Great design? It's squarer than the Air, sure. Great? Well, it is cleaner than anything I've EVER seen from Dell.
I'll admit the design isn't too bad (I still think it's ugly, but that's my own opinion).
It was a bit cheeky of Dell, though, to parrot at the beginning of the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUJqWc6seYkAdamo promotional video (if you haven't seen that video, watch it: it's hilariously bad, even worse than the MS Songsmith one) how dedicated Dell is to industrial design. This has a particular resonance with me, because I distinctly remember certain Optiplexes which hid the front ports behind a silly snap-lock door, so to plug in a USB drive you had to pry away the door, fumble to get the device in, and then install a mirror so that you could see the access light (they made the silly mistake of placing them the wrong way round.)
Those are very dubious industrial design credentials.
Dell have created, with the Adamo, what is effectively a pocket calculator for the price you're getting. Christ, I've seen machines on sale for less than £400 (around $800 at the time) which are more powerful than this thing.
In no way is it the most beautiful machine Dell's ever made. The black (sorry, Onyx) colour isn't too bad, but both types have a Quasimodo hunch-back, which seems to serve no purpose other than to store the bits they couldn't fit in to the rest of the machine because they were desperate to make it thinner than the MBA. It's also nowhere near as nice as the Studio Hybrids. Heck, the Inspirons are prettier than the white/pearl Adamo.
...unless the database marks songs as being purchased from the iTunes Music Store, in which case the purchases can easily be transferred to a computer (right-click the iPod, select 'transfer purchases').
Alternatively, third-party tools as Floola will indiscriminately copy from the iPod, regardless of whether or not they were purchased from the iTMS.
Yea, just like the combined TV/VCR took over the world...
Rocks, until the VCR stops working for whatever reason. Replace the whole thing!
Yes. Just like general-purpose computing never caught on.
While a TV/VCR is effectively two components stuck together with Superglue, a modern PC is something designed to do anything that involves maths and a screen. The PC is one device, and is therefore no different to having a hi-fi with a built-in CD player and DAB/digital tuner.
Well, at the moment, here in wonderful Englandland, the PVRs supplied by the major digital cable and satellite providers can only handle 15 minutes, and are as slow as hell. (One of them even uses two hard drives, for reasons I'm yet to fathom: presumably they couldn't get enough motherboard-to-HDD bandwidth to save both recordings and buffers to the same drive at the same time.)
The universal remote (which, I must add before we go any further, is an evil invention which must die) will become obsolete anyway because all entertainment functions will be condensed into one machine (Apple TV, MythTV PC, HTPC etc.) So the scenario will go something like this:
User finishes his work on his computer (for argument's sake, let's say a 24" iMac.)
He folds the chair away and sits on the sofa in front of the machine. Digs out the included remote from down the side of the cushions, hits button on it. Machine switches to Front Row.
User slips in DVD/Blu-Ray video, or plays a downloaded video from iTunes (*other online video stores are available).
User switches to the TV tuner, watches synchronous TV (can also pause it and rewind it for far longer than the 15 minutes feeble PVRs of today, due to the fact that PCs have faster and larger HDDs allowing for speedier buffering). By the way, it's also in HD, otherwise it looks crap on the lovely big display.
THAT is the future. No faffing about with smartphonesâ"one remote controls one machine.
No, that's unlikely for two reasons. Firstly, the iPhone OS is just another distribution of OS X compiled for ARM devices. Second, the iPhone spends most of its time in sleep—it's like an iPod, and you don't actually shut it down unless you reset it or start from an empty battery, in which case it takes quite a while to boot.
It's not just any language—it's an improvement on C and C++, which are like the Latin and French of programming languages.
And by the way, it's Mac or Macintosh, not MAC. MAC is Media Access Control, entirely unrelated to Macintoshes (apart from the fact that Macintoshes use them to connect to networks, as do all other modern network devices.)
But is there actually any child porn on these pages? The idea is that $agency finds said material (in the form of images or video), takes down the server, and makes public the text but not the images.
If it undermines a police investigation, don't you think that as soon as the site is blocked, it might give them a clue the fuzz is on to them?
In my opinion, it should be the police's job alone, and not the IWF and ISPs' job to police these sorts of pages. True, there are some horrendous images of children being abused out there—but if the IWF can't tell the difference between a Wikipedia image of album artwork and child porn, surely there's something wrong?
If the police go after the pornographers, presumably they'll eventually find the servers and confiscate them—therefore, the stuff is taken off the net, and not with the sticking plaster of the IWF block. The contents of the pages also needs to be made public: only the text, however, because one can usually make a good guess at what's in images and video by looking at the text.
If the text says, for example, 'Virgin Killers is an album by [X band]...' you can guess the page is going to be legit. If it says 'cum see the hottest ch1ld pr0n0 & k1ddi3 pix...' well... you can guess what's going to be in there.
Presumably because the database was stored in a single.sql file, mirrored by each server, Time Machine wouldn't be particularly effective, because it would copy across a (new) copy of the massive database every time.
Time Machine is excellent for backing up lots of little files (on a home PC, say, or a web server's/httpd) but for backing up big files, it's very inefficient. Additionally, Time Machine wasn't included with OS X 10.4 (both distributions), so if it wasn't running Leopard or Snow Leopard, you'd be stuck with configuring cron to run rsync manually (although why this wasn't done I don't know.
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the safest OS on the planet is one stored in non-erasable ROM.
And Google made the logically obvious conclusion that releasing the source code would alleviate those concerns.
I knew it. Eric Schmidt is Spock's love child... how he managed to hide the ears and eyebrows for this long, though, I don't know.
All the more reason to vote Lib Dem at the next election, then.
Google UK likes to please governments.
What do you expect?
Drop him into the jaws of the Great Whale of Fail, while forcing him to follow Robert Scoble and Bill O'Reilly.
Great design? It's squarer than the Air, sure. Great? Well, it is cleaner than anything I've EVER seen from Dell.
I'll admit the design isn't too bad (I still think it's ugly, but that's my own opinion).
It was a bit cheeky of Dell, though, to parrot at the beginning of the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUJqWc6seYkAdamo promotional video (if you haven't seen that video, watch it: it's hilariously bad, even worse than the MS Songsmith one) how dedicated Dell is to industrial design. This has a particular resonance with me, because I distinctly remember certain Optiplexes which hid the front ports behind a silly snap-lock door, so to plug in a USB drive you had to pry away the door, fumble to get the device in, and then install a mirror so that you could see the access light (they made the silly mistake of placing them the wrong way round.)
Those are very dubious industrial design credentials.
Dell have created, with the Adamo, what is effectively a pocket calculator for the price you're getting. Christ, I've seen machines on sale for less than £400 (around $800 at the time) which are more powerful than this thing.
In no way is it the most beautiful machine Dell's ever made. The black (sorry, Onyx) colour isn't too bad, but both types have a Quasimodo hunch-back, which seems to serve no purpose other than to store the bits they couldn't fit in to the rest of the machine because they were desperate to make it thinner than the MBA. It's also nowhere near as nice as the Studio Hybrids. Heck, the Inspirons are prettier than the white/pearl Adamo.
Or run it natively, which it is quite capable of doing (it is x86/64 compatible, of course.)
It uses Darwin, an open-source kernel, and the GNU toolchain is rattling around in there somewhere as well.
So is syphilis, and I challenge anyone not to complain about that.
Why even call her 'Queen Elizabeth'? What other Queens are there at the G20?
...unless the database marks songs as being purchased from the iTunes Music Store, in which case the purchases can easily be transferred to a computer (right-click the iPod, select 'transfer purchases').
Alternatively, third-party tools as Floola will indiscriminately copy from the iPod, regardless of whether or not they were purchased from the iTMS.
Yea, just like the combined TV/VCR took over the world ...
Rocks, until the VCR stops working for whatever reason. Replace the whole thing!
Yes. Just like general-purpose computing never caught on.
While a TV/VCR is effectively two components stuck together with Superglue, a modern PC is something designed to do anything that involves maths and a screen. The PC is one device, and is therefore no different to having a hi-fi with a built-in CD player and DAB/digital tuner.
Well, at the moment, here in wonderful Englandland, the PVRs supplied by the major digital cable and satellite providers can only handle 15 minutes, and are as slow as hell. (One of them even uses two hard drives, for reasons I'm yet to fathom: presumably they couldn't get enough motherboard-to-HDD bandwidth to save both recordings and buffers to the same drive at the same time.)
THAT is the future. No faffing about with smartphonesâ"one remote controls one machine.
mmm... and it wasn't at all similar to the 'use VoiceOver for menus' function activatable through iTunes. At all.
No, that's unlikely for two reasons. Firstly, the iPhone OS is just another distribution of OS X compiled for ARM devices. Second, the iPhone spends most of its time in sleep—it's like an iPod, and you don't actually shut it down unless you reset it or start from an empty battery, in which case it takes quite a while to boot.
It's not just any language—it's an improvement on C and C++, which are like the Latin and French of programming languages.
And by the way, it's Mac or Macintosh, not MAC. MAC is Media Access Control, entirely unrelated to Macintoshes (apart from the fact that Macintoshes use them to connect to networks, as do all other modern network devices.)
Linux on its own couldn't pass UNIX '03, because UNIX '03 is for the whole OS distribution, not the kernel.
GNU/Linux might pass with the GNU toolchain, the Bourne shell and a vi attached. Linux on its own can't pass, because it's not meant to.
Why the hell has this been moderated to -1? It might be uncomfortable, but it's certainly worth classifying as Insightful.
But is there actually any child porn on these pages? The idea is that $agency finds said material (in the form of images or video), takes down the server, and makes public the text but not the images.
I said some. Not in any way implying dire quantities.
If it undermines a police investigation, don't you think that as soon as the site is blocked, it might give them a clue the fuzz is on to them?
In my opinion, it should be the police's job alone, and not the IWF and ISPs' job to police these sorts of pages. True, there are some horrendous images of children being abused out there—but if the IWF can't tell the difference between a Wikipedia image of album artwork and child porn, surely there's something wrong?
If the police go after the pornographers, presumably they'll eventually find the servers and confiscate them—therefore, the stuff is taken off the net, and not with the sticking plaster of the IWF block. The contents of the pages also needs to be made public: only the text, however, because one can usually make a good guess at what's in images and video by looking at the text.
If the text says, for example, 'Virgin Killers is an album by [X band]...' you can guess the page is going to be legit. If it says 'cum see the hottest ch1ld pr0n0 & k1ddi3 pix...' well... you can guess what's going to be in there.
Presumably because the database was stored in a single .sql file, mirrored by each server, Time Machine wouldn't be particularly effective, because it would copy across a (new) copy of the massive database every time.
Time Machine is excellent for backing up lots of little files (on a home PC, say, or a web server's /httpd) but for backing up big files, it's very inefficient. Additionally, Time Machine wasn't included with OS X 10.4 (both distributions), so if it wasn't running Leopard or Snow Leopard, you'd be stuck with configuring cron to run rsync manually (although why this wasn't done I don't know.