Vista does the Allow/Deny box in the exact same places OSX does the "type your password" box.
The only two places I've seen the allow/deny box are: installing software (this is a good thing, and I would call what Apple currently does a security vulnerability), modifying files I don't have permission to modify.
Some dumbass ZDnet pundit yaps on about subjects he is unqualified to talk about technically, unaware of any of the reasons for the engineering decisions Apple makes, and suggests that the he, as an ignorant asshat, can offer the iPod maker sailent advice on how to deploy the iPhone software platform.
Any developer worth his salt knows that browsers are huge and complex applications and every change must be discussed, designed and implemented properly as to not impact something else and be modular, be properly commented and be clean and well written code.
I posted this same thing on reddit and was told that I was dumb for not trusting dave hyatt and that there are huge suites of automated tests, so of course they didn't break anything while tearing up the browser to pass acid3.
I agree with you. Who knows what side-effects they'll introduce in their rush to win a pissing contest.
- must pay Apple a share of the loot if you actually end up selling it (and Apple is free to say 'no')
More like "always says no". In order to actually run your app on an iphone, you need to pay apple and get approval. This is just to run the app, this is completely separate from distributing a finished app on itunes. Apple has rejected everyone I know.
Who here actually has the ability to run their own apps on an iphone?
You aren't qualified to take on something like developing software that does encryption, image/sound compression, data mining, structural analysis, almost any kind of modeling, signal processing, etc.
You mean stuff that fewer than 1% of programmers actually do?
1. If you can't make it good, make it big 2. If you can't make it big, make it red 3. If all else fails, make it big and red
Looking at the Voice of Fire, I see it is both big and red.
Is it worth $1.8 million? Obviously. It is worth whatever anyone is willing to pay for it.
If you could even find a canvas that size (it looks to be about 20 feet by 10 feet), you could paint it, then convince someone to buy it.. then with any luck, someone on slashdot could complain about you.
His argument still stands as yours fails to take into account that 99% of the time when a user buys a new PC, they're getting it with Windows, whether they want it or not thanks to Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior.
and 100% of the time when a user buys a new Mac, they're getting it with OSX, whether they want it or not.
They're not backwards, they're just the way they're supposed to be. Apple uses the same button order, and has usability studies to back up that decision.
The biggest problem plaguing most PC releases nowadays is that in order to keep up with the high power of most console games, a huge amount of PC horsepower is required
I agree, and it's not just the big games like Crysis. A friend of mine bought the Lost video game, only to find it won't run on his computer. He lent it to me to try out. Even though my computer meets all the box requirements, it is completely unplayable. I literally get like 2fps at 800x600 with all the bells and whistles turned off.
I'm not going to spend a dime to upgrade my computer, and I'm not going to spend a single dime on another PC game ever again. I can go get the 360 version and be guaranteed that it will work.
I definitely remember kernel upgrades that were incompatible with nvidia drivers. A simple kernel upgrade broke my X11 totally and completely. My choices were to either modify my xorg.conf by hand to switch to VESA, or to switch back to an old kernel.
When large scale OS-X viruses start appearing the existing AV software won't recognize them or know how to handle them.
So true. People don't seem to understand how antivirus software works.
A while ago, we were one of the first to be hit by those trojaned flash banner ads that have started popping up everywhere. Our users were posting comments like "don't you run antivirus?" Like there is a single AV product in the world that can identify a flash banner that was maliciously constructed.
I ended up writing my own antivirus flash banner inspector that decompiles the banner and checks for specific strings. It can only detect banner ads that match those strings I have put in there. It works just like any antivirus companies product would.
Wait, so which is it? The stars cost more than they bring in, or they don't. If stars aren't bringing in enough customers to compensate for their salaries, then who cares if they go star in a competitors film?
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You must be confused by Apple's ads or something.
Vista does the Allow/Deny box in the exact same places OSX does the "type your password" box.
The only two places I've seen the allow/deny box are: installing software (this is a good thing, and I would call what Apple currently does a security vulnerability), modifying files I don't have permission to modify.
My god, he's just like you!
My HTC Apache has 64 megs of ram, I can run plenty of 3rd party apps in the background.
I will occassionally get out of memory errors when watching youtube videos, and have to go shut down some other apps.
I posted this same thing on reddit and was told that I was dumb for not trusting dave hyatt and that there are huge suites of automated tests, so of course they didn't break anything while tearing up the browser to pass acid3.
I agree with you. Who knows what side-effects they'll introduce in their rush to win a pissing contest.
More like "always says no". In order to actually run your app on an iphone, you need to pay apple and get approval. This is just to run the app, this is completely separate from distributing a finished app on itunes. Apple has rejected everyone I know.
Who here actually has the ability to run their own apps on an iphone?
You mean stuff that fewer than 1% of programmers actually do?
I thought it was because the typical engineering student liked to play with trains as a kid.
One of the first things premeds learn is that they don't know anything, and that it is impossible to know everything in their field.
Humility is one thing other majors have over engineers and computer scientists.
The human body is the most complicated thing on the planet.. and yet engineers consistently believe they are smarter than doctors.
I am university, and legend.
My sculpture teacher had three rules on art.
1. If you can't make it good, make it big
2. If you can't make it big, make it red
3. If all else fails, make it big and red
Looking at the Voice of Fire, I see it is both big and red.
Is it worth $1.8 million? Obviously. It is worth whatever anyone is willing to pay for it.
If you could even find a canvas that size (it looks to be about 20 feet by 10 feet), you could paint it, then convince someone to buy it.. then with any luck, someone on slashdot could complain about you.
So? If you look at Louis Wain's artwork, I'd argue that his late-onset schizophrenia made him a better artist.
His later paintings are much more interesting than his earlier stuff.
I don't think space is nearly the problem Sony would have you believe.
PC gaming has been in HD for a over a decade now, the only PC game that needs more than 9 gigs of disk space is Crysis (at 12 gig).
and 100% of the time when a user buys a new Mac, they're getting it with OSX, whether they want it or not.
Are you kidding? If anything it seems to be the opposite.
Any discussion involving Gnome will have people bring up Miguel loving Microsoft and Mono and how Gnome is going to doom us all to hell.
They're not backwards, they're just the way they're supposed to be. Apple uses the same button order, and has usability studies to back up that decision.
You don't even need to. Sony Vaios come with the Windows Anytime Upgrade DVD. You can use that to do a clean install.
Isn't it a little early to be condemning the software? It's still in beta, we don't know whether more supported OSes are coming.
I agree, and it's not just the big games like Crysis. A friend of mine bought the Lost video game, only to find it won't run on his computer. He lent it to me to try out. Even though my computer meets all the box requirements, it is completely unplayable. I literally get like 2fps at 800x600 with all the bells and whistles turned off.
I'm not going to spend a dime to upgrade my computer, and I'm not going to spend a single dime on another PC game ever again. I can go get the 360 version and be guaranteed that it will work.
PC gaming is dying, and good riddance.
Ok, I'm not one to throw around the term willy nilly, but this seems like it fits the very definition of entrapment.
I definitely remember kernel upgrades that were incompatible with nvidia drivers. A simple kernel upgrade broke my X11 totally and completely. My choices were to either modify my xorg.conf by hand to switch to VESA, or to switch back to an old kernel.
Anything except an HP printer/scanner
I have Flash Lite on my phone. I don't think it supports video.
For Windows Mobile phones, it's standard to use TCPMP to play video, since it supports a huge number of codecs.
So true. People don't seem to understand how antivirus software works.
A while ago, we were one of the first to be hit by those trojaned flash banner ads that have started popping up everywhere. Our users were posting comments like "don't you run antivirus?" Like there is a single AV product in the world that can identify a flash banner that was maliciously constructed.
I ended up writing my own antivirus flash banner inspector that decompiles the banner and checks for specific strings. It can only detect banner ads that match those strings I have put in there. It works just like any antivirus companies product would.
Wait, so which is it? The stars cost more than they bring in, or they don't. If stars aren't bringing in enough customers to compensate for their salaries, then who cares if they go star in a competitors film?
You can. Use the canvas tag.