I don't see where he claims to have huge ripped musles, just ripped muscles. Everyone has muscles, the only thing that makes you look ripped is how well they show through the layer of fat you have. You can have small muscles and still be ripped, or you can have huge musles and be a fat ass. Fat people usually have huge calves for example but you can't usually see the separation in the 2 calf muscles.
You can't do anything about your genes(yet, without gene therapy), but you almost always can do something about being a fat ass. Unless you have a thyroid condition or are taking medication that makes it really hard not to be fat, then your only excuse for being fat is you're too lazy to exercise and/or your diet sucks.
Many people don't like to drink milk because they are lactose intolerant or maybe they don't want to drink the over stressed cow's milk that comes from cows injected with hormones to increase production. BVGH does make it into the milk and even though the FDA says it doesn't do anything to humans, I don't think I really want to be ingesting some other animal's hormones than you very much.
S/MIME is built into every email client I can think of. PGP is NOT built into about every email client I can think of. I use S/MIME and getting certs is a little cumbersome but easier than having to install PGP on every computer you want to send encrypted stuff to.
Yeah, that's the problem, but maybe if people care enough about it they might switch to a browser that works. It's at least a good incentive. Since Firefox the main reasons to use it over IE are standards compliance which most people probably don't care about, and security which maybe more people care about. If some cool sites are being created that only work with Safari, Firefox, Opera and not IE then maybe people will be willing to switch from IE to something else.
I just read about Objective-J a few days ago. I wonder what Apple thinks about it. It's basically a lot of porting of AppKit and they even call their frameworks the same thing (AppKit, Foundation etc.).
It seems quite interesting and if anyone can make Javascript behave more like Objective-C then I'll definitely be looking into it more.
I hope Firefox picks this up fast and/or it gets into the standard soon because it's really great but only works with Webkit so you can't really use it unless you're writing an iPhone web application or something only used by people using pre release versions of Webkit(or Safari 4 when it's out).
Apple is also working on getting CSS transformations into the CSS standard. This will allow you to do to your arbitrary image rotations with only CSS and you can control it with javascript by just setting the element's style attribute. They're also working on CSS animations and transitions to bring Core Animation like effects to the web browser. Check out the Webkit nightlies if you want to see it for yourself. It's quite impressive and easy to use. Hopefully it'll be supported by more than just Webkit soon.
Depending on the number of people that are actually using usenet on any given network, it could still be less bandwidth to have those people use external servers. If Verizon was hosting most of the news groups out there then they are having to transfer a huge amount of data. Wikipedia lists it as >3TB of data per DAY. Verizon is big but I don't believe they could have enough people using usenet to pull that much traffic every day, thus it's probably less traffic for them to have the people that want it to download it from some external server.
You are still uninformed. Why not wait until the actual OS is released to make a final judgement instead of a pre-alpha version that is out right now. I bet you will be surprised.
I don't see why Apple should waste time on silly apps like a basic drawing application when there's plenty of 3rd party apps if you really want it. Did you go to WWDC? It doesn't really sound like it otherwise your post probably would be full of more truths rather than just assuming Apple is only focusing on the iPhone right now. There was equal representation between iPhone and Mac sessions. The reason Apple is marketing the iPhone right now is because it is so new.
Personally I don't actually believe the 0 new features stuff because for obvious reasons, the application teams for the Mac aren't going to be sitting on their ass until Snow Leopard comes out. Stuff is of course going to be changing even if they're not really promoting it right now.
I still think there are going to be more than just GSD and OpenCL and other new frameworks. The other applications teams aren't just sitting on their ass doing nothing so iCal, iChat & every other application is still going to be different than in 10.5. Their focus isn't on promoting these changes by counting every little added checkbox as a feature. Instead the main selling point appears to be performance and scaling for the future applications which will no doubt need the horse power eventually.
You sound like one of those fumbling idiots on TV infomercials that make the simplest of tasks look hard. Such as opening a bag of milk is so hard that you spill it all over the place, but with this neato widget you can open your milk and not spill a drop! Then in actual reality it's not all that hard to do and the widget maybe provides a little more convenience but that is all.
That's not what he's talking about. The OS can already support more than 8 cores/cpus in terms of scheduling and putting threads on each core/cpu etc... He's talking about it gets very complicated to divide your application up into parts and have to worry about thread synchronization etc..
Yes they require intel Macs but someone already posted on the tuaw.com site that some of the system binaries still have PPC code in them so I don't quite buy the whole intel only thing quite yet. It's extremely alpha from what I've read and especially some of the new things like OpenCL will probably require certain GPUs to work. I doubt they'd be adding any older GPU support because probably not a lot of the older GPUs could even run all the code they want to be able to.
For some things it makes sense. Dropping the G3 is OK with me because for today's software and OS it's a complete snail. A G5 though is still very capable especially if you have the Quad. Sure you can't take advantage of every feature but the same could be said about some current Macs being sold such as those with integrated graphics.
Thankfully we've been in a minority government for so long none of these insane bills get passed. They've been trying to get something like this for so long, basically every few years it comes back slightly different. I don't know who it is in the government that keeps pushing this shit but they need to be forced out of government.
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I don't see where he claims to have huge ripped musles, just ripped muscles. Everyone has muscles, the only thing that makes you look ripped is how well they show through the layer of fat you have. You can have small muscles and still be ripped, or you can have huge musles and be a fat ass. Fat people usually have huge calves for example but you can't usually see the separation in the 2 calf muscles.
You can't do anything about your genes(yet, without gene therapy), but you almost always can do something about being a fat ass. Unless you have a thyroid condition or are taking medication that makes it really hard not to be fat, then your only excuse for being fat is you're too lazy to exercise and/or your diet sucks.
Or adding vitamin D to the sun screen, assuming that it can be absorbed through the skin.
Many people don't like to drink milk because they are lactose intolerant or maybe they don't want to drink the over stressed cow's milk that comes from cows injected with hormones to increase production. BVGH does make it into the milk and even though the FDA says it doesn't do anything to humans, I don't think I really want to be ingesting some other animal's hormones than you very much.
Well, Windows has a waaaay worse track record yet it's used by 90+% of businesses.
S/MIME is built into every email client I can think of. PGP is NOT built into about every email client I can think of. I use S/MIME and getting certs is a little cumbersome but easier than having to install PGP on every computer you want to send encrypted stuff to.
Yeah, that's the problem, but maybe if people care enough about it they might switch to a browser that works. It's at least a good incentive. Since Firefox the main reasons to use it over IE are standards compliance which most people probably don't care about, and security which maybe more people care about. If some cool sites are being created that only work with Safari, Firefox, Opera and not IE then maybe people will be willing to switch from IE to something else.
I just read about Objective-J a few days ago. I wonder what Apple thinks about it. It's basically a lot of porting of AppKit and they even call their frameworks the same thing (AppKit, Foundation etc.). It seems quite interesting and if anyone can make Javascript behave more like Objective-C then I'll definitely be looking into it more.
I hope Firefox picks this up fast and/or it gets into the standard soon because it's really great but only works with Webkit so you can't really use it unless you're writing an iPhone web application or something only used by people using pre release versions of Webkit(or Safari 4 when it's out).
Apple is also working on getting CSS transformations into the CSS standard. This will allow you to do to your arbitrary image rotations with only CSS and you can control it with javascript by just setting the element's style attribute. They're also working on CSS animations and transitions to bring Core Animation like effects to the web browser. Check out the Webkit nightlies if you want to see it for yourself. It's quite impressive and easy to use. Hopefully it'll be supported by more than just Webkit soon.
I'm sure he was talking about smartphones because that number accurately describes the iPhone's sales compared to other smart phones in the USA.
You think no one knows about it? It's not exactly a secret.
Depending on the number of people that are actually using usenet on any given network, it could still be less bandwidth to have those people use external servers. If Verizon was hosting most of the news groups out there then they are having to transfer a huge amount of data. Wikipedia lists it as >3TB of data per DAY. Verizon is big but I don't believe they could have enough people using usenet to pull that much traffic every day, thus it's probably less traffic for them to have the people that want it to download it from some external server.
You are still uninformed. Why not wait until the actual OS is released to make a final judgement instead of a pre-alpha version that is out right now. I bet you will be surprised.
I don't see why Apple should waste time on silly apps like a basic drawing application when there's plenty of 3rd party apps if you really want it. Did you go to WWDC? It doesn't really sound like it otherwise your post probably would be full of more truths rather than just assuming Apple is only focusing on the iPhone right now. There was equal representation between iPhone and Mac sessions. The reason Apple is marketing the iPhone right now is because it is so new.
Personally I don't actually believe the 0 new features stuff because for obvious reasons, the application teams for the Mac aren't going to be sitting on their ass until Snow Leopard comes out. Stuff is of course going to be changing even if they're not really promoting it right now.
That's a really crazy bug. Hey, here's a random dll on the desktop, let's load it in memory! WTF is with that?
I still think there are going to be more than just GSD and OpenCL and other new frameworks. The other applications teams aren't just sitting on their ass doing nothing so iCal, iChat & every other application is still going to be different than in 10.5. Their focus isn't on promoting these changes by counting every little added checkbox as a feature. Instead the main selling point appears to be performance and scaling for the future applications which will no doubt need the horse power eventually.
Yeah like Windows Vista.
You sound like one of those fumbling idiots on TV infomercials that make the simplest of tasks look hard. Such as opening a bag of milk is so hard that you spill it all over the place, but with this neato widget you can open your milk and not spill a drop! Then in actual reality it's not all that hard to do and the widget maybe provides a little more convenience but that is all.
That's not what he's talking about. The OS can already support more than 8 cores/cpus in terms of scheduling and putting threads on each core/cpu etc... He's talking about it gets very complicated to divide your application up into parts and have to worry about thread synchronization etc..
Yes they require intel Macs but someone already posted on the tuaw.com site that some of the system binaries still have PPC code in them so I don't quite buy the whole intel only thing quite yet. It's extremely alpha from what I've read and especially some of the new things like OpenCL will probably require certain GPUs to work. I doubt they'd be adding any older GPU support because probably not a lot of the older GPUs could even run all the code they want to be able to.
That's because they use Core Animation to make the books and stuff move around on the "shelf".
For some things it makes sense. Dropping the G3 is OK with me because for today's software and OS it's a complete snail. A G5 though is still very capable especially if you have the Quad. Sure you can't take advantage of every feature but the same could be said about some current Macs being sold such as those with integrated graphics.
Leopard is basically stable and performs well. That doesn't mean that there aren't any improvements that can be made.
Thankfully we've been in a minority government for so long none of these insane bills get passed. They've been trying to get something like this for so long, basically every few years it comes back slightly different. I don't know who it is in the government that keeps pushing this shit but they need to be forced out of government.