"Funny, I seem to remember a time when Apple was moving towards bankruptcy."
Yes, when they were lagging behind MS on the OS fundamentals side. (They did have better UI in some respects, but even there, it had a lot of shortcomings by the end of the OS 9 era, when MS had standardized the right click and scroll wheel and Apple was still figuring those things out.)
So, you just contradicted your whole point there.
Anyway, Palm's WebOS is definitely a strong competitor with Android and iPhone on the technical side, but on the business side, it looks like they'll be out of the market by the end of the year if not sooner. It's a shame, but so it goes.
Android already has what Apple is calling "Fast App Switching". Basically, that just means you dump the RAM to the flash memory on quitting and restore on relaunch. That's why many "background" apps in Android take 0% CPU.
From a user point of view, if I can only see one window at a time, what difference does it make if it's true multitasking or not?
I play Scrabble on my iPhone and am quite often annoyed to find that the computer won't accept perfectly ordinary things like "quo" as in "status quo" but will accept bullshit like "xi" and so on. Any loosening of the dictionary on the electronic version would be welcome.
The other place where this matters is Scrabble tournaments, but those people are insane.
Yeah, but do you really think a year from now there won't be more Wii Motion Plus games? I think Nintendo has a pretty substantial lead, and it will be very hard for Natal to catch up. But more competition is better, so lots of luck.
Uh, except the poison update in question is for 10.6 Snow Leopard, not 10.5 Leopard. Let's try to follow the thread of logic, please.
Anyway, this whole thing seems stupid: EULAs and the DMCA's DRM provisions are dumb, but guess what the alternative to them is? Manufacturers making it inconvenient to use software in a way they don't approve of. Take your pick: you can either have the law trying to fuck you or corporations trying to fuck you. Believe me, this is the lesser of two evils.
Seriously, what did they really learn from this? The benefit to humanity here is disproportionately less than the cruelty involved. It just seems like an excuse to play around with Quake because "dude, wouldn't it be cool if we could train our mice to play?" I wouldn't let anyone involved in this kind of experiment date my sister.
True, but I can imagine how this happened. The guest user account is designed to erase itself after you log out. So there must have been some screw up to where the "erase user after log out" code got applied to the real user instead of to a guest user. It's a real shame that this wasn't caught in testing before it could burn an end user, but I can see how a bug like this could slip through the cracks.
Still, the team in charge of the programming guest user account at Apple must feel like absolute crap right now for letting this major bug through.
I wish I had mod points now to mod you up. For those following at home: evolution - science; evolutionary psychology - pseudo-science.
Evo Psych is about how our "natural" responses today are caused by the ancestral environment. How do we know about the ancestral environment? Simple, we study our natural responses today. It's totally circular.
Good. I hope that the Feds can scare Apple into opening up the iPhone a little more. I think anyone who owns an iPhone should be on the side of the Feds on this one.
Here's a suggestion for Apple though, why not a two track system for iPhone apps: You can install whatever you like *as long as it doesn't use the cell-network* or you can install specially reviewed apps through the iTunes store, as is done now. That way if someone just wants to sell a game or a screensaver or whatever, they can just sell it themselves without having to get permission from Apple. On the other hand, things that use the cell-network and could potentially overload it or be used for phreaker attacks or whatever can be reviewed by Apple as is done now. Reducing the volume of things reviewed by Apple should make the process a lot less painful for developers and give users a lot more freedom.
If it's CounterStrike or GTA IV, there's no such thing as "too realistic".
You want to see a realistic depiction of a person getting shot and bleeding to death? No thanks, I'll stick with polygons.
Just imagine your character sweating and breathing hard after running for the length of a play session (at a top speed of 15~20 MPH), then tell me that "there's no such thing as too realistic."
No one wants perfect realism, we just want different kinds of fakeness.
I have a DSi but no PSP, so when I heard about the Go, I thought, "Hmm, sounds cool, and I don't have any UMDs, so I won't miss the drive..." Then I heard about the price. $250!? For something less capable than an existing PSP? I don't know who Sony thinks they're kidding. This one is going another "Game Boy Micro." Potentially interesting, but it won't take off with consumers since it's way overpriced.
Don't let the haters and trolls get ya down....What I like is the comment from the one guy who's like, "Man, I don't want to use m.wikipedia; I've already got an app for that!" *Sad trombone*
No one cared about GTA 3 at launch. It was only a couple months later after they had played it at their friend's house that people started buying a lot of copies of it. And then they launched the sequel and people did care about that. Look at this chart.
You see, it's thoroughly reasoned out reactions like yours that make me wonder why people are constantly crying about racism. Clearly, there are no more idiotic racist fucks on the internet, so there must not be any in real life either.
btw, you know what was the comment of my gf, when I said that I would like to have a phone with a full qwerty-keyboard, complaining that, at that time, no phone was available?
The Japanese I know prefer cellphone-style input for Japanese to qwerty. The Japanese alphabet just so happens to split up logically into ten groups, so it makes a lot of sense to use a number pad to type them. Combined with predictive text, it's pretty quick. On the other hand, the layout of the qwerty keyboard is basically random. So, the Japanese aren't really interested in using micro keyboards when a number pad works well enough and doesn't hurt your thumbs.
Yes, but the Japanese web is mostly designed for use with crappy cellphone browsers, so it already sucks. Because their phone company charged by the minute, no one used dial up internet back in the day, but their cellphones were really good, so everyone used cellphones. So, their web has always had the assumption that your browser sucks built in.
In fairness though, isn't Atari a special case? They were developing what they thought of as unimportant children's toys (did we lose the spec to the original Hula Hoop too? Oh noes!) and then they went bankrupt several times. The current holder of the name "Atari" and attendant IP has absolutely zero connection to the original Atari.
That said, copyrights that are longer than 20 years are insane.
Not necessarily. The Bell experiments show that either God plays dice or God acts non-locally. The Bohmian interpretation, for example, hasn't yet been conclusively disproven, and it's deterministic.
The G3 iPod? The ugly ass one with the red buttons that all felt the same and gave no physical response? That one was not missed. The click-wheel was a stroke of genius.
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"Funny, I seem to remember a time when Apple was moving towards bankruptcy."
Yes, when they were lagging behind MS on the OS fundamentals side. (They did have better UI in some respects, but even there, it had a lot of shortcomings by the end of the OS 9 era, when MS had standardized the right click and scroll wheel and Apple was still figuring those things out.)
So, you just contradicted your whole point there.
Anyway, Palm's WebOS is definitely a strong competitor with Android and iPhone on the technical side, but on the business side, it looks like they'll be out of the market by the end of the year if not sooner. It's a shame, but so it goes.
Android already has what Apple is calling "Fast App Switching". Basically, that just means you dump the RAM to the flash memory on quitting and restore on relaunch. That's why many "background" apps in Android take 0% CPU.
From a user point of view, if I can only see one window at a time, what difference does it make if it's true multitasking or not?
I play Scrabble on my iPhone and am quite often annoyed to find that the computer won't accept perfectly ordinary things like "quo" as in "status quo" but will accept bullshit like "xi" and so on. Any loosening of the dictionary on the electronic version would be welcome.
The other place where this matters is Scrabble tournaments, but those people are insane.
1. Move to Canada.
2. Sign a contract with Rogers.
3. There is no step 3!
Yeah, but do you really think a year from now there won't be more Wii Motion Plus games? I think Nintendo has a pretty substantial lead, and it will be very hard for Natal to catch up. But more competition is better, so lots of luck.
Uh, except the poison update in question is for 10.6 Snow Leopard, not 10.5 Leopard. Let's try to follow the thread of logic, please.
Anyway, this whole thing seems stupid: EULAs and the DMCA's DRM provisions are dumb, but guess what the alternative to them is? Manufacturers making it inconvenient to use software in a way they don't approve of. Take your pick: you can either have the law trying to fuck you or corporations trying to fuck you. Believe me, this is the lesser of two evils.
Helping humanity, needlessly torturing mice.
Seriously, what did they really learn from this? The benefit to humanity here is disproportionately less than the cruelty involved. It just seems like an excuse to play around with Quake because "dude, wouldn't it be cool if we could train our mice to play?" I wouldn't let anyone involved in this kind of experiment date my sister.
True, but I can imagine how this happened. The guest user account is designed to erase itself after you log out. So there must have been some screw up to where the "erase user after log out" code got applied to the real user instead of to a guest user. It's a real shame that this wasn't caught in testing before it could burn an end user, but I can see how a bug like this could slip through the cracks.
Still, the team in charge of the programming guest user account at Apple must feel like absolute crap right now for letting this major bug through.
I wish I had mod points now to mod you up. For those following at home: evolution - science; evolutionary psychology - pseudo-science.
Evo Psych is about how our "natural" responses today are caused by the ancestral environment. How do we know about the ancestral environment? Simple, we study our natural responses today. It's totally circular.
Urban legend. No basis whatsoever.
On subject of TFA, there's also no evidence that Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite either.
...and as an iPhone owner, I say:
Good. I hope that the Feds can scare Apple into opening up the iPhone a little more. I think anyone who owns an iPhone should be on the side of the Feds on this one.
Here's a suggestion for Apple though, why not a two track system for iPhone apps: You can install whatever you like *as long as it doesn't use the cell-network* or you can install specially reviewed apps through the iTunes store, as is done now. That way if someone just wants to sell a game or a screensaver or whatever, they can just sell it themselves without having to get permission from Apple. On the other hand, things that use the cell-network and could potentially overload it or be used for phreaker attacks or whatever can be reviewed by Apple as is done now. Reducing the volume of things reviewed by Apple should make the process a lot less painful for developers and give users a lot more freedom.
You want to see a realistic depiction of a person getting shot and bleeding to death? No thanks, I'll stick with polygons.
Just imagine your character sweating and breathing hard after running for the length of a play session (at a top speed of 15~20 MPH), then tell me that "there's no such thing as too realistic."
No one wants perfect realism, we just want different kinds of fakeness.
Doooyaaah doooooyaaaahh dooooyaaaah!
I have a DSi but no PSP, so when I heard about the Go, I thought, "Hmm, sounds cool, and I don't have any UMDs, so I won't miss the drive..." Then I heard about the price. $250!? For something less capable than an existing PSP? I don't know who Sony thinks they're kidding. This one is going another "Game Boy Micro." Potentially interesting, but it won't take off with consumers since it's way overpriced.
Don't let the haters and trolls get ya down. ...What I like is the comment from the one guy who's like, "Man, I don't want to use m.wikipedia; I've already got an app for that!" *Sad trombone*
I know I'll get modded down for this, but saying "Yeah, I know you'll mod me down for this," pretty much guarantees you'll get modded up.
No one cared about GTA 3 at launch. It was only a couple months later after they had played it at their friend's house that people started buying a lot of copies of it. And then they launched the sequel and people did care about that. Look at this chart.
See also the Unladen swallow project, which is using LLVM to speed up Python. They're still in the very early stages, but it looks promising.
You see, it's thoroughly reasoned out reactions like yours that make me wonder why people are constantly crying about racism. Clearly, there are no more idiotic racist fucks on the internet, so there must not be any in real life either.
The Japanese I know prefer cellphone-style input for Japanese to qwerty. The Japanese alphabet just so happens to split up logically into ten groups, so it makes a lot of sense to use a number pad to type them. Combined with predictive text, it's pretty quick. On the other hand, the layout of the qwerty keyboard is basically random. So, the Japanese aren't really interested in using micro keyboards when a number pad works well enough and doesn't hurt your thumbs.
Yes, but the Japanese web is mostly designed for use with crappy cellphone browsers, so it already sucks. Because their phone company charged by the minute, no one used dial up internet back in the day, but their cellphones were really good, so everyone used cellphones. So, their web has always had the assumption that your browser sucks built in.
In fairness though, isn't Atari a special case? They were developing what they thought of as unimportant children's toys (did we lose the spec to the original Hula Hoop too? Oh noes!) and then they went bankrupt several times. The current holder of the name "Atari" and attendant IP has absolutely zero connection to the original Atari.
That said, copyrights that are longer than 20 years are insane.
Not necessarily. The Bell experiments show that either God plays dice or God acts non-locally. The Bohmian interpretation, for example, hasn't yet been conclusively disproven, and it's deterministic.
The G3 iPod? The ugly ass one with the red buttons that all felt the same and gave no physical response? That one was not missed. The click-wheel was a stroke of genius.
Tables, divs, whatever, but please at least do this when you use tables:
<table class="bare-layout-table"><tr>
<td class="sidebar"><% sidebar %></td>
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Do not clutter up your page with useless, meaningless extra divs.