It doesn't really matter what 8-bit and 16 bit chips are classified as. Where they are still being used it's in places where performance doesn't matter.
ARM and X86 on the other hand are head and head in current day computing devices. And ARM is vastly more used than X86.
I don't really seem a big thing with automatically checking this via reading their numberplate.
Because it's use doesn't stop with tax and insurance. People are now getting arrested for their beliefs. e.g. the people arrested in the days before the royal wedding on the basis that they were republicans and were thought likely to demonstrate.
Indeed. Donald Norman wrote a book about how computers were moving towards an appliance model 15 years ago. "The Invisible Computer". More recently the term Post-PC seems to be the phrase for it.
The old PC box with interchangeable components was a thing belonging to an early stage of the technology. It was never going to last.
In exchange for the loss of tinkerability we get better technology, minaturisation, reliability, better design etc.
Similar things happened with motorcars, radios, washing machines, power tools. etc.
Each new edition is a new discrete app. The framing app, the Apple Newsstand outer layer, operates more like a folder, and the frames for the individual publications are alse like a folder. But the new editions are indeed discrete applications themselves.
As I said, you are mistaken. I'm a paid-up registered developer and I have access to the documentation. Obviously I can't link you to that, but this article gives a broad outline.
As I said, each title is an app. That app gets notified when there is a new issue. And that app downloads the content for that issue. Your concept of one app per issue is just plain wrong. That's not how Newstand works.
Now if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them. In particular whatever the thing is that's given you the wrong impression about how they work. Feel free to ask me about that.
pdf is ideal. This is the model most publishers have already embraced prior to Apple's Newsstand being released. The reason is pretty obvious: no extra work for publishers. They are already generating pdf's in order to print their publication.
And the flaw in that argument is that of course it publishers prefer PDF then they can make the content a PDF and have their app use a PDF view. They already have complete flexibility to do it however they want, because the content is displayed by their own app. Maybe some publishers ARE using PDF for that. But it doesn't look like any of the important ones are. They want more versatility in UI than PDF can give. They don't prefer PDF at all.
The fundamental idea behind your argument is based on a fallacy.
Every single new issue is a discrete new application, not a document.
That's simply not true. Each TITLE is an app. That app downloads new content once per day or once per month depending on whether it's a newspaper or a magazine. It DOES NOT download a new app each time. Thus the UI does not change each time, only the content.
Why use an app as the mechanism rather than a PDF? Simple... before Apple even looked at doing periodicals, publishes had taken it into their own hands and published apps via the ordinary App Store. So Apple just gave them a special folder to put them in, a special area on the app store, and a few APIs to manage subscriptions and downloading of issues.
Ideally I'd say that the iBooks Author system would be the basis of an ideal system. EPub based, not PDF. But that would involve re-writing history, and Apple forcing a system on publishers who'd already chosen another way.
On Slashdot, folks hate Microsoft for the power they wield- does Apple get a pass?
You're kidding! Where have you been for the last 10 years? The main target of Slashdotters bile has been Apple for a long time now. Microsoft rarely warrants a mention any more.
Speaking for the app store: don't forget, Apple will still take on stuff that's free. 30% of free isn't much. Overall the average app sale is $1.39. So Apple is making 42c.
The answer is because it doesn't. 30% covers the costs with a massive profit margin for Apple.
It covers both of course. Costs and profit. Apple is a business not a charity. As are Apples current and potential competitors.
Funnily enough everyone I hear of in the business knows it to be a bargain. It's only people who have no experience, only opinions, who think it's unreasonable.
Speaking as yet another person who does actually know about digital downloads, having sold them myself, Apple's 30% is indeed a bargain. Prior to them being on the scene the distributor for my mobile software downloads was taking 43%.
Anyone who says Apple's 30% is unreasonable is simply showing that they don't know what they are talking about.
You should be convinced. Apple hasn't budged on it's 30% for any media. It's across the board. Take it or leave it.
Why do you think The Beatles were absent from the iTunes store for so long? They thought they had the clout to get Apple to negotiate terms. But they didn't.
By cars, I expect you mean the ANPR cameras that check for valid tax and insurance. These are always accompanied by signs letting you know they're there, just like speed cameras.
Even if you are right, and I don't know that you are: In what way does the existence of signs make it in any way OK? In case you've forgotten, in 2001, the state had lots of signs saying "Big Brother is watching you."
Yes what the hell happened? The Tory party when in opposition opposed the National ID Card scheme, on the basis of privacy concerns and cost. They and their supporters often quoting George Orwell. As soon as they were in power they cancelled the scheme.
Now the very same part are going to spy on what everyone does on the internet, and it's going cost 1.5 billion UKP. At a time when all public services are being cut back.
Even accepting the fact that they are huge hypocrites, this does not make sense.
I've got a MacBook Pro that's a couple of years old, and while it's technically got user servicable parts, absolutely none of them are accessible from outside the case. You have to tear the whole thing down to do something as simple as replacing the hard drive.
I'll put that down to you being ill-informed about a 2 year old MBP that you own, rather than assume you're trying to deceive.
I use HDD as a catch all synonym for "the local mass storage device", but I cede to your pedantry....The ad hominem just makes you sound like the fanboi you're accusing "us" of being though.
Your sole concrete criticism was wrong on both counts. The "ad-hominem" was a precise description of people criticising from a clueless perspective. And the twin references to "toy" made it more than clear.
From my point of view, soldered in HDD == tears about data loss when the laptop breaks
It's an SSD. And if you look at the teardown linked to in TFS, you'll see it's not solder in, it's a daughterboard in a socket.
The whole thing seems to be a massive fuck you to the types of people that allowed apple to survive between the ][c and the iPod.
Give over. Those people were so pissed off they were ready to lynch someone at that first MacWorld Jobs went to shortly after he returned to the company. Those people are mostly happy with how Apple improved over the last 15 years. Or at least certainly happier than that period you're talking about. It's Linux, and Android fans on Slashdot that are doing nearly all the complaining. People who would never buy an Apple device regardless, and are mostly clueless as to what they are really like. People for example that are trying to claim the new MacBook Pro has a HDD and it's soldered in.
What is ridiculous is the amount of trolling. Since I recognize your name, I assume you are not doing it intentionally... but come on dude, you really expect anyone to believe that not updating a device is a viable option?
Given the importance of the device to her daughter that she's painting - Her only way to communicate. - One has to assume that this is the sole or overriding purpose of the device. So why update it? As mentioned elsewhere, Stephen Hawking is still using the same speech synthesiser and input device he was using in the late 1970s.
I'm glad at least that you agree that this story is tabloid sensationalism.
Tablets and laptops are totally different. I don't store tons of music, do sound sampling and video editing, and store my entire picture collection on my tablet.
Unlike tablets, this laptop has USB3 and Thunderbolt, both of which you can plug external drives to when you need the extra capacity.
As your comparison is to a desktop computer, having external drives isn't a problem as far as portability goes.
THE app store? Funny how the fact that there are many app stores for Android is forgotten about when it's inconvenient. Malware might be pulled from some of them. But will it be removed from all of them? And how quickly?
I will never accept any general computing device that I am not allowed to load the apps of my choice on to.
Good for you. Poorer quality device and software, and an environment of malware is the price you'll pay for your principle.
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It doesn't really matter what 8-bit and 16 bit chips are classified as. Where they are still being used it's in places where performance doesn't matter.
ARM and X86 on the other hand are head and head in current day computing devices. And ARM is vastly more used than X86.
I don't really seem a big thing with automatically checking this via reading their numberplate.
Because it's use doesn't stop with tax and insurance. People are now getting arrested for their beliefs. e.g. the people arrested in the days before the royal wedding on the basis that they were republicans and were thought likely to demonstrate.
Don't sleep walk into a fascist state.
Indeed. Donald Norman wrote a book about how computers were moving towards an appliance model 15 years ago. "The Invisible Computer". More recently the term Post-PC seems to be the phrase for it.
The old PC box with interchangeable components was a thing belonging to an early stage of the technology. It was never going to last.
In exchange for the loss of tinkerability we get better technology, minaturisation, reliability, better design etc.
Similar things happened with motorcars, radios, washing machines, power tools. etc.
Each new edition is a new discrete app. The framing app, the Apple Newsstand outer layer, operates more like a folder, and the frames for the individual publications are alse like a folder. But the new editions are indeed discrete applications themselves.
As I said, you are mistaken. I'm a paid-up registered developer and I have access to the documentation. Obviously I can't link you to that, but this article gives a broad outline.
http://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-5-newsstand-overview/
As I said, each title is an app. That app gets notified when there is a new issue. And that app downloads the content for that issue. Your concept of one app per issue is just plain wrong. That's not how Newstand works.
Now if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them. In particular whatever the thing is that's given you the wrong impression about how they work. Feel free to ask me about that.
pdf is ideal. This is the model most publishers have already embraced prior to Apple's Newsstand being released. The reason is pretty obvious: no extra work for publishers. They are already generating pdf's in order to print their publication.
And the flaw in that argument is that of course it publishers prefer PDF then they can make the content a PDF and have their app use a PDF view. They already have complete flexibility to do it however they want, because the content is displayed by their own app. Maybe some publishers ARE using PDF for that. But it doesn't look like any of the important ones are. They want more versatility in UI than PDF can give. They don't prefer PDF at all.
You know, we had the same argument with RISC versus CISC architecture. And we know who lost that one.
CISC did. ARM is RISC, and there are far more ARM chips in use in the world than X86 chips.
The fundamental idea behind your argument is based on a fallacy.
Every single new issue is a discrete new application, not a document.
That's simply not true. Each TITLE is an app. That app downloads new content once per day or once per month depending on whether it's a newspaper or a magazine. It DOES NOT download a new app each time. Thus the UI does not change each time, only the content.
Why use an app as the mechanism rather than a PDF? Simple... before Apple even looked at doing periodicals, publishes had taken it into their own hands and published apps via the ordinary App Store. So Apple just gave them a special folder to put them in, a special area on the app store, and a few APIs to manage subscriptions and downloading of issues.
Ideally I'd say that the iBooks Author system would be the basis of an ideal system. EPub based, not PDF. But that would involve re-writing history, and Apple forcing a system on publishers who'd already chosen another way.
On Slashdot, folks hate Microsoft for the power they wield- does Apple get a pass?
You're kidding! Where have you been for the last 10 years? The main target of Slashdotters bile has been Apple for a long time now. Microsoft rarely warrants a mention any more.
The Slashdot mob hate commercial success.
do you think 30% of every sale is justified?
Speaking for the app store: don't forget, Apple will still take on stuff that's free. 30% of free isn't much.
Overall the average app sale is $1.39. So Apple is making 42c.
The answer is because it doesn't. 30% covers the costs with a massive profit margin for Apple.
It covers both of course. Costs and profit. Apple is a business not a charity. As are Apples current and potential competitors.
Funnily enough everyone I hear of in the business knows it to be a bargain. It's only people who have no experience, only opinions, who think it's unreasonable.
Apple is up front and honest about what their take is. It's 30%. Amazon has deceptive practices - they've fooled you and they've fooled many more.
A $9.99 ebook, same price at both Amazon and Apple iBooks. Apple takes $2.99. Amazon takes $4.89. (49%)
http://andrewhy.de/amazons-markup-of-digital-delivery-to-indie-authors-is-129000/
Speaking as yet another person who does actually know about digital downloads, having sold them myself, Apple's 30% is indeed a bargain. Prior to them being on the scene the distributor for my mobile software downloads was taking 43%.
Anyone who says Apple's 30% is unreasonable is simply showing that they don't know what they are talking about.
You should be convinced. Apple hasn't budged on it's 30% for any media. It's across the board. Take it or leave it.
Why do you think The Beatles were absent from the iTunes store for so long? They thought they had the clout to get Apple to negotiate terms. But they didn't.
Apple arranged for lower rates.
You made that up.
What's really changed? Apple now allows magazines access to customer details, provided the customer opts in. That, and the iPad has seen huge growth.
No, I always knew they were even more corrupt. I'm just interested in who is bunging money to who to get this travesty put into action.
2001? What am I thinking of?! I mean 1984 of course!
By cars, I expect you mean the ANPR cameras that check for valid tax and insurance. These are always accompanied by signs letting you know they're there, just like speed cameras.
Even if you are right, and I don't know that you are: In what way does the existence of signs make it in any way OK? In case you've forgotten, in 2001, the state had lots of signs saying "Big Brother is watching you."
Yes what the hell happened? The Tory party when in opposition opposed the National ID Card scheme, on the basis of privacy concerns and cost. They and their supporters often quoting George Orwell. As soon as they were in power they cancelled the scheme.
Now the very same part are going to spy on what everyone does on the internet, and it's going cost 1.5 billion UKP. At a time when all public services are being cut back.
Even accepting the fact that they are huge hypocrites, this does not make sense.
So what manner of corruption is going on here?
I've got a MacBook Pro that's a couple of years old, and while it's technically got user servicable parts, absolutely none of them are accessible from outside the case. You have to tear the whole thing down to do something as simple as replacing the hard drive.
I'll put that down to you being ill-informed about a 2 year old MBP that you own, rather than assume you're trying to deceive.
I use HDD as a catch all synonym for "the local mass storage device", but I cede to your pedantry....The ad hominem just makes you sound like the fanboi you're accusing "us" of being though.
Your sole concrete criticism was wrong on both counts. The "ad-hominem" was a precise description of people criticising from a clueless perspective. And the twin references to "toy" made it more than clear.
From my point of view, soldered in HDD == tears about data loss when the laptop breaks
It's an SSD. And if you look at the teardown linked to in TFS, you'll see it's not solder in, it's a daughterboard in a socket.
The whole thing seems to be a massive fuck you to the types of people that allowed apple to survive between the ][c and the iPod.
Give over. Those people were so pissed off they were ready to lynch someone at that first MacWorld Jobs went to shortly after he returned to the company. Those people are mostly happy with how Apple improved over the last 15 years. Or at least certainly happier than that period you're talking about. It's Linux, and Android fans on Slashdot that are doing nearly all the complaining. People who would never buy an Apple device regardless, and are mostly clueless as to what they are really like. People for example that are trying to claim the new MacBook Pro has a HDD and it's soldered in.
So you are calling late 30's youth, thanks very much, it's been a while since I have been called young :)
It is young for me. I wish I was still in my late 30s. ;-)
What is ridiculous is the amount of trolling. Since I recognize your name, I assume you are not doing it intentionally... but come on dude, you really expect anyone to believe that not updating a device is a viable option?
Given the importance of the device to her daughter that she's painting - Her only way to communicate. - One has to assume that this is the sole or overriding purpose of the device. So why update it? As mentioned elsewhere, Stephen Hawking is still using the same speech synthesiser and input device he was using in the late 1970s.
I'm glad at least that you agree that this story is tabloid sensationalism.
Oh I like that comment. I like it a lot. I may well steal it. erm... I mean quote you. :-)
Tablets and laptops are totally different. I don't store tons of music, do sound sampling and video editing, and store my entire picture collection on my tablet.
Unlike tablets, this laptop has USB3 and Thunderbolt, both of which you can plug external drives to when you need the extra capacity.
As your comparison is to a desktop computer, having external drives isn't a problem as far as portability goes.
It's not just fitting it in. It's the security and UI usability implications of having it there.
No, because if the app store pulls it
THE app store? Funny how the fact that there are many app stores for Android is forgotten about when it's inconvenient. Malware might be pulled from some of them. But will it be removed from all of them? And how quickly?
I will never accept any general computing device that I am not allowed to load the apps of my choice on to.
Good for you. Poorer quality device and software, and an environment of malware is the price you'll pay for your principle.
Enjoy your paranoia.
I'll enjoy my superior products.