The IOSification of Mac OS X has less to do with the features of MAC OS X and more to do with the near total lack of features from anywhere else.
Almost all features you use on Mac OS X either a) come from Apple or b) are a port of a Windows game.
The lack of anyone adding any original value to this ecosystem is why I ended up buying Windows 7 machines, and lately just not buying
any desktop machines in favor of various Android devices.
This has been true for decades. Technology wants to evolve from CISC to RISC. The x86 brilliantly hid this by translating CISC to RISC superbly,
But once you lose the x86 tag Intel would just be one of many vendors. The closest thing to competition they have had for x86 has been AMD.
All of the protocols that web programming depend upon are published in English. So presuming the ability to read written English is reasonable.
If you collaborating with non-native English speakers, although, you should be careful to not assume that the ability to read or even write English
guarantees that they will be comfortable discussing ideas orally in English.
I wouldn't want an intern who focused on their pay as an intern.
What you should be focused on is how much you will learn. In a good intern position the company is investing in training a prospect.
If you were paid your real net present value you would be lucky to get minimum wage.
IMHO, a company paying more than that is looking to hire a temporary grunt who has learned some syntax -- not someone they want to train.
More to the point. I am skeptical that Iran could launch any missile into space without prompting a massive response by Israel.
Any missile that could reach orbit could reach Tel Aviv. Faith that Iranian's are pursuing research for purely scientific reasons is not in abundance
anywhwere, but especially not in Israel.
The use of a dubious currency just distracts from the real problem - gambling with an online site that is not certified by anyone.
Regulated casinos have to document exactly how much they rigged each game in their favor. An unregulated online site can
cheat you anyway it wants to.
Thinking that Samba is less important because "Windows is less important" is definitely off target.
The obvious implication of the statement is that if Samba is less important then NFS is.
I certainly am not aware of any trend there. CIFS and NFS both remain valid NAS protocols.
To the extent that "Windows is less important" because PCs are less important then you are
dealing with some serious trends in storage.
One trend is the growing use of virtual disks in VMs to provide storage. This is just stupidity.
Shared files server users far better than virtual disks do. Files are not created for OSs, they
are a mechanism for sharing information between users. .
The other trend is away from NAS and towards object storage. That is a good trend, but not
one that will make NAS protocols obsolete anytime soon.
Dead on.
The surface is selling a new form factor.
The inclusion of Office makes it something I might consider, but only if I can get a feel for the form factor before I buy.
So when Microsoft does not convince Best Buy et al to put it on shelves I can either conclude that Microsoft does not
know how to market things, or that they know that my getting my hands on it at a retail outlet is not going to increase
sales.
Restricting the streaming to Apple devices is just smart marketing.
Why waste money trying to sell this product to somebody who isn't already addicted?
Seriously, there are far better models for less money in both the WIFI-only and Cellular varieties.
This hardware at this price running Linux, Android, Windows RT or even iOS would be a great bargain.
What I have not yet seen in any promotion of a Chromebook is how well it works as a basic document editor when I'm *not* connected to the Cloud.
If I need a lightweight mobile editing device with a permanently attached keyboard (which I cannot accidentally leave behind) then I need that portable
document editor to be able to work even if the WiFI at the conference I am attending isn't working yet or is just plain overloaded.
Adding a carrying case with a bluetooth keyboard, and software, to my Nexus 7 comes out way ahead Microsoft Surface.
If this Chromebook ran Android, it would come out ahead.
But have they really enabled Chromebooks to work effectively when detached from the network yet?
I have some vague recollection of it being a 20th century device that was a limited purpose monitor.
I'm not sure I have space on my desk for a display device that can only be used with one source. It strikes me that running a separate display device just for this "television" service is inherently somewhat energy and resource wasteful.
A truly energy efficient "TV" is a monitor that is also used for non-TV purposes.
You sign the patent application under oath with possible consequences of perjury. Therefore you should not sign an application that you believe is wrong, including if you think its claims of being innovative are not justified.
But if you refusing to sign because you do not think it should be patentable, then your refusal is inappropriate. Your opinions on what should be patentable is something you should discuss as a citizen with your various congressional representatives.
If the application is truthful, the company is entitled to file -- whether you think filing the patent is good for society as a whole or not.
The advantage of widescreen on an airplane is that it gives you more pixels without increasing the *height* of the screen. I run into height limitations on my laptop screen whenever the person in front of me leans back. But I haven't run out of width yet.
An ISP *dropping* packets that are in excess of the contracted service is perfectly acceptable.
Comcast is *forging* packets, effectively claiming that the destination does not want to talk with you rather than admitting that it is Comcast that does not want to support this connection.
OK, the embargo on Cuba may indeed rank as the apex of American political stupidity,
but let's no go overboard on equating this "censorship" with what they have in China.
The restriction here is that a Commercial entity, engaged in business,
using an American domain name is being expected to conduct business according
to American Laws.
If they were doing business under a European domain name there would be no blocking
of access to their site.
If they were politically discussing the stupidity of the Cuban embargo their web site
would not be blocked.
And while this particular embargo is about as stupid as they come (and by what logic
is Cuba more of a threat than China?) I'm not willing to sign up for the premise that
a foreign business can do business with a.COM domain name and not be subject
to American law.
If I'm doing business with someone I'd like to know which Police I need to contact
if I need to throw the book at them.
Maybe I'm missing something here. But didn't a Judge just find that a financial firm involved in mortgages
filed false documents with a court under oath?
Wouldn't that put them out of business? How can they act as a party in getting Deed Insurance if they have been found
to lie under oath?
FCOE really does rely on "new fangled technology". More than switched ethernet is required, it has
to be an enhanced Ethernet that prevents virtually all congestion related drops.
Work on such features is indeed in progress in both IEEE 802.1 and the IETF. The comparison of
FCOE vs. iSCSI in those environments will be a lot more even than the comparisons presented by
FCOE champions currently. Those compare storage traffic that requires neither routing or
security, and tests FCOE over forthcoming Ethernet vs. iSCSI over current Ethernet.
Those comparisons involve a lot more than wire transport protocols. For example, open-fcoe is
a good start, but open-iscsi is a much more mature project.
The article is extremely myopic. It assumes that protection from incoming connections must be provided by filtering TCP ports.
If they had actually tried so much as compiling an application they would have realized that Mac OS X shifts that security to
controlling which applications can listen for incoming connections. Since this is something far more easily understood
by users I would submit that this is a security improvement.
Using ipfw or other firewalls as you main line of defense on a desktop machine is far inferior to providing actual control
over which files can be applications. Now if there are holes in that security feature I'd like to hear about it.
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Actually the federal government doesn't get a cent of this revenue, it's for state governments.
But since you were obviously motivated by the need to make a statement, rather than say just being a cheapskate, I assume that will not be a problem.
The IOSification of Mac OS X has less to do with the features of MAC OS X and more to do with the near total lack of features from anywhere else.
Almost all features you use on Mac OS X either a) come from Apple or b) are a port of a Windows game.
The lack of anyone adding any original value to this ecosystem is why I ended up buying Windows 7 machines, and lately just not buying any desktop machines in favor of various Android devices.
At the time of sale, the latest SimCity was unusable for the purpose for which it was sold.
I'm not seeing any need for new rights here, just enforcement of existing law.
This has been true for decades. Technology wants to evolve from CISC to RISC. The x86 brilliantly hid this by translating CISC to RISC superbly,
But once you lose the x86 tag Intel would just be one of many vendors. The closest thing to competition they have had for x86 has been AMD.
All of the protocols that web programming depend upon are published in English. So presuming the ability to read written English is reasonable.
If you collaborating with non-native English speakers, although, you should be careful to not assume that the ability to read or even write English guarantees that they will be comfortable discussing ideas orally in English.
I wouldn't want an intern who focused on their pay as an intern.
What you should be focused on is how much you will learn. In a good intern position the company is investing in training a prospect. If you were paid your real net present value you would be lucky to get minimum wage.
IMHO, a company paying more than that is looking to hire a temporary grunt who has learned some syntax -- not someone they want to train.
More to the point. I am skeptical that Iran could launch any missile into space without prompting a massive response by Israel.
Any missile that could reach orbit could reach Tel Aviv. Faith that Iranian's are pursuing research for purely scientific reasons is not in abundance anywhwere, but especially not in Israel.
The use of a dubious currency just distracts from the real problem - gambling with an online site that is not certified by anyone. Regulated casinos have to document exactly how much they rigged each game in their favor. An unregulated online site can cheat you anyway it wants to.
Thinking that Samba is less important because "Windows is less important" is definitely off target. The obvious implication of the statement is that if Samba is less important then NFS is. I certainly am not aware of any trend there. CIFS and NFS both remain valid NAS protocols. To the extent that "Windows is less important" because PCs are less important then you are dealing with some serious trends in storage.
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One trend is the growing use of virtual disks in VMs to provide storage. This is just stupidity. Shared files server users far better than virtual disks do. Files are not created for OSs, they are a mechanism for sharing information between users.
The other trend is away from NAS and towards object storage. That is a good trend, but not one that will make NAS protocols obsolete anytime soon.
Dead on. The surface is selling a new form factor. The inclusion of Office makes it something I might consider, but only if I can get a feel for the form factor before I buy. So when Microsoft does not convince Best Buy et al to put it on shelves I can either conclude that Microsoft does not know how to market things, or that they know that my getting my hands on it at a retail outlet is not going to increase sales.
Restricting the streaming to Apple devices is just smart marketing.
Why waste money trying to sell this product to somebody who isn't already addicted?
Seriously, there are far better models for less money in both the WIFI-only and Cellular varieties.
So you're saying that Chrome can do almost 40% of what Android can do.
This hardware at this price running Linux, Android, Windows RT or even iOS would be a great bargain. What I have not yet seen in any promotion of a Chromebook is how well it works as a basic document editor when I'm *not* connected to the Cloud. If I need a lightweight mobile editing device with a permanently attached keyboard (which I cannot accidentally leave behind) then I need that portable document editor to be able to work even if the WiFI at the conference I am attending isn't working yet or is just plain overloaded. Adding a carrying case with a bluetooth keyboard, and software, to my Nexus 7 comes out way ahead Microsoft Surface. If this Chromebook ran Android, it would come out ahead. But have they really enabled Chromebooks to work effectively when detached from the network yet?
Android built iphones?
Actually I think they reinvented the flat file.
I have some vague recollection of it being a 20th century device that was a limited purpose monitor. I'm not sure I have space on my desk for a display device that can only be used with one source. It strikes me that running a separate display device just for this "television" service is inherently somewhat energy and resource wasteful. A truly energy efficient "TV" is a monitor that is also used for non-TV purposes.
You sign the patent application under oath with possible consequences of perjury. Therefore you should not sign an application that you believe is wrong, including if you think its claims of being innovative are not justified.
But if you refusing to sign because you do not think it should be patentable, then your refusal is inappropriate. Your opinions on what should be patentable is something you should discuss as a citizen with your various congressional representatives.
If the application is truthful, the company is entitled to file -- whether you think filing the patent is good for society as a whole or not.
The advantage of widescreen on an airplane is that it gives you more pixels without increasing the *height* of the screen. I run into height limitations on my laptop screen whenever the person in front of me leans back. But I haven't run out of width yet.
I don't care what evidence you have. I'm pre-destined to believe in free will, so no evidence can change my mind.
An ISP *dropping* packets that are in excess of the contracted
service is perfectly acceptable.
Comcast is *forging* packets, effectively claiming that the
destination does not want to talk with you rather than admitting
that it is Comcast that does not want to support this connection.
OK, the embargo on Cuba may indeed rank as the apex of American political stupidity, but let's no go overboard on equating this "censorship" with what they have in China. The restriction here is that a Commercial entity, engaged in business, using an American domain name is being expected to conduct business according to American Laws.
If they were doing business under a European domain name there would be no blocking of access to their site.
If they were politically discussing the stupidity of the Cuban embargo their web site would not be blocked.
And while this particular embargo is about as stupid as they come (and by what logic is Cuba more of a threat than China?) I'm not willing to sign up for the premise that a foreign business can do business with a .COM domain name and not be subject
to American law.
If I'm doing business with someone I'd like to know which Police I need to contact
if I need to throw the book at them.
Maybe I'm missing something here. But didn't a Judge just find that a financial firm involved in mortgages filed false documents with a court under oath?
Wouldn't that put them out of business? How can they act as a party in getting Deed Insurance if they have been found to lie under oath?
FCOE really does rely on "new fangled technology". More than switched ethernet is required, it has to be an enhanced Ethernet that prevents virtually all congestion related drops.
Work on such features is indeed in progress in both IEEE 802.1 and the IETF. The comparison of FCOE vs. iSCSI in those environments will be a lot more even than the comparisons presented by FCOE champions currently. Those compare storage traffic that requires neither routing or security, and tests FCOE over forthcoming Ethernet vs. iSCSI over current Ethernet.
Those comparisons involve a lot more than wire transport protocols. For example, open-fcoe is a good start, but open-iscsi is a much more mature project.
The article is extremely myopic. It assumes that protection from incoming connections must be provided by filtering TCP ports.
If they had actually tried so much as compiling an application they would have realized that Mac OS X shifts that security to controlling which applications can listen for incoming connections. Since this is something far more easily understood by users I would submit that this is a security improvement.
Using ipfw or other firewalls as you main line of defense on a desktop machine is far inferior to providing actual control over which files can be applications. Now if there are holes in that security feature I'd like to hear about it.