Exactly how I feel! And honestly, if you are a professional photographer you likely have a desktop computer or iMac as your primary working computer anyways. Also, if you again call yourself a professional, you should at least have appropriate lighting for your working computer, ie lighting that won't cause a glare or affect color responsiveness of the screen. And on top of these things, most professionals calibrate their displays with hardware devices anyways, so really you don't have much to complain about.
Oh, and FWIW if you are using and aluminum iMac and getting sick of glare from the glass panel, all you need to remove it is a big suction cup. The whole pane is held in with nothing but magnets. Granted you'll still have a glossy LCD panel there and the bezel will look ugly.
you completely misunderstood his post. He was talking about the recession, and saying that the Roman's may have said the same thing just before the Dark Ages that we are now about our recession.
clearly you don't understand his original point. Just because a protocol claims a higher maximum transfer rate does NOT mean better performance. Anyone who has actually used usb and firewire drives or high-bandwith peripherals side by side can attest to the much better performance of firewire devices.
And firewire is still very essential in the pro audio industry.
I was on vacation down there several years ago, pre-Katrina, but I do remember how difficult it was to navigate. At one point I actually spotted an intersection with two "One Way" signs pointing at each other!
I can't help but wonder if this does make it to market, will Apple be forced to extend their warranty to cover liquid damage? As it is now, if they see even a tiny spec of corrosion ANYWHERE in your computer after opening it up, they will immediately close it and send it back to you without repair. The reasoning for this of course is that if the laptop was damaged by water or liquids, then it couldn't possibly be Apple's fault, and would therefore fall under 'abuse'. In other words, apple can't be held liable for your idiocy.
So what happens when Apple starts shipping laptops with liquids circulating around inside? That means that if the laptop suffered liquid damage it could potentially be Apple's fault, and therefore wouldn't it be covered under warranty? Just a thought.
The dev team has actually been working a lot on the baseband, you just don't hear as many updates because 1.) Apple doesn't change it as often and 2.) it's more difficult to hack
In short - once they reverse-engineer the baseband driver, yes. The dev team is already pretty intimate with the 2G baseband, and is almost there with the 3G baseband, so this may not take long.
I believe he's talking about the iPod Classic, tho I'm not sure how it would be similar to the iPhone 'under the hood'.
Anyways, if you are talking about the iPod Touch, the 1st Gen is working just fine, but the 2nd Gen iPod Touch is very far behind, and the dev team hasn't even started working on it yet.
Well even though the argument is pointless since Facebook obviously won't see a penny, and probably lost a nominal amount of money for legal costs, the argument that the users should get the money is a weak one. The users were using a service entirely provided by Facebook for free. If they were using a premium subscription service and this kind of violation occurred, it would be a much different story.
Or maybe they will sue the idiotic users who are more than willing to deliberately allow the application access to their profile, and then specifically send out all of the invites to their poor friends, all before they even know if the application does anything at all.
Don't forget to write a Super-Roll-Over-and-Take-It application, setup a page for it, and of course, after the app is added to a user's facebook, require the user to send out viral invites to their entire friend list before doing anything at all useful.
The invites will read 'Joseph just posted something dirty about your mother in large block letters on the side of a building, go find out what it was, and get revenge!!!'
While most of what you say is true, to port a desktop application for os x would still take a bit more than a UI redesign. It would also require a logistical redesign, as mobile applications can only handle a small number of functions and features without becoming overly complicated or cumbersome.
Take Apple's Safari, Mail, and iPhoto (just called 'Photos' on the iPhone) for a good example of this. Imagine if they had tried to take any of those programs and port the entire thing over to the iPhone just by slapping on a new UI - you'd be scrolling through menus for hours to find anything, and it would crash a LOT!! You have to consider which features are most important to the usefulness of the program, and cut out the excess.
The second, and more important problem with your theory is memory management. Desktop applications in OS X can eat up very large amounts of memory, however the iPhone has extremely limited available memory. A program that runs out of memory on the iPhone will crash, or in severe cases even cause the entire phone to reboot. This is not entirely uncommon to see even in Apple's own ported and stripped down apps (it was much more so in earlier FW versions) so just imagine trying to pull it off with a full-fledged desktop application.
While theoretically it is true that the iPhone OS could be fleshed out to a full OS X install with a few extra APIs and of course the proper top graphical layer, there is still very limited hardware to implement it with. While the logistical problems I mentioned above wouldn't be important for the iPhone-powered netbook mentioned in the article, the memory issue would still be a major problem.
Well for what it's worth, OS X doesn't even come close to the kind of DRM laced throughout Vista, and DRM is still being phased out of iTunes, albeit slowly.
hahaha, there's a unique story. Tho, as funny as that is, I can't help but wonder what your parents were doing while you were setting up your.. er.. trap...
I was reading tripple-booting articles at onmac.net 2 years ago when I got my first mac. They had implementations before the Boot Camp beta ever came out.
If your mobo only supports 1GB of RAM, then you have no business running Vista in the first place. I'm sure there are still OEMs out there somewhere that are forced to sell a unit like the one you are describing though, unfortunately.
Actually all you have to do to get free Wi-Fi at starbucks is use gift card the next time you buy something. You can register the card online and they give you a free wi-fi account. The account expires if you don't use the gift card for over a month.
Um, I got my black macbook with a 2.2 Ghz C2D (sep. 07 model) 1GB of RAM and an upgraded 250GB hard drive for about 600 bucks on ebay back in June. It was still under warranty. The black macbooks costed 1500 base, and the upgraded hard drives means it would have been even more. There were some minor hardware problems that contributed to my getting it for roughly 1/3 of the price, but they were easily fixed without even having to replace anything. If you're patient you can get just about any piece of techonlogy for significantly cheaper. I'm scouting for a cheap aluminum iMac now:)
C'mon, it's not that complicated. Computer standards continually rise, and Apple is known to be ahead of them. Being built to standards that 'don't even exist yet' just means that they are well above todays standards, and built to specifications that won't be industry standards for some time (so Apple claims).
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Exactly how I feel! And honestly, if you are a professional photographer you likely have a desktop computer or iMac as your primary working computer anyways. Also, if you again call yourself a professional, you should at least have appropriate lighting for your working computer, ie lighting that won't cause a glare or affect color responsiveness of the screen. And on top of these things, most professionals calibrate their displays with hardware devices anyways, so really you don't have much to complain about.
Oh, and FWIW if you are using and aluminum iMac and getting sick of glare from the glass panel, all you need to remove it is a big suction cup. The whole pane is held in with nothing but magnets. Granted you'll still have a glossy LCD panel there and the bezel will look ugly.
you completely misunderstood his post. He was talking about the recession, and saying that the Roman's may have said the same thing just before the Dark Ages that we are now about our recession.
clearly you don't understand his original point. Just because a protocol claims a higher maximum transfer rate does NOT mean better performance. Anyone who has actually used usb and firewire drives or high-bandwith peripherals side by side can attest to the much better performance of firewire devices. And firewire is still very essential in the pro audio industry.
I was on vacation down there several years ago, pre-Katrina, but I do remember how difficult it was to navigate. At one point I actually spotted an intersection with two "One Way" signs pointing at each other!
I can't help but wonder if this does make it to market, will Apple be forced to extend their warranty to cover liquid damage? As it is now, if they see even a tiny spec of corrosion ANYWHERE in your computer after opening it up, they will immediately close it and send it back to you without repair. The reasoning for this of course is that if the laptop was damaged by water or liquids, then it couldn't possibly be Apple's fault, and would therefore fall under 'abuse'. In other words, apple can't be held liable for your idiocy.
So what happens when Apple starts shipping laptops with liquids circulating around inside? That means that if the laptop suffered liquid damage it could potentially be Apple's fault, and therefore wouldn't it be covered under warranty? Just a thought.
The dev team has actually been working a lot on the baseband, you just don't hear as many updates because 1.) Apple doesn't change it as often and 2.) it's more difficult to hack
In short - once they reverse-engineer the baseband driver, yes. The dev team is already pretty intimate with the 2G baseband, and is almost there with the 3G baseband, so this may not take long.
I believe he's talking about the iPod Classic, tho I'm not sure how it would be similar to the iPhone 'under the hood'.
Anyways, if you are talking about the iPod Touch, the 1st Gen is working just fine, but the 2nd Gen iPod Touch is very far behind, and the dev team hasn't even started working on it yet.
Well even though the argument is pointless since Facebook obviously won't see a penny, and probably lost a nominal amount of money for legal costs, the argument that the users should get the money is a weak one. The users were using a service entirely provided by Facebook for free. If they were using a premium subscription service and this kind of violation occurred, it would be a much different story.
Or maybe they will sue the idiotic users who are more than willing to deliberately allow the application access to their profile, and then specifically send out all of the invites to their poor friends, all before they even know if the application does anything at all.
Don't forget to write a Super-Roll-Over-and-Take-It application, setup a page for it, and of course, after the app is added to a user's facebook, require the user to send out viral invites to their entire friend list before doing anything at all useful.
The invites will read 'Joseph just posted something dirty about your mother in large block letters on the side of a building, go find out what it was, and get revenge!!!'
So take both of them.
What he said..
While most of what you say is true, to port a desktop application for os x would still take a bit more than a UI redesign. It would also require a logistical redesign, as mobile applications can only handle a small number of functions and features without becoming overly complicated or cumbersome.
Take Apple's Safari, Mail, and iPhoto (just called 'Photos' on the iPhone) for a good example of this. Imagine if they had tried to take any of those programs and port the entire thing over to the iPhone just by slapping on a new UI - you'd be scrolling through menus for hours to find anything, and it would crash a LOT!! You have to consider which features are most important to the usefulness of the program, and cut out the excess.
The second, and more important problem with your theory is memory management. Desktop applications in OS X can eat up very large amounts of memory, however the iPhone has extremely limited available memory. A program that runs out of memory on the iPhone will crash, or in severe cases even cause the entire phone to reboot. This is not entirely uncommon to see even in Apple's own ported and stripped down apps (it was much more so in earlier FW versions) so just imagine trying to pull it off with a full-fledged desktop application.
While theoretically it is true that the iPhone OS could be fleshed out to a full OS X install with a few extra APIs and of course the proper top graphical layer, there is still very limited hardware to implement it with. While the logistical problems I mentioned above wouldn't be important for the iPhone-powered netbook mentioned in the article, the memory issue would still be a major problem.
Well for what it's worth, OS X doesn't even come close to the kind of DRM laced throughout Vista, and DRM is still being phased out of iTunes, albeit slowly.
Has the author used a Windows OS lately?
Probably not, they're most likely using linux like most developers.
hahaha, there's a unique story. Tho, as funny as that is, I can't help but wonder what your parents were doing while you were setting up your .. er .. trap...
What about their muffins?!
It's now at 2 cents! It seems that the stock has been consistently declining for years now. It's been falling since May '06 according to google.
Amen!
I was reading tripple-booting articles at onmac.net 2 years ago when I got my first mac. They had implementations before the Boot Camp beta ever came out.
If your mobo only supports 1GB of RAM, then you have no business running Vista in the first place. I'm sure there are still OEMs out there somewhere that are forced to sell a unit like the one you are describing though, unfortunately.
Actually all you have to do to get free Wi-Fi at starbucks is use gift card the next time you buy something. You can register the card online and they give you a free wi-fi account. The account expires if you don't use the gift card for over a month.
Um, I got my black macbook with a 2.2 Ghz C2D (sep. 07 model) 1GB of RAM and an upgraded 250GB hard drive for about 600 bucks on ebay back in June. It was still under warranty. The black macbooks costed 1500 base, and the upgraded hard drives means it would have been even more. There were some minor hardware problems that contributed to my getting it for roughly 1/3 of the price, but they were easily fixed without even having to replace anything. If you're patient you can get just about any piece of techonlogy for significantly cheaper. I'm scouting for a cheap aluminum iMac now :)
C'mon, it's not that complicated. Computer standards continually rise, and Apple is known to be ahead of them. Being built to standards that 'don't even exist yet' just means that they are well above todays standards, and built to specifications that won't be industry standards for some time (so Apple claims).