Well, point upgrades are free in both cases, of course.
Also, while Apple does charge a lot for stuff like memory upgrades, there is no need to actually buy from them, you can just buy components of the right specs from anywhere.
It really is pretty lame that they didn't even modify the car in any way. It's not a iPhone-controlled car, it's an iPhone-controlled radio transmitter! And hardly even that!
Then the source code can be inspected and the 'executable' can be guarnteed to match.
No, it can not. Even if you were able to read the source code right there in the voting booth, how could you know that you were being shown the code that is then run? You can't trust any part of the OS, the file viewer, or the interpreter!
(4) Speaking of lacking in credibility, GOOG are heavily into advertising - Incognito is a neat feature but what will GOOG do with our web records and even keystrokes? [/tinfoil hat]
See, that's the great thing with open source, you don't have to guess if a program sends information back, you can just read the source and find out!
You speak of the Win32 API as if it were some sort of immutable thing.
No, I did not at any point do that. I did not mention the Win32 API in any way, explicitly or implicitly. I was talking about the APPS. That is why I said the word "apps".
It is the APPS that try to do things they shouldn't do, and no amount of changes to the API can fix that. It's the apps that need to be rewritten to not try to preform privileged actions they do not really need.
the hype with apple products is the reason why so many people like it.
It certainly couldn't be that they actually make GOOD PRODUCTS that PEOPLE LIKE! No, it's the HYPE. Because you can totally remain popular for decades on hype alone while selling products nobody actually likes!
Uhm, but current apps run each CPU for each screen,
They do not. The ARM7 only does sound and access to certain peripherals. Furhtermore, as far as I know commercial games don't write their own code for the ARM7, they use code supplied by Nintendo, allowing them to fairly easily emulate this functionality elsewhere.
Probably by assuming the ARM7 code is their official binaries, and emulating those elsewhere. The official DS emulator from Nintendo, Ensata, doesn't even emulate the ARM7 at all. It provides the same functionality in software instead.
This would work on games developed with the offical SDK (all the commercial ones, I'm guessing) and not at all with homebrew.
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Yeah, that's what that was, you know.
Half a year later and everyone's already forgotten all about it.
Blithering stupidity is best dealt with by wide exposure.
Turns out that that is not the case.
Do try to apply common sense over obsessive literal-mindedness, and you'll find life much easier.
Right, but as you point out, there's no actual need to go to Apple for those things.
No, it's an upgrade of Vista, as the original poster was talking about upgrades. As you point out, Apple doesn't offer upgrade-only versions.
Well, point upgrades are free in both cases, of course.
Also, while Apple does charge a lot for stuff like memory upgrades, there is no need to actually buy from them, you can just buy components of the right specs from anywhere.
A quick web search tells me the cheapest Vista upgrade is $100, while the cheapest Leopard version is $129. This is "2-3x" now?
It really is pretty lame that they didn't even modify the car in any way. It's not a iPhone-controlled car, it's an iPhone-controlled radio transmitter! And hardly even that!
Not if people are SUPERVISING THE PROCESS, like they do in countries with proper election processes.
How are you going to steal a box that I am watching?
I would think that the crypto experts out there could come up with a system...
You would think that, but I doubt any crypto expert worth his salt would. They know this is an unsolvable problem.
There is simply no way to guarantee that the vote the system displays to you is the same vote it displays when counting the votes.
Then the source code can be inspected and the 'executable' can be guarnteed to match.
No, it can not. Even if you were able to read the source code right there in the voting booth, how could you know that you were being shown the code that is then run? You can't trust any part of the OS, the file viewer, or the interpreter!
The biggest challenge of being an atheist these days is dealing with the fact that you're grouped together with these asshats.
(4) Speaking of lacking in credibility, GOOG are heavily into advertising - Incognito is a neat feature but what will GOOG do with our web records and even keystrokes? [/tinfoil hat]
See, that's the great thing with open source, you don't have to guess if a program sends information back, you can just read the source and find out!
You speak of the Win32 API as if it were some sort of immutable thing.
No, I did not at any point do that. I did not mention the Win32 API in any way, explicitly or implicitly. I was talking about the APPS. That is why I said the word "apps".
It is the APPS that try to do things they shouldn't do, and no amount of changes to the API can fix that. It's the apps that need to be rewritten to not try to preform privileged actions they do not really need.
That's because those systems run apps which are designed from the start not to require admin access. Windows doesn't have that luxury.
Apparently it was designed to be annoying in order to put pressure on developers to fix their apps.
The result may not have been the intended one, but the motivation was fairly good.
Actually, their plan was to make it annoying in order to force developers to fix their apps so they don't require so much administrator access.
It's hard to fault them for their motivation, even if the execution perhaps left something to be desired.
the hype with apple products is the reason why so many people like it.
It certainly couldn't be that they actually make GOOD PRODUCTS that PEOPLE LIKE! No, it's the HYPE. Because you can totally remain popular for decades on hype alone while selling products nobody actually likes!
Uhm, but current apps run each CPU for each screen,
They do not. The ARM7 only does sound and access to certain peripherals. Furhtermore, as far as I know commercial games don't write their own code for the ARM7, they use code supplied by Nintendo, allowing them to fairly easily emulate this functionality elsewhere.
Globalization is for COMPANIES, not CUSTOMERS, you silly person!
Probably by assuming the ARM7 code is their official binaries, and emulating those elsewhere. The official DS emulator from Nintendo, Ensata, doesn't even emulate the ARM7 at all. It provides the same functionality in software instead.
This would work on games developed with the offical SDK (all the commercial ones, I'm guessing) and not at all with homebrew.
I was talking about the Lua stuff in Garry's mod there, not LittleBigPlanet.
Were you happy with the good/evil system in Bioshock?
No, I did not play it, and don't plan to.
There are other games than FPSes out there, you know.
So if you have a general-purpose programming language, you can make complicated things? Well, I sure am amazed!