Yes, the Mac did multitasking so well that virtually any benchmark you can name ran faster on an Apple ][ which had an 8 bit processor at 1/4 or 1/8 the clock rate. Maybe they are trying to avoid the same issues and preserve battery life which will suck if they don't have a way to keep multitasking apps from eating CPU cycles.
Why would Opera spend a lot of time making it work well when the chances of Apple accepting it were not great? Now that they have the precedent, they will fix the issues.
News: Possible New Hominid Species Discovered, Thanks To Google Earth
"New"? As in an extinct species that lived 1.8 to 2 million years ago? "Discovered" covers it in this instance and "new" confuses the issue. I was expecting a story about some isolated population of hominids.
Revised features can mean deleted features. Changing something to nothing is a legally legitimate change. They are preventing the use of unauthorized software (Linux).
The real issues are 1) they said it can do X and Y now it can do X or Y, and you must choose (if you are still able) if you want the OS or the Games; and 2) they removed the feature that allowed them to avoid paying taxes - if they cannot demonstrate that they were planning to provide resititution to both the consumers and governments involved it could be fraud.
I shouldn't have to literally break the law to make my phone run and work how I, the USER, want it to.
You, the USER, didn't buy an open source phone. You bought a phone with a specified platform and method of operation. Maybe you should back the bus up and ask why you, the USER, bought a phone you didn't like.
Or maybe ask why he, the USER, liked the phone so much he bought it without thinking it through, and how many times he will repeat this process. Does he really expect more cred because he bought one? More like I made a big mistake, my opinion should not be trusted on things technological.
Aside from the electronics issues - this objection could become less important with time thanks to economies of scale. Fabrication of the physical structures would be costly - One can easily put a thousand square feet of panels on a 2000 sq ft home, but when the structure sticks up 15 feet or more to get good efficiency? The wind loading would be higher than the same output panels arranged in a plane. It looks like these would be a bit of a problem to clean too.
I really hate graphs with non zero baselines it makes it easy to miss that a 2 m high assembly is just 30% more efficient than a flat one. The fact that they do not indicate how much frontal area is assumed makes it a bit hard to assess the whole thing. Since this is a geometric exercise it will scale and one can get the same frontal area with multiple assemblies (four half height assemblies, nine third height, etc.) The obvious solution is to implement the structure on a micro scale on flat panels, and use those panels mounted simply.
[WSJ executive editor Alan] Murray: So on the measures that matter most to you, where does the United States rank in terms of—
Seidenberg: One. Not even close.
One, but he didn't clarify that he meant that on a scale of 1 to 10.
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Apple's darkest days were when they used closed architecture to ensure that Apple was the sole provider of peripherals and (to a lesser extent) software..
I could have sworn it was back when you could buy a Macintosh compatible.
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... Apple has a 91% share of the $1000+ PC market....
Gee, what you are suggesting is that companies like Mercedes, BMW and Porsche might have a disproportionate influence on the automotive market place.
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Citation please. Where does Apple claim that the iPad is a computer?
If you wish to jailbreak it you can turn it into one, though.
Since when is embedding a computer into a device tantmount to taking anybody's liberty? Sure, an iPad can't do a lot of things that the processor within is capable of handling, but then neither can your HDTV, GPS, MP3 player, washing machine. I admit that the motivation of many (most?) buyers is definitely in the reptile part of the brain with Humvees and Rolex watches, but what has that got to do with liberty?
Oh wait Never Mind! I just realized that your statement, "This is the sort of nonsense BS mentality that the column was talking about." was introductory to the nonsense that follows in your post.
I guess that's a conveniently forgotten fact here?
Any fact worth forgetting is worth forgetting on/.
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The killer apps are yet to come, for those of us who see the potential in this thing to implement
Since you see the potential of this thing, what will the "killer app" be? If you can't answer that question, you don't "see the potential", you merely think the thing is really neat and hope someone else will see the potential and come up with the killer app that will make it a useful device.
Sales associates, particularly at high end retailers, can check stock, colors and options. Nothing you can't do with a desktop or laptop computer, but a lot more convenient than either. I anticipate that car dealers will love these things. A side benefit of the non-multitasking OS is that the salespeople can be easily locked into their relevant app and not off doing other things with the gear.
For the home user, the killer app will be home automation and control. Apple will let others develop their systems and then develop their own derivative which incorporates the best features with slick hardware and interface. That will be when I finally buy one.
It is not a computer, it is a device that uses an embedded computer - just like a GPS, router or washing machine. Why are so many people insistent that there is something wrong with this design decision?
That's because they're properly trained to use the guns while they do national service. You can hardly compare mass ex-military gun control to what we have where they're nothing more than penis extensions for morons and cowards.
So do you consider US veterans who are gun owners to be morons or cowards?
If you make content under Creative Commons or other licenses that allow paid redistribution, you also agree for someone else making money out of it in a suitable way. That is the real freedom and the basis of Creative Commons ShareAlike license - everyone is free to use it as they please, as long as the original author is attributed. If you don't like that, then don't write to a site that releases your content under that license. Simple as that.
There is no statement of a license compatible with the Creative Commons ShareAlike license in any product listing for these books from any source I could find. If they omitted it from the printed books I believe that would constitute fraud.
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Yes, the Mac did multitasking so well that virtually any benchmark you can name ran faster on an Apple ][ which had an 8 bit processor at 1/4 or 1/8 the clock rate. Maybe they are trying to avoid the same issues and preserve battery life which will suck if they don't have a way to keep multitasking apps from eating CPU cycles.
Why would Opera spend a lot of time making it work well when the chances of Apple accepting it were not great? Now that they have the precedent, they will fix the issues.
Buying it because my friend said it was the best, and I believed him" comes pretty close to that in my opinion.
Please keep your comments objective since you demand the same from others.
we could use a little more oxygen, as ours is being bound up into CO2 by people who persist in believing that burning coal & oil is a god-given right
Those people suffer from hubrus, a condition that supporters of this type of experimentation also frequently suffer.
You must be a Microsoft shill. Surely, there's an app for that!
I can do that with my eyes closed. At best it is a test of one's depth perception and proprioception.
The world is 3D whether you can see or not.
Yeah, you know - 13, 14, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3 ... 14.9, 14.91, 14.92, ... 14.99, 14.991 ... ... ... 15!
Disney will get you for that. They already managed to keep Pluto from being referred to as a planet.
News: Possible New Hominid Species Discovered, Thanks To Google Earth
"New"? As in an extinct species that lived 1.8 to 2 million years ago? "Discovered" covers it in this instance and "new" confuses the issue. I was expecting a story about some isolated population of hominids.
Revised features can mean deleted features. Changing something to nothing is a legally legitimate change. They are preventing the use of unauthorized software (Linux).
The real issues are 1) they said it can do X and Y now it can do X or Y, and you must choose (if you are still able) if you want the OS or the Games; and 2) they removed the feature that allowed them to avoid paying taxes - if they cannot demonstrate that they were planning to provide resititution to both the consumers and governments involved it could be fraud.
I shouldn't have to literally break the law to make my phone run and work how I, the USER, want it to.
You, the USER, didn't buy an open source phone. You bought a phone with a specified platform and method of operation. Maybe you should back the bus up and ask why you, the USER, bought a phone you didn't like.
Or maybe ask why he, the USER, liked the phone so much he bought it without thinking it through, and how many times he will repeat this process. Does he really expect more cred because he bought one? More like I made a big mistake, my opinion should not be trusted on things technological.
Aside from the electronics issues - this objection could become less important with time thanks to economies of scale. Fabrication of the physical structures would be costly - One can easily put a thousand square feet of panels on a 2000 sq ft home, but when the structure sticks up 15 feet or more to get good efficiency? The wind loading would be higher than the same output panels arranged in a plane. It looks like these would be a bit of a problem to clean too.
I really hate graphs with non zero baselines it makes it easy to miss that a 2 m high assembly is just 30% more efficient than a flat one. The fact that they do not indicate how much frontal area is assumed makes it a bit hard to assess the whole thing. Since this is a geometric exercise it will scale and one can get the same frontal area with multiple assemblies (four half height assemblies, nine third height, etc.) The obvious solution is to implement the structure on a micro scale on flat panels, and use those panels mounted simply.
[WSJ executive editor Alan] Murray: So on the measures that matter most to you, where does the United States rank in terms of—
Seidenberg: One. Not even close.
One, but he didn't clarify that he meant that on a scale of 1 to 10.
Apple's darkest days were when they used closed architecture to ensure that Apple was the sole provider of peripherals and (to a lesser extent) software. .
I could have sworn it was back when you could buy a Macintosh compatible.
... Apple has a 91% share of the $1000+ PC market. ...
Gee, what you are suggesting is that companies like Mercedes, BMW and Porsche might have a disproportionate influence on the automotive market place.
Citation please. Where does Apple claim that the iPad is a computer?
If you wish to jailbreak it you can turn it into one, though.
Since when is embedding a computer into a device tantmount to taking anybody's liberty? Sure, an iPad can't do a lot of things that the processor within is capable of handling, but then neither can your HDTV, GPS, MP3 player, washing machine. I admit that the motivation of many (most?) buyers is definitely in the reptile part of the brain with Humvees and Rolex watches, but what has that got to do with liberty?
Oh wait Never Mind! I just realized that your statement, "This is the sort of nonsense BS mentality that the column was talking about." was introductory to the nonsense that follows in your post.
I guess that's a conveniently forgotten fact here?
Any fact worth forgetting is worth forgetting on /.
The killer apps are yet to come, for those of us who see the potential in this thing to implement
Since you see the potential of this thing, what will the "killer app" be? If you can't answer that question, you don't "see the potential", you merely think the thing is really neat and hope someone else will see the potential and come up with the killer app that will make it a useful device.
Sales associates, particularly at high end retailers, can check stock, colors and options. Nothing you can't do with a desktop or laptop computer, but a lot more convenient than either. I anticipate that car dealers will love these things. A side benefit of the non-multitasking OS is that the salespeople can be easily locked into their relevant app and not off doing other things with the gear.
For the home user, the killer app will be home automation and control. Apple will let others develop their systems and then develop their own derivative which incorporates the best features with slick hardware and interface. That will be when I finally buy one.
Are you sure that zero is the baseline? They may have suckered you in.
There is undoubtedly some trivial utilization of memory for which the overhead exceeds any gains.
None! You didn't see this coming?
It is not a computer, it is a device that uses an embedded computer - just like a GPS, router or washing machine. Why are so many people insistent that there is something wrong with this design decision?
Once they figure out how to make it free and overpriced at the same time they will release it.
Contrast and compare to Switzerland
That's because they're properly trained to use the guns while they do national service. You can hardly compare mass ex-military gun control to what we have where they're nothing more than penis extensions for morons and cowards.
So do you consider US veterans who are gun owners to be morons or cowards?
If you make content under Creative Commons or other licenses that allow paid redistribution, you also agree for someone else making money out of it in a suitable way. That is the real freedom and the basis of Creative Commons ShareAlike license - everyone is free to use it as they please, as long as the original author is attributed. If you don't like that, then don't write to a site that releases your content under that license. Simple as that.
There is no statement of a license compatible with the Creative Commons ShareAlike license in any product listing for these books from any source I could find. If they omitted it from the printed books I believe that would constitute fraud.