Wasnt sudden at all, the writing was on the wall when Apple released OS X. Carbon was supposed to be a quick way to transition your OS9 programs to OSX. That was it. Adobe had no issues writing new programs in Cocoa (Lightroom) but continued to drag its feet on a port for the 64bit version of its landmark products, content to add GUI bullshit that many are not even sure was a improvement.
This was as sudden as Apple dropping OS9 development. It was coming and coming for years, but developers are more content to repackage old code, than to rewrite it. This is the same mentality thats screwing Vista development too. Developers are just plain LAZY.
You may WISH it was your bosses job, but frequently its ICT staff who get the blame for you watching porn. "Why was he able to do that, cant you block that stuff?" We had a network manager almost fired because she unblocked someone because they claimed they needed it for a project and in turn was watching KIDDY PORN at work. His boss didnt get the axe, SHE almost did. So you can make the claim all you want its not our jobs, but your bosses say otherwise.
And you should see what middle management approves sometimes. Maybe if we could trust them to approve legitimate packages then sure, but Half Life 2? (true story)
Sorry to say in the real world when it comes to computer work, we are as much your boss as your boss is. If you dont like it, go back to using paper. But the fact is in the nearly 10 years I have been doing this, the user cant be trusted to push the power button, forget about actually making important decisions that could potentially effect other machines.
The thing is, for all the claims of "living in a police state" people who dont live in the US make about the US, for the most part 99% of the population doesnt see it that way, and likely never will.
The minute soldiers are marching in the street acting like cops HERE, things will change (and dont say they do now, I live right next to NYC and even AFTER 9/11 it wasnt that bad). But for Bobby Joe redneck in the middle of the US with NO ONE around for miles, the kind of people who make up half the population of the US? They are as off the grid as they where in the 30-40's.
I suspect the "user" is stretching the truth. I have had people at work constantly rag on my department for simular concerns and what does it always turn out to be. We unblock them and instantly the sites like parezhilton and myspace pop on, or the aim client is loaded up, or you find out their request for a certain software program turns out to be a package they have no business running and are scamming their boss into buying for them so they can take it home.
Maybe not all people are like this. But enough have to have gotten our department to the point of making our staff submit requests to our big boss in detail as to EXACTLY what they want, and let him approve it. The legitimate requests go through and we fill them as soon as they are approved. The no so legitimate ones? They drop it right then and there.
the more of a nightmare this becomes. We ran this way for years since we had basically a 2 man support staff and well over 2000 users (public school.) Getting a handle on it now has become a full time job of both IT work, and tact in telling people who for years pirated programs and did what they want to the machines "you cant do that anymore."
Maybe a small 5-10 person office it would work, but past 100, you better have those machines locked up tight and strict policies in place to avoid Mr. Office Know it All from installing a pirated copy of Office loaded with a virus.
your not using things that need it then. I wouldnt blink twice about using USB2 with a MP3 player or camera. But a true DV camera or hard drive? You would be a moron to use USB2. CNET is thinking of consumers, when firewire was never truly a consumer protocol, but a replacement for high speed scsi.
The only reason Apple used it exclusively for things like the iPod at first was because USB2 wasnt out yet.
They have a 6.5% share of the worldwide market after one full year.... they maybe are not in the lead but they are doing good enough to bumb Motorola's smartphone sales to 4th.
OS X IS opened up to java. I can count on 1 hand how often its used though. Neo Office I think is the only program I have run that has used it and like most java apps out there on both windows and the mac, it runs like crap despite days of cleanup to speed things up.
Javas basis was sound, but its execution is what has relegated it to a starter language like qbasic. Yes everyone learns it, but aside from a few web apps no one uses it.
Apple didnt "slam the door" on anything. Sun shot its mouth off on "how dare Apple tell us we cant run our own apps on their phone," and then realized that they had no case, that the idea in it of it's self of a OS running a app thats running a app is stupid when the SDK is available to all and easy to program and port apps to without using java which is all but a dead language.
Because I work in education I have to be both a legacy specialist AND help desk. But I honestly dont consider them that dirty personally. Maybe partly because I have a education background, so Im used to working with users, and maybe because I find a elegance in legacy code, but both are fun to me, and both make me almost 50 grand after only 2 years of full time work.
all they would have to add is a mouse, the 360 has been able to use a USB keyboard since day one, since FFXI was one of the first games on it. Same with the PS3, both could easily just add a mouse to the setup. The PS2 though not capable of playing it DID have a mouse ability though few games used it.
first off... 20 million are NOT playing WoW, a little over 10 million are. And that is ONE GAME which in it of its self is not a resource hog (which is why people wonder why Blizzard still has not portted it to the PS3 and 360 which can easily run it, since the 360 alone is somewhat based on a system that already DOES run it, the Macintosh G5)
and I could go on and talk about how the numbers are seriously suspect for WoW and have been disputed by many reputable sites, but regardless of it, its still doesnt prove anything. One game is a huge seller, but thats ONE game and a anomaly at best since few PC games ever hit 1 million and most never hit 500,000. If you added all the Wii titles over 1 million up, you would be well over 10 million. Some titles alone have hit 4-5 million,
And how much is the chip? If its like most chips its probably around the cost of a console which leads to the "why bother?"
The more telling statistic is numbers sold. A PC game that breaks 300-400 thousand is considered a hit. A console game that barely breaks that though is considered lukewarm at best when most games hit 1-2 million these days.
And you completely missed the point of the test (which I honestly doubt he even "graded" to be truthful, I think he just said the grades and never recorded it)
When in the field are you truly going to have to sit there and remember somethign on the fly? Even more importantly when are you going to USE something you remembered on the fly without double checking it? You would be stupid bordering on criminal to do that, because memory has been shown to be very flawed.
It goes back to the basic fundamental that testing is a DUMB and WORTHLESS educational process thats constantly thought to mean something when its scientifically proven to do nothing. Your not testing ability here your testing memory. Anyone can memorize formulas and facts, but in the real world your rarely subjected to having to know more than a handful of the easiest formulas.
Give a person a formula and they can work the problem. Make them remember it and a good number of people wont be able to. So how does that prove the person is or is not smart? Just proves that they have a crappy memory.
My prof had a test for my engineering problems class. He gave us a bunch of questions that we had to answer, and we could do whatever we wanted in the classroom, but we couldn't talk to each other.
Everyone around me worked their ass off. People grouped together but didnt talk to each other, just wrote things going through equations like lightning.
Me?
I went to his desk grabbed the book he got the questions out of, turned to the answer key and wrote them on the board.
Everyone in my class got a B, I got a A
The point? It is silliness boarding on stupidity to think in the 21st century you will not be able to have all means necessary in completely your job. So WHY would you limit yourself when the professor said "use anything possible except talking to each other." The talking to each other was a trick obviously, since by saying that he reinforced the fear all college students have about honor codes and the like, but his point was, dont be stupid about working the problem.
The problem with that was its usually the sellers who get burned, not the buyers, so when you practically make your income off ebay its a serious issue when you cant call a buyer badmouthing you a liar without taking them to court.
ala the PS3 which despite the lack of support from consumers, still managed to kill the competitor through a combo of media and backroom incentives.
If there is one thing that we can believe, its that the companies that make the RIAA are nothing but consistent in their pissing of money to get ahead.
If you RTFA and the comments left, you would find out the guy who wrote the article took two and two and made 5. There are no "secret" APIs, just unrelased ones because they are very crippled and not fully formed.
And Safari it's self doesnt use them, and the Firefox team has already made 3.1 much faster than Safari.
It was a non-story that has been picked up by slashdot days late.
Porn, except for some extreme examples is completely and totally legal in the US. This is just like fighting smoking in adults... you might not like it, but unless you make it illegal you have no fucking argument and need to live with it and STFU.
but is it trivial? It took this many years since having a touch sensitive device for someone to develop one that uses multiple gestures without issues as it is. Even the Microsoft one used cameras and not the actual screen. So its far from trivial if these gestures are what makes the multi-touch software Apple uses to configure their system work.
Apple could just simply license it, which they have for most of their technology anyway... Do people really realize how much of the computing world relys on Apple patents? Your PC sitting under your desk running XP likely has at least 3-4 parts that are LICENSED from Apple.
Just because something is patented doesnt mean people cant use it, and companies wont license it.
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This was as sudden as Apple dropping OS9 development. It was coming and coming for years, but developers are more content to repackage old code, than to rewrite it. This is the same mentality thats screwing Vista development too. Developers are just plain LAZY.
IF you RTFA you would know that what you said has NO basis on whats being talked about. But then you where just trolling anyway.
And you should see what middle management approves sometimes. Maybe if we could trust them to approve legitimate packages then sure, but Half Life 2? (true story)
Sorry to say in the real world when it comes to computer work, we are as much your boss as your boss is. If you dont like it, go back to using paper. But the fact is in the nearly 10 years I have been doing this, the user cant be trusted to push the power button, forget about actually making important decisions that could potentially effect other machines.
The thing is, for all the claims of "living in a police state" people who dont live in the US make about the US, for the most part 99% of the population doesnt see it that way, and likely never will. The minute soldiers are marching in the street acting like cops HERE, things will change (and dont say they do now, I live right next to NYC and even AFTER 9/11 it wasnt that bad). But for Bobby Joe redneck in the middle of the US with NO ONE around for miles, the kind of people who make up half the population of the US? They are as off the grid as they where in the 30-40's.
Maybe not all people are like this. But enough have to have gotten our department to the point of making our staff submit requests to our big boss in detail as to EXACTLY what they want, and let him approve it. The legitimate requests go through and we fill them as soon as they are approved. The no so legitimate ones? They drop it right then and there.
Maybe a small 5-10 person office it would work, but past 100, you better have those machines locked up tight and strict policies in place to avoid Mr. Office Know it All from installing a pirated copy of Office loaded with a virus.
your not using things that need it then. I wouldnt blink twice about using USB2 with a MP3 player or camera. But a true DV camera or hard drive? You would be a moron to use USB2. CNET is thinking of consumers, when firewire was never truly a consumer protocol, but a replacement for high speed scsi. The only reason Apple used it exclusively for things like the iPod at first was because USB2 wasnt out yet.
They have a 6.5% share of the worldwide market after one full year.... they maybe are not in the lead but they are doing good enough to bumb Motorola's smartphone sales to 4th.
Javas basis was sound, but its execution is what has relegated it to a starter language like qbasic. Yes everyone learns it, but aside from a few web apps no one uses it.
But without 3rd party software the iPhone would STILL be one of the best selling phones on the market. So your point is MOOT.
Apple didnt "slam the door" on anything. Sun shot its mouth off on "how dare Apple tell us we cant run our own apps on their phone," and then realized that they had no case, that the idea in it of it's self of a OS running a app thats running a app is stupid when the SDK is available to all and easy to program and port apps to without using java which is all but a dead language.
Because I work in education I have to be both a legacy specialist AND help desk. But I honestly dont consider them that dirty personally. Maybe partly because I have a education background, so Im used to working with users, and maybe because I find a elegance in legacy code, but both are fun to me, and both make me almost 50 grand after only 2 years of full time work.
all they would have to add is a mouse, the 360 has been able to use a USB keyboard since day one, since FFXI was one of the first games on it. Same with the PS3, both could easily just add a mouse to the setup. The PS2 though not capable of playing it DID have a mouse ability though few games used it.
and I could go on and talk about how the numbers are seriously suspect for WoW and have been disputed by many reputable sites, but regardless of it, its still doesnt prove anything. One game is a huge seller, but thats ONE game and a anomaly at best since few PC games ever hit 1 million and most never hit 500,000. If you added all the Wii titles over 1 million up, you would be well over 10 million. Some titles alone have hit 4-5 million,
The more telling statistic is numbers sold. A PC game that breaks 300-400 thousand is considered a hit. A console game that barely breaks that though is considered lukewarm at best when most games hit 1-2 million these days.
got your browsers a bit mixed up there. IE 5.5 was in direct competition, 6 was released after the war.
And you completely missed the point of the test (which I honestly doubt he even "graded" to be truthful, I think he just said the grades and never recorded it) When in the field are you truly going to have to sit there and remember somethign on the fly? Even more importantly when are you going to USE something you remembered on the fly without double checking it? You would be stupid bordering on criminal to do that, because memory has been shown to be very flawed. It goes back to the basic fundamental that testing is a DUMB and WORTHLESS educational process thats constantly thought to mean something when its scientifically proven to do nothing. Your not testing ability here your testing memory. Anyone can memorize formulas and facts, but in the real world your rarely subjected to having to know more than a handful of the easiest formulas. Give a person a formula and they can work the problem. Make them remember it and a good number of people wont be able to. So how does that prove the person is or is not smart? Just proves that they have a crappy memory.
Everyone around me worked their ass off. People grouped together but didnt talk to each other, just wrote things going through equations like lightning.
Me?
I went to his desk grabbed the book he got the questions out of, turned to the answer key and wrote them on the board. Everyone in my class got a B, I got a A
The point? It is silliness boarding on stupidity to think in the 21st century you will not be able to have all means necessary in completely your job. So WHY would you limit yourself when the professor said "use anything possible except talking to each other." The talking to each other was a trick obviously, since by saying that he reinforced the fear all college students have about honor codes and the like, but his point was, dont be stupid about working the problem.
The problem with that was its usually the sellers who get burned, not the buyers, so when you practically make your income off ebay its a serious issue when you cant call a buyer badmouthing you a liar without taking them to court.
If there is one thing that we can believe, its that the companies that make the RIAA are nothing but consistent in their pissing of money to get ahead.
only too bad that if people read the comments, the whole story was completely debunked as horseshit.
And Safari it's self doesnt use them, and the Firefox team has already made 3.1 much faster than Safari.
It was a non-story that has been picked up by slashdot days late.
Porn, except for some extreme examples is completely and totally legal in the US. This is just like fighting smoking in adults... you might not like it, but unless you make it illegal you have no fucking argument and need to live with it and STFU.
but is it trivial? It took this many years since having a touch sensitive device for someone to develop one that uses multiple gestures without issues as it is. Even the Microsoft one used cameras and not the actual screen. So its far from trivial if these gestures are what makes the multi-touch software Apple uses to configure their system work.
Just because something is patented doesnt mean people cant use it, and companies wont license it.