I couldn't use Opera for iPhone for more than a few minutes before abandoning it. Pinching in and out, possibly due to Apple restrictions to be fair, doesn't work well at all--it's not smooth, instead jumping between too far in or too far out. But the worst part is trying to change the pages shown on the home screen, To change or add one you have to hold your finger down on one of the 9 buttons. Then a menu pops up....UNDER YOUR FINGER WHERE YOU CAN'T SEE IT. But if you lift the phone up so you can peek under your finger to try sliding onto the pop up menu, IT DISAPPEARS as you move to it. It's literally impossible to change the home screen. I persistently tried, but had to give up after nearly 2 dozen attempts. It's truly an infernal piece of software. I had high hopes.....
Could our administration possibly act in a more corrupt manner on this issue? It seems unlikely. At least this removes all question of whose interests the Obama administration has at heart. I only good I can hope to see from this is that the DNC will lose significant goodwill with people who get their news online, harming their electability in November as people choose to stay home, or cast their vote with a 3rd party.
Except that what will actually happen is people will vote Republicans back in and those Republicans will gladly forge ahead with ACTA just as much as the Democrats are.
If you're interested, I believe the fifth definition of "conspiracy" is most relevant here. From dictionary.reference.com:
1. the act of conspiring.
2. an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.
3. a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose: He joined the conspiracy to overthrow the government.
4. Law. an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act.
5. any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result.
Regardless of these being from Dictionary.com, I debate #5 being an accurate definition for that word. "Combination in bringing about a given result" is the definition of "cooperation". "Conspiracy" definitely has a negative, malevolent connotation.
That debate aside, I think #3 is most accurate with regard to ACTA. Especially the "secret" part.
When you run a Flash app on iPhone OS4 and switch away, it's suspended in exactly the same fashion that native apps are by default, so that's not the reason at all. AT ALL.
The new smart multitasking doesn't do anything nearly as clunky as suspending an entire app anymore. It will allow the app to respond to certain external events, such as (the Apple provided example of) the iPhone changing cell towers. If that event occurs, the backgrounded app is permitted to respond to that event in whatever way it needs to (within the parameters that it won't interfere with the foreground app.)
So, no, switched-away applications are not simply "suspended" and no, Flash runtime apps would not be able to respond in the same way as native apps that use the proper frameworks. Please rethink your argument.
All Apple has to do is say that all apps released have to pass all their multitouch UI requirements. As far as I can tell they already do this.
Even requiring that the apps call the apple specific APIs when using gestures would be fine. The devs can work with that. Requiring all the devs that want to write iPhone apps to learn and write in apples crappy little language is pure asinine.
You're concentrating completely on the UI and ignoring the smart multitasking innovation in iPhone OS 4. Why? Are you simply unaware of the new announcements made on Thursday? If so, sorry, but you probably shouldn't be posting on this subject. The smart multitasking makes serious demands of an app and can't do its job if the app is using 3rd party frameworks.
Oh, and I don't really see how you can call "C" a "crappy little language" given that it's pretty much the planet's current standard for development. The problem isn't "C", it's whether an app uses the frameworks that iPhone OS 4 needs in order to do its job. Again, I must question whether you're qualified to be chiming in on this subject.
So you're saying Apple are actually saving us from vendor lock-in by controlling us? How generous of them.
Yes, you're really being "controlled" by having to use AJAX stanards to develop iPhone-compliant websites and the FREE iPhone SDK (http://developer.apple.com/technologies/iphone). You're really being "controlled" by being advised that for your app to multitask properly there are certain frameworks that the iPhone OS needs to see to function. Just like you're being "controlled' when the rules of tennis say you must hit the ball within the lines to score.
Like it or not, parts of the world have rules. If you want to be an anarchist, fine. But don't cry when you then get flagged for not interfacing properly with society.
Supporting bad long-term over-arching policies because they happen to work towards a small short-term result that you like is really a bad idea. In the end you'll just work against your own actual goals. For instance, presumably you dislike Flash because it is closed, proprietary, non-compliant, resource-intensive, or whatever. But promoting a ridiculous closed ecosystem will just mean that Flash will replaced with something just as closed, proprietary, non-compliant, or whatever.
Disliking Flash because it's resource-intensive and buggy is not at all the same as disliking Apple for being closed and proprietary. Seriously. Two completely separate concepts. You're trying to shoehorn them into being the same thing but it's not working.
Further, you have no way of knowing that what replaces Flash will be just as bad. HTML5, being an officially debated and accepted standard (eventually) will be (by definition) open and, as a result, optimized on every platform. Things WILL improve.
In the real world, Safari (including on Mac OS X) only has around 5% market share. That's not ubiquitous at all. I think 'irrelevant' is the word you're looking for.
And Safari has what to do with Adobe continuing Photoshop development for Mac OS X?
heck MSFT has a hard time supporting 64bit hardware from 2003.
It does? That's strange, I don't recall having problems on my x86-64 system... Other than it won't run code written for Windows from 15+ years ago.
We have several current apps (including Juniper) that do not work properly in 64-bit. Your claims of trouble-free 64-bit transition are not based on a large enough sample size.
As someone who has worked at Adobe and developed on the Mac - trust me - its a labor of love - its not nearly as easy as it is on Windows, Linux and even Solaris.
We never got a single patch ahead of time - ever - to even do the testing ourselves.
All developers receive Apple's patches and OS updates ahead of time. WELL ahead of time. If you're going to have an anti-Apple agenda, at least try to sound credible.
now only TPB and private trackers are left and I'd rather use public torrents (not because I don't want to seed, I seed until ratio is >=1, but in private trackers, nobody wants to download the files, so I'm stuck trying to seed a 1GB file to ratio =1 for days, even though with my (slow) upload speed of ~90KB/s it should take less than 4 hours. During that time I cannot delete that file or move it to another hard disk to free some space on my downloads disk
Agreed--disk space and upload speed limitations have prevented me from achieving any >1.0 ratios for a while now. I want to be a good netizen but it's often not practical.
If we're going to pay my senator $174,000 a year for 4 year term, plus lifetime pension and health benefits, plus other expenses*, I damn well expect them to be there every day.
You are assuming he was somewhere yanking off or something. I bet you would not posting this if you had been with him at a town hall meeting when the vote took place; you'd be praising him for paying attention to the needs of his constituents. So perhaps you need to pipe down until you find out what those 7 were in fact doing. Especially if those 7 knew the bill would pass unanimously and thus their votes were irrelevant.
My personal beef with it is the "personal electronics" thing. I use my phone to access aviation information (weather, databases, etc) and fail to see why I should stop just because a couple wankers couldn't stop playing Doom in the cockpit or whatever they were doing. Federal Aviation Regs *already* have clauses to deal with pilot stupidity, this is just extra bullshit with literally zero benefit.
The/. summary was incorrect (surprise surprise). The actual bill "bans pilots from using wireless devices or laptops in the cockpit that are unrelated to work." So you can still use your weather info. In fact, the MSP pilots were also doing work-related stuff so I don't know what ninny put that clause in as it doesn't even apply in a knee-jerk manner....
I don't think they will be on the flight deck, or have any switch that can be accessed in the air. They will be at some anonymous point deep in the wiring, accessed perhaps via the wheel wells etc.
So there is no way to reboot it on those occasions when it malfunctions? Oh, good.....
Because of Hong Kong's former status of a British colony, it has always enjoyed a separate set of rules, apart from "mainland" China. The censorship laws are generally less intrusive and citizens there have much more free reign over their affairs.
My interpretation of this is that Google is REALLY pissing China off intentionally by doing this - exploiting the schism between Hong Kong and mainland China, forcing issues to the forefront which the Chinese like to ignore (like why does Hong Kong get less centralized control than other parts of China). This could be quite a large issue in China and Hong Kong should China decide to dictate terms to the more autonomous Hong Kong.
How is Google's "Don't Be Evil" mantra going to be viewed if they end up causing the censorship of all of Hong Kong's internet access? Ouch.
That would explain why as I followed the exercise along in my terminal, I got this warning:
"ld: warning: option -s is obsolete and being ignored"
A decade obsolete as it turns out. I suppose when PC's started measuring their RAM in gigabytes, there was little need to strip executables anymore. Still, the article was a very fun read and took me back to the 80's when I was programming at the byte level myself. See also: One-line programming contests and the like. Much more fun (to me) than today's object-oriented everything.
that map only shows where people move to after they get advanced degrees.
I fear you are guessing. The likelihood of 9th grade "graduates" not relocating (ie. staying in KY or TX) might be just as high as the college graduates staying put (take a look at the white county right in the middle of PA; that's Centre County where Penn State is located.)
maybe he could tell the ethernet port to kick it down to 100bt and claim ignorance of why his file io was now dog slow.
The scary thing about this is that 100bt is our graphic center's standard network speed today. The "dog slow" you speak of is our norm, which is why I was going to suggest the same solution but in my case it read "kick it down to 10bt/half". Which you could still do I suppose. But I don't care anymore because I now realize how sucky our network is so I'm going to go sulk.
then any law which, when enforced, would have insane consequences (like this) must be abolished.
No, any law which, when enforced, would have insane consequences, should be fixed. Most laws really do have good intentions. (I'm sure you'll disagree with this but you'll be wrong.) The problem is that those who draft the words of the laws are often insufficiently intelligent or learned to be able to envision consequences such as this. That is why there is this concept called a "revision."
even if there was a 5-10C temperature increase, the economy might be fucked and hunger might kill of large portions of the human race... But that's not the same as being doomed.
It is if you're among the "large portions" that are killed.
My DSL goes down (for just a minute or two) daily. It's usually no big deal, but here it apparently would be. Thus this is a game I could never purchase. Let's let our dollars send the message to the publisher that they're living in a dreamworld with such an unfeasible technical requirement.
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I couldn't use Opera for iPhone for more than a few minutes before abandoning it. Pinching in and out, possibly due to Apple restrictions to be fair, doesn't work well at all--it's not smooth, instead jumping between too far in or too far out. But the worst part is trying to change the pages shown on the home screen, To change or add one you have to hold your finger down on one of the 9 buttons. Then a menu pops up....UNDER YOUR FINGER WHERE YOU CAN'T SEE IT. But if you lift the phone up so you can peek under your finger to try sliding onto the pop up menu, IT DISAPPEARS as you move to it. It's literally impossible to change the home screen. I persistently tried, but had to give up after nearly 2 dozen attempts. It's truly an infernal piece of software. I had high hopes.....
Faster hard drive? The specs say 5400 RPM. RDF at work again...
$50 whole dollars upgrades you to 7200RPM. No RDF. Just RTFM.
Could our administration possibly act in a more corrupt manner on this issue? It seems unlikely. At least this removes all question of whose interests the Obama administration has at heart. I only good I can hope to see from this is that the DNC will lose significant goodwill with people who get their news online, harming their electability in November as people choose to stay home, or cast their vote with a 3rd party.
Except that what will actually happen is people will vote Republicans back in and those Republicans will gladly forge ahead with ACTA just as much as the Democrats are.
If you're interested, I believe the fifth definition of "conspiracy" is most relevant here. From dictionary.reference.com:
Regardless of these being from Dictionary.com, I debate #5 being an accurate definition for that word. "Combination in bringing about a given result" is the definition of "cooperation". "Conspiracy" definitely has a negative, malevolent connotation.
That debate aside, I think #3 is most accurate with regard to ACTA. Especially the "secret" part.
When you run a Flash app on iPhone OS4 and switch away, it's suspended in exactly the same fashion that native apps are by default, so that's not the reason at all. AT ALL.
The new smart multitasking doesn't do anything nearly as clunky as suspending an entire app anymore. It will allow the app to respond to certain external events, such as (the Apple provided example of) the iPhone changing cell towers. If that event occurs, the backgrounded app is permitted to respond to that event in whatever way it needs to (within the parameters that it won't interfere with the foreground app.)
So, no, switched-away applications are not simply "suspended" and no, Flash runtime apps would not be able to respond in the same way as native apps that use the proper frameworks. Please rethink your argument.
BS.
All Apple has to do is say that all apps released have to pass all their multitouch UI requirements. As far as I can tell they already do this.
Even requiring that the apps call the apple specific APIs when using gestures would be fine. The devs can work with that. Requiring all the devs that want to write iPhone apps to learn and write in apples crappy little language is pure asinine.
You're concentrating completely on the UI and ignoring the smart multitasking innovation in iPhone OS 4. Why? Are you simply unaware of the new announcements made on Thursday? If so, sorry, but you probably shouldn't be posting on this subject. The smart multitasking makes serious demands of an app and can't do its job if the app is using 3rd party frameworks.
Oh, and I don't really see how you can call "C" a "crappy little language" given that it's pretty much the planet's current standard for development. The problem isn't "C", it's whether an app uses the frameworks that iPhone OS 4 needs in order to do its job. Again, I must question whether you're qualified to be chiming in on this subject.
So you're saying Apple are actually saving us from vendor lock-in by controlling us? How generous of them.
Yes, you're really being "controlled" by having to use AJAX stanards to develop iPhone-compliant websites and the FREE iPhone SDK (http://developer.apple.com/technologies/iphone). You're really being "controlled" by being advised that for your app to multitask properly there are certain frameworks that the iPhone OS needs to see to function. Just like you're being "controlled' when the rules of tennis say you must hit the ball within the lines to score.
Like it or not, parts of the world have rules. If you want to be an anarchist, fine. But don't cry when you then get flagged for not interfacing properly with society.
Supporting bad long-term over-arching policies because they happen to work towards a small short-term result that you like is really a bad idea. In the end you'll just work against your own actual goals. For instance, presumably you dislike Flash because it is closed, proprietary, non-compliant, resource-intensive, or whatever. But promoting a ridiculous closed ecosystem will just mean that Flash will replaced with something just as closed, proprietary, non-compliant, or whatever.
Disliking Flash because it's resource-intensive and buggy is not at all the same as disliking Apple for being closed and proprietary. Seriously. Two completely separate concepts. You're trying to shoehorn them into being the same thing but it's not working.
Further, you have no way of knowing that what replaces Flash will be just as bad. HTML5, being an officially debated and accepted standard (eventually) will be (by definition) open and, as a result, optimized on every platform. Things WILL improve.
In the real world, Safari (including on Mac OS X) only has around 5% market share. That's not ubiquitous at all. I think 'irrelevant' is the word you're looking for.
And Safari has what to do with Adobe continuing Photoshop development for Mac OS X?
It does? That's strange, I don't recall having problems on my x86-64 system... Other than it won't run code written for Windows from 15+ years ago.
We have several current apps (including Juniper) that do not work properly in 64-bit. Your claims of trouble-free 64-bit transition are not based on a large enough sample size.
As someone who has worked at Adobe and developed on the Mac - trust me - its a labor of love - its not nearly as easy as it is on Windows, Linux and even Solaris.
We never got a single patch ahead of time - ever - to even do the testing ourselves.
All developers receive Apple's patches and OS updates ahead of time. WELL ahead of time. If you're going to have an anti-Apple agenda, at least try to sound credible.
now only TPB and private trackers are left and I'd rather use public torrents (not because I don't want to seed, I seed until ratio is >=1, but in private trackers, nobody wants to download the files, so I'm stuck trying to seed a 1GB file to ratio =1 for days, even though with my (slow) upload speed of ~90KB/s it should take less than 4 hours. During that time I cannot delete that file or move it to another hard disk to free some space on my downloads disk
Agreed--disk space and upload speed limitations have prevented me from achieving any >1.0 ratios for a while now. I want to be a good netizen but it's often not practical.
Sad as it might be, this is capitalism at its purest. A customer desire is met with supply. Admit it--many of you wish you'd thought of this.
"Recalculating...."
"Recalculating...."
If we're going to pay my senator $174,000 a year for 4 year term, plus lifetime pension and health benefits, plus other expenses*, I damn well expect them to be there every day.
You are assuming he was somewhere yanking off or something. I bet you would not posting this if you had been with him at a town hall meeting when the vote took place; you'd be praising him for paying attention to the needs of his constituents. So perhaps you need to pipe down until you find out what those 7 were in fact doing. Especially if those 7 knew the bill would pass unanimously and thus their votes were irrelevant.
My personal beef with it is the "personal electronics" thing. I use my phone to access aviation information (weather, databases, etc) and fail to see why I should stop just because a couple wankers couldn't stop playing Doom in the cockpit or whatever they were doing. Federal Aviation Regs *already* have clauses to deal with pilot stupidity, this is just extra bullshit with literally zero benefit.
The /. summary was incorrect (surprise surprise). The actual bill "bans pilots from using wireless devices or laptops in the cockpit that are unrelated to work." So you can still use your weather info. In fact, the MSP pilots were also doing work-related stuff so I don't know what ninny put that clause in as it doesn't even apply in a knee-jerk manner....
I don't think they will be on the flight deck, or have any switch that can be accessed in the air. They will be at some anonymous point deep in the wiring, accessed perhaps via the wheel wells etc.
So there is no way to reboot it on those occasions when it malfunctions? Oh, good.....
Because of Hong Kong's former status of a British colony, it has always enjoyed a separate set of rules, apart from "mainland" China. The censorship laws are generally less intrusive and citizens there have much more free reign over their affairs. My interpretation of this is that Google is REALLY pissing China off intentionally by doing this - exploiting the schism between Hong Kong and mainland China, forcing issues to the forefront which the Chinese like to ignore (like why does Hong Kong get less centralized control than other parts of China). This could be quite a large issue in China and Hong Kong should China decide to dictate terms to the more autonomous Hong Kong.
How is Google's "Don't Be Evil" mantra going to be viewed if they end up causing the censorship of all of Hong Kong's internet access? Ouch.
gcc version 4.2.4
Ah. I get: gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)
Something else Apple chose to eliminate when they assimilated Unix?
November 1999. Slow news day much?
That would explain why as I followed the exercise along in my terminal, I got this warning:
"ld: warning: option -s is obsolete and being ignored"
A decade obsolete as it turns out. I suppose when PC's started measuring their RAM in gigabytes, there was little need to strip executables anymore. Still, the article was a very fun read and took me back to the 80's when I was programming at the byte level myself. See also: One-line programming contests and the like. Much more fun (to me) than today's object-oriented everything.
that map only shows where people move to after they get advanced degrees.
I fear you are guessing. The likelihood of 9th grade "graduates" not relocating (ie. staying in KY or TX) might be just as high as the college graduates staying put (take a look at the white county right in the middle of PA; that's Centre County where Penn State is located.)
maybe he could tell the ethernet port to kick it down to 100bt and claim ignorance of why his file io was now dog slow.
The scary thing about this is that 100bt is our graphic center's standard network speed today. The "dog slow" you speak of is our norm, which is why I was going to suggest the same solution but in my case it read "kick it down to 10bt/half". Which you could still do I suppose. But I don't care anymore because I now realize how sucky our network is so I'm going to go sulk.
then any law which, when enforced, would have insane consequences (like this) must be abolished.
No, any law which, when enforced, would have insane consequences, should be fixed. Most laws really do have good intentions. (I'm sure you'll disagree with this but you'll be wrong.) The problem is that those who draft the words of the laws are often insufficiently intelligent or learned to be able to envision consequences such as this. That is why there is this concept called a "revision."
even if there was a 5-10C temperature increase, the economy might be fucked and hunger might kill of large portions of the human race... But that's not the same as being doomed.
It is if you're among the "large portions" that are killed.
My DSL goes down (for just a minute or two) daily. It's usually no big deal, but here it apparently would be. Thus this is a game I could never purchase. Let's let our dollars send the message to the publisher that they're living in a dreamworld with such an unfeasible technical requirement.