It's a shame that Apple can't even follow this basic principle when they write for other platforms - e.g., the abysmal non-standard UIs that Quicktime and Itunes have on Windows.
Having a "non-standard" UI is typical on windows; media players especially do not follow the standard UI (see WindowsMediaPlayer, WinAMP, et al.).
But does an Asus O!Play also play games? Those who use XBMC on an Xbox can reboot to the Windows XB dashboard to run single-player or local-multiplayer Xbox games. Likewise, those who use XBMC on an Acer Aspire Revo (a $200 ION nettop) can reboot to Windows to run single-player or local-multiplayer PC games, although the local-multiplayer selection for PC is a bit limited due to the historical lack of TV-sized PC monitors.
No, it can't play games. I use the PS3 or my desktop for that.
He asked what people are using instead of XBMC for videos (MKVs and AVIs that the PS3 doesn't like in particular, and made no mention of games), and that's what I'm using instead and it plays those MKVs and AVIs fine.
For $100 you can get an Asus O!Play that will play all your files (at 1080p, including MKVs), has HDMI output, and comes with a remote, and requires no additional software.
The police seem perfectly able to hunt down the owner of a prepaid cellphone when it contains child porn on it. How can they manage that yet not hunt down terrorists the same way?
They were only able to do this because he used his credit card to purchase it. If he had used cash the trail would have been much harder to track (it's possible surveillance cameras would work, but much less likely).
Stolen phones can be tracked. They can also be disabled and typically are when reported stolen.
So this law also prevents people from stealing a phone, making a single phone call on it immediately and then throwing it away, too? Oh wait no, it probably increases the chance of that happening.
Funny how a character story doesn't really tell the characters' story. What happened to Hugo, Ben, Kate, Sawyer, etc.? Oh, it doesn't matter does it? In fact, none of the island crap matters because they were all going to die anyway and live happily ever after in the afterlife.
And basically, dying had no consequences because everyone died and were happy i the afterlife!
It told what happened to them while Jack (the main character) was aware. They don't show everything because they are time limited. Also, I think Michael would beg to differ that everyone is happy in the afterlife. He was noticeably missing, and if what he said on the island is true then he's stuck there.
I'm still baffled by what the deal with Walt was and what did Juliet mean by "it worked" with her last words (nuke incident)?
Agg.. I suppose if you assume the show had to end last night, I guess they did an ok job. I wasn't left saying "WTF?" but I certainly didn't feel like I was looking at a completed jigsaw puzzle either.
These won't be satisfying, but:
1) Walt had special powers, we're not certain what they entailed entirely, but it likely had something to do with electro-magnetism and possibly astral projection. In a similar vein, Miles has specials powers. Hurley possibly had special powers, or he was just chosen by all of the dead (coincidentally)
2) Juliet was transitioning to the sideworld/purgatory and while she was transitioning she believed what they had done worked (as she saw herself having never gone to the island).
It was just ok. Given that Battlestar was the last finale I watched, it handled similar material in a much better way. Given the terrible ways it could have ended, it was good enough. Some people will be mad that some questions were never answered, and I would have been happier if the last episode focused more on the island than the survivors, but really, given how they didn't have an ending written when they started the series, they did a fairly good job of cleanup.
Anyone who was expecting "Island Answers" was bound for disappointment. The writers have been saying since the show started that its a "Character Story" and that the island is just a background. Seriously, every time the writers were interviewed they said something about how lost was all about the characters and that not everything about the island will be answered. I don't know if this was their way of saying, "we never had a good idea what to do with the island story, but we knew what we wanted the character arcs to be" or if it's their way of saying "we didn't have time to get into every detail of the island since we wanted to focus on the characters" - but I knew going in that I'd still not really know as much as I wanted to about the mysteries but I'd know what was going with the characters.
I thought Apple made it quite clear that they would not support any third party product for use in developing iPhone/iPad applications. Why would Hypercard be surprised that their third party product used for developing iPhone/iPad applications was rejected?
As far as being surprised, I don't know, but there are two reasons why they feel there should be an exception:
1) Because Steve Job's said it would be great if someone created a HyperCard for iPad
2) Jobs stated the reasons they would not allow/support it, and this company said that they would redo their product to nullify those reasons
I'm not saying those are enough, but those are two good reasons why there may have been an exception made.
product which pretty much everyone knew wouldn't get approved with the changes... and now we're surprised?
This might have been news when the changes were introduced, now its just:
Duh, you knew you were treading on thin ice before you even submitted it.
No, this is a company with a business plan that said they would re-do their product to output ONLY for iPhone/iPad (read: not be cross-compilable for other platforms), use 100% CocoaTouch (meaning they look and function like every other app on the platform), guarantee they'd keep pace with the SDK 100%, and have the apps be literally indistinguishable from apps written in Objective-C. And Steve Jobs said no to this business plan.
To recap: they had a product before that was acceptable; with no notice, Apple changed their policies; they offered to redo their entire product to be inline with what the supposed spirit of these changes was; they were told nope, can't do that.
I'd highly suggest you check out unRaid. It's an inline expandable raid system which allows up to one drive to fail without losing data. I've been using mine for quite a while and I love it!
Not at all. It's just that a big part of the USA has the "Everything is better if it's private" mental disease, combined with the "Regulation is unnecessary bureaucracy" mental disease. So the same corporate policy tendencies for short term profits at the expense of safety that made the Gulf of Mexico Three Amigos cut corners when running a deep water rig can be expected to also apply to privately run nuclear power plants. Instead of a large oil slick that kills all wildlife over hundreds of square miles and takes 20 years to break down, you would have a nuclear waste spill that infects groundwater, rendering a huge area uninhabitable for hundreds of years. Until you completely cut off for-profit corporate contributions to political organizations and campaigns, you can't allow corporations to run really dangerous projects because they'll manipulate the political process to allow them to make more money by cutting oversight on necessary safety processes.
Because even if you haven't figured it out yet after the bank bailouts, many corporate executives have figured out that it doesn't matter whether cutting corners may mean that the company might go bankrupt in 3 or 4 years as long as they can make massive bonuses through increasing profits by cutting safety margins and taking other significant risks with a half-life that's long enough to get them set up for life.
Mod this guy up! I don't understand how people can't realize that it's an almost certain consequence of capitalism that corners will be cut, that aught not have been cut because the payout to the few will outweigh the misery of the masses.
The easiest way to create AI is to model the neuron inside of a computer, slice up someone's brain into lots of thin slices, and then recreate their brain in the computer.
Mapping the inputs is the hard part.
"Getting the brain out was the easy part. The hard part was getting the brain out."
That's insane. That would remove all protection from the traditional lone inventor who comes up with something useful and wants to sell it to the big companies. In effect you'd be saying that you can't invent anything unless you plan to sell it yourself.
What if you're only allowed to not produce something for ONE patent. Protects the lone inventor, while still hurting patent trolls.
Under the GPL, you have to distribute, or offer to distribute, the source to anyone to whom you distribute the binary,.
It is often stated that you must offer to distribute the source any anyone to whom you distribute the binary, but GPL-2 requires more than this. It states (3.b) " Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party," (My emphasis). So the requirement to provide the source code is not restricted to those to whom you distribute the binary but it must be made available to anyone who requests it.
My understanding of this (IANAL) was that with each distribution of the product, you must accompany that specific distribution with an offer to provide the source to anyone whom requests it - i.e. each distribution comes with an offer to get the source code, which need not be excised by the original person who received the binary.
Meaning if you're selling a product that is GPL'd and no one buys it, then you never have to give the source code to anyone who asks. If Company A buys it and Company B (no relation to company A) asks for the source then you don't have to give it to them as they don't have a written offer for the source code. If Company A buys it, gives their written offer of the source code to Company Z, then Company Z can ask for the source even though they didn't buy it.
Support remote desktop? I work in an enterprise environment and have found the feature very useful when away from my desk. When I'm on the production floor troubleshooting an issue and need to do a novell password reset; I just unlock my phone, enable remote desktop connection, log into my work machine and reset the password without ever having to leave the machine i'm trouble shooting. This saves me time; otherwise I would have to walk back to my terminal just to reset a password and then walk back to the client machine and continue troubleshooting. Any takers?
There are VNC and RDP clients for iPhone and iPad. Not sure about android.
But the candy didn't come from her parents, it was given to her by another student, who had gotten it from HER parents.
Nobody is suggesting punishing the other child though.
I'm suggesting it. She should be charged as an adult with contributing to the delinquency of a minor - Punishment of up to 12 months in jail and/or a fine of up to $2500.00. Anything less and the terrorists will have won.
A man who has two watches will pay attention to the one that doesn't misinform him time and again, should the two prove to report very differently. Just saying.
I do think distributed reporting and a flood of information (we already have this, IMHO), is a good thing too. But the reporters who are most accurate or are most trusted will likely have quite a significant following, although perhaps not quite as significant as the guy screaming about the end of the world as we know it on his blog. If it has cute pictures of cats.
Oooo, this blog has journalistic integrity...OH MY GOD THIS BLOG HAS A DOG WITH A PUFFY TAIL! Here, Puff!
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It's a shame that Apple can't even follow this basic principle when they write for other platforms - e.g., the abysmal non-standard UIs that Quicktime and Itunes have on Windows.
Having a "non-standard" UI is typical on windows; media players especially do not follow the standard UI (see WindowsMediaPlayer, WinAMP, et al.).
But does an Asus O!Play also play games? Those who use XBMC on an Xbox can reboot to the Windows XB dashboard to run single-player or local-multiplayer Xbox games. Likewise, those who use XBMC on an Acer Aspire Revo (a $200 ION nettop) can reboot to Windows to run single-player or local-multiplayer PC games, although the local-multiplayer selection for PC is a bit limited due to the historical lack of TV-sized PC monitors.
No, it can't play games. I use the PS3 or my desktop for that. He asked what people are using instead of XBMC for videos (MKVs and AVIs that the PS3 doesn't like in particular, and made no mention of games), and that's what I'm using instead and it plays those MKVs and AVIs fine.
For $100 you can get an Asus O!Play that will play all your files (at 1080p, including MKVs), has HDMI output, and comes with a remote, and requires no additional software.
You do NOT need to give the phone company an ID for a landline.
How did you not give them your address?
I gave them a fake address. Still waiting for them to show up to install it, though...
The police seem perfectly able to hunt down the owner of a prepaid cellphone when it contains child porn on it. How can they manage that yet not hunt down terrorists the same way?
They were only able to do this because he used his credit card to purchase it. If he had used cash the trail would have been much harder to track (it's possible surveillance cameras would work, but much less likely).
Stolen phones can be tracked. They can also be disabled and typically are when reported stolen.
So this law also prevents people from stealing a phone, making a single phone call on it immediately and then throwing it away, too? Oh wait no, it probably increases the chance of that happening.
Mainly because general end users don't want a desktop OS in a slate form factor.
There are some domains where a desktop OS tablet is very desirable.
There are some domains where a Barium Enema is very desirable. That doesn't mean the general population wants one.
So these guys are shipping more computers and making less money doing so, which makes Apple the loser? That's an interesting view on business.
Actually, if they are shipping more units and making less money, that means Apple is just ripping you off more than the other guys.
Have fun overpaying for your products! I'm glad you like getting reamed and boasting about it.
Or that the people buying apple products are buying more add-ons, which are more profitable...
Funny how a character story doesn't really tell the characters' story. What happened to Hugo, Ben, Kate, Sawyer, etc.? Oh, it doesn't matter does it? In fact, none of the island crap matters because they were all going to die anyway and live happily ever after in the afterlife.
And basically, dying had no consequences because everyone died and were happy i the afterlife!
It told what happened to them while Jack (the main character) was aware. They don't show everything because they are time limited. Also, I think Michael would beg to differ that everyone is happy in the afterlife. He was noticeably missing, and if what he said on the island is true then he's stuck there.
I'm still baffled by what the deal with Walt was and what did Juliet mean by "it worked" with her last words (nuke incident)?
Agg.. I suppose if you assume the show had to end last night, I guess they did an ok job. I wasn't left saying "WTF?" but I certainly didn't feel like I was looking at a completed jigsaw puzzle either.
These won't be satisfying, but:
1) Walt had special powers, we're not certain what they entailed entirely, but it likely had something to do with electro-magnetism and possibly astral projection. In a similar vein, Miles has specials powers. Hurley possibly had special powers, or he was just chosen by all of the dead (coincidentally)
2) Juliet was transitioning to the sideworld/purgatory and while she was transitioning she believed what they had done worked (as she saw herself having never gone to the island).
The writers promised us sci-fi explanations for everything in the second season.
They were "moving on" to the mother ship. There, now it was Sci-Fi.
It was just ok. Given that Battlestar was the last finale I watched, it handled similar material in a much better way. Given the terrible ways it could have ended, it was good enough. Some people will be mad that some questions were never answered, and I would have been happier if the last episode focused more on the island than the survivors, but really, given how they didn't have an ending written when they started the series, they did a fairly good job of cleanup.
Anyone who was expecting "Island Answers" was bound for disappointment. The writers have been saying since the show started that its a "Character Story" and that the island is just a background. Seriously, every time the writers were interviewed they said something about how lost was all about the characters and that not everything about the island will be answered. I don't know if this was their way of saying, "we never had a good idea what to do with the island story, but we knew what we wanted the character arcs to be" or if it's their way of saying "we didn't have time to get into every detail of the island since we wanted to focus on the characters" - but I knew going in that I'd still not really know as much as I wanted to about the mysteries but I'd know what was going with the characters.
Why does it take 1 second on my cellphone to preview my post? Because processing power has little to no correlation with Internet responsiveness.
So my cell phone using the wifi network here has better internet responsiveness than my desktop pc wired to the same network. Interesting.
I thought Apple made it quite clear that they would not support any third party product for use in developing iPhone/iPad applications. Why would Hypercard be surprised that their third party product used for developing iPhone/iPad applications was rejected?
As far as being surprised, I don't know, but there are two reasons why they feel there should be an exception:
1) Because Steve Job's said it would be great if someone created a HyperCard for iPad
2) Jobs stated the reasons they would not allow/support it, and this company said that they would redo their product to nullify those reasons
I'm not saying those are enough, but those are two good reasons why there may have been an exception made.
product which pretty much everyone knew wouldn't get approved with the changes ... and now we're surprised?
This might have been news when the changes were introduced, now its just:
Duh, you knew you were treading on thin ice before you even submitted it.
No, this is a company with a business plan that said they would re-do their product to output ONLY for iPhone/iPad (read: not be cross-compilable for other platforms), use 100% CocoaTouch (meaning they look and function like every other app on the platform), guarantee they'd keep pace with the SDK 100%, and have the apps be literally indistinguishable from apps written in Objective-C. And Steve Jobs said no to this business plan.
To recap: they had a product before that was acceptable; with no notice, Apple changed their policies; they offered to redo their entire product to be inline with what the supposed spirit of these changes was; they were told nope, can't do that.
I'd highly suggest you check out unRaid. It's an inline expandable raid system which allows up to one drive to fail without losing data. I've been using mine for quite a while and I love it!
Not at all. It's just that a big part of the USA has the "Everything is better if it's private" mental disease, combined with the "Regulation is unnecessary bureaucracy" mental disease. So the same corporate policy tendencies for short term profits at the expense of safety that made the Gulf of Mexico Three Amigos cut corners when running a deep water rig can be expected to also apply to privately run nuclear power plants. Instead of a large oil slick that kills all wildlife over hundreds of square miles and takes 20 years to break down, you would have a nuclear waste spill that infects groundwater, rendering a huge area uninhabitable for hundreds of years. Until you completely cut off for-profit corporate contributions to political organizations and campaigns, you can't allow corporations to run really dangerous projects because they'll manipulate the political process to allow them to make more money by cutting oversight on necessary safety processes. Because even if you haven't figured it out yet after the bank bailouts, many corporate executives have figured out that it doesn't matter whether cutting corners may mean that the company might go bankrupt in 3 or 4 years as long as they can make massive bonuses through increasing profits by cutting safety margins and taking other significant risks with a half-life that's long enough to get them set up for life.
Mod this guy up! I don't understand how people can't realize that it's an almost certain consequence of capitalism that corners will be cut, that aught not have been cut because the payout to the few will outweigh the misery of the masses.
We all know that once someone has physical access to your system it's theirs. But can they do this via OnStar or other remote access systems?
If they can, I'm rushing out to get OnStar - that'd be a lawsuit waiting to happen!
In other words, where I think we differ is that I do not see a need to make every device that is capable of computing into a general purpose device.
It's people like you who keep me from being able to play tetris on my microwave! Updating twitter from my toaster is a right!
The easiest way to create AI is to model the neuron inside of a computer, slice up someone's brain into lots of thin slices, and then recreate their brain in the computer. Mapping the inputs is the hard part.
"Getting the brain out was the easy part. The hard part was getting the brain out."
That's insane. That would remove all protection from the traditional lone inventor who comes up with something useful and wants to sell it to the big companies. In effect you'd be saying that you can't invent anything unless you plan to sell it yourself.
What if you're only allowed to not produce something for ONE patent. Protects the lone inventor, while still hurting patent trolls.
Under the GPL, you have to distribute, or offer to distribute, the source to anyone to whom you distribute the binary,.
It is often stated that you must offer to distribute the source any anyone to whom you distribute the binary, but GPL-2 requires more than this. It states (3.b) " Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party," (My emphasis). So the requirement to provide the source code is not restricted to those to whom you distribute the binary but it must be made available to anyone who requests it.
My understanding of this (IANAL) was that with each distribution of the product, you must accompany that specific distribution with an offer to provide the source to anyone whom requests it - i.e. each distribution comes with an offer to get the source code, which need not be excised by the original person who received the binary.
Meaning if you're selling a product that is GPL'd and no one buys it, then you never have to give the source code to anyone who asks. If Company A buys it and Company B (no relation to company A) asks for the source then you don't have to give it to them as they don't have a written offer for the source code. If Company A buys it, gives their written offer of the source code to Company Z, then Company Z can ask for the source even though they didn't buy it.
Support remote desktop? I work in an enterprise environment and have found the feature very useful when away from my desk. When I'm on the production floor troubleshooting an issue and need to do a novell password reset; I just unlock my phone, enable remote desktop connection, log into my work machine and reset the password without ever having to leave the machine i'm trouble shooting. This saves me time; otherwise I would have to walk back to my terminal just to reset a password and then walk back to the client machine and continue troubleshooting. Any takers?
There are VNC and RDP clients for iPhone and iPad. Not sure about android.
But the candy didn't come from her parents, it was given to her by another student, who had gotten it from HER parents.
Nobody is suggesting punishing the other child though.
I'm suggesting it. She should be charged as an adult with contributing to the delinquency of a minor - Punishment of up to 12 months in jail and/or a fine of up to $2500.00. Anything less and the terrorists will have won.
A man who has two watches will pay attention to the one that doesn't misinform him time and again, should the two prove to report very differently. Just saying. I do think distributed reporting and a flood of information (we already have this, IMHO), is a good thing too. But the reporters who are most accurate or are most trusted will likely have quite a significant following, although perhaps not quite as significant as the guy screaming about the end of the world as we know it on his blog. If it has cute pictures of cats.
Oooo, this blog has journalistic integrity...OH MY GOD THIS BLOG HAS A DOG WITH A PUFFY TAIL! Here, Puff!