I was at a ski resort the other week, and I heard two people talking about iPhone vs. other smartphones. One person had an iPhone. The iPhone owner said something to the effect of "Does Android have pinch to zoom? If so, I will go check it out". The UI of the iPhone is Apple's invention and gives it a competitive advantage. Why is it wrong for them to defend that?
Maybe you're too stupid to get the point. People buy tools to get their work done. If a tool gets their job done, but doesn't do your job, that doesn't make them stupid. If they carry around a bigger or less effective tool to do their job because it does do your job, then they _are_ stupid.
No, the problem is that it's useless to you, not the GP's mom who is the real end user. There is no loss of function, since the user isn't going to be writing software for it or trying to run BIND on it in the background. Why is that so hard to understand?
Ogg Theora won't become relevant until there are hardware decode chips available. Why would I install Silverlight to play Ogg when I can use HTML5 and H.264 instead? Because someone might charge to develop with the codec after 2015? I don't care because the H.264 standard is open even though it's not free.
Everybody who is using MKV _is_ a tinkerer. Most people will just use H.264 in an MP4 container and be fine. I'm not telling you what to use - that's your choice. But don't think for a minute that you are not in a small minority of users.
The defense budget being out of control doesn't change anything regarding the NASA budget. By your rationale, the bigger our deficit, the bigger we should let it become. How about cutting both and living within our means? Let's establish a $5B X-Prize and be done with it.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The group of people who would pay a high price for OS X will just buy a Mac. They're not going to waste their time building a machine and then putting OS X on it.
Libertarians aren't opposed to free software - they're opposed to the ideology at one (vocal) end of the FOSS spectrum, like that of Stallman. Part of libertarianism is choosing whether to make your software FOSS or not. In some sense, the BSD license represents Libertarian ideals, while the GPL does not since it doesn't allow you to choose whether to release source code.
They don't allow you to do that here in California - you can't just bring a 49 state car here. This state is run by egomaniacs who have no concept of finance. I bet that they didn't even think about whether the cost of the glazed glass pays for the fuel it saves.
California really does feel like a separate country. They place zero value on personal freedom here.
Have you even looked at the documentation to write an iPhone app? It's about the easiest APIs to learn that you can find for any platform. The fact that the dev tools are all free is a bonus.
"Proper" BIOS? BIOS should have died long ago. Intel released EFI almost a decade ago - developers have had their chance to update. You're faulting Apple for not using something archaic because of GRUBs faults?
That's incredible! 2 Hours and 40 minutes with billions of dollars? And what can I do now that I couldn't do before with an airplane? A flight is about $120 round trip. Let's call it $200. The federal component of this funding alone would buy some 25 million flights. For those who don't live in California, keep in mind that intra city public transit is horrible/non-existent - there's no additional convenience over an airport here.
It seems that the further we are in debt, the more ways people find to spend money we don't have.
And it's the students who are bored in school who are going to lead innovation in this country. I think you are underestimating how much these children learn outside of school, because they are the types who crave constant intellectual stimulation. I admire the type of work you do, but please don't assume that gifted children are less entitled to reaching their potential just because an average level of work comes easily to them.
The vast majority of my learning occurred outside of school, where they were wasting time teaching arithmetic in 3rd grade. It's quality, not quantity, that needs to improve.
And Windows is like the communist state compared to OS X. At least with OS X I have Unix and a free development toolchain. I actually use that toolchain instead of worrying about hypothetical censorship problems. Have you had an app rejected?
If it looked, felt, and behaved like other apps on OS X, I might think about using it regularly. For one, the palettes are inseparable. That alone is enough to drive a Mac user nuts. What good is 30" monitor if your software doesn't let you use it?
No, what he's saying is that the boundaries themselves should be powers of 2. In the decimal system, we put dividers (commas or periods, depending on geography) at each thousands places. The thousand is itself a power of 10. He's arguing (and I'm inclined to agree) that the dividers in a binary system should be chosen as binary powers or powers of binary powers. (2^(2^3) or (2^2^2^2). 2^10 (1024) was chosen because of decimal influence only.
He's a professional and shouldn't be playing with Windows if he ever wants to do something highly productive. I work with Photoshop on 500MB images. I wouldn't switch to Windows for 10-15% - I'll lose more than that time elsewhere.
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I was at a ski resort the other week, and I heard two people talking about iPhone vs. other smartphones. One person had an iPhone. The iPhone owner said something to the effect of "Does Android have pinch to zoom? If so, I will go check it out". The UI of the iPhone is Apple's invention and gives it a competitive advantage. Why is it wrong for them to defend that?
So you agree that we don't know anything about this yet, but yet make a statement that the unknown disputed patents are questionable?
Maybe you're too stupid to get the point.
People buy tools to get their work done. If a tool gets their job done, but doesn't do your job, that doesn't make them stupid. If they carry around a bigger or less effective tool to do their job because it does do your job, then they _are_ stupid.
No, the problem is that it's useless to you, not the GP's mom who is the real end user. There is no loss of function, since the user isn't going to be writing software for it or trying to run BIND on it in the background. Why is that so hard to understand?
Ogg Theora won't become relevant until there are hardware decode chips available. Why would I install Silverlight to play Ogg when I can use HTML5 and H.264 instead? Because someone might charge to develop with the codec after 2015?
I don't care because the H.264 standard is open even though it's not free.
The rub is that The New York Times and Oprah Book Club don't sell books.
Everybody who is using MKV _is_ a tinkerer. Most people will just use H.264 in an MP4 container and be fine.
I'm not telling you what to use - that's your choice. But don't think for a minute that you are not in a small minority of users.
Apple charges $100 to join the developer program and gives away the development toolchain. How much is Visual Studio?
The defense budget being out of control doesn't change anything regarding the NASA budget. By your rationale, the bigger our deficit, the bigger we should let it become. How about cutting both and living within our means?
Let's establish a $5B X-Prize and be done with it.
Mini-DP is royalty free. HDMI is not.
Mini-DP is packetized and can be switched and, in principle, carry multiple streams over a single connection.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. The group of people who would pay a high price for OS X will just buy a Mac. They're not going to waste their time building a machine and then putting OS X on it.
Libertarians aren't opposed to free software - they're opposed to the ideology at one (vocal) end of the FOSS spectrum, like that of Stallman. Part of libertarianism is choosing whether to make your software FOSS or not.
In some sense, the BSD license represents Libertarian ideals, while the GPL does not since it doesn't allow you to choose whether to release source code.
They don't allow you to do that here in California - you can't just bring a 49 state car here. This state is run by egomaniacs who have no concept of finance.
I bet that they didn't even think about whether the cost of the glazed glass pays for the fuel it saves.
California really does feel like a separate country. They place zero value on personal freedom here.
No it's not. The iPhone 3GS has a MEMS magnetometer. That is not an app that uses an accelerometer, and works when stationary.
Have you even looked at the documentation to write an iPhone app? It's about the easiest APIs to learn that you can find for any platform. The fact that the dev tools are all free is a bonus.
"Proper" BIOS? BIOS should have died long ago. Intel released EFI almost a decade ago - developers have had their chance to update. You're faulting Apple for not using something archaic because of GRUBs faults?
My fiancée used to routinely commute from the SF Bay Area to to SoCal (Orange County) in 2 hours and 10 minutes door to door. We'd leave the house at 5:50, get to the airport at 6:05, use the express check in, and make the 6:30 flight to Orange County. She'd land at about 7:30, and be at work by 7:55. And this would cost $120 round trip if purchased in advance, or $240 the day of the flight at full price.
The tens of billions of dollars this would really cost, which is real money that we all have to pay, simply doesn't solve a real problem. Go price a train out in Europe on high speed rail to travel ~250 miles. It's not cheap (comparable to that $240 of the flight).
That's incredible! 2 Hours and 40 minutes with billions of dollars? And what can I do now that I couldn't do before with an airplane? A flight is about $120 round trip. Let's call it $200. The federal component of this funding alone would buy some 25 million flights.
For those who don't live in California, keep in mind that intra city public transit is horrible/non-existent - there's no additional convenience over an airport here.
It seems that the further we are in debt, the more ways people find to spend money we don't have.
And it's the students who are bored in school who are going to lead innovation in this country. I think you are underestimating how much these children learn outside of school, because they are the types who crave constant intellectual stimulation.
I admire the type of work you do, but please don't assume that gifted children are less entitled to reaching their potential just because an average level of work comes easily to them.
The vast majority of my learning occurred outside of school, where they were wasting time teaching arithmetic in 3rd grade. It's quality, not quantity, that needs to improve.
And Windows is like the communist state compared to OS X. At least with OS X I have Unix and a free development toolchain. I actually use that toolchain instead of worrying about hypothetical censorship problems. Have you had an app rejected?
If it looked, felt, and behaved like other apps on OS X, I might think about using it regularly.
For one, the palettes are inseparable. That alone is enough to drive a Mac user nuts. What good is 30" monitor if your software doesn't let you use it?
You're saying that the display convention of bytes is more important than actually saving gigabytes of disk space?
No, what he's saying is that the boundaries themselves should be powers of 2.
In the decimal system, we put dividers (commas or periods, depending on geography) at each thousands places. The thousand is itself a power of 10.
He's arguing (and I'm inclined to agree) that the dividers in a binary system should be chosen as binary powers or powers of binary powers. (2^(2^3) or (2^2^2^2). 2^10 (1024) was chosen because of decimal influence only.
He's a professional and shouldn't be playing with Windows if he ever wants to do something highly productive.
I work with Photoshop on 500MB images. I wouldn't switch to Windows for 10-15% - I'll lose more than that time elsewhere.