While not technically a theft, copyright infringement is a crime. And you know who hurts? It doesn't hurt Microsoft/Adobe/Macromedia whose software are the most pirated, no sir. It hurts any little producer of software. I've seen lot of photo retouching programs die because people preferred to pirate Photoshop. Those programs were like 30$, 40$ and well worth the money. For many home users they were actually better/easier than PS, but still people wanted what the Pro used. This is just an example of how what you may think a little damage for a big company becomes and HUGE damage for little software producers.
Why they just don't all take a breath and think that the Mac platform will remain the Mac platform? Switching processor doesn't imply anything for the users, nor it changes anything in Apple strategy/marketing policies. Mac OS X will still run on Apple computers only. If Apple, for absurd, was switching to ARM processors would Palm OS be doomed?
Jobs already said that MacOS X will NOT run on ordinary PCs, so why it should hurt linux if instead of having PPCs Macintosh computers will have Intels.
Too many people are thinking like Mac OS X has been ported to PCs, this is wrong, the Mac platform isn't dead, and it didn't change at all for the user perspective, it just uses other technologies under the hood, nothing more.
Price will drop but not as substantially as you may think, usually there aren't big price drops on Apple's hardware (you can see that even on the second-hand market they retain much of their value).
If you adopt the MVC (Model-View-Controller) style you can see that the first piece has been Interface Builder, which eliminated the need to write code for the View in an excellent way.
In 10.3 Cocoa Bindings (accessible via Interface Builder as well) eliminated the need to write code for the controller functions for the values setters/getters through they Key-Value technology (obviously you still need to write the parts that do some actions).
With Core Data now you do not even need to write anymore a BIG part of the Model, the data containers. This makes you able to limit in most cases your coding work to the actual elaboration of data, avoiding the storing/retrieving part which is the most boring, and as Apple demonstrated, can be generalized in most cases.
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It didn't mean to be a complete program, it was a snippet.
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Because i would redefine.info a site giving informations, such as slashdot, wikipedia, etc. Maybe is not the definition ICANN gave to it, but that is my understanding of it:)
Thank you for pointing out:).mil and.gov should be removed in my opinion because they are exclusive to the US while they should be available to other countries as well, or eliminated altogheter.
At this point the tld does not make any sense anymore. Sites are (were) classified in 2 big categories:
- By language (.it,.de,.au,.uk, etc..) - By kind (and assumed language was english (.org,.com,.net,.edu)
The first category is ok and works well. But then we come to the second. Having these 4 original category:.com,.org,.net identified Commercial sites, Organization sites (usually non-profit),.net i really never understood and.edu represent educational institues. So the.info was missing (but is largely unused) and they added it. Now.travel,.jobs etc are just confusing. How do i distinguish a travel agency from a informational site on travels from the TLD if they have the same TLD? This put in the same category completely different sites. I really thing the travel agency should be.com and the info site should be.info. Also.biz for me is a misterious entity because it could be interpreted as.com.
So why can't people just use the 2nd level domain to describe who they are? The TLD is already composed of enough entries to distinguish the category.
Slashdot should be.info in my mind. Or.dupes, but that is another story.
Ok thank you for pointing this out, i thought it was like in Italy. Well here these kind of rights are considered inherent to the person. Is true that Italy is a country with very strong (maybe too much) social security (health care, pharmaceuticals, pensions, and even a salary for those who lost work not for their faults for a period of time).
But really, who over 12 years could ever think this is a serious thing? I mean it is an hard disk not a toy. I understand that music player may be especially common between teenager, but this thing will make people think it is some sort of toy for babies.
because this way he pays less taxes. He earns anyway money from his stocks in the society.
In Italy (and i think everywhere in the EU) it would mean the opposite, because profit obtained from work is less taxed than profit obtained from capital goods, because is considered to be obtained with fatigue and sacrifice. Also probably here such a salary would be illegal because we have collective contracts that give you rights you cannot dispose of.
Viruses are going to be a problem on Symbian Phones sooner or later, all the manufacturers can do is to make it impossible to run without user stupidity. But now, smartphones users may not think about these risks, because they do not yet acknowledge they own a PDA that can make phone calls as well, not a phone.
What would be useful is to make the users aware of this problem, but this could harm the sales of this relatively new product (i wouldn't be going to buy it knowing of this risk).
Ok this may be interesting but what about reliabity?
Most people has more disk space than needed, still people feels the need to backup their data on safer storage medium, because HDs are still unreliable. Not to mention they are slow.
I wish HDs manufactures focused more on improving reliability, and speed instead of making disks bigger and bigger - no ones really cares anymore.
Ok i appreciate the effort of this company, but BeOS? It has been a dream for many but i doubt this will take off. This system was advanced years ago, now is just behind the others. Hardware support seems also a critical problem.
Kudos to YellowTab anyway for their effort...hope them good luck.
Ok while i agree that even 1 malfunctioning pixel IS a defect, i also agree with Sony that you should give it 1 or 2 weeks of time to test it. Why? Because LCD screens sometimes automagically repairs.
When i bought my iMac 15" there was a red spot, you can understand my delusion to see that on that expensive thing. However i didn't want to stay more time without the Mac so i kept it. Guess what? After less than 1 week that red spot disappeared from the screen a started working normally.
So while claiming that some dead pixels are not a malfunction is really cheating the customer, telling them to wait some time can actually be a good advice.
I do not know why people continue saying that IE is unsecure because is embedded in Windows. Embedding a rendering engine is good idea in a modern operative system because many applications can rely on it (The help system on windows is an example). Apple is doing that with WebKit.
The problem with IE is that is not completely standard compliant AND is poorly tested at Microsoft. I do not think is really a problem on how it has been designed or how it has been coded, with proper testing&debugging from Those Who Have The Code it could be a lot more secure.
Mozilla wins in security now because any user has access to the source code AND its developers pay a lot of attention to avoid security problems.
I however believe you CAN remove Internet Explorer from the OS, but that would mean reimplementing every function of the documented API of the rendering engine and replace the original one with your. Don't know if it could be done as a wrapper to Gecko...
I didn't know what that space in the credit card was for!
Ok this is a joke, but my credit card has been unsigned for 1 year and nobody checked the signature in the purchases. However copying a signatures is easy (even if they check they will do it superficially), i do not know why there aren't PINs for credit cards.
While i agree with you that modify 500$ hardware may be silly, i think that if the signal is really digital in DVHS the chance that the signal can corrupt are really low and even a normal VHS could do. Analog signal is way more complex and subject to degradation while the digital signal composed by a binary stream of value can survive to natural degradation much more time.
They maybe should try to drill the right holes right on the tape? He explained why he couldn't but i really couldn't get his point.
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While not technically a theft, copyright infringement is a crime. And you know who hurts? It doesn't hurt Microsoft/Adobe/Macromedia whose software are the most pirated, no sir. It hurts any little producer of software. I've seen lot of photo retouching programs die because people preferred to pirate Photoshop. Those programs were like 30$, 40$ and well worth the money. For many home users they were actually better/easier than PS, but still people wanted what the Pro used. This is just an example of how what you may think a little damage for a big company becomes and HUGE damage for little software producers.
Is it the same browser of few days ago or they are starting a brand new one?
Slashdot. Dupe for Nerds.
Dvorak is working on an amazing editorial on why he writes random editorials once a while
Why they just don't all take a breath and think that the Mac platform will remain the Mac platform? Switching processor doesn't imply anything for the users, nor it changes anything in Apple strategy/marketing policies. Mac OS X will still run on Apple computers only. If Apple, for absurd, was switching to ARM processors would Palm OS be doomed?
Jobs already said that MacOS X will NOT run on ordinary PCs, so why it should hurt linux if instead of having PPCs Macintosh computers will have Intels.
Too many people are thinking like Mac OS X has been ported to PCs, this is wrong, the Mac platform isn't dead, and it didn't change at all for the user perspective, it just uses other technologies under the hood, nothing more.
I'm still waiting for the PowerBook G5. THAT would be a great news.
Price will drop but not as substantially as you may think, usually there aren't big price drops on Apple's hardware (you can see that even on the second-hand market they retain much of their value).
Core Data was the missing piece in the puzzle.
If you adopt the MVC (Model-View-Controller) style you can see that the first piece has been Interface Builder, which eliminated the need to write code for the View in an excellent way.
In 10.3 Cocoa Bindings (accessible via Interface Builder as well) eliminated the need to write code for the controller functions for the values setters/getters through they Key-Value technology (obviously you still need to write the parts that do some actions).
With Core Data now you do not even need to write anymore a BIG part of the Model, the data containers. This makes you able to limit in most cases your coding work to the actual elaboration of data, avoiding the storing/retrieving part which is the most boring, and as Apple demonstrated, can be generalized in most cases.
It didn't mean to be a complete program, it was a snippet.
Looks like:
// 3 months
while(1)
{
uint8_t intelLoweredPrice = 0;
while(!intelLoweredPrice)
{
uint8_t newPrice = checkIntelPrice();
printf("We might start using AMD\n");
if(newPrice currentPrice)
{
intelLoweredPrices = 1;
currentPrice = newPrice;
}
}
sleep(7776000);
}
Because i would redefine .info a site giving informations, such as slashdot, wikipedia, etc. Maybe is not the definition ICANN gave to it, but that is my understanding of it :)
Yeah i meant nationality, not language, sorry.
Thank you for pointing out :) .mil and .gov should be removed in my opinion because they are exclusive to the US while they should be available to other countries as well, or eliminated altogheter.
At this point the tld does not make any sense anymore. Sites are (were) classified in 2 big categories:
.de, .au, .uk, etc..) .com, .net, .edu)
.com, .org, .net identified Commercial sites, Organization sites (usually non-profit), .net i really never understood and .edu represent educational institues. So the .info was missing (but is largely unused) and they added it. Now .travel, .jobs etc are just confusing. How do i distinguish a travel agency from a informational site on travels from the TLD if they have the same TLD? This put in the same category completely different sites. I really thing the travel agency should be .com and the info site should be .info. Also .biz for me is a misterious entity because it could be interpreted as .com.
.info in my mind. Or .dupes, but that is another story.
- By language (.it,
- By kind (and assumed language was english (.org,
The first category is ok and works well. But then we come to the second. Having these 4 original category:
So why can't people just use the 2nd level domain to describe who they are? The TLD is already composed of enough entries to distinguish the category.
Slashdot should be
Ok thank you for pointing this out, i thought it was like in Italy. Well here these kind of rights are considered inherent to the person. Is true that Italy is a country with very strong (maybe too much) social security (health care, pharmaceuticals, pensions, and even a salary for those who lost work not for their faults for a period of time).
Get more particular!
But really, who over 12 years could ever think this is a serious thing? I mean it is an hard disk not a toy. I understand that music player may be especially common between teenager, but this thing will make people think it is some sort of toy for babies.
because this way he pays less taxes. He earns anyway money from his stocks in the society.
In Italy (and i think everywhere in the EU) it would mean the opposite, because profit obtained from work is less taxed than profit obtained from capital goods, because is considered to be obtained with fatigue and sacrifice. Also probably here such a salary would be illegal because we have collective contracts that give you rights you cannot dispose of.
...this is a wonderful name!
No wait, i was kidding. This sucks.
Viruses are going to be a problem on Symbian Phones sooner or later, all the manufacturers can do is to make it impossible to run without user stupidity. But now, smartphones users may not think about these risks, because they do not yet acknowledge they own a PDA that can make phone calls as well, not a phone.
What would be useful is to make the users aware of this problem, but this could harm the sales of this relatively new product (i wouldn't be going to buy it knowing of this risk).
Ok this may be interesting but what about reliabity?
Most people has more disk space than needed, still people feels the need to backup their data on safer storage medium, because HDs are still unreliable. Not to mention they are slow.
I wish HDs manufactures focused more on improving reliability, and speed instead of making disks bigger and bigger - no ones really cares anymore.
Ok i appreciate the effort of this company, but BeOS? It has been a dream for many but i doubt this will take off. This system was advanced years ago, now is just behind the others. Hardware support seems also a critical problem. Kudos to YellowTab anyway for their effort...hope them good luck.
Ok while i agree that even 1 malfunctioning pixel IS a defect, i also agree with Sony that you should give it 1 or 2 weeks of time to test it. Why? Because LCD screens sometimes automagically repairs. When i bought my iMac 15" there was a red spot, you can understand my delusion to see that on that expensive thing. However i didn't want to stay more time without the Mac so i kept it. Guess what? After less than 1 week that red spot disappeared from the screen a started working normally. So while claiming that some dead pixels are not a malfunction is really cheating the customer, telling them to wait some time can actually be a good advice.
I do not know why people continue saying that IE is unsecure because is embedded in Windows. Embedding a rendering engine is good idea in a modern operative system because many applications can rely on it (The help system on windows is an example). Apple is doing that with WebKit. The problem with IE is that is not completely standard compliant AND is poorly tested at Microsoft. I do not think is really a problem on how it has been designed or how it has been coded, with proper testing&debugging from Those Who Have The Code it could be a lot more secure. Mozilla wins in security now because any user has access to the source code AND its developers pay a lot of attention to avoid security problems. I however believe you CAN remove Internet Explorer from the OS, but that would mean reimplementing every function of the documented API of the rendering engine and replace the original one with your. Don't know if it could be done as a wrapper to Gecko...
I didn't know what that space in the credit card was for! Ok this is a joke, but my credit card has been unsigned for 1 year and nobody checked the signature in the purchases. However copying a signatures is easy (even if they check they will do it superficially), i do not know why there aren't PINs for credit cards.
While i agree with you that modify 500$ hardware may be silly, i think that if the signal is really digital in DVHS the chance that the signal can corrupt are really low and even a normal VHS could do. Analog signal is way more complex and subject to degradation while the digital signal composed by a binary stream of value can survive to natural degradation much more time. They maybe should try to drill the right holes right on the tape? He explained why he couldn't but i really couldn't get his point.