There is nothing in that which says that the actual color space has shrinked (meaning that the screen should still be able to display the same exact same range of colors), only that fewer colors from it can be picked. OK, then let's say it has 98% less color density. Does that make you feel any better?
Wait. Where does Apple Software Update say that the installation of Safari is a "security update"? Or are you just making stuff up? The dialog in question lists Safari as yet another security update. There is no indication that Safari is in fact not an update, unless the user suspects something underhanded is going on and starts clicking around.
Is it the user's fault when they sign up for a website, and don't uncheck the box that says "we will send you promotional email" and then they receive promotional email? No, it's the website designer's fault for having created a disconnect between the user's expectations and what really happens.
In a way, it is education. The most permanent way to learn that stove are hot is to get burned by one. Except modern stoves don't get hot. Imagine that, there actually is a market for products that don't burn their users, not even once.
So it's the user's fault for not choosing which security updates to install because everyone knows companies will try to sneak in their bloat as "security updates", so it's the user's fault? Right. And all we users should support such companies because it's better for us than the alternative? Right.
One problem is that he talks about the internet as if it were a nation-state. The internet is a tool. Calling me a "netizen" is like saying that I'm a citizen of my screwdriver. The internet is THE de facto forum of the World Government, if there ever was one. You have the Chinese Party, North American Party, European Party and Middle Eastern Party, all vying for influence, all with different goals. So no, the internet is not a nation state, but it's the political playground of a new world state that's just emerging. Letting one party control the medium of discourse is not good news for political discussion.
The Apple SDK is actually quite nice. Compared to the standard Java API it's a fucking masterpiece of computer programming. I tried to do such a comparison few days ago, but there didn't appear to any API docs iPhone available without registration. Can you summarize some of the improvements their APIs have over Java Micro Edition?
Any other HTTP request must be seen as legal simply because it is a request. Making these illegal would be like making it illegal to ask a business for a freebie or discount. Such an idea is clearly absurd since no one is harmed merely by asking. One word: DDOS.
Or, for those only able to think in analogies: it's like you and 500 of your friends going to a McDonald's, forming a line and then everyone asking for a freebie in turn until everyone gets one.
Or it's like the Mafia asking for protection money, there's no harm in that?
And therein lies the fault of your reasoning. THERE IS NO DOOR!
The Net is open. Period. If an engineer makes the decision (or in this case a business decision) to not put up a gate with a guard then MobiTV can expect anyone to enter. Let me see if I got that right, Senator Stevens, on the Internet there is no door but there may be a gate?
The article is written tongue-in-cheek, but it raises a good point about sequential programming. When a processor has 80 cores, multi-threaded programming is going to be a nightmare. In contrast, the algorithms in the article can be scheduled optimally, given enough cores. And you, the programmer, get that for free. I wouldn't be surprised if spreadsheets became the preferred way to implement concurrent algorithms.
I didn't realize it at the time, but of course the people in the "donate to wikipedia"-graphic signified the friends of Jimbo your donation would buy dinner. I really ought to have seen that before I didn't donate to make an informed decision.
with the exception of phones and other "toy" devices... that by far outnumber keyboard-mouse-and-monitor computers That would be a snappy come-back if only you could do twice the work with TWO cellphones.
Besides, I don't think any revolution in UI-design is going to turn a 9-5 job in front of a keyboard and a monitor into 30 minutes tapping into your webtop, 7.5 hours sipping latte.
Yeah, but even though they did that why when they introduced generics does an ArrayList still return an Object behind the scenes? Why not do it right if you can target different JVMs? Every Object has a getClass() method. What would carrying that information for every Object in every stack frame actually buy you?
Nothing that involves a high concentration of energy and a low concentration can ever be completely safe. Energy is the ability to do work, and it may end up doing work you don't want it to do. We must ban steel, because E=mc^2 and steel is denser than air!
Here's a secret: parked domain owners don't like click-fraud. They like clicks, but they don't like a large amount of clicks from persons not interested in purchasing whatever is being advertised. Why? Because the people paying for AdWords don't like click-fraud, they don't want to pay real money for nothing. So they take it up with Google, who now has to reverse the click-fraud, costing them money in work and lost revenue. So Google takes it up with the parked domain owner, who's not gonna like that.
In the real economy, if you don't like a company, you can boycott them. In the parked domain economy, boycotting doesn't do anything. But instead of boycotting, you can picket them. Come back to the page day after day and click the links again and again. If you get enough people to do that, someone starts to lose money, and when people lose money, they take notice.
Define "perfect"? The simulation could be full of inconsistencies, but we could be programmed to ignore them. Yes, and if we perfectly ignored them, then the simulation would be perfect as far as we are concerned.
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You wouldn't mind throwing some at my problem, because my second core seems to running on empty like all the time.
So it's the user's fault for not choosing which security updates to install because everyone knows companies will try to sneak in their bloat as "security updates", so it's the user's fault? Right. And all we users should support such companies because it's better for us than the alternative? Right.
Or, for those only able to think in analogies: it's like you and 500 of your friends going to a McDonald's, forming a line and then everyone asking for a freebie in turn until everyone gets one.
Or it's like the Mafia asking for protection money, there's no harm in that?
The Net is open. Period. If an engineer makes the decision (or in this case a business decision) to not put up a gate with a guard then MobiTV can expect anyone to enter. Let me see if I got that right, Senator Stevens, on the Internet there is no door but there may be a gate?
The article is written tongue-in-cheek, but it raises a good point about sequential programming. When a processor has 80 cores, multi-threaded programming is going to be a nightmare. In contrast, the algorithms in the article can be scheduled optimally, given enough cores. And you, the programmer, get that for free. I wouldn't be surprised if spreadsheets became the preferred way to implement concurrent algorithms.
I didn't realize it at the time, but of course the people in the "donate to wikipedia"-graphic signified the friends of Jimbo your donation would buy dinner. I really ought to have seen that before I didn't donate to make an informed decision.
Trips to foreign countries must be hell to you.. no, wait...
You do realize that if the iPhone had 3G, AT&T would be saying that using 3G would have little to no effect on battery life, don't you?
Besides, I don't think any revolution in UI-design is going to turn a 9-5 job in front of a keyboard and a monitor into 30 minutes tapping into your webtop, 7.5 hours sipping latte.
If you have one, you can use your wallet to cover your hand and the keypad.
I don't know about his/her laptop, but my laptop has a full keyboard worth of buttons.
Here's a secret: parked domain owners don't like click-fraud. They like clicks, but they don't like a large amount of clicks from persons not interested in purchasing whatever is being advertised. Why? Because the people paying for AdWords don't like click-fraud, they don't want to pay real money for nothing. So they take it up with Google, who now has to reverse the click-fraud, costing them money in work and lost revenue. So Google takes it up with the parked domain owner, who's not gonna like that.
In the real economy, if you don't like a company, you can boycott them. In the parked domain economy, boycotting doesn't do anything. But instead of boycotting, you can picket them. Come back to the page day after day and click the links again and again. If you get enough people to do that, someone starts to lose money, and when people lose money, they take notice.
You cannot revoke any version of the GPL as it is a perpetual and irrevocable license.
Where does GPLv2 say that?Did you even look at your Wiki link? (Hint: second paragraph.)
You people have been saying "my 0.02$" for ages! Time to put your money where your mouth is.
I hear there's an opening with your name on it in the Soylent Corporation.