Maybe for all the physicists, chemists, and engineers; but has kilo never meant 10^3 for computer programmers, computer engineers or computer scientists.
And who came first? Face it - CS has been screwing this up for everyone the last 30-40 years. When you have an established system such as kilo/mega/giga, etc and everyone in the world uses it the same way, and you come along and use it in some different way for your own convenience - well, you're wrong. Early CS did that because it took fewer circuits and transitors to do math with 1024 units than with 1000's (it's just a bitshift). It was a shortcut and hack then, and to defend it now is silly.
Nobody cares about the pedantics that a gigabyte is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes, or a terabyte is 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. They're a billion bytes and a trillion bytes. And it's why people get so confused and upset when their hard drives show up smaller than advertised, as the drive manufacturers did away with this nonsense decades ago. A 1TB drive is a trillion bytes, not 2^40 bytes. Then it gets formatted and people wonder where the 90GB or so went.
Mac OS X moved to base-10 units on Snow Leopard, and it's made things much, much simpler. 500GB drives appear as 500GB. My 32GB iPhone appears as 32GB. It's better this way.
It's not a democracy until you're willing to put in the time and effort to fork it. No one is forking Ubuntu over damn window dressing. Switch themes and be done.
One reason Linux doesn't get attacked is because it's "obscure"
That may be one reason. The primary reason that neither Linux or Mac OS X get attacked is their security model is fundamentally better designed than Windows. Neither has ports open willy-nilly (as Windows used to), and both have a much better enforced permissions model. Most Windows users still run as administrator. Most Linux/Mac OS X users do not.
Yes, your older phones would allow this - as early phones had no way of setting a flag that identified traffic as being tethered. My Treo 650 tethered fine on Sprint for free, my Treo 700P (EVDO) did not - they'd added the flag. I downloaded a library to remove said flag.
Go ahead, find a phone today that will allow tethering on a carrier that charges without either paying or cracking the phone. Good luck.
RAND terms only applied IF you developed and contributed to the standard.
Um, wrong much?
From everyone's favorite source: "companies agree that if they receive any patents on technologies which become essential to the standard then they agree to allow other groups attempting to implement the standard to use those patents and they agree that the charges for those patents shall be reasonable"
There is absolutely nothing involved in being part of the standards body to receive RAND terms. If you're part of the standards body you have to extend RAND terms.
Actually, it does. As part of a standard, Nokia is bound to license these patents on fair and non-discriminatory terms. If it turns out they were charging exorbitant fees to Apple as opposed to other manufacturers, it would be illegal and they would face sanctions (from who and in what form, I'm unsure).
You're pretty clearly out to get Apple here, even though every other phone manufacturer does the same thing. If a US carrier tells them to disable a feature or they won't carry the phone, they do it. Apple is sadly no different.
But clearly, nothing is going to dissuade you from your anti-Apple rant.
gollum123 also links to additional tests indicating that Flash "does not perform consistently worse on Mac than on Windows."
Yes, tests provided by... Mike Chambers of Adobe. I'm sure that they're completely impartial.
When I turn on HTML5 video support at YouTube, the exact same clip in the exact same browser on the exact same OS on the exact same session runs at a third of the CPU power. Sure, it's an anecdote - and one that's been observed by hundreds if not thousands of others, consistently over the years. But according to Adobe, nope, no problems at all. Emperor's clothes look really chic.
Fuck off, Adobe. You had years to improve your damn plugin, and we'll all be better off when it and its horrid performance and security record are no more.
As an IBMer, I can say the parent speaks the truth. Every time I see Sam Palmisano with another government official, my blood boils. That man has destroyed an excellent company.
While people are far too quick to yell "sue" needlessly, it is a legitimate complaint that otherwise offline, single-player games should be unusable due to this glitch. Whatever happened to gracefully handling failure? A network connection has no business being a requirement (to the point of failing to play without it) for a single player game.
And how do apps get in the app store? I would assume they will need to test against these varying OS versions and "tweaks" to ensure that they will indeed run in different end-user environments, and if so, that means developers now have to test against a myriad of targets.
It's like the well-known Java adage: "Write once, test everywhere."
Except a Win32 binary will Just Work, pretty much anywhere, on any version since NT4/2000. Look at Putty for a great example. The fact that Android has fragmented this badly in just two years on the market is deeply troubling.
And what about those who voted or spoke against this? Should they be punished? Should you be held personally responsible for every dishonest thing someone you voted for does?
No. You vote them out of office, and levy criminal charges against the person who committed the crime.
The key here is "twisted pair". I'm not an expert by any means, but my understanding is that the twisting design limits electrical interference and noise. Without that, you're likely to get an extremely error-prone connection.
Wiring a house isn't actually that hard or expensive, presuming you either have an attic to drop wire from or a crawl space to move up from. It takes some time, but do it yourself and you can do it right with Cat6, some higher quality coax for video distribution, and more. Look up "Structured Wiring" and go nuts. http://www.structuredhomewiring.com/
There are known problems with EncFS, as it only support basic POSIX operations (no locking, extended attributes, etc...). This works well for simple file storage or multiplatform applications, like MacPorts, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc..., but encrypting your whole homedir is known not to work.
That is an absolute deal breaker. Mac OS X (and increasingly third party software) makes extensive use of that metadata in extended attributes. Until it can preserve that same metadata, this solution is a no-go for, oh, 99% of the population. And that last 1% is going to be on thin ice, hoping nothing breaks. Sorry for it sounding a bit like FUD, but this does entail a fair amount of uncertainty and doubt, and that brings some fear into it.
It's a great idea, as FileVault is very limited in its approach, but this is far from a "replacement" for it.
Yes, because rejecting everything wholesale is so much better than accepting it wholesale.
Having a reasonable mind that can think through issues and make decisions for oneself - that is what we should strive for. Precious few high schools teach this, however.
I'd expect that very few people still running Tiger (two major releases out of date) are going to be updating their Firefox install to the latest and greatest. And no, the ten people in the Slashdot audience who pipe up and say they're running Tiger for some esoteric reason are not representative of the whole.
Your Droid doesn't do multitouch in any of the Google-provided applications. This is especially evident in the web browser, maps, and keyboard. Third party apps have been able to provide multitouch for some time.
I thought the whole thing was silly. Patenting pinch-to-zoom and similar gestures fails the "non-obvious" requirement for a patent. Multitouch enhancing a keyboard I could perhaps see as valid.
All of the bitching about the patent/royalty situation ignores the following facts:
H.264 is hardware accelerated on nearly every platform, desktop and mobile - Ogg is not.
Ogg produces inferior video at the same bitrate as H.264, or larger video for the same quality.
YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo have spoken in favor of H.264. Watch the dominoes topple.
There are two alternatives here - Flash-based video and H.264. Don't kid yourself that Ogg is a third, because it's not going to happen. Time for Mozilla to face reality and pay up the license as Apple and Google have done. Otherwise, watch Chrome really destroy Firefox.
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We use base 10 for physical quantities because it means that you can very easily do base-10 logarithms
We use base 10 because we have ten fingers.
Maybe for all the physicists, chemists, and engineers; but has kilo never meant 10^3 for computer programmers, computer engineers or computer scientists.
And who came first? Face it - CS has been screwing this up for everyone the last 30-40 years. When you have an established system such as kilo/mega/giga, etc and everyone in the world uses it the same way, and you come along and use it in some different way for your own convenience - well, you're wrong. Early CS did that because it took fewer circuits and transitors to do math with 1024 units than with 1000's (it's just a bitshift). It was a shortcut and hack then, and to defend it now is silly.
Nobody cares about the pedantics that a gigabyte is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes, or a terabyte is 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. They're a billion bytes and a trillion bytes. And it's why people get so confused and upset when their hard drives show up smaller than advertised, as the drive manufacturers did away with this nonsense decades ago. A 1TB drive is a trillion bytes, not 2^40 bytes. Then it gets formatted and people wonder where the 90GB or so went.
Mac OS X moved to base-10 units on Snow Leopard, and it's made things much, much simpler. 500GB drives appear as 500GB. My 32GB iPhone appears as 32GB. It's better this way.
It's not a democracy until you're willing to put in the time and effort to fork it. No one is forking Ubuntu over damn window dressing. Switch themes and be done.
One reason Linux doesn't get attacked is because it's "obscure"
That may be one reason. The primary reason that neither Linux or Mac OS X get attacked is their security model is fundamentally better designed than Windows. Neither has ports open willy-nilly (as Windows used to), and both have a much better enforced permissions model. Most Windows users still run as administrator. Most Linux/Mac OS X users do not.
The only thing you have to deal with is a daily ad that you can dismiss by hitting OK and it won't pop up for another 24 hours.
So... it's adware. That's what I'm trying to get rid of.
Yes, your older phones would allow this - as early phones had no way of setting a flag that identified traffic as being tethered. My Treo 650 tethered fine on Sprint for free, my Treo 700P (EVDO) did not - they'd added the flag. I downloaded a library to remove said flag.
Go ahead, find a phone today that will allow tethering on a carrier that charges without either paying or cracking the phone. Good luck.
"Troll" my ass. "Insightful" my ass.
RAND terms only applied IF you developed and contributed to the standard.
Um, wrong much?
From everyone's favorite source:
"companies agree that if they receive any patents on technologies which become essential to the standard then they agree to allow other groups attempting to implement the standard to use those patents and they agree that the charges for those patents shall be reasonable"
There is absolutely nothing involved in being part of the standards body to receive RAND terms. If you're part of the standards body you have to extend RAND terms.
Actually, it does. As part of a standard, Nokia is bound to license these patents on fair and non-discriminatory terms. If it turns out they were charging exorbitant fees to Apple as opposed to other manufacturers, it would be illegal and they would face sanctions (from who and in what form, I'm unsure).
You're pretty clearly out to get Apple here, even though every other phone manufacturer does the same thing. If a US carrier tells them to disable a feature or they won't carry the phone, they do it. Apple is sadly no different.
But clearly, nothing is going to dissuade you from your anti-Apple rant.
gollum123 also links to additional tests indicating that Flash "does not perform consistently worse on Mac than on Windows."
Yes, tests provided by... Mike Chambers of Adobe. I'm sure that they're completely impartial.
When I turn on HTML5 video support at YouTube, the exact same clip in the exact same browser on the exact same OS on the exact same session runs at a third of the CPU power. Sure, it's an anecdote - and one that's been observed by hundreds if not thousands of others, consistently over the years. But according to Adobe, nope, no problems at all. Emperor's clothes look really chic.
Fuck off, Adobe. You had years to improve your damn plugin, and we'll all be better off when it and its horrid performance and security record are no more.
As an IBMer, I can say the parent speaks the truth. Every time I see Sam Palmisano with another government official, my blood boils. That man has destroyed an excellent company.
As we commonly say in the datacenter, it's hard to beat the throughput of a van full of backup tapes.
While people are far too quick to yell "sue" needlessly, it is a legitimate complaint that otherwise offline, single-player games should be unusable due to this glitch. Whatever happened to gracefully handling failure? A network connection has no business being a requirement (to the point of failing to play without it) for a single player game.
And how do apps get in the app store? I would assume they will need to test against these varying OS versions and "tweaks" to ensure that they will indeed run in different end-user environments, and if so, that means developers now have to test against a myriad of targets.
It's like the well-known Java adage: "Write once, test everywhere."
Except a Win32 binary will Just Work, pretty much anywhere, on any version since NT4/2000. Look at Putty for a great example. The fact that Android has fragmented this badly in just two years on the market is deeply troubling.
And what about those who voted or spoke against this? Should they be punished? Should you be held personally responsible for every dishonest thing someone you voted for does?
No. You vote them out of office, and levy criminal charges against the person who committed the crime.
The key here is "twisted pair". I'm not an expert by any means, but my understanding is that the twisting design limits electrical interference and noise. Without that, you're likely to get an extremely error-prone connection.
Wiring a house isn't actually that hard or expensive, presuming you either have an attic to drop wire from or a crawl space to move up from. It takes some time, but do it yourself and you can do it right with Cat6, some higher quality coax for video distribution, and more. Look up "Structured Wiring" and go nuts.
http://www.structuredhomewiring.com/
And although I really should get around to installing proper AC outlets one of these days, you get the idea:
http://www.joshuaochs.com/Home/The_House/Pages/Home_Wiring.html#5
If you want to know where real inefficiency, waste, and bloat comes from, this is it - the jackass factor.
FTFA:
That is an absolute deal breaker. Mac OS X (and increasingly third party software) makes extensive use of that metadata in extended attributes. Until it can preserve that same metadata, this solution is a no-go for, oh, 99% of the population. And that last 1% is going to be on thin ice, hoping nothing breaks. Sorry for it sounding a bit like FUD, but this does entail a fair amount of uncertainty and doubt, and that brings some fear into it.
It's a great idea, as FileVault is very limited in its approach, but this is far from a "replacement" for it.
Yes, because rejecting everything wholesale is so much better than accepting it wholesale.
Having a reasonable mind that can think through issues and make decisions for oneself - that is what we should strive for. Precious few high schools teach this, however.
And all subsequent service packs.
I'd expect that very few people still running Tiger (two major releases out of date) are going to be updating their Firefox install to the latest and greatest. And no, the ten people in the Slashdot audience who pipe up and say they're running Tiger for some esoteric reason are not representative of the whole.
Your Droid doesn't do multitouch in any of the Google-provided applications. This is especially evident in the web browser, maps, and keyboard. Third party apps have been able to provide multitouch for some time.
I thought the whole thing was silly. Patenting pinch-to-zoom and similar gestures fails the "non-obvious" requirement for a patent. Multitouch enhancing a keyboard I could perhaps see as valid.
Yeah, I'm sure that AT&T as a global networking company has no need of those IP addresses. And yes, I'm well aware of the magnitudes involved.
All of the bitching about the patent/royalty situation ignores the following facts:
There are two alternatives here - Flash-based video and H.264. Don't kid yourself that Ogg is a third, because it's not going to happen. Time for Mozilla to face reality and pay up the license as Apple and Google have done. Otherwise, watch Chrome really destroy Firefox.