Doesn't run on anything less than OSX Leopard. Make no bones about it; an OSX point update is really a major OS version update akin to Vista or 7, but all hiding within the OSX moniker.
Interestingly, they do build it for XP, Vista and 7. so in effect, they're supporting rival operating systems that are older than their own. That's interesting as it enables them to fragment the opposition more; giving the older OS users less of a reason to upgrade to 7...
I'll be honest though, I'd like to see IE10 on other platforms. It won't happen, but I think the underlying changes and the direction that a current Microsoft are taking are good. Crap marketing speak not withstanding, IE9 is a good browser, whatever the past history for the name.
I was commenting on the survivability of it, not the cause. In the case of the Aloha incident, it's interesting to note the high number of injuries to survivors who were in the plane, no doubt some were caused by environmental rather than physical trauma.
In any case, planes are design with blow out panels, there's some speculation as to the exact cause of 243, but nevertheless it had a huge impact on aircraft design and safety.
The plane landed with a huge section of fuselage missing, but the other passengers survived. Not a trip I'd like to be on, and makes the Southwest incident look minor in comparison.
GUIs are useless at performing repetitive tasks. The emergence of PowerShell on the MS platform in the last few years means I can do stuff that was previously impossible to do - maybe throw user objects around between AD, SQL Server and SharePoint. Heck, even the GUI tools are based on top of the PowerShell commands.
In fact, PowerShell is one of Microsoft's best moves, and something that has sorely been lacking from the Windows platform for too long.
Web 2.0 was pretty much explicitly defined by Microsoft, albeit by accident. AJAX itself a technical underpinning of 2.0 was initiated by the XMLHttpRequestObject that shipped with IE5. This was then adapted by other browsers.
You don't appear to know what you're talking about. Remove your first sentence and you might have a point.
.NET is server-side code in the shape of ASP.NET; it just delivers HTML, CSS and JavaScript to the browser - any browser - nothing more and nothing less. As for the Microsoft stack? Well, I use Visual Studio 2010 to code in IronPython against a Postgres DB. The days of the 'stack' are long gone... and the browser hasn't been part of it since ActiveX, which predates.NET...
That said, if IE is more compliant (and IE9 pretty much is as competitive as the rest of the pack), that does mean that more sites will work in it, and that's a good thing for everyone; developers, business and users alike.
Sorry, never heard of him. Can someone name 10 'high profile' Googlers, Facebookers, Tweeters (maybe not that one), IBMers, Applers? Maybe five... two?
No, because maybe it doesn't matter. Was he some epic tech innovator, or just a business management type dude? My money's on the latter, and that means nowt.
The situation is the same here in the UK too; extortionate data charges and use policies, but all you can eat data for YouTube and Facebook.
I find the YouTube deal particularly annoying, simply because whenever I went over my data limits, it was normally for email and browsing, and certainly not streamed video. So based on the effect that streamed video is going to put a much bigger strain on a mobile network than web and email, I can only assume that backroom deals have been done, and hence a multi-tiered internet is beginning to appear.
Nothing new in manufacturing really, but it might be the first time it's been seen in production cars I suspect. You make a bunch at a loss initially, tweak the technology, the manufacturing process, streamline the design and eventually you start making a profit on them.
In some situations, those early losses will be spun back into R&D costs on the budget and targeted as profit that has to be made on future units.
Hopefully they'll stick with it and start driving costs down so that the technology can be made cheaper and is more efficient, rather than pulling the plug (no pun intended) and giving up on it.
That's all well and good, but I found out last night that this mute switch doesn't actually mute the iPod when it's playing, which seems dumb. So what the hell does it mute?
And in any case, on the iPad, why can't I just hold the volume down rocker down to mute it?
While I like some of the changes, the change of the screen rotate lock button to a mute button is just plain dumb and a change I can't forgive.
I used to use this on a daily basis and it was especially useful for reading in bed or lying down. To mute the device, I'd simply hold down the volume rocker switch. Dead easy.
Now, screen rotate lock is something like; double tap home, swipe to the left, tap the lock icon, tap home again.
Now, a lot of people are saying that this is to do with bringing FaceTime to the iPad. Well, that doesn't make sense. In an iPhone audio call, the mute button is located on the screen. On a video call via FaceTime, I'd expect to see it in the same place, especially with the iPad's increased screen real estate over the iPhone. And it goes without mentioning that the current iPad model doesn't have a camera, so the whole argument is moot (mute?).
Apple made a mistake here IMO. There were other ways of muting if necessary beforehand, and they've just gone and added a third way of doing it, while burying one of the useful features down in a frustrating and unintuitive fashion. And all for no good reason, just an exercise in "it's our device, not yours". It will probably move me in the direction of Kindle for reading to be honest, and the iPad will go.
Well, to be honest, any thin and light laptop is going to have a rather - let's be honest here - pathetic CPU, regardless of manufacturer, Apple included.
And Apple specifically are good at pretty much papering over anything but the CPU speed. The 13" Macbook Pro is still stuck with a 2 year old CPU when much more modern alternatives are available. Their reason is most likely profit margins, after all is your average punter going to look at cache size and bus speeds? There should be an i3 ULV in there really...
I can't help thinking Apple just released an expensive netbook...
True, but Steam is way more than just a download tool. Look at something like Team Fortress 2 with achievements, friend lists, in game purchases, chat, game server hosting, locating etc. and you'll see what I mean.
To even match that, Apple will have to do a lot of work, and by a lot I mean an order of magnitude more than the PoS that is Game Center on the iPhone.
Yup, 3-4 MCSEs for the cost of one good Unix admin...
'Good' being the operative word. And I have seen situations in the past where said 'good' Unix admin is worth - financially - the same as 3-4 MCSEs, but it's all talk. Lots of bumbling on about free this and that, whilst he hoovers up the cash and does a runner. It happens.
And that does everyone harm, because the end result is that the 3-4, no... the 1-2 MCSEs outperform the incredibly expensive Unix guy. Why? Because he's total, utter crap.
Sad to say, but it happens. Charlatans riding the "it's free!" ticket to get heard...
For every person out there who finds a hole in your code and tries to exploit it, there will be someone who will help and patch any holes - if they exist.
I'd agree that HTML5 is a work in progress, but I'd like to point out that as that's the case, sticking a honky great link to it on your company homepage is misplaced and stupid.
What Apple should've done is written something like Microsoft's IE9 HTML5 demos that actually work in multiple browsers, and maybe just linked to it from their developer portal. I suspect they've tried to be too clever and shot themselves in the foot in this little 'standards' skirmish...
No user agent checking, and they work (or don't work in the case of older IE versions) in different browsers...
The way I see it, it's just Apple using their current 'standards' press coverage to increase browser share among the general populace. Microsoft 2.0 indeed.
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Doesn't run on anything less than OSX Leopard. Make no bones about it; an OSX point update is really a major OS version update akin to Vista or 7, but all hiding within the OSX moniker.
Interestingly, they do build it for XP, Vista and 7. so in effect, they're supporting rival operating systems that are older than their own. That's interesting as it enables them to fragment the opposition more; giving the older OS users less of a reason to upgrade to 7...
I'll be honest though, I'd like to see IE10 on other platforms. It won't happen, but I think the underlying changes and the direction that a current Microsoft are taking are good. Crap marketing speak not withstanding, IE9 is a good browser, whatever the past history for the name.
I was commenting on the survivability of it, not the cause. In the case of the Aloha incident, it's interesting to note the high number of injuries to survivors who were in the plane, no doubt some were caused by environmental rather than physical trauma.
In any case, planes are design with blow out panels, there's some speculation as to the exact cause of 243, but nevertheless it had a huge impact on aircraft design and safety.
Ok ok, it was referenced in the article, but the link's useful. Curses Sunday morning skimreading!
A flight attendant was killed when she was blown out of Aloha Airlines flight 243 back in 1988.
The plane landed with a huge section of fuselage missing, but the other passengers survived. Not a trip I'd like to be on, and makes the Southwest incident look minor in comparison.
Waste of money, brains and time...
It's an acronym I use at work now and again, I can't see why it can't be applied to it's namesake.
GUIs are useless at performing repetitive tasks. The emergence of PowerShell on the MS platform in the last few years means I can do stuff that was previously impossible to do - maybe throw user objects around between AD, SQL Server and SharePoint. Heck, even the GUI tools are based on top of the PowerShell commands.
In fact, PowerShell is one of Microsoft's best moves, and something that has sorely been lacking from the Windows platform for too long.
I'm pretty sure that if you need to look at a browser's source code to fix a problem in a website, then you're doing it wrong.
IE has the F12 developer debug tools since IE6 and they do the same job as the Firefox ones as far as I'm aware.
Wait until they hear about the key logging software at school, then use it to swipe their parent's card details...
seriously though, technology isn't the answer to everything, communication helps.
Sorry, you're wrong.
Web 2.0 was pretty much explicitly defined by Microsoft, albeit by accident. AJAX itself a technical underpinning of 2.0 was initiated by the XMLHttpRequestObject that shipped with IE5. This was then adapted by other browsers.
Have a look at the history section here.
As for why Microsoft should release a new version of IE? Well, what else would they do, give up?
You don't appear to know what you're talking about. Remove your first sentence and you might have a point.
.NET is server-side code in the shape of ASP.NET; it just delivers HTML, CSS and JavaScript to the browser - any browser - nothing more and nothing less. As for the Microsoft stack? Well, I use Visual Studio 2010 to code in IronPython against a Postgres DB. The days of the 'stack' are long gone... and the browser hasn't been part of it since ActiveX, which predates .NET...
That said, if IE is more compliant (and IE9 pretty much is as competitive as the rest of the pack), that does mean that more sites will work in it, and that's a good thing for everyone; developers, business and users alike.
Sorry, never heard of him. Can someone name 10 'high profile' Googlers, Facebookers, Tweeters (maybe not that one), IBMers, Applers? Maybe five... two?
No, because maybe it doesn't matter. Was he some epic tech innovator, or just a business management type dude? My money's on the latter, and that means nowt.
The situation is the same here in the UK too; extortionate data charges and use policies, but all you can eat data for YouTube and Facebook.
I find the YouTube deal particularly annoying, simply because whenever I went over my data limits, it was normally for email and browsing, and certainly not streamed video. So based on the effect that streamed video is going to put a much bigger strain on a mobile network than web and email, I can only assume that backroom deals have been done, and hence a multi-tiered internet is beginning to appear.
Yeah, someone published it on Wikileaks...
Nothing new in manufacturing really, but it might be the first time it's been seen in production cars I suspect. You make a bunch at a loss initially, tweak the technology, the manufacturing process, streamline the design and eventually you start making a profit on them.
In some situations, those early losses will be spun back into R&D costs on the budget and targeted as profit that has to be made on future units.
Hopefully they'll stick with it and start driving costs down so that the technology can be made cheaper and is more efficient, rather than pulling the plug (no pun intended) and giving up on it.
How about MugShot?
That's all well and good, but I found out last night that this mute switch doesn't actually mute the iPod when it's playing, which seems dumb. So what the hell does it mute?
And in any case, on the iPad, why can't I just hold the volume down rocker down to mute it?
While I like some of the changes, the change of the screen rotate lock button to a mute button is just plain dumb and a change I can't forgive.
I used to use this on a daily basis and it was especially useful for reading in bed or lying down. To mute the device, I'd simply hold down the volume rocker switch. Dead easy.
Now, screen rotate lock is something like; double tap home, swipe to the left, tap the lock icon, tap home again.
Now, a lot of people are saying that this is to do with bringing FaceTime to the iPad. Well, that doesn't make sense. In an iPhone audio call, the mute button is located on the screen. On a video call via FaceTime, I'd expect to see it in the same place, especially with the iPad's increased screen real estate over the iPhone. And it goes without mentioning that the current iPad model doesn't have a camera, so the whole argument is moot (mute?).
Apple made a mistake here IMO. There were other ways of muting if necessary beforehand, and they've just gone and added a third way of doing it, while burying one of the useful features down in a frustrating and unintuitive fashion. And all for no good reason, just an exercise in "it's our device, not yours". It will probably move me in the direction of Kindle for reading to be honest, and the iPad will go.
Unless there's some point I'm missing?
Well, to be honest, any thin and light laptop is going to have a rather - let's be honest here - pathetic CPU, regardless of manufacturer, Apple included.
And Apple specifically are good at pretty much papering over anything but the CPU speed. The 13" Macbook Pro is still stuck with a 2 year old CPU when much more modern alternatives are available. Their reason is most likely profit margins, after all is your average punter going to look at cache size and bus speeds? There should be an i3 ULV in there really...
I can't help thinking Apple just released an expensive netbook...
True, but Steam is way more than just a download tool. Look at something like Team Fortress 2 with achievements, friend lists, in game purchases, chat, game server hosting, locating etc. and you'll see what I mean.
To even match that, Apple will have to do a lot of work, and by a lot I mean an order of magnitude more than the PoS that is Game Center on the iPhone.
Yup, 3-4 MCSEs for the cost of one good Unix admin...
'Good' being the operative word. And I have seen situations in the past where said 'good' Unix admin is worth - financially - the same as 3-4 MCSEs, but it's all talk. Lots of bumbling on about free this and that, whilst he hoovers up the cash and does a runner. It happens.
And that does everyone harm, because the end result is that the 3-4, no... the 1-2 MCSEs outperform the incredibly expensive Unix guy. Why? Because he's total, utter crap.
Sad to say, but it happens. Charlatans riding the "it's free!" ticket to get heard...
If you were from Scunthorpe, it used to cause all sorts of problems here in the UK; Hotmail, AOL, AIM, ICQ... back in 1999 they all hated Scunthorpe.
Couldn't think why...
For every person out there who finds a hole in your code and tries to exploit it, there will be someone who will help and patch any holes - if they exist.
I'd agree that HTML5 is a work in progress, but I'd like to point out that as that's the case, sticking a honky great link to it on your company homepage is misplaced and stupid.
What Apple should've done is written something like Microsoft's IE9 HTML5 demos that actually work in multiple browsers, and maybe just linked to it from their developer portal. I suspect they've tried to be too clever and shot themselves in the foot in this little 'standards' skirmish...
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Default.html
No user agent checking, and they work (or don't work in the case of older IE versions) in different browsers...
The way I see it, it's just Apple using their current 'standards' press coverage to increase browser share among the general populace. Microsoft 2.0 indeed.