They need to have your personal information and to have you logged in to their server before the game will work. Otherwise, the freetards win. Pay no attention to the piles of cash behind the curtain. These people are starving without you paying customers bowing to their authentication requirements.
Just wait until there are four or five of these things spread across a continent and ganged together by a computer. Bigger mirrors and more mirrors both gives the advantages of both. There has to be a first one of this size, though.
Seriously, isn't this what Microsoft and Sony have done for consoles and other game companies have already done for the PC? I wouldn't expect it to be big news that Starcraft 2 will be expected to keep up with features Battlefield 2, Team Fortress 2, and Supreme Commander have.
The current agreement goes through 2011, so it's not an immediate problem. The Firefox team over at Mozilla might want to comb through the Chrome code for ideas, if the two OSS licenses are compatible. WebKit is LGPL. I dunno what V8 or the other parts of Chrome are licensed.
So now I need to use some bright, irritating wallpaper to convince people I'm not using unlicensed software? Fuck that. Microsoft needs to change their plans, because the first customer who accuses me of piracy because of my black desktop background means a lawsuit for tortious business interference for Microsoft.
The "PIN" is taken to be an adjective here. It's the same usage as "password string", "laser light", "microwave radiation", "sonar sound", and "NAT translation". All of those are phrases in which the first word or acronym imply the second word, but they're pretty common phrases.
The PIN is the generic idea of the personal identification number to be entered, and the PIN number is that user's specific string of digits.
I'm glad you had your laugh, though. BTW, why is it still called a CPU if there's more than one?
Hey, I already said the wording was probably a bad idea.
I just also happen to think that it's true in the sense that they meant it. The ASA should have called the ad "potentially confusing", not necessarily "We concluded that the ad gave a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone."
The ASA is either confused or counting on customers being confused as to what Apple meant, because what the ASA determined the phrasing to mean was not what Apple meant. It's also not what many people who have seen the ad or read the decision think the phrase should be taken to mean.
Still, it's bad business to allow your customers to remain confused on an issue that's going to make them angry or disappointed. Apple should, upon finding out about the complaints, want to clarify the wording.
CPU: check! ARM or Sparc (or maybe ZPU, or OpenRisc) boot system: check! OpenFirmware or EFI (or maybe LinuxBIOS) disk system: check! MMC, SDC, maybe PATA, SATA or SCSI open hardware for USB, PCI, and Ethernet controllers: check!
ARM and Sparc are famously open. There are also versions of the MIPS I think that are. Plus, there's all sorts of open source CPU, DSP, SoC, and device controller cores on OpenCores.org.
The challenges, of course, are getting the parts all together, figuring out the supply chain, and manufacturing it in such a way that it performs well for a decent price.
The Open Pandora will hopefully be enough computer for many of my needs. It's a spiritual descendant of the GP32 and GP2x. It's an ARM-based system with some other open hardware that will run Linux and lots of stuff on top of it. It has a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi, so hopefully it'll be touch-typeable enough that I can ssh into my devel systems remotely. Oh, and it plays games, too, but not anything like Supreme Commander or Crysis.
Who earned the money that was taxed to buy the stocks and bonds? Why not make investments in stock and bonds tax deductible when they are bought just like buying business equipment and go ahead and tax the profits?
I agree about the overreaching of the government. Fewer taxes are good not just because they give a break to the people, but because they limit what the government has to spend. That is, of course, except for that pesky deficit.
A government with less to spend is more answerable to the people. Our deficits in relation to the total Federal budget must be bound at some limit by credit, so cutting back the tax base sufficiently would mean necessarily cutting back the raw numbers on the deficit, too. If we can control what the government has to spend, we can demand it be spent on what the government was meant to do.
I'm all for running a deficit for a short while when absolutely necessary (like the Revolution, the Civil War, WWII), but not all the time or for piddly conflicts with countries who didn't attack us like Iraq.
I apologize for the shortness of digital temper, I just quit smoking
I'm sorry to hear that your fingers are so testy. Maybe you could hold a pen between them?
Anywho, I'm thinking this is a voice challenge and response with the live telephone customer service agent. They'd pretty much have to have that in plaintext. Hopefully they also use a long PIN number that's stored as a hashed value.
It's not only more time efficient, but also more fuel efficient to drive at times other than rush our. Rush hour traffic tends to involve more acceleration and deceleration.
It even leads to more accidents, which is an extra cost of car repair and possible injury. In extreme cases, you're talking about road repairs from an accident, too.
I was driving home (downstate IL) from a Chicago suburb when I was rear-ended in stop and go rush hour traffic on an Interstate highway. The accident totaled my car, sent me to the emergency room, cost me two days of lost work, left me in pain for months, and stuck me with an insurance deductible because the deadbeat had no insurance of his own. This type of accident can happen in a small town if someone's not paying attention, but in the Chicago area people just laugh and say, "yeah, I know this guy...".
Flash and Java are not the Internet, are not part of the infrastructure of the Internet, are not protocols for getting content, are not standard content formats on the Internet, are not ubiquitous content formats, and are considered by many to be extraneous and undesirable.
Code Red and Slammer are content available on the Internet, too. I guess now Apple needs to supply something compatible to make those run as intended?
What the hell do you think HTML, XML, news stories, book descriptions, and reviews are? Are they not text?
Yahoo Shopping was written in Lisp. It was later rewritten, in sections at least, by a mixture of C++ and Perl. They wrote a Lisp interpreter in C++ to facilitate this.
Amazon (for Amazon.com's own site) uses Mason (a Perl website templating system) as their official web development template system, and they're hiring for people with that skill set. They do use a lot of Java, too, apparently, but Perl is an important part of the site.
IMDb uses Linux, Apache, Perl and mod_perl to run pretty much the whole site, and is part of Amazon.
Google is using quite a bit of server-side JavaScript -- on the JVM as a replacement for Java in many cases.
Google uses C++, Python, and Java for most public-facing sites, and much of the management of the systems is done with Python.
This Google job (for a software engineer) lists C++ as a must and Python as a plus. This other job (for a software engineer) requires both one or more of C, C+, or Java and one or more of shell, Perl, PHP, or Python.
This PowerPoint presentation says Morgan Stanley in 2004 was using Perl written by over 500 developers on over 9000 (no, that's not a/b/ ism) systems to keep their network running smoothly, for a web front end development language, to develop middleware, and to develop backend applications.
ValueClick and TicketMaster make much use of Perl, too. That's along with the content management system -- Bricolage -- used by the Dean for President campaign, ETOnline, and the World Health Organization being written in Perl. You may have also heard of MovableType, which is a serious CMS from Six Apart. Or maybe you've heard of a site that runs it, called The Huffington Post, who right now is looking for someone to work on it?
It's not the phone's job to present the information. It's the job of an application running on the phone. Apple provides a browser for open, standard content on the web. They provide an SMTP + POP/IMAP email client. Other applications are for sale for the phone.
If there's something Apple is doing to keep applications from displaying that content (I've actually heard rumor that there is, but I haven't confirmed it), then they need to not use that phrasing.
It's probably best to can the phrasing anyway, because it has confused people enough that they've filed complaints. It's even confused many/.ers (who generally like to be considered geeks) over just what the Internet is and what Apple offers. It's good business not to piss people off. Confusion on the part of the audience does not make a statement untrue, though.
If all the ASR-33s stop working, someone who knows enough about the format can help write a converter program for the cards using a flat-bed scanner. It's a pretty good solution, considering well-stored player piano tapes are still intact many decades after cutting.
That's not a geek. A real geek has working 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives in bays in at least one of his desktops. Mine sit below my DL-DVD burner and my DDS-3 tape drive. I need to go to a different desktop to use Zip disks though.
Battlefield 2 has in-game VoIP that almost nobody uses. They all use Teamspeak or Ventrilo instead. Perhaps leaving it out isn't that bad of a decision.
Where are the servers reachable by IPv6 that are not reachable by IPv4?
P2P is not a protocol. It's a concept, and is implemented as several different protocols in several different applications. VoIP is not a protocol. It's a concept, and is implemented as several different protocols in several different applications. If you have an application for the application level protocol for the iPhone, it will work over the TCP/IP stack on the device.
I agree the protocol line of argument is more valid than the content-centered one. I've made other posts saying as much.
The argument used by the ASA -- that Java and Flash are parts of the Internet -- proves nothing about Apple's claims because the argument used by the ASA is erroneous.
That's what my post said, and you had to pull other examples from outside the argument to support the conclusion, likely because you recognized that the conclusion could not be reasonably reached based on the premise.
Now, if you want to debate starting from another premise, that IPv6, BitTorrent, and IAX are necessary to say something can access the entire Internet in any meaningful sense, then that's another debate.
I contend that sending and receiving IPv4 from any port to any port from and to any IPv4 address and supporting application development with an accessible TCP/IP stack and a socket library fulfills the requirements of delivering the whole Internet. Everything else is up to an application and not the device or operating system.
Not being able to translate the documents into your chosen language, then, is a limitation of their product.
Not being able to write an AppStore application that displays Flash and another that is a JVM is a limitation with you, just like not being able to read Chinese and Russian.
See? Any way you break it down, it's content to be used (or mindlessly stared at, whatever) and not the network infrastructure. They shouldn't have to be able to display every type of content in order to say you can access the whole network. If they say you can use any media accessible on the network, then they should have to provide that capability. That's not the claim they made.
You apparently don't understand who pays taxes. The person buying the product pays the tax. If it's a tax on the company, that's a cost of doing business, which makes is a cost of the product, which makes it part of the price of the product at retail.
Taxing the gas and diesel sales at the pump accomplishes just as much for the government at no additional cost to the consumer vs. a revenue tax on the oil companies.
If you make the tax a profit tax rather than a revenue tax, they'll just reinvest more money into exploration, raise the CEO's bonus, buy more small companies, or whatever they can to keep the revenues from becoming profits until the storm blows over.
It's a risk/reward scenario for the state. There's the easy $20 option that assures them of some percentage of the actual tax (probably a nickel or dime on the dollar as an average). Then there's the risk that people will claim no out-of-state purchases whatsoever, and the state is responsible to prove otherwise. The blanket default is a win-win situation.
It most certainly is more than a protection racket. They also pay off others for their support.
One interesting thing about the government vs. the mafia is that the government launder money much more efficiently. They confiscate illegal gains, then spend them. The confiscate cars and homes, sell them, and spend the cash. The collect income tax on "miscellaneous unclassified income" and spend it.
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They need to have your personal information and to have you logged in to their server before the game will work. Otherwise, the freetards win. Pay no attention to the piles of cash behind the curtain. These people are starving without you paying customers bowing to their authentication requirements.
Just wait until there are four or five of these things spread across a continent and ganged together by a computer. Bigger mirrors and more mirrors both gives the advantages of both. There has to be a first one of this size, though.
Seriously, isn't this what Microsoft and Sony have done for consoles and other game companies have already done for the PC? I wouldn't expect it to be big news that Starcraft 2 will be expected to keep up with features Battlefield 2, Team Fortress 2, and Supreme Commander have.
Yes, it's open source. There are lots of OSI certified licenses, though, and they are not all compatible.
The current agreement goes through 2011, so it's not an immediate problem. The Firefox team over at Mozilla might want to comb through the Chrome code for ideas, if the two OSS licenses are compatible. WebKit is LGPL. I dunno what V8 or the other parts of Chrome are licensed.
So now I need to use some bright, irritating wallpaper to convince people I'm not using unlicensed software? Fuck that. Microsoft needs to change their plans, because the first customer who accuses me of piracy because of my black desktop background means a lawsuit for tortious business interference for Microsoft.
The "PIN" is taken to be an adjective here. It's the same usage as "password string", "laser light", "microwave radiation", "sonar sound", and "NAT translation". All of those are phrases in which the first word or acronym imply the second word, but they're pretty common phrases.
The PIN is the generic idea of the personal identification number to be entered, and the PIN number is that user's specific string of digits.
I'm glad you had your laugh, though. BTW, why is it still called a CPU if there's more than one?
Hey, I already said the wording was probably a bad idea.
I just also happen to think that it's true in the sense that they meant it. The ASA should have called the ad "potentially confusing", not necessarily "We concluded that the ad gave a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone."
The ASA is either confused or counting on customers being confused as to what Apple meant, because what the ASA determined the phrasing to mean was not what Apple meant. It's also not what many people who have seen the ad or read the decision think the phrase should be taken to mean.
Still, it's bad business to allow your customers to remain confused on an issue that's going to make them angry or disappointed. Apple should, upon finding out about the complaints, want to clarify the wording.
That's getting closer to reality all the time.
So you want something with roughyl these parts:
CPU: check! ARM or Sparc (or maybe ZPU, or OpenRisc)
boot system: check! OpenFirmware or EFI (or maybe LinuxBIOS)
disk system: check! MMC, SDC, maybe PATA, SATA or SCSI
open hardware for USB, PCI, and Ethernet controllers: check!
ARM and Sparc are famously open. There are also versions of the MIPS I think that are. Plus, there's all sorts of open source CPU, DSP, SoC, and device controller cores on OpenCores.org.
The challenges, of course, are getting the parts all together, figuring out the supply chain, and manufacturing it in such a way that it performs well for a decent price.
The Open Pandora will hopefully be enough computer for many of my needs. It's a spiritual descendant of the GP32 and GP2x. It's an ARM-based system with some other open hardware that will run Linux and lots of stuff on top of it. It has a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi, so hopefully it'll be touch-typeable enough that I can ssh into my devel systems remotely. Oh, and it plays games, too, but not anything like Supreme Commander or Crysis.
Who earned the money that was taxed to buy the stocks and bonds? Why not make investments in stock and bonds tax deductible when they are bought just like buying business equipment and go ahead and tax the profits?
I agree about the overreaching of the government. Fewer taxes are good not just because they give a break to the people, but because they limit what the government has to spend. That is, of course, except for that pesky deficit.
A government with less to spend is more answerable to the people. Our deficits in relation to the total Federal budget must be bound at some limit by credit, so cutting back the tax base sufficiently would mean necessarily cutting back the raw numbers on the deficit, too. If we can control what the government has to spend, we can demand it be spent on what the government was meant to do.
I'm all for running a deficit for a short while when absolutely necessary (like the Revolution, the Civil War, WWII), but not all the time or for piddly conflicts with countries who didn't attack us like Iraq.
I apologize for the shortness of digital temper, I just quit smoking
I'm sorry to hear that your fingers are so testy. Maybe you could hold a pen between them?
Anywho, I'm thinking this is a voice challenge and response with the live telephone customer service agent. They'd pretty much have to have that in plaintext. Hopefully they also use a long PIN number that's stored as a hashed value.
It's not only more time efficient, but also more fuel efficient to drive at times other than rush our. Rush hour traffic tends to involve more acceleration and deceleration.
It even leads to more accidents, which is an extra cost of car repair and possible injury. In extreme cases, you're talking about road repairs from an accident, too.
I was driving home (downstate IL) from a Chicago suburb when I was rear-ended in stop and go rush hour traffic on an Interstate highway. The accident totaled my car, sent me to the emergency room, cost me two days of lost work, left me in pain for months, and stuck me with an insurance deductible because the deadbeat had no insurance of his own. This type of accident can happen in a small town if someone's not paying attention, but in the Chicago area people just laugh and say, "yeah, I know this guy...".
Flash and Java are not the Internet, are not part of the infrastructure of the Internet, are not protocols for getting content, are not standard content formats on the Internet, are not ubiquitous content formats, and are considered by many to be extraneous and undesirable.
Code Red and Slammer are content available on the Internet, too. I guess now Apple needs to supply something compatible to make those run as intended?
What the hell do you think HTML, XML, news stories, book descriptions, and reviews are? Are they not text?
Yahoo Shopping was written in Lisp. It was later rewritten, in sections at least, by a mixture of C++ and Perl. They wrote a Lisp interpreter in C++ to facilitate this.
Yahoo would have never happened without Perl.
Slashdot already ran a story about the BBC making a Rails-like framework for Perl because they liked Rails but prefer Perl as a language. The article at that second link says they're pretty dedicated to Perl for their whole Web infrastructure.
Amazon use Perl as a major component gluing the front end order-entry system to a back-end database, and also for part of their document authoring chain.
Amazon (for Amazon.com's own site) uses Mason (a Perl website templating system) as their official web development template system, and they're hiring for people with that skill set. They do use a lot of Java, too, apparently, but Perl is an important part of the site.
IMDb uses Linux, Apache, Perl and mod_perl to run pretty much the whole site, and is part of Amazon.
Google is using quite a bit of server-side JavaScript -- on the JVM as a replacement for Java in many cases.
Google uses C++, Python, and Java for most public-facing sites, and much of the management of the systems is done with Python.
This Google job (for a software engineer) lists C++ as a must and Python as a plus. This other job (for a software engineer) requires both one or more of C, C+, or Java and one or more of shell, Perl, PHP, or Python.
The nation of Scotland used Perl to migrate millions of land records between systems, which certainly is data munging, but a pretty important bit of it.
It was way back in 1999, but Agilent used Perl to build their big customer-facing e-commerce site.
Booking.com (part of Priceline) uses primarily Perl to run their site.
This PowerPoint presentation says Morgan Stanley in 2004 was using Perl written by over 500 developers on over 9000 (no, that's not a /b/ ism) systems to keep their network running smoothly, for a web front end development language, to develop middleware, and to develop backend applications.
ValueClick and TicketMaster make much use of Perl, too. That's along with the content management system -- Bricolage -- used by the Dean for President campaign, ETOnline, and the World Health Organization being written in Perl. You may have also heard of MovableType, which is a serious CMS from Six Apart. Or maybe you've heard of a site that runs it, called The Huffington Post, who right now is looking for someone to work on it?
It's not the phone's job to present the information. It's the job of an application running on the phone. Apple provides a browser for open, standard content on the web. They provide an SMTP + POP/IMAP email client. Other applications are for sale for the phone.
If there's something Apple is doing to keep applications from displaying that content (I've actually heard rumor that there is, but I haven't confirmed it), then they need to not use that phrasing.
It's probably best to can the phrasing anyway, because it has confused people enough that they've filed complaints. It's even confused many /.ers (who generally like to be considered geeks) over just what the Internet is and what Apple offers. It's good business not to piss people off. Confusion on the part of the audience does not make a statement untrue, though.
If all the ASR-33s stop working, someone who knows enough about the format can help write a converter program for the cards using a flat-bed scanner. It's a pretty good solution, considering well-stored player piano tapes are still intact many decades after cutting.
What about the current leakage from the flash?
That's not a geek. A real geek has working 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives in bays in at least one of his desktops. Mine sit below my DL-DVD burner and my DDS-3 tape drive. I need to go to a different desktop to use Zip disks though.
A glass CD master should work fine. A brass CD stamper should, too. The issues then become how to turn those things into a stamped CD.
Battlefield 2 has in-game VoIP that almost nobody uses. They all use Teamspeak or Ventrilo instead. Perhaps leaving it out isn't that bad of a decision.
Where are the servers reachable by IPv6 that are not reachable by IPv4?
P2P is not a protocol. It's a concept, and is implemented as several different protocols in several different applications. VoIP is not a protocol. It's a concept, and is implemented as several different protocols in several different applications. If you have an application for the application level protocol for the iPhone, it will work over the TCP/IP stack on the device.
I agree the protocol line of argument is more valid than the content-centered one. I've made other posts saying as much.
The argument used by the ASA -- that Java and Flash are parts of the Internet -- proves nothing about Apple's claims because the argument used by the ASA is erroneous.
That's what my post said, and you had to pull other examples from outside the argument to support the conclusion, likely because you recognized that the conclusion could not be reasonably reached based on the premise.
Now, if you want to debate starting from another premise, that IPv6, BitTorrent, and IAX are necessary to say something can access the entire Internet in any meaningful sense, then that's another debate.
I contend that sending and receiving IPv4 from any port to any port from and to any IPv4 address and supporting application development with an accessible TCP/IP stack and a socket library fulfills the requirements of delivering the whole Internet. Everything else is up to an application and not the device or operating system.
Not being able to translate the documents into your chosen language, then, is a limitation of their product.
Not being able to write an AppStore application that displays Flash and another that is a JVM is a limitation with you, just like not being able to read Chinese and Russian.
See? Any way you break it down, it's content to be used (or mindlessly stared at, whatever) and not the network infrastructure. They shouldn't have to be able to display every type of content in order to say you can access the whole network. If they say you can use any media accessible on the network, then they should have to provide that capability. That's not the claim they made.
You apparently don't understand who pays taxes. The person buying the product pays the tax. If it's a tax on the company, that's a cost of doing business, which makes is a cost of the product, which makes it part of the price of the product at retail.
Taxing the gas and diesel sales at the pump accomplishes just as much for the government at no additional cost to the consumer vs. a revenue tax on the oil companies.
If you make the tax a profit tax rather than a revenue tax, they'll just reinvest more money into exploration, raise the CEO's bonus, buy more small companies, or whatever they can to keep the revenues from becoming profits until the storm blows over.
It's a risk/reward scenario for the state. There's the easy $20 option that assures them of some percentage of the actual tax (probably a nickel or dime on the dollar as an average). Then there's the risk that people will claim no out-of-state purchases whatsoever, and the state is responsible to prove otherwise. The blanket default is a win-win situation.
It most certainly is more than a protection racket. They also pay off others for their support.
One interesting thing about the government vs. the mafia is that the government launder money much more efficiently. They confiscate illegal gains, then spend them. The confiscate cars and homes, sell them, and spend the cash. The collect income tax on "miscellaneous unclassified income" and spend it.