Johnny discovered the cure for cancer when he was 13. He had the inspired notion to try to fold everything into the shape of a phallus. This, it seems, was the key all along.
Too many interdependencies, poor project management and Windows' notorious 'cowboy culture' ultimately lead to delays and the cutting of big features like WinFS But I thought THEIR ECOSYSTEM ROCKS!!!
My roommate said around 11pm central time there was nice aftershock. It was actually at around 11AM EDT (10AM local time at the epicenter). I am in indianapolis, and the morning one I thought the dog was having a bad dream and shaking the bed. I didn't know it was an earthquake until I logged in and went to google news.
The large aftershock happened while I was at work, and it was amusing seeing the heads slowly pop out of the cubical farm one by one like gophers from their burrows while it was happening.
explain this event in terms that a person with a sex life not involving the Internet could understand? Ok, I'll try. Say you're about to have sex with a woman. You don't have any condoms, so you ask her for one. She doesn't have any, but doesn't tell you that, and instead gives you saran wrap and a rubber band. You don't check to see if what you got was what you asked for, and go about having sex. A few weeks later, you get a call that she is pregnant. She now has control over your life.
Sorry, that's the best I can do after being woken up at 5:30AM by a stupid earthquake:)
And then I can give it away for free, instead of charging for it and forking over money to Apple. Apple has previously said you can put applications on the iPhone AppStore and charge nothing for it. What makes you think you can't?
It isn't beta software, it is software included as part of an SDK, for pete's sake. No one is asking for it to be beta tested. Apple is providing it so people who want to can create "launch day" titles for the App Store. I don't recall reading anywhere that Apple said putting it on an actual in-use phone was a good idea. They simply provided the means to do so as a final test closer to launch day, or to silence those that would say they NEED the hardware to proof a demo.
You mean exactly how all video game development on a console works? The games are started well before the hardware is finalized. I think in the case of the XBox 360, they basically clustered a few Apple G5s together running the most current version of the simulated hardware. I'm sure there are many similar examples, but all I mean to say is that this practice isn't unique to Apple. There will always be people who want to develop a "launch day" title for any platform, and these people should expect either hardware spec changes (in the case of new new hardware) or other problems with the version they are currently using up until they declare it final and can provide the actual hardware. This case is unique because the hardware being emulated isn't going to change, but the underlying software foundation itself may still change. The risk is the same, however.
Apple has basically 2 frameworks to create OS X apps, carbon and cocoa. Cocoa is the "native" version, per se, for OS X. Carbon is a transition environment for people to get OS 9 apps running in OS X quickly, usually with just a recompile. Apple has said since OS X came out that carbon (which Photoshop is written in) was not the way of the future. So, last year, Apple announced that there would be no 64-bit support in carbon. Cocoa has had 64-bit support for a long time, since the G5 came out. Much of the OS in the latest version of OS X itself is 64-bit code now, and more of it is each OS revision.
I seem to recall the ability in Mac OS 7-9 where you could create a RAM disk out of a chunk of your unused memory. There were even programs that would automatically store the contents to disk on shutdown and restore it on startup. How is this new, exactly?
I think the new should be called "Microhoo!". I kind of suspect that's what people call Ballmer behind his back (they'd do it in front of him but don't want a chair thrown at them).
MS Exchange ActiveSync support for syncing email/calendar/contacts & IPSec VPN support. These items are really what I have been waiting for, although the XCode enhancements for the iPhone SDK look nice, including full access to core OS features like OpenGL, a remote debugger and performance analysis tools, etc. June looks to be the month I get an iPhone. Hopefully they'll release a 3G model with GPS at the same time.
Trying to claim that ndiswrapper somehow itself is GPL'd even though it then loads modules that aren't is stupid and pointless Gee, Linus, tell us how you really feel...
..but I think the article was saying that on single threaded apps, instead of the benchmarks being identical for the same processor in a single socket vs dual socket configuration, the dual socket one was slower. If you bothered to read the article, on multi-threaded applications there were indeed speed increases (40-50%, nowhere near the 80-90% gains you'd expect). They weren't expecting the single threaded performance to suffer.
My guess is that the memory controller is now becoming the bottleneck, since it has two sockets to feed instead of just one. In this application, the AMD chips with integrated memory controllers would seem to have an advantage (for now).
use or distribute tools or devices designed or used for compromising security, such as password guessing programs, decoders, password gatherers, unauthorized keystroke loggers, analyzers, cracking tools, packet sniffers, encryption circumvention devices, or Trojan Horse programs. Unauthorized port scanning is strictly prohibited; This part was interesting. The only way people found out they were FORGING (not shaping) packets was by using a packet sniffer. Can any lawyers tell me if this means that because they put this in a post-signing contract that they can't be sued for this?
Exxon Mobile. They're a bit more profitable than Google (ROE: 33.33% (XOM) vs. 22.74% (GOOG))and the synergy towards a truly evil empire would be achieved faster.
Makes sense to me, Exxon is almost as notorious for crashes as Microsoft is. Just ask Alaska!
They should have put up songs to download on there. That way, when they try to sue someone for "stealing", a good lawyer could draw a parallel to their client's machine being compromised to serve up music the same way their own site was. If a judge could just easily see how easy it is for someone to be falsely accused or even set up, it may make a difference, instead of just believing what the **AAs say.
Theories can be tested to be proven or disproven using scientific methods. Creationism cannot. What scientific research would you propose to test the "theory" of creationism? Evolution can be studied by examining DNA progression, fossil records, etc.
Two states where I'm pretty sure you could find arguments against evolution just by looking at the local populace. I guess if they don't believe in evolution they don't feel the need to do so themselves.
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Johnny discovered the cure for cancer when he was 13. He had the inspired notion to try to fold everything into the shape of a phallus. This, it seems, was the key all along.
National Geographic
March, 2012
I hope they paid him with 500,000 DRM infested plays-for-now WMA files.
The large aftershock happened while I was at work, and it was amusing seeing the heads slowly pop out of the cubical farm one by one like gophers from their burrows while it was happening.
Sorry, that's the best I can do after being woken up at 5:30AM by a stupid earthquake
How did they get the sharks with the friggin' laser beams into the clouds?
It isn't beta software, it is software included as part of an SDK, for pete's sake. No one is asking for it to be beta tested. Apple is providing it so people who want to can create "launch day" titles for the App Store. I don't recall reading anywhere that Apple said putting it on an actual in-use phone was a good idea. They simply provided the means to do so as a final test closer to launch day, or to silence those that would say they NEED the hardware to proof a demo.
You mean exactly how all video game development on a console works? The games are started well before the hardware is finalized. I think in the case of the XBox 360, they basically clustered a few Apple G5s together running the most current version of the simulated hardware. I'm sure there are many similar examples, but all I mean to say is that this practice isn't unique to Apple. There will always be people who want to develop a "launch day" title for any platform, and these people should expect either hardware spec changes (in the case of new new hardware) or other problems with the version they are currently using up until they declare it final and can provide the actual hardware. This case is unique because the hardware being emulated isn't going to change, but the underlying software foundation itself may still change. The risk is the same, however.
Or on fire. Which would make self-awareness kinda suck.
Apple has basically 2 frameworks to create OS X apps, carbon and cocoa. Cocoa is the "native" version, per se, for OS X. Carbon is a transition environment for people to get OS 9 apps running in OS X quickly, usually with just a recompile. Apple has said since OS X came out that carbon (which Photoshop is written in) was not the way of the future. So, last year, Apple announced that there would be no 64-bit support in carbon. Cocoa has had 64-bit support for a long time, since the G5 came out. Much of the OS in the latest version of OS X itself is 64-bit code now, and more of it is each OS revision.
I seem to recall the ability in Mac OS 7-9 where you could create a RAM disk out of a chunk of your unused memory. There were even programs that would automatically store the contents to disk on shutdown and restore it on startup. How is this new, exactly?
Ha. This is why I tagged the submission "talkslowlyanddontusebigwords". Same general idea :)
I think the new should be called "Microhoo!". I kind of suspect that's what people call Ballmer behind his back (they'd do it in front of him but don't want a chair thrown at them).
MS Exchange ActiveSync support for syncing email/calendar/contacts & IPSec VPN support. These items are really what I have been waiting for, although the XCode enhancements for the iPhone SDK look nice, including full access to core OS features like OpenGL, a remote debugger and performance analysis tools, etc. June looks to be the month I get an iPhone. Hopefully they'll release a 3G model with GPS at the same time.
..but I think the article was saying that on single threaded apps, instead of the benchmarks being identical for the same processor in a single socket vs dual socket configuration, the dual socket one was slower. If you bothered to read the article, on multi-threaded applications there were indeed speed increases (40-50%, nowhere near the 80-90% gains you'd expect). They weren't expecting the single threaded performance to suffer.
My guess is that the memory controller is now becoming the bottleneck, since it has two sockets to feed instead of just one. In this application, the AMD chips with integrated memory controllers would seem to have an advantage (for now).
Maybe they didn't tell anyone because they were afraid that people would start to kernel panic about it.
I'll be hiding now.
Makes sense to me, Exxon is almost as notorious for crashes as Microsoft is. Just ask Alaska!
They should have put up songs to download on there. That way, when they try to sue someone for "stealing", a good lawyer could draw a parallel to their client's machine being compromised to serve up music the same way their own site was. If a judge could just easily see how easy it is for someone to be falsely accused or even set up, it may make a difference, instead of just believing what the **AAs say.
You mean they didn't get the design of a prototype exactly right on the first try? Amateurs! Seriously though, where is the news here?
Um, isn't the Vatican in Europe? There might be a few people there who believe.
Theories can be tested to be proven or disproven using scientific methods. Creationism cannot. What scientific research would you propose to test the "theory" of creationism? Evolution can be studied by examining DNA progression, fossil records, etc.
Two states where I'm pretty sure you could find arguments against evolution just by looking at the local populace. I guess if they don't believe in evolution they don't feel the need to do so themselves.