when Apple finds something works particularly well on the phone they implement it on the desktop, if appropriate. I'm having trouble thinking of a major example of that though
Are they hoping for people to use Skype technologies everywhere, so that more people will start paying Skype for the commercial/paid offerings they have?
Yeah, that's it in a nutshell. Skype makes their money from SkypeOut, and the more widely Skype is used, the more people will pay them for the convenience of calling land-line and cell phones from Skype.
IOS is slowly gaining more and more functionality ported over from OS X.
Actually, that's a two-way street. Apple's developing technologies for both platforms, and continuously looking at what makes sense to migrate from one to the other. The key difference between them is that iOS is a 32-bit environment with performance and capacity constraints for portable devices, and the Mac is a 64-bit environment with far fewer limitations. I'll be developing software for both of them for the foreseeable future.
Now I am vindicated as developers have said the same thing.
So, a couple other people's speculation "vindicates" your own speculation?
The Mac is here to stay. Various technologies that Apple develops will show up on the Mac or the iOS first and be migrated to the other, as we've already seen with Core Data ( went from the Mac to the iPhone), or Core Animation (went from the iPhone to the Mac).
These guys make an evaporative cooler that sends cool, dry air into the building, and saturated air back outside. The only working fluids are air and water.
In both cases I suspect the end result would be two dead victims. Is that really want anti-gun people want.
It's not that the gun-grabbers want you dead, it's just that they don't care if you die. The power of the state is far more important to them than human lives: always has been, always will be.
No, Apple's big problem is how to fill the enormous backlog of orders they've got. They just sold six hundred thousand units in a single day.
I wouldn't buy a smartphone without physical keyboard,
If I want to use a keyboard with my iPhone, I'll buy one of the spiffy fold-up bluetooth keyboards out there. That pretense of a keyboard that some of the android devices have is a joke.
Interesting bit of trivia: the polygraph was invented by the same fucking quack who came up with the "Wonder Woman" comic book character. (She has a magic lasso that makes people tell the truth.)
Using a polygraph is a piss-poor substitute for real investigation. Aldritch Ames kept passing his polys while he was getting every CIA agent in Russia killed or turned. Because he was passing the polys, they never checked up on basic questions like "Hey, why's this guy rich? He sure isn't making that much on his government salary."
The reason to choose 960x640 resolution is purely technical: to overcome their bad 3-year old decision to stick to a single resolution for application development. Quadrupling pixels is the only working solution for all the legacy apps out there.
That would be a clever observation, except that it's completely wrong. We've had resolution independence all along on the iPhone, whether you're working with Quartz2D or OpenGL ES. Developers will probably want to use higher resolution images for icons and the like to take advantage of the improved display, but their apps would have worked the same if the resolution had been increased by any other amount.
I'll match my knowledge of history with yours any day of the week. My study of history is why I'm a Libertarian. All *you're* doing is repeating the standard big-government propaganda line.
>Reagan's tax cuts and deregulation benefited only the wealthy and big business
[citation needed]
Reagan, contrary to the liberal propaganda line, wasn't very successful in rolling back regulation of business, only in somewhat reducing the growth of the federal register during his administration.
The tax cuts didn't actually reduce tax revenues, and the biggest driver of the economy at the time (as it is today) was monetary policy. Volcker was the only Fed chairman I can remember who actually did something about reducing inflation.
> his policies essentially declared war on labor unions.
If firing striking air traffic controllers who violated their contract and endangered the public is "declaring war on labor unions", I say lock and load.
Oh, for Christ's sake. Reagan did what he could to slow the growth of the number one enemy of anyone who works for a living in this country. Go figure out how much of what you earn is pissed away by the federal government.
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the mechanism by which government regulations drive consolidation of corporations into larger and larger entities, and protect them from new competitors. If you imagine that government protects you from corporations, I've got a bridge to sell you.
The Chinese authorities may have finally figured out that porn is and always has been a major driver of advancements in communications technology. Maybe they're letting their people see porn because it's good for business.
The constitution says you're entitled to it if the amount of the fine in question is more than twenty dollars. If the jury doesn't agree that a copy eyeballing your speed is good enough, they'll acquit you.
As it happens, slaves in the south did tend to be treated better than factory workers in the north, because if a slave died, that was a significant economic loss to the slaveholder. Thomas Sowell's essays on slavery have mentioned that in many cases, Irish immigrants were given more dangerous tasks where it was too expensive to risk a slave.
Plantation slaves in the deep south had it better than many asians working in factories today.
Careful with the heresy, there. If you suggest that slavery in America wasn't the most wretched situation that has ever existed in history, you might be tagged as a racist.
The suicide rate among foxconn workers is not only lower than for the population of China in general, but also lower than every US state. Every suicide is a tragic event, but I'm not buying the contention that their jobs are driving them to do it.
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when Apple finds something works particularly well on the phone they implement it on the desktop, if appropriate. I'm having trouble thinking of a major example of that though
Core Animation.
-jcr
The failure to see the rise of the netbook/tablet.
I'm not sure I'd describe it like that. Microsoft sure as hell tried to push the tablet form factor, they just sucked at it.
-jcr
Are they hoping for people to use Skype technologies everywhere, so that more people will start paying Skype for the commercial/paid offerings they have?
Yeah, that's it in a nutshell. Skype makes their money from SkypeOut, and the more widely Skype is used, the more people will pay them for the convenience of calling land-line and cell phones from Skype.
-jcr
IOS is slowly gaining more and more functionality ported over from OS X.
Actually, that's a two-way street. Apple's developing technologies for both platforms, and continuously looking at what makes sense to migrate from one to the other. The key difference between them is that iOS is a 32-bit environment with performance and capacity constraints for portable devices, and the Mac is a 64-bit environment with far fewer limitations. I'll be developing software for both of them for the foreseeable future.
-jcr
Now I am vindicated as developers have said the same thing.
So, a couple other people's speculation "vindicates" your own speculation?
The Mac is here to stay. Various technologies that Apple develops will show up on the Mac or the iOS first and be migrated to the other, as we've already seen with Core Data ( went from the Mac to the iPhone), or Core Animation (went from the iPhone to the Mac).
-jcr
These guys make an evaporative cooler that sends cool, dry air into the building, and saturated air back outside. The only working fluids are air and water.
-jcr
In both cases I suspect the end result would be two dead victims. Is that really want anti-gun people want.
It's not that the gun-grabbers want you dead, it's just that they don't care if you die. The power of the state is far more important to them than human lives: always has been, always will be.
-jcr
But Apple's big problem is just that...
No, Apple's big problem is how to fill the enormous backlog of orders they've got. They just sold six hundred thousand units in a single day.
I wouldn't buy a smartphone without physical keyboard,
If I want to use a keyboard with my iPhone, I'll buy one of the spiffy fold-up bluetooth keyboards out there. That pretense of a keyboard that some of the android devices have is a joke.
-jcr
features that every other device has had for years
Who had a 325 DPI display before this?
-jcr
I'll bet you're a lot of fun at parties.
-jcr
They use the poly against the subjects as a placebo.
Sadly, no. Way too many of those people believe the machine is a lie detector.
-jcr2
Don't take a poly from the agency you'd like to work for? Terrible advice.
Work for an agency that can't tell quackery from science? Terrible idea.
-jcr
Interesting bit of trivia: the polygraph was invented by the same fucking quack who came up with the "Wonder Woman" comic book character. (She has a magic lasso that makes people tell the truth.)
Using a polygraph is a piss-poor substitute for real investigation. Aldritch Ames kept passing his polys while he was getting every CIA agent in Russia killed or turned. Because he was passing the polys, they never checked up on basic questions like "Hey, why's this guy rich? He sure isn't making that much on his government salary."
-jcr
you could have googled or binged
Is "binged" the correct term? Are you sure it isn't "bung"?
I think I'm going to quit using brand names as verbs altogether, and just refer to the activity as "searching".
-jcr
The reason to choose 960x640 resolution is purely technical: to overcome their bad 3-year old decision to stick to a single resolution for application development. Quadrupling pixels is the only working solution for all the legacy apps out there.
That would be a clever observation, except that it's completely wrong. We've had resolution independence all along on the iPhone, whether you're working with Quartz2D or OpenGL ES. Developers will probably want to use higher resolution images for icons and the like to take advantage of the improved display, but their apps would have worked the same if the resolution had been increased by any other amount.
-jcr
We do not need weasels on the bench, or acting as officers of the court in any capacity. This woman is a disgrace to her profession.
-jcr
>Sorry, but you're deluded.
Right back at you, pinkbot.
I'll match my knowledge of history with yours any day of the week. My study of history is why I'm a Libertarian. All *you're* doing is repeating the standard big-government propaganda line.
>Reagan's tax cuts and deregulation benefited only the wealthy and big business
[citation needed]
Reagan, contrary to the liberal propaganda line, wasn't very successful in rolling back regulation of business, only in somewhat reducing the growth of the federal register during his administration.
The tax cuts didn't actually reduce tax revenues, and the biggest driver of the economy at the time (as it is today) was monetary policy. Volcker was the only Fed chairman I can remember who actually did something about reducing inflation.
> his policies essentially declared war on labor unions.
If firing striking air traffic controllers who violated their contract and endangered the public is "declaring war on labor unions", I say lock and load.
-jcr
>Ronald Reagan's assault on the working class
Oh, for Christ's sake. Reagan did what he could to slow the growth of the number one enemy of anyone who works for a living in this country. Go figure out how much of what you earn is pissed away by the federal government.
-jcr
Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the mechanism by which government regulations drive consolidation of corporations into larger and larger entities, and protect them from new competitors. If you imagine that government protects you from corporations, I've got a bridge to sell you.
-jcr
The Chinese authorities may have finally figured out that porn is and always has been a major driver of advancements in communications technology. Maybe they're letting their people see porn because it's good for business.
-jcr
The constitution says you're entitled to it if the amount of the fine in question is more than twenty dollars. If the jury doesn't agree that a copy eyeballing your speed is good enough, they'll acquit you.
-jcr
As it happens, slaves in the south did tend to be treated better than factory workers in the north, because if a slave died, that was a significant economic loss to the slaveholder. Thomas Sowell's essays on slavery have mentioned that in many cases, Irish immigrants were given more dangerous tasks where it was too expensive to risk a slave.
-jcr
Plantation slaves in the deep south had it better than many asians working in factories today.
Careful with the heresy, there. If you suggest that slavery in America wasn't the most wretched situation that has ever existed in history, you might be tagged as a racist.
-jcr
The suicide rate among foxconn workers is not only lower than for the population of China in general, but also lower than every US state. Every suicide is a tragic event, but I'm not buying the contention that their jobs are driving them to do it.
-jcr
One thing there's no shortage of, anywhere in the world.
-jcr