What, like images, video, or plugin content like Flash games?
Of course there are security risks. And if this tech uses system font APIs, interfaces not normally subjected to the same security scrutiny as those of, say, images, then there will need to be some security code auditing.
I'm certain there will be a few exploit events before the situation settles down. But we can't stop the progress of useful functionality just because there might be some unknown security flaw. This an isn't ActiveX situation. Fonts do not contain executable code. A perfectly secure font reader should be relatively easy to write.
Apple is also incredibly picky about handing over control of user experience to a 3rd party. If some faulty player crashes iTunes over and over, it looks like it's Apple's fault. They HATE that.
I hope that device makers keep breaking in to iTunes. I hope they do a bad job too, causing the app to crash. Maybe then Apple will have to step in to improve interoperability if they can't totally snuff it out. Maybe they'll make the base level of functionality of the sync process (just songs and playlists) public and allow other devices to connect after a warning about untested 3rd party devices. They could even sell licenses to open up more advanced features and get rid of an "Unsupported Player" warning and generic icon.
Not everyone can read. Not everyone can work a computer. A simple voice connection has a much lower barrier to entry. Plus, hiring one operator for several villages is a lot cheaper than sending out and maintaining several computers in areas where there might not even be power. A voice connection can run on a crank.
Several slow-moving, self-righteous people in a group can be much harder and much more dangerous to overtake than a tractor. Tractors will at least pull over if they see a small line of cars forming. And cars don't worry so much about being too close to a tractor and having the operator fall off-balance into the car.
I live in a very rural area where there are no bike lanes and cyclists tend to ride on the road very often.
The bikers who live around here tend to ride on the white line, one abreast. Motorists give them room and slow down to pass, since there's little traffic usually and the roads are wide enough for a bike and a car to ride side by side. There's no problem with this setup. Until, of course, there's a bike race and hundreds of city dwellers descend on the town. The city cyclists get out there like there's something to prove, riding 4 feet out into the lane, often 2 abreast for no reason. The people here have no desire to hit a cyclist and aren't used to this asshole road-blocking behavior. I haven't seen any bikers get hurt, but I HAVE seen more than one car wrecked or off the road while trying to pass a cyclist who keeps drifting farther and farther left while oncoming traffic keeps whipping by around blind corners.
And the they try to brush it off like they had nothing to do with it. Oh, like a goddamned rolling roadblock ignoring your horn and shouts for 2 miles wouldn't cause you to make some less than ideal choices.
The road is big enough if both parties just share. The real problem here is self-righteous assholes, not cyclists or motorists.
The white skin-photography link is correct. The ALL-CAPS - God link is not. Capitals were chosen for their more unique shapes, lack of descenders, and ability to be read on damaged paper and screens. Caps are only harder to read because they are infrequently used in this manner. Ask an old military officer and they might have a differing point of view.
My friend tries to make this argument to justify why he is bad at console games. Honestly, pressing the proper buttons with the proper timing requires just as much precision as movement, and usually more muscle development. Don't believe me? Try the Wii. Its split design with both halves symmetrical allow for use in either hand. Swap hands and see if that makes you better. My friend tried it and actually fared worse. I do much worse also.
"Wired is running a story about how Sean Sturgeon, an ex-lover of Hans Reiser's missing wife, has confessed to having killed 8 people. Hans is currently standing trial for the murder of his wife. Though the confessed murders are unrelated to the current case, this new information is sure to complicate things."
When you have mod points and you see a post like the grandparent, you don't really know what to do. It needs to be modded down because it's factually inaccurate trash, but there's no option that would indicate "factually inaccurate". It's not a flame or a troll, redundant or offtopic, it's just... wrong. I'll generally go for the "Overrated" option, but only because it takes away from the score without citing an incorrect reason. It sucks but what else can you do?
Space must have collapsed into its self due to too much terrible design being in the same place at the same time. A Toshiba laptop + Quicktime for Windows + Microsoft Vista?! This guy is lucky to be alive.
Personally, if I were a dairy farmer, I'd start up a brand with cloning as a gimmick. Maybe even make a witty commercial with a uneducated-looking farmer talking about the intricacies of selecting only the best dairy cows that naturally produce the best milk, and then cloning the hell out of them.
"That there's Bessy. She's the best cow we've ever had. Produces the best milk you've ever tasted, and lots of it too. So we had her cloned. That whole barn there is full of Bessys. Heck, it's better 'n pumpin' 'em all full a hormones and whatnot. We got the technology. It's just smart business sense, y'know?"
Really, the milk probably wouldn't taste better than any other brand, but it's a neat little gimmick to squeeze some product differentiation out of such a profitless, commodity market. Plus, it really is genuinely better than pumping all your cows full of shitty hormones that end up in people.
I'm doing my undergrad thesis on a high-speed autonomous vehicle that uses accelerometers to augment the refresh rate of GPS. I thought it was interesting that the article mentioned it so specifically.
Man, if someone made golden rice that you could eat and tasted good and made you build healthy muscle while not being full of calories, I think that might actually solve the real problem, unless you're thinking something else is "the real problem".
Would you look down on people who ate the golden rice to be healthy because they didn't have to deal with diet and exercise?
While I agree with your assessment that 2+ buttons are better, I do know several people who use computers all the time and are confused by two mouse buttons. These are people that use computers by memorization, not live conceptualization, sure, but they are still people who use computers. Secondly, I hope Apple keeps the one-button mouse for one reason and one reason only: it forces developers to come up with clever, intuitive, simple, space-efficient ways of implementing and exposing functionality. If you can't be sure your users will have two buttons, you need to actually think about your UI design rather than simply burying everything under the sun into context menus, like a lot of Windows apps do. I've even seen Windows apps that open to a blank screen that says "right click and select 'Start Wizard' to begin". It's enough to make my brain melt and ooze out my ears. (The app in question is Xilinx iMPACT, an FPGA programmer, if you were wondering, but there are others that pull similar tricks as well.)
The GC was cheaper than the competition and had occasional must-have titles. That's the best part about even Nintendo's biggest failures, they're usually lower priced and have enough good games from first party alone by mid-life to justify the purchase.
Sony isn't exactly a powerhouse developer and their hardware is more expensive. Sony platforms live or die by third party support and for whatever reason, the software sales never came and 3rd party support is drying up. Calling the PSP a dead platform is a little premature but I don't think being very concerned for its future is unjustified.
Ok, fine, the glee with which people make this analysis smacks of fanboyism, but the analysis its self isn't wrong or hypocritical.
Actually, Boot Camp is geared towards gamers. Apple worked with ATI to release a 3D accelerated Windows driver for the ATI cards included with Macs. The standard Windows drivers would have been enough to use office apps, etc and 3D hardware acceleration would not have been needed had they not intended the driver package to be used by gamers.
It would be silly to think Apple didn't see "Run Windows games on a Mac" for the runaway money train it truly is.
That's odd, because last I checked, the code that drives Safari (not the GUI but the frameworks that do all the actual work) are based on KHTML and open source. If Apple wanted to use a bunch of undocumented APIs to make Safari better than everyone else's software, an open-source project would probably not be the place to do it.
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It looks like a bunch of seaweed and an algal bloom.
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What, like images, video, or plugin content like Flash games?
Of course there are security risks. And if this tech uses system font APIs, interfaces not normally subjected to the same security scrutiny as those of, say, images, then there will need to be some security code auditing.
I'm certain there will be a few exploit events before the situation settles down. But we can't stop the progress of useful functionality just because there might be some unknown security flaw. This an isn't ActiveX situation. Fonts do not contain executable code. A perfectly secure font reader should be relatively easy to write.
Apple is also incredibly picky about handing over control of user experience to a 3rd party. If some faulty player crashes iTunes over and over, it looks like it's Apple's fault. They HATE that. I hope that device makers keep breaking in to iTunes. I hope they do a bad job too, causing the app to crash. Maybe then Apple will have to step in to improve interoperability if they can't totally snuff it out. Maybe they'll make the base level of functionality of the sync process (just songs and playlists) public and allow other devices to connect after a warning about untested 3rd party devices. They could even sell licenses to open up more advanced features and get rid of an "Unsupported Player" warning and generic icon.
Not everyone can read. Not everyone can work a computer. A simple voice connection has a much lower barrier to entry. Plus, hiring one operator for several villages is a lot cheaper than sending out and maintaining several computers in areas where there might not even be power. A voice connection can run on a crank.
Several slow-moving, self-righteous people in a group can be much harder and much more dangerous to overtake than a tractor. Tractors will at least pull over if they see a small line of cars forming. And cars don't worry so much about being too close to a tractor and having the operator fall off-balance into the car.
I live in a very rural area where there are no bike lanes and cyclists tend to ride on the road very often. The bikers who live around here tend to ride on the white line, one abreast. Motorists give them room and slow down to pass, since there's little traffic usually and the roads are wide enough for a bike and a car to ride side by side. There's no problem with this setup. Until, of course, there's a bike race and hundreds of city dwellers descend on the town. The city cyclists get out there like there's something to prove, riding 4 feet out into the lane, often 2 abreast for no reason. The people here have no desire to hit a cyclist and aren't used to this asshole road-blocking behavior. I haven't seen any bikers get hurt, but I HAVE seen more than one car wrecked or off the road while trying to pass a cyclist who keeps drifting farther and farther left while oncoming traffic keeps whipping by around blind corners. And the they try to brush it off like they had nothing to do with it. Oh, like a goddamned rolling roadblock ignoring your horn and shouts for 2 miles wouldn't cause you to make some less than ideal choices.
The road is big enough if both parties just share. The real problem here is self-righteous assholes, not cyclists or motorists.
How could I ever forget good old Lias?
The white skin-photography link is correct. The ALL-CAPS - God link is not. Capitals were chosen for their more unique shapes, lack of descenders, and ability to be read on damaged paper and screens. Caps are only harder to read because they are infrequently used in this manner. Ask an old military officer and they might have a differing point of view.
Did you really think you were the first?
And that damn rock and roll!
My friend tries to make this argument to justify why he is bad at console games. Honestly, pressing the proper buttons with the proper timing requires just as much precision as movement, and usually more muscle development. Don't believe me? Try the Wii. Its split design with both halves symmetrical allow for use in either hand. Swap hands and see if that makes you better. My friend tried it and actually fared worse. I do much worse also.
"Wired is running a story about how Sean Sturgeon, an ex-lover of Hans Reiser's missing wife, has confessed to having killed 8 people. Hans is currently standing trial for the murder of his wife. Though the confessed murders are unrelated to the current case, this new information is sure to complicate things."
You made me laugh. I'm not sure if it was on purpose or not but you did.
When you have mod points and you see a post like the grandparent, you don't really know what to do. It needs to be modded down because it's factually inaccurate trash, but there's no option that would indicate "factually inaccurate". It's not a flame or a troll, redundant or offtopic, it's just... wrong. I'll generally go for the "Overrated" option, but only because it takes away from the score without citing an incorrect reason. It sucks but what else can you do?
Space must have collapsed into its self due to too much terrible design being in the same place at the same time. A Toshiba laptop + Quicktime for Windows + Microsoft Vista?! This guy is lucky to be alive.
Personally, if I were a dairy farmer, I'd start up a brand with cloning as a gimmick. Maybe even make a witty commercial with a uneducated-looking farmer talking about the intricacies of selecting only the best dairy cows that naturally produce the best milk, and then cloning the hell out of them.
"That there's Bessy. She's the best cow we've ever had. Produces the best milk you've ever tasted, and lots of it too. So we had her cloned. That whole barn there is full of Bessys. Heck, it's better 'n pumpin' 'em all full a hormones and whatnot. We got the technology. It's just smart business sense, y'know?"
Really, the milk probably wouldn't taste better than any other brand, but it's a neat little gimmick to squeeze some product differentiation out of such a profitless, commodity market. Plus, it really is genuinely better than pumping all your cows full of shitty hormones that end up in people.
I'm doing my undergrad thesis on a high-speed autonomous vehicle that uses accelerometers to augment the refresh rate of GPS. I thought it was interesting that the article mentioned it so specifically.
Man, if someone made golden rice that you could eat and tasted good and made you build healthy muscle while not being full of calories, I think that might actually solve the real problem, unless you're thinking something else is "the real problem".
Would you look down on people who ate the golden rice to be healthy because they didn't have to deal with diet and exercise?
While I agree with your assessment that 2+ buttons are better, I do know several people who use computers all the time and are confused by two mouse buttons. These are people that use computers by memorization, not live conceptualization, sure, but they are still people who use computers. Secondly, I hope Apple keeps the one-button mouse for one reason and one reason only: it forces developers to come up with clever, intuitive, simple, space-efficient ways of implementing and exposing functionality. If you can't be sure your users will have two buttons, you need to actually think about your UI design rather than simply burying everything under the sun into context menus, like a lot of Windows apps do. I've even seen Windows apps that open to a blank screen that says "right click and select 'Start Wizard' to begin". It's enough to make my brain melt and ooze out my ears. (The app in question is Xilinx iMPACT, an FPGA programmer, if you were wondering, but there are others that pull similar tricks as well.)
The GC was cheaper than the competition and had occasional must-have titles. That's the best part about even Nintendo's biggest failures, they're usually lower priced and have enough good games from first party alone by mid-life to justify the purchase.
Sony isn't exactly a powerhouse developer and their hardware is more expensive. Sony platforms live or die by third party support and for whatever reason, the software sales never came and 3rd party support is drying up. Calling the PSP a dead platform is a little premature but I don't think being very concerned for its future is unjustified.
Ok, fine, the glee with which people make this analysis smacks of fanboyism, but the analysis its self isn't wrong or hypocritical.
Yes, do not let the Democrats in, they will steal all of your guns!
You're thinking of The National Enquirer and its sister publication, Weekly World News
The Inquirer is a snarky though reputable UK-based tech news site.
Actually, Boot Camp is geared towards gamers. Apple worked with ATI to release a 3D accelerated Windows driver for the ATI cards included with Macs. The standard Windows drivers would have been enough to use office apps, etc and 3D hardware acceleration would not have been needed had they not intended the driver package to be used by gamers.
It would be silly to think Apple didn't see "Run Windows games on a Mac" for the runaway money train it truly is.
That's odd, because last I checked, the code that drives Safari (not the GUI but the frameworks that do all the actual work) are based on KHTML and open source. If Apple wanted to use a bunch of undocumented APIs to make Safari better than everyone else's software, an open-source project would probably not be the place to do it.