Ever notice that beyond the bold carrier emblems on the phones themselves that virtually all smartphones sold on Verizon are advertised by Verizon instead of the handset makers themselves? Contrast that with the iPhone which might be sold exclusively in the US on AT&T but it is marketed by Apple directly and there are no AT&T (or other carriers for that matter) logos anywhere to be found on the phone or in the manuals.
I see your point, and I agree with it, but if you look in the upper-left corner of an iPhone by the signal-strength meter (please, enough with the idiot "how many bars?" crap), you'll see the magic letters "AT&T."
Anyone who actively posts on the Free Republic forums, or believes anything the Freepers say, is a mouth-breathing moron who should be prevented from spawning.
Seems to me that the people have spoken.. They don't want to pay for this kind of stuff.
Why don't devs 'get' it? The majority have spoken.
Because developers like to eat and pay the mortgage, just like people like you who work at McDonald's.
I mean, when you're at work, you can just eat a hamburger if you're hungry. And the truck comes every day and delivers more hamburgers, right? So nothing is "lost," right? So your argument is that McDonald's doesn't lose any money if you eat the hamburger without paying because otherwise, you wouldn't eat the hamburger if you had to pay.
If it is useful software, people will develop for it for free. This is the core concept of Open Source software.
PCB layout (EDA) software is, to a particular group of engineers, incredibly useful software. Without it, we simply wouldn't be able to make our products.
There are at least two open-source EDA software packages.
Both suck. And when compared to commercial offerings, built by paid developers who work on their programs full time, the open-source alternatives are just sad jokes.
I once made a simple suggestion to the guys who work on gEDA's PCB package. It was, "Ya know, the commercial layout programs all have this neat feature where the net name appears on the pads and in the traces you've laid down." The reply was, "Huh? Why would you want to do that?" That clarified for me that the whole gEDA package was being developed by amateurs who had no interest in projects with more than two copper layers.
So, at least in this one area, the Open Source option is a big fail.
The point that I was making(that obviously went over your head) is Apple gets a huge chunk of money from selling you a Mac and uses that money to subsidize Mac OS and software. Microsoft does not do this.
i.e There is a hidden extra cost behind the numbers in the parent post for OS X and iWork that you HAVE to pay when buying the hardware to use that software. i.e The Apple tax. This is the reason that Apple disallows you from running it to non Mac hardware and even prohibits virtualizing it, showing that their software is subsidized by their hardware.
You do realize that Apple is a hardware manufacturer, right? The hardware isn't very useful without software. So of course Apple wants you to buy their hardware.
And if you weren't lazy, you could compare the costs of similarly-equipped Dell and Apple computers and the cost is about the same.
People love apple and it's fabuously high quality ineffebly well designed products.
The possessive form of it does not have an apostrophe. And that's just for starters.
Media's write stories about things people are interested in or find fascinating.
Wow, double-fail with Media's there, goombah. Media is the plural of medium. And as we all should have learned in grade-school grammar class, a plural doesn't use an apostrophe-s. And your post title? It should be "... that's what media are supposed to do."
Of course the title of this whole/. post is wrong, too; it should be, "Media love Apple and its Army of Fans." At least the editors got the possessive form of it right.
It's doubtful it was illegal. It may or may not have run foul of some licensing contracts, but isn't reverse engineering generally legal?
Reverse engineering for educational purposes, sure. But it's not OK to reverse-engineer something and use it in your product and sell it as your own work.
could of used a screenshot or two of the historical operating systems. we all know what OS X looks like, but fewer of us have seen a living breathing Next cube
You could have used some grammar lessons back in grade school, as evidenced by your first sentence.
was that the motorola chips were becoming dated, which Apple fixed in the Mid 90's with the power PC.
... the PowerPC chips were designed by Motorola, IBM fabbed them and eventually bought out the design when Motorola dumped it... which also triggered Apple to jump to x86.
Actually, PowerPC is based on IBM's POWER platform, and the AIM (Apple IBM Motorola) Alliance was formed to basically try to create a RISC alternative to Intel CISC processors.
Motorola (now Freescale) has not dumped PowerPC; it is still alive and well in the embedded market where Intel has no credible entries (PPC's main competition in that space are various flavors of ARM). The main issue was Freescale's (and IBM's, to an extent) inability to show a roadmap for a much lower power/higher-performance follow-on to the G5.
The only thing I really miss from Windows is the File Explorer. Finder works, but its horizontal scrolling mode, where the view is never as wide as the filenames, is really annoying.
You can do a "New Finder Window" in OS X. There might be something similar in Windows, but I haven't found it. Of course I'm still on XP, so...
I have never read anything that had so much potential at the start and went down hill so far and so fast. My hope is that this new format will retain the "theme" of books. Loose the SK reference entirely and rewrite a decent ending. I also hope they treat the antagonists with a little more respect than SK did. to have an ultra antagonist for 6 books only to have him die in a random encounter with another antagonist
I thought Walter's ending was excellent. Why does the Baddest Bad guy of all have to die in spectacular fashion? That's standard trope.
I'm not sure what the author's wishes really are. I can't say that I trust what they write at the end of a book, telling you not to read the rest of it, when they went ahead and wrote the extra bit. If they didn't want us to read it, then he should not have written it. So, either it's a ploy or he's undecided about it himself.
King knew that his intended ending was going to piss off the millions of readers who waited almost 30 years for it. So he gave you the option to enjoy the tale up to that point, or proceed. I thought it was brilliant.
It wasn't quite as you say - remember, young Roland was in possession of the horn in the reset that occurs at the end of the final book. It gives the reader hope that the outcome may be different on the subsequent attempt.
I appreciated that detail, but I realize I'm one of a tiny minority of fans that liked the ending.
Another fan of the ending here. I thought it was absolutely brilliant, and that detail is very important. And I also thought, "there are a LOT of King fans who are saying, 'I waited 25 years for THIS?'" Which I'm sure he was very aware of...
My new rule is that good writers are separated from the bad (aka hacks) by their ability to devise a good ending to the story they started.
Michael Criton is king of the hacks this way. He comes up with interesting starts and middles, then the end is always that the problem gets solved by some dues ex machina. It's like he read War of the Worlds, and based an entire career on that ending type.
Remember the movie, "Adaptation" (which was brilliant)? The Brian Cox character teaches a screenwriting class, and he says, "Do NOT use a goddamn Deus Ex Machina!" (And if you've seen the movie, you know how that advice is taken.)
Oh yeah, no question it's gonna cost a metric fuck-ton of money. What would be surprising (to me) is if it didn't need cooling, like most of the larger sensors do.
Since it's CMOS, its noise performance is naturally going to be higher than a CCD, but cooling it will still bring down the dark current.
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Ever notice that beyond the bold carrier emblems on the phones themselves that virtually all smartphones sold on Verizon are advertised by Verizon instead of the handset makers themselves? Contrast that with the iPhone which might be sold exclusively in the US on AT&T but it is marketed by Apple directly and there are no AT&T (or other carriers for that matter) logos anywhere to be found on the phone or in the manuals.
I see your point, and I agree with it, but if you look in the upper-left corner of an iPhone by the signal-strength meter (please, enough with the idiot "how many bars?" crap), you'll see the magic letters "AT&T."
Good ol' Mr. Malda. Maybe you could correct LOOSING to LOSING before you post the article, you dumb fuck.
Why was this moderated TROLL?
Jeez, people, learn to fucking spell.
Anyone who actively posts on the Free Republic forums, or believes anything the Freepers say, is a mouth-breathing moron who should be prevented from spawning.
Have you tried kicad?
It's not altium or anything, but I've found it more usable than gEDA.
I tried kicad, and it's marginally better than gEDA. It's not even as good as the old OrCAD 386. It's sightly less sucky than EAGLE.
... the original Japanese.
Seems to me that the people have spoken.. They don't want to pay for this kind of stuff.
Why don't devs 'get' it? The majority have spoken.
Because developers like to eat and pay the mortgage, just like people like you who work at McDonald's.
I mean, when you're at work, you can just eat a hamburger if you're hungry. And the truck comes every day and delivers more hamburgers, right? So nothing is "lost," right? So your argument is that McDonald's doesn't lose any money if you eat the hamburger without paying because otherwise, you wouldn't eat the hamburger if you had to pay.
If it is useful software, people will develop for it for free. This is the core concept of Open Source software.
PCB layout (EDA) software is, to a particular group of engineers, incredibly useful software. Without it, we simply wouldn't be able to make our products.
There are at least two open-source EDA software packages.
Both suck. And when compared to commercial offerings, built by paid developers who work on their programs full time, the open-source alternatives are just sad jokes.
I once made a simple suggestion to the guys who work on gEDA's PCB package. It was, "Ya know, the commercial layout programs all have this neat feature where the net name appears on the pads and in the traces you've laid down." The reply was, "Huh? Why would you want to do that?" That clarified for me that the whole gEDA package was being developed by amateurs who had no interest in projects with more than two copper layers.
So, at least in this one area, the Open Source option is a big fail.
Or worse, who would do it ignoring that "media" is used as a mass noun for the agencies of mass communication and not just as the plural of medium?
"Mass noun for the agencies of .."
Agencies is plural, too.
Uh, Windows 7 Home plus Microsoft Works (more akin to the iWork lightweight stuff that Apple ships) is about $150. Cheaper. Sorry!
And the various versions of Windows 7 confuses most people. Home? UItimate? What? Gimme a break. Snow Leopard, one version: $29.
Plus Microsoft doesn't offer anything like Garage Band, which a bunch of my friends use for podcast-creation and the like. (I use Logic Studio.)
The point that I was making(that obviously went over your head) is Apple gets a huge chunk of money from selling you a Mac and uses that money to subsidize Mac OS and software. Microsoft does not do this.
i.e There is a hidden extra cost behind the numbers in the parent post for OS X and iWork that you HAVE to pay when buying the hardware to use that software. i.e The Apple tax. This is the reason that Apple disallows you from running it to non Mac hardware and even prohibits virtualizing it, showing that their software is subsidized by their hardware.
You do realize that Apple is a hardware manufacturer, right? The hardware isn't very useful without software. So of course Apple wants you to buy their hardware.
And if you weren't lazy, you could compare the costs of similarly-equipped Dell and Apple computers and the cost is about the same.
People love apple and it's fabuously high quality ineffebly well designed products.
The possessive form of it does not have an apostrophe. And that's just for starters.
Media's write stories about things people are interested in or find fascinating.
Wow, double-fail with Media's there, goombah. Media is the plural of medium. And as we all should have learned in grade-school grammar class, a plural doesn't use an apostrophe-s. And your post title? It should be "... that's what media are supposed to do."
Of course the title of this whole /. post is wrong, too; it should be, "Media love Apple and its Army of Fans." At least the editors got the possessive form of it right.
It's doubtful it was illegal. It may or may not have run foul of some licensing contracts, but isn't reverse engineering generally legal?
Reverse engineering for educational purposes, sure. But it's not OK to reverse-engineer something and use it in your product and sell it as your own work.
it is still alive and well in the embedded market where Intel has no credible entries
Well, other than the fact that even today the 8051 arch still owns a decent chunk of the market, and has a long powerful legacy.
Except:
a) "in the market where Intel has no credible entries" means, in this case, the 32-bit market dominated by ARM and to a lesser extent, PPC, and
b) Intel has completely ceded the 8-bit 8x51 market to Silicon Labs and NXP. I don't think Intel even sells 8x51s any more.
Don't think that his pal Ellison isn't making it up to him.
This is truth.
could of used a screenshot or two of the historical operating systems. we all know what OS X looks like, but fewer of us have seen a living breathing Next cube
You could have used some grammar lessons back in grade school, as evidenced by your first sentence.
Actually, PowerPC is based on IBM's POWER platform, and the AIM (Apple IBM Motorola) Alliance was formed to basically try to create a RISC alternative to Intel CISC processors.
Motorola (now Freescale) has not dumped PowerPC; it is still alive and well in the embedded market where Intel has no credible entries (PPC's main competition in that space are various flavors of ARM). The main issue was Freescale's (and IBM's, to an extent) inability to show a roadmap for a much lower power/higher-performance follow-on to the G5.
The only thing I really miss from Windows is the File Explorer. Finder works, but its horizontal scrolling mode, where the view is never as wide as the filenames, is really annoying.
You can do a "New Finder Window" in OS X. There might be something similar in Windows, but I haven't found it. Of course I'm still on XP, so ...
I have never read anything that had so much potential at the start and went down hill so far and so fast. My hope is that this new format will retain the "theme" of books. Loose the SK reference entirely and rewrite a decent ending. I also hope they treat the antagonists with a little more respect than SK did. to have an ultra antagonist for 6 books only to have him die in a random encounter with another antagonist
I thought Walter's ending was excellent. Why does the Baddest Bad guy of all have to die in spectacular fashion? That's standard trope.
Jeunet...?
YES!
I'm not sure what the author's wishes really are. I can't say that I trust what they write at the end of a book, telling you not to read the rest of it, when they went ahead and wrote the extra bit. If they didn't want us to read it, then he should not have written it. So, either it's a ploy or he's undecided about it himself.
King knew that his intended ending was going to piss off the millions of readers who waited almost 30 years for it. So he gave you the option to enjoy the tale up to that point, or proceed. I thought it was brilliant.
You may not realize it, but you've seen glimpses of the DT universe through most of King's books.
All of King's books occupy the same universe. Especially in his earlier work, he references himself a lot. Which is good.
It wasn't quite as you say - remember, young Roland was in possession of the horn in the reset that occurs at the end of the final book. It gives the reader hope that the outcome may be different on the subsequent attempt.
I appreciated that detail, but I realize I'm one of a tiny minority of fans that liked the ending.
Another fan of the ending here. I thought it was absolutely brilliant, and that detail is very important. And I also thought, "there are a LOT of King fans who are saying, 'I waited 25 years for THIS?'" Which I'm sure he was very aware of ...
My new rule is that good writers are separated from the bad (aka hacks) by their ability to devise a good ending to the story they started.
Michael Criton is king of the hacks this way. He comes up with interesting starts and middles, then the end is always that the problem gets solved by some dues ex machina. It's like he read War of the Worlds, and based an entire career on that ending type.
Remember the movie, "Adaptation" (which was brilliant)? The Brian Cox character teaches a screenwriting class, and he says, "Do NOT use a goddamn Deus Ex Machina!" (And if you've seen the movie, you know how that advice is taken.)
The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed.
Next time add "Spoiler Alert!"
Oh yeah, no question it's gonna cost a metric fuck-ton of money. What would be surprising (to me) is if it didn't need cooling, like most of the larger sensors do.
Since it's CMOS, its noise performance is naturally going to be higher than a CCD, but cooling it will still bring down the dark current.