Their users have never been spoiled by quality, so they don't expect quality from administrators. They just expect to be told that that's how it is, and it's time to reboot.
Don't think "wordprocessing" when you see this. Think Photoshop / Graphic design -- a portable tablet-sized device an artist can take on the road and draw on directly, instead of having to hook up a separate tablet. We already have tablets with a built in lcd screen that the artist draws on directly. Apple is just taking the logical step of wrapping a computer around it and updating the operating system not to require any additional input devices.
If there's any truth to this story, then you can rest assured that Apple won't replace all keyboards in their powerbook lines. Far more likely is that this is just the product that'll fill the 6th slot in apple's hardware plan, separate from powerbooks. For years, there've been rumors about apple producing a tablet device, and the technology and the prices are finally getting to the point where they just might do it.
I suppose he'll just have to go back to dreaming about sports cars. I have to pity anyone whose artistic achievement can be summed up by an ad executive as: "Jaguar today exudes a real sense of passion and excitement and Sting captures this very well in his music." That, and not being allowed to say anything in the commercial for fear of sounding stupid.
Although you might want to find out how richard simmons is so successful, we haven't figured that one out yet ourselves and would appreciate some insight from the inside....
Not actually being fat, myself, I'm hardly on the "inside", but I can tell you that Richard Simmons's success has a lot to do with how hard he works and how much he takes his work and himself seriously (even though no one else takes him seriously). I can't think of a more sincere person who's ever had as much tv exposure.
I realize where you're coming from, but Apple is doing its best to play down Objective C and play up Java, because the latter has bigger mind/market share, and they're doing their best to make sure it isn't a poor cousin to Objective C with this framework.
Moderators and submittors; think of this as a logic game -- since the NSA won't answer questions it considers too sensitive, what kind of questions can be moderated up high enough to send and stand a good chance of being answered?
How's the the cafeteria food? Do you guys have company softball games? When are you planning to get a cool crypto statue like the CIA's? Do I look fat in this? I want your honest answer.
The US Secret Service are members of the Treasury department, and their purpose is to prevent counterfeiting of US currency. With Canadian currency near an all-time low compared to other currencies, you'd think the counterfeiters would've moved on to greener pastures.
You're really confusing a bunch of issues, hopefully not maliciously. Cocoa is jsut YellowBox renamed, to emphasize that you're supposed to code under it in Java, and to make it sound less like a container of piss. OpenStep was what cocoa/yellowbox was before Apple bought it from Next. Quartz isn't a gui-- it's a rendering engine, replacing Display PostScript. Aqua is just a theme.
Apple is guilty of not getting this all out the door sooner, but that's about all. That, and killing cross-platform YellowBox/OpenStep frameworks.
At least with names consisting of "i"+$propernoun (like "iMac"), while they violate every convention of capitalization in English, that odd capitalization at least gives some clue as to their pronunciation. Have we really devolved to the point where any word that appears on the internet that has an "i" in front must be pronounced with a long "i" separate from the rest of the word? Didn't someone realize that this coopts the single most used word in the English language in the process and renders it a mere idiot prefix? At least when companies did this with "super", that was a normal adjective.
It would have sucked even worse if it had been shot in James Cameron's back yard.
You mean like the Blair Witch Project? Albeit, considerable sums were spent on marketing and advertising, but good films can be made on a tight budget.
Fire is a physical phenomenon, excluded from the range of patentable subjects (which exclude "laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas". Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175, 185, 101 S.Ct. 1048, 1056, 67 L.Ed.2d 155, 209 USPQ 1, 7 (1981))
or any other great leap forward?
It's too bad no one patented "The Great Leap Forward", since perhaps then so many people wouldn't have been killed by China from 1958-1960.
Actually, this is perhaps better rooted in the 13th amendment's prohibition against slavery, but the "contrary to public policy" argument works as well.
Personally, I don't find trade secrets any more odious than patents or copyrights, as long as they're enforced correctly (unlike with the whole DeCSS mess) -- it's a spectrum where more disclosure is rewarded with more protection and less disclosure is penalized with weak protection. To be perfectly honest, though, of the three, my preference is patents, since there is full disclosure in exchange for a still limited monopoly, whereas trade secrets last indefinitely, and thanks to the bastards at Disney and a willing Congress, copyrights are perennially being extended indefinitely. That, and patents rarely infringe on speech, whereas trade secrets and copyrights inherently do.
Have you been injured? We are morons! Call our free injury helpline and receive absolutely no legal advice! Our lawyers are working hard to make sure you have to consult someone else!
It was ten o'clock, and we went to watch The Simpsons. While we watched, the guy had just been spamming the server more. he started spamming about fifteen minutes after we went to watch The Simpsons. How could someone do this?
Damn right! Doesn't this cracker have any sense of cultural literacy? I bet he watches the Home Shopping Network for fun.
The WTO is a loose federation of wholly sovereign states. The US is a Federal union of mostly-sovereign states. With the WTO, member nations reserve the right to nullify -- they just may suffer the consequences from other member nations. American states reserve no right to nullify.
Unless you are mentally retarded and didn't understand what you were doing, $murder == $death
But Texas also executes the mentally retarded. See Penry v Lynaugh. And not just Texas, mind you. Between 1976 and February of 1998, 34 mentally retarded people were executed, five being in Texas.
Space is probably about the only thing the Russians are good at, as an industrialized nation, right now....
You're forgetting oil and narcotics. But more importantly, unless a legitimate outlet is provided for all this rocket science, you'll start seeing more arms sales to rogue nations, and we don't need more of that at the moment.
I hate to harp on you for this, but you're still wrong about the US. Through the constitutional feature of dual sovereignty, there is not 1 constitution, 1 leader and 1 Congress and 1 Supreme Court. There are 51 of each. Sometimes they hold concurrent power, but more often they hold exclusive powers. I muddied my argument by referring to county and local governments, but the point remains that states aren't merely bodies of administrative convenience -- they're their own sovereigns, giving up only enumerated powers to a Federal government.
(BTW, the US already had an experience with seceding states during the Civil War, and force was most certainly used to prevent secession.)
Ah yes, the good ol' system of trial by ordeal. We gave that up a long time ago in favor of a rational system of evidence. It lets folks kill the correct people most of the time, in addition to hiding the locus of judgment so the incorrect people can also be killed when convenient.
I'm sure at some point someone saw a city, province (or state), country, continent, as too large of an area to manage. Yet here the USA today, with over 230 million people, all governed under one Constitution.
That hardly proves your point. The constitution, by design, divides the US into over 51 independent sovereignties:1 federal, 50 state, as well as the hundreds of Indian nations. Each state is further subdivided into separate administrative regions (counties) which are further subdivided into towns, parishes, cities, etc. Each little political fiefdom gets its own domain to regulate, and -- again by constitutional design -- most tasks that are best handled at a national level are the province of the national government (eg interstate commerce), and most tasks that are best handled locally are the province of the states (most everything, eg police). The US is hardly the monolithic political incorporation you paint it as.
Your WTO analogy is similarly off-base. The WTO is essentially a cartel, centrally focusing most of the efforts of its individual member nations, authorizing them to impose sanctions upon "misbehaving" nations without itself providing the means of enforcement.
Never say never, sure, but maxims like that can be equally blinding.
Clearly we're speaking past each other instead of to each other. I'm arguing that the government shouldn't grant/enforce patents on the use of genes. As government-enforced monopolies, there is nothing intrinsically inevitable about such patents, and they should not be granted.
Slashdot Mirror
Their users have never been spoiled by quality, so they don't expect quality from administrators. They just expect to be told that that's how it is, and it's time to reboot.
Put a hyphen in it: i-trace.
Don't think "wordprocessing" when you see this. Think Photoshop / Graphic design -- a portable tablet-sized device an artist can take on the road and draw on directly, instead of having to hook up a separate tablet. We already have tablets with a built in lcd screen that the artist draws on directly. Apple is just taking the logical step of wrapping a computer around it and updating the operating system not to require any additional input devices.
If there's any truth to this story, then you can rest assured that Apple won't replace all keyboards in their powerbook lines. Far more likely is that this is just the product that'll fill the 6th slot in apple's hardware plan, separate from powerbooks. For years, there've been rumors about apple producing a tablet device, and the technology and the prices are finally getting to the point where they just might do it.
I suppose he'll just have to go back to dreaming about sports cars. I have to pity anyone whose artistic achievement can be summed up by an ad executive as: "Jaguar today exudes a real sense of passion and excitement and Sting captures this very well in his music." That, and not being allowed to say anything in the commercial for fear of sounding stupid.
Although you might want to find out how richard simmons is so successful, we haven't figured that one out yet ourselves and would appreciate some insight from the inside....
Not actually being fat, myself, I'm hardly on the "inside", but I can tell you that Richard Simmons's success has a lot to do with how hard he works and how much he takes his work and himself seriously (even though no one else takes him seriously). I can't think of a more sincere person who's ever had as much tv exposure.
I realize where you're coming from, but Apple is doing its best to play down Objective C and play up Java, because the latter has bigger mind/market share, and they're doing their best to make sure it isn't a poor cousin to Objective C with this framework.
Moderators and submittors; think of this as a logic game -- since the NSA won't answer questions it considers too sensitive, what kind of questions can be moderated up high enough to send and stand a good chance of being answered?
How's the the cafeteria food? Do you guys have company softball games? When are you planning to get a cool crypto statue like the CIA's? Do I look fat in this? I want your honest answer.
The US Secret Service are members of the Treasury department, and their purpose is to prevent counterfeiting of US currency. With Canadian currency near an all-time low compared to other currencies, you'd think the counterfeiters would've moved on to greener pastures.
You're really confusing a bunch of issues, hopefully not maliciously. Cocoa is jsut YellowBox renamed, to emphasize that you're supposed to code under it in Java, and to make it sound less like a container of piss. OpenStep was what cocoa/yellowbox was before Apple bought it from Next. Quartz isn't a gui-- it's a rendering engine, replacing Display PostScript. Aqua is just a theme.
Apple is guilty of not getting this all out the door sooner, but that's about all. That, and killing cross-platform YellowBox/OpenStep frameworks.
China and India. It isn't NT that's growing marketshare in those markets.
At least with names consisting of "i"+$propernoun (like "iMac"), while they violate every convention of capitalization in English, that odd capitalization at least gives some clue as to their pronunciation. Have we really devolved to the point where any word that appears on the internet that has an "i" in front must be pronounced with a long "i" separate from the rest of the word? Didn't someone realize that this coopts the single most used word in the English language in the process and renders it a mere idiot prefix? At least when companies did this with "super", that was a normal adjective.
It would have sucked even worse if it had been shot in James Cameron's back yard.
You mean like the Blair Witch Project? Albeit, considerable sums were spent on marketing and advertising, but good films can be made on a tight budget.
How about fire??
Fire is a physical phenomenon, excluded from the range of patentable subjects (which exclude "laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas". Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175, 185, 101 S.Ct. 1048, 1056, 67 L.Ed.2d 155, 209 USPQ 1, 7 (1981))
or any other great leap forward?
It's too bad no one patented "The Great Leap Forward", since perhaps then so many people wouldn't have been killed by China from 1958-1960.
It's also why you can't sell your indenture
Actually, this is perhaps better rooted in the 13th amendment's prohibition against slavery, but the "contrary to public policy" argument works as well.
Personally, I don't find trade secrets any more odious than patents or copyrights, as long as they're enforced correctly (unlike with the whole DeCSS mess) -- it's a spectrum where more disclosure is rewarded with more protection and less disclosure is penalized with weak protection. To be perfectly honest, though, of the three, my preference is patents, since there is full disclosure in exchange for a still limited monopoly, whereas trade secrets last indefinitely, and thanks to the bastards at Disney and a willing Congress, copyrights are perennially being extended indefinitely. That, and patents rarely infringe on speech, whereas trade secrets and copyrights inherently do.
Have you been injured? We are morons! Call our free injury helpline and receive absolutely no legal advice! Our lawyers are working hard to make sure you have to consult someone else!
It was ten o'clock, and we went to watch The Simpsons. While we watched, the guy had just been spamming the server more. he started spamming about fifteen minutes after we went to watch The Simpsons. How could someone do this?
Damn right! Doesn't this cracker have any sense of cultural literacy? I bet he watches the Home Shopping Network for fun.
The WTO is a loose federation of wholly sovereign states. The US is a Federal union of mostly-sovereign states. With the WTO, member nations reserve the right to nullify -- they just may suffer the consequences from other member nations. American states reserve no right to nullify.
Unless you are mentally retarded and didn't understand what you were doing, $murder == $death
But Texas also executes the mentally retarded. See Penry v Lynaugh. And not just Texas, mind you. Between 1976 and February of 1998, 34 mentally retarded people were executed, five being in Texas.
Space is probably about the only thing the Russians are good at, as an industrialized nation, right now....
You're forgetting oil and narcotics. But more importantly, unless a legitimate outlet is provided for all this rocket science, you'll start seeing more arms sales to rogue nations, and we don't need more of that at the moment.
I hate to harp on you for this, but you're still wrong about the US. Through the constitutional feature of dual sovereignty, there is not 1 constitution, 1 leader and 1 Congress and 1 Supreme Court. There are 51 of each. Sometimes they hold concurrent power, but more often they hold exclusive powers. I muddied my argument by referring to county and local governments, but the point remains that states aren't merely bodies of administrative convenience -- they're their own sovereigns, giving up only enumerated powers to a Federal government.
(BTW, the US already had an experience with seceding states during the Civil War, and force was most certainly used to prevent secession.)
Ah yes, the good ol' system of trial by ordeal. We gave that up a long time ago in favor of a rational system of evidence. It lets folks kill the correct people most of the time, in addition to hiding the locus of judgment so the incorrect people can also be killed when convenient.
I'm sure at some point someone saw a city, province (or state), country, continent, as too large of an area to manage. Yet here the USA today, with over 230 million people, all governed under one Constitution.
That hardly proves your point. The constitution, by design, divides the US into over 51 independent sovereignties:1 federal, 50 state, as well as the hundreds of Indian nations. Each state is further subdivided into separate administrative regions (counties) which are further subdivided into towns, parishes, cities, etc. Each little political fiefdom gets its own domain to regulate, and -- again by constitutional design -- most tasks that are best handled at a national level are the province of the national government (eg interstate commerce), and most tasks that are best handled locally are the province of the states (most everything, eg police). The US is hardly the monolithic political incorporation you paint it as.
Your WTO analogy is similarly off-base. The WTO is essentially a cartel, centrally focusing most of the efforts of its individual member nations, authorizing them to impose sanctions upon "misbehaving" nations without itself providing the means of enforcement.
Never say never, sure, but maxims like that can be equally blinding.
Google has a cache of geekflavor.com/index.html. Albeit, there's nothing much to look at.
Clearly we're speaking past each other instead of to each other. I'm arguing that the government shouldn't grant/enforce patents on the use of genes. As government-enforced monopolies, there is nothing intrinsically inevitable about such patents, and they should not be granted.