What give you the right to ignore the laws of the country you live in? You don't like a law? Work to change it. Work to change the laws concerning DRM and extending copyright.
Disobeying laws is a way of working to change them. Just ask that skinny Indian dude... Ben Kingsley.
App Store is a seriously controlled environment and they already impose strict guidelines for developers. How does an idle application even eat up more battery? It's not like your RAM needs more power if it's used a little bit more. The background app doesn't need to do any drawing and is usually on pause (unless it needs to do certain tasks in the background, and then it makes sense).
Because the apps you want multitasking for aren't idle. That's the whole point. If an app doesn't have anything to do in the background, then who cares if it quits when you click the home button? Aside from a slightly longer start time, you won't even notice. The whole idea is to have IM apps that run constantly and music apps like Pandora and Last.fm that continue playing when you switch to another app.
Because you have to travel the menus to locate your app you just switched out from and load up whatever you were doing, and even to perform a quick copy-paste you need to:
1) save your document
2) close app 1
3) locate app 2
4) open app 2
5) copy
6) close app 2
7) locate app 1
8) load up the document you were working with
9) scroll to the point you wanted to paste to
10) paste
11) do the same again because your copypaste missed something
Yeah, seems really convenient and simple.
Your list has nothing to do with multitasking... It's entirely about switching between applications. If today's iPhone had 3rd party multitasking, the steps you listed wouldn't change, except:
Step 1: I haven't seen an iPhone app with a "save" gesture. Maybe some of them exist, but most apps just save your changes automatically.
Steps 8 & 9: Good iPhone apps (which, admittedly, is a small set) take care of these for you by saving their state when you quit.
Except that the iPhone already supported multitasking and all of Apple's own apps were able to run in the background. The change is only for third-party apps.
You know what he means though. Yes the OS supports multi-tasking, and yes a few "blessed" apps take advantage of this capability. Still, the fact remains that you can't hear a good song on Last.fm and, while listening to it, switch to the Amazon app to buy the CD (yeah, I still buy CDs... sue me). And that kinda sucks.
Didn't all the Apple fanboys say that not having multitasking to eat out battery life was better?
you said "eat out"
Because it's being marketed as being revolutionary? Oh wait....
C'mon... If the new iPhone has 3rd party multitasking, you know Steve Jobs will be on stage with RDF on full blast saying shit like, "this is a game changer" and calling it the most revolutionary feature since they introduced native apps.
If I find a person in my home without my permission (i.e. an intruder), I'm going to warn him to leave voluntarily. If he refuses then he will eat a bullet.
Jesus, dude. What if the intruder is deaf? What happens if your next door neighbor's deaf child takes a nasty spill while riding his bike and, in a daze, accidentally enters your unlocked house? You'd shoot a deaf 8 year old with a concussion? What kind of sick bastard are you?
Seriously though... why do Internet tough guys have such a hard on for shooting people? Find a vagina, dude.
I see no reason to treat intruders from Mexico or Canada or any part of the World differently - Leave voluntarily or face the consequences. Perhaps not shoot them dead, but they should definitely be escorted out of my country, handed a Visa application, and told not to return until they receive permission.
Isn't that what happens? I mean, in the absence of corruption and/or serious illness, illegal immigrants are deported, right? It's just that there are so freaking many of them that it would cost billions to actively seek them out. So instead, we just kind of half-ass it and wait for them to come to us.
I'm confused... Is Apple the "they" in your post? Who's pricing model is "ill thought out" and what is "ill thought out" about it?
You may be right. In 5 years, all authors could be publishing independently. But right now there's money to be made by selling books put out by the big publishing houses. Amazon and Apple are competing for that money.
I think you mean, "Then they lose". "Loose" is the opposite of "tight". "Lose" is the opposite of "win", "find", and "gain". This is important.
Or you know, people can and do die because a cure can't be tested fast enough to be 100% certain that it works, however if it cures one life, its worth it.
Even if it takes 10 others?
I mean, if someone was dying of cancer and had only a year to live, took a drug, it worked temporarily and they die 10 years later because of something the drug did, thats still better (no one can live forever).
What if they die 2 hours later?
Plus, just look at the "miracle berry" case, where the FDA was essentially bought by the sugar industry that prevented a potentially useful item to market.
Miracle berries are shit. They make everything taste cloyingly sweet for at least an hour after you eat them.
A free market regulates itself if it is free enough.
Yes, and all people are completely rational actors with perfect information...
placebos should be preferred as they dont have side effects.
I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. Granted, they're not very harmful, but you could easily experience things like dry mouth, headaches, muscle aches, etc. Remember, your body is reacting as though it received medicine. If someone gives you a placebo and tells you it's a cold remedy, you will probably experience the same side effects you experience with Sudafed.
it is trivial to implement a system where only the voter and select (not law enforcement) individuals can access the data. Data that would be worthless as it would be illegal to do anything with aside from determine the outcome of an election or referendum.
That's some mighty strong faith in the system you got there. I'll stick with the secret ballot, thankyouverymuch.
If the Chinese gymnasts are under 16, then they broke the rules and they don't deserve their medals. That's all there is to it. It's not fair to all of the gymnasts who may have had the skills to compete in the Olympics at 14 but had to wait because they were too young. Why do the Chinese (if their gymnasts are indeed too young) get to break the rules?
I love conspiracy theories as much as the next guy, but there were some very good reasons to eliminate the EV1. Check out this link: http://blogs.edmunds.com/karl/239
Remember that Java -- regardless of any licensing concerns -- was not designed to with a gestural touch UI in mind.
What does that mean? Are you saying the Java GUI toolkits weren't designed with a touch UI in mind? Because that's relatively easy to fix. If the iPhone supported Java, there would be a Java GUI toolkit that supported its "gestural touch UI" in a matter of weeks, if not days. Are you saying the Objective-C was designed with a "gestural touch UI" in mind? Because if so, Steve and his engineers at NeXT were remarkably prescient (oops -- looks like some guy named Brad Cox invented Obj-C in the mid-80s. Oh well, you get the point).
If Apple really wanted to open their platform up to innovation, they'd open it up to Java.
I'm a full-time Java developer and I find this statement to be absolutely ridiculous. First of all, Apple released a Java-Cocoa bridge with a very early release of OS X (not gonna go out on a limb here -- it was there in 10.2 when I started using Macs). It made Java applications look and feel almost exactly like native Obj-C apps and it was widely shunned by the developer community. It has since been deprecated for exactly that reason. The developers did not want it; they learned Obj-C instead. Does that mean that developers won't want Java on the iPhone as well? Maybe not, but I'm willing to be that most iPhone developers will also be Mac developers (i.e., people that previously shunned Java). Actually, they'll have to be since you need a Mac to develop for the iPhone.
You seem to portray learning Obj-C as some huge undertaking. If you come from a Java background, learning Obj-C is like learning to play stud poker when you've only played draw poker before. Some of the mechanics are different, but there's a lot of overlap. Anyway, how is Java more conducive to innovation than Obj-C? Because it has better IDEs (which is probably debatable, but I'll cede the point anyway)? What can you do in Java than you can't do in Obj-C? Sure, Java has more frameworks built around it (and frameworks built around those frameworks, with more frameworks layered over them, and frameworks built on top of those, etc.), but Apple has some pretty decent libraries too. I've only dabbled in Cocoa programming, but I find the syntax of Obj-C to be rather nice. I like that there's at least some way to implement delegation. It may be a bit sketchy, but it's better than Java's system, which amounts to "Ahh, fuck it. Let the IDE generate some code. That's good enough."
You have one thing right: Objective-C will probably never be nearly as popular as Java. Ok, two things: Too much java makes me have to poo-poo. I don't see why that means Apple must support Java on the iPhone though. I'm sure the platform will do just fine without it.
Where's the lock-in? You can watch any movie you want on this machine. You can rent and watch iTunes movies on any machine that can run iTunes. Seems like a stretch to call this lock-in.
Unlike a reactor, wind farms typically don't melt down leaving the whole area contaminated for miles and miles around
I just want to be sure I read your post right: Is it your position that the "typical" nuclear reactor will catastrophically melt down at least once (can reactors melt down twice?), leaving the whole area contaminated for miles and miles? Do you live in some alternate universe in which the US Navy hasn't been safely operating a fleet of nuclear reactors for 50 years? And in this alternate universe, did Three Mile Island leak enough radiation to turn all of Pennsylvania into a mutant empire hell-bent on the destruction of all human beings lacking a third arm?
But still, when it comes down to building one or the other in my back yard I'd take the wind farm every time if it was actually capable of producing continuous power.
Wind isn't capable or producing continuous power, so I guess that means you'd rather have the nuclear reactor in your backyard, right?
Since it's not we need to continue to look for a better answer. Nuclear IMHO, is not it.
Steady as she goes, right? Nuclear may be good, but it's not perfect, so we should stick with coal, which is bad. Sounds like good logic to me.
Add to that the lack of available storage for radio active material for several hundered years, all the while ensuring it doesn't leak, isn't stolen and used in a dirty bomb, isn't disposed of improperly, etc. The bad idea we started with just looks worse all the time.
I just don't understand this position. Coal is the only viable alternative to nuclear at the moment. Coal is worse for the environment than nuclear at the moment. Seems like a pretty easy equation to solve to me. 2 choices: Choice A is bad, Choice B is less bad. Somehow you pick Choice A? Why? Because it's already there?
Look, I don't particularly want a nuclear reactor in my back yard either. Thankfully, I haven't heard of any plans to build one there.
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By using the keyboard, you can add annotations to text, just like you might write in the margins of a book. And because it is digital, you can edit, delete, and export your notes, highlight and clip key passages, and bookmark pages for future use. You'll never need to bookmark your last place in the book, because Kindle remembers for you and always opens to the last page you read.
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What give you the right to ignore the laws of the country you live in? You don't like a law? Work to change it. Work to change the laws concerning DRM and extending copyright.
Disobeying laws is a way of working to change them. Just ask that skinny Indian dude... Ben Kingsley.
App Store is a seriously controlled environment and they already impose strict guidelines for developers. How does an idle application even eat up more battery? It's not like your RAM needs more power if it's used a little bit more. The background app doesn't need to do any drawing and is usually on pause (unless it needs to do certain tasks in the background, and then it makes sense).
Because the apps you want multitasking for aren't idle. That's the whole point. If an app doesn't have anything to do in the background, then who cares if it quits when you click the home button? Aside from a slightly longer start time, you won't even notice. The whole idea is to have IM apps that run constantly and music apps like Pandora and Last.fm that continue playing when you switch to another app.
Because you have to travel the menus to locate your app you just switched out from and load up whatever you were doing, and even to perform a quick copy-paste you need to:
1) save your document
2) close app 1
3) locate app 2
4) open app 2
5) copy
6) close app 2
7) locate app 1
8) load up the document you were working with
9) scroll to the point you wanted to paste to
10) paste
11) do the same again because your copypaste missed something
Yeah, seems really convenient and simple.
Your list has nothing to do with multitasking... It's entirely about switching between applications. If today's iPhone had 3rd party multitasking, the steps you listed wouldn't change, except:
Step 1: I haven't seen an iPhone app with a "save" gesture. Maybe some of them exist, but most apps just save your changes automatically.
Steps 8 & 9: Good iPhone apps (which, admittedly, is a small set) take care of these for you by saving their state when you quit.
Oh it seems Apple finally got to 90's computing.
Except that the iPhone already supported multitasking and all of Apple's own apps were able to run in the background. The change is only for third-party apps.
You know what he means though. Yes the OS supports multi-tasking, and yes a few "blessed" apps take advantage of this capability. Still, the fact remains that you can't hear a good song on Last.fm and, while listening to it, switch to the Amazon app to buy the CD (yeah, I still buy CDs... sue me). And that kinda sucks.
Didn't all the Apple fanboys say that not having multitasking to eat out battery life was better?
you said "eat out"
Because it's being marketed as being revolutionary? Oh wait....
C'mon... If the new iPhone has 3rd party multitasking, you know Steve Jobs will be on stage with RDF on full blast saying shit like, "this is a game changer" and calling it the most revolutionary feature since they introduced native apps.
I get modded as a troll, but sir-shoots-a-lot is "Insightful"... For shame, /.. For shame.
Go tell it to Trotsky, you fucking pinko
If I find a person in my home without my permission (i.e. an intruder), I'm going to warn him to leave voluntarily. If he refuses then he will eat a bullet.
Jesus, dude. What if the intruder is deaf? What happens if your next door neighbor's deaf child takes a nasty spill while riding his bike and, in a daze, accidentally enters your unlocked house? You'd shoot a deaf 8 year old with a concussion? What kind of sick bastard are you?
Seriously though... why do Internet tough guys have such a hard on for shooting people? Find a vagina, dude.
I see no reason to treat intruders from Mexico or Canada or any part of the World differently - Leave voluntarily or face the consequences. Perhaps not shoot them dead, but they should definitely be escorted out of my country, handed a Visa application, and told not to return until they receive permission.
Isn't that what happens? I mean, in the absence of corruption and/or serious illness, illegal immigrants are deported, right? It's just that there are so freaking many of them that it would cost billions to actively seek them out. So instead, we just kind of half-ass it and wait for them to come to us.
You may be right. In 5 years, all authors could be publishing independently. But right now there's money to be made by selling books put out by the big publishing houses. Amazon and Apple are competing for that money.
I think you mean, "Then they lose". "Loose" is the opposite of "tight". "Lose" is the opposite of "win", "find", and "gain". This is important.
they're called brakes
but it still makes you look like a hobo, so...
My wife and I do have 6 wonderful children,
Jesus. Put a bag on it next time, dude.
nothing says "I have a small penis" like owning something from Apple.
Well, except for quoting Monty Python in your sig...
My laptop with like FIVE TIMES THE HARDWARE CAPABILITY cost 300 bucks.
Can you quantify the hardware capability of your hobo laptop and my ultra-cool MacBook?
Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
Or you know, people can and do die because a cure can't be tested fast enough to be 100% certain that it works, however if it cures one life, its worth it.
Even if it takes 10 others?
I mean, if someone was dying of cancer and had only a year to live, took a drug, it worked temporarily and they die 10 years later because of something the drug did, thats still better (no one can live forever).
What if they die 2 hours later?
Plus, just look at the "miracle berry" case, where the FDA was essentially bought by the sugar industry that prevented a potentially useful item to market.
Miracle berries are shit. They make everything taste cloyingly sweet for at least an hour after you eat them.
A free market regulates itself if it is free enough.
Yes, and all people are completely rational actors with perfect information...
placebos should be preferred as they dont have side effects.
I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. Granted, they're not very harmful, but you could easily experience things like dry mouth, headaches, muscle aches, etc. Remember, your body is reacting as though it received medicine. If someone gives you a placebo and tells you it's a cold remedy, you will probably experience the same side effects you experience with Sudafed.
it is trivial to implement a system where only the voter and select (not law enforcement) individuals can access the data. Data that would be worthless as it would be illegal to do anything with aside from determine the outcome of an election or referendum.
That's some mighty strong faith in the system you got there. I'll stick with the secret ballot, thankyouverymuch.
If the Chinese gymnasts are under 16, then they broke the rules and they don't deserve their medals. That's all there is to it. It's not fair to all of the gymnasts who may have had the skills to compete in the Olympics at 14 but had to wait because they were too young. Why do the Chinese (if their gymnasts are indeed too young) get to break the rules?
I love conspiracy theories as much as the next guy, but there were some very good reasons to eliminate the EV1. Check out this link: http://blogs.edmunds.com/karl/239
You seem to portray learning Obj-C as some huge undertaking. If you come from a Java background, learning Obj-C is like learning to play stud poker when you've only played draw poker before. Some of the mechanics are different, but there's a lot of overlap. Anyway, how is Java more conducive to innovation than Obj-C? Because it has better IDEs (which is probably debatable, but I'll cede the point anyway)? What can you do in Java than you can't do in Obj-C? Sure, Java has more frameworks built around it (and frameworks built around those frameworks, with more frameworks layered over them, and frameworks built on top of those, etc.), but Apple has some pretty decent libraries too. I've only dabbled in Cocoa programming, but I find the syntax of Obj-C to be rather nice. I like that there's at least some way to implement delegation. It may be a bit sketchy, but it's better than Java's system, which amounts to "Ahh, fuck it. Let the IDE generate some code. That's good enough."
You have one thing right: Objective-C will probably never be nearly as popular as Java. Ok, two things: Too much java makes me have to poo-poo. I don't see why that means Apple must support Java on the iPhone though. I'm sure the platform will do just fine without it.
I'd rather be an iSheep than an Anonymous Coward. If you're gonna troll, at least have the fucking decency to attach your name to it.
Where's the lock-in? You can watch any movie you want on this machine. You can rent and watch iTunes movies on any machine that can run iTunes. Seems like a stretch to call this lock-in.
Here, this might help.
PS the executive summary is not mine. It was written by Amit Singh, a much smarter man than me.