No. There should not be a standard terminal. The whole concept is quite outdated. Is much as you superior command line guys love it, there should be no terminal interface.
Your too pessimistic, man. While I won't agree that a widget is an app (it's a web page displayed inside of an app called Dashboard), I will concede that there's a small, though existent, tiny chance that apple would shoot themselves in the foot and disallow widgets that have not been through some kind of prescreening process. They _might_ do it. I'm not betting on it though, as that would be retarded.
You're just clinging to the last shreds of the argument, aren't you? Can't you find something more plausible than saying that apple won't let people write widgets for the thing unless they pay for the privilege? Do you know just how stupid that sounds? Did you read that forum you pointed to? Those people could barely spell!
"sry for all the typos. On me treo.:P"
My iPhone's gonna spell check as I go, just like my g5 does!
It says right on the apple website that widgets can be installed. Now I know it's a stretch to think of apple of all companies giving it's users, you know, freedoms, and all; it's not like they based their os on open source or anything, or work towards getting drm free music or anything CRAZY like that, but I'm thinking it just might be possible that they would not waste good programmer money on removing functionality from the dashboard.
Better yet, make a dashboard widget, because thats the way the interface will be set up. You can't write a program for it, but you most certainly will be able to write a widget. A widget is just a web page sans browser, so anything you can write in java will work just fine.
There are many possibilities. The most likely are:
* They may just have written the software to do automatic image selection; it may simply not have existed before.
* The software may have existed, but it may not have gotten around to processing those images yet.
In other words you, have no idea. Some human may, just as likely, had a hand in the process, right? You think that google changed out that old bug pic before everybody and their grandmother knew about it? You think _I_ haven't seen it before? You think that even though I look at the Superdome from my front porch everyday, that I didn't know that googles images of my area have been wrong for A LONG TIME, longer than it takes the google interns to notice some dumb auto-proc's mistakes?
Think about it.
So you're saying that the pic with the bigger size, regardless of content, is the one to be picked at all times, right? Even though there have been pics of katrina damage on google before, put there by the auto-proc, it should now update to older pics because the newer ones have magically become smaller and thus contain less info.
In other words, why would the katrina pics have gone up, then gone down, if the info hadn't changed? Why would it have ever put them up? Furthermore, why is there and automated process out there that exists to say which pic is better based on some random criterion like file size?
New Orleans was photographed by sat. over and over and over again, with such detail that you could see individual waves in the flood. Why would they think that these pre-k pics were simply better?
So in other words, you just wanted to pick on an anti-windows guy and someone called you out, so now you have to try to come up with something and claim that a function of the os is not a part of the os. Right? The memory used for the "SuperFetch" function is not part of the os?
Didn't you even to read the summary? How are "applications and data" the "OS alone"?
I guess you don't understand how os's work or something? Are you thinking that somehow the applications cache themselves to memory? Do you think that the apps magically float there and there's no actual os doing the work or something? You _do_ know what an operating system is, don't you? "applications and data" cached in memory are not programs, they are data. All of it, something that can't be used without the os's direct manipulation. The os stores the data in memory, and when needed, loads the memory into program space to be executed. The trick here, is that ms stores oft used data in the RAM space of your computer, rather than the hard disk, so that it runs faster.
So, in summary, cached data is not "applications and data," it's just data, something that only the os can use, and therefore, can be considered memory used by the os. Any questions? Do you feel like breaking this up into smaller parts again? Have fun.
The apps don't use that memory, the os does. The application programs are stored in ram (you know, like a "ram disk"), so that when the program is actually called upon, the program is already in ram and doesn't need to be read from the hard drive (you know, cause the hard drive is slower than the ram). This is a "feature" of the operating system.
What, are you kidding me? You think the american people have a will? Nope. I'm american! I vote for the candidate that can raise the biggest election campaign funding! Who's got the deepest pockets? You? Welcome to the office, Mr (or Ms) President, Nice to have you. Whats that? War on.... (shrug).... Paraguay? Right! Thats where the terrorists are all coming from, after all!! Lets get those sonsabitches.
Nanny nanny boo boo!! Stick your hand in poo poo! What ever you say, bounces of of me and sticks to you!! PPPPBBBTTTHHH!!! Donkeys are cooler than elephants!!
Yeah, man, burn those bad boys to 8 track and the boogey man can NEVER get you!! By the way, if you're "a full time college student working a full time job," and you want an Ipod but can't afford one, you're doing SOMETHING wrong. Maybe you need to skip then bag today and invest in a shuffle. Or get a loan, it's not going to kill you. In fact, get a loan so you don't have to work a full time job. Thats what loans are for. You can pay it back, don't worry, you're not getting an english degree, are you?
I'm gonna go out and buy this crap, just cause it was a slashdot article!! YAY!!! I'm glad that what ever bullshit next generation video card makes headline news here at slashdot, so I can throw cash at it!!!! Oh wait, I DON'T GIVE A GOOD GOD DAMN. Thats cause I'm not a windows gamer or someone looking to do high end graphics (read: commercial work-style graphics), on the cheap. Yeah, I forgot. My bad.
I bet that there's some sort of chip reader that one could build to pull passphrase for were it's stored in a chip on the board. that or pull the platters and stick them in a friendly drive. Or brute force it. I doubt that they can keep government data guys out no matter how hard they try. And if govt guys can do it, so can someone who will post a fix to the net.
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No. There should not be a standard terminal. The whole concept is quite outdated. Is much as you superior command line guys love it, there should be no terminal interface.
I like how the blurb says absolutely nothing new about the topic.
Your too pessimistic, man. While I won't agree that a widget is an app (it's a web page displayed inside of an app called Dashboard), I will concede that there's a small, though existent, tiny chance that apple would shoot themselves in the foot and disallow widgets that have not been through some kind of prescreening process. They _might_ do it. I'm not betting on it though, as that would be retarded.
Show me where it says that they will not allow arbitrary 3rd party widgets on the iPhone.
You're just clinging to the last shreds of the argument, aren't you? Can't you find something more plausible than saying that apple won't let people write widgets for the thing unless they pay for the privilege? Do you know just how stupid that sounds? Did you read that forum you pointed to? Those people could barely spell!
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"sry for all the typos. On me treo.
My iPhone's gonna spell check as I go, just like my g5 does!
It says right on the apple website that widgets can be installed. Now I know it's a stretch to think of apple of all companies giving it's users, you know, freedoms, and all; it's not like they based their os on open source or anything, or work towards getting drm free music or anything CRAZY like that, but I'm thinking it just might be possible that they would not waste good programmer money on removing functionality from the dashboard.
Maybe it's just me, though, I don't know.
Call it a hunch?
-sam
Better yet, make a dashboard widget, because thats the way the interface will be set up. You can't write a program for it, but you most certainly will be able to write a widget. A widget is just a web page sans browser, so anything you can write in java will work just fine.
In other words you, have no idea. Some human may, just as likely, had a hand in the process, right? You think that google changed out that old bug pic before everybody and their grandmother knew about it? You think _I_ haven't seen it before? You think that even though I look at the Superdome from my front porch everyday, that I didn't know that googles images of my area have been wrong for A LONG TIME, longer than it takes the google interns to notice some dumb auto-proc's mistakes? Think about it.
So you're saying that the pic with the bigger size, regardless of content, is the one to be picked at all times, right? Even though there have been pics of katrina damage on google before, put there by the auto-proc, it should now update to older pics because the newer ones have magically become smaller and thus contain less info.
In other words, why would the katrina pics have gone up, then gone down, if the info hadn't changed? Why would it have ever put them up? Furthermore, why is there and automated process out there that exists to say which pic is better based on some random criterion like file size?
New Orleans was photographed by sat. over and over and over again, with such detail that you could see individual waves in the flood. Why would they think that these pre-k pics were simply better?
I think that everything that microsoft touches turns to shit, any more questions?
So in other words, you just wanted to pick on an anti-windows guy and someone called you out, so now you have to try to come up with something and claim that a function of the os is not a part of the os. Right? The memory used for the "SuperFetch" function is not part of the os?
Didn't you even to read the summary? How are "applications and data" the "OS alone"?
I guess you don't understand how os's work or something? Are you thinking that somehow the applications cache themselves to memory? Do you think that the apps magically float there and there's no actual os doing the work or something? You _do_ know what an operating system is, don't you? "applications and data" cached in memory are not programs, they are data. All of it, something that can't be used without the os's direct manipulation. The os stores the data in memory, and when needed, loads the memory into program space to be executed. The trick here, is that ms stores oft used data in the RAM space of your computer, rather than the hard disk, so that it runs faster.
So, in summary, cached data is not "applications and data," it's just data, something that only the os can use, and therefore, can be considered memory used by the os. Any questions? Do you feel like breaking this up into smaller parts again? Have fun.
The apps don't use that memory, the os does. The application programs are stored in ram (you know, like a "ram disk"), so that when the program is actually called upon, the program is already in ram and doesn't need to be read from the hard drive (you know, cause the hard drive is slower than the ram). This is a "feature" of the operating system.
"will of the American people."
.... (shrug) .... Paraguay? Right! Thats where the terrorists are all coming from, after all!! Lets get those sonsabitches.
What, are you kidding me? You think the american people have a will? Nope. I'm american! I vote for the candidate that can raise the biggest election campaign funding! Who's got the deepest pockets? You? Welcome to the office, Mr (or Ms) President, Nice to have you. Whats that? War on
No, I wouldn't curb my internet usage, I'm an american, damnit, I take what I want, when I want it, and how I want it, and ain't nobody stoppin me.
Nanny nanny boo boo!! Stick your hand in poo poo! What ever you say, bounces of of me and sticks to you!! PPPPBBBTTTHHH!!! Donkeys are cooler than elephants!!
I hate that company.
yay for mozart.
Yeah, man, burn those bad boys to 8 track and the boogey man can NEVER get you!! By the way, if you're "a full time college student working a full time job," and you want an Ipod but can't afford one, you're doing SOMETHING wrong. Maybe you need to skip then bag today and invest in a shuffle. Or get a loan, it's not going to kill you. In fact, get a loan so you don't have to work a full time job. Thats what loans are for. You can pay it back, don't worry, you're not getting an english degree, are you?
Oh yeah? Thats nice. You wanna tell the nice people what you're talking about or do you just want to suck M$ balls?
innovation (?n'?-v?'sh?n)
n.
The act of introducing something new.
Something newly introduced.
Anti-aliasing has been around since at least the seventies, Do YOU call that particularly new and thus an innovation?
I like to listen to NPR when it's on, but I do have an ipod with radio controller as well.
I'm gonna go out and buy this crap, just cause it was a slashdot article!! YAY!!! I'm glad that what ever bullshit next generation video card makes headline news here at slashdot, so I can throw cash at it!!!! Oh wait, I DON'T GIVE A GOOD GOD DAMN. Thats cause I'm not a windows gamer or someone looking to do high end graphics (read: commercial work-style graphics), on the cheap. Yeah, I forgot. My bad.
I bet that there's some sort of chip reader that one could build to pull passphrase for were it's stored in a chip on the board. that or pull the platters and stick them in a friendly drive. Or brute force it. I doubt that they can keep government data guys out no matter how hard they try. And if govt guys can do it, so can someone who will post a fix to the net.