"Have your cake and eat it, too" is an idiom meaning "To have it both ways." It was originally "Eat your cake and have it, too" but became confused in popular usage, to the point where the corrupted form is understood (by most people) and accepted, while the more sensible original form is not.
"The Darwin / Apple Public Source licensing agreement says the source would have to be made available if it is modified and sold (paraphrased; read it yourself). A Cingular rep has said the iPhone version of the OS source will not be made available. It will be closed, like the iPod OS and not like Darwin. So if it ain't Darwin, it ain't OS X (in any meaningful way). An InfoWorld article on an FBR Research report breaks down iPhone component providers and lists Samsung as the chip maker for the main application / video cpu. So, that leaves the question... What OS is this phone really running? Not Linux or the source would need to be open."
We know that Windows CE does not use the NT kernel. This means that it is not using the same kernel as Windows XP and Windows Server. That means that WIndows CE is not Windows in any any meaningful sense. (Microsoft could brand toilet paper as running Windows if they like.) The NT kernel, the Mach-like microkernel that underlies what Microsoft has been calling Windows since the end of DOS, does not run on mobile phones or PocketPCs. The Microsoft Windows EULA is totally proprietary, and its source is carefully controlled. A Verizon Wireless rep said he had no idea what I was talking about. The WinCE source code is closed, like that of the Zune or XBox, and not like Linux. Now, Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! So, obviously, the iPhone is not running Windows CE, and must therefore be running Mac OS X 10.7 "Sabretooth."
The most interesting (if not surprising) part of that article was this:
Passengers are using cellphones, on the average, at least once per flight, contrary to FCC and FAA regulations, and sometimes during the especially critical flight phases of takeoff and landing.
In other words, even though it happens on every flight that takes off, and "there is no definitive instance of an air accident known to have been caused by a passenger's use of an electronic device," it must be unsafe.
Their in-flight monitoring experiment concluded that--brace yourselves--cell phones emit radio waves. Yup. It took the top engineering minds in the country to come up with this.
I hate using crippleware. I don't think crippleware (unpaid for shareware)
Your terminology needs help.
Freeware: "Here's a program." Shareware: "Here's a program. If you like it, pay me." Sponsorware*: "Here's a program. It wants you to buy a new Lexus." Postcardware: "Here's a program. If you like it, send me a postcard from your home town/state/province/country". Crippleware: "Here's half a program. Pay me and I"ll give you the other half." Nagware: "Here's a program. Pay me. Pay me. Pay me now. Have you paid me yet? If you pay me I'l shut up." Expireware: "Here's a program. If you don't pay me, I'll take it back in a week."
Now, true shareware is virtually extinct; most of it is now nagware, crippleware, or expireware. But please don't confuse the issue any more than it already is.
*This used to be "adware," but "adware" has mutated since then.
"Enter" is the "go" key, as far as most people are concerned.
Really? I could have sworn that, going back 150 years or so, the big key chunky key to the right of your pinky finger has had, as its primary action, "Place the text insertion point in the correct position for new text entry."
For that matter, the Forrester data was based on credit card payments on the iTunes Store.
It totally ignored the little lime-green $15 gift cards that litter the checkout stands of every Target, Best Buy, CVS Pharmacy, and Kroger in the US. Each one of those is 15 songs, and fifteen purchases that don't register as credit card transactions.
Because blogs are a way to reach audiences that are not reached through traditional marketing outlets
Yeah, because Apple has a real problem "reaching audiences." I mean, who ever heard of an iPod? They seem to think that TV commercials and word-of-mouth alone will sell the things.
they increase the amount of feedback you receive from your customers, and they provide a way to mine your user base for ideas.
Incidentally, the first test deployment of AMPS in the US was in Chicago in 1977. Paid service began in late 1978.
1983 was when the system finally went national. It's a big country, it took a while to get all the cells up. More important were the regulatory issues; AT&T was being split up at the same time.
(Cue jokes about Microsoft dumping toxic waste with every new Windows release.)
Virtually every manufacturing plant operating prior to 1980 or so is on the Superfund list. Dumping (or "storing") toxic waste was just part of doing business until then. Practically every company making anything at or before that time has at least one Superfund-listed plant somewhere. IBM has at least three. HP has four or so. Sun and Unisys each have one. Intel has two.
These days, companies have wised up. They've learned that China has no such legislation.
As opposed to Linux, where every programmer has the freedom to design (or not design at all) the user interface. That freedom has led to some great results, more alternatives and options, at the cost of less consistency. Isn't that what Linux is about?
Did you miss the part about the X11 server included with OS X?
You're absolutely free to design whatever user interface, using whatever widget toolkit and HI guidelines you want. You can dress your app up in GTK+X11, Qt+x11, just about any other X11 toolkit, GTK+Aqua, Qt+Aqua, the various Java toolkits, and, um, regular Aqua. There are Mac apps that require three (count 'em) mouse buttons, and X11 apps that have their menu bars inside the window, not at the top of the screen.
The fact that most apps use Aqua and adhere to Apple's Aqua HI Guidelines comes from two simple discoveries:
* Most people don't like to (and won't bother to) learn new behaviors for every different app. * Most programmers don't like to reinvent the wheel.
Even when given freedom (of any kind) most people choose to do what's easiest and most familiar.
Apple will not allow you to redownload songs you have purchased. Yes, it will, if you ask nicely. But you have to make a personal request, through the email support form on the iTunes page. You will then be allowed to download your past purchases one more time. I doubt a second request would be honored.
For that matter, Apple's also been known to give refunds for purchased music that was not what you'd intended to buy.
The standard usage of the word "anecdote" refers to biographical information (of or pertaining to a person's life). Such as "I work in Atlanta. There are only three native Georgian's in my company of 50 employees. You see this everywhere."
My example, on the otherhand was not from my own life.
You do have a bit of a point there. I should not have focused on anecdote at all. The word in your post (and my subject was actually anecdotal, the most prevalent usage of which carries subtly different connotations from the noun. The relevant definitions (from your dictionary or mine) both include specific mentions of the common phrase you used ("anecdotal evidence.")
- based on or consisting of reports or observations of usually unscientific observers (anecdotal evidence) - based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation: anecdotal evidence.
In any event, the story you related certainly qualifies.
But enough pedantry...
I brought up a company publically stating that their research has shown that the education in southern states is not high enough to have a competent workforce.
What do you mean, "more"? These are the first statistics you've provided. And they're pretty good. Almost as good as the ones I suggested you use.
Your average college graduate has trouble even figuring out the tip at a restaurant. Hell, your average slashdotter can't tell the difference between "anecdotal evidence" and "statistics."
If you want to use anecdotal evidence, there are plenty of rednecks in Illinois too. But I do not use anecdotal evidence, the truth is much more useful.
anecdote: a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
Anecdotes (see definition) are not necessarily false. Indeed they are often true and are almost always presented as if they were true, even when they are apocryphal. The problem with anecdotes lies not in their (often questionable) veracity; it is in their relevance.
So this...
In the summer of 2005 Toyota passed up building a new plant to produce RAV4s in the south; passing up huge financial incentives to build in various southern U.S. locations (which are trying to build up their economy). Why did they do this? Because the educational level in the Southern United States was so low that trainers for Japanese plants in Alabama had to use pictorials to teach illiterate workers how to use high-tech equipment. Toyota passed up over $150 million more in incentives (to build a $800 million manufacturing plant) to have a workforce that could actually read.
...is an anecdote. If you wished, as you say, to avoid anecdotal evidence, you might have pointed to the ample body of statistical evidence of the inadequacy of public education. (Test scores, expenditures per student, average class sizes, college attendance and graduation rates....)
You may now consider yourself educated by a southerner. And if I were you, sir, I would avoid lecturing people on the comparative quality of education.
-- (Incidentally, the only source to which I could trace your own anecdote was an article paraphrasing remarks by the Automotive Parts Manufacturer's Association, a Canadian industry group that lobbied Toyota to build the plant in Ontario, where its members would be better able to win contracts to supply it.)
They'd be better off modding the Mac Mini with a TV out and a FrontRow interface so that the thing functions under the TV. It comes with a DVI interface (for HDTVs) and there's a $20 S-video cable for regular TVs. And it does happen to have "a FrontRow interface" (called...FrontRow...how did you guess?) with a remote control.
Why does a user have to own a traditional PC of any kind in order download or play movies?How many people are there that want to download video off of the internet, but don't already own a PC yet? Do you seriously think that's a market worth pursuing?
It's utterly pointless and pushes the cost of this solution close to $1000 whether you use an iTV or your iPod with some kind of dock.iPod, $250. A/V cable, $20; Dock, $100.
I get somewhere between $270 and $350. How do you get $1000?
I'm sick of hearing about how maximised windows are stupid and useless, and how I just don't understand. People who still say that never seem to imagine this scenario: I'm about to do some programming for a few hours. I don't want to see anything else while I do that, so I'd rather I get to maximise, e.g. Visual Studio and block out everything else.
That's because IDEs tend to have a bunch of inseparable panes/tabs/child windows all stuck together. I maximize my IDE, because that's the only way it works. But I'd love an IDE with each component in a separate window/floating pallette so I could take advantage of the, well, windowing feature of my OS. Spread them out across the monitor(s), banish them to the background, minimize them, or (on Unix systems) put them on different virtual desktops...whatever I want.
IDEs in general have awful UIs, because the only people who ever use them tend to be programmers who can handle the mental gymnastics necessary. I include Apple's XCode in this, though it's a tiny bit better than, say, Eclipse, in which I spend most of my time.
(Newsflash to these geniuses: you can still drag and drop to other apps from a maximised app - try hovering over the Windows task bar while dragging sometime).
Mmm. ragging a selection down to the app-switcher to activate an app, then back up to put it in the app's window, is twice as much work as just dragging it over to the app. No improvement there.
The Mac desktop model usually drives me mad, with hard drives/CDs hiding behind all the other windows, etc., but lots of Mac users love it.
On Windows, they're "hidden" inside My Computer, which in turn is hiding on the desktop behind all the other windows. Or inside the start menu. Unless you have My Computer open in the background, which still requires a trip to the taskbar. Slower than hitting F11 for Expose. Or, for that matter, placing the Computer in the Dock. Or command-tabbing to the Finder and hitting shift-command-C. Might as well command-tab over to the Termainal and type "cd/Volumes; open."
Surely this explicitly takes into account the menu bar being waaay over there? Or have I misunderstood? No, you just haven't heard the corollary to the law, which basically states that the point directly under the mouse, and the edges of the screen are the easiest possible points of all. The point under the mouse has zero distance, and the edges of the screen have effectively infinite size (since you can't "overrun" the edge) Technically, the corners of the screen are "more infinite" than the regular edges...which is why some window managers have a "hot corner" feature, and others put menus (Start button, Apple menu, Spotlight menu) in those corners.
Something like a Viiv designed to sit under the TV makes more sense. Or a PS3. The movie should be stored on the device connected to the TV, not beamed in from somewhere else. That doesn't make much sense at all.
Yeah, if only Apple could come up with a small, pocket-sized device that included a hard disk to store movies. You could plug it into your Mac, download a movie of of some online video store, and then carry this tiny device into your living room, and drop it into a dock connected to your television. Maybe they could also port the software to Windows so you wouldn't have to buy a Mac Mini, either, but could use that setup on Windows.
Heck, while they're at it, maybe they could make that thing into a portable music player, with some headphones and....nahh, it'd never work.
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Seriously, though. Will read it, once the front-line fans have finished and they'll loan me a copy.
"Have your cake and eat it, too" is an idiom meaning "To have it both ways." It was originally "Eat your cake and have it, too" but became confused in popular usage, to the point where the corrupted form is understood (by most people) and accepted, while the more sensible original form is not.
Hope this clears that up for you.
Don't you think it's rude to watch it so closely?
Not only rude, it's a violation of its fundamental right to privacy!
"The Darwin / Apple Public Source licensing agreement says the source would have to be made available if it is modified and sold (paraphrased; read it yourself). A Cingular rep has said the iPhone version of the OS source will not be made available. It will be closed, like the iPod OS and not like Darwin. So if it ain't Darwin, it ain't OS X (in any meaningful way). An InfoWorld article on an FBR Research report breaks down iPhone component providers and lists Samsung as the chip maker for the main application / video cpu. So, that leaves the question... What OS is this phone really running? Not Linux or the source would need to be open."
We know that Windows CE does not use the NT kernel. This means that it is not using the same kernel as Windows XP and Windows Server. That means that WIndows CE is not Windows in any any meaningful sense. (Microsoft could brand toilet paper as running Windows if they like.) The NT kernel, the Mach-like microkernel that underlies what Microsoft has been calling Windows since the end of DOS, does not run on mobile phones or PocketPCs. The Microsoft Windows EULA is totally proprietary, and its source is carefully controlled. A Verizon Wireless rep said he had no idea what I was talking about. The WinCE source code is closed, like that of the Zune or XBox, and not like Linux. Now, Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! So, obviously, the iPhone is not running Windows CE, and must therefore be running Mac OS X 10.7 "Sabretooth."
2. Could you do the same thing with Mac OSX (even though it is a *INX variant with a pretty shell)?
No, and it's got nothing to do with how *nix-y it is.
Basically, the Windows EULA says, "If you don't agree to this EULA, call the vendor for a refund of the price of the OS."
The Mac OS X EULA says, "If you don't agree to this EULA, don't use the OS. Have a nice day."
The most interesting (if not surprising) part of that article was this:
Passengers are using cellphones, on the average, at least once per flight, contrary to FCC and FAA regulations, and sometimes during the especially critical flight phases of takeoff and landing.
In other words, even though it happens on every flight that takes off, and "there is no definitive instance of an air accident known to have been caused by a passenger's use of an electronic device," it must be unsafe.
Their in-flight monitoring experiment concluded that--brace yourselves--cell phones emit radio waves. Yup. It took the top engineering minds in the country to come up with this.
Pizza! What a pathetic excuse for a food!
I hate using crippleware. I don't think crippleware (unpaid for shareware)
Your terminology needs help.
Freeware: "Here's a program."
Shareware: "Here's a program. If you like it, pay me."
Sponsorware*: "Here's a program. It wants you to buy a new Lexus."
Postcardware: "Here's a program. If you like it, send me a postcard from your home town/state/province/country".
Crippleware: "Here's half a program. Pay me and I"ll give you the other half."
Nagware: "Here's a program. Pay me. Pay me. Pay me now. Have you paid me yet? If you pay me I'l shut up."
Expireware: "Here's a program. If you don't pay me, I'll take it back in a week."
Now, true shareware is virtually extinct; most of it is now nagware, crippleware, or expireware. But please don't confuse the issue any more than it already is.
*This used to be "adware," but "adware" has mutated since then.
"Enter" is the "go" key, as far as most people are concerned.
Really? I could have sworn that, going back 150 years or so, the big key chunky key to the right of your pinky finger has had, as its primary action, "Place the text insertion point in the correct position for new text entry."
For that matter, the Forrester data was based on credit card payments on the iTunes Store.
It totally ignored the little lime-green $15 gift cards that litter the checkout stands of every Target, Best Buy, CVS Pharmacy, and Kroger in the US. Each one of those is 15 songs, and fifteen purchases that don't register as credit card transactions.
Because blogs are a way to reach audiences that are not reached through traditional marketing outlets
Yeah, because Apple has a real problem "reaching audiences." I mean, who ever heard of an iPod? They seem to think that TV commercials and word-of-mouth alone will sell the things.
they increase the amount of feedback you receive from your customers, and they provide a way to mine your user base for ideas.
If only there were some website where Apple could gather user opinions and feedback.
-- Brian Boyko
-- Professional Blogger.
It shows.
In the autumn of 1978, Bell launched tariffed mobile service to a maximum of 2,500 customers.
From one of the sources to the Wikipedia article/URL?
Incidentally, the first test deployment of AMPS in the US was in Chicago in 1977. Paid service began in late 1978.
1983 was when the system finally went national. It's a big country, it took a while to get all the cells up. More important were the regulatory issues; AT&T was being split up at the same time.
The US State governments control [2-letter postal abbreviation].us domains.
.com.us or something might be feasible...
*.ny.us is New York state
*.fl.us is the state of Florida
which means that *.co.us is the state of Colorado.
Now,
(Cue jokes about Microsoft dumping toxic waste with every new Windows release.)
Virtually every manufacturing plant operating prior to 1980 or so is on the Superfund list. Dumping (or "storing") toxic waste was just part of doing business until then. Practically every company making anything at or before that time has at least one Superfund-listed plant somewhere. IBM has at least three. HP has four or so. Sun and Unisys each have one. Intel has two.
These days, companies have wised up. They've learned that China has no such legislation.
You do know that English is one of the official national languages of India, right?
As opposed to Linux, where every programmer has the freedom to design (or not design at all) the user interface. That freedom has led to some great results, more alternatives and options, at the cost of less consistency. Isn't that what Linux is about?
Did you miss the part about the X11 server included with OS X?
You're absolutely free to design whatever user interface, using whatever widget toolkit and HI guidelines you want. You can dress your app up in GTK+X11, Qt+x11, just about any other X11 toolkit, GTK+Aqua, Qt+Aqua, the various Java toolkits, and, um, regular Aqua. There are Mac apps that require three (count 'em) mouse buttons, and X11 apps that have their menu bars inside the window, not at the top of the screen.
The fact that most apps use Aqua and adhere to Apple's Aqua HI Guidelines comes from two simple discoveries:
* Most people don't like to (and won't bother to) learn new behaviors for every different app.
* Most programmers don't like to reinvent the wheel.
Even when given freedom (of any kind) most people choose to do what's easiest and most familiar.
Apple will not allow you to redownload songs you have purchased.
Yes, it will, if you ask nicely. But you have to make a personal request, through the email support form on the iTunes page. You will then be allowed to download your past purchases one more time. I doubt a second request would be honored.
For that matter, Apple's also been known to give refunds for purchased music that was not what you'd intended to buy.
...though not very many of them.
Apple retains one manufacturing plant in Laguna, CA and another in Cork, Ireland. Both have seen their workforces shrink in recent years.
I believe it may also have a company-owned (that is, not contracted) plant in Malaysia that makes mice.
Imagine that...patenting something before it's on the market.
You do have a bit of a point there. I should not have focused on anecdote at all. The word in your post (and my subject was actually anecdotal , the most prevalent usage of which carries subtly different connotations from the noun. The relevant definitions (from your dictionary or mine) both include specific mentions of the common phrase you used ("anecdotal evidence.")
- based on or consisting of reports or observations of usually unscientific observers (anecdotal evidence)
- based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation: anecdotal evidence.
In any event, the story you related certainly qualifies.
But enough pedantry...
No, you didn't. You brought up an unsourced statement, which I was able to trace only to paraphrased remarks by a lobbyist targeting the company in question... Unless you can cite a more credible source, your blurb is both anecdotal and highly suspect.
What do you mean, "more"? These are the first statistics you've provided. And they're pretty good. Almost as good as the ones I suggested you use.
Your average college graduate has trouble even figuring out the tip at a restaurant. Hell, your average slashdotter can't tell the difference between "anecdotal evidence" and "statistics."
anecdote: a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
Anecdotes (see definition) are not necessarily false. Indeed they are often true and are almost always presented as if they were true, even when they are apocryphal. The problem with anecdotes lies not in their (often questionable) veracity; it is in their relevance.
So this...
You may now consider yourself educated by a southerner. And if I were you, sir, I would avoid lecturing people on the comparative quality of education.
--
(Incidentally, the only source to which I could trace your own anecdote was an article paraphrasing remarks by the Automotive Parts Manufacturer's Association, a Canadian industry group that lobbied Toyota to build the plant in Ontario, where its members would be better able to win contracts to supply it.)
They'd be better off modding the Mac Mini with a TV out and a FrontRow interface so that the thing functions under the TV. It comes with a DVI interface (for HDTVs) and there's a $20 S-video cable for regular TVs. And it does happen to have "a FrontRow interface" (called...FrontRow...how did you guess?) with a remote control.
Why does a user have to own a traditional PC of any kind in order download or play movies?How many people are there that want to download video off of the internet, but don't already own a PC yet? Do you seriously think that's a market worth pursuing?
It's utterly pointless and pushes the cost of this solution close to $1000 whether you use an iTV or your iPod with some kind of dock.iPod, $250.
A/V cable, $20; Dock, $100.
I get somewhere between $270 and $350. How do you get $1000?
That's because IDEs tend to have a bunch of inseparable panes/tabs/child windows all stuck together. I maximize my IDE, because that's the only way it works. But I'd love an IDE with each component in a separate window/floating pallette so I could take advantage of the, well, windowing feature of my OS. Spread them out across the monitor(s), banish them to the background, minimize them, or (on Unix systems) put them on different virtual desktops...whatever I want.
IDEs in general have awful UIs, because the only people who ever use them tend to be programmers who can handle the mental gymnastics necessary. I include Apple's XCode in this, though it's a tiny bit better than, say, Eclipse, in which I spend most of my time.
Mmm. ragging a selection down to the app-switcher to activate an app, then back up to put it in the app's window, is twice as much work as just dragging it over to the app. No improvement there.
On Windows, they're "hidden" inside My Computer, which in turn is hiding on the desktop behind all the other windows. Or inside the start menu. Unless you have My Computer open in the background, which still requires a trip to the taskbar. Slower than hitting F11 for Expose. Or, for that matter, placing the Computer in the Dock. Or command-tabbing to the Finder and hitting shift-command-C. Might as well command-tab over to the Termainal and type "cd
Surely this explicitly takes into account the menu bar being waaay over there? Or have I misunderstood? No, you just haven't heard the corollary to the law, which basically states that the point directly under the mouse, and the edges of the screen are the easiest possible points of all. The point under the mouse has zero distance, and the edges of the screen have effectively infinite size (since you can't "overrun" the edge) Technically, the corners of the screen are "more infinite" than the regular edges...which is why some window managers have a "hot corner" feature, and others put menus (Start button, Apple menu, Spotlight menu) in those corners.
Something like a Viiv designed to sit under the TV makes more sense. Or a PS3. The movie should be stored on the device connected to the TV, not beamed in from somewhere else. That doesn't make much sense at all.
Yeah, if only Apple could come up with a small, pocket-sized device that included a hard disk to store movies. You could plug it into your Mac, download a movie of of some online video store, and then carry this tiny device into your living room, and drop it into a dock connected to your television. Maybe they could also port the software to Windows so you wouldn't have to buy a Mac Mini, either, but could use that setup on Windows.
Heck, while they're at it, maybe they could make that thing into a portable music player, with some headphones and....nahh, it'd never work.