What Apple does with their CoCoa Framework and native apps is up to them, but as long as they are a UNIX, they'll never have the ability to stop apps written in C, Java, Python, Bash, Perl, PHP or Ruby from doing whatever the hell they please.
I'm fairly certain you have no idea how unix works, or more specifically that the kernel controls everything, including what those C, Java, ect languages can ACTUALLY accomplish.
Can you do anything you want on an iPhone? They two aren't that far apart and the kernel is pretty damn close to the same.
This goes far beyond non-Admin rights and restricts a lot of things(like app integration or communication, apps like Steam or XFire can't integrate with games).
Uhm, yes they can, they just all have to be part of the same sandbox, which is fine because steam already works that way on OSX, though Steam for OSX is a steaming pile of shit, thats not the point.
Steam should have no problem with the sandbox restrictions. You're fully able to do whatever the fuck you want in certain areas and any process that you launch yourself. No, steam can't plug itself into iChat, and thats good, because I don't WANT it having access to my iChat contact list, or my normal contact list or anything else.
Ironically, simple software is more likely to fit a larger audience than your typical geek software package that so overloaded with options so everyone can have their way that its unwieldy.
If you're skills were as great as you think they are, you'd be able to cope with simple software better.
it's profitable and risky, it almost got them killed when the PC revolution happened.
You mean when they gave up control and let other companies start making Mac clones? I think you're confusing what was causing them damage. When they went back to being control freaks suddenly they recovered.
Right... because running Linux apps on Linux is emulation...
Android and MeeGo have a few different APIs but for the most part, except for gui and a few other small platform specific areas, it should 'just work' on both. Compatibility shims that basically rearrange function arguments and function names are not emulators.
You do realize that Gartner is basically a subsidiary marketing division for Microsoft right? And has been for what, 15 years? Their reports ALWAYS favor Microsoft. Shit, they probably said Bob was going to take over the world. You really have to be dense to believe anything they 'report' on.
most people who own an android specifically chose not to go apple cause of apple bs, and while microsoft has their share, it's not nearly as bad.
Wrong.
Every single person that isn't a geek that owns an Android phone owns it because it was Android... you know, by Google. Almost all of them will not buy another Android device either.
You're a fanboy, surrounded by fanboy's here, so you've become completely disconnected from the real world. Once you stop being a fanboy, Android doesn't look all that impressive.
Geeks will love android forever probably, just like Linux in general. Normal people jumped on a fad due to Google being behind it (how many people had android phones BEFORE Google bought it?) and now most of them regret it.
I'm not saying that people would go for iPhones over anything else, just that you are completely out of touch. Normal people don't have a problem with what Apple does and they do have a distrust/dislike for Microsoft, so if I had to pick a direction, I'd say that people who are buying a device and actually taking the OS it runs into account are more than likely going to buy iPhones. Android will continue to gain traction on giveaway devices.
You'll get A LOT better at predicting trends when you stop thinking everyone in the world shares your personality traits.
Yes, but they aren't going to be VPNing into CVS, Subversion, or Git are they? Team Foundation Server is basically the MS VisualStudio source repository and continuous integration server (I say that with great hesitation, they think of it that way, but its hard for me to call it that).
Basically, I'd say the post you're responding too is probably a bot spewing random gibberish.
Say'n what? That you buy into marketing hype that can not possibly be true? First I've heard of them, but reading their claims for what they can do for iPad/iPhone devices.... hhahhaha bullshit:)
Yea, and IBM used to sell you a 1k RAM upgrade for $65k... and when the technician came to 'install' your upgrade... he removed a jumper so the other 1k that was already in the fucking machine would work. You're getting ripped off and just aren't bright enough to realize it.
If you claimed that 'management won't hold me responsible' as your excuse, then I'd understand, but you actually think that HP is selling you better drives...
You do realize that... THEY DON'T EVEN MAKE DRIVES right? You're actually buying that $70... and paying $300 for it. Well, it and the rebranding they did to the firmware with a hex editor.
With a 95% failure rate you could have had seagate tickling your balls while they tried to figure out what was going wrong... right up until the point where they should you how your power supplies were frying the drives.
That is simply unbelievable to anyone with 1/4 of a clue.
One of the hardest fights I've had in IT is explaining why I spend $300 a drive from HP and not $70 for the same capacity from Newegg.
Ignorance? Completely lack of education about actual performance of the drives themselves and their life expectancy? I could come up with lots of reasons why you would do it, but they'd all make you look dumb. That $300 drive is hardly worth more than the $70, and when put in a proper RAID setup, it matters even less.
That and explaining that a 48 port gigabit Linksys is NOT even in the same class as a 4948.
Yes, those are different, but its unlikely if you're having that discussion that you're doing anything that would actually require the high end switch for your users to notice a difference.
Fear and punishment might give you a stiffy but they don't work. What we want is rehabilitated prisoners not people more angry and violent than when they went in.
Bullshit. Fear and punishment most certainly does work and works very well. Giving them an xbox360 isn't exactly punishment, perhaps if you understood what punishment is then you might understand why it works. No it doesn't work on everyone, and those that it doesnt' work on generally are not capable of rehabilitation. They do not understand the basic principle of cause and effect, you can't fix that by talking to them by the time they get to prison.
That next guy is several hundred meters away from anywhere that the prisoners are going to live, and they'll also be behind several rather thick concrete walls that aren't going to play so well with the signal.
In short, the prison grounds are too large for any sort of useful wifi connection from somewhere external.
Its not like the prison and the people around it share the same unfenced back yard. You can't get within a 100 yards of a prison at the closest.
Use exchange sync instead of IMAP with gmail, you get push notifications as well as cal and contact syncing if you want. Specifically, use the Exchange option in Mail, not the IMAP or Google Mail options.
Gmail supports IMAP IDLE for push, but the iPhone mail client only supports push on Exchange for some retarded reasons I've yet to determine.
Its not irony, its intentional. Claiming this wasn't intentional or is a surprise is a flat out lie. This is a company that is SUPPOSED to KNOW how to protect your privacy since they... claim to be safe and secure place to store your backups.
I'll call them liars because if they aren't liars, its even worse for their reputation.
I'm not sure about you, but anyone with half a clue realizes that if they were actually in the business of protecting your data, they wouldn't be giving email addresses to anyone. Whats better is that they give out their ENTIRE FUCKING LIST, and then give another list of 'don't email these guys'... seriously? How about you just NOT INCLUDE THOSE PEOPLE TO BEGIN WITH?
They are double dipping. Charging for service, then selling your info. And this is a company thats supposed to be backing up ALL of your personal data and keeping it safe?
Anyone who continues to use Carbonite is an idiot, they are not a good company to do business with, just another facebook.
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IIRC the kernel source to OSX went away years ago as it was used to quickly make patches to allow beige boxes to run OS X.
While you clearly linked to the OSS available from Apple that is used in 10.7.2, no where on that list is there a package for kernel source.
And for reference, you can find the exact same sort of list of OSS software for iOS as well.
What Apple does with their CoCoa Framework and native apps is up to them, but as long as they are a UNIX, they'll never have the ability to stop apps written in C, Java, Python, Bash, Perl, PHP or Ruby from doing whatever the hell they please.
I'm fairly certain you have no idea how unix works, or more specifically that the kernel controls everything, including what those C, Java, ect languages can ACTUALLY accomplish.
Can you do anything you want on an iPhone? They two aren't that far apart and the kernel is pretty damn close to the same.
This goes far beyond non-Admin rights and restricts a lot of things(like app integration or communication, apps like Steam or XFire can't integrate with games).
Uhm, yes they can, they just all have to be part of the same sandbox, which is fine because steam already works that way on OSX, though Steam for OSX is a steaming pile of shit, thats not the point.
Steam should have no problem with the sandbox restrictions. You're fully able to do whatever the fuck you want in certain areas and any process that you launch yourself. No, steam can't plug itself into iChat, and thats good, because I don't WANT it having access to my iChat contact list, or my normal contact list or anything else.
How can you do that in OSX?
Click on the little compass icon in the dock (by default) that starts Safari and you have access to the only software repository.
The Mac and the iPhone are two different products, you do realize that right?
Ironically, simple software is more likely to fit a larger audience than your typical geek software package that so overloaded with options so everyone can have their way that its unwieldy.
If you're skills were as great as you think they are, you'd be able to cope with simple software better.
it's profitable and risky, it almost got them killed when the PC revolution happened.
You mean when they gave up control and let other companies start making Mac clones? I think you're confusing what was causing them damage. When they went back to being control freaks suddenly they recovered.
Are you stoned?
Right ... because running Linux apps on Linux is emulation ...
Android and MeeGo have a few different APIs but for the most part, except for gui and a few other small platform specific areas, it should 'just work' on both. Compatibility shims that basically rearrange function arguments and function names are not emulators.
You do realize that Gartner is basically a subsidiary marketing division for Microsoft right? And has been for what, 15 years? Their reports ALWAYS favor Microsoft. Shit, they probably said Bob was going to take over the world. You really have to be dense to believe anything they 'report' on.
most people who own an android specifically chose not to go apple cause of apple bs, and while microsoft has their share, it's not nearly as bad.
Wrong.
Every single person that isn't a geek that owns an Android phone owns it because it was Android ... you know, by Google. Almost all of them will not buy another Android device either.
You're a fanboy, surrounded by fanboy's here, so you've become completely disconnected from the real world. Once you stop being a fanboy, Android doesn't look all that impressive.
Geeks will love android forever probably, just like Linux in general. Normal people jumped on a fad due to Google being behind it (how many people had android phones BEFORE Google bought it?) and now most of them regret it.
I'm not saying that people would go for iPhones over anything else, just that you are completely out of touch. Normal people don't have a problem with what Apple does and they do have a distrust/dislike for Microsoft, so if I had to pick a direction, I'd say that people who are buying a device and actually taking the OS it runs into account are more than likely going to buy iPhones. Android will continue to gain traction on giveaway devices.
You'll get A LOT better at predicting trends when you stop thinking everyone in the world shares your personality traits.
Sure you can ... in another 10 years or so after you get out of highschool.
Getting fired isn't a fear you have because you don't have a job.
Yes, but they aren't going to be VPNing into CVS, Subversion, or Git are they? Team Foundation Server is basically the MS VisualStudio source repository and continuous integration server (I say that with great hesitation, they think of it that way, but its hard for me to call it that).
Basically, I'd say the post you're responding too is probably a bot spewing random gibberish.
In other news, InfoWorld is still published.
Yea, apparently on Microsoft powered presses.
Say'n what? That you buy into marketing hype that can not possibly be true? First I've heard of them, but reading their claims for what they can do for iPad/iPhone devices .... hhahhaha bullshit :)
Then you change your apps and network to support the phone.
You really are new to this aren't you?
Yea, and IBM used to sell you a 1k RAM upgrade for $65k ... and when the technician came to 'install' your upgrade ... he removed a jumper so the other 1k that was already in the fucking machine would work. You're getting ripped off and just aren't bright enough to realize it.
If you claimed that 'management won't hold me responsible' as your excuse, then I'd understand, but you actually think that HP is selling you better drives ...
You do realize that ... THEY DON'T EVEN MAKE DRIVES right? You're actually buying that $70 ... and paying $300 for it. Well, it and the rebranding they did to the firmware with a hex editor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Manufacturers
Bullshit.
With a 95% failure rate you could have had seagate tickling your balls while they tried to figure out what was going wrong ... right up until the point where they should you how your power supplies were frying the drives.
That is simply unbelievable to anyone with 1/4 of a clue.
One of the hardest fights I've had in IT is explaining why I spend $300 a drive from HP and not $70 for the same capacity from Newegg.
Ignorance? Completely lack of education about actual performance of the drives themselves and their life expectancy? I could come up with lots of reasons why you would do it, but they'd all make you look dumb. That $300 drive is hardly worth more than the $70, and when put in a proper RAID setup, it matters even less.
That and explaining that a 48 port gigabit Linksys is NOT even in the same class as a 4948.
Yes, those are different, but its unlikely if you're having that discussion that you're doing anything that would actually require the high end switch for your users to notice a difference.
Basically, you just made yourself look stupid.
Fear and punishment might give you a stiffy but they don't work. What we want is rehabilitated prisoners not people more angry and violent than when they went in.
Bullshit. Fear and punishment most certainly does work and works very well. Giving them an xbox360 isn't exactly punishment, perhaps if you understood what punishment is then you might understand why it works. No it doesn't work on everyone, and those that it doesnt' work on generally are not capable of rehabilitation. They do not understand the basic principle of cause and effect, you can't fix that by talking to them by the time they get to prison.
That next guy is several hundred meters away from anywhere that the prisoners are going to live, and they'll also be behind several rather thick concrete walls that aren't going to play so well with the signal.
In short, the prison grounds are too large for any sort of useful wifi connection from somewhere external.
Its not like the prison and the people around it share the same unfenced back yard. You can't get within a 100 yards of a prison at the closest.
Use exchange sync instead of IMAP with gmail, you get push notifications as well as cal and contact syncing if you want. Specifically, use the Exchange option in Mail, not the IMAP or Google Mail options.
Gmail supports IMAP IDLE for push, but the iPhone mail client only supports push on Exchange for some retarded reasons I've yet to determine.
Its not irony, its intentional. Claiming this wasn't intentional or is a surprise is a flat out lie. This is a company that is SUPPOSED to KNOW how to protect your privacy since they ... claim to be safe and secure place to store your backups.
I'll call them liars because if they aren't liars, its even worse for their reputation.
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So you're going to run a server?
A cloud is almost certainly retarded if thats all you're doing. Why would you run umpteen machines when one would do the work 100 times over?
A personal cloud is a rather stupid idea, you'll spend more time fucking with 'the cloud' than any advantage you'll get from it.
information ...
I'm not sure about you, but anyone with half a clue realizes that if they were actually in the business of protecting your data, they wouldn't be giving email addresses to anyone. Whats better is that they give out their ENTIRE FUCKING LIST, and then give another list of 'don't email these guys' ... seriously? How about you just NOT INCLUDE THOSE PEOPLE TO BEGIN WITH?
They are double dipping. Charging for service, then selling your info. And this is a company thats supposed to be backing up ALL of your personal data and keeping it safe?
Anyone who continues to use Carbonite is an idiot, they are not a good company to do business with, just another facebook.
Wow, you meant something even more unlikely than I thought you meant. I'm blown away.