how is it NOT? And I never mentioned the crappy flash based websites... just video delivery. I don't like flash based websites either, but they're really not a problem (except to the site owner that is isolating themselves to flash users only).
I'm only annoyed at the ubiquitous flash video, and only because ANY OTHER VIDEO DELIVER METHOD is superior to flash. When there's so many round wheels available for this vehicle, it pisses me off to see everyone using and defending square wheels. "Everyone wants square wheels and Apple is stalking me!" Give me a fucking break. Flash is shit for video delivery REGARDLESS of what everyone wants. No one denies this.
Use flash for what it's good for, and no one will have a problem with Adobe.
I guess I've been deluding myself... I thought Apple wanted to kill flash for the same reasons everyone else wants to... because it's awful for delivering video, never should have been used that way, and we need to make an example of Adobe for future developers to take warning: do not develop an awesome technology only to squander it in the worst fashion imaginable (by making sure 99% of it's installations are implementing it for a purpose it's just not well suited for). We're not against repurposing software platforms, just against drowning the Internet with a crappy, painful software platform pretending to be a media delivery system. Why can't Adobe understand?
I thank you for your service and for posting slashdot. But I do have a question, and not having all the facts, I ask for your tolerance. One thing here gets repeated over and over, and I'm not sure it's true. Was Childs fired BEFORE he was asked to give up passwords? Doesn't this mean anything? Also, Child's is convicted, can you explain the law he broke and how he broke it (specifically what choice of action he made was illegal and a felony? One more thing... if Child's had better representation, do you think the outcome might have been any different? From what I know, and it isn't much, I can't understand why the case wasn't dismissed... wrong laws applied to a non-crime. But I must defer to your personal experience. And thanks again... sounds like shit work, and most would have done anything to get out of it. Your sense of civic duty is appreciated.
and doesn't have much to do with the generation of a product.
Incorrect. Apple's model identifier has everything to do with what hardware generation the device is. It is one of the ways we know the differences between, and how we talk about the generational differences in the hardware. Obviously, a name doesn't magically make something a new generation. But Apple was kind enough to match their internal model identifiers to hardware generation for us. That's how they do it, and if you didn't know, that's what they're intended for (internally), and that's what they mean.
You are perfectly free to define your own standard for hardware generation, as is any journalist, but I think that is a specious, unthoughtful use of language. Go ahead, water down any meaning in the words you use just so you'll be right. The rest of us need to get work done, so we're going to use language that makes sense, that is easy to derive correct meaning from, and that minimizes confusion.
I think everyone is being overly optimistic about the advantages of upgrading Windows. What I see is eye candy and a few nice features (that we've all envied on other systems, that we —want— but aren't essential) that is distracting everyone away from the fact that all of the official and notorious "Windows headaches" are alive and well in the new version. So... the status quo sucks but it's working somewhat... it's a level of Hell we know well, and the marketing pressure is to... give it all up for a prettier Hell, that isn't as familiar to us (and the millions that we rely on for support). I'm surprised that not more corporate IT has decided to hunker down, harden/strip/customize/(virtualize?) a Corp standard XP desktop w/ all client/serverapps tweaked, supported by netindustrialzed/superhardened 2003 server(s)... and isolate and freeze that paradigm in carbonite... and begin building layers insulating the environment from possible future headaches with MS or Semantec or whatever breaking it from the outside.
Before it's said, so what if IE6 doesn't work on the web anymore? Either sandbox everything or keep IE6 for internal webapps alone, prevent it from ever going wan, and just give the diligent users another browser for surfing the web or youtube during the other 6 hours of their work day. Build in the systems breaking as part of the maintenance cycle... and with a lot of hands doing the same well documented things to keep it going, you have a system that can stand the 20 years or so it will take for a solution that advances the feature set enough that the migration pains are worth an actual, attainable benefit.
so... really the question isn't why are some corps dragging their feet on migrating to Windows 7... the question is why are so many corporations blowing money money on upgrading (when it's not *necessary*)? (Why should any corporation upgrade to Windows 7?)
What does Google gain from people using its free apps on other platforms?
Simply, more eyeballs to sell advertisements to. But in this and some other instances, it seems the cost/benefit to fighting apples system just isn't there.
Considering in this instance Google is just a developer, most developers must see it the other way... that the cost/benefit to the wonderful android development opportunities just isn't there, and the best way to reach users is to fight apple. I cite the statistics for number of downloads and number of available applications on AppStore and whatever Android's package management is called. AppStore got out the gate a little early, so to be fair, lets check again in 5 years, and see if whatever android's package management is called has had enough time to catch up.
The problem with what you lay out in your post, besides being confusing, is that the iPhone and the iPhone 3G were nearly identical hardware platforms (the only differences being the radio and the gps), and Apple themselves does not see them as separate hardware generations, as can be seen by the identifiers for the hw:
so... what do you think the chances are of Apple pulling a "Rocky II" and completely skipping their own internal 3rd hardware revision?
btw, it is universally accepted that using the capital 'G' after the number always refers to cell technology, and this is espescially true when talking about cell phone hardware.
many of our physical ills have psychological roots
I think considering the scope of physical ills, this is an understatement. I think that once science completely understands stress —as well as any pesky genetic 'death switches,' and perféct organ synthesis; and solve crime and stupidity yada yada yada— people will live forever. And I believe while science hasn't yet conquered stress (by understanding it entirely), there have been enlightlened (albeit possibly completely fully of shit) individuals that have... and if not for the death switches and replacement organs, crime or stupidity, they'd still be with us. I doubt any of them were chiropractors, but I'm sure we'd likely agree on who many of them were. And so what if they used showmanship or huckstery or *a lie* to get paid if their services ulitimately provided, inexplicably, by the patient actively believing something that was unproven or against known science (or even utterly impossible), an unobvious but successful psycholocal program that provided superior stress management and a longer, happier life for the subject?
Until chiropractors cross that threshold where public opinion is that they're hurting more than healing (hopefully with a much faster public reaction than to when it was true of a number of Catholic priests), unless that's your personal cause, then let the suckers and sufferers seeking relief continue to help our economy.
Granted, it's a poor argument I'm making. I'll give you that.
I thank you for posting. So, to recap, it's not asynchrinous, and it's not javascript. I'd say there's a flaw in whatever the logic is for this 'proof.' I just love what the kids are doing with language these days. Could this be just a poor attempt to draw attention to something not as well known as Ajax? wtf!!! [Sorry... I've been a little tender of late after having to witness the barrage of tech writers recently humiliating themselves by referring to an unknown prototype phone as something it couldn't possibly be, over and over, and they're still doing it (the iPhone 4G: proof that journalists are idiots-- hint: no 4G network, no 4G phone).]
There is no 4G network to speak of in the United States
THEREFORE: Apple will NOT release a 4G phone.
The next iPhone will be a 3G phone.
Tech writers and journalists are really showing their true colors with this Apple prototype fiasco. Not a single one of them has gotten the name right, nor have they acknowledged their mistakes. And don't tell me they're referring to Apple hardware generations. It is universally accepted that the capital 'G' after a number refers to only cell technology generations. Furthermore, at most, the next iPhone could only be the third generational revision of Apple hardware:
1st generation
iPhone---------iPhone1,1
iPhone 3G-----iPhone1,2
(note: the iPhone and the iPhone 3G are nearly identical... the 3G has a different radio and gps, but same memory and processor.)
2nd generation
iPhone 3GS---iPhone2,1
thus... depending on Apple, the next iPhone, a 3G phone, will be either 2nd or 3rd Apple hardware generation. HEY JOUNALISTS...PSSST "FACT CHECKING"
which all web sites have been doing since the beginning of time.
Modern cosmology now suggests that the Planck epoch may have inaugurated a period of unification, and that symmetry breaking then quickly led to the era of cosmic inflation, during which the universe greatly expanded in scale over a very short period of time, violently fueled by the pressure from the Big Bang itself, and tremendous amounts of web-generated ad revenue.
I respectfully disagree. When it comes to MS Windows, if ever there was a cure-all, virtualization is it. Make a short list of the problems with Windows, and one way or another, virtualization can solve it. If you're clever enough, for instance, the ubiquitous need for virus protection can be eliminated by sand boxing (just think of the gazillions of proc cycles that could be saved). Virtualization can make Windows secure in a way it will never be when it runs on the bare iron. Once you have a virtualized system just right, you can zip it up, deploy it by the multitudes. What's that? Something acting wonky? Delete, unzip, redeploy in less time than it takes to scan a hard drive.
Now, I agree that virtualization isn't the absolute ideal solution in all situations, but that doesn't mean it's not a cure-all (for the inherent headaches of MS Windows). A cure-all is a generalized solution. There might be better specialized solutions, but they're specialized and not a cure-all. Virtualization is the tonic that can give a Windows desktop or server the key features that Microsoft was never able to include or patch. In fact, I'd say, if Windows is broken, and it really has been for a long time, virtualization fixes it.
Symantec has added mail servers and operating systems to their definitions list. I'm not taking any chances. I'm updating right n***********************
Someone needs to remind our government of the meaning of NIMBY.
Look, if you want affordable power, we're going to have to make sacrifices. The waste has to go somewhere, and we've decided that the only fair option is for it to go everywhere. So we're gonna divide it equally among the population. We don't care what you do with it, as long as it's buried in your backyard. What's a few rads between neighbors? Hey, stop yer complaining... you won the argument and now you get what you asked for.... hey, don't blame me, I wanted to use the more expensive and cleaner energy sources, develop that technology now so it would become more affordable for our children, so they wouldn't have to deal with what we're sweeping under the rug (er, burying in your back yard). Enjoy the cheap, "clean" nuke energy!
For me, I remember having the hardest time singing and playing guitar at the same time when I was just learning how to play.
The performer is actually doing a little bit more. I'm sure the stuff that the hand "just knows" isn't quite conscious, moving fingers around hitting the notes, the other hand/wrist in rhythm. But a performer, not one that's in his bedroom playing and singing, but a working performer is doing all this AND observing the audience, AND making eye contact AND giving emotion and facial expression (no, not always without thinking, sometimes those emotions are completely contrived... and if they're really good, you can't tell... and you are moved), and, especially, of course, listening and doing that critically. I've seen performers adjust a mistuned string on the fly, without stopping the song. I've also been to a Phish show: bouncing on trampolines, chording and soloing with one hand, picking individual strings and/or strumming all with the other, singing, doing synchronized bouncing, spinning, reacting to the audience, reacting to anything that might be happening (such as unscheduled fireworks behind the stage)... those guys are freakin aliens.
So I guess Google and the providers using Android must not be in their right mind, else they wouldn't be using a Java VM (yes, I know a virtual machine is distinct from code running in emulation, but my attack on your knee jerk argument is still valid). Not saying I agree with the guy who wrote the article, just that this particular criticism of yours is baseless.
I'm not sure why everyone is getting so hung up on the language. If you insist on taking it quite literally, then just *say* you originally wrote it in ObjC, then went ahead and rewrote it in another language, and used a cross-compiler to pump out the final ObjC. Technically, you'd still be complient.
but what is really getting to me is all this bellyaching. Are ObjC coders complaining they have no way to code ObjC into ActionScript or.NET?? Are Python coders upset because they have to code in Python to make a Python application? Are Java developers up in arms because they can't code in LISP and cross-compile to the JIT?? Seriously, all teh bellyachers have no leg to stand on. This is the platform, this is how it's developed for. Don't like it? Go away and stfu, and we won't bother you. (not directed at you personally, btw, just in general to the bellyachers that want to develop for the platform... by not developing for the platform. They need their logic adjusted.)
This isn't precisely what happens. Apple iPhone apps DO continue to run in the background once launched. The system sort of decides when memory is getting low, and to kill one of them when necessary. But I like the way you're looking at it... afa "how well apple have made it look like it can't." That is kind of true. Apple makes it appear as though it's a single task device, hiding the fact that it technically is nothing of the sort. Good call.
as soon as you ssh'd into a jailbroken iphone everything else would hang while ssh ran.
I ssh into my 1st Gen iPhone all the time. I've never experieced this 'everything else would hang' that you describe. sshd isn't in the least all that processor intensive in and of itself. It depends what you're doing on the command line. Navigating the hierarchy certainly wouldn't cause anything to hang. scping items on or off also doesn't cause this. Just what are you doing on a remote command line that is causing your iPhone gui to hang? Transcoding video, or folding proteins or something? C'mon, it's a teeny tiny UNIX mobile and wireless server, but with very low proc performance. It does what it does well, and little else. I see it as an embedded UNIX system.
Thanks for posting that link. The story is interesting. But I wish those of Arab descent and Muslims would take a look at what's happening. There are a few bad seeds among their group that are causing the establishment to fear everyone in their group. They should take it upon themselves to ferret out the violent blood thirsty idiots, and serve those motherfuckers up to be judged for their fucked up violence. I believe Tom Clancy wrote in a fictional account the way the Muslims and Arabs could much more easily and quickly get their grievencies addressed: follow the teachings of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The first Isreali soldier that kills a passive non-violent Arab protester, the entire world will come to their aid (probably in spirit only, but that is very powerful). If you're just going to blow yourself up anyway, what's the difference if you let yourself *actually* get martered, rather than just redifining what martydom is (hint: a martyr is not a murderer, a martyr doesn't commit suicide... a martyr must truly be innocent of crime, and is themselves murdered because of their principles.) Hey, it's just my opinion, don't cut my head off!
Probably not. Massage therapists work on muscles; I've never heard of one doing a spine adjustment. I, too, firmly believe 99% of chiroprators are full of shit, but the one thing they seem to do well is straighten the back... mostly they treat the symptom of back pain. But if the adjustment permanently removes the pain, I call that a cure, regardless of the quackery behind their methods.
I'd never go to a chiropractor, ever. I'd go to an orthopedic specialist that's a doctor of osteopathic medicene, though... but of course, their science IS science. There are many D.O. chief of surgeons and D.O.'s that run hospitals. I'd even go so far to say the D.O. is better than the M.D., as far as the skill of the healer is concerned... just not as popular.
Right, because Apple is just blind to the fact that REAL devs use Flash, Mono and C#. If they cut out those heavyweights, whose left to code apps for the platform? Me personally, I like to smear and fling my own feces against the wall and cross-compile that to iPhone OS, and now that it is forbidden, I guess I'll just have to go back to developing for DotNET. I don't care how fucking lucrative developing for iPhone might be... I don't know ObjC, and if I have to learn something new to code for a new platform then I'll just wait for the platform to fail. If I don't already know it, it just isn't worth knowing.
well... yes and no. The only reason Microsoft would purchase Intrinsity is if Intrinsity already came up with a innovative design that at it's first introduction to market blew everyone away... no, I take that back. Microsoft would NEVER buy an Intrinsity. After being surprised like everyone else at Intrinsity's hypothetical product, Microsoft would fast track and bring to market almost immediately a product falsly claiming to match the new innovative features of Intrinsity's product, and saturate and flood the market so exhaustively, takeing near billions of dollars in loss, so they could smother Intrinsity into bankruptsy, but make up for the loss in ten years of sales of their own inferior product.
So Microsoft is a little different than Apple. Apple really believes they have the vision for the future, they really truly believe their technological philosophy is superior (and in some specialized spaces they absolutely now are). Yes, Apple is a business... wants to make money (thus the music biz stuff) and is also guilty at times of selling poor product, but that's not their prime volition. They, while making profit, want to make it "better" for music publishers and consumers. So, sure, they're going to annoy some people while trying to keep the lights on.
No one would doubt that Microsoft's whole existence is about money. If Microsoft could leverage twice their net mining asteroids, they'd be space miners and not a software company. I can't see it happening with Apple. Apple has pride and a bit of arrogance about what they're good at, and they think they're good at how *most* and *regular* people *should* interact with information (entertainment and education), and desire to shape this interaction in a future where they helped humanity move forward.
Microsoft, at it's best, is more like Leela's Nibbler, cute but eats anything and everything and shits dark matter, esp. after they poured a fortune into those decent and funny and pointless and probably effective Vista commercials. (Honestly, I applaud MS for successfully pulling what I refer to as a "New Coke," the first to do so, afaik, since the great Coca-Cola themselves... who made their fortune selling sugary sparkling water with addictive ingedients... immoral as hell but just fucking brilliant).
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How is that Adobe's fault?
how is it NOT? And I never mentioned the crappy flash based websites... just video delivery. I don't like flash based websites either, but they're really not a problem (except to the site owner that is isolating themselves to flash users only).
I'm only annoyed at the ubiquitous flash video, and only because ANY OTHER VIDEO DELIVER METHOD is superior to flash. When there's so many round wheels available for this vehicle, it pisses me off to see everyone using and defending square wheels. "Everyone wants square wheels and Apple is stalking me!" Give me a fucking break. Flash is shit for video delivery REGARDLESS of what everyone wants. No one denies this.
Use flash for what it's good for, and no one will have a problem with Adobe.
I guess I've been deluding myself... I thought Apple wanted to kill flash for the same reasons everyone else wants to... because it's awful for delivering video, never should have been used that way, and we need to make an example of Adobe for future developers to take warning: do not develop an awesome technology only to squander it in the worst fashion imaginable (by making sure 99% of it's installations are implementing it for a purpose it's just not well suited for). We're not against repurposing software platforms, just against drowning the Internet with a crappy, painful software platform pretending to be a media delivery system. Why can't Adobe understand?
I thank you for your service and for posting slashdot. But I do have a question, and not having all the facts, I ask for your tolerance. One thing here gets repeated over and over, and I'm not sure it's true. Was Childs fired BEFORE he was asked to give up passwords? Doesn't this mean anything? Also, Child's is convicted, can you explain the law he broke and how he broke it (specifically what choice of action he made was illegal and a felony? One more thing... if Child's had better representation, do you think the outcome might have been any different? From what I know, and it isn't much, I can't understand why the case wasn't dismissed... wrong laws applied to a non-crime. But I must defer to your personal experience. And thanks again... sounds like shit work, and most would have done anything to get out of it. Your sense of civic duty is appreciated.
No, that is the model identifier
correct
and doesn't have much to do with the generation of a product.
Incorrect. Apple's model identifier has everything to do with what hardware generation the device is. It is one of the ways we know the differences between, and how we talk about the generational differences in the hardware. Obviously, a name doesn't magically make something a new generation. But Apple was kind enough to match their internal model identifiers to hardware generation for us. That's how they do it, and if you didn't know, that's what they're intended for (internally), and that's what they mean.
You are perfectly free to define your own standard for hardware generation, as is any journalist, but I think that is a specious, unthoughtful use of language. Go ahead, water down any meaning in the words you use just so you'll be right. The rest of us need to get work done, so we're going to use language that makes sense, that is easy to derive correct meaning from, and that minimizes confusion.
I think everyone is being overly optimistic about the advantages of upgrading Windows. What I see is eye candy and a few nice features (that we've all envied on other systems, that we —want— but aren't essential) that is distracting everyone away from the fact that all of the official and notorious "Windows headaches" are alive and well in the new version. So... the status quo sucks but it's working somewhat... it's a level of Hell we know well, and the marketing pressure is to ... give it all up for a prettier Hell, that isn't as familiar to us (and the millions that we rely on for support). I'm surprised that not more corporate IT has decided to hunker down, harden/strip/customize/(virtualize?) a Corp standard XP desktop w/ all client/serverapps tweaked, supported by netindustrialzed/superhardened 2003 server(s)... and isolate and freeze that paradigm in carbonite... and begin building layers insulating the environment from possible future headaches with MS or Semantec or whatever breaking it from the outside.
... really the question isn't why are some corps dragging their feet on migrating to Windows 7... the question is why are so many corporations blowing money money on upgrading (when it's not *necessary*)? (Why should any corporation upgrade to Windows 7?)
Before it's said, so what if IE6 doesn't work on the web anymore? Either sandbox everything or keep IE6 for internal webapps alone, prevent it from ever going wan, and just give the diligent users another browser for surfing the web or youtube during the other 6 hours of their work day. Build in the systems breaking as part of the maintenance cycle... and with a lot of hands doing the same well documented things to keep it going, you have a system that can stand the 20 years or so it will take for a solution that advances the feature set enough that the migration pains are worth an actual, attainable benefit.
so
What does Google gain from people using its free apps on other platforms?
Simply, more eyeballs to sell advertisements to. But in this and some other instances, it seems the cost/benefit to fighting apples system just isn't there.
Considering in this instance Google is just a developer, most developers must see it the other way... that the cost/benefit to the wonderful android development opportunities just isn't there, and the best way to reach users is to fight apple. I cite the statistics for number of downloads and number of available applications on AppStore and whatever Android's package management is called. AppStore got out the gate a little early, so to be fair, lets check again in 5 years, and see if whatever android's package management is called has had enough time to catch up.
The problem with what you lay out in your post, besides being confusing, is that the iPhone and the iPhone 3G were nearly identical hardware platforms (the only differences being the radio and the gps), and Apple themselves does not see them as separate hardware generations, as can be seen by the identifiers for the hw:
iPhone: iPhone1,1
iPhone 3G: iPhone1,2
iPhone 3GS: iPhone2,1
so... what do you think the chances are of Apple pulling a "Rocky II" and completely skipping their own internal 3rd hardware revision?
btw, it is universally accepted that using the capital 'G' after the number always refers to cell technology, and this is espescially true when talking about cell phone hardware.
many of our physical ills have psychological roots
I think considering the scope of physical ills, this is an understatement. I think that once science completely understands stress —as well as any pesky genetic 'death switches,' and perféct organ synthesis; and solve crime and stupidity yada yada yada— people will live forever. And I believe while science hasn't yet conquered stress (by understanding it entirely), there have been enlightlened (albeit possibly completely fully of shit) individuals that have... and if not for the death switches and replacement organs, crime or stupidity, they'd still be with us. I doubt any of them were chiropractors, but I'm sure we'd likely agree on who many of them were. And so what if they used showmanship or huckstery or *a lie* to get paid if their services ulitimately provided, inexplicably, by the patient actively believing something that was unproven or against known science (or even utterly impossible), an unobvious but successful psycholocal program that provided superior stress management and a longer, happier life for the subject?
Until chiropractors cross that threshold where public opinion is that they're hurting more than healing (hopefully with a much faster public reaction than to when it was true of a number of Catholic priests), unless that's your personal cause, then let the suckers and sufferers seeking relief continue to help our economy.
Granted, it's a poor argument I'm making. I'll give you that.
I thank you for posting. So, to recap, it's not asynchrinous, and it's not javascript. I'd say there's a flaw in whatever the logic is for this 'proof.' I just love what the kids are doing with language these days. Could this be just a poor attempt to draw attention to something not as well known as Ajax? wtf!!! [Sorry... I've been a little tender of late after having to witness the barrage of tech writers recently humiliating themselves by referring to an unknown prototype phone as something it couldn't possibly be, over and over, and they're still doing it (the iPhone 4G: proof that journalists are idiots-- hint: no 4G network, no 4G phone).]
THEREFORE: Apple will NOT release a 4G phone.
The next iPhone will be a 3G phone.
Tech writers and journalists are really showing their true colors with this Apple prototype fiasco. Not a single one of them has gotten the name right, nor have they acknowledged their mistakes. And don't tell me they're referring to Apple hardware generations. It is universally accepted that the capital 'G' after a number refers to only cell technology generations. Furthermore, at most, the next iPhone could only be the third generational revision of Apple hardware:
1st generation
iPhone---------iPhone1,1
iPhone 3G-----iPhone1,2
(note: the iPhone and the iPhone 3G are nearly identical... the 3G has a different radio and gps, but same memory and processor.)
2nd generation
iPhone 3GS---iPhone2,1
thus... depending on Apple, the next iPhone, a 3G phone, will be either 2nd or 3rd Apple hardware generation. HEY JOUNALISTS...PSSST "FACT CHECKING"
which all web sites have been doing since the beginning of time.
Modern cosmology now suggests that the Planck epoch may have inaugurated a period of unification, and that symmetry breaking then quickly led to the era of cosmic inflation, during which the universe greatly expanded in scale over a very short period of time, violently fueled by the pressure from the Big Bang itself, and tremendous amounts of web-generated ad revenue.
Virtualization is not a cure-all
I respectfully disagree. When it comes to MS Windows, if ever there was a cure-all, virtualization is it. Make a short list of the problems with Windows, and one way or another, virtualization can solve it. If you're clever enough, for instance, the ubiquitous need for virus protection can be eliminated by sand boxing (just think of the gazillions of proc cycles that could be saved). Virtualization can make Windows secure in a way it will never be when it runs on the bare iron. Once you have a virtualized system just right, you can zip it up, deploy it by the multitudes. What's that? Something acting wonky? Delete, unzip, redeploy in less time than it takes to scan a hard drive.
Now, I agree that virtualization isn't the absolute ideal solution in all situations, but that doesn't mean it's not a cure-all (for the inherent headaches of MS Windows). A cure-all is a generalized solution. There might be better specialized solutions, but they're specialized and not a cure-all. Virtualization is the tonic that can give a Windows desktop or server the key features that Microsoft was never able to include or patch. In fact, I'd say, if Windows is broken, and it really has been for a long time, virtualization fixes it.
Symantec has added mail servers and operating systems to their definitions list. I'm not taking any chances. I'm updating right n***********************
We've had flying cars since the late Seventies.
Someone needs to remind our government of the meaning of NIMBY.
Look, if you want affordable power, we're going to have to make sacrifices. The waste has to go somewhere, and we've decided that the only fair option is for it to go everywhere. So we're gonna divide it equally among the population. We don't care what you do with it, as long as it's buried in your backyard. What's a few rads between neighbors? Hey, stop yer complaining... you won the argument and now you get what you asked for.... hey, don't blame me, I wanted to use the more expensive and cleaner energy sources, develop that technology now so it would become more affordable for our children, so they wouldn't have to deal with what we're sweeping under the rug (er, burying in your back yard). Enjoy the cheap, "clean" nuke energy!
Yours Sincerely,
The Government
For me, I remember having the hardest time singing and playing guitar at the same time when I was just learning how to play.
The performer is actually doing a little bit more. I'm sure the stuff that the hand "just knows" isn't quite conscious, moving fingers around hitting the notes, the other hand/wrist in rhythm. But a performer, not one that's in his bedroom playing and singing, but a working performer is doing all this AND observing the audience, AND making eye contact AND giving emotion and facial expression (no, not always without thinking, sometimes those emotions are completely contrived... and if they're really good, you can't tell... and you are moved), and, especially, of course, listening and doing that critically. I've seen performers adjust a mistuned string on the fly, without stopping the song. I've also been to a Phish show: bouncing on trampolines, chording and soloing with one hand, picking individual strings and/or strumming all with the other, singing, doing synchronized bouncing, spinning, reacting to the audience, reacting to anything that might be happening (such as unscheduled fireworks behind the stage)... those guys are freakin aliens.
So I guess Google and the providers using Android must not be in their right mind, else they wouldn't be using a Java VM (yes, I know a virtual machine is distinct from code running in emulation, but my attack on your knee jerk argument is still valid). Not saying I agree with the guy who wrote the article, just that this particular criticism of yours is baseless.
I'm not sure why everyone is getting so hung up on the language. If you insist on taking it quite literally, then just *say* you originally wrote it in ObjC, then went ahead and rewrote it in another language, and used a cross-compiler to pump out the final ObjC. Technically, you'd still be complient.
but what is really getting to me is all this bellyaching. Are ObjC coders complaining they have no way to code ObjC into ActionScript or .NET?? Are Python coders upset because they have to code in Python to make a Python application? Are Java developers up in arms because they can't code in LISP and cross-compile to the JIT?? Seriously, all teh bellyachers have no leg to stand on. This is the platform, this is how it's developed for. Don't like it? Go away and stfu, and we won't bother you. (not directed at you personally, btw, just in general to the bellyachers that want to develop for the platform... by not developing for the platform. They need their logic adjusted.)
This isn't precisely what happens. Apple iPhone apps DO continue to run in the background once launched. The system sort of decides when memory is getting low, and to kill one of them when necessary. But I like the way you're looking at it... afa "how well apple have made it look like it can't." That is kind of true. Apple makes it appear as though it's a single task device, hiding the fact that it technically is nothing of the sort. Good call.
as soon as you ssh'd into a jailbroken iphone everything else would hang while ssh ran.
I ssh into my 1st Gen iPhone all the time. I've never experieced this 'everything else would hang' that you describe. sshd isn't in the least all that processor intensive in and of itself. It depends what you're doing on the command line. Navigating the hierarchy certainly wouldn't cause anything to hang. scping items on or off also doesn't cause this. Just what are you doing on a remote command line that is causing your iPhone gui to hang? Transcoding video, or folding proteins or something? C'mon, it's a teeny tiny UNIX mobile and wireless server, but with very low proc performance. It does what it does well, and little else. I see it as an embedded UNIX system.
Thanks for posting that link. The story is interesting. But I wish those of Arab descent and Muslims would take a look at what's happening. There are a few bad seeds among their group that are causing the establishment to fear everyone in their group. They should take it upon themselves to ferret out the violent blood thirsty idiots, and serve those motherfuckers up to be judged for their fucked up violence. I believe Tom Clancy wrote in a fictional account the way the Muslims and Arabs could much more easily and quickly get their grievencies addressed: follow the teachings of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The first Isreali soldier that kills a passive non-violent Arab protester, the entire world will come to their aid (probably in spirit only, but that is very powerful). If you're just going to blow yourself up anyway, what's the difference if you let yourself *actually* get martered, rather than just redifining what martydom is (hint: a martyr is not a murderer, a martyr doesn't commit suicide... a martyr must truly be innocent of crime, and is themselves murdered because of their principles.) Hey, it's just my opinion, don't cut my head off!
Probably not. Massage therapists work on muscles; I've never heard of one doing a spine adjustment. I, too, firmly believe 99% of chiroprators are full of shit, but the one thing they seem to do well is straighten the back... mostly they treat the symptom of back pain. But if the adjustment permanently removes the pain, I call that a cure, regardless of the quackery behind their methods.
I'd never go to a chiropractor, ever. I'd go to an orthopedic specialist that's a doctor of osteopathic medicene, though... but of course, their science IS science. There are many D.O. chief of surgeons and D.O.'s that run hospitals. I'd even go so far to say the D.O. is better than the M.D., as far as the skill of the healer is concerned... just not as popular.
You, sir, made my day. And nice response btw. But let's leave that filter turned on for now.
Right, because Apple is just blind to the fact that REAL devs use Flash, Mono and C#. If they cut out those heavyweights, whose left to code apps for the platform? Me personally, I like to smear and fling my own feces against the wall and cross-compile that to iPhone OS, and now that it is forbidden, I guess I'll just have to go back to developing for DotNET. I don't care how fucking lucrative developing for iPhone might be... I don't know ObjC, and if I have to learn something new to code for a new platform then I'll just wait for the platform to fail. If I don't already know it, it just isn't worth knowing.
well... yes and no. The only reason Microsoft would purchase Intrinsity is if Intrinsity already came up with a innovative design that at it's first introduction to market blew everyone away... no, I take that back. Microsoft would NEVER buy an Intrinsity. After being surprised like everyone else at Intrinsity's hypothetical product, Microsoft would fast track and bring to market almost immediately a product falsly claiming to match the new innovative features of Intrinsity's product, and saturate and flood the market so exhaustively, takeing near billions of dollars in loss, so they could smother Intrinsity into bankruptsy, but make up for the loss in ten years of sales of their own inferior product.
So Microsoft is a little different than Apple. Apple really believes they have the vision for the future, they really truly believe their technological philosophy is superior (and in some specialized spaces they absolutely now are). Yes, Apple is a business... wants to make money (thus the music biz stuff) and is also guilty at times of selling poor product, but that's not their prime volition. They, while making profit, want to make it "better" for music publishers and consumers. So, sure, they're going to annoy some people while trying to keep the lights on.
No one would doubt that Microsoft's whole existence is about money. If Microsoft could leverage twice their net mining asteroids, they'd be space miners and not a software company. I can't see it happening with Apple. Apple has pride and a bit of arrogance about what they're good at, and they think they're good at how *most* and *regular* people *should* interact with information (entertainment and education), and desire to shape this interaction in a future where they helped humanity move forward.
Microsoft, at it's best, is more like Leela's Nibbler, cute but eats anything and everything and shits dark matter, esp. after they poured a fortune into those decent and funny and pointless and probably effective Vista commercials. (Honestly, I applaud MS for successfully pulling what I refer to as a "New Coke," the first to do so, afaik, since the great Coca-Cola themselves... who made their fortune selling sugary sparkling water with addictive ingedients... immoral as hell but just fucking brilliant).