This just happened to me on Safari once I logged in (since my name is a little long). Also when I just clicked the "options" button below, and then closed it out it moved the page all the way to the top, leaving me to have to hunt for this comment box again...
I guess the point was that you can't have a whole lot of such applications sleeping and using up precious RAM. I agree about the service being a single point of failure, though. However I believe they are just sending "badge" notifications (placing text or a number on an application, indicating the # of new messages, for example), alert boxes (which could contain text), and maybe sound/vibrate alerts. The point is that it isn't going to send all the data your app requires, just a notification to get you to open up the application. The actual transfer of meaningful data is left up to your client to do when you open it back up. The app is supposed to only use Apple's push servers when it is not running anyway. So even if the push notification service were to go down you could still open the app and it would talk to its own servers like normal.
Apple has come up with a way around this by having a push client on the iPhone that listens to Apple's push "cloud" service that programs can use. So when a program is closed your servers can talk to Apple's and they send the message to your phone. This way the phone only has one connection open and only one knowingly "stable" program (that won't eat up your battery) actively running in the background. They announced it at WWDC in June. I don't think it'll be ready until later this year but the push notification problem has been "solved" to a satisfiable degree I would think, just not at this moment. I'd be curious to know if the AIM client is pushing IMs and if so how.
I have been wanting to work in Japan for forever, but how do you go about finding a job there, especially when you're in America?
I can speak the language fairly well, and can read and write fine. (Listening comprehension is a little difficult for me on occasion, however.) I have a CS degree from Georgia Tech and have been in the work force for about a year and a half. I'm sure there are people here on Slashdot that have been in the same boat, or just somehow ended up working in Japan. Any advice?
Apparently Safari 3 was supposed to have anti-phishing technology when it was released alongside Leopard but it got cut. Perhaps this will push Apple to complete it for the next (hopefully soon) release of Safari.
Hurr hurr. The Microsoft implementation of Java wasn't buggy: far from it, it was actually superior to the Sun implementation. It was faster and integrated better with Windows.
Back at my old job they had a system running in Microsoft's JVM, and it was very well known amongst the company that J++ was a piece of crap. There were problems with the garbage collector, such as if you did something like..
Object myobj = new Object();
myobj = new Object();
..the first instance would never be garbage collected. You'd have to say myobj = null first before setting myobj again in order to get around this. Regardless, it had to be restarted periodically because memory usage would continue to climb to no end. (The code, too, could be to blame, however.) Unfortunately, the code could not be just simply run on Sun's JVM because it used some COM stuff and some other Microsoft classes specific to J++.
Once you install 10.5.2 another update becomes available that updates various video drivers. Some animations seem "snappier" now, particularly Expose and Spaces.
not really, why apple decided to use a non standard boot process is unclear...
Perhaps the choice to not go with BIOS is because it is ancient technology. For instance, the new MacBook Air can network boot off a CD/DVD disc mounted on another computer...wirelessly (I believe). I'm sure this would be an insurmountable task in BIOS.
EFI was supposed to be supported in Vista, but support for it was not included. I read it should be supported for 64-bit systems in SP1, however.
no 2nd mouse button There's an option in System Preferences to set tapping with two fingers to trigger a right-click. It's under the Trackpad tab of the Keyboard & Mouse section. However you need a Mac laptop made within the last couple of years to get this functionality. If you can scroll with two fingers on the trackpad (enabled by default I think; if not, yet another very useful feature), then you can enable this function.
... the awesome idea of having a homepage option that displays your bookmarks... Safari already has this. It's not on by default but it's there. This is probably one of the main reasons I use Safari at work on my Windows machine (even though it's still buggy). It brings up the same screen as when clicking the bookmark button on the toolbar, which gives you full screen bookmarks with folders, drag & drop, and search. It might even search the contents of your cache too, but I'm not sure.
I mean, the guy got a refund from Dell, but did Dell get a "refund" from Microsoft? I don't think so. That money probably just came straight out of Dell's customer support budget.
The Japanese article only states that the student was *arrested* under suspicion that he was selling this stuff on the Internet illegally, mentioning nothing of deportation.
Why can't they just make DVD playback functionality a download, similar to the Opera browser? I can't imagine why they'd need extra hardware to play back DVDs, even considering decrypting CSS. This way anyone that wants DVD playback on their Wii can get it. Who knows, maybe Nintendo will include such download functionality later on down the road in a Wii update.
I get slightly different results if I change the site to games.slashdot.org and "nintendo.revolution" to just "revolution", because many times they drop the "Nintendo" in "Nintendo Revolution". Still, the places do not change, but the numbers aren't as off-balance as these are. (69 results for Nintendo becomes 190, and the other two's number of results drop when you change the site to games.slashdot.org).
I don't really see what the big deal is about having a movie rental DRMed. I mean, come on, it's only for a limited time anyway. You don't own the movie. If you want to watch it in higher quality on DVD than go to Blockbuster. But if you want convenience and want to download a movie rental, and are willing to use the video equipment available on your computer, then except to have some sort of software to limit how long you can have it. Otherwise no one would delete the movie after their "rental period".
I can see with buying music you may want to use it on various devices, since over time technology changes and you get new equipment and so forth--and you actually own it--, but in this case I can't see any reason why you shouldn't have DRMed movie rentals.
Regarding play count, I imagine that it would remember where you left off (or the last time it wrote the time to disk). But then again, sometimes you want to go back and watch a scene again because you didn't quite get what happened (or something caught fire on the stove, for example, so you had no time to even pause it). So for this reason I think they would probably do some sort of time limit thing instead of play count, or a combination of both.
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This just happened to me on Safari once I logged in (since my name is a little long). Also when I just clicked the "options" button below, and then closed it out it moved the page all the way to the top, leaving me to have to hunt for this comment box again...
Reminds me of videos like this that are all about taking funny pictures in Metal Gear Solid 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd_wMCuWzZE
Perhaps you would rather pay $40 for the entire package like a regular game?
I guess the point was that you can't have a whole lot of such applications sleeping and using up precious RAM. I agree about the service being a single point of failure, though. However I believe they are just sending "badge" notifications (placing text or a number on an application, indicating the # of new messages, for example), alert boxes (which could contain text), and maybe sound/vibrate alerts. The point is that it isn't going to send all the data your app requires, just a notification to get you to open up the application. The actual transfer of meaningful data is left up to your client to do when you open it back up. The app is supposed to only use Apple's push servers when it is not running anyway. So even if the push notification service were to go down you could still open the app and it would talk to its own servers like normal.
Apple has come up with a way around this by having a push client on the iPhone that listens to Apple's push "cloud" service that programs can use. So when a program is closed your servers can talk to Apple's and they send the message to your phone. This way the phone only has one connection open and only one knowingly "stable" program (that won't eat up your battery) actively running in the background. They announced it at WWDC in June. I don't think it'll be ready until later this year but the push notification problem has been "solved" to a satisfiable degree I would think, just not at this moment. I'd be curious to know if the AIM client is pushing IMs and if so how.
Text messages from T-Mobile are free as well (in the US).
You say it's easy to get jobs in Tokyo..... how? I've been eagerly searching lately online but not finding much.
I just realized that too. That sucks (for people who don't have an iPhone anyway).
Amongst all the bug fixes, they added a new feature to the Address Book that lets you sync your contacts with Gmail now.
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/05/mac-os-x-1053-sync-google-contacts.html
I have been wanting to work in Japan for forever, but how do you go about finding a job there, especially when you're in America?
I can speak the language fairly well, and can read and write fine. (Listening comprehension is a little difficult for me on occasion, however.) I have a CS degree from Georgia Tech and have been in the work force for about a year and a half. I'm sure there are people here on Slashdot that have been in the same boat, or just somehow ended up working in Japan. Any advice?
I think he meant "Nor is Aperture Photoshop."
Apparently Safari 3 was supposed to have anti-phishing technology when it was released alongside Leopard but it got cut. Perhaps this will push Apple to complete it for the next (hopefully soon) release of Safari.
Back at my old job they had a system running in Microsoft's JVM, and it was very well known amongst the company that J++ was a piece of crap. There were problems with the garbage collector, such as if you did something like..
Object myobj = new Object();
myobj = new Object();
..the first instance would never be garbage collected. You'd have to say myobj = null first before setting myobj again in order to get around this. Regardless, it had to be restarted periodically because memory usage would continue to climb to no end. (The code, too, could be to blame, however.) Unfortunately, the code could not be just simply run on Sun's JVM because it used some COM stuff and some other Microsoft classes specific to J++.
Once you install 10.5.2 another update becomes available that updates various video drivers. Some animations seem "snappier" now, particularly Expose and Spaces.
Perhaps the choice to not go with BIOS is because it is ancient technology. For instance, the new MacBook Air can network boot off a CD/DVD disc mounted on another computer...wirelessly (I believe). I'm sure this would be an insurmountable task in BIOS.
EFI was supposed to be supported in Vista, but support for it was not included. I read it should be supported for 64-bit systems in SP1, however.
... the awesome idea of having a homepage option that displays your bookmarks... Safari already has this. It's not on by default but it's there. This is probably one of the main reasons I use Safari at work on my Windows machine (even though it's still buggy). It brings up the same screen as when clicking the bookmark button on the toolbar, which gives you full screen bookmarks with folders, drag & drop, and search. It might even search the contents of your cache too, but I'm not sure.Yeah iTunes downloads and installs it for you when it's docked and you click the "Check for Update" button.
I mean, the guy got a refund from Dell, but did Dell get a "refund" from Microsoft? I don't think so. That money probably just came straight out of Dell's customer support budget.
The Japanese article only states that the student was *arrested* under suspicion that he was selling this stuff on the Internet illegally, mentioning nothing of deportation.
Why can't they just make DVD playback functionality a download, similar to the Opera browser? I can't imagine why they'd need extra hardware to play back DVDs, even considering decrypting CSS. This way anyone that wants DVD playback on their Wii can get it. Who knows, maybe Nintendo will include such download functionality later on down the road in a Wii update.
Perhaps the word you're looking for is "liquidation."
I get slightly different results if I change the site to games.slashdot.org and "nintendo.revolution" to just "revolution", because many times they drop the "Nintendo" in "Nintendo Revolution". Still, the places do not change, but the numbers aren't as off-balance as these are. (69 results for Nintendo becomes 190, and the other two's number of results drop when you change the site to games.slashdot.org).
i tle:revolution+site:games.slashdot.org
http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:wii+OR+int
I don't really see what the big deal is about having a movie rental DRMed. I mean, come on, it's only for a limited time anyway. You don't own the movie. If you want to watch it in higher quality on DVD than go to Blockbuster. But if you want convenience and want to download a movie rental, and are willing to use the video equipment available on your computer, then except to have some sort of software to limit how long you can have it. Otherwise no one would delete the movie after their "rental period".
I can see with buying music you may want to use it on various devices, since over time technology changes and you get new equipment and so forth--and you actually own it--, but in this case I can't see any reason why you shouldn't have DRMed movie rentals.
Regarding play count, I imagine that it would remember where you left off (or the last time it wrote the time to disk). But then again, sometimes you want to go back and watch a scene again because you didn't quite get what happened (or something caught fire on the stove, for example, so you had no time to even pause it). So for this reason I think they would probably do some sort of time limit thing instead of play count, or a combination of both.