Technically, AppleTalk isn't necessary to share files with other Macs, either, unless the Macs are running a really old version of Mac OS. File sharing between Macs has been done through TCP/IP for many years, and discovery has been done through Bonjour since Mac OS X 10.2 (roughly five years ago now). It's never even occurred to me to try to turn off Bonjour.
The VM subsystem is even becoming a hard thing to point a finger at. Prior to 10.3 it sucked incredibly harshly. A denial of service attack was only one stray write away. I don't really have any complaints about 10.4's VM subsystem. I haven't noticed it taking down my Mac yet.
"Don't recognize revenue until the product is complete," seems pretty straightforward to me. That it could tangle with enabling new features that were not promised to customers is also pretty straightforward to me.
I also have failed to see where Apple has commented on this AT ALL, which would seem to be a requirement for activating people against it.
No, Microsoft can't possibly argue that PowerToys don't add new features. But PowerToys is not hardware, and it has been out longer than the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Apple doesn't need a few hundred people spending $4.95 to be profitable. I think they're on to something here in their interpretation of the law, unfortunately. I'm not a lawyer, but you can bet Apple had their lawyers look at it.
Well, there's a couple points on that list I'm not sure I agree with. They're mostly software related:
The "no external software" thing is just a rumor at this point, with no credible sources. I have to admit this one concerns me, though. This would be such a great device to write software for. Also, I don't know that Apple has confirmed there will be no MS Exchange support by the time it ships, or added later. Finally, since downloading songs is going to be a strictly software limitation, it's possible that this will be changed if anyone cares. I, personally, don't.
The only non-software point is that I have never used a cell phone under a table or without looking at it. I don't think that's a requirement in the same order of magnitude as the others you listed.:)
(For the record, I do believe some of the other issues you listed are critical. The battery one epsecially. While my iPod 3G's original battery is still in reasonable shape, an iPhone is going to go through many more discharge/recharge cycles, and it's much more important that a phone keeps a long life.)
Honestly, I've gone back to classic puzzle and/or side-scroll games, like Yoshi's Island. It's been long enough since I tried them that they're entertaining again, yet at the same time they're easy enough to pause and leave alone for a few days as my life has grown more complex. My Ubuntu box gets some credit here, too, as there's a rather nice collection of puzzle-type games available free (although nothing as fun as, say, Yoshi's Island).
Oops. Came across a bit wrong there. If I could edit my post, I'd add this to the end of that post: You are playing it as a fantasy. That's exactly how I plan to do it with my son. But I think "fantasy" is also too broad a brush to paint everyone with. It's clearly a lie for some.
Although I agree about the anger, "it isn't lie, it's fantasy" doesn't help. The difference between a lie and a fantasy is that people know that fantasy isn't true. If your kid knows the truth, there's no harm in sharing the fantasy. If your kid doesn't know the truth, it's a lie.
The Santa people present to their children is not only not the personification of the Christmas spirit, but is counter to it. Part of the myth is that Santa delivers presents to good children only, and lumps of coal to the bad. If you carry this to the extreme, it means that if you do something really bad on December 25th, it means that a year later you get no present, and nothing you can do in that year will make any difference. Is the Christmas spirit that judgmental? Do you really think the personification of that spirit should be judgmental?
Completely agree with you. If our kids can't trust us to tell them the truth about Santa, what can they trust us with? Do parents who lie to their kids really think there are no consequences when the kid finds out?
The main one I found was it allowed me to have extremely fast random access and changes, while simultaneously imposing some order and offering features like SQL triggers. The SQL engine we were using (SQLite) was also more portable than the XML parsers we looked at. (We needed Mac Classic and Palm, for instance.)
So why not just use SQLite's binary repestation? I wanted to avoid being tying the database to a particular version of SQLite, or even (as much as possible) SQLite at all. The time to convert the data to and from text wasn't beyond user expectations, considering we were replacing a system that loaded all document data into RAM.
The SQL-database-as-text format is a good option for writing a document-based application where the data can be stored in a relational database; while it definitely wouldn't work in all cases, it is worth considering.
Unfortunately, the product got shelved before it could be completed (although we did have our data flowing between SQLite's binary representation and SQL queries). I hope to try the technique again one day...
Oh, wait. Are you really trying to say that "SQL queries aren't the same thing as SQL"? I read it that way at first, but I thought I wasn't giving you enough credit. If that's really what you mean, that's technically true - but it is so pedantic as to be completely useless. Did you really have a difficult time understanding what I was saying?
Actually, a table serialized as SQL queries is, in fact, a data exchange format. (A pretty useful one at that; it solves certain problems very nicely.)
The claim was "XML is *the* way to store data, period, full stop." Period.
Depending on the structure of the data needing to be stored, XML can be very verbose and highly redundant. The hierarchal model isn't necessarily ideal, either, depending on the application. Relational models often work better.
Depending on the nature of the data (and again, the claim is "...data, period, full stop"), there's a bunch of options. If the data is very simple a simple delimited text file may be better. If rapid searches and transformations are required, SQL may be better. Define the requirements and pick the format; don't just say "XML, period, full stop." That's simply insane.
Actually, they probably just forced people to continue to use the site. Maybe they pretended it was an important government site that offered the only access to some badly-needed forms.
I was going to say "Rage? What's wrong with people?" but I remember a few weeks of trying to download forms from the Canadian Immigration site. I am starting to get mildly angry, despite that being more than two years ago now.
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Now that's a news flash, huh? "Black hat hackers act like black hats!"
Mac OS X does not have a virtual machine subsystem, thus a VM subsystem causing problems is the virtual memory subsystem.
Technically, AppleTalk isn't necessary to share files with other Macs, either, unless the Macs are running a really old version of Mac OS. File sharing between Macs has been done through TCP/IP for many years, and discovery has been done through Bonjour since Mac OS X 10.2 (roughly five years ago now). It's never even occurred to me to try to turn off Bonjour.
The VM subsystem is even becoming a hard thing to point a finger at. Prior to 10.3 it sucked incredibly harshly. A denial of service attack was only one stray write away. I don't really have any complaints about 10.4's VM subsystem. I haven't noticed it taking down my Mac yet.
"Don't recognize revenue until the product is complete," seems pretty straightforward to me. That it could tangle with enabling new features that were not promised to customers is also pretty straightforward to me.
I also have failed to see where Apple has commented on this AT ALL, which would seem to be a requirement for activating people against it.
Look out, your tin foil hat is slipping.
No, Microsoft can't possibly argue that PowerToys don't add new features. But PowerToys is not hardware, and it has been out longer than the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Apple doesn't need a few hundred people spending $4.95 to be profitable. I think they're on to something here in their interpretation of the law, unfortunately. I'm not a lawyer, but you can bet Apple had their lawyers look at it.
Ack. Forgot the paragraph markers. Sorry. :)
Well, there's a couple points on that list I'm not sure I agree with. They're mostly software related: The "no external software" thing is just a rumor at this point, with no credible sources. I have to admit this one concerns me, though. This would be such a great device to write software for. Also, I don't know that Apple has confirmed there will be no MS Exchange support by the time it ships, or added later. Finally, since downloading songs is going to be a strictly software limitation, it's possible that this will be changed if anyone cares. I, personally, don't. The only non-software point is that I have never used a cell phone under a table or without looking at it. I don't think that's a requirement in the same order of magnitude as the others you listed. :)
(For the record, I do believe some of the other issues you listed are critical. The battery one epsecially. While my iPod 3G's original battery is still in reasonable shape, an iPhone is going to go through many more discharge/recharge cycles, and it's much more important that a phone keeps a long life.)
Honestly, I've gone back to classic puzzle and/or side-scroll games, like Yoshi's Island. It's been long enough since I tried them that they're entertaining again, yet at the same time they're easy enough to pause and leave alone for a few days as my life has grown more complex. My Ubuntu box gets some credit here, too, as there's a rather nice collection of puzzle-type games available free (although nothing as fun as, say, Yoshi's Island).
Or maybe the penguins are flying north for the summer...
Oops. Came across a bit wrong there. If I could edit my post, I'd add this to the end of that post: You are playing it as a fantasy. That's exactly how I plan to do it with my son. But I think "fantasy" is also too broad a brush to paint everyone with. It's clearly a lie for some.
Although I agree about the anger, "it isn't lie, it's fantasy" doesn't help. The difference between a lie and a fantasy is that people know that fantasy isn't true. If your kid knows the truth, there's no harm in sharing the fantasy. If your kid doesn't know the truth, it's a lie.
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The Santa people present to their children is not only not the personification of the Christmas spirit, but is counter to it. Part of the myth is that Santa delivers presents to good children only, and lumps of coal to the bad. If you carry this to the extreme, it means that if you do something really bad on December 25th, it means that a year later you get no present, and nothing you can do in that year will make any difference. Is the Christmas spirit that judgmental? Do you really think the personification of that spirit should be judgmental?
Completely agree with you. If our kids can't trust us to tell them the truth about Santa, what can they trust us with? Do parents who lie to their kids really think there are no consequences when the kid finds out?
The main one I found was it allowed me to have extremely fast random access and changes, while simultaneously imposing some order and offering features like SQL triggers. The SQL engine we were using (SQLite) was also more portable than the XML parsers we looked at. (We needed Mac Classic and Palm, for instance.)
So why not just use SQLite's binary repestation? I wanted to avoid being tying the database to a particular version of SQLite, or even (as much as possible) SQLite at all. The time to convert the data to and from text wasn't beyond user expectations, considering we were replacing a system that loaded all document data into RAM.
The SQL-database-as-text format is a good option for writing a document-based application where the data can be stored in a relational database; while it definitely wouldn't work in all cases, it is worth considering.
Unfortunately, the product got shelved before it could be completed (although we did have our data flowing between SQLite's binary representation and SQL queries). I hope to try the technique again one day...
Oh, wait. Are you really trying to say that "SQL queries aren't the same thing as SQL"? I read it that way at first, but I thought I wasn't giving you enough credit. If that's really what you mean, that's technically true - but it is so pedantic as to be completely useless. Did you really have a difficult time understanding what I was saying?
Actually, a table serialized as SQL queries is, in fact, a data exchange format. (A pretty useful one at that; it solves certain problems very nicely.)
That was beyond brilliant. However, I suspect you missed encoding the question mark somehow...
Sure. Queries are just text, after all. Or did you have in mind a particular binary format?
The claim was "XML is *the* way to store data, period, full stop." Period.
Depending on the structure of the data needing to be stored, XML can be very verbose and highly redundant. The hierarchal model isn't necessarily ideal, either, depending on the application. Relational models often work better.
Depending on the nature of the data (and again, the claim is "...data, period, full stop"), there's a bunch of options. If the data is very simple a simple delimited text file may be better. If rapid searches and transformations are required, SQL may be better. Define the requirements and pick the format; don't just say "XML, period, full stop." That's simply insane.
XML is *the* way to store and transmit data, period, full stop.
Sure, it's a good way, but could we please have an end to silly and blatantly false assertions like this one?
I'd guess that people got stupider... :)
Actually, they probably just forced people to continue to use the site. Maybe they pretended it was an important government site that offered the only access to some badly-needed forms.
I was going to say "Rage? What's wrong with people?" but I remember a few weeks of trying to download forms from the Canadian Immigration site. I am starting to get mildly angry, despite that being more than two years ago now.
"Tell me more, brain."