So what? Nintendo is a monopoly when it comes to game availability for the Wii. There's no problem with creating your own ecosystem as long as other ecosystems are competing.
The summary tells us Bing has acquired a decent market share in a short period of time. This is however completely untrue. Bing has replaced the search engines of both MSN and Live. It doesn't have a lot more market share than what those two used to have combined before Bing arrived. So while Microsoft has succesfully maintained it's user base, it hasn't attracted a lot of new users and thus no market share was won.
You can check the numbers with Net Applications. Both MSN and Live used to have about 2.5% to 3% market share, and now the latest statistic for Bing shows about 5.3% market share.
You can install apps you develop yourself on your own iPhone without any interference from Apple. You only need the App Store if you want to distribute your application.
So he can program stuff for his iPhone and impress his friends. Impressing your friends is (in my opinion) the best motivator for learning something difficult.
No, they won't cave. Wikipedia has added the following statement:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain.
...are probably one of the few devices that most Slashdotters would agree should definitely be running proprietary, private software.
W-what? Hell no! Software which require outstanding security and stability is the field where open source truly shines. More eyeballs, less bugs, you know. No security through obscurity, but actual secure designs instead.
You can never trust any software that isn't open. You never really know what it does. So in fields such as these (ATMs, but also voting machines for example), it is especially important that open software is deployed.
Even so, there a loads of extensions to Safari out there, which integrate with the browser completely naturally. I have two addons running myself and they even appear in the Preferences dialog of Safari, like they are normal features.
There used to be a time that only x86-based computers in homes and offices were called PC's, in contrast to powerful workstations powered by various architectures for doing "real" work on. Linux runs on all of these types of machines, so you surely would be cutting corners if you called all computers running Linux PC's.
But today Linux most important use is probably powering your modem/router, your car navigation system, your TiVo and your mobile phone. Not to mention the server you get your e-mail from and the rest of the services you connect to the internet for every day.
The time of the desktop might be over before Linux ever reaches the year for it, but in the meantime it's quickly gaining momentum on virtually all other types of digital machines.
Whatever happened to giving units along with numbers, so the numbers will actually mean somthing? I'm assuming Richter here, but as we all know assumption is the mother of all screw ups.
Will OmniGraffle allow me to work on other people's Visio files? From the feature chart, it appears probably not.
Yes, OmniGraffle can import and export in Visio's XML format. You will need the Professional version for this though, but it does work.
I use Access for things where Excel can't really cope, but setting up a proper database system would be overkill, and take far too long.
I can't really comment here. I've never worked with Access, so I have no idea how long it would take to create an application with it. I usually don't spend more than a day or two on my own little database projects, but if that's already too much, than I guess it's not really a viable alternative. Maybe something like FileMaker Pro could do the trick for you? I've never used that myself also, so I really can't say anything useful about it, but I have heard from other Mac-users that they enjoy working with it.
I wanted to know more about doing the send, so I tried searching for "doTheSend()", but unfortunately this results in nothing but an "Unspecified error".
I use Parallels to run MS Access and Visio - there is no native versions of either of these for Mac
Have you tried using OmniGraffle. It's far superiour to Visio, at least from my point of view.
For Access... well... you could consider using a real database. Stuff like PostgreSQL runs fine in Mac OS X. I create little database applications with a web frontend using some simple PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/whatever scripts to talk to the database all the tim, it's really easy to do and a lot more robust and portable than Access will ever be.
modernized GUI using antialiasing for fonts and all vector graphics as well as vector icons
It's great that BeOS is still alive in some form, as it is obviously a great project. But really, don't boast with this sort of stuff anymore. It's 2009. Antialiasing fonts and vector icons might have been impressive in 1996, but now every actively maintained GUI features this.
*sigh* This quote makes it painfully clear that MS still doesn't grasp what Apple is saying in their "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" ad campaign. It really makes me cry.
For the love of God, dear folks at Redmond, please get your head around this: the characters in Apple's ads are the computers. They are not people using the computers, they are the computers themselves.
MS tries to be clever by spoofing Apple's format and removing some of the stereotypes used by Apple, but in the process expose that they don't understand at all what Apple is saying in these ads. This lack of understanding renders their spoof entirely meaningless, proves nothing and makes MS look silly.
I mean, "I'm a PC and I'm 4.5 yrs old and I can do photo's" actually means you could do some basic photo processing on a 4.5 year old PC. That's still pretty amazing, considering Vista's bloat, but I don't think that's the point MS wants to make.
Maybe MS should try again and next time think more in the line of this commercial (no Silverlight required). This is an excellent example of a commercial which demonstrates how you should say what MS is trying to say without making your company look retarded.
Why should your grandmother care? If she wants to surf the web, she clicks on Safari in the dock. If it's already running, she'll get a window to browse the web with. If it's not running, it will load and she'll get a window to browse the web with.
Keeping track of which applications are currently running is something for techies who are concerned with memory usage and such because they actually know how their computer works. Your grandmother doesn't so neither does she needs to know the difference between closing a window and closing an application.
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So what? Nintendo is a monopoly when it comes to game availability for the Wii. There's no problem with creating your own ecosystem as long as other ecosystems are competing.
You can't be a monopolist with only 10% market share.
I forgot to add a link to Net Applications. Here is it: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?qprid=5
The summary tells us Bing has acquired a decent market share in a short period of time. This is however completely untrue. Bing has replaced the search engines of both MSN and Live. It doesn't have a lot more market share than what those two used to have combined before Bing arrived. So while Microsoft has succesfully maintained it's user base, it hasn't attracted a lot of new users and thus no market share was won.
You can check the numbers with Net Applications. Both MSN and Live used to have about 2.5% to 3% market share, and now the latest statistic for Bing shows about 5.3% market share.
You can install apps you develop yourself on your own iPhone without any interference from Apple. You only need the App Store if you want to distribute your application.
So he can program stuff for his iPhone and impress his friends. Impressing your friends is (in my opinion) the best motivator for learning something difficult.
Barry Diller is a myth.
No, they won't cave. Wikipedia has added the following statement:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain.
...are probably one of the few devices that most Slashdotters would agree should definitely be running proprietary, private software.
W-what? Hell no! Software which require outstanding security and stability is the field where open source truly shines. More eyeballs, less bugs, you know. No security through obscurity, but actual secure designs instead.
You can never trust any software that isn't open. You never really know what it does. So in fields such as these (ATMs, but also voting machines for example), it is especially important that open software is deployed.
It's not extensible (at least not officially)
Even so, there a loads of extensions to Safari out there, which integrate with the browser completely naturally. I have two addons running myself and they even appear in the Preferences dialog of Safari, like they are normal features.
They will probably have to kill Apple TV, though.
I could be wrong here, but I'm under the impression that the Apple TV isn't doing too well anyway.
Mac OS X's Preview.app handles forms in PDF's just fine.
There's an Adobe PDF reader for the Mac? Seriously? Who on Earth would install that monster on a platform with native PDF-support?
If you have an SSH session running from your phone, you do not need multitasking at all. Just run the 'screen' command.
There used to be a time that only x86-based computers in homes and offices were called PC's, in contrast to powerful workstations powered by various architectures for doing "real" work on. Linux runs on all of these types of machines, so you surely would be cutting corners if you called all computers running Linux PC's.
But today Linux most important use is probably powering your modem/router, your car navigation system, your TiVo and your mobile phone. Not to mention the server you get your e-mail from and the rest of the services you connect to the internet for every day.
The time of the desktop might be over before Linux ever reaches the year for it, but in the meantime it's quickly gaining momentum on virtually all other types of digital machines.
No COBOL-related article should go without a link to the list.
Yeah, same here. BOOM! Achievement unlocked.
Whatever happened to giving units along with numbers, so the numbers will actually mean somthing? I'm assuming Richter here, but as we all know assumption is the mother of all screw ups.
Will OmniGraffle allow me to work on other people's Visio files? From the feature chart, it appears probably not.
Yes, OmniGraffle can import and export in Visio's XML format. You will need the Professional version for this though, but it does work.
I use Access for things where Excel can't really cope, but setting up a proper database system would be overkill, and take far too long.
I can't really comment here. I've never worked with Access, so I have no idea how long it would take to create an application with it. I usually don't spend more than a day or two on my own little database projects, but if that's already too much, than I guess it's not really a viable alternative. Maybe something like FileMaker Pro could do the trick for you? I've never used that myself also, so I really can't say anything useful about it, but I have heard from other Mac-users that they enjoy working with it.
I wanted to know more about doing the send, so I tried searching for "doTheSend()", but unfortunately this results in nothing but an "Unspecified error".
I use Parallels to run MS Access and Visio - there is no native versions of either of these for Mac
Have you tried using OmniGraffle. It's far superiour to Visio, at least from my point of view.
For Access... well... you could consider using a real database. Stuff like PostgreSQL runs fine in Mac OS X. I create little database applications with a web frontend using some simple PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/whatever scripts to talk to the database all the tim, it's really easy to do and a lot more robust and portable than Access will ever be.
Why do you imply Microsoft Research never leads to actual implementations? Clearly, that's just not true at all!
modernized GUI using antialiasing for fonts and all vector graphics as well as vector icons
It's great that BeOS is still alive in some form, as it is obviously a great project. But really, don't boast with this sort of stuff anymore. It's 2009. Antialiasing fonts and vector icons might have been impressive in 1996, but now every actively maintained GUI features this.
I'm a PC and I'm 4-1/2
*sigh* This quote makes it painfully clear that MS still doesn't grasp what Apple is saying in their "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" ad campaign. It really makes me cry.
For the love of God, dear folks at Redmond, please get your head around this: the characters in Apple's ads are the computers. They are not people using the computers, they are the computers themselves.
MS tries to be clever by spoofing Apple's format and removing some of the stereotypes used by Apple, but in the process expose that they don't understand at all what Apple is saying in these ads. This lack of understanding renders their spoof entirely meaningless, proves nothing and makes MS look silly.
I mean, "I'm a PC and I'm 4.5 yrs old and I can do photo's" actually means you could do some basic photo processing on a 4.5 year old PC. That's still pretty amazing, considering Vista's bloat, but I don't think that's the point MS wants to make.
Maybe MS should try again and next time think more in the line of this commercial (no Silverlight required). This is an excellent example of a commercial which demonstrates how you should say what MS is trying to say without making your company look retarded.
Keeping track of which applications are currently running is something for techies who are concerned with memory usage and such because they actually know how their computer works. Your grandmother doesn't so neither does she needs to know the difference between closing a window and closing an application.