Still, I'm surprised we aren't reading more about robots (or software) that rely on procedural evaluations of actions and surroundings and "try" alternative paths to a goal. It seems to me that this should simply be the obvious way forward!
I really can't believe that Verizon would be the one to do this, but it sounds like what "full service" means in this case is Verizon drawing a distinction between traditional "voice-PCM-bits-are-more-expensive-than-regular-bits" service and forward-thinking (obvious?) "bits-are-bits" service. Where "full" means they're "taking care of" the voice and SMS for you for extra money, the latter letting you find your own VOIP provider to use over their data network.
If they can actually roll out a service like that... I'll be utterly floored.
Is there anything out there that sandboxes each site you visit with regards to cookies? That would probably solve this and any related privacy issues cleanly and easily.
Cockroach A: "I have this theory. About our new leader."
Cockroach B: "This had better not be another one of your retarded colony conspiracies."
Cockroach A: "Well... I don't think he's cockroach. In fact, I have reason to believe he's a robot. Put here by highly intelligent beings for some bizarre purpose... Maybe to lead us all to destruction. Maybe as a test. I don't know. But have you seen him? I mean, with your own compound eyes?"
That's frankly the most stupid thing about this whole process - instead of demoting content from Wikipedia Prime to Wikipedia Everything, they're just throwing content out - articles in some cases where a lot of people devoted a lot of time to contribute and edit and crosslink with other articles.
Exactly. Inviting people to spend time writing articles only to dispose of their work once it's submitted is hardly a way to gain new loyal contributors.
Considering the ravages that have been visited on the city in Hellgate, where's the realism in having ads that change out every week? I mean, the urban infrastructure and commercial business is totally shot, so who's placing insert orders, designing creatives, and fulfilling placements? Demons who got laid off from their day jobs of terrorizing humanity?
The current Mac Mini is basically a MacBook without a screen, keyboard, or battery power, for half the price.
They have the same processor, the same FSB speed, and actually the same HD speed. ( http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html , http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html ).
The only real issue with the Mini is the same issue with the MacBook; they both have lackluster Intel GMA950 integrated graphics. But apart from gaming and a few hardware-accelerated creativity apps, why would a professional need anything more?
There are, obviously, thousands of people who registered in the four-digit era. They were certainly on the leading edge then -- why do we only see a few of them around these days?
The devices that behave as USB class-compliant devices are filesystem players. The iPod is a database player, and thus resides in a different category altogether.
That is indeed one major draw (or drawback depending on your needs) of the iPod ecosystem. Everything is in a database that allows for quick searching and seamless organization, whether you're using iTunes or not (although it's certainly at its best in the first party app). In tradeoff, you need to have database access to manage the files.
Once you got into the multiple categories of "approved" and "supported"... I think you answered your own question as to why Apple doesn't do this.
OSX on third party hardware simply requires a layer of complication that, for better or worse, would never, ever fit with Steve Jobs' ideal of a monolithic, seamless user experience. Until the day that an aged, still-sharp-but-not-for-long Jobs steps down from his post, this is how the Apple ecosystem will work.
That said, I really hope that with the release of Leopard, the OSX86 project starts to gain the underground traction of iPhone hacking. This could be the ultimate state of equilibrium for MacOSX: The seamless, sanctioned, official experience continues on first party hardware, and the hacked-up, trial-and-error experience becomes tacitly available for those used to it anyway.
If you haven't used Cyberduck in awhile, try it again! It was one of those apps that started off slowly (I didn't care a whole lot for 0.xx) but 2.xx has been nothing short of excellent. I use it every day (and once I get around to getting a PayPal account, will definitely send some donations David Kocher's way).
...was the only PDA I ever actually enjoyed using. Technologically it was the least qualified, but design-wise, it had a better little grayscale UI than all the best aspects of modern Windows Mobile and PalmOS combined. And you could edit spreadsheets on it, make graphs...
The day mine died (of blunt trauma to the LCD) I knew I'd probably never find anything like it again.
I think this was either in an Ars Technica article or on TWiT, but VV actually isn't that hard: Working normally, the iPhone just downloads compressed audio files from AT&T's voicemail server as they come in and stores them locally to be played back.
With Jailbreak and a bit of hacking, it shouldn't be impossible to have the phone get the files from a different source, if necessary even scraping and parsing the usual voicemail audio prompts. Ok, so maybe that could be pretty hard to do... But still, in theory, it's straightforward.
Hold on a second there: The Meizu isn't exactly a bootleg copy of Pirates of the Caribbean. Or a fake iPhone.
It may violate a patent or two in the US, but that remains to be seen (can Apple patent having buttons in a 4x4 grid?); it's in a completely different class from the bona fide fakes that are actually appropriating the Apple trademarks and passing themselves off as Apple products.
Point well taken. However, if privacy can be made marketable, that could turn the situation on its head, with businesses standing to lose more from customers fleeing than from missed demographic data revenue.
A shame this could never happen in the ISP market.
I took a look at the most recent US NIH annual, curious as to just *how many* 9/11s worth of people had died in the past 6 years of preventable cardiopulmonary disease, respiratory disorders from smoking, type II diabetes... I forget the exact numbers, but it was just astounding. The numbers themselves, certainly, but the *proportion* to which my country is expending massive resources dealing with an amazingly minor threat, versus what they could be doing with those billions... It boggles the mind. Many times.
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This is the first "there is no cabal" argument I've seen that I haven't had the strange compulsion to mod "funny."
(-1, Night Elf)
Still, I'm surprised we aren't reading more about robots (or software) that rely on procedural evaluations of actions and surroundings and "try" alternative paths to a goal. It seems to me that this should simply be the obvious way forward!
I really can't believe that Verizon would be the one to do this, but it sounds like what "full service" means in this case is Verizon drawing a distinction between traditional "voice-PCM-bits-are-more-expensive-than-regular-bits" service and forward-thinking (obvious?) "bits-are-bits" service. Where "full" means they're "taking care of" the voice and SMS for you for extra money, the latter letting you find your own VOIP provider to use over their data network.
If they can actually roll out a service like that... I'll be utterly floored.
Is there anything out there that sandboxes each site you visit with regards to cookies? That would probably solve this and any related privacy issues cleanly and easily.
(translated from pheromone language)
Cockroach A: "I have this theory. About our new leader."
Cockroach B: "This had better not be another one of your retarded colony conspiracies."
Cockroach A: "Well... I don't think he's cockroach. In fact, I have reason to believe he's a robot. Put here by highly intelligent beings for some bizarre purpose... Maybe to lead us all to destruction. Maybe as a test. I don't know. But have you seen him? I mean, with your own compound eyes?"
Cockroach B: "..."
Considering the ravages that have been visited on the city in Hellgate, where's the realism in having ads that change out every week? I mean, the urban infrastructure and commercial business is totally shot, so who's placing insert orders, designing creatives, and fulfilling placements? Demons who got laid off from their day jobs of terrorizing humanity?
The current Mac Mini is basically a MacBook without a screen, keyboard, or battery power, for half the price. They have the same processor, the same FSB speed, and actually the same HD speed. ( http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html , http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html ). The only real issue with the Mini is the same issue with the MacBook; they both have lackluster Intel GMA950 integrated graphics. But apart from gaming and a few hardware-accelerated creativity apps, why would a professional need anything more?
...a protegé. Or a dozen. What could be better for an aging tech maverick than mentoring the best and brightest of the next generation?
...isn't a Pokémon?
There are, obviously, thousands of people who registered in the four-digit era. They were certainly on the leading edge then -- why do we only see a few of them around these days?
The devices that behave as USB class-compliant devices are filesystem players. The iPod is a database player, and thus resides in a different category altogether.
That is indeed one major draw (or drawback depending on your needs) of the iPod ecosystem. Everything is in a database that allows for quick searching and seamless organization, whether you're using iTunes or not (although it's certainly at its best in the first party app). In tradeoff, you need to have database access to manage the files.
It's kind of like flat-file versus SQL.
Once you got into the multiple categories of "approved" and "supported"... I think you answered your own question as to why Apple doesn't do this.
OSX on third party hardware simply requires a layer of complication that, for better or worse, would never, ever fit with Steve Jobs' ideal of a monolithic, seamless user experience. Until the day that an aged, still-sharp-but-not-for-long Jobs steps down from his post, this is how the Apple ecosystem will work.
That said, I really hope that with the release of Leopard, the OSX86 project starts to gain the underground traction of iPhone hacking. This could be the ultimate state of equilibrium for MacOSX: The seamless, sanctioned, official experience continues on first party hardware, and the hacked-up, trial-and-error experience becomes tacitly available for those used to it anyway.
If you haven't used Cyberduck in awhile, try it again! It was one of those apps that started off slowly (I didn't care a whole lot for 0.xx) but 2.xx has been nothing short of excellent. I use it every day (and once I get around to getting a PayPal account, will definitely send some donations David Kocher's way).
Looks like we're back to 1,999,999.
...was the only PDA I ever actually enjoyed using. Technologically it was the least qualified, but design-wise, it had a better little grayscale UI than all the best aspects of modern Windows Mobile and PalmOS combined. And you could edit spreadsheets on it, make graphs...
The day mine died (of blunt trauma to the LCD) I knew I'd probably never find anything like it again.
My new approach is to show the receipt, while politely reminding them that "I'm doing this because I choose to and not out of legal obligation."
Voila, point made, no danger of ending up in bad situation.
That said, I'm glad someone is out there actually doing the hard work.
I think this was either in an Ars Technica article or on TWiT, but VV actually isn't that hard: Working normally, the iPhone just downloads compressed audio files from AT&T's voicemail server as they come in and stores them locally to be played back.
With Jailbreak and a bit of hacking, it shouldn't be impossible to have the phone get the files from a different source, if necessary even scraping and parsing the usual voicemail audio prompts. Ok, so maybe that could be pretty hard to do... But still, in theory, it's straightforward.
Hold on a second there: The Meizu isn't exactly a bootleg copy of Pirates of the Caribbean. Or a fake iPhone.
It may violate a patent or two in the US, but that remains to be seen (can Apple patent having buttons in a 4x4 grid?); it's in a completely different class from the bona fide fakes that are actually appropriating the Apple trademarks and passing themselves off as Apple products.
The Union Jack has those... diagonal thingies!
Point well taken. However, if privacy can be made marketable, that could turn the situation on its head, with businesses standing to lose more from customers fleeing than from missed demographic data revenue. A shame this could never happen in the ISP market.
I took a look at the most recent US NIH annual, curious as to just *how many* 9/11s worth of people had died in the past 6 years of preventable cardiopulmonary disease, respiratory disorders from smoking, type II diabetes... I forget the exact numbers, but it was just astounding. The numbers themselves, certainly, but the *proportion* to which my country is expending massive resources dealing with an amazingly minor threat, versus what they could be doing with those billions... It boggles the mind. Many times.
...we'll have the +1 funnny meta-mod and all will be illuminated.
...you can pass panic legislation like South Korea's legislative response to outrage over internet bullying. Just start with investigative reports like the above.