Intel was talking about scaling it to 100Gbps without too much difficulty.
Intel was also once talking about scaling the Pentium IV to 10Ghz without too much difficulty. Your point is well-taken - there's headroom for expansion here - but don't just accept their pie-in-the-sky projections.
My respect for him ratcheted down quite a lot. Yes, you must ship (who knew?). That's what milestones and deadlines are for, so keep overarchitecting and feature creep from occurring. However, I would NEVER want to let a "Duct Tap Programmer" near any project that I would ever have to modify, maintain, or extend. You know, something that isn't completely trivial.
Given your nick is "DNS-and-BIND", I suppose you loved SiteFinder and similar "helpful" changes to DNS behavior. Oh, you don't, because it was out of specification and could break other programs? Yeah, it does suck when people take shortcuts and break standards for their own selfish gain.
And yet you don't apply that same stance to the USB specification.
Delicious Library is one of the most popular Mac shareware apps, and is exceptionally well-designed. Those wood bookcases are central to its UI look and feel. And he's already written an iPhone app - except Amazon decided to yank all mobile licenses to their data. Yes, that's right, he pays Amazon for access to their data, so it is legal use and paid for.
So your entire post is written like a true asshat who has no idea what's going on, and has contributed nothing. But that never stops Slashdot.
Except he's been on the iPhone for a while - until Amazon yanked all mobile licenses to their data.
This goes back to the whole issue of stealing "look and feel", which they most certainly did. Whether that constitutes legal copyright infringement is beyond me (and I imagine 99% of the commenters on/.).
Java and Flash hurt Apple because they open the door to even shittier apps and hellishly non-native interfaces. We've seen what Flash is on Mac OS X - frighteningly slow, CPU-intensive, and the source of 90% or so of Safari crashes (I have no data, but plenty of developers who deal with Safari do from the crash logs). Java is *still* slow, non-native, and would open the door to "easy cross-platform compatibility" - meaning lowest common-denominator shit. Can you imagine if we had "normal" cell phone programs on the iPhone instead of people taking the time to do native versions?
Ah, I wasn't aware of that - I set up my laptop in 2006, and haven't had to rebuild it yet (knock on plastic).
And I'm sorry to hear that - I also lost a number of good coworkers in the April layoffs. That seems to have been the worst one in years. Good luck on the job hunt, and be glad you're out.;-)
So deal with it already, and quit with the hysterics. There's been Nothing New To See Here for years now.
iPhone: Single vendor/carrier in most areas, with significant lock-in. Tightly tied to iTunes on the desktop and the app store. Jailbreaking possible, of course, but it can be fragile.
Pre: Single vendor/carrier, with significant lock-in. Mildly less application lock-in with homebrew hacking, but not all that different from iPhone jailbreaking. OS updates are mandatory so this can change at any time (they're installed automatically after ten days). Palm collects obscene amounts of data on its users, so goodbye privacy.
Android: "Free" - until you try to get root access, and then we're back to fairly involved hacking again. So as usual, only as free as they let you be.
So yeah - NONE of these phones are remotely free out of the box. All of them can be hacked to do what you want with them. Pick your poison.
A hack that has been disabled at AT&T's request, just like it would be on any other phone that has updates. Apple didn't "remove a feature" - the iPhone can still tether just fine - as long as your carrier supports it.
Does it suck? Hell yes. Is it unexpected? Hell no.
This was in all of the betas, and known about two months ago. If you were "in the know" enough to install a hacked carrier profile on your device, then you should have been following closely enough to know not to install the update. (Oh, and the Pre and it's "free" homebrew community? What about those mandatory updates that install themselves after ten days? And the data collection Palm does? Apple doesn't even do either of those.)
Throw this down at AT&T's feet, not Apple's. Apple certainly has no interest in you tethering or not. If anything, it makes their device more valuable, so they have an interest in allowing it. But clearly AT&T would rather rape you at an unspecified future date for an unspecified amount of money. All the more reason for Apple to leave AT&T as soon as possible.
As a ten-year employee, I can say without equivocation that you don't have a fricken clue how large IBM is. Your department may have used Symphony. My department is still stuck with custom programs written in 1-2-3, and does at least 95% of its work in Word and Excel (including more custom programming). I have never seen a single ODF file cross my desk, on any project, for any customer.
IBM mandates lots of stuff internally that doesn't necessarily matter. And if you wait a a few weeks, they'll reorg and change their mind.
(due to development of superior material and construction technologies)
And where do you think those breakthroughs come from? A lot of them come from aerospace engineering. When you're up against problems that huge, you have to come up with the big breakthroughs and advances.
Note that such games are available in Z-Code form and will run just fine in Frotz, which is on the App Store (nevermind that it *also* is a code interpreter and accepts outside games...).
Not sure if this validates your points (it was a problem) or not (it was fixed), but in Safari 4 Apple added a miniscule delay between such button transitions, exactly so things like that won't happen.
It can probably be argued equally that this shows it's a bad idea to start with, or that it's a case of just getting the details right. Personally, I like the minimalist interface - to me it evokes earlier days when the browser wasn't a kitchen sink.
Which is a niche. Treo sales have been in steady decline ever since the 700p, and that was 2-3 years ago. Contrary to the summary, the Treo Pro does not run Palm OS - it's Windows Mobile.
Users can still use the far superior Missing Sync, and Palm could always update Hotsync. This is a non-issue.
Food for thought. We can get by without gasoline; it will be an infinitely harder time getting by without plastics. As stated, most of modern medical practice is based on the assumption of cheap, sterile, disposable items (although I *do* hope a lot of that is recycled - biohazards melted away first, of course).
I can be on the same OS install, as upgrade in-place installs actually WORK on Mac OS X. You can realistically take a system from 10.0 through 10.5.8 and soon 10.6 without having to blow it away and do a "clean install". I'm currently on 10.5.8, and have never had to do a complete reinstall. I have manually cleaned out cruft from time to time - because I ca actually find it in the filesystem. Good luck on any Windows install surviving that long.
If your iPhone is crashing, perhaps it's because you jailbreaked it. I've had my iPhone crash once - ever. Amazing how stable a browser can be when it's NOT saddled with crap like Java and Flash.
Ah, so the poor registry design (see Single Point of Failure) is my fault, and any problems with it are also my fault. Yup, that makes sense. And you said that *Mac* users are dicks.
When's the last time you used Windows? It's not 1998 anymore. (Also, what in blazes does the filesystem layout have to do with stability?)
Every day for work, on a Thinkpad with a custom OS build, so 9 years of daily use. Malware is still a very real problem if any of my neighbors' systems are representative, and I still hear from coworkers frequently about having to have their systems rebuilt for one issue or another.
As for the filesystem, it doesn't directly contribute to "stability", but when it's laid out logically it becomes much easier to administer and troubleshoot. Files are in well-known and sensible locations, and you can track down problems easily. First there was the filesystem mess inherited from the WinXP days, and now we seemingly have a "new" layout in Vista and 7 layered on top, with lots of hand-waving to get old programs to work with it. It's a mess. Go head, turn on "hidden folders" on both systems and compare a Windows home directory to Mac OS X. The Mac has a simple hierarchy of:
~/Library - your stuff/Library - system-wide application stuff/System/Library - Mac OS X
The contents of each are simply labeled and easily navigated. Compare/Windows to/System/Library. And I don't think there is an equivalent to/Library, where Macs keep files that pertain to multiple users, but are not part of the operating system./System/Library is pristine (with the sole exception of kernel extensions, which live in/System/Library/Extensions).
And with Windows you get the (admittedly poor) CMD, the (admittedly clunky) VBA, and the (holy crap awesomesauce) Powershell.
CMD is indeed awful, VBA is indeed clunky, and PowerShell is very new with little support. On UNIX you have your choice of any scripting language you want, and an OS that was designed in such a way as to take advantage of it. Meanwhile, most GUI-level operations in OS X can be performed on the command-line, furthering the automation potential.
Also: Windows Scheduled Tasks is better than cron, there I said it.
And Mac OS X doesn't use cron - it uses launchd, which beats the snot out of Scheduled Tasks.
I really wouldn't expect Mac OS X to cross your mind for a server. They make reasonable servers, but nothing exceptional (the management tools are nice for workgroups, but you've already said you're more comfortable with the CLI). And if you're going to slap down a lot of cheap, dumb boxes on people's desks, yeah, you're going to buy dirt-cheap Windows boxen. When individual users - especially corporate ones - have no choice in the matter, they get Windows by default.
However, I'm actually a little surprised that you yourself haven't gotten into it. Mac OS X offers a LOT for the highly technical user. You get a more stable system than Windows (registry, filesystem layout, malware), you get a full BSD environment and CLI for whatever you want to hack about with or automate, and you can run COTS applications as needed. And if you still need Windows, whether for gaming or a particular app, you can always dual-boot or virtualize. It's really the most flexible option by far.
As for the final comment on security, I must disagree. The Mac architecture inherits the benefits of proper user separation and privilege separation that have already existed on UNIX (and Linux) systems for decades, and I'd argue that it's more still secure than the Windows model by design, even with the Win Vista/7 improvements.
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No one else reporting on this "issue" (it was a mistake folks - chill out) has mentioned installing Apache, which would definitely be a huge issue.
Has anyone here independently seen this supposed Apache installation?
Intel was talking about scaling it to 100Gbps without too much difficulty.
Intel was also once talking about scaling the Pentium IV to 10Ghz without too much difficulty. Your point is well-taken - there's headroom for expansion here - but don't just accept their pie-in-the-sky projections.
My respect for him ratcheted down quite a lot. Yes, you must ship (who knew?). That's what milestones and deadlines are for, so keep overarchitecting and feature creep from occurring. However, I would NEVER want to let a "Duct Tap Programmer" near any project that I would ever have to modify, maintain, or extend. You know, something that isn't completely trivial.
Given your nick is "DNS-and-BIND", I suppose you loved SiteFinder and similar "helpful" changes to DNS behavior. Oh, you don't, because it was out of specification and could break other programs? Yeah, it does suck when people take shortcuts and break standards for their own selfish gain.
And yet you don't apply that same stance to the USB specification.
Just more evidence of Sturgeon's Law.
Fascinating, since there was no version beyond 9.2.2.
Delicious Library is one of the most popular Mac shareware apps, and is exceptionally well-designed. Those wood bookcases are central to its UI look and feel. And he's already written an iPhone app - except Amazon decided to yank all mobile licenses to their data. Yes, that's right, he pays Amazon for access to their data, so it is legal use and paid for.
So your entire post is written like a true asshat who has no idea what's going on, and has contributed nothing. But that never stops Slashdot.
Except he's been on the iPhone for a while - until Amazon yanked all mobile licenses to their data.
/.).
This goes back to the whole issue of stealing "look and feel", which they most certainly did. Whether that constitutes legal copyright infringement is beyond me (and I imagine 99% of the commenters on
Java and Flash hurt Apple because they open the door to even shittier apps and hellishly non-native interfaces. We've seen what Flash is on Mac OS X - frighteningly slow, CPU-intensive, and the source of 90% or so of Safari crashes (I have no data, but plenty of developers who deal with Safari do from the crash logs). Java is *still* slow, non-native, and would open the door to "easy cross-platform compatibility" - meaning lowest common-denominator shit. Can you imagine if we had "normal" cell phone programs on the iPhone instead of people taking the time to do native versions?
Ah, I wasn't aware of that - I set up my laptop in 2006, and haven't had to rebuild it yet (knock on plastic).
And I'm sorry to hear that - I also lost a number of good coworkers in the April layoffs. That seems to have been the worst one in years. Good luck on the job hunt, and be glad you're out. ;-)
So yeah - NONE of these phones are remotely free out of the box. All of them can be hacked to do what you want with them. Pick your poison.
A hack that has been disabled at AT&T's request, just like it would be on any other phone that has updates. Apple didn't "remove a feature" - the iPhone can still tether just fine - as long as your carrier supports it.
Does it suck? Hell yes. Is it unexpected? Hell no.
This was in all of the betas, and known about two months ago. If you were "in the know" enough to install a hacked carrier profile on your device, then you should have been following closely enough to know not to install the update. (Oh, and the Pre and it's "free" homebrew community? What about those mandatory updates that install themselves after ten days? And the data collection Palm does? Apple doesn't even do either of those.)
Throw this down at AT&T's feet, not Apple's. Apple certainly has no interest in you tethering or not. If anything, it makes their device more valuable, so they have an interest in allowing it. But clearly AT&T would rather rape you at an unspecified future date for an unspecified amount of money. All the more reason for Apple to leave AT&T as soon as possible.
I may be wrong (I'm still on Office XP by choice), but don't we have a site license out on ISSI?
As a ten-year employee, I can say without equivocation that you don't have a fricken clue how large IBM is. Your department may have used Symphony. My department is still stuck with custom programs written in 1-2-3, and does at least 95% of its work in Word and Excel (including more custom programming). I have never seen a single ODF file cross my desk, on any project, for any customer.
IBM mandates lots of stuff internally that doesn't necessarily matter. And if you wait a a few weeks, they'll reorg and change their mind.
(due to development of superior material and construction technologies)
And where do you think those breakthroughs come from? A lot of them come from aerospace engineering. When you're up against problems that huge, you have to come up with the big breakthroughs and advances.
Note that such games are available in Z-Code form and will run just fine in Frotz, which is on the App Store (nevermind that it *also* is a code interpreter and accepts outside games...).
Not sure if this validates your points (it was a problem) or not (it was fixed), but in Safari 4 Apple added a miniscule delay between such button transitions, exactly so things like that won't happen.
It can probably be argued equally that this shows it's a bad idea to start with, or that it's a case of just getting the details right. Personally, I like the minimalist interface - to me it evokes earlier days when the browser wasn't a kitchen sink.
Which is a niche. Treo sales have been in steady decline ever since the 700p, and that was 2-3 years ago. Contrary to the summary, the Treo Pro does not run Palm OS - it's Windows Mobile.
Users can still use the far superior Missing Sync, and Palm could always update Hotsync. This is a non-issue.
...and no such thing exists there, this would seem to be completely made up bullshit.
Yes, but the real question is, "since when is being compiled a requirement?"
Ever since performance or memory usage has been. And thus always will.
Food for thought. We can get by without gasoline; it will be an infinitely harder time getting by without plastics. As stated, most of modern medical practice is based on the assumption of cheap, sterile, disposable items (although I *do* hope a lot of that is recycled - biohazards melted away first, of course).
I can be on the same OS install, as upgrade in-place installs actually WORK on Mac OS X. You can realistically take a system from 10.0 through 10.5.8 and soon 10.6 without having to blow it away and do a "clean install". I'm currently on 10.5.8, and have never had to do a complete reinstall. I have manually cleaned out cruft from time to time - because I ca actually find it in the filesystem. Good luck on any Windows install surviving that long.
If your iPhone is crashing, perhaps it's because you jailbreaked it. I've had my iPhone crash once - ever. Amazing how stable a browser can be when it's NOT saddled with crap like Java and Flash.
Ah, so the poor registry design (see Single Point of Failure) is my fault, and any problems with it are also my fault. Yup, that makes sense. And you said that *Mac* users are dicks.
> The answer to problems created by government regulation is not more regulation.
And neither is it a lack of regulation. Like any complex system, it needs revisions, not complete scrapping.
When's the last time you used Windows? It's not 1998 anymore. (Also, what in blazes does the filesystem layout have to do with stability?)
Every day for work, on a Thinkpad with a custom OS build, so 9 years of daily use. Malware is still a very real problem if any of my neighbors' systems are representative, and I still hear from coworkers frequently about having to have their systems rebuilt for one issue or another.
As for the filesystem, it doesn't directly contribute to "stability", but when it's laid out logically it becomes much easier to administer and troubleshoot. Files are in well-known and sensible locations, and you can track down problems easily. First there was the filesystem mess inherited from the WinXP days, and now we seemingly have a "new" layout in Vista and 7 layered on top, with lots of hand-waving to get old programs to work with it. It's a mess. Go head, turn on "hidden folders" on both systems and compare a Windows home directory to Mac OS X. The Mac has a simple hierarchy of:
~/Library - your stuff /Library - system-wide application stuff /System/Library - Mac OS X
The contents of each are simply labeled and easily navigated. Compare /Windows to /System/Library. And I don't think there is an equivalent to /Library, where Macs keep files that pertain to multiple users, but are not part of the operating system. /System/Library is pristine (with the sole exception of kernel extensions, which live in /System/Library/Extensions).
And with Windows you get the (admittedly poor) CMD, the (admittedly clunky) VBA, and the (holy crap awesomesauce) Powershell.
CMD is indeed awful, VBA is indeed clunky, and PowerShell is very new with little support. On UNIX you have your choice of any scripting language you want, and an OS that was designed in such a way as to take advantage of it. Meanwhile, most GUI-level operations in OS X can be performed on the command-line, furthering the automation potential.
Also: Windows Scheduled Tasks is better than cron, there I said it.
And Mac OS X doesn't use cron - it uses launchd, which beats the snot out of Scheduled Tasks.
I really wouldn't expect Mac OS X to cross your mind for a server. They make reasonable servers, but nothing exceptional (the management tools are nice for workgroups, but you've already said you're more comfortable with the CLI). And if you're going to slap down a lot of cheap, dumb boxes on people's desks, yeah, you're going to buy dirt-cheap Windows boxen. When individual users - especially corporate ones - have no choice in the matter, they get Windows by default.
However, I'm actually a little surprised that you yourself haven't gotten into it. Mac OS X offers a LOT for the highly technical user. You get a more stable system than Windows (registry, filesystem layout, malware), you get a full BSD environment and CLI for whatever you want to hack about with or automate, and you can run COTS applications as needed. And if you still need Windows, whether for gaming or a particular app, you can always dual-boot or virtualize. It's really the most flexible option by far.
As for the final comment on security, I must disagree. The Mac architecture inherits the benefits of proper user separation and privilege separation that have already existed on UNIX (and Linux) systems for decades, and I'd argue that it's more still secure than the Windows model by design, even with the Win Vista/7 improvements.