Let's be fair here, Ellison isn't a rich out of touch moron, he just hasn't caught up on work lately because he's too busy working on his yacht racing. And it's an uphill battle. He even had to pay another team to race against him in a race that he's paying for.
Yeah. There's plenty of reasons to be cynical about corporations making long-term commitments to employees. Once the people who made the promises are gone, so are their promises.
In the media, sure. Apple is always launching new gizmos and the media eats it up like a child on Christmas morning. They can't help it if it's a slow news day.
But do tech publications have the same bias? Seems unlikely to me; there's always stories on Slashdot criticising Apple (and Google, and Microsoft.) Same goes for any other tech news site I've seen, baring 9to5mac and such.
Or to put it another way, instead of being self-righteous about DARPA, maybe he should be glad they're joining up with hackers instead of finding new ways to kill impoverished people in 3rd world nations?
There's nothing in the proposal by Apple that Apple actually created.
When it comes to standards, less innovation is actually a good thing because it means nobody can patent it or argue that it's covered by their existing patents.
"This is a great product, you've made a solid choice. It will be a good investment for years to come." "Okay, I'll get it." "Sure, but you'll want the extended warranty." "Why?" "Because these are badly made, they break constantly and are very expensive to fix."
There's some online mapping tools out there that will estimate your coverge based on sattelite photos of your home.
It's worth noting that these "estimates" can range from fairly accurate to way, way off. They generally assume a flat roof, so don't bother if you live in, for example, the Transamerica Pyramid.
Not all games are popular enough to warrant continued attention by hackers. (Hell, there's a handful of once-popular games that still can't be emulated properly.)
I'm not saying all games are art, but it's a good thing Van Gogh, Shakespeare, etc. weren't forced to lock down their content with DRM.
The other day I re-installed the original C&C Red Alert and had a fun time playing it.
Somehow, I doubt we'll be able to do the same with the new Sim City -- and many other new games -- seventeen years after their release. It's a sad future for old games.
Replacing the batteries is far simpler than removing an entire engine. Since A Better Place has gotten very little traction for their electric car with replaceable batteries concept, I don't see how this would go anywhere either.
The part about the Wii remotes was a major red flag. Most people are very bad at lying, and this guy committed the newbie mistake of adding in to many extraneous details to the story.
Besides, who would build a giant flying machine for thousands of dollars and base the electronics around a $20 IR camera known for rapidly draining batteries? Doesn't seem practical or safe.
In applicaiton to current circumstances, trying to patch a "multiple desktop" abstraction onto Windows is tehcnically probelematic because the underlying OS is -not- intended to support that modality.
While Microsoft's implementation of multiple desktops is far from perfect it's incorrect to say they didn't intend to support it when the API is both present and clearly documented.
Furthermore, every window on Windows is associated with a desktop. I've yet to see a case where a window appeared on the wrong desktop or the input was handled incorrectly between desktops.
We're going to replace a hand with some sort of toy robot hand with a few motors in it that will not work anywhere near like a real hand.
That's not the comparison she gets to make. Her options are a human hand that doesn't work, a hook, or a "toy robot hand." She doesn't get to wait for future technologies that might never come to apss.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks more like NeXTSTEP to me.
Specifically, a mirror image of it!
I can't deny anything you've said here, but "it's tradition!" isn't an argument in favor of something; it's an admission of defeat.
GMO plants is one thing, but animals? I can't quite put my finger on why, but someting about this seems... troubling.
Jerry, I've been preparing for this moment my entire life.
But you need that seawater to stay in the ocean for when you're going skeet surfin'.
Okay, I'll bite... was there a way to take over the Sardokar NPCs in Dune 2?
But if you kill the sandworms, you'll also destroy the spice.
Finally, we've developed the technology to colonize Arrakis!
Let's be fair here, Ellison isn't a rich out of touch moron, he just hasn't caught up on work lately because he's too busy working on his yacht racing. And it's an uphill battle. He even had to pay another team to race against him in a race that he's paying for.
Ever heard of "The HP Way"?
Yeah. There's plenty of reasons to be cynical about corporations making long-term commitments to employees. Once the people who made the promises are gone, so are their promises.
Now can we pleeeaaase have a new release? Gimp 2.8 is what, 2 years behind schedule?
In the media, sure. Apple is always launching new gizmos and the media eats it up like a child on Christmas morning. They can't help it if it's a slow news day.
But do tech publications have the same bias? Seems unlikely to me; there's always stories on Slashdot criticising Apple (and Google, and Microsoft.) Same goes for any other tech news site I've seen, baring 9to5mac and such.
Or to put it another way, instead of being self-righteous about DARPA, maybe he should be glad they're joining up with hackers instead of finding new ways to kill impoverished people in 3rd world nations?
When it comes to standards, less innovation is actually a good thing because it means nobody can patent it or argue that it's covered by their existing patents.
"This is a great product, you've made a solid choice. It will be a good investment for years to come."
"Okay, I'll get it."
"Sure, but you'll want the extended warranty."
"Why?"
"Because these are badly made, they break constantly and are very expensive to fix."
There's some online mapping tools out there that will estimate your coverge based on sattelite photos of your home.
It's worth noting that these "estimates" can range from fairly accurate to way, way off. They generally assume a flat roof, so don't bother if you live in, for example, the Transamerica Pyramid.
Not all games are popular enough to warrant continued attention by hackers. (Hell, there's a handful of once-popular games that still can't be emulated properly.)
I'm not saying all games are art, but it's a good thing Van Gogh, Shakespeare, etc. weren't forced to lock down their content with DRM.
The other day I re-installed the original C&C Red Alert and had a fun time playing it.
Somehow, I doubt we'll be able to do the same with the new Sim City -- and many other new games -- seventeen years after their release. It's a sad future for old games.
Replacing the batteries is far simpler than removing an entire engine. Since A Better Place has gotten very little traction for their electric car with replaceable batteries concept, I don't see how this would go anywhere either.
The part about the Wii remotes was a major red flag. Most people are very bad at lying, and this guy committed the newbie mistake of adding in to many extraneous details to the story.
Besides, who would build a giant flying machine for thousands of dollars and base the electronics around a $20 IR camera known for rapidly draining batteries? Doesn't seem practical or safe.
MSDN disagrees with you.
While Microsoft's implementation of multiple desktops is far from perfect it's incorrect to say they didn't intend to support it when the API is both present and clearly documented.
Furthermore, every window on Windows is associated with a desktop. I've yet to see a case where a window appeared on the wrong desktop or the input was handled incorrectly between desktops.
What's unusual is that both the article and summary are short on facts and end with an advertisement for a magazine.
As a San Francisco resident, I'm confused by your comparison to California weather. You mean it's not cold and foggy in Ottawa?
That's not the comparison she gets to make. Her options are a human hand that doesn't work, a hook, or a "toy robot hand." She doesn't get to wait for future technologies that might never come to apss.
Everything you described about the working conditions and anti-worker practices sounds like America's own industrial revolution.
Is it really right for us to criticize another country for going through the same change we already experienced?