Um, no. People will still get those Java and Flash apps from the same place they have always been getting them... drumroll please... the internet. This is different from iOS whereby the app store is the ONLY way to install applications. This is just ANOTHER WAY. And come on... use your noggin... if Windows created an app store that didn't allow Java or Flash, do you think Java and Flash apps would disappear from that platform as well? It's not like Java is installed by default on Windows machines either.
This is not a sign of lockdown... java support on Macs having been drying up since Apple deprecated the Java-Cocoa bridge years ago. Nevermind it took them two years to release Java 6 which required users to have 64bit intel boxes. So, if you were doing any sort of Java desktop work (yes, this does exist), you were stuck on Java 5. If you were doing any server side work, you'd need to install SoyLatte to use the updated class libraries, nevermind dealing with performance issues from moving from JVM to JVM.
This is a GOOD THING as now Mac's will have a better supported and up-to-date JVM and updates should come quick and fast compared to Apple's sluggish almost apathetic attitude towards releases.
The money they make in developer keys would be far offset from the money they would lose in hardware sales. Such a move would enrage their users, not to mention their own developers. All but the hardest of the hardcore would stay with them. No business in their right mind would use them. Apple has made some dumb choices in the past (headphone controls ipod, anyone?) but they aren't suicidal.
A few years ago when I worked at ESPN.com, the home page would start autoplaying a video with an ad before it hit Sportscenter. The higher ups loved it because it generated excellent ad revenue, but there was a near revolt in both the tech teams and editorial teams. They ultimately pulled it, looking for revenue elsewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar revolt took place at Apple over locking down general purpose computers.
How does this experiment hold up against the Militia Act of 1792 whereby Congress mandated that every able body male between eighteen and forty five years of age purchase their own musket? Mind you, they weren't provided a musket, but were mandated to buy one.
ummm... mods, i believe the comment is being ironic. and no, I'm not a teabagger with a grudge... just google obama and transparency to see how much things haven't been changed.
If you haven't read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's wonderful read about pretty much everything. He opens with a chapter on space travel which he says,...
The point to remember, of course, is that when considering the universe at large we don't actually know what is in our own solar system.
Now the other thing you will notice as we speed past Pluto is that we are speeding past Pluto. If you check your itinerary, you will see that this is a trip to the edge of the solar system, and I'm afraid we're not there yet. Pluto may be the last object marked on schoolroom charts, but the system doesn't end there. In fact, it isn't even close to ending there. We won't get to the solar system's edge until we have passed through the Oort cloud, a vast celestial realm of drifting comets, and we won't reach the Oort cloud for another - I'm sorry about this - ten thousand years. Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those schoolroom maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way.
Of course, we have no prospect of such a journey. A trip of 240,000 mils to the moon still represents a very big undertaking for us. A manned mission to Mars, called for by the first President Bush in a moment of passing giddiness was quietly dropped when someone worked out that it could cost $450 billion and probably result in the deaths of all the crew (their DNA torn to tatters by high-energy solar particles from which they could not be shielded).
Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absoulutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system - ever. It is just too far. As it is, even with the Hubble telescope, we can't see even into the Oort cloud, so we don't actually know that it is there. Its existence is probable but entirely hypothetical.
My favorite server downtime story occurred back in early 2000 when I was working for Disney's Internet Group. All the message boards for the film and television websites ended up crashing. No one knew the cause and as the web-ops team investigated, we learned that the messageboard server wasn't even housed in any of Disney' server farms. After a lot of hair pulling, we found the server was located in a satellite office in Sunnyvale. Evidently, the server was just on an engineers desk. When that engineer left the company he neglected to tell anyone about the box so when the new engineer took his spot, she found she didn't like the noise from the machine. So one day, she pulled the plug, and put it in some out of the way spot in the office. There wasn't a lot of traffic on it, but it still makes me laugh to think of all the Tim Allen fans in distress over a misplaced box.
I haven't played a lot of Civ4 but from what I understand from reading some of the Civ forums was that religion was too powerful in multiplayer. I guess people would always make a play to be the first religion founder and thereby have a serious leg up on the competition for the rest of the game. I haven't played Civ4 on multiplayer (probably never will) so I can't comment.
I'm just happy they have been condensing and simplifying mechanics. I recently gave Civ1 a whirl and was just dazzled by its fun simplicity. Yeah, there were of small irritations, but it was easy to understand. Mind you, I love all the improvements of Civ3 & Civ4 (was never a big fan of Civ2 - maybe it was the full motion video that turned me off) but the game has been growing so complex that just ordering my units requires so much decision making that I grew tired of playing.
Civilization 1 may not have included DRM, but it did have a form a copy protection that would quiz you about certain game concepts that was included with the manual. These were the days before hard drives were common so you were quizzed each time your played the game. While definitely not as insidious as current DRM schemes, it was still pretty irritating If you failed, I believe you were dropped to a DOS prompt without having the option to save.
When I was in college, I remember copying the entire manual into a Microsoft Works file, printing it out, then pinning it on the computer lab's wall which sort of acted as a homegrown DRM server:) By the end of that year, the document was tattered and smudged from all the playing of that game. Good times, indeed.
Doing the things you love energizes you to contribute back to the people you love. Just as doing things you hate will ultimately suck energy from the people around you. Have you ever met someone who has joyfully hated their job? If so, those people are probably sacrificing their current happiness for long term gain which is also an important thing to learn.
Yes, we all have to do things we don't like. That's part of life, but that doesn't mean we have to embody the negativity those activities might create. If you have a chance, I highly suggest you read Men are Mars, and Women are from Venus. You'll get a better sense of this "indulgence" and how it actually improves relationships.
Self indulgent? For taking care of myself so I can take care of my family? How is that irresponsible? How can you teach your children about the world when you're too exhausted to live in it?
Can't believe shit like yours gets modded up. Goes to show most slashdotters might know a lot about tech but are selfish idiots who know nothing about child rearing.
You infer that I'm irresponsible although you don't me, then call everyone an idiot who disagrees with you... tell me... what kind of example are you setting for your kids? Sounds to me that you need some time off. Just sayin'.
Dude... believe it or not... sometimes doing the things that you love helps you be a better dad. His kids are probably much happier than if he kept that tension locked inside of him just so he can spend more time with them and yes, be happy to be with them. Some call it "cave time" - ie, get out of my face so I can process. Otherwise, internal tension would be released in other ways to the detriment of the entire family which is far worse.
And really, kids will crawl all over you no matter what you do. I work from home and the days when my daughter isn't at daycare when my wife is home, she's basically jumping on my computer for my attention. Put a camera crew in my room and I'd look like a workaholic neglectful dad.
Hilarious in the fact that I just read this over at here. Here's Krugman's thoughts:
But 30 years ago people with high but not super-high incomes generally felt ashamed of themselves for griping -- or at least, felt that they would be ridiculed if they gave voice to their gripes. Today, all restraints are off. The fuss over Messrs. Henderson and Stein is the exception that proves the rule: they wouldn't be providing this spectacle if they didn't normally swim in social circles where complaining that you only have 9 or 10 times median family income is considered totally acceptable.
Pretty soon, we'll be having serious, completely un-self-conscious discussions in major magazines about the servant problem.
Just so you know... the woman who provides daycare for us has five children whom she homeschools. Her husband works at a printing plant and they collectively make 40k a year. This is in Connecticut, btw. Just fifteen minutes from Hartford with a relatively high cost of living.
The real trick is to get out of debt and stay that way.
You obviously didn't even look at the page since it is A CHART. A freakin CHART! Vincent Flanders doesn't apply. It's even pretty laughable that you mentioned him. He hasn't been relevant since the blink tag was in style.
You just proved an excellent lesson on how to get modded up on slashdot:
Rail against the lack of flash on the iphone or rail against the poor performance of flash on the desktop.
Just because a spec isn't finalized doesn't mean some of the feature haven't been implemented. You can find what's been implemented and just maybe, impress your boss.
How about all those logos before a video game starts? First we have the developer logo, then the publisher logl, then the graphics engine logo followed by the physics game logo, and then some legaleese. And then maybe a cutscene kicks into gear. I timed one video game (Bad Company 2, I think) and it was just over sixty seconds before I could even interact with the menu. I gotta give props to Fallout 3. Insert game. Press start. Alas, that's an exception.
I used to love NASA but these days, I wouldn't bet a nickel that they could make it to the nearest gas station with a GPS, atlas, and police escort to guide them. Honestly, if they were somewhat independent of the political process and could exist as an autonomous institution, they may have a chance. But, there's no way their priorities will remain set for fifteen years when they couldn't even last five years. Hell, I don't think they'll make it the next five years without any public facing launches. The fact that they aren't even selecting a design for a heavy lift vehicle in five years is just insane. Not to mention the slow execution of the Orion capsule. Obama can talk all he wants about revitalizing manned space exploration, but the truth is, he's smothering it with a pillow. I'm guessing if Obama gets elected 2012, he'll either gut the program, or put off this asteroid mission to some nebulous point in the future so another administration might be able to kill it entirely.
We've been hearing that for years, and with Windows 7, it appears (from what I've read) if you want do any sort of work, you still need to use C++. Mind you, I don't program for Windows. Do they have any plans in building the next api in managed code for the next windows release, or is this a case of "do as I say, not as I do". Also, is there much of a performance hit using managed code in windows?
As an open source developers, we should develop a new language that will compile down to MonoDroid which will then be able to compile down to Droid. That way, if MS pulls their shenanigans, we can still, er, program for the droid. Um, yeah. Or you could learn Java.
It's a sad state of affairs when buying a used game is considered a subversive activity. Every time one of these idiot developers starts talking about how consumers are basically stealing from them for buying a used game I want to hit them in the mouth with a two by four. Here's a thought... price your games cheaper. When an entertainment product is well over the bar of an impulse buy, then the used market isn't your real problem.
The funny thing... I left PC gaming because I hated being on the upgrade treadmill. These days, I find myself playing PC games more often because I get more from money. Who would have thought that consumers reward companies that produce a good value?
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Um, no. People will still get those Java and Flash apps from the same place they have always been getting them ... drumroll please ... the internet. This is different from iOS whereby the app store is the ONLY way to install applications. This is just ANOTHER WAY. And come on ... use your noggin ... if Windows created an app store that didn't allow Java or Flash, do you think Java and Flash apps would disappear from that platform as well? It's not like Java is installed by default on Windows machines either.
From where you get them now. You know ... the maintainer of the Java language.
This is not a sign of lockdown ... java support on Macs having been drying up since Apple deprecated the Java-Cocoa bridge years ago. Nevermind it took them two years to release Java 6 which required users to have 64bit intel boxes. So, if you were doing any sort of Java desktop work (yes, this does exist), you were stuck on Java 5. If you were doing any server side work, you'd need to install SoyLatte to use the updated class libraries, nevermind dealing with performance issues from moving from JVM to JVM.
This is a GOOD THING as now Mac's will have a better supported and up-to-date JVM and updates should come quick and fast compared to Apple's sluggish almost apathetic attitude towards releases.
The money they make in developer keys would be far offset from the money they would lose in hardware sales. Such a move would enrage their users, not to mention their own developers. All but the hardest of the hardcore would stay with them. No business in their right mind would use them. Apple has made some dumb choices in the past (headphone controls ipod, anyone?) but they aren't suicidal.
A few years ago when I worked at ESPN.com, the home page would start autoplaying a video with an ad before it hit Sportscenter. The higher ups loved it because it generated excellent ad revenue, but there was a near revolt in both the tech teams and editorial teams. They ultimately pulled it, looking for revenue elsewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar revolt took place at Apple over locking down general purpose computers.
fyi ... that law was in place until 1903.
How does this experiment hold up against the Militia Act of 1792 whereby Congress mandated that every able body male between eighteen and forty five years of age purchase their own musket? Mind you, they weren't provided a musket, but were mandated to buy one.
ummm ... mods, i believe the comment is being ironic. and no, I'm not a teabagger with a grudge ... just google obama and transparency to see how much things haven't been changed.
If you haven't read A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's wonderful read about pretty much everything. He opens with a chapter on space travel which he says, ...
The point to remember, of course, is that when considering the universe at large we don't actually know what is in our own solar system.
Now the other thing you will notice as we speed past Pluto is that we are speeding past Pluto. If you check your itinerary, you will see that this is a trip to the edge of the solar system, and I'm afraid we're not there yet. Pluto may be the last object marked on schoolroom charts, but the system doesn't end there. In fact, it isn't even close to ending there. We won't get to the solar system's edge until we have passed through the Oort cloud, a vast celestial realm of drifting comets, and we won't reach the Oort cloud for another - I'm sorry about this - ten thousand years. Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those schoolroom maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way.
Of course, we have no prospect of such a journey. A trip of 240,000 mils to the moon still represents a very big undertaking for us. A manned mission to Mars, called for by the first President Bush in a moment of passing giddiness was quietly dropped when someone worked out that it could cost $450 billion and probably result in the deaths of all the crew (their DNA torn to tatters by high-energy solar particles from which they could not be shielded).
Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absoulutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system - ever. It is just too far. As it is, even with the Hubble telescope, we can't see even into the Oort cloud, so we don't actually know that it is there. Its existence is probable but entirely hypothetical.
My favorite server downtime story occurred back in early 2000 when I was working for Disney's Internet Group. All the message boards for the film and television websites ended up crashing. No one knew the cause and as the web-ops team investigated, we learned that the messageboard server wasn't even housed in any of Disney' server farms. After a lot of hair pulling, we found the server was located in a satellite office in Sunnyvale. Evidently, the server was just on an engineers desk. When that engineer left the company he neglected to tell anyone about the box so when the new engineer took his spot, she found she didn't like the noise from the machine. So one day, she pulled the plug, and put it in some out of the way spot in the office. There wasn't a lot of traffic on it, but it still makes me laugh to think of all the Tim Allen fans in distress over a misplaced box.
I haven't played a lot of Civ4 but from what I understand from reading some of the Civ forums was that religion was too powerful in multiplayer. I guess people would always make a play to be the first religion founder and thereby have a serious leg up on the competition for the rest of the game. I haven't played Civ4 on multiplayer (probably never will) so I can't comment.
I'm just happy they have been condensing and simplifying mechanics. I recently gave Civ1 a whirl and was just dazzled by its fun simplicity. Yeah, there were of small irritations, but it was easy to understand. Mind you, I love all the improvements of Civ3 & Civ4 (was never a big fan of Civ2 - maybe it was the full motion video that turned me off) but the game has been growing so complex that just ordering my units requires so much decision making that I grew tired of playing.
Still, I look forward to the Mac port.
Civilization 1 may not have included DRM, but it did have a form a copy protection that would quiz you about certain game concepts that was included with the manual. These were the days before hard drives were common so you were quizzed each time your played the game. While definitely not as insidious as current DRM schemes, it was still pretty irritating If you failed, I believe you were dropped to a DOS prompt without having the option to save.
When I was in college, I remember copying the entire manual into a Microsoft Works file, printing it out, then pinning it on the computer lab's wall which sort of acted as a homegrown DRM server :) By the end of that year, the document was tattered and smudged from all the playing of that game. Good times, indeed.
Your significant other must be a saint. Best of luck to you.
Doing the things you love energizes you to contribute back to the people you love. Just as doing things you hate will ultimately suck energy from the people around you. Have you ever met someone who has joyfully hated their job? If so, those people are probably sacrificing their current happiness for long term gain which is also an important thing to learn.
Yes, we all have to do things we don't like. That's part of life, but that doesn't mean we have to embody the negativity those activities might create. If you have a chance, I highly suggest you read Men are Mars, and Women are from Venus. You'll get a better sense of this "indulgence" and how it actually improves relationships.
Self indulgent? For taking care of myself so I can take care of my family? How is that irresponsible? How can you teach your children about the world when you're too exhausted to live in it?
Can't believe shit like yours gets modded up. Goes to show most slashdotters might know a lot about tech but are selfish idiots who know nothing about child rearing.
You infer that I'm irresponsible although you don't me, then call everyone an idiot who disagrees with you ... tell me ... what kind of example are you setting for your kids? Sounds to me that you need some time off. Just sayin'.
Dude ... believe it or not ... sometimes doing the things that you love helps you be a better dad. His kids are probably much happier than if he kept that tension locked inside of him just so he can spend more time with them and yes, be happy to be with them. Some call it "cave time" - ie, get out of my face so I can process. Otherwise, internal tension would be released in other ways to the detriment of the entire family which is far worse.
And really, kids will crawl all over you no matter what you do. I work from home and the days when my daughter isn't at daycare when my wife is home, she's basically jumping on my computer for my attention. Put a camera crew in my room and I'd look like a workaholic neglectful dad.
Just so you know ... the woman who provides daycare for us has five children whom she homeschools. Her husband works at a printing plant and they collectively make 40k a year. This is in Connecticut, btw. Just fifteen minutes from Hartford with a relatively high cost of living.
The real trick is to get out of debt and stay that way.
You obviously didn't even look at the page since it is A CHART. A freakin CHART! Vincent Flanders doesn't apply. It's even pretty laughable that you mentioned him. He hasn't been relevant since the blink tag was in style.
You just proved an excellent lesson on how to get modded up on slashdot:
Rail against the lack of flash on the iphone or rail against the poor performance of flash on the desktop.
Just because a spec isn't finalized doesn't mean some of the feature haven't been implemented. You can find what's been implemented and just maybe, impress your boss.
How about all those logos before a video game starts? First we have the developer logo, then the publisher logl, then the graphics engine logo followed by the physics game logo, and then some legaleese. And then maybe a cutscene kicks into gear. I timed one video game (Bad Company 2, I think) and it was just over sixty seconds before I could even interact with the menu. I gotta give props to Fallout 3. Insert game. Press start. Alas, that's an exception.
I used to love NASA but these days, I wouldn't bet a nickel that they could make it to the nearest gas station with a GPS, atlas, and police escort to guide them. Honestly, if they were somewhat independent of the political process and could exist as an autonomous institution, they may have a chance. But, there's no way their priorities will remain set for fifteen years when they couldn't even last five years. Hell, I don't think they'll make it the next five years without any public facing launches. The fact that they aren't even selecting a design for a heavy lift vehicle in five years is just insane. Not to mention the slow execution of the Orion capsule. Obama can talk all he wants about revitalizing manned space exploration, but the truth is, he's smothering it with a pillow. I'm guessing if Obama gets elected 2012, he'll either gut the program, or put off this asteroid mission to some nebulous point in the future so another administration might be able to kill it entirely.
We've been hearing that for years, and with Windows 7, it appears (from what I've read) if you want do any sort of work, you still need to use C++. Mind you, I don't program for Windows. Do they have any plans in building the next api in managed code for the next windows release, or is this a case of "do as I say, not as I do". Also, is there much of a performance hit using managed code in windows?
As an open source developers, we should develop a new language that will compile down to MonoDroid which will then be able to compile down to Droid. That way, if MS pulls their shenanigans, we can still, er, program for the droid. Um, yeah. Or you could learn Java.
It's a sad state of affairs when buying a used game is considered a subversive activity. Every time one of these idiot developers starts talking about how consumers are basically stealing from them for buying a used game I want to hit them in the mouth with a two by four. Here's a thought ... price your games cheaper. When an entertainment product is well over the bar of an impulse buy, then the used market isn't your real problem.
... I left PC gaming because I hated being on the upgrade treadmill. These days, I find myself playing PC games more often because I get more from money. Who would have thought that consumers reward companies that produce a good value?
The funny thing
Government exists to serve the interests of the people ... not vice versa.
Question ... why doesn't firefox just license the decoder? Don't they make millions of dollars? I mean ... where exactly is that money going?