I'm on a 1M connection and can surf the web, watch movies, etc.. with no issue.
I call BS on this one. I'm on an 10+M connection, and movies are unwatchable. Then again, it has nothing to do with my connection, but the source.
The FCC would be much better off leaving the broadband definition alone and instead try to figure out how to get at least
3-4 independent providers in every area so there is real competition.
The FCC should define acceptable broadband by upload speed. 10M up would be acceptable. Down past 10 (or the upload speed) is not usable, unless we're talking 4K streams. Why up? Because when you have 20MB photos you want to print, or share with someone, or movies, no, not pirated stuff but HD home movies are still large, 70 minutes came out to 50GB, for instance. I know that after processing, I'll get that down to 10GB or so, but to share that with family is not really doable on a 3Mbps upload link where your real upload is going to be a lot less over the course of 10GB. A 10Mbps upload will at least allow some reasonable connectivity, and remove the need for an intermediate server to hold the file. Ideally we'd be on 25Mbps upload, as a minimum. There's only 2 providers that have these numbers in the US, Google, and Verizon FIOS. Neither is wide spread, and Verizon has killed further FIOS deployments.
So they want to continue their illegal activities by threatening more illegal activities? And those other activities have precedent on getting them jailed? Sounds like popcorn time!
I'm well aware of what an app bundle, or really any kind of packaging in OSX is. I was only addressing the aspects of Windows and the registry and the perceived lack of transportability of windows programs. None of those things need occur in windows, it's just shitty developers toeing the MS line or worse, not knowing any better.
The first Transformers movie sucked badly. Really badly. The first Star Wars movie was considered pretty awesome then, and has weathered the years pretty well (think about how many other special effects laden movies are treated well 45 years later). The second Star Wars movie was awesome, and is still considered good. I don't know about others, but the third movie was a major let down, bordering on the ridiculous, and seemed targeted at an age range half of the previous two movies. The prequels were... unmentionable, other than to hold them up to display how additional experience, wisdom, and financial capacity have exactly 0 bearing on the quality of a movie.
Because, thanks to nonsense like the registry, installing an app into Windows is a non-trivial operation.... So if you've got files that need to tag along with the.exe (especially DLLs) or want the app installed for more than one user, you're stuck with installer hell.
a) it's crappy developers that force the registry hell on you. There's no reason to use it, nor any requirement to use it.
b) There's no problem building a single EXE with all required DLLs (or there didn't used to be.)
c) there's nothing preventing you from shipping a zip (because windows still doesn't understand a tarball) which has everything packaged up nice and neat (ie, a bundle)
d) multiple users can use an app that you drop into the appropriate places, some will require that when you drop it there, you have to elevate your privs, but that's pretty standard
There's no excuse to have installer hell. Just say no.
I wasn't commenting about you specifically, just using your post as a segue. Sorry if my post implied anything other than that. For what it's worth, I did and do play around with Android across the 2.3 through 4.4 versions, and I can't say I prefer any of them over the Apple ecosystem. If your desire is to tinker with them, absolutely, but if you just want a phone that mostly works and doesn't require learning 5 different ways to get through various menu navigations, then no. Especially if you're dealing with non-technical older people.
Aw gee, and after all the talk about how Apple was a horrible company for "abandoning" the iPhone 4 users in September 2013 (phone released in 2010). Oh, "abandoning" means that the iPhone 4 merely doesn't upgrade to the latest iOS full version release, it's still supported AFAIK under iOS 7. Queue the Android shills in 3, 2,...
actually, the hardware is better. Decidedly better. Samsung would kill to be able to have the same touchscreen. Have you actually used a Galaxy S4? I have. They suck hardware wise in comparison. Just because you make a paper mache tiger doesn't make it like a real tiger except from a viewable distance.
Umm, Apple IS a software company. They don't give their software away, the just sell it attached to a piece of hardware.
Apple is a platform company, and always has been. The user experience is driven by software running on applicable hardware. Apple started as a hardware company, and has always focused on having a reliable platform. A Jobs snippet taken out of context doesn't mean much.
Their hardware is nothing particularly special. A Mac is barely different from a Dell hardware-wise and if you put Windows on the Mac you can't tell the difference.
On this, just about everyone will disagree. Their hardware is different, performs within published specs, and lasts better and longer than any competitor. Putting windows on a MacBook Pro gives you the ultimate windows laptop, lighter, faster, and longer battery life as well as longer lasting hardware. Putting OS X on non Apple hardware can result in a relatively fast solid system at a lower cost than comparable Apple hardware, but rarely better functioning, at least until the latest soldered on memory garbage on minis at least.
They sell a vertically integrated platform which includes both software and hardware. Apple does not just sell hardware.
And you knew this, so why do you state they're a software company?
Automatically on Yosemite, turns out that install system and security updates was checked. No more. I don't like things happening to my system automatically.
They're trying to patent something called yield management. I do believe a wikipedia article about an age old process invalidates any legalese patent language you try to wrap around the idea.
All depends on what you're doing. And, as a side note - citation needed that the code was 10s of millions of lines, and that it was refactored programatically. Mail just isn't that much C/C++ code. If it is, Google is doomed. Same for search.
I merely corrected your misinterpretation of what I said 2 entries earlier. You seem to be stuck in a faulty logic loop. I don't care about Google's success on refactoring their code nor that mail and search have largely remained up. I would be surprised if either was fully down, actually, based on how they're running them.
I inferred no numbers, only the overall trend of reduced traffic and that reduced traffic = reduced pollution. To make any statement about the reduction amounts would require study.
The fleet aging effect would assume the same number of vehicles on the road. The only thing you can say about that study is that for an average of 'n' vehicles, the median age is older, and they would be dirtier than a newer median age. In fact, that's all TFA says.
L.A. is dirtier right now than it otherwise would have been without a recession.
Are you sure that the recession didn't result in less people being on the roads in LA particularly, thus resulting in less pollution than if the recession was avoided?
Even mail is mostly lookup with a minor backend that I personally have written at least 4 times - ie, even I can do it
ie, the mail backend is minor, sending, receiving, as all you're doing is integrating with system provided services. No, I haven't written an SMTP type server in more than a decade, why would I? There are very suitable choices out there that are current with the latest RFCs and easy to integrate with. As far as inbound, that's not terribly hard either, but again, there's systems out there that handle that. What's needed is a client that can handle the UX. Simple mail isn't too bad, where gmail excelled (for 2005 anyways) was in allowing you to categorize and search (hence the lookup) your mail via a web front-end. Hopefully that clarified things a bit.
and, as an FYI, recently I designed and wrote a flexible notification system in about 1 month. That included sending notifications via email and SMS and in-app messages on triggers as well as accepting inbound responses and acting on them, and included search capabilities. That system has been in use for years with 1M+ users and no faults. IOW, this stuff isn't all that damn hard. FYI - Google's search isn't even all that great, IMNSHO, they just initially had better interfaces and results (ie, they crawled more web) than all the competing services at the time. Hell, I'd bet I wasn't the only one that was writing their own crawler/search solution at that time and stopped when Google became available. Google's claim to fame was in monetizing search. Now that, I grant you, is more than a little challenging.
Gosling did it, as did Ritchie. in a panel conversation along with Stroustrup. That covers all the majors. So how many other big language creators do you know that haven't said something similar?
Not particularly, because I don't really use them much. And how hard is a lookup routine anyways? (Even mail is mostly lookup with a minor backend that I personally have written at least 4 times - ie, even I can do it:) The rest is adserving (blocked significantly, apparently) and tracking, and other things that don't really affect the general user's services.
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I'm on a 1M connection and can surf the web, watch movies, etc.. with no issue.
I call BS on this one. I'm on an 10+M connection, and movies are unwatchable. Then again, it has nothing to do with my connection, but the source.
The FCC would be much better off leaving the broadband definition alone and instead try to figure out how to get at least 3-4 independent providers in every area so there is real competition.
The FCC should define acceptable broadband by upload speed. 10M up would be acceptable. Down past 10 (or the upload speed) is not usable, unless we're talking 4K streams. Why up? Because when you have 20MB photos you want to print, or share with someone, or movies, no, not pirated stuff but HD home movies are still large, 70 minutes came out to 50GB, for instance. I know that after processing, I'll get that down to 10GB or so, but to share that with family is not really doable on a 3Mbps upload link where your real upload is going to be a lot less over the course of 10GB. A 10Mbps upload will at least allow some reasonable connectivity, and remove the need for an intermediate server to hold the file. Ideally we'd be on 25Mbps upload, as a minimum. There's only 2 providers that have these numbers in the US, Google, and Verizon FIOS. Neither is wide spread, and Verizon has killed further FIOS deployments.
So they want to continue their illegal activities by threatening more illegal activities? And those other activities have precedent on getting them jailed? Sounds like popcorn time!
Ewoks didn't appear until Return of the Jedi....
The first Transformers movie sucked badly. Really badly.
The Transformers: The Movie is fucking awesome.
You must be 11.
Seriously, the animated cartoon posing as a movie wasn't a "movie". Animated feature would probably be doing it a large favor.
I'm well aware of what an app bundle, or really any kind of packaging in OSX is. I was only addressing the aspects of Windows and the registry and the perceived lack of transportability of windows programs. None of those things need occur in windows, it's just shitty developers toeing the MS line or worse, not knowing any better.
The first Transformers movie sucked badly. Really badly. The first Star Wars movie was considered pretty awesome then, and has weathered the years pretty well (think about how many other special effects laden movies are treated well 45 years later). The second Star Wars movie was awesome, and is still considered good. I don't know about others, but the third movie was a major let down, bordering on the ridiculous, and seemed targeted at an age range half of the previous two movies. The prequels were... unmentionable, other than to hold them up to display how additional experience, wisdom, and financial capacity have exactly 0 bearing on the quality of a movie.
Because, thanks to nonsense like the registry, installing an app into Windows is a non-trivial operation. ... So if you've got files that need to tag along with the .exe (especially DLLs) or want the app installed for more than one user, you're stuck with installer hell.
a) it's crappy developers that force the registry hell on you. There's no reason to use it, nor any requirement to use it.
b) There's no problem building a single EXE with all required DLLs (or there didn't used to be.)
c) there's nothing preventing you from shipping a zip (because windows still doesn't understand a tarball) which has everything packaged up nice and neat (ie, a bundle)
d) multiple users can use an app that you drop into the appropriate places, some will require that when you drop it there, you have to elevate your privs, but that's pretty standard
There's no excuse to have installer hell. Just say no.
I wasn't commenting about you specifically, just using your post as a segue. Sorry if my post implied anything other than that. For what it's worth, I did and do play around with Android across the 2.3 through 4.4 versions, and I can't say I prefer any of them over the Apple ecosystem. If your desire is to tinker with them, absolutely, but if you just want a phone that mostly works and doesn't require learning 5 different ways to get through various menu navigations, then no. Especially if you're dealing with non-technical older people.
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We really need an edit option: Sept 2014, not September 2013....
Aw gee, and after all the talk about how Apple was a horrible company for "abandoning" the iPhone 4 users in September 2013 (phone released in 2010). Oh, "abandoning" means that the iPhone 4 merely doesn't upgrade to the latest iOS full version release, it's still supported AFAIK under iOS 7. Queue the Android shills in 3, 2, ...
We grew things in 6/7, in 8+ we cut them up.
actually, the hardware is better. Decidedly better. Samsung would kill to be able to have the same touchscreen. Have you actually used a Galaxy S4? I have. They suck hardware wise in comparison. Just because you make a paper mache tiger doesn't make it like a real tiger except from a viewable distance.
I hope Macs get touchscreens soon.
I hope "Macs" do not get touchscreens. The last thing I want on my 4K+ screen is a bunch of fingerprint smudges.
Umm, Apple IS a software company. They don't give their software away, the just sell it attached to a piece of hardware.
Apple is a platform company, and always has been. The user experience is driven by software running on applicable hardware. Apple started as a hardware company, and has always focused on having a reliable platform. A Jobs snippet taken out of context doesn't mean much.
Their hardware is nothing particularly special. A Mac is barely different from a Dell hardware-wise and if you put Windows on the Mac you can't tell the difference.
On this, just about everyone will disagree. Their hardware is different, performs within published specs, and lasts better and longer than any competitor. Putting windows on a MacBook Pro gives you the ultimate windows laptop, lighter, faster, and longer battery life as well as longer lasting hardware. Putting OS X on non Apple hardware can result in a relatively fast solid system at a lower cost than comparable Apple hardware, but rarely better functioning, at least until the latest soldered on memory garbage on minis at least.
They sell a vertically integrated platform which includes both software and hardware. Apple does not just sell hardware.
And you knew this, so why do you state they're a software company?
Just remove parties from ballots, you'll have the fixes percolating through in no time. No parties, no party vote. Two party system? Done.
Automatically on Yosemite, turns out that install system and security updates was checked. No more. I don't like things happening to my system automatically.
They're trying to patent something called yield management. I do believe a wikipedia article about an age old process invalidates any legalese patent language you try to wrap around the idea.
All depends on what you're doing. And, as a side note - citation needed that the code was 10s of millions of lines, and that it was refactored programatically. Mail just isn't that much C/C++ code. If it is, Google is doomed. Same for search.
I merely corrected your misinterpretation of what I said 2 entries earlier. You seem to be stuck in a faulty logic loop. I don't care about Google's success on refactoring their code nor that mail and search have largely remained up. I would be surprised if either was fully down, actually, based on how they're running them.
I inferred no numbers, only the overall trend of reduced traffic and that reduced traffic = reduced pollution. To make any statement about the reduction amounts would require study.
The fleet aging effect would assume the same number of vehicles on the road. The only thing you can say about that study is that for an average of 'n' vehicles, the median age is older, and they would be dirtier than a newer median age. In fact, that's all TFA says.
Sure (it's not direct a direct study on recession vs pollution, but supports the fewer cars on road aspect. Fewer cars on road equals less pollution.)
L.A. is dirtier right now than it otherwise would have been without a recession.
Are you sure that the recession didn't result in less people being on the roads in LA particularly, thus resulting in less pollution than if the recession was avoided?
Even mail is mostly lookup with a minor backend that I personally have written at least 4 times - ie, even I can do it
ie, the mail backend is minor, sending, receiving, as all you're doing is integrating with system provided services. No, I haven't written an SMTP type server in more than a decade, why would I? There are very suitable choices out there that are current with the latest RFCs and easy to integrate with. As far as inbound, that's not terribly hard either, but again, there's systems out there that handle that. What's needed is a client that can handle the UX. Simple mail isn't too bad, where gmail excelled (for 2005 anyways) was in allowing you to categorize and search (hence the lookup) your mail via a web front-end. Hopefully that clarified things a bit.
and, as an FYI, recently I designed and wrote a flexible notification system in about 1 month. That included sending notifications via email and SMS and in-app messages on triggers as well as accepting inbound responses and acting on them, and included search capabilities. That system has been in use for years with 1M+ users and no faults. IOW, this stuff isn't all that damn hard. FYI - Google's search isn't even all that great, IMNSHO, they just initially had better interfaces and results (ie, they crawled more web) than all the competing services at the time. Hell, I'd bet I wasn't the only one that was writing their own crawler/search solution at that time and stopped when Google became available. Google's claim to fame was in monetizing search. Now that, I grant you, is more than a little challenging.
Gosling did it, as did Ritchie. in a panel conversation along with Stroustrup. That covers all the majors. So how many other big language creators do you know that haven't said something similar?
Not particularly, because I don't really use them much. And how hard is a lookup routine anyways? (Even mail is mostly lookup with a minor backend that I personally have written at least 4 times - ie, even I can do it:) The rest is adserving (blocked significantly, apparently) and tracking, and other things that don't really affect the general user's services.