I'm sorry, but isn't Apple not being able to keep up with developer applications the exact opposite of a developer crisis? Sure, it might be a crisis for the developers involved, but certainly not for the market or Apple itself!
With 15,000 available applications and over 500 million downloads, it sounds like a pretty damn succesful platform to me. With growth on that scale, it doesn't surprise me that they would run into some hurdles.
The connection to the android open source analysis completely eludes me, but I wouldn't hold my breath in any case. To most people, the term iPhone is synonymous to smartphone and being slightly more open isn't going to change anything about that soon.
No, parent is saying that there is thereby no monetary loss associated with the piracy.
Semantics. I think it's quite clear that parent's implying that piracy would be acceptable in this situation.
You are always free to import your own cheap copies from Thailand, regardless.
Perhaps under US law, IANAL. But don't try to cross the border in Europe with imitation brand-clothing, because you'll pay a hefty fine, even when it's for personal use. And you'll lose the clothes, of course.
Because the owner does not agree to provide a certain song in the exact format that you prefer, you are thereby free to pirate it?
Great! I prefer my music to be etched on the side of an ancient greek vase. Not available? Oh well, they obviously don't count me as part of their market, so that means I can take it for free.
While I am at it, - insert some clothing label - does not deliver to my doorstep, its merchandise sealed in a pressured container. I am therefore free to import my own cheap copies from Thailand.
Oh, come on, this is getting old. Jobs is as much just a "marketing guy" as president Obama is. Sure they both need to be able to make pretty speeches, but at the end of the day, they are actually running things.
Jobs created three of my favorite companies: Apple, Pixar and the new Apple. That's all just marketing, is it?
Ok, maybe it's just me, but who the hell updates drive firmware anyway? Just because I'm a techie, doesn't mean I am suddenly willing to do more work than other customers. Do you think a single consumer out there goes through the trouble of updating their drive firmware? (unless there's an automatic procedure in place, like probably mac and some windows manufacturers have)
To me, any drive which requires an firmware update to function (not just perform better) after purchase, is a failed product and I would surely hesitate to buy another ever again.
I used to buy Seagate drives in pretty large numbers for some of my datacenter activities and every time a drive locked up for some reason, I insisted on a new drive through EMA. Had Seagate refused, they would have taken away a large chunk of their added value, to me. I would probably never buy another drive from them again.
Innovation does not only service existing markets, it creates new ones, too. Think about Nintendo (Wii) and Apple (iPhone) for instance, who consistently create new markets that weren't there before. In a stagnating market, innovation is more important than ever.
Agreed. This book only starts being useful, after you have finished writing your first compiler. And even then, I found the lex & yacc book from O'Reilly to be a better companion.
Lots of people think Mac's are sluggish, read the forums, use google.
Problem is, I do read the forums. And I have noticed that most switchers report an increase in overall system snappyness compared to windows, which would be the opposite of sluggish. I consider both sides unverified untill some 3rd party does some major opinion polling.
Although even the intels beachball if you put in a Cd they don't like, or when searching for network shares, or any of a dozen other common tasks.
The CD thing is quite simply a major fault, I agree. I haven't noticed the network share slowdown since Leopard.
Ah, so a year ago, the comment "OSX is sluggish" would not have met with your disapproval?
No, but I would have agreed that the finder, especially in the areas just mentioned could use some work. In the absence of spotlight and time machine processes, I even considered Tiger to be slightly more snappy in overall performance. Your Snow Leopard argument is flawed, since improvement is always possible, even when a system already outperforms the competition. I consider the SL release to be a necessary in-between for future developments (parallel processing, mobile device performance, GPU usage, etc.)
What is fine for you and grandma isn't fine for a developer.
Ok, but I am a developer, and I'm quite comfortably running eclipse, parallels running linux/windows, a browser and about 3 terminals at any given time on a 15 inch screen. I find switching between apps to be a lot quicker than moving my pointer across two screens. And as a power user, I don't use the menu anyway, as I know most key combos.
The point of the grandparent poster obviously was that the article lacks any kind of verifiable data. Your personal experience does not constitute the general public opinion.
It sounds like you are simply using a poorly configured mac system, if you are seeing the beachball that often. Macs can get clogged by too many background processes just like any system.
The finder is due for an overhaul, but frankly, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Performance has been dramatically improved since Tiger.
The supposed HCI argument to move the menu bar from one place to another to accommodate the 0.1% of dual screen users sounds a bit silly. I like how a single menu on a single screen takes up less screen real-estate and allows me to blindly select the right option without having to look where the menu has moved.
Sadly the Bangladeshi government is too inefficient, corrupt, and schizophrenic to manage something as well thought out, costly, and long term as that.
Yes, that is too bad. Or they might have been able to build something like this.
Ambiguity can be a strong technique, as long as it actually achieves what the writer set out to do. Its not to be confused with 'messy' storytelling, to suggest a clever plot. It's a blurry line, I admit, and I haven't played SH2, so I can't judge.
It basically comes down to: Writing a storyline costs money. Writing two storylines costs twice the money. Every choice offered to the player requires a subtly different plot. Infinite choices cost infinite money.
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So, commercial movie piracy is funding terrorism.
And organized crime is funding legitimate projects. News at 11.
I'm sorry, but isn't Apple not being able to keep up with developer applications the exact opposite of a developer crisis? Sure, it might be a crisis for the developers involved, but certainly not for the market or Apple itself!
With 15,000 available applications and over 500 million downloads, it sounds like a pretty damn succesful platform to me. With growth on that scale, it doesn't surprise me that they would run into some hurdles.
The connection to the android open source analysis completely eludes me, but I wouldn't hold my breath in any case. To most people, the term iPhone is synonymous to smartphone and being slightly more open isn't going to change anything about that soon.
No, parent is saying that there is thereby no monetary loss associated with the piracy.
Semantics. I think it's quite clear that parent's implying that piracy would be acceptable in this situation.
You are always free to import your own cheap copies from Thailand, regardless.
Perhaps under US law, IANAL. But don't try to cross the border in Europe with imitation brand-clothing, because you'll pay a hefty fine, even when it's for personal use. And you'll lose the clothes, of course.
Because the owner does not agree to provide a certain song in the exact format that you prefer, you are thereby free to pirate it?
Great! I prefer my music to be etched on the side of an ancient greek vase. Not available? Oh well, they obviously don't count me as part of their market, so that means I can take it for free.
While I am at it, - insert some clothing label - does not deliver to my doorstep, its merchandise sealed in a pressured container. I am therefore free to import my own cheap copies from Thailand.
Dip all the cables in Strychnine, thus creating an evolutionary trait in rats not to chew on cables and helping us all.
Oh, come on, this is getting old. Jobs is as much just a "marketing guy" as president Obama is. Sure they both need to be able to make pretty speeches, but at the end of the day, they are actually running things.
Jobs created three of my favorite companies: Apple, Pixar and the new Apple. That's all just marketing, is it?
Software patents are only enforceable when they involve some technical (as opposed to business) innovation. For the whole story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention
Ok, maybe it's just me, but who the hell updates drive firmware anyway? Just because I'm a techie, doesn't mean I am suddenly willing to do more work than other customers.
Do you think a single consumer out there goes through the trouble of updating their drive firmware? (unless there's an automatic procedure in place, like probably mac and some windows manufacturers have)
To me, any drive which requires an firmware update to function (not just perform better) after purchase, is a failed product and I would surely hesitate to buy another ever again.
I used to buy Seagate drives in pretty large numbers for some of my datacenter activities and every time a drive locked up for some reason, I insisted on a new drive through EMA. Had Seagate refused, they would have taken away a large chunk of their added value, to me. I would probably never buy another drive from them again.
Puts me in mind of this recent spoof, by Peter Serafinowicz: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/348881/d4b348a0/de_mactini.html
'When customers aren't buying, tool vendors don't innovate"
Innovation does not only service existing markets, it creates new ones, too. Think about Nintendo (Wii) and Apple (iPhone) for instance, who consistently create new markets that weren't there before. In a stagnating market, innovation is more important than ever.
WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF DOCTORS, PEOPLE.
However, that would be a good opportunity to reboot the series, so we could finally get rid of those damn 60's props and update the Daleks. *ducks*
Can't you use seadragon for something like this?
Agreed. This book only starts being useful, after you have finished writing your first compiler. And even then, I found the lex & yacc book from O'Reilly to be a better companion.
It's fairly dry, but good for theory nonetheless.
Dry? As far as AI/machine learning goes, it's a regular pageturner!
Go read some dedicated NN book, that's dry!
At least that's what I would do. And I'm pretty sure some companies already did similar things.
I'll say. Try to find a single DVD player for which the region-free code is not widely known.
Lots of people think Mac's are sluggish, read the forums, use google.
Problem is, I do read the forums. And I have noticed that most switchers report an increase in overall system snappyness compared to windows, which would be the opposite of sluggish. I consider both sides unverified untill some 3rd party does some major opinion polling.
Although even the intels beachball if you put in a Cd they don't like, or when searching for network shares, or any of a dozen other common tasks.
The CD thing is quite simply a major fault, I agree. I haven't noticed the network share slowdown since Leopard.
Ah, so a year ago, the comment "OSX is sluggish" would not have met with your disapproval?
No, but I would have agreed that the finder, especially in the areas just mentioned could use some work. In the absence of spotlight and time machine processes, I even considered Tiger to be slightly more snappy in overall performance. Your Snow Leopard argument is flawed, since improvement is always possible, even when a system already outperforms the competition. I consider the SL release to be a necessary in-between for future developments (parallel processing, mobile device performance, GPU usage, etc.)
What is fine for you and grandma isn't fine for a developer.
Ok, but I am a developer, and I'm quite comfortably running eclipse, parallels running linux/windows, a browser and about 3 terminals at any given time on a 15 inch screen. I find switching between apps to be a lot quicker than moving my pointer across two screens. And as a power user, I don't use the menu anyway, as I know most key combos.
The point of the grandparent poster obviously was that the article lacks any kind of verifiable data. Your personal experience does not constitute the general public opinion.
It sounds like you are simply using a poorly configured mac system, if you are seeing the beachball that often. Macs can get clogged by too many background processes just like any system.
The finder is due for an overhaul, but frankly, I don't see what all the fuss is about. Performance has been dramatically improved since Tiger.
The supposed HCI argument to move the menu bar from one place to another to accommodate the 0.1% of dual screen users sounds a bit silly. I like how a single menu on a single screen takes up less screen real-estate and allows me to blindly select the right option without having to look where the menu has moved.
Was this designed by someone called Andrew Ryan?
ask these guys: http://www.boskalis.com/
they do this type of thing constantly.
Sadly the Bangladeshi government is too inefficient, corrupt, and schizophrenic to manage something as well thought out, costly, and long term as that.
Yes, that is too bad. Or they might have been able to build something like this.
best. idea. ever.
It makes you want to fight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnqNmDRkgEk
Actually, it was first recorded by Three Dog Night in 1969 and written by Harry Nilsson. allmusic
Ambiguity can be a strong technique, as long as it actually achieves what the writer set out to do. Its not to be confused with 'messy' storytelling, to suggest a clever plot. It's a blurry line, I admit, and I haven't played SH2, so I can't judge.
It basically comes down to: Writing a storyline costs money. Writing two storylines costs twice the money. Every choice offered to the player requires a subtly different plot. Infinite choices cost infinite money.