Walmart across the street from where I work in their cellphone accessory section I can pick up any number of iPhone cases/chargers/docks from about 15+ different manufacturers, yet they have nothing specific for Blackberry, or Symbian phones (which are supposed to be the most popular smart phone platform world-wide).
While your there take a look at their stereos - notice something odd? There's an iPhone dock where the tape deck used to be. When you feel you can't enter the boombox market without an iphone dock attached - I think your approaching ubiquity if not monopoly like status.
In fact if some random person on the street told me that they had a smart phone - it would be a safe bet it was made by Apple.
Anyhow who says this doesn't know anything about flash or what it is used for. Also FLV was one of the first containers to support on2.
iPhone dominates now, but Android is growing extremely fast (adoption rate was 4x faster than iPhone in January for instance).
1) Nexus one is about the same size as an iphone physically - its actually thinner (and has user serviceable memory and battery)
2) AMOLED looks better indoors - its a fair tradeoff. Marty Cooper said that over 70% of all cell phone calls are made inside anyhow.
3) ?
4) Not all phones have bad cameras. Everything else on the N97 sucked, except the camera - which takes photo's just as good as many dedicated digital cameras.
Oddly enough a good chunk of all the features in iPhone OS are in Android already - like the multi-account single inbox (which blackberry invented), multi-tasking and the location services. iPhone OS 4 is in fact playing catchup with Android at this point.
Having used an iPhone and Android I'd say the user experience is very very similar - except the Android OS is far more capable of consuming media for the simple fact its not marred down in rules and ego. There's nothing limiting an engineering firm from making an app that runs on Android to fulfill user requirements. But its the apps you say? Every quarter they announce that the marketplace has another 3000-4000 new apps, many of which were made popular on the iPhone :).
I'm all for the government forcing more kids off mmo's - have you played any of them lately?
One thing about the iPad (not an Apple fan btw!) is that it was designed around being able to touch it with your hands. Testing one out in the lab/store I found it easy to use without a pen.
As the former owner of several Windows tablet pc's - none of them were designed to actually be used with a touch screen. Most of the ones I had the hand writing recognition never worked, the keyboard button had to be used for all input, but the buttons (while resizable) could never be used with your fingers - you always had to use the stylus, and finally - every single app was designed for a mouse.
Office 2007 ribbon is far better metaphor for touch device - so they are going in the right direction, but in the past it wasn't that great a picture - outside of vertical market point of sale/medical apps (the only two places I still seem to see tablets in great use).
Alas - one of the things that has me worried about the hp slate is in fact that it runs a stock copy of Windows 7 with a menu system that starts on top of that (similar to the UMPC tablets, or Windows Media Center) which is great, but the problem there is none of the apps that you want to run are going to have that iPad like motif. Who knows - maybe they'll pull it off.
Have you ever developed in Action Script 3? It is a real language solving some real problems - for instance people have written online word processors, and spreadsheets using it. Premier Express is a video editing tool entirely written in Flash - I'm pretty sure it took a real developer to write that.
Also plenty of game ui's use Flash via Scaleform on a lot of different platforms.
You've only reduced one attack vector from being exploited - it doesn't mean the exploit won't come from any of Apple's other trusted apps, or even any one of the 100,000+ they claim to have on the app store.
They only release dot releases on the developer site right? I don't think I've ever seen a pre-release for a security fix.
You know they did the OTA upgrade for the Motorola Droid for 2.1 went out a month ago right?
With excuses like that - you'd think Apple invented multi-tasking...
Apparently they haven't - because they are letting google do right now, what Microsoft did to them with the PC clones. MS made their platform run on most any PC a manufacturer put together. Google is doing their best to make sure Android runs on as many platforms as manufacturers care to build.
There's one iPhone, but 20+ android phones and counting - and they all run the same apps (more or less), and the rate its growing is really quite phenomenal.
less than 2 actually - CS2 didn't support Intel Macs, CS3 did - and all these products are on an 18-24 month release cycle.
Mind you - there was a move from Code Warrior to XCode, and that wasn't simple (XCode wasn't all that suited for massive projects the day it was released).
Yes and Apple fan boys hated Intel chips (they even applauded the Apple ad with the snail carrying a Pentium II) until Steve endorsed it.
This was a case of - it wouldn't pair the devices at all - or any other bluetooth devices. It gave a specific error when doing so.
Subsequent updates haven't broken my controllers - so I think it was a genuine bug.
Having actually watched it more than once - I really didn't see any rpg launchers. I heard a bunch of really shellshocked guys flying around in a chopper.
Anyhow if they were carrying rpg's - they were pretty stupid. To illustrate - those guys were walking out in plain daylight, not just daylight, but an area that was completely devoid of buildings on one side of the street. All this while they let two apache gun ships circle around several times.
If that is how "insurgents" carry on - I'm honestly surprised we haven't wiped them out quicker than this.
Very nice! I didn't know that!
I had that update where you couldn't use your controllers without hooking the cable up. Considering I use the thing about 4 times a year I found that rather amusing.
I found the answer on their forums (using an error I discovered when trying to pair the bluetooth remote) and discovered they released a hotfix and to get it you just needed to update.
Doing a google search - there are a lot of people who have had a lot of hassle with firmware updates on the PS3. The wireless controller thing I thought was pretty amusing - it really showed a complete lack of quality assurance (you'd think that being able to control the thing was in the engineering "smoke test" list or something). So to me its not entirely unbelievable that firmware has broken certain model ps3's, or that other users have had similar experiences with past updates.
Really? The first PC was the Altair 8800 (shipped in 1975 and ran Microsoft Software no less), the first fully assembled PC you could buy ready to run was the Commodore PET in 1977 (shipped in January - Apple ]['s shipped the same year in June).
But neither were made by a couple of hip guys from silicon valley named Steve - so it doesn't count right?
And you can roll your own patch for Acrobat by changing a few registry keys. What is the difference?
Name one document format that doesn't?
Even html - you can go to any number of websites that will pop up EXE's for you to download without you clicking on anything. Heck - you can even embed executables with Java inside html using browser plugins or its native javascript.