>I live in Oz and regional restrictions will ensure that I wont get this service until 2034 and a US$2.99 movie will cost A$3450.00. I think you forgot to factor in the data charges.
I supposed by 2034 Vodafone might have a usable network at the least.
So basically you want Slashdot to turn into every news outlet on earth right now? If I want to hear more about any of the current natural disasters, the state of Libya or even what lipgloss Jooolia is wearing this week - I'll turn on the Television or read a news-corporation owned website.
This is Slashdot, News for Nerds - just because a disaster happened doesn't mean we stop wanting to know about anything else.
To understand Apple's position on this, you have to understand a little more of Apple's history.
OSX, apples OS based upon NeXTSTEP uses Obj-c and the Cocoa API, Original MacOS used the Macintosh Toolbox and Platinum. These APIs were very different - and meant most applications had be rewritten almost ground up.
To aid in the transistion Apple developed and provided the Carbon API which required little effort to port from Platinum and would require only a little more work to port to Cocoa from Carbon - thereby spreading out the effort and cost required. Macintosh developers championed this effort (This was of course after a lengthy period of apathy for the OSX developer releases due to the effort required to move the apps)
Apple stated there and then that Carbon was a temporary, transitional API - it would NOT be around forever and that developers should not rely on even being there on the second release. Carbon was also quite a lot slower than native Cocoa. Most developers heeded this, and either followed a Platinum>Carbon>Cocoa transition - some just went straight up Platinum>Cocoa. Others did *complete* rewrites of their code; These have always been the faster apps on OSX (as not only were they coded in the faster Cocoa, they didn't contain legacy code and improve on things that would not have happened otherwise)
Some developers on the other hand, (coughadobecough) ported their apps to Carbon and left it at that, they used the weight of their applications to beat around Apple and ensure deprecated and slow APIs remained for their benefit.
Photoshop CS5 is the first version of Photoshop that uses Cocoa, That is 5 versions of Photoshop that were based upon Carbon - where only 1 should ever have been.
The only reason Photoshop is Cocoa NOW (CS5) is due to Apple's decision not to port Carbon to 64bit. Adobe spat their chips when Apple announced this - but Why? They were using a deprecated API that should not have survived past OSX 10.2, that they had been told was transitional in nature and advised to NOT rely on it. Adobe spat chips because a course of events - that they has been advised of 10 years prior, had finally come to fruition.
Flash is a slow, cumbersome, battery-waster. It's bad enough on desktops - but Phones and Tablets have limited processing power in comparison and rely on a battery - not mains - for power. If Apple allowed full flash support - people would develop for it (Build it and people will come) something Apple seriously wants to avoid.
You might not see it this way, but Apple does what they do - because they learned from their own earlier mistakes - something a LOT of other technology companies seem to fail at. Apple is not infallible and at one point in time they too failed to learn from past mistakes - it almost cost the company. When Steve returned he killed many divisions within Apple as they were unprofitable, unusable, pipe-dreams or simply tying up resources that could have been effectively used elsewhere.
I really don't get this, GeekBench has been around - on all three major platforms for several years... It has a results browser too - http://browse.geekbench.ca/
Watch this, you'll understand even lawns can get people sent to jail. I'm not even kidding - a man in the video was sent to jail 3 days for not maintaining his front lawn...
USB2 Never filled that gap. (Except for maybe flash drives, but then again - I've never seen a FW Flash Drive) eSATA has; in a way; but it's still largely non hot-swap on general consumer machines.
FW400 still kicks that CRAP out of USB2 when it comes to IO; and this is especially important for external drives. USB2 typically has me copying at 20-30MB/s whilst FW400 40-45MB/s. eSATA blows them both out of the water - but I still see more FW400 ports than eSATA during my travels.
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>Saw it a couple days ago. In slash dot days that's 4 or 5 years old!
No, it's about repost time.
>I live in Oz and regional restrictions will ensure that I wont get this service until 2034 and a US$2.99 movie will cost A$3450.00.
I think you forgot to factor in the data charges.
I supposed by 2034 Vodafone might have a usable network at the least.
I still see plenty of 15/16 year-olds working at Video Sleazy/Blockblister
They rent out R18+ movies...
Codemasters worked with this kind of idea for a long time.
Lost of Asus routers have USB and work with OpenWRT/DD-WRT/Tomato.
OpenWRT and DD-WRT already even have *working* USB-Audio class drivers...
No,
I agree MM/DD/YY is 'stupid' (Being Australian we use DD/MM/YY)
But there is an ISO Standard for dates now which generally follows YYYY/MM/DD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
My world of mud for mod points!
So basically you want Slashdot to turn into every news outlet on earth right now?
If I want to hear more about any of the current natural disasters, the state of Libya or even what lipgloss Jooolia is wearing this week - I'll turn on the Television or read a news-corporation owned website.
This is Slashdot, News for Nerds - just because a disaster happened doesn't mean we stop wanting to know about anything else.
Jeez.
To understand Apple's position on this, you have to understand a little more of Apple's history.
OSX, apples OS based upon NeXTSTEP uses Obj-c and the Cocoa API, Original MacOS used the Macintosh Toolbox and Platinum.
These APIs were very different - and meant most applications had be rewritten almost ground up.
To aid in the transistion Apple developed and provided the Carbon API which required little effort to port from Platinum and would require only a little more work to port to Cocoa from Carbon - thereby spreading out the effort and cost required. Macintosh developers championed this effort (This was of course after a lengthy period of apathy for the OSX developer releases due to the effort required to move the apps)
Apple stated there and then that Carbon was a temporary, transitional API - it would NOT be around forever and that developers should not rely on even being there on the second release. Carbon was also quite a lot slower than native Cocoa.
Most developers heeded this, and either followed a Platinum>Carbon>Cocoa transition - some just went straight up Platinum>Cocoa.
Others did *complete* rewrites of their code; These have always been the faster apps on OSX (as not only were they coded in the faster Cocoa, they didn't contain legacy code and improve on things that would not have happened otherwise)
Some developers on the other hand, (coughadobecough) ported their apps to Carbon and left it at that, they used the weight of their applications to beat around Apple and ensure deprecated and slow APIs remained for their benefit.
Photoshop CS5 is the first version of Photoshop that uses Cocoa, That is 5 versions of Photoshop that were based upon Carbon - where only 1 should ever have been.
The only reason Photoshop is Cocoa NOW (CS5) is due to Apple's decision not to port Carbon to 64bit. Adobe spat their chips when Apple announced this - but Why? They were using a deprecated API that should not have survived past OSX 10.2, that they had been told was transitional in nature and advised to NOT rely on it. Adobe spat chips because a course of events - that they has been advised of 10 years prior, had finally come to fruition.
Flash is a slow, cumbersome, battery-waster. It's bad enough on desktops - but Phones and Tablets have limited processing power in comparison and rely on a battery - not mains - for power.
If Apple allowed full flash support - people would develop for it (Build it and people will come) something Apple seriously wants to avoid.
You might not see it this way, but Apple does what they do - because they learned from their own earlier mistakes - something a LOT of other technology companies seem to fail at. Apple is not infallible and at one point in time they too failed to learn from past mistakes - it almost cost the company. When Steve returned he killed many divisions within Apple as they were unprofitable, unusable, pipe-dreams or simply tying up resources that could have been effectively used elsewhere.
Depends on the laptop too,
For example:
a Macbook/Pro 13" will only fit 9.5mm drives
The 15/17" Macbook Pro fits full 12.7mm drives.
Don't forget West-End...
I really don't get this, GeekBench has been around - on all three major platforms for several years...
It has a results browser too - http://browse.geekbench.ca/
T-Minus 10 Seconds until OSC bankruptcy
Damn, I was hoping for a Codename 47 style barcode
I'd like to see your achievements... fucking scumbag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Penn_%26_Teller:_Bullshit!_episodes#Season_7:_2009 - Episode 7-08 - Lawns
Watch this, you'll understand even lawns can get people sent to jail.
I'm not even kidding - a man in the video was sent to jail 3 days for not maintaining his front lawn...
and the US champions another just victory in the civil court...
Oh if I had mod points, rationality on slashdot is few and far.
Mod parent up, I wonder this every time I heard\ about this on the news.
To: iwakura.lain@home.tachibana.net.jp
From: chisafree@cyberiacafe.co.jp [Yomoda, Chisa]
Subject: living on in the wired
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Lain wrote
>>What's it like, when you die?
It really hurts! :)
-Chisa
Also Australia
OH NOES
It still reeks of an N+ clone; with controls that are slightly worse.
I still liked it overall; but it has nothing on its apparent inspirator.
USB2 Never filled that gap. (Except for maybe flash drives, but then again - I've never seen a FW Flash Drive) eSATA has; in a way; but it's still largely non hot-swap on general consumer machines.
FW400 still kicks that CRAP out of USB2 when it comes to IO; and this is especially important for external drives. USB2 typically has me copying at 20-30MB/s whilst FW400 40-45MB/s.
eSATA blows them both out of the water - but I still see more FW400 ports than eSATA during my travels.
This is all without mentioning FW800.
Does the name Nazir have anything to do with Nazi Germany?