It's a bit more than "database agnostic" as it can input from a load of non-db sources and output into a load of non-db sinks. I work at a pentaho shop, and one of our biggest projects involves, on the ETL front, parsing several gigs of apache logs per day and stuffing the (filtered) results into a db. We do that using Kettle.
Oh well, if Apple's Corporate description says something, it must be true. Hey, do you want another glass of kool aid, or are you full?
Get over yourself. The accusation was that Apple tried to take credit for creating Webkit from scratch, and the piece of "Apple's Corporate Description" you're so snidely talking about is a clear attribution of the origins of the project to KHTML/KJS, which makes a good case for them not trying to take undue credit.
Except there's a pretty clear difference between me coming up with the oh-so-neat number "462826674840809873425894986513859764213550" independently, or just copy/pasting it from your post into mine. And I swear I came up with that same number all by myself, too!
Both happen. Sure, if I want to use Linux, so I'll pick hardware that works with it. But on the other end of the deal the hardware manufacturers look at the trouble that producing linux drivers gives them versus the number of users they gain, and might decide to move away if there aren't enough users to gain for all that trouble. Not enough demand to produce an offer and all that.
King's quest 6 had one of the best manual-based DRM schemes ever, with a large segment of the game (the mountain island with the bird people, can't recall the name) having several puzzles based on riddles written in the manual, a freaking horrible labyrinth that was mapped as a background image in one page, etc.
It's easy to seize one specific, high profile patent. It's anthrax, damn it! If you can't seize that in a case of emergency, you can't do anything. The situation with pfizer is quite different: we're talking loads of individually "small" patents. You can't seize that portfolio without falling prey to accusations of communism.
If you have the ability to "correct" aberrations could there be fallout?
Of course there is fallout. You're just not looking for the fallout where it would be at its worst. Many genetic traits that we consider disadvantageous are not always a disadvantage at the purely medical level. Take sickle-cell disease. While it is normally a disadvantage, it offers resistance against Malaria, which is why it's comparatively common in areas where malaria was also common. In general, the perils of monocultures are well known. Making gene therapy common-place promotes a degree of homogenisation of humanity's gene pool, which is ultimately dangerous.
As was mentioned earlier, if you were to accuse me of burning puppies, I could accuse you of libel. However, if it comes to be proven that I do burn puppies, I just set myself up for a nice perjury/abusing justice/whatever suit.
The argument boils down to: You can't order the takedown because you don't like the document. Either you ask for it to be taken down because it's true but protected by copyright (or a matter of national security, that works too), or you ask for it to be taken down because it's false and libellous. But if you choose to call it false and it isn't, you've set yourself up for a perjury suit later on if/when ACTA is passed into law.
If you want to explain the concept of package managers and repos, the app store is a great place to start, though. Once you have the idea that the official distribution repos are like the app store, then ask "What if I like to shop around? I want to buy music from Amazon as well as Apple", and proceed to explain that you can add "shops" to your package manager. Just because you don't like the way apple implemented it doesn't mean the concept isn't a great stepping stone towards making a newbie understand apt or whatever.
Does that mean I as developer are resopsible for all users. as I'm resposnsible for all "Third-Party Viewers", and if some onbe just distribures and not develop?
I think it means "If you start pulling off stupid shit with a third party client that's not supposed to be possible with the vanilla version, we'll be greatly pissed at you, and if you develop a client that's found to be involved in large amounts of said stupid shit, we'll also be greatly pissed at you".
On the desktop, for the vast majority of users? Yes, precisely. Some of us would like that to change, but you really need to see things for what they are now if you want to make change happen.
That's a fair question.
HDMI 1.4 delivers a single cable solution for 4Kx2K video, Ethernet over HDMI, 3D over HDMI, etc.
And here's a fair answer: Because this solution is available today, which is more than you can say for "a big-ass flatscreen TV" that does 4kx2k video.
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It's a bit more than "database agnostic" as it can input from a load of non-db sources and output into a load of non-db sinks. I work at a pentaho shop, and one of our biggest projects involves, on the ETL front, parsing several gigs of apache logs per day and stuffing the (filtered) results into a db. We do that using Kettle.
ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) possibly.
Oh well, if Apple's Corporate description says something, it must be true. Hey, do you want another glass of kool aid, or are you full?
Get over yourself. The accusation was that Apple tried to take credit for creating Webkit from scratch, and the piece of "Apple's Corporate Description" you're so snidely talking about is a clear attribution of the origins of the project to KHTML/KJS, which makes a good case for them not trying to take undue credit.
So what?
So it clashes with the notion that those gamers bought an average of 24 games over the last 3 months (and presumably played those games)
Except there's a pretty clear difference between me coming up with the oh-so-neat number "462826674840809873425894986513859764213550" independently, or just copy/pasting it from your post into mine. And I swear I came up with that same number all by myself, too!
Both happen. Sure, if I want to use Linux, so I'll pick hardware that works with it. But on the other end of the deal the hardware manufacturers look at the trouble that producing linux drivers gives them versus the number of users they gain, and might decide to move away if there aren't enough users to gain for all that trouble. Not enough demand to produce an offer and all that.
Are you sure that it compiles inte to x86 machine code? C++ most languages can be compiled into pretty much anything.
"Anything" pretty much includes DLL, as the OP mentioned. And last I checked, those tended to be native code.
I'd have though that even autistics would be able to recognize horns, goat legs, and a pan pipe? Oh, satire.
The marginal cost of movies is practically zero, whereas that of medicines or food, however low, isn't.
Not only is the cost of replicating pirated software bordering on zero, that cost is covered by the pirates. Food and medicine? Not so much.
so a GAU is a SNAFU?
Their previous chrome features ad was also pretty awesome. And, of course, there's always Honda's Cog.
That and the realtime nature
And the polish. World of Goo is a really well-done game, with a brilliant presentation, and a unique, quirky sense of humour.
ninjas of course.
King's quest 6 had one of the best manual-based DRM schemes ever, with a large segment of the game (the mountain island with the bird people, can't recall the name) having several puzzles based on riddles written in the manual, a freaking horrible labyrinth that was mapped as a background image in one page, etc.
Never mind that you would have to store an explosive material.
Not that liquid sodium is that much better, mind you
It's easy to seize one specific, high profile patent. It's anthrax, damn it! If you can't seize that in a case of emergency, you can't do anything. The situation with pfizer is quite different: we're talking loads of individually "small" patents. You can't seize that portfolio without falling prey to accusations of communism.
Look pretty, but you can only do what they allow
Legally, this is true when dealing with any woman, actually, not just strippers...
Not all women are pretty
If you have the ability to "correct" aberrations could there be fallout?
Of course there is fallout. You're just not looking for the fallout where it would be at its worst. Many genetic traits that we consider disadvantageous are not always a disadvantage at the purely medical level. Take sickle-cell disease. While it is normally a disadvantage, it offers resistance against Malaria, which is why it's comparatively common in areas where malaria was also common. In general, the perils of monocultures are well known. Making gene therapy common-place promotes a degree of homogenisation of humanity's gene pool, which is ultimately dangerous.
Probably closer than that. When I read his post, I thought "Well, you certainly pulled that idea from Uranus".
As was mentioned earlier, if you were to accuse me of burning puppies, I could accuse you of libel. However, if it comes to be proven that I do burn puppies, I just set myself up for a nice perjury/abusing justice/whatever suit.
The argument boils down to: You can't order the takedown because you don't like the document. Either you ask for it to be taken down because it's true but protected by copyright (or a matter of national security, that works too), or you ask for it to be taken down because it's false and libellous. But if you choose to call it false and it isn't, you've set yourself up for a perjury suit later on if/when ACTA is passed into law.
If you want to explain the concept of package managers and repos, the app store is a great place to start, though. Once you have the idea that the official distribution repos are like the app store, then ask "What if I like to shop around? I want to buy music from Amazon as well as Apple", and proceed to explain that you can add "shops" to your package manager. Just because you don't like the way apple implemented it doesn't mean the concept isn't a great stepping stone towards making a newbie understand apt or whatever.
So you're saying this is a "proper" innovation in engine tech that's neither an Otto cycle nor a Diesel cycle engine? Neato.
Does that mean I as developer are resopsible for all users. as I'm resposnsible for all "Third-Party Viewers", and if some onbe just distribures and not develop?
I think it means "If you start pulling off stupid shit with a third party client that's not supposed to be possible with the vanilla version, we'll be greatly pissed at you, and if you develop a client that's found to be involved in large amounts of said stupid shit, we'll also be greatly pissed at you".
On the desktop, for the vast majority of users? Yes, precisely. Some of us would like that to change, but you really need to see things for what they are now if you want to make change happen.
That's a fair question. HDMI 1.4 delivers a single cable solution for 4Kx2K video, Ethernet over HDMI, 3D over HDMI, etc.
And here's a fair answer: Because this solution is available today, which is more than you can say for "a big-ass flatscreen TV" that does 4kx2k video.