Apple are the owner, not the guy who was using it. Assuming the finder called the number listed under "Contact Us" at apple.com, then he did attempt to contact the owner through the appropriate channel. It's not his fault if they didn't do anything about it.
But they released it for the iPhone. If it doesn't compare well to Safari, which every iPhone has, then why does it even exist? I get that mini is designed for feature phones with no other browser, the iPhone is not that.
But if the Opera browser were doing something with my secure traffic it would be pretty easy to spot if you were looking for it ("why does my browser open a connection to opera.com everytime I go to my bank's site?"). If you already know they're piping everything though a proxy, you have no way of knowing what they (or anyone else) are doing with that data.
You know what I do a lot? Install apps. Install updates. Compile stuff. The huge increase in random access speed from an SSD makes all these things so much faster I hate going back to machines with spinning disks.
Home Premium is limited in what it can do and what software you can install. Atleast if they chose to do it similar to Vista, where you could not install the UNIX Tools for Windows on a "Home" license
I'm pretty sure cygwin will install on any version of Windows.
GNU/Linux is not
Awesome! Let me just install Photoshop, and Premiere, and Word. Oh wait...
All OS's are limited in some way as to what they can do and what software you can install, it's just that those ways differ.
[blockquote]so my tivo isn't even snitching on my viewing habits either[/blockquote] Or you could, of course, opt out of the anonymous stats reporting.
Java does basically no mallocs. Obviously there's an initial malloc to allocate the heap to the JVM but after that it's all managed by the JVM itself, and it's been demonstrated as being much faster than a traditional malloc/free approach. Assuming you set your Xms and Xmx sizes correctly the system malloc implementation is basically irrelevant to Java execution speed.
So you're the guy who made some law firm crazy rich in exchange for no benefit to the community whatsoever? Good job! Class actions like yours are a total waste of time and resources. And you need to stop getting your lines from Futurama...you will not "destroy" them.
Broadly speaking they're very similar. With Windows Update it's normally limited to stuff which MS publish, in much the same way as (say) apt-get on Ubuntu is limited to things in the Ubuntu repos by default. Obviously that's a lot more software there as it's freely distributable, but you still get packages sometimes which aren't included in the distro's repos and you have to add another source to your packages list (or even worse, download a tarball and maintain it manually). This change is to allow third party code to come down through Windows Update, in essence adding more package sources.
It's not new or unique, but it is still useful and a step forward for Windows. Now OSX is the only one without something similar (as far as I know).
By "the market" I meant finger friendly touch screen phones which an emphasis on visual style and simplicity of use. That's what iPhone invented, and that's what Android, WebOS and now WinMo7 are trying to catch up on. Getting hung up on individual features (GPS, 3G, Camera, whatever) is what defined the market before Apple entered it, and what gave us generations of barely distinguishable, dull as ditchwater Nokia candybars and HTC sliders. They realised that it's the HCI aspect which was the most important for a phone, and also the one the existing manufacturers were ignoring. That requires good software, good design, and appropriate hardware (like capacitive screens).
Some things are enjoyed over an indefinite time (like a painting), some are one-time experiences (like drinking a bottle of wine). I understand some people preferring one to the other, but insanity doesn't come into it. Or are people buying concert tickets insane? Or people going on vacation? The actual cost is beside the point, it's just a value call based on how much the money means to you vs how much the experience means to you.
Growing food is labor intensive, so it cannot be truly free(*), software patents are only a self-inflicted wound.
*: unless you can convince people to give their work for free, _someone_ has to pay for the tools and the labor used to grow food
Huh? Last time I checked writing software was pretty labour intensive too. And requires someone to pay for that labour and the tools needed (unless you can convince people to give their work for free). There are many good arguments against software patents, this doesn't seem to be one of them.
It'll soon be used only by employees of corporates who are trapped in the Microsoft ecosystem, who'll all have their own Apple/Android phone in the other pocket.
Really? Speak for yourself. My iPhone's getting long in the tooth and will be replaced this year. I'm kinda spoilt for choice with the new iPhone, things like the Droid and now WinMo7. No decisions yet but the Zune HD is a great device so a phone version of that makes a LOT of sense if you ask me. Maybe that should be their tagline: Windows Mobile 7 - Think Different:)
iPhone wasn't just first to market, it created the market. Given that it's still selling better than any of the competition I'd say that MS would be pretty happy to get anywhere near the level of success as Apple. It's hardly surprising they're not doing anything very differently...
Where are floppy disks on your list? Or punched cards? Or paper tape? Or core memory? Or WORM optical drives? Or Zip Disks?
My point is that storage mediums do die when something better comes along. Spinning HDDs will go away, guaranteed. The question is when, and will it be SSDs (as we know them now) or something else which replace them?
If you actually think that GCD is anything new you clearly know very little about the topic at hand. It's just another triumph of the Apple marketing dept.
iPhone isn't even slightly "instant on" - it takes at least a minute to boot an iPhone from off. What you're seeing most of the time is "screen off" mode. Unsurprisingly, switching the screen on & cranking up the CPU clock doesn't take much time. Likewise, waking my Windows box up from sleep doesn't take very long either. Comparing modern OS software running on modern hardware I see little difference in boot times, or wake time from sleep - which would indicate that if MS are being lazy then so are Apple & all the devs in the Linux & BSD worlds. As for why my ST used to boot so much quicker, well the lack of discs helped, as did the lack of hardware variance (and thus lack of drivers to load & start).
What's really weird is that none of those MACs show up in the MAC vendor database. I've never seen that before (not that I have worked with a great variety of hardware).
Games are not allowed to be controllable via mouse/keyboard although the system does support them for entering text etc. The PS3 is the same, FYI. There are a number of reasons for the restriction, some good some bad.
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Apple are the owner, not the guy who was using it. Assuming the finder called the number listed under "Contact Us" at apple.com, then he did attempt to contact the owner through the appropriate channel. It's not his fault if they didn't do anything about it.
But they released it for the iPhone. If it doesn't compare well to Safari, which every iPhone has, then why does it even exist? I get that mini is designed for feature phones with no other browser, the iPhone is not that.
But if the Opera browser were doing something with my secure traffic it would be pretty easy to spot if you were looking for it ("why does my browser open a connection to opera.com everytime I go to my bank's site?"). If you already know they're piping everything though a proxy, you have no way of knowing what they (or anyone else) are doing with that data.
You know what I do a lot? Install apps. Install updates. Compile stuff. The huge increase in random access speed from an SSD makes all these things so much faster I hate going back to machines with spinning disks.
I'm pretty sure cygwin will install on any version of Windows.
Awesome! Let me just install Photoshop, and Premiere, and Word. Oh wait...
All OS's are limited in some way as to what they can do and what software you can install, it's just that those ways differ.
Indeed, but only because they couldn't read or send email anymore.
[blockquote]so my tivo isn't even snitching on my viewing habits either[/blockquote]
Or you could, of course, opt out of the anonymous stats reporting.
Java does basically no mallocs. Obviously there's an initial malloc to allocate the heap to the JVM but after that it's all managed by the JVM itself, and it's been demonstrated as being much faster than a traditional malloc/free approach. Assuming you set your Xms and Xmx sizes correctly the system malloc implementation is basically irrelevant to Java execution speed.
So you're the guy who made some law firm crazy rich in exchange for no benefit to the community whatsoever? Good job! Class actions like yours are a total waste of time and resources. And you need to stop getting your lines from Futurama...you will not "destroy" them.
But what does Earth give you over just plain Google Maps for that application?
Broadly speaking they're very similar. With Windows Update it's normally limited to stuff which MS publish, in much the same way as (say) apt-get on Ubuntu is limited to things in the Ubuntu repos by default. Obviously that's a lot more software there as it's freely distributable, but you still get packages sometimes which aren't included in the distro's repos and you have to add another source to your packages list (or even worse, download a tarball and maintain it manually). This change is to allow third party code to come down through Windows Update, in essence adding more package sources.
It's not new or unique, but it is still useful and a step forward for Windows. Now OSX is the only one without something similar (as far as I know).
By "the market" I meant finger friendly touch screen phones which an emphasis on visual style and simplicity of use. That's what iPhone invented, and that's what Android, WebOS and now WinMo7 are trying to catch up on. Getting hung up on individual features (GPS, 3G, Camera, whatever) is what defined the market before Apple entered it, and what gave us generations of barely distinguishable, dull as ditchwater Nokia candybars and HTC sliders. They realised that it's the HCI aspect which was the most important for a phone, and also the one the existing manufacturers were ignoring. That requires good software, good design, and appropriate hardware (like capacitive screens).
Some things are enjoyed over an indefinite time (like a painting), some are one-time experiences (like drinking a bottle of wine). I understand some people preferring one to the other, but insanity doesn't come into it. Or are people buying concert tickets insane? Or people going on vacation? The actual cost is beside the point, it's just a value call based on how much the money means to you vs how much the experience means to you.
Huh? Last time I checked writing software was pretty labour intensive too. And requires someone to pay for that labour and the tools needed (unless you can convince people to give their work for free). There are many good arguments against software patents, this doesn't seem to be one of them.
Really? Speak for yourself. My iPhone's getting long in the tooth and will be replaced this year. I'm kinda spoilt for choice with the new iPhone, things like the Droid and now WinMo7. No decisions yet but the Zune HD is a great device so a phone version of that makes a LOT of sense if you ask me. Maybe that should be their tagline: Windows Mobile 7 - Think Different :)
iPhone wasn't just first to market, it created the market. Given that it's still selling better than any of the competition I'd say that MS would be pretty happy to get anywhere near the level of success as Apple. It's hardly surprising they're not doing anything very differently...
Where are floppy disks on your list? Or punched cards? Or paper tape? Or core memory? Or WORM optical drives? Or Zip Disks?
My point is that storage mediums do die when something better comes along. Spinning HDDs will go away, guaranteed. The question is when, and will it be SSDs (as we know them now) or something else which replace them?
If you actually think that GCD is anything new you clearly know very little about the topic at hand. It's just another triumph of the Apple marketing dept.
iPhone isn't even slightly "instant on" - it takes at least a minute to boot an iPhone from off. What you're seeing most of the time is "screen off" mode. Unsurprisingly, switching the screen on & cranking up the CPU clock doesn't take much time. Likewise, waking my Windows box up from sleep doesn't take very long either. Comparing modern OS software running on modern hardware I see little difference in boot times, or wake time from sleep - which would indicate that if MS are being lazy then so are Apple & all the devs in the Linux & BSD worlds. As for why my ST used to boot so much quicker, well the lack of discs helped, as did the lack of hardware variance (and thus lack of drivers to load & start).
So which OS are you using now which is so radically different from Windows in how it handles multi-core processors?
What's really weird is that none of those MACs show up in the MAC vendor database. I've never seen that before (not that I have worked with a great variety of hardware).
Umm....
Huh, didn't know that. Thanks for the correction :)
Games are not allowed to be controllable via mouse/keyboard although the system does support them for entering text etc. The PS3 is the same, FYI. There are a number of reasons for the restriction, some good some bad.
Yes it does, and yes they have. The assumption is the upcoming 360 slim doesn't have space for the memory card slots.