My ipod works fine in linux. I do not have an iphone or ipad I cannot speak for those. If I updated the firmware like apple wants it may stop working, but I have no need to update the firmware on the ipod yet. Also every time I update the firmware the ipod freezes more often. The updates makes it worse.
Apple does have control issues. Forcing me to use itunes for a phone is wrong in my book. The ipad should be a stand alone tablet. It too needs itunes.
I think the mobile platforms are a very attractive target. They certainly could reach many users very quickly, and without the delay and manufacturing costs of shipping associate with brick and mortar retail. But can/will a quality product be coded soon???
So your saying this will be a download only game then. Which is a good idea. But I wouldn't limit it to just mobile devices. Go the download route but for all platforms. You keep the speedy delivery to customers. The hard core gamers, who I do think game on their phones, can get the product.
Actually just stating what Apple said on their own website. Putting it in quicktime for all platforms would have been better. If any other company had done this there would have been an uproar on here. But Apple gets a free pass.
But you are a pro apple fan boy (based on your past comments on here), so why would anyone expect anything else.
Well if one was to look into the gun patents of the 1800s you would see something like that. There are many patents (and patent applications) on file for minor changes to hand guns and rifles. They seem minor today but back then it was seen differently. Patents were explicit. Not vague. Hence why the large number of gun patents.
With computer and software patents I personally think the par needs to be raised as to what can be patentable. Developing a new CPU socket to allows for 1/10000 the amount of power without losing any performance, on the right track to a patent. Writing a brand new application that is the first to do a task, maybe. A patent for saving work before shutting down? No. I get prompted before I close the app now. A patent for a touch screen? Should have been tossed out prior art already. Touch screen are not new. They have been out for what 10+ years already.
The patent system needs to be overhauled. It was originally designed to allow a small inventor to not taken over or forced out of the market by a big company. Today, the big companies have so many patents that it is extremely hard for a new person or company to get going. Their product is bound to already be in some other companies patent war chest. These vaguely written patents should never have been allowed.
I see people using power point way too much. Professors/teachers use it too much. Most students just download the power point so they do not have to attend class.
If I didn't think I'd get Rodney King'd I'd like to try it. Fuck tha POlice. The line between legal and illegal where it pertains to information gathering and tracking is getting thinner in this country. We are giving up our rights without a fight and no one seems to care.
For the time being you can still play that song after getting pulled over. Just be prepared to be pulled over again so they can keep you longer. They cannot arrest you for playing a song. The police do get annoyed by that song. I did that a bunch of times back in the early 90's. Never got a ticket. The yelling between the police office and who ever he was talking to on the radio was funny.
Depends on what you are doing. If you are running a VM (or a few VMs) having the extra cores and a lot of RAM is a good thing. If all your doing is email, basic office tasks, or a few games* maybe not.
*Some of the newer games use all the cores. This may not be true going forward. The latest games may benefit from many cores.
I would say the 'base' new computer should be quad core today. That is overkill for most regular tasks. But it is enough for the rest of regular user tasks. Ultra high end people usually spec out their own system.
Every Iphone4 person I know can block the signal by holding it. We are talking over 40 people now. This is in the DC area so they have a strong signal.
Try holding the phone in your left hand. That is how these people have the issue.
Someone in the design stage/team screwed up. Blaming the consumer (your holding it wrong) or saying that all phone have this issue is a cope out by Apple.
Congress take the CISC approach to writing laws. They put as much in as possible so that they can get as much passed as possible with a 'single' law.
I wish they took the RISC approach. If the law has 15 parts, then pass 15 different laws. The laws could be shorter, and should be easier to understand. Something tells me they would still add pages and pages of confusing wording so that the average Joe can not make sense of the law anyway.
I still have an old AGP 5200 FX 128MB card that works fine. The fan died last year. I replaced the stock fan with an aftermarket one. The video card out lived the computers it was installed in. It is not a great card by today's standards, but for a 10 year old card, it still works well.
Sort of sad to see BFG go away. A few video card companies offer life time warranties. Just remember to register the card right away to get it. Life time for the non upgrade treadmill crowd is a good thing.
And that's the difference between Apple and other companies
At Apple you just can't hide and throw someone under the bus. The buck stops at you (or better, at him)
Yes, Mr. Powell made a mistake, but in the antennagate issue, it's EVERYBODY's fault. And hence, Mr. Pappelmeister is to blame.
I'd say that putting out a product before it was tested is the fault of the CEO. Which would be Jobs. Jobs threw Papermaster under the bus. Jobs called the launch date. The phone was not ready. There should have been more testing. Apple put more effort into showing that other phones have the dropped calls when help this way or that way. That effort should have been put on their product, not other companies.
Saying other phone have this issue, caning this guy who hasn't even worked their that long (not long enough to have designed the antenna anyway), and blaming the customers (your holding it wrong) all point out that Apple does not want to admit that their phone is anything less then perfect.
There is enough of the same thing to claim prior art and the patent should be tossed.
Apple patenting things in the app store is wrong. The whole prior art thing should be applied. Why the patent office does not see this is the real question.
These only cover in the ground pools. Above ground pools are not considered permanent. You can 'move' them. Not really a good idea, but the permits are for in the ground pools not above ground. Also half in the ground and above ground (the above ground pools is sunk into the ground a bit) need a permit. You are also supposed to have a 4 foot (or higher) fence around the pool. If above ground pool you needed to have a ladder that could be raised. This was so that small children could not wander into the pool.
Basically, Long Island wants to tax you for having the pool. Which is what the permits are. You need a permit for a fence, or a permit for the in ground pool, or a permit for both. Either way you pay. Also in ground pools increase your property taxes while above ground did not.
I lived on Long Island for 16 years. Unless it was changed since I left (which is possible). That is how it was. many people put up an above ground pool to avoid the property taxes, but still got some taxes for the fence.
The health care bill is going to cost many of us a lot and we get nothing in return. Health care costs are going to go up a lot. Someone has to pay for all of those people who will not pay for their health care. That is what the added cost the rest of us are paying is being used for. Forcing everyone to have health care only hurts those people that are working. Usually the middle class. So much for no taxes or tax increases on the middle class (or those making less then $250k, er $200k, er.. what ever the amount is now).
This new health care system is for citizens of the United States. So if you are not a citizen, sorry you pay. That would be good to see but it will never happen. If you have your own health care coverage, use that. No free rides.
For me if I get it often, I am calmer, I think better, I solve problems better. Is my brain bigger? No idea. I just know I function better when I am getting it.
Masturbation != sex. At least for me. There is something different (in the my brain) I feel different. I am a lot calmer and better with sex then get getting off.
Win 7 likes touch pads. It 'looks' for them with every version (business, enterprise, ultimate) that I have used. If you right click on 'computer' and select properties. There is a pen and touch line there for under win 7. The touchscreen laptops like win 7. Maybe win 7 was designed with touchscreens in mind? Changing from a touchscreen to tablet screen is not that far of a stretch.
If you want to split the audio from the picture you can still do what everyone else does with a home theater system (or those of us with surround sound). You use the old RCA ended plugs or optical sound out from the TV/satellite box/cable box/blue ray/DVD/whatever device into the sound device. My old CRT TV has audio out. This thing is from 1996. Most TVs today have a way to send the sound to a separate device. The exact setup will be determined by what equipment you have.
As for PC's video look at the video card driver and how it is supposed to be setup. Nvidia uses a connection from the sound card (on board or card) to the video card to send the sound through the HDMI cable. ATI does it through software (according to what I have read). DVI does not have sound, only video. If you use a VI to HDMI cable (or adapter) you will only get picture and no sound. If you do have a separate system for sound this should not be an issue. Send the picture to the TV and the sound directly to your sound system. Isn't that what you are looking for in the first place?
Also the combining of functions to have fewer cables makes one's wife/girl friend happier. Fewer cables usually means less clutter.
I thought that display port was taking over from HDMI? I see many devices not just video cards with display port as an option.
Slashdot Mirror
Avatar is cowboys and indians on a different planet.
They updated the weapons and animals for the new planet but same idea.
Rebooting, logging in, and connecting back to slashdot in under a min. Apple machines are fast.
My ipod works fine in linux. I do not have an iphone or ipad I cannot speak for those. If I updated the firmware like apple wants it may stop working, but I have no need to update the firmware on the ipod yet. Also every time I update the firmware the ipod freezes more often. The updates makes it worse.
Apple does have control issues. Forcing me to use itunes for a phone is wrong in my book. The ipad should be a stand alone tablet. It too needs itunes.
Apology? On Slashdot? (head explodes)
Is the end of days near?
hope "bacon" doesn't come to mean something else
Do you mean regular bacon or Canadian (which is really ham)?
Or Turkey bacon. Which stills makes me think for a second or two when ever I hear or see it.
I think the mobile platforms are a very attractive target. They certainly could reach many users very quickly, and without the delay and manufacturing costs of shipping associate with brick and mortar retail.
But can/will a quality product be coded soon???
So your saying this will be a download only game then. Which is a good idea. But I wouldn't limit it to just mobile devices. Go the download route but for all platforms. You keep the speedy delivery to customers. The hard core gamers, who I do think game on their phones, can get the product.
Actually just stating what Apple said on their own website. Putting it in quicktime for all platforms would have been better. If any other company had done this there would have been an uproar on here. But Apple gets a free pass.
But you are a pro apple fan boy (based on your past comments on here), so why would anyone expect anything else.
No one mentioned that unless you are on OSX snow leopard or IOS using safari that you cannot even watch the announcement.
I see Apple is now preaching to the converted.
Well if one was to look into the gun patents of the 1800s you would see something like that. There are many patents (and patent applications) on file for minor changes to hand guns and rifles. They seem minor today but back then it was seen differently. Patents were explicit. Not vague. Hence why the large number of gun patents.
With computer and software patents I personally think the par needs to be raised as to what can be patentable. Developing a new CPU socket to allows for 1/10000 the amount of power without losing any performance, on the right track to a patent. Writing a brand new application that is the first to do a task, maybe. A patent for saving work before shutting down? No. I get prompted before I close the app now. A patent for a touch screen? Should have been tossed out prior art already. Touch screen are not new. They have been out for what 10+ years already.
The patent system needs to be overhauled. It was originally designed to allow a small inventor to not taken over or forced out of the market by a big company. Today, the big companies have so many patents that it is extremely hard for a new person or company to get going. Their product is bound to already be in some other companies patent war chest. These vaguely written patents should never have been allowed.
I see people using power point way too much. Professors/teachers use it too much. Most students just download the power point so they do not have to attend class.
Can we just say no to power point?
If I didn't think I'd get Rodney King'd I'd like to try it. Fuck tha POlice. The line between legal and illegal where it pertains to information gathering and tracking is getting thinner in this country. We are giving up our rights without a fight and no one seems to care.
For the time being you can still play that song after getting pulled over. Just be prepared to be pulled over again so they can keep you longer. They cannot arrest you for playing a song. The police do get annoyed by that song. I did that a bunch of times back in the early 90's. Never got a ticket. The yelling between the police office and who ever he was talking to on the radio was funny.
How far till we are 'chipped' at birth?
It is somewhat unnerving when evil things mentioned in books and old TV shows become reality.
Depends on what you are doing. If you are running a VM (or a few VMs) having the extra cores and a lot of RAM is a good thing. If all your doing is email, basic office tasks, or a few games* maybe not.
*Some of the newer games use all the cores. This may not be true going forward. The latest games may benefit from many cores.
I would say the 'base' new computer should be quad core today. That is overkill for most regular tasks. But it is enough for the rest of regular user tasks. Ultra high end people usually spec out their own system.
Every Iphone4 person I know can block the signal by holding it. We are talking over 40 people now. This is in the DC area so they have a strong signal.
Try holding the phone in your left hand. That is how these people have the issue.
Someone in the design stage/team screwed up. Blaming the consumer (your holding it wrong) or saying that all phone have this issue is a cope out by Apple.
Congress take the CISC approach to writing laws. They put as much in as possible so that they can get as much passed as possible with a 'single' law.
I wish they took the RISC approach. If the law has 15 parts, then pass 15 different laws. The laws could be shorter, and should be easier to understand. Something tells me they would still add pages and pages of confusing wording so that the average Joe can not make sense of the law anyway.
I still have an old AGP 5200 FX 128MB card that works fine. The fan died last year. I replaced the stock fan with an aftermarket one. The video card out lived the computers it was installed in. It is not a great card by today's standards, but for a 10 year old card, it still works well.
Sort of sad to see BFG go away. A few video card companies offer life time warranties. Just remember to register the card right away to get it. Life time for the non upgrade treadmill crowd is a good thing.
Justice seems to only apply to the rich these days.
I would say that getting off with little or no punishment applies to the rich.
Justice is supposed to be blind and applied to all equally. Today's legal system has proven that wrong.
And that's the difference between Apple and other companies
At Apple you just can't hide and throw someone under the bus. The buck stops at you (or better, at him)
Yes, Mr. Powell made a mistake, but in the antennagate issue, it's EVERYBODY's fault. And hence, Mr. Pappelmeister is to blame.
I'd say that putting out a product before it was tested is the fault of the CEO. Which would be Jobs. Jobs threw Papermaster under the bus. Jobs called the launch date. The phone was not ready. There should have been more testing. Apple put more effort into showing that other phones have the dropped calls when help this way or that way. That effort should have been put on their product, not other companies.
Saying other phone have this issue, caning this guy who hasn't even worked their that long (not long enough to have designed the antenna anyway), and blaming the customers (your holding it wrong) all point out that Apple does not want to admit that their phone is anything less then perfect.
There is enough of the same thing to claim prior art and the patent should be tossed.
Apple patenting things in the app store is wrong. The whole prior art thing should be applied. Why the patent office does not see this is the real question.
...to tell my wife: "Just one more turn" 15 or 20 times in a row before... ...she just gives up and falls asleep.
You stud you. 3-4 more turns is good but 15-20 more. Wow!
Wait you mean a game. Carry on.
These only cover in the ground pools. Above ground pools are not considered permanent. You can 'move' them. Not really a good idea, but the permits are for in the ground pools not above ground. Also half in the ground and above ground (the above ground pools is sunk into the ground a bit) need a permit. You are also supposed to have a 4 foot (or higher) fence around the pool. If above ground pool you needed to have a ladder that could be raised. This was so that small children could not wander into the pool.
Basically, Long Island wants to tax you for having the pool. Which is what the permits are. You need a permit for a fence, or a permit for the in ground pool, or a permit for both. Either way you pay. Also in ground pools increase your property taxes while above ground did not.
I lived on Long Island for 16 years. Unless it was changed since I left (which is possible). That is how it was. many people put up an above ground pool to avoid the property taxes, but still got some taxes for the fence.
The health care bill is going to cost many of us a lot and we get nothing in return. Health care costs are going to go up a lot. Someone has to pay for all of those people who will not pay for their health care. That is what the added cost the rest of us are paying is being used for. Forcing everyone to have health care only hurts those people that are working. Usually the middle class. So much for no taxes or tax increases on the middle class (or those making less then $250k, er $200k, er .. what ever the amount is now).
This new health care system is for citizens of the United States. So if you are not a citizen, sorry you pay. That would be good to see but it will never happen. If you have your own health care coverage, use that. No free rides.
For me if I get it often, I am calmer, I think better, I solve problems better. Is my brain bigger? No idea. I just know I function better when I am getting it.
Masturbation != sex. At least for me. There is something different (in the my brain) I feel different. I am a lot calmer and better with sex then get getting off.
Win 7 likes touch pads. It 'looks' for them with every version (business, enterprise, ultimate) that I have used. If you right click on 'computer' and select properties. There is a pen and touch line there for under win 7. The touchscreen laptops like win 7. Maybe win 7 was designed with touchscreens in mind? Changing from a touchscreen to tablet screen is not that far of a stretch.
If you want to split the audio from the picture you can still do what everyone else does with a home theater system (or those of us with surround sound). You use the old RCA ended plugs or optical sound out from the TV/satellite box/cable box/blue ray/DVD/whatever device into the sound device. My old CRT TV has audio out. This thing is from 1996. Most TVs today have a way to send the sound to a separate device. The exact setup will be determined by what equipment you have.
As for PC's video look at the video card driver and how it is supposed to be setup. Nvidia uses a connection from the sound card (on board or card) to the video card to send the sound through the HDMI cable. ATI does it through software (according to what I have read). DVI does not have sound, only video. If you use a VI to HDMI cable (or adapter) you will only get picture and no sound. If you do have a separate system for sound this should not be an issue. Send the picture to the TV and the sound directly to your sound system. Isn't that what you are looking for in the first place?
Also the combining of functions to have fewer cables makes one's wife/girl friend happier. Fewer cables usually means less clutter.
I thought that display port was taking over from HDMI? I see many devices not just video cards with display port as an option.