Kinda defeats the purpose of having a typewriter, which these days is surely to be able to type a legible document without the need for an electricity supply.
Which is exactly why Jobsie isn't interested in supporting it, it's a failure. It would add more cost onto the price of a Mac due to hardware and licencing costs. It would also mean having to support lots of annoying copy protection routines, degrading the video quality on analog and so on.
MP3 players have demonstrated to people that you can stick all your media on one device and pick something at random easily.
Blu-ray (and DVD) are comparable to CD, tapes and vinyl. Why find a box, take out a disc and then walk over to a player when you can just select a file from a menu and watch.
Discs get damaged and the media companies aren't interested in giving you a replacement for free or a nominal charge. With most online services you can re-download your media even if it gets lost.
Maybe the developers don't understand K.I.S.S. and "if it's not broken don't fix it". All they needed were refinements and improvements, mainly around appearance as they did look a little ugly in places.
Also, with the accusation that open source tends to copy the interfaces of Windows and OSX I guess they were trying to do something different?
Problem is, this is more likely to kill pedestrians, OAPs and cyclists. Car drivers currently kill other drivers the most, not vulnerable people. So this would move the balance the other way.
Rubbish. Many iPad versions are much improved. There is space on the left side of the mail application to show a list of all your mails (landscape mode), on the iPhone you have to move back and forth. Same applies to the settings screen on the iPad.
The iPad has extra GUI controls. A tweaked version of Cocoa touch which suits a tablet size device more. It is up to the developer to produce an application that uses them well.
Scaling is not the same as an improved layout and being able to show more things on screen.
Think logically, tablets using a full blown desktop OS was never going to work. Too much legacy junk, we needed to throw all that away and start again.
iPad threw all the desktop GUI and technology away. The GUI was designed for touch, the hardware was designed for the job it would be used for.
Tablets are going to evolve, they will eventually get more powerful and useful. But like the desktop, it will be progressive as you can't merely fit high power desktop components into a unit and expect good battery life.
Nobody wants a tablet that needs to be hooked into the mains all the time.
Microsoft generally have an advantage in terms of compiler technology, which is often supplied by Intel. GCC is often shown to produce slower code than Intel's own compiler. This may have result in some Microsoft applications running faster. Not to mention access to some private APIs.
It's not really a useful test unless it is conducted by an independent test team who are not receiving any money from the organisation who produced the software.
If you're finding it hard to move quickly then having a "skunkworks" group at a company can help, so long as you can afford to burn cash on failures from time to time. It is useful to have a group of people with a budget to develop new products or ideas without management interference.
I think what he is saying is that.NET often abstracts the lower workings. So in ASP.NET for instance you are hidden from the underlying web architecture. So someone who has only ever done web development in ASP.NET who then moves to JSP or PHP would have to learn a hell of a lot. Not just requests and sessions but learning how to structure their code well.
Makes you wonder why they're going after phone companies? I guess it is because if Kodak sued Canon or Nikon then they would have plenty of camera patents to fire back with. So they go after phone and computer makers instead.
Tom Baker seems to be a favourite but most people tend to like the one they grew up with.
There are two Dr Who Films that you might want to view, I'm not sure how they well regarded they are by fans but I like them. They have Peter Cushing in and are about the Daleks. They were made in the 1960s. You can at least have a laugh at the terrible FX and funky music.
The films don't really have anything in common with the TV shows.
Thing is, Stallman is saying that just including a header file. eg. #include "stdio.h" does not make the program a derivative of stdio.h.
It doesn't however mean you can get stdio.h, remove all the comments and copyrights then pass that off as your own file, which is what Google have allegedly done.
My mother has the same disease and she'll be 71 this year. It's a form of dementia that you get quite early, 65 on average. It is different to altzeimers in that you don't lose memory, sense of time and awareness of where you are. It changes your behaviour and character, you can either become really withdrawn or become strange and do inappropriate things in public.
Have you ever tried to use all the tools on a swiss army knife? they become cumbersome to use the more you add. They become smaller and not as efficient at their intended task.
The same applies to gadgets, if you try to cram too much functionality in there it just becomes a mass of buttons, icons, control panels, switches and so on. Apple produce a tool to do a few things very well rather than a tool that tries to do everything but sucks at most of them.
What good is 1000 features in a device if due to software bugs and poor QA only 900 of them work or work to a point?
Why should Flash be an essential for the web? Why should the WWW need to rely on proprietary software from Adobe? Only by killing Flash can something better, open source and available to all (patent free) come along. Flash is holding everything back.
Proprietary browser plugins were fine when everyone was running Windows on a desktop, but things have moved on.
No OS maker should have to crawl to Adobe with their wallet open to request a plugin for their browser. Perhaps if the plugin was a Microsoft one then people would be less friendly to it?
Where would we be if email required a plugin for Microsoft to work?
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Kinda defeats the purpose of having a typewriter, which these days is surely to be able to type a legible document without the need for an electricity supply.
It's more than likely a file that contains the location of cells in the area? for aiding quick start positioning?
Either way, it doesn't matter since even if the phone doesn't have records of where you have been the phone company does.
The same information is also gathered by Android, so Google fucked up as well:
https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdump
Which is exactly why Jobsie isn't interested in supporting it, it's a failure. It would add more cost onto the price of a Mac due to hardware and licencing costs. It would also mean having to support lots of annoying copy protection routines, degrading the video quality on analog and so on.
MP3 players have demonstrated to people that you can stick all your media on one device and pick something at random easily.
Blu-ray (and DVD) are comparable to CD, tapes and vinyl. Why find a box, take out a disc and then walk over to a player when you can just select a file from a menu and watch.
Discs get damaged and the media companies aren't interested in giving you a replacement for free or a nominal charge. With most online services you can re-download your media even if it gets lost.
The more configuration options you add the more testing is required and the greater the chance of an option being broken.
Maybe the developers don't understand K.I.S.S. and "if it's not broken don't fix it". All they needed were refinements and improvements, mainly around appearance as they did look a little ugly in places.
Also, with the accusation that open source tends to copy the interfaces of Windows and OSX I guess they were trying to do something different?
His wife has a lot to do with it. I don't think he was doing much until his wife took charge of the charity.
They've done damage as well as good things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation#Criticism
Flash was built for the desktop. Devices with big screens, keyboards and mice.
Cramming it into a smartphone with a limited battery life has never really made sense.
Flash on the web seems to be only used for a few things:
1. Video, which can and has been done in other ways
2. Games, plenty of games in the app stores.
3. Presentations, which I imagine few people bother to use?
4. Adverts, which most people don't like.
5. IM, which can be done with AJAX and existing HTML scripting.
Longer 3D render times, more frames to render. Not to mention Blu-ray and other devices won't support this frame rate.
It does seem like time for a Firefox lean and mean version. They've been bloating up Firefox for some time now and at times it shows.
Problem is, this is more likely to kill pedestrians, OAPs and cyclists. Car drivers currently kill other drivers the most, not vulnerable people. So this would move the balance the other way.
Rubbish. Many iPad versions are much improved. There is space on the left side of the mail application to show a list of all your mails (landscape mode), on the iPhone you have to move back and forth. Same applies to the settings screen on the iPad.
The iPad has extra GUI controls. A tweaked version of Cocoa touch which suits a tablet size device more. It is up to the developer to produce an application that uses them well.
Scaling is not the same as an improved layout and being able to show more things on screen.
Think logically, tablets using a full blown desktop OS was never going to work. Too much legacy junk, we needed to throw all that away and start again.
iPad threw all the desktop GUI and technology away. The GUI was designed for touch, the hardware was designed for the job it would be used for.
Tablets are going to evolve, they will eventually get more powerful and useful. But like the desktop, it will be progressive as you can't merely fit high power desktop components into a unit and expect good battery life.
Nobody wants a tablet that needs to be hooked into the mains all the time.
Microsoft generally have an advantage in terms of compiler technology, which is often supplied by Intel. GCC is often shown to produce slower code than Intel's own compiler. This may have result in some Microsoft applications running faster. Not to mention access to some private APIs.
It's not really a useful test unless it is conducted by an independent test team who are not receiving any money from the organisation who produced the software.
If you're finding it hard to move quickly then having a "skunkworks" group at a company can help, so long as you can afford to burn cash on failures from time to time. It is useful to have a group of people with a budget to develop new products or ideas without management interference.
I think what he is saying is that .NET often abstracts the lower workings. So in ASP.NET for instance you are hidden from the underlying web architecture. So someone who has only ever done web development in ASP.NET who then moves to JSP or PHP would have to learn a hell of a lot. Not just requests and sessions but learning how to structure their code well.
Makes you wonder why they're going after phone companies? I guess it is because if Kodak sued Canon or Nikon then they would have plenty of camera patents to fire back with. So they go after phone and computer makers instead.
Tom Baker seems to be a favourite but most people tend to like the one they grew up with.
There are two Dr Who Films that you might want to view, I'm not sure how they well regarded they are by fans but I like them. They have Peter Cushing in and are about the Daleks. They were made in the 1960s. You can at least have a laugh at the terrible FX and funky music.
The films don't really have anything in common with the TV shows.
Thing is, Stallman is saying that just including a header file. eg. #include "stdio.h" does not make the program a derivative of stdio.h.
It doesn't however mean you can get stdio.h, remove all the comments and copyrights then pass that off as your own file, which is what Google have allegedly done.
My mother has the same disease and she'll be 71 this year. It's a form of dementia that you get quite early, 65 on average. It is different to altzeimers in that you don't lose memory, sense of time and awareness of where you are. It changes your behaviour and character, you can either become really withdrawn or become strange and do inappropriate things in public.
Which given the iPhone and Android use different languages proves nothing. Maybe if they were running the exact same code on both.
It proves that they can code well for Android but might not be able to code well for iOS?
Objective C is quite an alien world for the beginner. It's quite a departure from Java and C++ syntactically.
Also, did they test the battery life? which phone would die first?
I agree. It certainly is a bit paranoid to say the least.
Would he say that tracking is a bad thing if it could be used to prevent a terrorist attack?
Have you ever tried to use all the tools on a swiss army knife? they become cumbersome to use the more you add. They become smaller and not as efficient at their intended task.
The same applies to gadgets, if you try to cram too much functionality in there it just becomes a mass of buttons, icons, control panels, switches and so on. Apple produce a tool to do a few things very well rather than a tool that tries to do everything but sucks at most of them.
What good is 1000 features in a device if due to software bugs and poor QA only 900 of them work or work to a point?
Why should Flash be an essential for the web? Why should the WWW need to rely on proprietary software from Adobe? Only by killing Flash can something better, open source and available to all (patent free) come along. Flash is holding everything back.
Proprietary browser plugins were fine when everyone was running Windows on a desktop, but things have moved on.
No OS maker should have to crawl to Adobe with their wallet open to request a plugin for their browser. Perhaps if the plugin was a Microsoft one then people would be less friendly to it?
Where would we be if email required a plugin for Microsoft to work?