It got a lot of public ridicule, but they still sold out their pre-orders in many places.
I think the reason this change happened is because someone at Apple ran the numbers and realized they could find themselves in a position to make simply UNGODLY amounts of money off businesses of every size from mom-and-pop outfits to multinational conglomerates if they could find an effective way to create a software ecosystem around the iPhone. Now everything from your stupid little cash register applications all the way up to massive CRM systems can talk to the iPhone, and the iPhone can talk to them.
This is the first real, commercially-viable UNIX-esque cellular device out there. Apple also has a chance to place themselves in the position of being THE SOLE PRODUCER of a standardized, next-generation UNIX handheld.
This was a very, very good move on their part. Even the price won't stop the iPhone now.
some mobile phone applications have more-or-less done this in the past
If you could point me to a story about a time this has actually happened, I would love to read it. How is this even possible? It's like an application "breaking the internet." There is massive traffic shaping done on cellular data networks and the OS never has raw bit-writing ability to the cell network; everything is always done through a tightly-locked proprietary software interface.
Oh, and by the way, we need to ship something that works by June 29th.
No, I agree with you, this is utterly absurd. I don't expect a fully-functioning Xcode module (plus simulator, plus debugging, etc.) at all at launch, but it is very, VERY nice to know Apple has decided to be good to their customers and actually allow the platform to be open. I'm practically salivating at the thought of Terminal on my iPhone:D
NOW, I might actually consider getting one, if I can find a buyer for my HTC TYTN (Cingular 8525). I never would have considered it before this announcement.
Man. Perfect integration with iCal, Mail and Address Book, plus whatever GNU apps I want, plus whatever else I can think of. Pure awesome.
How do you know he's not building the home he's going to live in for the rest of his life, contributing to the New Orleans community, potentially doing all kinds of service work, laboring to improve the levies and helping kids in the area get educations and jobs?
Don't fucking judge someone you don't know, asshole.
It doesn't HAVE to be done the way Monbiot seems to take for granted it will. Using blue-green algae, we could grow enough stock suitable for refining into biodiesel to replace our entire ground transportation energy needs in an amount of land area 1/8th the size of Arizona. This is nothing spread across a larger amount of land. And this is the most important part -- are you paying attention, George? -- it doesn't have to be done in otherwise arable land. All that is required is lots and lots of sunlight.
Ethanol is a non-starter in the United States, but that doesn't mean biofuels are.
Remarkable? More like "miraculous." Spirit and Opportunity have served far, far beyond the wildest dreams of the project. They would have been a huge success if they'd crapped out shortly after the 90 day mark. Instead, the amount of science they have allowed in their mission thus far has been truly staggering and has helped us understand the geology of Mars far, far beyond what we'd ever dreamed possible in the original timeframe of the project.
Out of all content creators (well, with the exception of painters), their work is least susceptible to copying. Don't release your stuff in ebook format if you don't want it to get copied. It's far more convenient to have actual physical books than to sit there and read something on your laptop, so they really shouldn't be worrying that much.
This is absolutely, positively a matter of degree. They got past the outgoing firewall. Whoop-tee-do. Make them write an essay during detention about how they won't do it again. Suspending them and harming their education for three months is not appropriate. Period.
This is about school admins being lazy and wanting to make examples out of kids for doing something which is more or less innocent on the basis of them being "hackers."
The punishment does not at all fit the crime here.
La-dee-da, randomly reading Slashdot stories, BOOM, Bruce freaking Perens gets FP. Only on Slashdot.
I think the real question the article was asking was "Has the Linux-in-business buzz jumped the shark?" I think the answer is unequivocally yes, not because Linux is overrated, but because it is so widely deployed and such a fact of life in business now that trying to sell yourself as "OMG WE DO OSS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS TO MAXIMIFY YOUR CAPITALIZATION POTENTIALIFACTION" is just redundant and useless. Great, you sell Linux solutions. So does everybody else.
A friend of mine is using Wii controllers as touch-feedback UAV controllers for his research. Apparently it's way cheaper than putting together a Bluetooth device with accelerometers yourself.
What he really wants to know is how to not be a skinny ectomorph. The answer is "build muscle," not "pack on fat." Cycling will certainly beef up his legs, but it ain't gonna do much for the upper body.
[voice type = "Alex Trebek"]Oooooh. Sorry.[/voice]
Count on this to be mismanaged from the start, and for the school administrators to bang their heads against the wall when they see the potential for this to be really helpful but can't use it to its fullest potential.
Oh, really? Techpowerup.com and "JTD" ring a bell? How about your two attacks on apk here, and you started them (all of this is below, and the links work)!
That was three years ago, you silly ass.
You look like a nerdy 98 lb. weakling to be blunt and honest about it from your pictures.
Irony.
On how the registry itself, works, and it is NOT 'static/unchanging' once loaded into RAM
Static doesn't mean unchanging in this context, APK. I had a feeling you wouldn't know that, though. Do you know what a log file system is? It only grows, it doesn't shrink. This is similar to the way the registry data structure works. Additional memory is allocated for changes to it, but the data structure doesn't change -- pointers are added to new data until the changes are written back to disk, and then all of the changes are added together into the registry file.
If I stopped replying to you (again, for a fifth time), would you stop replying to my comments? I doubt it. Because you just can't help yourself. Most people would call this level of obsession a crush, but sorry, pal -- I'm taken.
Would it surprise you that apk is part jew himself, quite possibly?
Hahahahahahahaha, NOT AT ALL! Wow. That's beautiful.
You seem to be conveniently forgetting that after you exploded into one of your usual pages-long tirades, your own "friends" on TPU (fat lot of good they were when you got BANNED, huh?) told you to calm down.
YOU linked me to the page where Jeremy posted, nimrod.
Apparently there was some database weirdness, because although we know it had more than 1 post, it shows 0, and shows a registration date of only a couple months ago. So something odd happened. Maybe they had to rebuild their user tables or something, I don't know. But that account was not banned, largely because I never let it get that far.
That account existed solely because of your insane ramblings on WindowsITPro, a site you are still flooding with lunacy 3 years after the article in question (By Dr. Mark Russinovich) was posted.
None of the details of this matter. The point is, I have stopped, and you have continued, because of your insane need to "finish" everything.
It's really quite sad how little you have to do with your life. Please get help.
Even poorer trolling others, which you will regret, legally.
I can't wait. Please see if you can get a lawyer to take that case. I look forward to it.
TROLLINGS SI TEH AGANST TEH LAW!!1
Also, I don't think you know what "static" means. Go look for a paper on an IO library called "IOLite," and read about buffer aggregates, and then get back to me, student.
That link doesn't work. Yet another failure from the magnificent APK. And what the hell is Spoke.com?
Neither of my two Slashdot comments count as "cyberstalking." Why don't you marshal your army of interweb lawyers (much like you did with Jeremy) and then get back to me?
(Just so you know -- you'd have to STOP COMMUNICATION, and I would have to initiate it again, sending you threatening/harassing messages, repeatedly, over and over and over, in order for it to count. But, you know. Ask your lawyers, none of whom, I am certain, will be JEWS -- does the word send shivers down your spine, APK? -- and then let me know.)
Poor Alex. Caught in the grip of his paranoid delusions. It's okay, sweetie. Just take a deep breath.
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It got a lot of public ridicule, but they still sold out their pre-orders in many places.
I think the reason this change happened is because someone at Apple ran the numbers and realized they could find themselves in a position to make simply UNGODLY amounts of money off businesses of every size from mom-and-pop outfits to multinational conglomerates if they could find an effective way to create a software ecosystem around the iPhone. Now everything from your stupid little cash register applications all the way up to massive CRM systems can talk to the iPhone, and the iPhone can talk to them.
This is the first real, commercially-viable UNIX-esque cellular device out there. Apple also has a chance to place themselves in the position of being THE SOLE PRODUCER of a standardized, next-generation UNIX handheld.
This was a very, very good move on their part. Even the price won't stop the iPhone now.
some mobile phone applications have more-or-less done this in the past
:D
If you could point me to a story about a time this has actually happened, I would love to read it. How is this even possible? It's like an application "breaking the internet." There is massive traffic shaping done on cellular data networks and the OS never has raw bit-writing ability to the cell network; everything is always done through a tightly-locked proprietary software interface.
Oh, and by the way, we need to ship something that works by June 29th.
No, I agree with you, this is utterly absurd. I don't expect a fully-functioning Xcode module (plus simulator, plus debugging, etc.) at all at launch, but it is very, VERY nice to know Apple has decided to be good to their customers and actually allow the platform to be open. I'm practically salivating at the thought of Terminal on my iPhone
NOW, I might actually consider getting one, if I can find a buyer for my HTC TYTN (Cingular 8525). I never would have considered it before this announcement.
Man. Perfect integration with iCal, Mail and Address Book, plus whatever GNU apps I want, plus whatever else I can think of. Pure awesome.
How do you know he's not building the home he's going to live in for the rest of his life, contributing to the New Orleans community, potentially doing all kinds of service work, laboring to improve the levies and helping kids in the area get educations and jobs?
Don't fucking judge someone you don't know, asshole.
No, no, no, no, this sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.
It doesn't HAVE to be done the way Monbiot seems to take for granted it will. Using blue-green algae, we could grow enough stock suitable for refining into biodiesel to replace our entire ground transportation energy needs in an amount of land area 1/8th the size of Arizona. This is nothing spread across a larger amount of land. And this is the most important part -- are you paying attention, George? -- it doesn't have to be done in otherwise arable land. All that is required is lots and lots of sunlight.
Ethanol is a non-starter in the United States, but that doesn't mean biofuels are.
Remarkable? More like "miraculous." Spirit and Opportunity have served far, far beyond the wildest dreams of the project. They would have been a huge success if they'd crapped out shortly after the 90 day mark. Instead, the amount of science they have allowed in their mission thus far has been truly staggering and has helped us understand the geology of Mars far, far beyond what we'd ever dreamed possible in the original timeframe of the project.
Steve Squyres is my freaking hero.
Out of all content creators (well, with the exception of painters), their work is least susceptible to copying. Don't release your stuff in ebook format if you don't want it to get copied. It's far more convenient to have actual physical books than to sit there and read something on your laptop, so they really shouldn't be worrying that much.
But that assumes a lot about the employer's hiring manager.
... but I heard rumors of an Avengers movie at some point in the near future.
You know who would make a great Hawkeye?
Wil Wheaton.
This is absolutely, positively a matter of degree. They got past the outgoing firewall. Whoop-tee-do. Make them write an essay during detention about how they won't do it again. Suspending them and harming their education for three months is not appropriate. Period.
Are you for real?
This is about school admins being lazy and wanting to make examples out of kids for doing something which is more or less innocent on the basis of them being "hackers."
The punishment does not at all fit the crime here.
Clearly you are a Microsoft disinformation agent! From Costa Rica!
La-dee-da, randomly reading Slashdot stories, BOOM, Bruce freaking Perens gets FP. Only on Slashdot.
I think the real question the article was asking was "Has the Linux-in-business buzz jumped the shark?" I think the answer is unequivocally yes, not because Linux is overrated, but because it is so widely deployed and such a fact of life in business now that trying to sell yourself as "OMG WE DO OSS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS TO MAXIMIFY YOUR CAPITALIZATION POTENTIALIFACTION" is just redundant and useless. Great, you sell Linux solutions. So does everybody else.
A friend of mine is using Wii controllers as touch-feedback UAV controllers for his research. Apparently it's way cheaper than putting together a Bluetooth device with accelerometers yourself.
What he really wants to know is how to not be a skinny ectomorph. The answer is "build muscle," not "pack on fat." Cycling will certainly beef up his legs, but it ain't gonna do much for the upper body.
If the school board is smart
[voice type = "Alex Trebek"]Oooooh. Sorry.[/voice]
Count on this to be mismanaged from the start, and for the school administrators to bang their heads against the wall when they see the potential for this to be really helpful but can't use it to its fullest potential.
See you later!
This is my last reply to you.
Let's see what happens, shall we? I'll even give you a little grace period for a post right after this one.
Sincerely,
JarettKruzrSteinO'MalleyDeAngewitz
Oh, really? Techpowerup.com and "JTD" ring a bell? How about your two attacks on apk here, and you started them (all of this is below, and the links work)!
That was three years ago, you silly ass.
You look like a nerdy 98 lb. weakling to be blunt and honest about it from your pictures.
Irony.
On how the registry itself, works, and it is NOT 'static/unchanging' once loaded into RAM
Static doesn't mean unchanging in this context, APK. I had a feeling you wouldn't know that, though. Do you know what a log file system is? It only grows, it doesn't shrink. This is similar to the way the registry data structure works. Additional memory is allocated for changes to it, but the data structure doesn't change -- pointers are added to new data until the changes are written back to disk, and then all of the changes are added together into the registry file.
If I stopped replying to you (again, for a fifth time), would you stop replying to my comments? I doubt it. Because you just can't help yourself. Most people would call this level of obsession a crush, but sorry, pal -- I'm taken.
Would it surprise you that apk is part jew himself, quite possibly?
Hahahahahahahaha, NOT AT ALL! Wow. That's beautiful.
L'chaim, Alex.
You seem to be conveniently forgetting that after you exploded into one of your usual pages-long tirades, your own "friends" on TPU (fat lot of good they were when you got BANNED, huh?) told you to calm down.
YOU linked me to the page where Jeremy posted, nimrod.
Take your meds, Alex.
"jtd" was never banned, as you can see here: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=270 65&page=29
Apparently there was some database weirdness, because although we know it had more than 1 post, it shows 0, and shows a registration date of only a couple months ago. So something odd happened. Maybe they had to rebuild their user tables or something, I don't know. But that account was not banned, largely because I never let it get that far.
That account existed solely because of your insane ramblings on WindowsITPro, a site you are still flooding with lunacy 3 years after the article in question (By Dr. Mark Russinovich) was posted.
None of the details of this matter. The point is, I have stopped, and you have continued, because of your insane need to "finish" everything.
It's really quite sad how little you have to do with your life. Please get help.
Do you think Slashdot has the ability to search for comments by a user further back than what's viewable on his userpage?
I do.
Just something to think about.
Even poorer trolling others, which you will regret, legally.
I can't wait. Please see if you can get a lawyer to take that case. I look forward to it.
TROLLINGS SI TEH AGANST TEH LAW!!1
Also, I don't think you know what "static" means. Go look for a paper on an IO library called "IOLite," and read about buffer aggregates, and then get back to me, student.
At least it's entertaining. Sort of.
(And, thank you.)
Sec. 2. (a) A person who, with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person but with no intent of legitimate communication
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I've stopped commenting back to you repeatedly and you've kept it up over and over.
Good thing for you I don't intend to press charges, Tinkerbell.
JTD = Jarrett DeAngelis = starkruzr.
http://forums.techpowerup.com/search.php?s=6b0dd9
That link doesn't work. Yet another failure from the magnificent APK. And what the hell is Spoke.com?
Neither of my two Slashdot comments count as "cyberstalking." Why don't you marshal your army of interweb lawyers (much like you did with Jeremy) and then get back to me?
(Just so you know -- you'd have to STOP COMMUNICATION, and I would have to initiate it again, sending you threatening/harassing messages, repeatedly, over and over and over, in order for it to count. But, you know. Ask your lawyers, none of whom, I am certain, will be JEWS -- does the word send shivers down your spine, APK? -- and then let me know.)
Poor Alex. Caught in the grip of his paranoid delusions. It's okay, sweetie. Just take a deep breath.