Just like a used car salesman, I guess. He helps by selling you a car that you want, but he also screws you with a POS car that will need more repairs than the cost of the car itself. Unless you're a mechanic, and most people aren't. Just like most people don't understand technology.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment for my car...
If other companies make worthwhile things, we will read about them too. I'm sure in a few hours some Linux distro will release a new version, hackers will find yet another hole in a Microsoft product, Sony will find yet another way to piss off their customers or Square-Enix will announce they're doubling the monthly fees of Final Fantasy XIV.
I bet that most people using JailbreakMe or other variants don't realize they could be installing malware. They just want to install non-approved software or in most cases pirated software and heard about jailbreaking.
I've actually had someone reply to me that "there's no mention of anything else than jailbreaking on the webpage of the hack, and I'm not important enough for people to spy on me anyway". Most people don't understand technology and will believe what they are told, good or bad.
Just because Slashdot readers understand technology doesn't mean regular users do. Just two days ago I was discussing with someone in his 70's how "the blue E" wasn't the internet and how Wikipedia wasn't an competitor to Google Chrome.
Hell, the OLF (Office de la langue française) wants people to say "Sites internet" instead of "Sites Web" because web is an english word, even though internet is the network itself and isn't limited to the Web. If even official channels are messing up terms, how is the general public supposed to clearly understand the concepts? It's no wonder we still have people who think the "blue E" is the internet itself.
Oups, I meant the HTML5 file upload part sorry. Firefox 4 is supposed to be compatible with the Chrome and Safari method and drop the method used in Firefox 3.6.
One good reason would be that once everyone uses Apple's tools to write software for the Mac, they won't need to support a specific processor type. It would enable them to switch CPU architectures once again and do the jump to ARM, perhaps. Remember, that's why they "told" people to use XCode a few months before they switched to Intel. XCode has a simple "Universal Binary" checkbox which produces a PowerPC+x86 application. The next one could produce x86+ARM code before dropping x86 support altogether.
The computing-power-to-watt ratio of ARM is much better than x86, Apple already has their own custom A4 CPU (I imagine 16-cores+ ARM CPUs for laptops and desktops), I guess their own custom ARM CPUs cost less than what Intel is charging them (per computing power units) and it would make it much simpler to write software that works on all Apple hardware in one step if the desktops and laptops switched to ARM too.
As for the "Mac of the future", I see the general public using that model of computing while coders will still get their usual environment (you choose when first setting up the Mac). Otherwise how could we code for all the hardware?
Either Apple gets a bad rep because Flash crashes or is too slow on Mac OS X (but it's not even made by Apple), because they supplied an older version (which could have been more stable, but not up-to-date) or because they stop supplying it and pointing the users to Adobe's website (which is the normal thing to do, and people will rightly associate Flash problems with Adobe, not Apple).
We should have put Gillette in charge of the solution. I'm pretty sure it would have been "fuck everything, we're doing 256-bit". IPv6 won't last long once we start assigning an IP address to everything* such as light bulbs, toasters, etc.
* no, we won't stop to think if we should. We'll only see that we can.
How about having many manufacturers procude one model of car and one model of truck? That would standardize parts and lower the cost. We get to keep competition with the multiple manufacturers and they get a better cost per part because of the higher production quantities.
Then again, if everybody sells the exact same thing, we'll probably get price collusion problems. Maybe standardize all the structural and mechanical parts and let them customize the exterior panels and interior features (A/C or not, MP3 player or not, almond crunch or crunchy frog).
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Thanks for adding to our already too-nerdy knowledge.
Just like a used car salesman, I guess. He helps by selling you a car that you want, but he also screws you with a POS car that will need more repairs than the cost of the car itself. Unless you're a mechanic, and most people aren't. Just like most people don't understand technology.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment for my car...
If other companies make worthwhile things, we will read about them too. I'm sure in a few hours some Linux distro will release a new version, hackers will find yet another hole in a Microsoft product, Sony will find yet another way to piss off their customers or Square-Enix will announce they're doubling the monthly fees of Final Fantasy XIV.
I don't trust the BBC. They got flying circuses and time-traveling phone booths over there...
Oh, you said BCC, sorry. Carry on.
I bet that most people using JailbreakMe or other variants don't realize they could be installing malware. They just want to install non-approved software or in most cases pirated software and heard about jailbreaking.
I've actually had someone reply to me that "there's no mention of anything else than jailbreaking on the webpage of the hack, and I'm not important enough for people to spy on me anyway". Most people don't understand technology and will believe what they are told, good or bad.
Just because Slashdot readers understand technology doesn't mean regular users do. Just two days ago I was discussing with someone in his 70's how "the blue E" wasn't the internet and how Wikipedia wasn't an competitor to Google Chrome.
Hell, the OLF (Office de la langue française) wants people to say "Sites internet" instead of "Sites Web" because web is an english word, even though internet is the network itself and isn't limited to the Web. If even official channels are messing up terms, how is the general public supposed to clearly understand the concepts? It's no wonder we still have people who think the "blue E" is the internet itself.
I blame the Sumerians for inventing the abacus.
Oups, I meant the HTML5 file upload part sorry. Firefox 4 is supposed to be compatible with the Chrome and Safari method and drop the method used in Firefox 3.6.
One good reason would be that once everyone uses Apple's tools to write software for the Mac, they won't need to support a specific processor type. It would enable them to switch CPU architectures once again and do the jump to ARM, perhaps. Remember, that's why they "told" people to use XCode a few months before they switched to Intel. XCode has a simple "Universal Binary" checkbox which produces a PowerPC+x86 application. The next one could produce x86+ARM code before dropping x86 support altogether.
The computing-power-to-watt ratio of ARM is much better than x86, Apple already has their own custom A4 CPU (I imagine 16-cores+ ARM CPUs for laptops and desktops), I guess their own custom ARM CPUs cost less than what Intel is charging them (per computing power units) and it would make it much simpler to write software that works on all Apple hardware in one step if the desktops and laptops switched to ARM too.
As for the "Mac of the future", I see the general public using that model of computing while coders will still get their usual environment (you choose when first setting up the Mac). Otherwise how could we code for all the hardware?
Does Firefox support the new File API yet? The same as Chrome and Safari, not the older one which was Firefox-only.
Either Apple gets a bad rep because Flash crashes or is too slow on Mac OS X (but it's not even made by Apple), because they supplied an older version (which could have been more stable, but not up-to-date) or because they stop supplying it and pointing the users to Adobe's website (which is the normal thing to do, and people will rightly associate Flash problems with Adobe, not Apple).
No matter what they do, people will complain.
It's now 20% in the USA.
At 0.5 watts each, that's a LOT of USB ports!
I agree with your points except but for the fact that Miss Management has nothing to do with all of this, she's only a secretary.
We should have put Gillette in charge of the solution. I'm pretty sure it would have been "fuck everything, we're doing 256-bit". IPv6 won't last long once we start assigning an IP address to everything* such as light bulbs, toasters, etc.
* no, we won't stop to think if we should. We'll only see that we can.
And if you squeeze the nanotube very, very hard, it disappears!
The LHC, now available in pocket format!
Given that there is no fixed stamp size, it's also meaningless to say stamp-sized.
Burma.
Because it's a perv?
I don't know which browser you use but with Safari I get a textarea roughly 855x260 pixels.
If it was a Microsoft troll shouldn't it be about Silverlight and mono?
How about having many manufacturers procude one model of car and one model of truck? That would standardize parts and lower the cost. We get to keep competition with the multiple manufacturers and they get a better cost per part because of the higher production quantities.
Then again, if everybody sells the exact same thing, we'll probably get price collusion problems. Maybe standardize all the structural and mechanical parts and let them customize the exterior panels and interior features (A/C or not, MP3 player or not, almond crunch or crunchy frog).
And here I was expecting a Muppet Show clip of some sort...
And that's why so many male mantis are atheist.
As long as you don't call yourself invisible too, because then it's heresy!