A press release from Apple HQ has made it almost certain that the company will announce the new iPhone 4G on June 7th, in our opinion, at least.
And... your opinion, it turns out, is incorrect. Apple will not release an iPhone 4G when there is no 4G network to speak of in the United States. And before you say you are for some reason using the capital 'G' to talk about internal Apple hardware generations, even though no one has ever used that nomenclature for Apple hardware before, all the while ignoring that everyone else is using the capital 'G' to only refer to cell technology generations, let me point out that the new iPhone is only the THIRD major revision of the iPhone. The confusion usually is in separating the original iPhone from the iPhone 3G. These two phones are the same hardware generation, indicated by Apple's internal nomenclature for them (iPhone1,1 & iPhone1,2, respectively), and also by they fact that they are nearly identical but for a different baseband radio and a gps chip. The original iPhone is, in fact, a 3G phone (EDGE is technically 3G, 2.5G is a made up marketing term). The iPhone 3GS is distinct enough in platform from the iPhone & iPhone 3G to be a generation bump, and it's indicated by Apple's internal identifier, iPhone2,1. The next iPhone, because we now know it has an A4 chip, is likewise distinctive enough from the iPhone3GS to be a generation bump. My bet is Apple will internally label it as iPhone3,1. But make no mistake, it will also be a 3G phone.
So... can we call it the "iPhone HD" or even maybe the "iPhone 4?" Continually naming it something it can't possibly be can't be good for anyone.
I think the President could be more proactive here. This is important. A measure should be rushed through Congres: if drilling will ever be allowed in the Gulf of Mexico again, only the oil companines that help right now, right quick will ever be considered for permits. I don't care if it wasn't Exxon or Shell, they should help too if they want to drill there.
This spill is going to adversely and directly effect far more American citizens than all the employees of all the oil companies in the world combined. This should be a massive effort, one for the history books, one which documentaries are made about in years to come praising the impossible things that Man can do when they coordinate properly. The Federal Government should take over the coordination of the cleanup and all information, by way of appointing the most honest, most knowledgeable, and most experienced to lead the task, and give them the needed powers over the resources of BP and other oil companies to complete it.
Volunteers should be recruited from the coastal areas of all the states in the Gulf of Mexico, and along the eastern seaboard of the US, where the Gulf Stream is probably going to eventually deposit oil from this spill. Everyone that might be affected should be given the opportunity to try to help, and accomodations arrainged for them so that they may be able to (travel and lodging at the very least)..
In education, Macs dominate. Apple will give all kinds of discounts to you to get you to go Mac. Also, Mac is the only solution that permits ANY platform, virtually. On a Mac you can now virtualize OS X 10.6, any flavor/version of linux, BSD, or Windows. Legally, you can't virtualize OS X on linux or Windows. I realize it's a weak point, but the stronger point is that Macs allow more variety, even if all you have is Macs. Initially, the investment in Mac is slightly higher, but the hardware is also designed better, and it has been shown to last last longer (up until 2 weeks ago, my 2003 powerbook was my main machine, now it's my secondary), and remain useful longer, with less OS maintenance. You will likely never get a virus using OS X or linux (or, hell, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD). You will very likely get lots of infiltrations if you use Windows. Windows is a fine OS, and has many strong suits, but the cost of maintaining an OS that is the biggest target for malware, viruses, and security infiltrations, vandalism and theft, far outweighs any benefit that might be gained from using it as opposed to another OS. Windows 7 is no better, as it will soon become the major target. It's an accident of fate, I think, and not entirely Microsoft's fault, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. If you choose Windows you will be wasting a considerable portion of all the proc cycles that hardware will ever put out on protecting yourself instead of doing science. Linux or Mac will likely not even have a hiccup in this regard.
So with Windows, you can effectively use Windows and Linux (virtually), but you will have many tasks associated with covering your ass, in regards to security. i.e. PITA that never goes away.
With linux, you can run linux and Windows (virtually), and probably mitigate any security issues with WIndows by using virtualization and intelligent practices.
And with Mac OS X you can use OS X, linux, and Windows, and your students will have the opportunity for a far more rounded computer education, and can say they learned UNIX, and all the other OS's, with the Macs at school.
DotNET was they're ONLY option... never even considered that it was, never considered anything else... never considered. If a mistake was made, that was it... and again, it may not make any difference because the product may still be successful even with lock in. But there is no doubt they're
TFA says they released their software 2006, and expected it to be in use for at least 10 years. I realize the benefits of DotNET, quick development, compatible with the most popular platform. I don't think there was any mistake in starting from scratch, in and of itself. And I don't think the downside of developing in DotNET has even materialized yet, and so long as the product pays for itself before it becomes obsolete, I think they're OK. But I have a feeling that, and I admit my prejudice, that the devs were blind to any other possible solution because of Microsoft. DotNET was they're ONLY option... never even considered that it was, never considered anything else... never considered. If a mistake was made, that was it... and again, it may not make any difference because the product may still be successful even with lock in. But there is no doubt they're software will not be a major player in 2016 having been developed in DotNET.
The summary is a troll. If Soulskill had actually done any research it wouldn't have been posted. Even saying Foxconn is to blame for the suicides is a stretch, forget about blaming Apple. Well, I read one article, so I'm an expert now... and as it turns out, as Chinese companies and the treatment of their workers go, Foxconn is one of the best, and this evaluation is coming from the workers themselves. Foxconn is not to blame for the ancient social pressures that the Chinese seem to carry around with them... I don't want to start a war here, but it's like that country is run by a bunch of control freaks who just thrive on socially and economically repressing their own people. What that place needs is an old fashioned, rivers of blood revolution to replace a failed political religion with an honest to goodness, and dishonest as they come, representational democracy.
It seems to be worse on Apple's factories. See these videos.
I did. I RTFA too. You might want to do that. The videos are in chinese, and the images are disturbing, but if you read the article, it's starts to make sense. And what you just said is apparently completely made up by you.
From TFA you linked to:
This super factory that holds some 400,000 people isn't the "sweatshop" that most would imagine. It provides accommodation that reaches the scale of a medium-sized town, all smooth and orderly. Compared to others, the facilities here are well-equipped and superior, with employee treatment meeting standard specifications. Thousands of people flock here each day just to find a place of their own, to find a dream that they'll probably never realize.
This isn't a factory's inside story, but the fate of a generation of workers.
This isn't the norm. Sounds to me like Apple must have done something already, lit a fire under Foxconn's ass, because the job, besides being low pay, isn't at all bad. What I'm reading from the article is that the social culture is being blamed for these suicides, not Foxconn's treatment of their workers under Apple's direction, as much as you'd like to believe that.
So... the RIAA discovers that you've been illegally sharing copyrighted music over your unprotected wireless network. They were able to track you down by gaining access to your unprotected wifi network. Now they want thousands of dollars to settle. But because of this new precedent set by whomever is suing Google (should they win), you can counter sue the RIAA for $10,000 for EACH time they accessed your network.
Thanks, Google, for taking one on the chin. Some say you're stupid, but I say you're stupid like a fox!
So... you're saying mathematics, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, the development of the first and all subsequent operating systems leading up to the one used for the game, the development of all programming languages leading up to the development of the language used for the game , is all nothing, in comparison to the work of studying proteins for years, coming up with the game idea, creating and distributing the software? I think the notion of "discovery" is pretty fuzzy in a lot of cases, but you're crazy if you think the software authors deserve MORE credit than the platform developers here.
The thing about space exploration, the reason why commercial endeavours will fail, is that it has no practical value. Sure, communication satellites, but considering the cost, these things take time to pay for themselves, much longer than terran commerce to produce results. It won't take long for any commercial organization that achieves space flight to realize the margins are pathetically thin, if they exist at all. Space exploration has always been about discovery, and never about commercial application. Do we really have to dismantle NASA, and let the commercial space programs fail before we realize ONLY government should be exploring space (due to cost, and so any discovery will belong to everyone, and not some crappy space junk company)? If government should exist at all, and we believe it should because we not only can't trust BP or UnionCarbide, but we also can't trust each other to remain civil/moral all the time, then government should be the entity to open the doors to everyone the great things that might come from space exploration.
Um.... [...] I had mastered Advanced Calculus and physics [...]. AP classes are awesome.
Yeah... they are... but they're not that awesome. It wasn't Advanced Calculus and physics you mastered... it was remedial (i.e. 1st semester) calculus and physics. We tested out of the bottom classes, not the top classes. And we took twice as long to do it as the college freshman. So let's be a little more objective about what world-class scientists we were when we graduated HS. Otherwise... someone is gonna think we're compensating.
Android is linux-based, but that's somewhat like saying OSX is BSD. In many ways that is true, but in others it's an incomplete truth.
um... what? I'm not sure where you get your information, but Mac OS X is BSD, as much as FreeBSD is BSD, as much as NetBSD is BSD, as much as DragonflyBSD is BSD. Less specifically, Mac OS X is UNIX
Now, if you're gonna complain that OS X doesn't have a BSD kernel, then I'll take issue with it. Mach was developed to be used with BSD, so that a whole new OS wouldn't be necessary... it just "plugs-in," so to speak. Therefore, I suggest, even though there are OS's that are not BSD using the Mach kernel, the Mach kernel IS a BSD kernel. It is a replacement kernel for the BSD OS, thus, a BSD kernel (but not the original BSD kernel). btw, XNU, the kernel in question, has BSD code, and get's it's BSD code from FreeBSD (and, I'll bet, NetBSD).
but the question remains, in the area where you believe that "it's a complete untruth" that OS X is BSD, can you explain what you're talking about? In what ways is it a complete untruth that Mac OS X is BSD?
for example, odorous for odious, comprehended for apprehended and auspicious for suspicious and benefactors for malefactors.
I have a young cousin that loves to talk... and he does this all the time, nearly every other sentence he is using the wrong word for what he's talking about, yet it isn't difficult to understand what he's saying. I've noticed this more often on the reality shows (when I catch glimpses on talk soup), the reality stars are constantly doing that, replacing the wrong word for the word they mean.
What is a person that suffers from this linguistical malady called? There must be a more clinical and less pejorative term than 'idiot.'
Why doesn't Adobe just get really tough and drop all production of the Creative Suite for Macintosh? I bet that would get Steve's attention PDQ.
Adobe already did this... oh, around the turn of the millennium when Max OS X 10.0 was released. That's when Adobe stopped seriously working on their Apple releases and poured all development effort into their Windows releases. No doubt this did get Steve's attention, and this is the root of any animosity between Apple and Adobe. Adobe dropped the ball BIGTIME when Apple needed them most. CS5 is here... finally. Whatever CS5 offers should have been released in CS2. Now that Apple has them where they want them (i.e. anywhere but here!) Adobe can do anything they want now. Really doesn't matter. You think pulling Creative Suite from Mac would displease Steve? He'd love it. The space would fill with dozens of hungry smart developers, and finally the production apps on Mac would be back where they should be.... competeing for the top spot without the crushing yoke of Microsoft (ahem) excuse me.. I mean Adobe, stifling all competition in that space.
You are correct. Adobe sat on the old code for most of the decade. But they sinned in other ways against Mac OS X professionals. I am referring to CS2 and CS3 and CS4. All these software releases on the Mac platform was fleecing their die hard users. Nothing in those releases was worth the cost of upgrade from the original Creative Suite release. Meanwhile, on Windows, the Adobe products just got better and better, faster, more stable. Adobe abandoned Apple LONG before Apple abandoned Flash.
Why is that Adobe's fault that the Yahoo! ad service allowed an insecure Flash ad be published to their network?
For the same reason it's Microsoft's fault for allowing virus to run on their operating system. Windows could be designed in a way that virus' protection was built in and transparent, or with such a security structure that virus infection became impossible (except for the most determined users), but it's too late, it's now a profitable industry. Microsoft will never fix Windows now. If Adobe got what they wanted, there would be a flash security industry to follow. Alll you flashophiles would be trading opinions on the flash forums about which flash antivirus was the best and why. Fuck that. I just wanted to watch a video. I can do that without flash? OMG, why didn't you say so! Why are we still talking about this?
Computer Science IS NOT programming. If you understand computer science, picking up any given language is straightforward.
If you don't understand computer science, it doesn't really matter what languages you know.
There. Fixed that for you.
It bugs me to no end that schools believe computer programming is computer science. It is not. A programmer does not a computer scientist make. While we're at it, a programmer does not an engineer make. It is an insult to engineers when a programmer refers to themselves as a "software engineer." (Just what do they think they are engineering? Math? Logic? Electrons and magnetic fields? If you can't build a bridge, or design an engine, or create something from something that has mass and form and substance, you are not an engineer).
clever, but Adobe has had the same opportunity in this space as elsewhere. A platform is a platform. The trouble is, Adobe has fallen prey to the design philosophies of all giant software companies: don't redesign, just add more features and bloat.. Usually, this works, like with Microsoft and Office, computers get faster and can handle all the extra junk you don't use. But with Mobiles, the platform got slower (relatively speaking), and Adobe just tried to shoehorn Flash on there (Flash did run on desktops in 2003, which is about the power of the best mobiles today). Trouble is, we're all fucking sick of it. By 2006,7 desktops finally got fast enough that Flash could be used with minimal annoyance. No one wants to go back to 2003 in terms of Flash performance. We'd rather go without, and ignore "70%" of the Internet (when mobile).
Not quite... but an immersive technology can trick your mind into an experience that is, from the users' perspectives, sensually impossible to differentiate from the real thing. We call it virtual reality now, but that term will eventually only be used to describe the attempts near the turn of the millennium to create an immersive visual/audio experience. It's missing a subtle but essential quality that is apparent because VR users never lose themselves in the experience the way, say, a subject looses themselves in a sensory deprivation chamber. The closest thing I can compare it to is a STNG -style holodeck... except that it's the size of a funky pair of glasses. There will be many Matricies... but no Zion.
I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.
bullshit. While it's true Windows has been victimized and targeted, there are fundamental security design flaws in NT that you won't find In UNIX. All the security fixes in Windows aren't fixes, but patches. By the GB, there's more patches in Windows than OS. Just because Windows has been targeted doesn't mean those security flaws suddenly appeared when someone exploited them... they were there all along. UNIX has unpublished flaws too, but nothing even remotely on the order of Windows. On UNIX, if you don't root the machine, you haven't taken it, and it's no trivial task to do remotely. On Windows, there are a ton of different escalation vectors, and mealy all roads lead to full box control. Between 1994-2001, nothing matched NT in utility and security. But while malware authors did, NT did NOT grow or adapt; it's the same damn OS with all the old problems. AND it's still the favorite target.
Do people really think offshore drilling should be stopped because of this?
No, but because of this they shouldn't allow it to happen again. Safety must be perfected. How did they not blow up rigs in the crazy dangerous remote places they drill? Why do they have to blow up a rig and leak all that oil with no way to stop it in mind before they started... in an area where something like this kills an extremely delicate and economically important ecosystem?
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A press release from Apple HQ has made it almost certain that the company will announce the new iPhone 4G on June 7th, in our opinion, at least.
And... your opinion, it turns out, is incorrect. Apple will not release an iPhone 4G when there is no 4G network to speak of in the United States. And before you say you are for some reason using the capital 'G' to talk about internal Apple hardware generations, even though no one has ever used that nomenclature for Apple hardware before, all the while ignoring that everyone else is using the capital 'G' to only refer to cell technology generations, let me point out that the new iPhone is only the THIRD major revision of the iPhone. The confusion usually is in separating the original iPhone from the iPhone 3G. These two phones are the same hardware generation, indicated by Apple's internal nomenclature for them (iPhone1,1 & iPhone1,2, respectively), and also by they fact that they are nearly identical but for a different baseband radio and a gps chip. The original iPhone is, in fact, a 3G phone (EDGE is technically 3G, 2.5G is a made up marketing term). The iPhone 3GS is distinct enough in platform from the iPhone & iPhone 3G to be a generation bump, and it's indicated by Apple's internal identifier, iPhone2,1. The next iPhone, because we now know it has an A4 chip, is likewise distinctive enough from the iPhone3GS to be a generation bump. My bet is Apple will internally label it as iPhone3,1. But make no mistake, it will also be a 3G phone.
So... can we call it the "iPhone HD" or even maybe the "iPhone 4?" Continually naming it something it can't possibly be can't be good for anyone.
I think the President could be more proactive here. This is important. A measure should be rushed through Congres: if drilling will ever be allowed in the Gulf of Mexico again, only the oil companines that help right now, right quick will ever be considered for permits. I don't care if it wasn't Exxon or Shell, they should help too if they want to drill there.
This spill is going to adversely and directly effect far more American citizens than all the employees of all the oil companies in the world combined. This should be a massive effort, one for the history books, one which documentaries are made about in years to come praising the impossible things that Man can do when they coordinate properly. The Federal Government should take over the coordination of the cleanup and all information, by way of appointing the most honest, most knowledgeable, and most experienced to lead the task, and give them the needed powers over the resources of BP and other oil companies to complete it.
Volunteers should be recruited from the coastal areas of all the states in the Gulf of Mexico, and along the eastern seaboard of the US, where the Gulf Stream is probably going to eventually deposit oil from this spill. Everyone that might be affected should be given the opportunity to try to help, and accomodations arrainged for them so that they may be able to (travel and lodging at the very least)..
The MMC should be cleansed of Big Oil stooges.
Mac's never had green monochrome screens...
Well, except for the Super Duper Green Jade
[green monochrome display, 128MB RAM, 33Mhz 68030, 10BaseT enet,
dual HDs, dual booting NetBSD 2.6.1 and A/UX 3.1]
In education, Macs dominate. Apple will give all kinds of discounts to you to get you to go Mac. Also, Mac is the only solution that permits ANY platform, virtually. On a Mac you can now virtualize OS X 10.6, any flavor/version of linux, BSD, or Windows. Legally, you can't virtualize OS X on linux or Windows. I realize it's a weak point, but the stronger point is that Macs allow more variety, even if all you have is Macs. Initially, the investment in Mac is slightly higher, but the hardware is also designed better, and it has been shown to last last longer (up until 2 weeks ago, my 2003 powerbook was my main machine, now it's my secondary), and remain useful longer, with less OS maintenance. You will likely never get a virus using OS X or linux (or, hell, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD). You will very likely get lots of infiltrations if you use Windows. Windows is a fine OS, and has many strong suits, but the cost of maintaining an OS that is the biggest target for malware, viruses, and security infiltrations, vandalism and theft, far outweighs any benefit that might be gained from using it as opposed to another OS. Windows 7 is no better, as it will soon become the major target. It's an accident of fate, I think, and not entirely Microsoft's fault, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. If you choose Windows you will be wasting a considerable portion of all the proc cycles that hardware will ever put out on protecting yourself instead of doing science. Linux or Mac will likely not even have a hiccup in this regard.
So with Windows, you can effectively use Windows and Linux (virtually), but you will have many tasks associated with covering your ass, in regards to security. i.e. PITA that never goes away.
With linux, you can run linux and Windows (virtually), and probably mitigate any security issues with WIndows by using virtualization and intelligent practices.
And with Mac OS X you can use OS X, linux, and Windows, and your students will have the opportunity for a far more rounded computer education, and can say they learned UNIX, and all the other OS's, with the Macs at school.
DotNET was they're ONLY option... never even considered that it was, never considered anything else... never considered. If a mistake was made, that was it... and again, it may not make any difference because the product may still be successful even with lock in. But there is no doubt they're
*their *their man I am sloppy today
TFA says they released their software 2006, and expected it to be in use for at least 10 years. I realize the benefits of DotNET, quick development, compatible with the most popular platform. I don't think there was any mistake in starting from scratch, in and of itself. And I don't think the downside of developing in DotNET has even materialized yet, and so long as the product pays for itself before it becomes obsolete, I think they're OK. But I have a feeling that, and I admit my prejudice, that the devs were blind to any other possible solution because of Microsoft. DotNET was they're ONLY option... never even considered that it was, never considered anything else... never considered. If a mistake was made, that was it... and again, it may not make any difference because the product may still be successful even with lock in. But there is no doubt they're software will not be a major player in 2016 having been developed in DotNET.
The summary is a troll. If Soulskill had actually done any research it wouldn't have been posted. Even saying Foxconn is to blame for the suicides is a stretch, forget about blaming Apple. Well, I read one article, so I'm an expert now... and as it turns out, as Chinese companies and the treatment of their workers go, Foxconn is one of the best, and this evaluation is coming from the workers themselves. Foxconn is not to blame for the ancient social pressures that the Chinese seem to carry around with them... I don't want to start a war here, but it's like that country is run by a bunch of control freaks who just thrive on socially and economically repressing their own people. What that place needs is an old fashioned, rivers of blood revolution to replace a failed political religion with an honest to goodness, and dishonest as they come, representational democracy.
It seems to be worse on Apple's factories. See these videos.
I did. I RTFA too. You might want to do that. The videos are in chinese, and the images are disturbing, but if you read the article, it's starts to make sense. And what you just said is apparently completely made up by you. From TFA you linked to:
This super factory that holds some 400,000 people isn't the "sweatshop" that most would imagine. It provides accommodation that reaches the scale of a medium-sized town, all smooth and orderly. Compared to others, the facilities here are well-equipped and superior, with employee treatment meeting standard specifications. Thousands of people flock here each day just to find a place of their own, to find a dream that they'll probably never realize.
This isn't a factory's inside story, but the fate of a generation of workers.
This isn't the norm. Sounds to me like Apple must have done something already, lit a fire under Foxconn's ass, because the job, besides being low pay, isn't at all bad. What I'm reading from the article is that the social culture is being blamed for these suicides, not Foxconn's treatment of their workers under Apple's direction, as much as you'd like to believe that.
So... the RIAA discovers that you've been illegally sharing copyrighted music over your unprotected wireless network. They were able to track you down by gaining access to your unprotected wifi network. Now they want thousands of dollars to settle. But because of this new precedent set by whomever is suing Google (should they win), you can counter sue the RIAA for $10,000 for EACH time they accessed your network.
Thanks, Google, for taking one on the chin. Some say you're stupid, but I say you're stupid like a fox!
ha ha ha that's so cool you call girls ugly, man, I wish I could have an opinion
So... you're saying mathematics, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, the development of the first and all subsequent operating systems leading up to the one used for the game, the development of all programming languages leading up to the development of the language used for the game , is all nothing, in comparison to the work of studying proteins for years, coming up with the game idea, creating and distributing the software? I think the notion of "discovery" is pretty fuzzy in a lot of cases, but you're crazy if you think the software authors deserve MORE credit than the platform developers here.
There, twisted your meaning all around for you.
Notable, because Duke was first, and sad, if a sign of things to come. But it's a global server peer network. Duke can't turn it off.
The thing about space exploration, the reason why commercial endeavours will fail, is that it has no practical value. Sure, communication satellites, but considering the cost, these things take time to pay for themselves, much longer than terran commerce to produce results. It won't take long for any commercial organization that achieves space flight to realize the margins are pathetically thin, if they exist at all. Space exploration has always been about discovery, and never about commercial application. Do we really have to dismantle NASA, and let the commercial space programs fail before we realize ONLY government should be exploring space (due to cost, and so any discovery will belong to everyone, and not some crappy space junk company)? If government should exist at all, and we believe it should because we not only can't trust BP or UnionCarbide, but we also can't trust each other to remain civil/moral all the time, then government should be the entity to open the doors to everyone the great things that might come from space exploration.
Um.... [...] I had mastered Advanced Calculus and physics [...]. AP classes are awesome.
Yeah... they are... but they're not that awesome. It wasn't Advanced Calculus and physics you mastered... it was remedial (i.e. 1st semester) calculus and physics. We tested out of the bottom classes, not the top classes. And we took twice as long to do it as the college freshman. So let's be a little more objective about what world-class scientists we were when we graduated HS. Otherwise... someone is gonna think we're compensating.
Android is linux-based, but that's somewhat like saying OSX is BSD. In many ways that is true, but in others it's an incomplete truth.
um... what? I'm not sure where you get your information, but Mac OS X is BSD, as much as FreeBSD is BSD, as much as NetBSD is BSD, as much as DragonflyBSD is BSD. Less specifically, Mac OS X is UNIX
Now, if you're gonna complain that OS X doesn't have a BSD kernel, then I'll take issue with it. Mach was developed to be used with BSD, so that a whole new OS wouldn't be necessary... it just "plugs-in," so to speak. Therefore, I suggest, even though there are OS's that are not BSD using the Mach kernel, the Mach kernel IS a BSD kernel. It is a replacement kernel for the BSD OS, thus, a BSD kernel (but not the original BSD kernel). btw, XNU, the kernel in question, has BSD code, and get's it's BSD code from FreeBSD (and, I'll bet, NetBSD).
but the question remains, in the area where you believe that "it's a complete untruth" that OS X is BSD, can you explain what you're talking about? In what ways is it a complete untruth that Mac OS X is BSD?
for example, odorous for odious, comprehended for apprehended and auspicious for suspicious and benefactors for malefactors.
I have a young cousin that loves to talk... and he does this all the time, nearly every other sentence he is using the wrong word for what he's talking about, yet it isn't difficult to understand what he's saying. I've noticed this more often on the reality shows (when I catch glimpses on talk soup), the reality stars are constantly doing that, replacing the wrong word for the word they mean.
What is a person that suffers from this linguistical malady called? There must be a more clinical and less pejorative term than 'idiot.'
Why doesn't Adobe just get really tough and drop all production of the Creative Suite for Macintosh? I bet that would get Steve's attention PDQ.
Adobe already did this... oh, around the turn of the millennium when Max OS X 10.0 was released. That's when Adobe stopped seriously working on their Apple releases and poured all development effort into their Windows releases. No doubt this did get Steve's attention, and this is the root of any animosity between Apple and Adobe. Adobe dropped the ball BIGTIME when Apple needed them most. CS5 is here... finally. Whatever CS5 offers should have been released in CS2. Now that Apple has them where they want them (i.e. anywhere but here!) Adobe can do anything they want now. Really doesn't matter. You think pulling Creative Suite from Mac would displease Steve? He'd love it. The space would fill with dozens of hungry smart developers, and finally the production apps on Mac would be back where they should be.... competeing for the top spot without the crushing yoke of Microsoft (ahem) excuse me.. I mean Adobe, stifling all competition in that space.
You are correct. Adobe sat on the old code for most of the decade. But they sinned in other ways against Mac OS X professionals. I am referring to CS2 and CS3 and CS4. All these software releases on the Mac platform was fleecing their die hard users. Nothing in those releases was worth the cost of upgrade from the original Creative Suite release. Meanwhile, on Windows, the Adobe products just got better and better, faster, more stable. Adobe abandoned Apple LONG before Apple abandoned Flash.
Why is that Adobe's fault that the Yahoo! ad service allowed an insecure Flash ad be published to their network?
For the same reason it's Microsoft's fault for allowing virus to run on their operating system. Windows could be designed in a way that virus' protection was built in and transparent, or with such a security structure that virus infection became impossible (except for the most determined users), but it's too late, it's now a profitable industry. Microsoft will never fix Windows now. If Adobe got what they wanted, there would be a flash security industry to follow. Alll you flashophiles would be trading opinions on the flash forums about which flash antivirus was the best and why. Fuck that. I just wanted to watch a video. I can do that without flash? OMG, why didn't you say so! Why are we still talking about this?
But, so what?
Computer Science IS NOT programming. If you understand computer science, picking up any given language is straightforward.
If you don't understand computer science, it doesn't really matter what languages you know.
There. Fixed that for you.
It bugs me to no end that schools believe computer programming is computer science. It is not. A programmer does not a computer scientist make. While we're at it, a programmer does not an engineer make. It is an insult to engineers when a programmer refers to themselves as a "software engineer." (Just what do they think they are engineering? Math? Logic? Electrons and magnetic fields? If you can't build a bridge, or design an engine, or create something from something that has mass and form and substance, you are not an engineer).
clever, but Adobe has had the same opportunity in this space as elsewhere. A platform is a platform. The trouble is, Adobe has fallen prey to the design philosophies of all giant software companies: don't redesign, just add more features and bloat.. Usually, this works, like with Microsoft and Office, computers get faster and can handle all the extra junk you don't use. But with Mobiles, the platform got slower (relatively speaking), and Adobe just tried to shoehorn Flash on there (Flash did run on desktops in 2003, which is about the power of the best mobiles today). Trouble is, we're all fucking sick of it. By 2006,7 desktops finally got fast enough that Flash could be used with minimal annoyance. No one wants to go back to 2003 in terms of Flash performance. We'd rather go without, and ignore "70%" of the Internet (when mobile).
Not quite... but an immersive technology can trick your mind into an experience that is, from the users' perspectives, sensually impossible to differentiate from the real thing. We call it virtual reality now, but that term will eventually only be used to describe the attempts near the turn of the millennium to create an immersive visual/audio experience. It's missing a subtle but essential quality that is apparent because VR users never lose themselves in the experience the way, say, a subject looses themselves in a sensory deprivation chamber. The closest thing I can compare it to is a STNG -style holodeck... except that it's the size of a funky pair of glasses. There will be many Matricies... but no Zion.
but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.
I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.
bullshit. While it's true Windows has been victimized and targeted, there are fundamental security design flaws in NT that you won't find In UNIX. All the security fixes in Windows aren't fixes, but patches. By the GB, there's more patches in Windows than OS. Just because Windows has been targeted doesn't mean those security flaws suddenly appeared when someone exploited them... they were there all along. UNIX has unpublished flaws too, but nothing even remotely on the order of Windows. On UNIX, if you don't root the machine, you haven't taken it, and it's no trivial task to do remotely. On Windows, there are a ton of different escalation vectors, and mealy all roads lead to full box control. Between 1994-2001, nothing matched NT in utility and security. But while malware authors did, NT did NOT grow or adapt; it's the same damn OS with all the old problems. AND it's still the favorite target.
Do people really think offshore drilling should be stopped because of this?
No, but because of this they shouldn't allow it to happen again. Safety must be perfected. How did they not blow up rigs in the crazy dangerous remote places they drill? Why do they have to blow up a rig and leak all that oil with no way to stop it in mind before they started ... in an area where something like this kills an extremely delicate and economically important ecosystem?