Could Apple sell an more expensive 'unlocked' version of OS X that works on non Apple hardware and make money? My guess is that they could add a couple of hundred bucks for the unlocked version and it would sell. Now there are hackintoshes that run the locked version, but Apple can and does break them with updates.
Essentially they'd have two tiers - Apple hardware and software as the high end option and Apple software and generic hardware as a lower end one. Of course there's a risk that Mac users would defect en masse to cheaper commodity hardware, especially as some PC vendors would start to sell machines that looked like Macs but were much cheaper. Plus unlocked software would be pirated.
Windows Mobile 6.1 (based on Windows CE 5.2) runs OK on my Sony Ericsson X1. I think on Snapdragon or similar it WinMo would be very snappy indeed. There's even a version of Windows CE, 6.0, that doesn't use the ARM's fast context switch extension and thus allows a 2GB per process address space rather than 32MB.
Still I don't really see people running Office on it, but for Windows Mobile type application, e.g. the excellent Pleco Chinese to English dictionary it works very well indeed. It's sort of an odd concept to implement Win32 (which is really an API designed for big iron servers) on an phone but at least it allows easy ports of Windows applications. Though the user interface needs to be simplified drastically to run on a small screen (many devices are still 320x200) and installing stupid task bar applets is out of the question. Still in terms of libraries it's quite compatible with desktop Windows - you can install.Net, ATL or MFC for example.
MILFs has a issue for long term use though. When you first use it is very trim and has little overhead and is highly responsive. Later on it gradually bloats to the point it is unusable and/or spends its time servicing requests from other systems and ignoring you. Then you pretty much have to waste it and replace it with Reiser.
Regular culls are needed to maintain the health of the herd. That's why I donate 5% of my paycheck to Dr Anthrax who runs al Qaeda's germ bomb program.
No need to do it from orbit. A G-54 atomic grenade will sterilise a city block sized area. If people in neighbouring blocks are slipshod enough to not have a space suit handy to protect themselves then really I have no sympathy for them.
Oddly enough I was in China last week. I was sat working in my hotel room because the visit was postponed for a day. I was coughing and sweating. Suddenly the possibility of H1N1 occured to me. Actually it wasn't though. The cough was a bacterial infection (cleared up with antibiotics when I got home) and I was sweating because the airconditioner was hacked. Basically I set the temperature to 20 degrees C. The thermostat read 25 C. I've actually got a thermometer in my alarm clock that agrees with my aircon/thermometers back home and that read 28 C. Looking closely the airconditioner in the hotel in China had the control panel screwed down so guests couldn't open it. My guess is that they set it in economy mode to save cash.
Still the possibility of being quarantined, i.e. locked in a room with dirty food (I always get an upset stomach if I eat food outside the hotel in China) and a load of people with H1N1 did occur to me. I think next time I'm going to bring a bunch of cold/stomach cures with me and take them before I fly to avoid this. I.e. I'm going to cheat. Not if I fly to countries that have elections, just tyrannical shitholes like Vietnam or China.
Incidentally the people I met in China noticed my cough and said that they hoped that it wasn't H1N1 because they were scared of being quarantined too. See the thing is that Vietnam and China don't really care about individuals - their solution to H1N1 is to lock up the sick people (i.e. anyone who has a temperature, they don't bother to check if you have the virus) together until they die or recover. In a civilised country people have rights, even sick ones. If you quarantine them you actually have to try to keep them alive.
Maybe you should talk to the boss and get him to make you Flu Monitor. He could give you a thermometer and you could check people when they came in in the morning.
Actually once you understand the issue you don't need to preview and edit the bad characters out, you can convert from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 using a tool like this
Here's the text he quoted converted from utf-8 to iso-8859-1:
Currently, most of us contribute content to the Web (for example by putting our personal information on social networking sites, uploading photos to Flickr, or maybe publishing blog posts), but we don't contribute to its fabric - the underlying infrastructure that defines the online landscape that we inhabit.
Our computers are only dumb terminals connected to other computers (meaning servers) owned by other people - such as large corporations - who we depend upon to host our words, thoughts, and images. We depend on them to do it well and with our best interests at heart. We place our trust in these third parties, and we hope for the best, but as long as our own computers are not first class citizens on the Web, we are merely tenants, and hosting companies are the landlords of the Internet.
I dunno about 'grin and bear it'. There are no internet sites I use that render badly in Opera.
Pronbably quite a lot of sites use very basic html that will work on both IE and the rest and the bleeding edge ones serve two versions based on browser id - a 'standards based' one for Firefox/Opera/Chrome and the rest and an 'IE quirks' one for IE or maybe just old versions of IE.
I honestly don't know why Opera isn't more popular. I've tried IE 3.0-8.0, Netscape, all versions of Firefox since it was released, Maxthon, CrazyBrowser and Chrome and I always end up going back to using Opera exclusively.
Actually IE and FF are now quite close to Opera because both have copied features from it. Still neither are quite as slick.
Slahdot uses charset=iso-8859-1. The page he copied from (probably this one using charset=utf-8) uses smartquotes, emdashes and so on which are mangled when you copy/paste them from a UTF-8 page.
Well Einstein was offended by the hackiness of Quantum Mechanics to the point where he thought it must be incorrect. However, he was wrong.
As far as I can tell there's no reason the universe has to abide by rules that we consider elegant. In the fact elegant seems to be a subjective thing.
Then again maybe there's a much more elegant theory will be discovered that can explain all the results General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics do and more and will be simpler than each of them.
It's flamebaity point but it's not completely false. Carl Sagan had a graph of scientific progress - basically very rapid in Ancient Greece and zero in the Dark Ages. As Christianity lost its grip in Europe science picked up again. Mind you scientfic progress wasn't exactly stellar in the pre Christian Roman Empire too. Even the Roman Republic didn't seem to produce much science or literature compared to Athens.
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How do you know we didn't organise the theft?
Which raises an interesting possibility.
Could Apple sell an more expensive 'unlocked' version of OS X that works on non Apple hardware and make money? My guess is that they could add a couple of hundred bucks for the unlocked version and it would sell. Now there are hackintoshes that run the locked version, but Apple can and does break them with updates.
Essentially they'd have two tiers - Apple hardware and software as the high end option and Apple software and generic hardware as a lower end one. Of course there's a risk that Mac users would defect en masse to cheaper commodity hardware, especially as some PC vendors would start to sell machines that looked like Macs but were much cheaper. Plus unlocked software would be pirated.
Actually I think this is too risky for them.
When the Thought Police are knocking on your door, think "I'm not home".
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Even worse two MiBs will meet him in the carpark and shoot him dead with a laser pistol.
the MEAT!!! counter of your local supermarket
FTFY.
Fries, motherfucker, where are mine?
Windows Mobile 6.1 (based on Windows CE 5.2) runs OK on my Sony Ericsson X1. I think on Snapdragon or similar it WinMo would be very snappy indeed. There's even a version of Windows CE, 6.0, that doesn't use the ARM's fast context switch extension and thus allows a 2GB per process address space rather than 32MB.
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/articles/AT9457847627.html
Still I don't really see people running Office on it, but for Windows Mobile type application, e.g. the excellent Pleco Chinese to English dictionary it works very well indeed. It's sort of an odd concept to implement Win32 (which is really an API designed for big iron servers) on an phone but at least it allows easy ports of Windows applications. Though the user interface needs to be simplified drastically to run on a small screen (many devices are still 320x200) and installing stupid task bar applets is out of the question. Still in terms of libraries it's quite compatible with desktop Windows - you can install .Net, ATL or MFC for example.
MILFs has a issue for long term use though. When you first use it is very trim and has little overhead and is highly responsive. Later on it gradually bloats to the point it is unusable and/or spends its time servicing requests from other systems and ignoring you. Then you pretty much have to waste it and replace it with Reiser.
I do like they way you stir -1 flamebait into +1 technically vaguely plausible to confuse the moderators.
Regular culls are needed to maintain the health of the herd. That's why I donate 5% of my paycheck to Dr Anthrax who runs al Qaeda's germ bomb program.
No need to do it from orbit. A G-54 atomic grenade will sterilise a city block sized area. If people in neighbouring blocks are slipshod enough to not have a space suit handy to protect themselves then really I have no sympathy for them.
Oddly enough I was in China last week. I was sat working in my hotel room because the visit was postponed for a day. I was coughing and sweating. Suddenly the possibility of H1N1 occured to me. Actually it wasn't though. The cough was a bacterial infection (cleared up with antibiotics when I got home) and I was sweating because the airconditioner was hacked. Basically I set the temperature to 20 degrees C. The thermostat read 25 C. I've actually got a thermometer in my alarm clock that agrees with my aircon/thermometers back home and that read 28 C. Looking closely the airconditioner in the hotel in China had the control panel screwed down so guests couldn't open it. My guess is that they set it in economy mode to save cash.
Still the possibility of being quarantined, i.e. locked in a room with dirty food (I always get an upset stomach if I eat food outside the hotel in China) and a load of people with H1N1 did occur to me. I think next time I'm going to bring a bunch of cold/stomach cures with me and take them before I fly to avoid this. I.e. I'm going to cheat. Not if I fly to countries that have elections, just tyrannical shitholes like Vietnam or China.
Incidentally the people I met in China noticed my cough and said that they hoped that it wasn't H1N1 because they were scared of being quarantined too. See the thing is that Vietnam and China don't really care about individuals - their solution to H1N1 is to lock up the sick people (i.e. anyone who has a temperature, they don't bother to check if you have the virus) together until they die or recover. In a civilised country people have rights, even sick ones. If you quarantine them you actually have to try to keep them alive.
Maybe you should talk to the boss and get him to make you Flu Monitor. He could give you a thermometer and you could check people when they came in in the morning.
Actually once you understand the issue you don't need to preview and edit the bad characters out, you can convert from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 using a tool like this
http://www.motobit.com/util/charset-codepage-conversion.asp
Or a decent text editor
Here's the text he quoted converted from utf-8 to iso-8859-1 :
Currently, most of us contribute content to the Web (for example by putting our personal information on social networking sites, uploading photos to Flickr, or maybe publishing blog posts), but we don't contribute to its fabric - the underlying infrastructure that defines the online landscape that we inhabit.
Our computers are only dumb terminals connected to other computers (meaning servers) owned by other people - such as large corporations - who we depend upon to host our words, thoughts, and images. We depend on them to do it well and with our best interests at heart. We place our trust in these third parties, and we hope for the best, but as long as our own computers are not first class citizens on the Web, we are merely tenants, and hosting companies are the landlords of the Internet.
I dunno about 'grin and bear it'. There are no internet sites I use that render badly in Opera.
Pronbably quite a lot of sites use very basic html that will work on both IE and the rest and the bleeding edge ones serve two versions based on browser id - a 'standards based' one for Firefox/Opera/Chrome and the rest and an 'IE quirks' one for IE or maybe just old versions of IE.
I honestly don't know why Opera isn't more popular. I've tried IE 3.0-8.0, Netscape, all versions of Firefox since it was released, Maxthon, CrazyBrowser and Chrome and I always end up going back to using Opera exclusively.
Actually IE and FF are now quite close to Opera because both have copied features from it. Still neither are quite as slick.
Slahdot uses charset=iso-8859-1. The page he copied from (probably this one using charset=utf-8) uses smartquotes, emdashes and so on which are mangled when you copy/paste them from a UTF-8 page.
I'm sure all seven Opera users will be thrilled.
It's lonely being part of an elite.
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Well Einstein was offended by the hackiness of Quantum Mechanics to the point where he thought it must be incorrect. However, he was wrong.
As far as I can tell there's no reason the universe has to abide by rules that we consider elegant. In the fact elegant seems to be a subjective thing.
Then again maybe there's a much more elegant theory will be discovered that can explain all the results General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics do and more and will be simpler than each of them.
I don't know. And neither does anyone else.
Dude! If you kill him his buddies will track you down using forensic evidence.
It's flamebaity point but it's not completely false. Carl Sagan had a graph of scientific progress - basically very rapid in Ancient Greece and zero in the Dark Ages. As Christianity lost its grip in Europe science picked up again. Mind you scientfic progress wasn't exactly stellar in the pre Christian Roman Empire too. Even the Roman Republic didn't seem to produce much science or literature compared to Athens.
Maybe the rainbows are a warning to the other parts.
Just one more thing science can't answer. Of course the answer is obvious but no scientist would ever consider [i]that[/i].
Just a tip: we speak HTML here. We don't look kindly on outsiders coming in here and speaking BBCode.