802.11b, g and n weren't "finished" either before they started to be deployed heavily. It's pretty certain that eventually HTML5 will be fully finalised and the closer developers and major players are to being able to tweak their implementations to whatever the final is rather than waiting until it is finished before even starting means it is much more likely to become useful and meaningful.
All these HTML5 showcases (Microsoft's too) are pushing browsers into a set of standardised standards (department of redundancy department) so that the web can be properly cross platform in the future - and based on a open standard.
The world is imperfect, especially in computing terms and if everyone waits for HTML5 to be "done" then it will be a non-starter.
I can see exactly why they didn't put Flash on the iPhone: performance.
On OS X is truly is dog slow, but you can brute force it with all the CPU power you have. You just don;t have that luxury on a mobile device, as people with Android phones are finding out - the mobile flash implementations have almost all been universally sub-par. It's just not good code (or it's just too resource intensive for whatever reason).
So all those music files I bought on the iTunes Store yesterday don't work on my Linux box... oh wait, they do.
It was as difficult as "dragging and dropping" files from one window to another (although I also access the bulk of my library over a network share, but that might be "too complicated" since it requires "such a level of technical knowledge".
Right now the only format I can think of off the top of my head that is locked in with DRM (at least in the consumer space - I can't remember if the pro-apps formats [eg, final cut pro project files, motion files, logic pro files etc) are open) are the movies and TV shows on the store. * They went for documented, human readable XML for their iLife/iWork apps * they keep a duplicate machine parsable XML copy of the iTunes library alongside their binary blob version that iTunes itself uses (presumably for speed) * their email format is.mbox * their audio codec is AAC and video codec is H264 (both patented, but both open standards not under Apple's control) * their address book and calendar data is open (and their address book and calendar servers are open source projects) * their HTML and JS engines are open source (and given the work they continue to put into it, doesn't look like they will be be moving to a proprietary solution) * they continue to release open source projects for everyone to use and are strongly promoting HTML5 and basing their browser on Webkit means they can't "embrace, extend and extinguish" it (HTML5 that is, by distorting the spec) * their entire IDE is free to use, and uses GCC as the compiler. They have also put a serious amount of work into LLVM. * their programming language of choice is Objective C, and C itself, although Xcode supports many more.
So, they have a phone/tablet platform with a managed store. Oh no! danger internet! A store that is compatible with GPL v2 licensed apps, meaning you don't have to limit your app to just Apple's store, and that just because it is free software doesn't automatically bar entry (although the GPL v3 anti-tivo clause does).
For a company that is supposedly the "biggest threat to the free internet" they sure are hiding it well. The store has DRMed movies, but you can be sure they are trying to get rid of that - just as they did for music when it became clear to the content providers (who demand the DRM) that a DRM-free model would work.
This is talked about in TFA, although not directly, that they can work with individual manufacturers to bring it to Android, but this is a slow approach and leads to some devices having access and others not. Clearly GoogleTV is one of the former, while other android devices are part of the latter group.
Oh, I'm sorry, we couldn't hear you all the way over here in grown up world.
What an extraordinary childish statement, betraying your clear bias against people who play games for entertainment (or, shock horror, use their games consoles to access services like Netflix) or choose to use computer and peripherals/devices from a particular hardware vendor.
Anyone who uses Cisco hardware has silly hair! Nah nah!
Now replace "how about no DRM on movies" with "Universal Healthcare, as used in all other developed nations" when talking about sane solutions for an indication of how an entrenched mindset, and strong corporate interests with disinformation campaigns and deep pockets can make the obvious choice seem like the wrong thing to do.;)
No, not at all - it just serves to highlight the ridiculousness of religion, that people would go out of their way and react to a number that is harmless, but that has been given bad connotations by an error in translation of a work of fiction.
The mark of the beast is 616. The monks copying up the bible and translating it assumed that it was the handwritten equivalent of a typo, and that the number should really be 666. And thus, an editorial decision affected millions of people down through the ages who freak out when 666 comes up, eg in their change or as a price for a bunch of items, or a bus route or house number.
And in the update tech document, that catalogs the changes, it will give a description of the problem, what has been done to fix it and then "credit to Nitesh Dhanjani for reporting this issue". You know, like all the other security update knowledgebase articles on Apple's site.
What is your current power (as applied to the prop via the wheels) multiplied by zero windspeed?
I'll give you some time.;)
Your attempt at clever dig about how it's impossible because it's a perpetual motion machine falls flat, since the maths actually works. There's no energy from nowhere.
It really depends what part of the spectrum it is absorbing in. If it absorbs strongly in the near IR region but completely passes visible, then how transparent it looks to us really isn't going to affect how efficient it is. Some chemical bonds just don't absorb energy in the visible region, which is hopefully what they are going for here, so that the primary function of the window itself is not compromised.
Ideally you want to absorb the energy above the visible region - it's more energetic after all, but there's a huge range of the spectrum available to choose from, with only a small portion of it apparent to us as humans (at least through detection by our eyes - you can obviously perceive IR radiation directly and UV/Xrays/other ionising radiation indirectly with no instruments).
Of course it's rationing - the GP said so later on in the same post you quoted.
When there is a finite amount of something, you have to ration it.
The US system does this rationing by basing it on your ability to pay up front, or via insurance. If you're poor, you don't get to queue. This keeps the waiting times down for those who can afford it, but it does increase the financial burden on the wealthy - when you break a system down like that and have individuals paying, the cost goes up for everyone.
This is why the US spends twice the GDP per capita on healthcare than almost any other system on earth, and *still* requires its citizens to pay for insurance out of pocket.
I don't read AC. My filter is set above them, unless they get modded up. The contents of that linked post reminded me why.
As for speaking our language, I'd possibly take issue with. I mean, if your understanding of science is anything like it is depicted in hollywood movies, then I doubt you have the cognitive abilities to even parse English, let alone speak it.
Yes, but they do mention that they are trying to extend Hulu outside the US - that is the message displayed to me every time I see an embedded Hulu player on a webpage at least.
Ah, so much like the definition of "world" when the US talks about the "World Series".
All generally does imply everyone. "All in the US" has a different meaning, because it adds specificity.
The summary doesn't specify one way or the other, and having not researched Hulu Plus fully, I didn't actually know if "All" meant "the world" or not - they have been showing me "we are trying to bring content to your region, please be patient with us" messages every time I see an embedded player on a webpage that tries to show me a Hulu video in the UK. For all I know, that's what Hulu Plus is about. I guess not.
You forget that your country has the benefit of being "new to the game" as it were - by being so young. The laws of the UK have been evolving for more than a thousand years in one form or another (with our major keystone event that is loosely equivalent to the US Constitution being the Magna Carta, signed in 1215). By the founding of the US, the founding fathers could almost start from scratch and lay things out the way they wanted.
The modified Magna Carta, which was signed in about 1300 is still on the statute books here in the UK - at least in England and Wales.
We "get it", but we also have a thousand year old legal system that is still a work in progress.
They never took away the right to bear arms - we never had that right to begin with. The laws of the UK have been in flux for almost a thousand years, but we didn't have a right to bear arms that was subsequently taken away.
And regarding submitting to police inspections - owning a gun is not the same as buying a pack of gum. There are checks and laws and requirements for owning one. Not much of a "right" with a mandatory 5 day waiting period eh? You can go for the strawman argument, but it really serves no purpose.
Other than "not being able to own a handgun", how am I at a disadvantage? My life expectancy is higher, I am considerably less likely to be killed by a firearm, either maliciously or accidentally, and my countrymen never had the "right" to own firearms before me - they just did.
You can still own and use shotguns and other rifles for sporting purposes, but no handguns. The right wasn't taken away (there never was one), it was decided by rule of law to make them illegal.
It's still legal for me to kill a Scotsman with a bow and arrow. How's that loss of the right to kill people working out for you over there?
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802.11b, g and n weren't "finished" either before they started to be deployed heavily. It's pretty certain that eventually HTML5 will be fully finalised and the closer developers and major players are to being able to tweak their implementations to whatever the final is rather than waiting until it is finished before even starting means it is much more likely to become useful and meaningful.
All these HTML5 showcases (Microsoft's too) are pushing browsers into a set of standardised standards (department of redundancy department) so that the web can be properly cross platform in the future - and based on a open standard.
The world is imperfect, especially in computing terms and if everyone waits for HTML5 to be "done" then it will be a non-starter.
I can see exactly why they didn't put Flash on the iPhone: performance.
On OS X is truly is dog slow, but you can brute force it with all the CPU power you have. You just don;t have that luxury on a mobile device, as people with Android phones are finding out - the mobile flash implementations have almost all been universally sub-par. It's just not good code (or it's just too resource intensive for whatever reason).
So all those music files I bought on the iTunes Store yesterday don't work on my Linux box... oh wait, they do.
It was as difficult as "dragging and dropping" files from one window to another (although I also access the bulk of my library over a network share, but that might be "too complicated" since it requires "such a level of technical knowledge".
Right now the only format I can think of off the top of my head that is locked in with DRM (at least in the consumer space - I can't remember if the pro-apps formats [eg, final cut pro project files, motion files, logic pro files etc) are open) are the movies and TV shows on the store. .mbox
* They went for documented, human readable XML for their iLife/iWork apps
* they keep a duplicate machine parsable XML copy of the iTunes library alongside their binary blob version that iTunes itself uses (presumably for speed)
* their email format is
* their audio codec is AAC and video codec is H264 (both patented, but both open standards not under Apple's control)
* their address book and calendar data is open (and their address book and calendar servers are open source projects)
* their HTML and JS engines are open source (and given the work they continue to put into it, doesn't look like they will be be moving to a proprietary solution)
* they continue to release open source projects for everyone to use and are strongly promoting HTML5 and basing their browser on Webkit means they can't "embrace, extend and extinguish" it (HTML5 that is, by distorting the spec)
* their entire IDE is free to use, and uses GCC as the compiler. They have also put a serious amount of work into LLVM.
* their programming language of choice is Objective C, and C itself, although Xcode supports many more.
So, they have a phone/tablet platform with a managed store. Oh no! danger internet! A store that is compatible with GPL v2 licensed apps, meaning you don't have to limit your app to just Apple's store, and that just because it is free software doesn't automatically bar entry (although the GPL v3 anti-tivo clause does).
For a company that is supposedly the "biggest threat to the free internet" they sure are hiding it well. The store has DRMed movies, but you can be sure they are trying to get rid of that - just as they did for music when it became clear to the content providers (who demand the DRM) that a DRM-free model would work.
This is talked about in TFA, although not directly, that they can work with individual manufacturers to bring it to Android, but this is a slow approach and leads to some devices having access and others not. Clearly GoogleTV is one of the former, while other android devices are part of the latter group.
Oh, I'm sorry, we couldn't hear you all the way over here in grown up world.
What an extraordinary childish statement, betraying your clear bias against people who play games for entertainment (or, shock horror, use their games consoles to access services like Netflix) or choose to use computer and peripherals/devices from a particular hardware vendor.
Anyone who uses Cisco hardware has silly hair! Nah nah!
Now replace "how about no DRM on movies" with "Universal Healthcare, as used in all other developed nations" when talking about sane solutions for an indication of how an entrenched mindset, and strong corporate interests with disinformation campaigns and deep pockets can make the obvious choice seem like the wrong thing to do. ;)
No, not at all - it just serves to highlight the ridiculousness of religion, that people would go out of their way and react to a number that is harmless, but that has been given bad connotations by an error in translation of a work of fiction.
For variable definitions of "works". Flash is not a great performer on low power hardware, especially on the battery.
The mark of the beast is 616. The monks copying up the bible and translating it assumed that it was the handwritten equivalent of a typo, and that the number should really be 666. And thus, an editorial decision affected millions of people down through the ages who freak out when 666 comes up, eg in their change or as a price for a bunch of items, or a bus route or house number.
And in the update tech document, that catalogs the changes, it will give a description of the problem, what has been done to fix it and then "credit to Nitesh Dhanjani for reporting this issue". You know, like all the other security update knowledgebase articles on Apple's site.
Nice try. You get called on it, so now you are retconning your answer.
Let me guess, you think Han fired in self defence too, right?
Sure you can ask those questions. You'll just look stupid, because the answers are in the fucking article.
What is your current power (as applied to the prop via the wheels) multiplied by zero windspeed?
I'll give you some time. ;)
Your attempt at clever dig about how it's impossible because it's a perpetual motion machine falls flat, since the maths actually works. There's no energy from nowhere.
It really depends what part of the spectrum it is absorbing in. If it absorbs strongly in the near IR region but completely passes visible, then how transparent it looks to us really isn't going to affect how efficient it is. Some chemical bonds just don't absorb energy in the visible region, which is hopefully what they are going for here, so that the primary function of the window itself is not compromised.
Ideally you want to absorb the energy above the visible region - it's more energetic after all, but there's a huge range of the spectrum available to choose from, with only a small portion of it apparent to us as humans (at least through detection by our eyes - you can obviously perceive IR radiation directly and UV/Xrays/other ionising radiation indirectly with no instruments).
Of course it's rationing - the GP said so later on in the same post you quoted.
When there is a finite amount of something, you have to ration it.
The US system does this rationing by basing it on your ability to pay up front, or via insurance. If you're poor, you don't get to queue. This keeps the waiting times down for those who can afford it, but it does increase the financial burden on the wealthy - when you break a system down like that and have individuals paying, the cost goes up for everyone.
This is why the US spends twice the GDP per capita on healthcare than almost any other system on earth, and *still* requires its citizens to pay for insurance out of pocket.
Selective editing, the goto-tool of the Fox "journalism" team.
Although ending a sentence with a preposition is accepted to be correct but poor form, it is something up with which most people will not put.
(I was also being sarcastic, which is another thing seemingly lost in translation.)
I don't read AC. My filter is set above them, unless they get modded up. The contents of that linked post reminded me why.
As for speaking our language, I'd possibly take issue with. I mean, if your understanding of science is anything like it is depicted in hollywood movies, then I doubt you have the cognitive abilities to even parse English, let alone speak it.
Yes, but they do mention that they are trying to extend Hulu outside the US - that is the message displayed to me every time I see an embedded Hulu player on a webpage at least.
Ah, so much like the definition of "world" when the US talks about the "World Series".
All generally does imply everyone. "All in the US" has a different meaning, because it adds specificity.
The summary doesn't specify one way or the other, and having not researched Hulu Plus fully, I didn't actually know if "All" meant "the world" or not - they have been showing me "we are trying to bring content to your region, please be patient with us" messages every time I see an embedded player on a webpage that tries to show me a Hulu video in the UK. For all I know, that's what Hulu Plus is about. I guess not.
Yes, but Intel Macs feature Rosetta, which enables you to run PPC-only binaries in 10.6 if you have some legacy software.
It no longer supports Classic (for OS 9 apps) but it will run PPC binaries still.
Why reinvent the wheel? Just list the components of the ocean at the start and then the total number of moles of each.
Assume H2O is your primary solvent. /more woosh.
You forget that your country has the benefit of being "new to the game" as it were - by being so young. The laws of the UK have been evolving for more than a thousand years in one form or another (with our major keystone event that is loosely equivalent to the US Constitution being the Magna Carta, signed in 1215). By the founding of the US, the founding fathers could almost start from scratch and lay things out the way they wanted.
The modified Magna Carta, which was signed in about 1300 is still on the statute books here in the UK - at least in England and Wales.
We "get it", but we also have a thousand year old legal system that is still a work in progress.
Oh I fully agree, I was just being obstinately facetious in reply to the original troll comment.
They never took away the right to bear arms - we never had that right to begin with. The laws of the UK have been in flux for almost a thousand years, but we didn't have a right to bear arms that was subsequently taken away.
And regarding submitting to police inspections - owning a gun is not the same as buying a pack of gum. There are checks and laws and requirements for owning one. Not much of a "right" with a mandatory 5 day waiting period eh? You can go for the strawman argument, but it really serves no purpose.
In what respect?
Other than "not being able to own a handgun", how am I at a disadvantage? My life expectancy is higher, I am considerably less likely to be killed by a firearm, either maliciously or accidentally, and my countrymen never had the "right" to own firearms before me - they just did.
You can still own and use shotguns and other rifles for sporting purposes, but no handguns. The right wasn't taken away (there never was one), it was decided by rule of law to make them illegal.
It's still legal for me to kill a Scotsman with a bow and arrow. How's that loss of the right to kill people working out for you over there?