You joke, but I seem to recall that has already happened in the past, with one arm of EA suing another arm.... I believe EA Legal arrived at a quick settlement with themselves (they had recently bought a company that they were in a suit with IIRC).
Transformer Infinity. Absolutely superior to the latest ipad in almost every way for a similar price. The ipad has an extra inch of screen on one side due to having a different aspect ratio, and a little more battery but no more endurance. That's its only advantage
So the transformer infinity can run iOS apps?
Seems to me that Apple's advantage is in its entrenched application userbase People who own an iPhone can buy an iOS device and run all their apps there too -- and sometimes even with a better interface.
Once you get into Android, you end up with a different version of everything for your phone and tablet, and different apps supported on each.
People aren't interested in hardware specs -- they're interested in how the device makes their life easier. Not having to do more maintenance for the tablet than you already are doing for your phone is a BIG convenience.
So you're saying we should hoist the shark out of the water before we bite it?
Unfortunately, we've only got 4 bicuspids, which means we're at a bit of a disadvantage going up against most sharks -- we can't puncture and shred their skin very quickly.
I'd be interested to see how a movie would deal with the prophetic parts of the Silmarillion....
With our luck, they'll leave PJ out of the Silmarillion (as he doesn't have the rights to that body of work) and do it as a voiced over 2D animation....
Considering the time lag in sending instructions to the rover, getting Shatner to... issue... the... commands... would probably fix the time delay problem (assuming he could synch up with the rover's communications lag).
The Silmarillion was designed by Tolkien to mimic the Bible, as a collection of prose, verse, homilies, letters, etc.
However, as a jumping off point for a whack of mini-series/TV series/made-for-streaming/etc. it's great material -- after all, it's what JRR used to build up his universe on which to build LoTR (I believe the Hobbit was already done by that point).
This is pretty much going the same direction as Star Wars⦠Eventually we will see the âoeSuper Duper Directorâ(TM)s Cut Boxed Set With Special Commentary And New CGI Effects!â
True; it still needs porting, but the assets can stay the same. I probably dumbed it down a bit too much in that comment -- but it's still simpler than an all-out port between most platforms.
Instapaper does something that doesn't fit inside a sandbox. It also does something that Safari, as of this week, also does by default.
Soo... a feature that used to be open season that he profited from is now locked down and integrated into the OS. So he's been forced out of the Apple Store, and his product has been marginalized; all within a month.
I think that's the bulk of the blog article right there; everything else is fluff.
According to Arment, the new sandboxing guidelines from Apple are pushing developers away in droves.
Though nothing in his blog post actually says or even hints at this. But it's fun to pull things out of our ass, eh?
This also misses the points that there are no "new sandboxing guidelines" -- they've been the same since the App Store opened. The only difference is that now they're not just guidelines; they're being enforced -- and that after two extension periods.
And it missed a line: "Disclaimer: Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, is likely more than a bit disgruntled with Apple, now that the functionality of Instapaper has been rolled into Safari."
Apple has a history of driving away developers by incorporating their ideas into the bundled apps. Not many developers though... only those of really well thought out OS enhancements.
While Marco does have a point, the timing of the statement smacks more than a bit of sour grapes. As a developer, he's known the sandboxing exemptions were temporary for, well at least a year. He's had more than a month since the sandbox closed its lid. I think he'll find that anyone developing heavyweight applications never even entered the App Store; they're still going strong on their own. The App store does great things for apps that are happy to live within the sandbox though; lightweight apps that have nothing to do with managing the computer but instead accomplish specific tasks.
What Marco will find is that for every serious application developer leaving the Mac App Store, there are 50 App developers moving in -- some of them migrants from the iOS App Store, who are just adding a secondary target to their development builds.
In my opinion, the App Store was never the place for non-sandobxed software in the first place. In time, Apple may create more sandbox features that will enable more heavy applications to re-enter the Store, but this will only be after the honeymoon period is over with the "App" crowd -- expect another year of shakedown before anyone doing complex OS tasks can "trust" the store.
Kudos to Apple though for starting in restricted mode and slowly enabling more features -- and at the same time having a blanket exemption period for more serious developers to play with the store and see if it's right for them.
I went straight from DOS to Mac OS, so I don't generally have those control/command issues....
But if you're not too married to your workflow, I should point out that on a Mac, there are usually better ways to navigate than using the control/command shortcuts.
For example, if you're on a Mac laptop, set your pinch gesture to Expose, and another gesture to app-specific window shrinking. For cycling through tabs, Safari has a similar feature. Or, you can turn on accessibility controls, and just let Tab navigate through everything for you:)
Also, on a Mac, if you open up Preferences and go to the Keyboard panel, you can actually assign/modify any keyboard shortcut related to an app written in Cocoa/Objective-C. So you can probably switch things back to the way you're used to them being on Windows, if you really want to:)
Which reminds me: Command-Q has been around longer than Windows (Apple not only used it in the original Mac OS, but also in GS/OS for the Apple//GS), but expect it to go away in 10.9 -- the OS now quits and launches the applications as it sees fit for the most part, and doesn't require application management from the end user anymore.
His 10+ year-old shareware app is likely already installed by most of the people who are using it, and is no longer receiving updates, which means no new downloads.
Gatekeeper depends upon the LSQuarantine process, which sets an inherited quarantine attribute on files that have been downloaded by apps that are designed to set the quarantine attribute when they download things.
In other words, all your software that is ALREADY INSTALLED AND RUNNING will be grandfathered into acceptance -- you can lock Gatekeeper down to "only apps from app store" and all that stuff will still run.
For that matter, let's say you get a new Mac, with 10.8+ installed on it. The Migration utility doesn't set the quarantine flag, copying from an external drive or target disk doesn't set the quarantine flag, I don't think even doing FTP via the Finder sets the quarantine flag. And if it does, there's a quarantine zapper app out there that'll remove the flag for you if you really don't want to right-click and select "open" to get around the quarantine flag.
Remember: GateKeeper is exactly what it says it is: it quarantines items coming through "gates" -- a gate being Mail.app, Messages, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and a few other apps. Any other entrance to your Mac is still not watched, and anything coming in through other entrances will happily run no matter what restrictions are put on "GateKeeper-enabled" software.
Bingo! Like how OS X Lion went and hid the ~/Library/ folder, but with the option key held down, there it is in the Finder's "Go" menu....and the ability to tweak plist files from the terminal to do all sorts of things disabled by default.
Same kind of things exist on every version of Windows, and every version of Linux. The only difference is that things are now so much more complex than they used to be that it takes more time (or more googling) to figure out how to do exactly what you want -- meaning that simple tasks most users want to do are quick and easy, but complex tasks by power users actually take more niche knowledge and time investment than they used to.
The only thing I will miss about Windows is games, but for the few times I do play games, dual booting with Boot Camp will do.
I can't think of a reason why I shouldn't 'learn' ML rather than learning Windows 8.
You don't even need to Boot Camp; VirtualBox/Parallels/VMWare Fusion will usually do just as well, and for non-game Windows stuff, just wrap a WineSkin around it.
System 1 through System 6: use Mini vMac System 7 through MacOS 8.1: use Basilisk II MacOS 8.5 through MacOS 9.0: use SheepShaver OS X 10.1 through 10.4PPC: use PearPC 10.4Intel through 10.7: use VirtualBox/Parallels/VMWare Fusion
I run PearPC inside WineSkin, and stick my 10.1 through 10.4 VMs inside that:) SheepShaver is needed for Classic apps, and BasiliskII or MiniVmac is needed for old 68k apps.
VirtualBox will let you run 10.4 through 10.6 as well.
The only Mac OSes you can't run from inside 10.8 are 10.0, 10pb, 9.2 and 9.1. There is very little software that relies on those very buggy 10 releases, and most of the software that requires 9.1/9.2 will also run in either 9.0 or 10.1.
The way the malware shows up in the IPA, it looks like the developer opened the folder path on an infected Windows machine prior to packaging it up. The filenames indicate the folders were infected by live malware (as the malware names the dropped files after the folder it puts them in, which is the case here).
But for power, it really doesn't matter: you can always rig something up to get the right voltage, polarity, etc. to your device if you know how it works. Same goes for electronics with RS232 and RS486 connectors.
Do all? No. In fact, a rather large percentage of the population are psychopathic, yet lead normal, non-violent lives.
Figuring out who is a psychopath would probably have usefulness outside of just finding criminals. Probably don't want to hire a psychopath or marry one.
I thought being a psychopath was a required character trait to be a successful CEO or politician? Useful in lawyers too. Psychopaths live the most normal lives when they're at the top of the power structure. Of course, in such positions a psychopath would function best if others knew of their psychopathic tendencies, as that would instate some checks and balances that would prevent them from using their disassociation for evil purposes.
The big flaw I see with this test is that the only reason a person with psychopathic tendencies would have to post anything on twitter would be to manipulate others... and so they're going to pose as someone else, including all those telltale signs that make them not look like a psychopath. Being psychopathic doesn't make someone stupid. The only people this would flag would be stupid psychopaths... which of course is a definite first place to check when a crime has been committed, but you likely already know who they are, as they aren't covering their tracks to begin with.
iPhone 4/S - 326 ppi HTC Rezound - 342 ppi HTC One X - 312 ppi LG Optimus LTE - 329 ppi LG LU1400 - 333 ppi Nokia E6 - 328 ppi Galaxy Nexus - 316 ppi Samsung Galaxy S3 - 306 ppi Samsung S8000 Jet - 300ppi Sony Xperia S - 342 ppi Sony Xperia ion - 323 ppi Toshiba Portege G900 - 313 ppi
The PPI data isn't of much use without the screen size... what's the hxw on these?
Even if you buy a tablet with a cell link they never seem to allow them to make a call or send a SMS text, but with a BT earpiece or a good speakerphone implementation a tablet could serve as a phone, it is just an arbitrary 'product differentiation' decision that disallows the option. Meanwhile tablets with keyboards are getting close to the lower bound of laptop territory. So someday I might be able to replace two devices with one... but not today.
An iPad with Talkatone (VoIP solution) and Google Voice (or Skype with the call out plan) can make/receive calls, send SMS texts, use BT earpieces, has a built-in USB controller (it's not just a USB client) and can use a BT keyboard (and a mouse, if you jailbreak).
So if you carry a briefcase/backpack/etc. or have some creative carrying solution for the luggable iPad, you can indeed replace two devices with one. I'm sure some of the new smaller Android tablets are also able to do most of these things. You just have to shift voice to VoIP, and you're set.
In Canada (and in Ontario), there are specific laws protecting personal information and how it can be stored/used. There is a stricter set of laws aimed at the government, and a laxer set of laws that apply to all businesses and individuals. So while the data is available if you go through the right channels, how you get the information (and the information you need to give up about yourself to get it) is strictly controlled.
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You joke, but I seem to recall that has already happened in the past, with one arm of EA suing another arm.... I believe EA Legal arrived at a quick settlement with themselves (they had recently bought a company that they were in a suit with IIRC).
Transformer Infinity. Absolutely superior to the latest ipad in almost every way for a similar price. The ipad has an extra inch of screen on one side due to having a different aspect ratio, and a little more battery but no more endurance. That's its only advantage
So the transformer infinity can run iOS apps?
Seems to me that Apple's advantage is in its entrenched application userbase People who own an iPhone can buy an iOS device and run all their apps there too -- and sometimes even with a better interface.
Once you get into Android, you end up with a different version of everything for your phone and tablet, and different apps supported on each.
People aren't interested in hardware specs -- they're interested in how the device makes their life easier. Not having to do more maintenance for the tablet than you already are doing for your phone is a BIG convenience.
So you're saying we should hoist the shark out of the water before we bite it?
Unfortunately, we've only got 4 bicuspids, which means we're at a bit of a disadvantage going up against most sharks -- we can't puncture and shred their skin very quickly.
...wait.. what? They did something good for customers?
[Gilda Radner] Never Mind [/Gilda Radner]
You really expect most Slashdotters to google Gilda?
I'd be interested to see how a movie would deal with the prophetic parts of the Silmarillion....
With our luck, they'll leave PJ out of the Silmarillion (as he doesn't have the rights to that body of work) and do it as a voiced over 2D animation....
Considering the time lag in sending instructions to the rover, getting Shatner to... issue... the... commands... would probably fix the time delay problem (assuming he could synch up with the rover's communications lag).
The Silmarillion was designed by Tolkien to mimic the Bible, as a collection of prose, verse, homilies, letters, etc.
However, as a jumping off point for a whack of mini-series/TV series/made-for-streaming/etc. it's great material -- after all, it's what JRR used to build up his universe on which to build LoTR (I believe the Hobbit was already done by that point).
This is pretty much going the same direction as Star Wars⦠Eventually we will see the âoeSuper Duper Directorâ(TM)s Cut Boxed Set With Special Commentary And New CGI Effects!â
You mean the version where Bilbo stabs first?
True; it still needs porting, but the assets can stay the same. I probably dumbed it down a bit too much in that comment -- but it's still simpler than an all-out port between most platforms.
Instapaper does something that doesn't fit inside a sandbox. It also does something that Safari, as of this week, also does by default.
Soo... a feature that used to be open season that he profited from is now locked down and integrated into the OS. So he's been forced out of the Apple Store, and his product has been marginalized; all within a month.
I think that's the bulk of the blog article right there; everything else is fluff.
According to Arment, the new sandboxing guidelines from Apple are pushing developers away in droves.
Though nothing in his blog post actually says or even hints at this. But it's fun to pull things out of our ass, eh?
This also misses the points that there are no "new sandboxing guidelines" -- they've been the same since the App Store opened. The only difference is that now they're not just guidelines; they're being enforced -- and that after two extension periods.
And it missed a line:
"Disclaimer: Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, is likely more than a bit disgruntled with Apple, now that the functionality of Instapaper has been rolled into Safari."
Apple has a history of driving away developers by incorporating their ideas into the bundled apps. Not many developers though... only those of really well thought out OS enhancements.
While Marco does have a point, the timing of the statement smacks more than a bit of sour grapes. As a developer, he's known the sandboxing exemptions were temporary for, well at least a year. He's had more than a month since the sandbox closed its lid. I think he'll find that anyone developing heavyweight applications never even entered the App Store; they're still going strong on their own. The App store does great things for apps that are happy to live within the sandbox though; lightweight apps that have nothing to do with managing the computer but instead accomplish specific tasks.
What Marco will find is that for every serious application developer leaving the Mac App Store, there are 50 App developers moving in -- some of them migrants from the iOS App Store, who are just adding a secondary target to their development builds.
In my opinion, the App Store was never the place for non-sandobxed software in the first place. In time, Apple may create more sandbox features that will enable more heavy applications to re-enter the Store, but this will only be after the honeymoon period is over with the "App" crowd -- expect another year of shakedown before anyone doing complex OS tasks can "trust" the store.
Kudos to Apple though for starting in restricted mode and slowly enabling more features -- and at the same time having a blanket exemption period for more serious developers to play with the store and see if it's right for them.
I went straight from DOS to Mac OS, so I don't generally have those control/command issues....
But if you're not too married to your workflow, I should point out that on a Mac, there are usually better ways to navigate than using the control/command shortcuts.
For example, if you're on a Mac laptop, set your pinch gesture to Expose, and another gesture to app-specific window shrinking. For cycling through tabs, Safari has a similar feature. Or, you can turn on accessibility controls, and just let Tab navigate through everything for you :)
Also, on a Mac, if you open up Preferences and go to the Keyboard panel, you can actually assign/modify any keyboard shortcut related to an app written in Cocoa/Objective-C. So you can probably switch things back to the way you're used to them being on Windows, if you really want to :)
Which reminds me: Command-Q has been around longer than Windows (Apple not only used it in the original Mac OS, but also in GS/OS for the Apple//GS), but expect it to go away in 10.9 -- the OS now quits and launches the applications as it sees fit for the most part, and doesn't require application management from the end user anymore.
Actually, it's even simpler than that.
His 10+ year-old shareware app is likely already installed by most of the people who are using it, and is no longer receiving updates, which means no new downloads.
Gatekeeper depends upon the LSQuarantine process, which sets an inherited quarantine attribute on files that have been downloaded by apps that are designed to set the quarantine attribute when they download things.
In other words, all your software that is ALREADY INSTALLED AND RUNNING will be grandfathered into acceptance -- you can lock Gatekeeper down to "only apps from app store" and all that stuff will still run.
For that matter, let's say you get a new Mac, with 10.8+ installed on it. The Migration utility doesn't set the quarantine flag, copying from an external drive or target disk doesn't set the quarantine flag, I don't think even doing FTP via the Finder sets the quarantine flag. And if it does, there's a quarantine zapper app out there that'll remove the flag for you if you really don't want to right-click and select "open" to get around the quarantine flag.
Remember: GateKeeper is exactly what it says it is: it quarantines items coming through "gates" -- a gate being Mail.app, Messages, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and a few other apps. Any other entrance to your Mac is still not watched, and anything coming in through other entrances will happily run no matter what restrictions are put on "GateKeeper-enabled" software.
Bingo! Like how OS X Lion went and hid the ~/Library/ folder, but with the option key held down, there it is in the Finder's "Go" menu. ...and the ability to tweak plist files from the terminal to do all sorts of things disabled by default.
Same kind of things exist on every version of Windows, and every version of Linux. The only difference is that things are now so much more complex than they used to be that it takes more time (or more googling) to figure out how to do exactly what you want -- meaning that simple tasks most users want to do are quick and easy, but complex tasks by power users actually take more niche knowledge and time investment than they used to.
The only thing I will miss about Windows is games, but for the few times I do play games, dual booting with Boot Camp will do.
I can't think of a reason why I shouldn't 'learn' ML rather than learning Windows 8.
You don't even need to Boot Camp; VirtualBox/Parallels/VMWare Fusion will usually do just as well, and for non-game Windows stuff, just wrap a WineSkin around it.
Followup guide:
System 1 through System 6: use Mini vMac
System 7 through MacOS 8.1: use Basilisk II
MacOS 8.5 through MacOS 9.0: use SheepShaver
OS X 10.1 through 10.4PPC: use PearPC
10.4Intel through 10.7: use VirtualBox/Parallels/VMWare Fusion
I run PearPC inside WineSkin, and stick my 10.1 through 10.4 VMs inside that :)
SheepShaver is needed for Classic apps, and BasiliskII or MiniVmac is needed for old 68k apps.
VirtualBox will let you run 10.4 through 10.6 as well.
The only Mac OSes you can't run from inside 10.8 are 10.0, 10pb, 9.2 and 9.1. There is very little software that relies on those very buggy 10 releases, and most of the software that requires 9.1/9.2 will also run in either 9.0 or 10.1.
The way the malware shows up in the IPA, it looks like the developer opened the folder path on an infected Windows machine prior to packaging it up. The filenames indicate the folders were infected by live malware (as the malware names the dropped files after the folder it puts them in, which is the case here).
3 words: Power over Ethernet
But for power, it really doesn't matter: you can always rig something up to get the right voltage, polarity, etc. to your device if you know how it works. Same goes for electronics with RS232 and RS486 connectors.
Do all? No. In fact, a rather large percentage of the population are psychopathic, yet lead normal, non-violent lives.
Figuring out who is a psychopath would probably have usefulness outside of just finding criminals. Probably don't want to hire a psychopath or marry one.
I thought being a psychopath was a required character trait to be a successful CEO or politician? Useful in lawyers too. Psychopaths live the most normal lives when they're at the top of the power structure. Of course, in such positions a psychopath would function best if others knew of their psychopathic tendencies, as that would instate some checks and balances that would prevent them from using their disassociation for evil purposes.
The big flaw I see with this test is that the only reason a person with psychopathic tendencies would have to post anything on twitter would be to manipulate others... and so they're going to pose as someone else, including all those telltale signs that make them not look like a psychopath. Being psychopathic doesn't make someone stupid. The only people this would flag would be stupid psychopaths... which of course is a definite first place to check when a crime has been committed, but you likely already know who they are, as they aren't covering their tracks to begin with.
iPhone 4/S - 326 ppi
HTC Rezound - 342 ppi
HTC One X - 312 ppi
LG Optimus LTE - 329 ppi
LG LU1400 - 333 ppi
Nokia E6 - 328 ppi
Galaxy Nexus - 316 ppi
Samsung Galaxy S3 - 306 ppi
Samsung S8000 Jet - 300ppi
Sony Xperia S - 342 ppi
Sony Xperia ion - 323 ppi
Toshiba Portege G900 - 313 ppi
The PPI data isn't of much use without the screen size... what's the hxw on these?
Even if you buy a tablet with a cell link they never seem to allow them to make a call or send a SMS text, but with a BT earpiece or a good speakerphone implementation a tablet could serve as a phone, it is just an arbitrary 'product differentiation' decision that disallows the option. Meanwhile tablets with keyboards are getting close to the lower bound of laptop territory. So someday I might be able to replace two devices with one... but not today.
An iPad with Talkatone (VoIP solution) and Google Voice (or Skype with the call out plan) can make/receive calls, send SMS texts, use BT earpieces, has a built-in USB controller (it's not just a USB client) and can use a BT keyboard (and a mouse, if you jailbreak).
So if you carry a briefcase/backpack/etc. or have some creative carrying solution for the luggable iPad, you can indeed replace two devices with one. I'm sure some of the new smaller Android tablets are also able to do most of these things. You just have to shift voice to VoIP, and you're set.
In Canada (and in Ontario), there are specific laws protecting personal information and how it can be stored/used. There is a stricter set of laws aimed at the government, and a laxer set of laws that apply to all businesses and individuals. So while the data is available if you go through the right channels, how you get the information (and the information you need to give up about yourself to get it) is strictly controlled.