I see no evidence that they have fufilled any of the terms of the challenge as yet. In any case, he set a time frame for taking the challenge that ended just over a year ago at this point.
No, this really doesn't earn them any apology from him.
Advancing the state of the art is a noble cause no matter who pays the bills -- whether it's the taxpayers as a whole or a few millionaires who want to go on expensive vacations, working on spaceflight is a just and honorable vocation
I don't normally do this, but QFT big-time.
(One of the few times I'll say "my kingdom for some mod points"...)
I'm just criticizing those two specifically- I'm all for sarcasm, but those kids kind of suck at it. They're like an Andy Rooney who says "fuck" a lot.
You seem to think that this is a "must defend iPhone" thing. It's not. Plain and simple, it's a "goddamn, this's just LAME." thing.
The fact that, in this particular case, Maddox is crapping from his fingers about the iPhone is irrelevant. He could be saying the same crap about the Zune, Vista, hot dogs, central European countries moving to a free-market economy, how the USPS screwed up Harry Potter deliveries, the Clinton impeachment, why men have nipples, traffic lights - ANYTHING - and I'd still say he sucks.
Dude utterly ceased to bring the funny about five some-odd years ago.
I'll stand by my assertion that Maddox is nothing better than a neutered Sam Kinison or Bill Hicks.
(As for Colbert, not the biggest fan - the schtick wears quickly on me - but I'm glad he's out there. I still think he was better on the Daily Show, though.)
I'm not picking specifically on Maynor here, but if you read his "OMG Apple was mean to me" whines enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those Errata Security bloggers in the eye with a lit cigarette or something.
The other reports, I'll buy - it's not like Apple's any stranger to bugs in their code - but Maynor, no. He's demonstrated that he just wants to play the "dig ME!" game instead of actually being professional. Never give the petulant child the attention they want - it just encourages them.
More to the point, Krebs DESPERATELY wants to save face after his journalistic bellyflop last August. I think FUD is exactly what he's trying to use to do so.
When EA started, this was the company that got "That Guy Who Made Raster Blaster" to design a pinball construction kit. Big Deal Stuff, here. And then everything else in that lineup was also kicky (M.U.L.E and Archon are the two I think of).
I'm not a gamer in the same manner now, and when I hear that EA's current claim to fame is pretty much Football Now! or similar... Meh. Talk about squandering their name.
Microsoft introduced the ability to embed one app's object into another app's document and allow the user to edit the object inplace using the object app's tools (I refer to OLE). Windows has had that since 1993 while Linux and Mac still have yet to have anything to rival it.
Actually, you're thinking of Apple's "Publish and Subscribe" mechanism in System 7, introduced in May of 1991.
Hm. Web browser component used by other apps. Sounds like Cyberdog in OpenDoc to me. Aside from running your UI in the OS off of it, I didn't see much that used IE inline for a while versus the full interoperability of Cyberdog.
(Also, I'm not familiar with the "floating palette" - describe it, please? Just from that basic description, the first thing I think is "Tear-off menus" creating palettes of tools and the like from apps in System 5 and beyond. It's gotta be more than that, I assume.)
Here's the big problem - Microsoft might add new tick-list features, but they're not very good at adding new things and making them work WELL in the context of their surroundings.
FWIW, the 3rd party device interface drivers have been dead since... iTunes 3, if I recall. (That said, I know that there's SOME way of still getting that support - Mark/Space's Missing Sync allows the MMC in a PalmOS device to show up as a device in iTunes.)
The death of those libraries, though, is why the Newton iTunes plug-in hasn't been updated in several years. (Damn shame - it was such a cool thing to show off...)
Speaking as the son of the last civilian to lay hands on the lunar module before it went up, that was the most insightful thing I'd ever read about the landing. It PERFECTLY sums up the way I feel about it to this day. (Hell - it made the price of Our Dumb Century worth it right there.)
I'm no digital maven, so I can't say the EXACT reason why, but I've been selling, repairing and setting up high end audio systems for 17 years. It's my job to know what sounds the same and what sounds different.
So YOU'RE the guy whose fault it is that Monster Cable's stayed in business all this time?
Arguing about the distinctions between the nomenclature of various Clinton projects is kind of foolish - while "Parliament Funkadelic" is clunky, the idea that it could just be keyboard lossage while typing "Parliament/Funkadelic" or "Parliament-Funkadelic" (both of which have been used) isn't hard to imagine. (Likewise, referring to the collective simply as "P-Funk" has been common for much of the history - Mothership Connection cites it, for example.)
What'd you charge the other battery with?
That's the big thing for me - EVERYTHING is going to be "user replaceable" from a certain point of view, but finding the way to charge the propriatary battery is the bugaboo. That's one of the issues I have with my iPod as well, but at least the secondary market's come up with a few alternatives. (Car chargers, AA or 9V battery boosters, solar panels...) Unless the Sansa charges straight off the USB line (which is a likely possibility, admittedly), you're back further than with the iPod. Even if it does (and you can use all those USB battery packs and stuff), though, you're at the same point as the iPod - you can change batteries, but the only way to charge those batteries is still the player itself. Otherwise, third-party battery boosters.
Well, this is the band that (A) was doing ECD content regularly in 1995, and (B) mentioned MicroProse in the "bandmember uses gear" on their third album.
"What with people wanting to watch DVDs on their computers and shit, they could have sold fuckloads of Vista at Christmas - but they missed the opportunity."
Sony, EMI and Universal executives will just have to settle with a new Mercedes this Christmas instead of a the usual Ferrari - out heart goes out to them.
From Rhino's old "Napster? Nopester!" campaign :
"Stop Napster. Because Lexuses don't grow on trees."
The retailer will hate this, you've caused a scene in their store, delayed the cashier from ringing through purchases, annoyed other customers and they've lost a sale. If just a couple of people did this per store per day rebates would end in no time.
Not really - at a larger company like Best Buy or Fry's (the ones most enamoured of rebates), it JUST makes problems for the local staff and not the company as a whole. The execs who set national advertising and pricing aren't going to have to deal with it themselves, and they don't care if the frontline workers have to or not.
They will range from "Microsoft is a convicted monopolist!!!" to "Apple needs to control the hardware to create the best user experience".
To address the second issue MS would argue that they need IE on Windows to control the Windows experience. That it wouldn't be the same without it.
Good job comparing kumquats to steaks.
Your analogy would be more apt as "MS would argue that they need to control the hardware at the component level to control the Windows experience." If Microsoft decided this, their advantage would begin to quickly evaporate - the "I could build my own machine for one tenth of the price of a Mac" contingent would NOT take kindly to losing their potential customizability of every component, among others. (For that matter, the approximately seventy-kajazillion "we stuff motherboards in boxes for YOU!" storefronts out there would also rebel agains no longer being able to sell commodity component computers.)
(For that matter, Microsoft's tried lesser versions of that before with things like the MPC standards, and they... well, "tanked" is a polite way of putting it.)
For your analogy as it stands, MS already controls the Windows experience - their argument for the bundling was not that they needed it for control, but rather that they COULDN'T unbundle it because of the way they designed that iteration of Windows. (Rather, not "we need it so that we can define parameters", but instead "we designed the browser AS part of the Windows experience. We CAN'T remove it at this point without wrecking it!")
One of Apple's advantages to certain market segments is that because they control the combination of base hardware and OS so tightly, they can create something that, while not wholly bullet-proof and seamless by a long shot, behaves very much like something that is bullet-proof and seamless to most customers. If they opened it up to other manufacturers to sell clones THAT FOLLOWED THE COMPONENT REQUIREMENTS, I don't think that you'd see too many jump on board - you aren't going to make enough money on that sort of thing without pricing like Apple.
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I see no evidence that they have fufilled any of the terms of the challenge as yet.
In any case, he set a time frame for taking the challenge that ended just over a year ago at this point.
No, this really doesn't earn them any apology from him.
I don't normally do this, but QFT big-time.
(One of the few times I'll say "my kingdom for some mod points"...)
No, but Bob the Angry Flower will do so against those who misuse apostrophes.
And I salute him for that.
You seem to think that this is a "must defend iPhone" thing. It's not. Plain and simple, it's a "goddamn, this's just LAME." thing.
The fact that, in this particular case, Maddox is crapping from his fingers about the iPhone is irrelevant. He could be saying the same crap about the Zune, Vista, hot dogs, central European countries moving to a free-market economy, how the USPS screwed up Harry Potter deliveries, the Clinton impeachment, why men have nipples, traffic lights - ANYTHING - and I'd still say he sucks. Dude utterly ceased to bring the funny about five some-odd years ago.
I'll stand by my assertion that Maddox is nothing better than a neutered Sam Kinison or Bill Hicks.
(As for Colbert, not the biggest fan - the schtick wears quickly on me - but I'm glad he's out there. I still think he was better on the Daily Show, though.)
I'm officially ready for Maddox and Seanbaby to shut their wordholes with all due speed.
It's like he wanted to have the venom of Sam Kinison, but all he has is the spittle.
But people still listen to Maynor? Why?
I'm not picking specifically on Maynor here, but if you read his "OMG Apple was mean to me" whines enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those Errata Security bloggers in the eye with a lit cigarette or something.
The other reports, I'll buy - it's not like Apple's any stranger to bugs in their code - but Maynor, no. He's demonstrated that he just wants to play the "dig ME!" game instead of actually being professional.
Never give the petulant child the attention they want - it just encourages them.
More to the point, Krebs DESPERATELY wants to save face after his journalistic bellyflop last August. I think FUD is exactly what he's trying to use to do so.
DAMN STRAIGHT.
When EA started, this was the company that got "That Guy Who Made Raster Blaster" to design a pinball construction kit. Big Deal Stuff, here. And then everything else in that lineup was also kicky (M.U.L.E and Archon are the two I think of).
I'm not a gamer in the same manner now, and when I hear that EA's current claim to fame is pretty much Football Now! or similar... Meh. Talk about squandering their name.
Actually, you're thinking of Apple's "Publish and Subscribe" mechanism in System 7, introduced in May of 1991.
Hm. Web browser component used by other apps. Sounds like Cyberdog in OpenDoc to me. Aside from running your UI in the OS off of it, I didn't see much that used IE inline for a while versus the full interoperability of Cyberdog.
(Also, I'm not familiar with the "floating palette" - describe it, please? Just from that basic description, the first thing I think is "Tear-off menus" creating palettes of tools and the like from apps in System 5 and beyond. It's gotta be more than that, I assume.)
Here's the big problem - Microsoft might add new tick-list features, but they're not very good at adding new things and making them work WELL in the context of their surroundings.
FWIW, the 3rd party device interface drivers have been dead since... iTunes 3, if I recall. (That said, I know that there's SOME way of still getting that support - Mark/Space's Missing Sync allows the MMC in a PalmOS device to show up as a device in iTunes.)
The death of those libraries, though, is why the Newton iTunes plug-in hasn't been updated in several years. (Damn shame - it was such a cool thing to show off...)
Speaking as the son of the last civilian to lay hands on the lunar module before it went up, that was the most insightful thing I'd ever read about the landing. It PERFECTLY sums up the way I feel about it to this day. (Hell - it made the price of Our Dumb Century worth it right there.)
So YOU'RE the guy whose fault it is that Monster Cable's stayed in business all this time?
Thanks a whole hell of a lot, chum.
Arguing about the distinctions between the nomenclature of various Clinton projects is kind of foolish - while "Parliament Funkadelic" is clunky, the idea that it could just be keyboard lossage while typing "Parliament/Funkadelic" or "Parliament-Funkadelic" (both of which have been used) isn't hard to imagine. (Likewise, referring to the collective simply as "P-Funk" has been common for much of the history - Mothership Connection cites it, for example.)
Or maybe I'm overanalyzing the funk.
What'd you charge the other battery with? That's the big thing for me - EVERYTHING is going to be "user replaceable" from a certain point of view, but finding the way to charge the propriatary battery is the bugaboo. That's one of the issues I have with my iPod as well, but at least the secondary market's come up with a few alternatives. (Car chargers, AA or 9V battery boosters, solar panels...) Unless the Sansa charges straight off the USB line (which is a likely possibility, admittedly), you're back further than with the iPod. Even if it does (and you can use all those USB battery packs and stuff), though, you're at the same point as the iPod - you can change batteries, but the only way to charge those batteries is still the player itself. Otherwise, third-party battery boosters.
And if there were a charger for the battery other than the player itself, that'd mean something.
Having seen videos of Hatsumi, that's NOT actually purple prose - that's a pretty straightforward description of some of his training sessions.
Well, this is the band that (A) was doing ECD content regularly in 1995, and (B) mentioned MicroProse in the "bandmember uses gear" on their third album.
I think we even have some history showing the "won't happen" effect : remember the different "Multimedia PC" standards? THOSE worked like a charm, eh?
"What with people wanting to watch DVDs on their computers and shit, they could have sold fuckloads of Vista at Christmas - but they missed the opportunity."
Philips.
(And he forgot the MacMag "Peace!" virus!)
King Crimson was popular?
From Rhino's old "Napster? Nopester!" campaign :
"Stop Napster. Because Lexuses don't grow on trees."
Not really - at a larger company like Best Buy or Fry's (the ones most enamoured of rebates), it JUST makes problems for the local staff and not the company as a whole. The execs who set national advertising and pricing aren't going to have to deal with it themselves, and they don't care if the frontline workers have to or not.
To address the second issue MS would argue that they need IE on Windows to control the Windows experience. That it wouldn't be the same without it.
Good job comparing kumquats to steaks.
Your analogy would be more apt as "MS would argue that they need to control the hardware at the component level to control the Windows experience." If Microsoft decided this, their advantage would begin to quickly evaporate - the "I could build my own machine for one tenth of the price of a Mac" contingent would NOT take kindly to losing their potential customizability of every component, among others. (For that matter, the approximately seventy-kajazillion "we stuff motherboards in boxes for YOU!" storefronts out there would also rebel agains no longer being able to sell commodity component computers.)
(For that matter, Microsoft's tried lesser versions of that before with things like the MPC standards, and they ... well, "tanked" is a polite way of putting it.)
For your analogy as it stands, MS already controls the Windows experience - their argument for the bundling was not that they needed it for control, but rather that they COULDN'T unbundle it because of the way they designed that iteration of Windows. (Rather, not "we need it so that we can define parameters", but instead "we designed the browser AS part of the Windows experience. We CAN'T remove it at this point without wrecking it!")
One of Apple's advantages to certain market segments is that because they control the combination of base hardware and OS so tightly, they can create something that, while not wholly bullet-proof and seamless by a long shot, behaves very much like something that is bullet-proof and seamless to most customers. If they opened it up to other manufacturers to sell clones THAT FOLLOWED THE COMPONENT REQUIREMENTS, I don't think that you'd see too many jump on board - you aren't going to make enough money on that sort of thing without pricing like Apple.