Your problem is that you think he needs standards. The lack of standards is part of the funny. The freedom that imagination has when you don't constantly watch yourself to make sure it looks polished is what makes reading xkcd exhilarating.
If you don't get it... you never will. That's fine. Don't read it. You don't read stuff you don't like do you?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
From our good old friend wikipedia:
Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight.
Right, and the 3-digit creativity software is only attractive because Flash is so ubiquitous. Now that Flash's domination is being threatened, Adobe's cash cow is threatened as well.
Personally, I think Adobe has a retarded business model that is specifically designed to milk customer's wallets. It needs to die.
Apple wants total control over the tools used to create applications on their devices. They can't do that with Adobe Flash. Peace is not possible.
Having flash in the locked down iPhone/iPad environment would be akin to having a dynamic programming environment on the iPhone/iPad. It would open up so many vectors for screwing with the security on the devices. I imagine it would be a great vector for hacks as well, especially given how homogenous the iPhone/iPad environment is.
In all honesty, we aren't too far from cameras being in all our homes. London already has them on every street. Imagine 20-30 years from now when they realize that cameras on every corner street doesn't stop all the activity the administrators don't like.
This is the problem with the advance of technology: when it becomes extremely cheap, the temptation to abuse technology and violate privacy (if that concept even still exists) becomes greater and greater.
Eating spam is also a bigger bang for your buck. No one does it because it tastes like crap.
Apple products may be derided as toys, but so what? Are you saying you don't like playing with shiny gadget toys? What kind of geek are you??
Stop talking about closed platforms!!
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Look, any proprietary company that cares about the stability of their product is going to be interested in keeping their platform very tightly controlled. Instead of talking about closed platforms, tell people to decide for themselves.
I did my research. I'm an existing Apple user. I can live without Flash, so I decided to buy an iPhone, and later, an iPad.
Flash is not the center of my universe. In fact, I do think the web would be better without it (that's why I use flashblock). But that's why the iPad and iPhone are devices I'm comfortable using (among other reasons).
If you can't live without flash on your device, or if you want to run any old crappy app under the sun, do your research. Don't buy Apple. Buy a product that supports what you want.
The market will speak and the product that succeeds will be the superior product.
I'm tired of this flamebait crap that tries to tell people what to think. Everyone should be making their own decisions for what product supports features they want.
You just love insulting people, don't you. I would think someone as refined as yourself would not stoop to slapping everyone that bought an iPad as being a "yuppie retard."
You like your gadgets, I like mine... there's no need to insult each other.
Netbooks just suck. That's why no one's buying them anymore. It's not because of the iPad.
We have a hard time justifying buying an inferior tiny product that you can barely see, which can't really do that much, especially when almost everyone already has a laptop or desktop which works just fine.
The iPad is successful with people because it provides a big huge screen which is great for lying in bed or sitting out on the patio relaxing with. While this is possible with a laptop, the iPad is much more conducive to a more relaxed environment (the ads for the thing were spot on in my opinion).
Also it does have a longer battery life than a standard laptop. Laptops tend to chew through batteries way too fast these days.
I beg to differ, the keyboard is quite usable. The only problem I consistently have is that whenever I try to hit the spacebar it hits the b key. Just takes a little retraining. I can almost type on it without looking down at the keyboard after a couple weeks of inconsistent usage.
Is a toy something you use to read books? Do you watch movies on a toy, update facebook on a toy, write on a toy? (And yes it's great for writing especially right after you wake up and you want to write down this great idea you had in your sleep).
If that's all true then yes, iPad is a toy. But in my experience (actually owning one), it is a netbook replacement.
If I need to do development (which I do) I use my company laptop or my iMac. (Clearly I have a thing for big displays.)
I know it's fashionable to not read the article on Slashdot, but you really should.
It may be possible for WoW to be re-compiled to run on the iPad, but that's not what happened here. They are using Gaikai, a cloud computing server which is still in beta. Gaikai is designed as a service to play games on hosted servers and stream to your client which essentially acts as a dumb terminal. This would essentially remove the requirement to have a 3D graphics accelerator on your computer.
It's a very interesting concept, and if they can do it I will be very impressed. I'm guessing there are going to be a number of hurdles with this operation, because this is not a typical cloud service; there is a lot of processing involved here.
It's weak, because the rebuttal talks about H.264 not being open, but Steve Jobs didn't claim it was, he called it an industry standard, not an open standard.
And Flash isn't an industry standard? When all the industry leaders - and nearly all the industry followers - support it, it seems to me to be a de-facto industry standard.
That doesn't mean it's a GOOD industry standard. Flash should be abolished.
I did buy an iPad. I had a gift certificate so the cost was significantly reduced, and I thought it would be fun. haven't had much time to play with it since work has been crazy since I bought it.
BUT it is a really nice media consumption device. I haven't bought the iWork suite yet (and i'm not sure I will).
It seems to me that using this device for creating word documents is not really that a good idea; it reminds me of the monty python skit where they ask someone to cut down a tree with a herring.
Personally I word process on my desktop when I have REAL work to do. If I want to write leisurely I could see that working on the iPad, but it's definitely not what I envision myself doing.
I'm going to be reading, watching movies, listening to music and playing games. It does those all pretty well IMO, and the OLED screen is gorgeous indoors (kind of reflective outside). Still wish it had a pixelqi screen but, ah well. Such is the fate of an early adopter.
Btw, kind of a strange place to ask this, but thought you might know since you seem knowledgable: I think I missed the boat on all the features that are in Windows 7, but is there a more full-featured console available in windows 7? CMD feels so clunky after coming from the terminal app in Mac OS X.
Right now I use VMware player to run an old XP install for some stuff that requires XP, and it works pretty well. Does this patch mean I won't need to do this anymore, or is this patch only available to the windows 7 professional or whatever licenses?
Side note: I just recently bought windows 7 home premium and I gotta say, things have improved a lot since XP. I'm a mac user and I think I might actually like windows 7 better (shock, horror). Windows 7 works great on my imac (besides that weird audio stuttering thing that sometimes happens, what is that?)
Cool! Guess this is a good lesson: if you're in security, you should pay attention to the people who are releasing vulnerability reports instead of relying on (a) operating systems with histories of unpatched issues and (b) security tools shown to not be effective 100% of the time. Sometimes you just have to be informed, and know all the varied sources to pull vulnerability information from.
However, I think it's generally accepted that by "undetected" we all mean undetected by the noob organizations that got pwned.
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Same. If anyone wants to get that info they can call me.
Honestly, at this point I trust Google Chat more than Facebook for my private info.
Your problem is that you think he needs standards. The lack of standards is part of the funny. The freedom that imagination has when you don't constantly watch yourself to make sure it looks polished is what makes reading xkcd exhilarating.
If you don't get it... you never will. That's fine. Don't read it. You don't read stuff you don't like do you?
creativity
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
From our good old friend wikipedia:
How can you say that after reading this comic: http://xkcd.com/368/
That's pretty fucking creative.
Also a lot of his "to-scale" maps are really fun to look at.
Microsoft!
I find it pretty interesting that most people on Slashdot will actually think this is a good thing now. Oh, how quickly we forget.
But honestly I think it wouldn't be so bad. I like windows 7... on my iMac ...
Right, and the 3-digit creativity software is only attractive because Flash is so ubiquitous. Now that Flash's domination is being threatened, Adobe's cash cow is threatened as well.
Personally, I think Adobe has a retarded business model that is specifically designed to milk customer's wallets. It needs to die.
You said it brother. These companies are practicing double-speak.
It'll only be open when they release their client source code as open source, as someone else mentioned. That'll be the day!!
(... that pigs fly...)
Apple wants total control over the tools used to create applications on their devices. They can't do that with Adobe Flash. Peace is not possible.
Having flash in the locked down iPhone/iPad environment would be akin to having a dynamic programming environment on the iPhone/iPad. It would open up so many vectors for screwing with the security on the devices. I imagine it would be a great vector for hacks as well, especially given how homogenous the iPhone/iPad environment is.
In all honesty, we aren't too far from cameras being in all our homes. London already has them on every street. Imagine 20-30 years from now when they realize that cameras on every corner street doesn't stop all the activity the administrators don't like.
This is the problem with the advance of technology: when it becomes extremely cheap, the temptation to abuse technology and violate privacy (if that concept even still exists) becomes greater and greater.
Eating spam is also a bigger bang for your buck. No one does it because it tastes like crap.
Apple products may be derided as toys, but so what? Are you saying you don't like playing with shiny gadget toys? What kind of geek are you??
Look, any proprietary company that cares about the stability of their product is going to be interested in keeping their platform very tightly controlled. Instead of talking about closed platforms, tell people to decide for themselves.
I did my research. I'm an existing Apple user. I can live without Flash, so I decided to buy an iPhone, and later, an iPad.
Flash is not the center of my universe. In fact, I do think the web would be better without it (that's why I use flashblock). But that's why the iPad and iPhone are devices I'm comfortable using (among other reasons).
If you can't live without flash on your device, or if you want to run any old crappy app under the sun, do your research. Don't buy Apple. Buy a product that supports what you want.
The market will speak and the product that succeeds will be the superior product.
I'm tired of this flamebait crap that tries to tell people what to think. Everyone should be making their own decisions for what product supports features they want.
You just love insulting people, don't you. I would think someone as refined as yourself would not stoop to slapping everyone that bought an iPad as being a "yuppie retard."
You like your gadgets, I like mine... there's no need to insult each other.
I don't blame you, I can't use slashdot on my iPad. It defaults to the mobile version which makes it impossible to read normal conversations.
Netbooks just suck. That's why no one's buying them anymore. It's not because of the iPad.
We have a hard time justifying buying an inferior tiny product that you can barely see, which can't really do that much, especially when almost everyone already has a laptop or desktop which works just fine.
The iPad is successful with people because it provides a big huge screen which is great for lying in bed or sitting out on the patio relaxing with. While this is possible with a laptop, the iPad is much more conducive to a more relaxed environment (the ads for the thing were spot on in my opinion).
Also it does have a longer battery life than a standard laptop. Laptops tend to chew through batteries way too fast these days.
I beg to differ, the keyboard is quite usable. The only problem I consistently have is that whenever I try to hit the spacebar it hits the b key. Just takes a little retraining. I can almost type on it without looking down at the keyboard after a couple weeks of inconsistent usage.
Is a toy something you use to read books? Do you watch movies on a toy, update facebook on a toy, write on a toy? (And yes it's great for writing especially right after you wake up and you want to write down this great idea you had in your sleep).
If that's all true then yes, iPad is a toy. But in my experience (actually owning one), it is a netbook replacement.
If I need to do development (which I do) I use my company laptop or my iMac. (Clearly I have a thing for big displays.)
I know it's fashionable to not read the article on Slashdot, but you really should.
It may be possible for WoW to be re-compiled to run on the iPad, but that's not what happened here. They are using Gaikai, a cloud computing server which is still in beta. Gaikai is designed as a service to play games on hosted servers and stream to your client which essentially acts as a dumb terminal. This would essentially remove the requirement to have a 3D graphics accelerator on your computer.
It's a very interesting concept, and if they can do it I will be very impressed. I'm guessing there are going to be a number of hurdles with this operation, because this is not a typical cloud service; there is a lot of processing involved here.
It'll probably cost a lot to subscribe...
It's weak, because the rebuttal talks about H.264 not being open, but Steve Jobs didn't claim it was, he called it an industry standard, not an open standard.
And Flash isn't an industry standard? When all the industry leaders - and nearly all the industry followers - support it, it seems to me to be a de-facto industry standard.
That doesn't mean it's a GOOD industry standard. Flash should be abolished.
This article summary is full of flamebait language. I could start getting into the flamewar but honestly I'd just rather point it out.
By the way, I find it amusing that everyone thinks Flash is God's child now. I thought we all hated flash? Isn't HTML 5 better?
When will the broadcast industry get a clue and realize that broadcast television is dead? (tivo style devices already prove this)
When that happens are we going to see increases in our internet connection price? I'm worried that the current price we see is subsidized by TV lines.
I did buy an iPad. I had a gift certificate so the cost was significantly reduced, and I thought it would be fun. haven't had much time to play with it since work has been crazy since I bought it.
BUT it is a really nice media consumption device. I haven't bought the iWork suite yet (and i'm not sure I will).
It seems to me that using this device for creating word documents is not really that a good idea; it reminds me of the monty python skit where they ask someone to cut down a tree with a herring.
Personally I word process on my desktop when I have REAL work to do. If I want to write leisurely I could see that working on the iPad, but it's definitely not what I envision myself doing.
I'm going to be reading, watching movies, listening to music and playing games. It does those all pretty well IMO, and the OLED screen is gorgeous indoors (kind of reflective outside). Still wish it had a pixelqi screen but, ah well. Such is the fate of an early adopter.
Btw, kind of a strange place to ask this, but thought you might know since you seem knowledgable: I think I missed the boat on all the features that are in Windows 7, but is there a more full-featured console available in windows 7? CMD feels so clunky after coming from the terminal app in Mac OS X.
Well, I got it just because I wanted to try it out (and I got a SC2 beta key invite that was windows only.. .curse you blizzard! lol)
I may end up just getting the 60$ upgrade from HP so I can have a better windows experience, but I'm going to see how HP does for a week or so first.
Argh, forgot to format. Imagine there's a break before Side note.
Right now I use VMware player to run an old XP install for some stuff that requires XP, and it works pretty well. Does this patch mean I won't need to do this anymore, or is this patch only available to the windows 7 professional or whatever licenses? Side note: I just recently bought windows 7 home premium and I gotta say, things have improved a lot since XP. I'm a mac user and I think I might actually like windows 7 better (shock, horror). Windows 7 works great on my imac (besides that weird audio stuttering thing that sometimes happens, what is that?)
Cool! Guess this is a good lesson: if you're in security, you should pay attention to the people who are releasing vulnerability reports instead of relying on (a) operating systems with histories of unpatched issues and (b) security tools shown to not be effective 100% of the time. Sometimes you just have to be informed, and know all the varied sources to pull vulnerability information from.
However, I think it's generally accepted that by "undetected" we all mean undetected by the noob organizations that got pwned.