Comment Re:Building should not be complex. (Score 3, Insightful) 106
If only someone would come along and write a new, unified make system.
This has been done. A thousand times over.
And now we have a thousand unified make systems.
If only someone would come along and write a new, unified make system.
This has been done. A thousand times over.
And now we have a thousand unified make systems.
That's exactly what people who make distributions do. If you want to see how complicated the build is for any piece of software, just look at how complicated the build scripts are for various distributions.
I think it's a bad idea to rely on distributors to do this work. With my projects, I always try to make the build process as simple as possible.
If somebody is thinking about maybe contributing to the project, I want it to be completely painless.
It doesn't always work out, especially with third party dependencies, but I try to keep the build process as simple as checkout source code, and build it. No configuration at all. Obviously you can configure stuff, but there should be a default that will work for almost everyone.
My non-noise-cancelling closed ear SRH-440's have better sound than any pair of headphones Bose has ever made and they cut out more background noise as well. I recently wore them trackside at a car race to prevent hearing damage, worked perfectly.
"Flat" relating to headphones usually means a flat frequency response, unless you are talking to people who don't have a clue (which is a very real possibility). A flat frequency response is the goal of a high fidelity system, the very word "fidelity" means trueness to the original source, which is what you get with a flat frequency response. The idea that a speaker needs to distort the sound because it "sounds good" is absurd, and in fact it's the exact same rationale audiofools have for preferring vinyl. Vinyl inherently has an uneven frequency response (among other things) and it is those characteristics that give it is distinctive sound, leading some to prefer it. It is distinctive but it is low fidelity, just like a poor set of speakers. Besides, if you want the treble or bass jacked up or some other frequency band notched, that's what equalizers are for. Although it should be noted they are called equalizers because the intent is to bring an equal loudness to all frequency bands - aka, a flat frequency response. To compensate for speakers that are not already flat.
Anybody with enough money for a pair of good audiophile headphones will be buying the "pro" beats, which have neutral sound by all reports (I've never tested them).
After all, any car (and pigs) with sufficient propulsion do fly. Landing is slightly more difficult, however.
It's not hard at all! Just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Except that "modern mobile devices" get messed up and bogged down exactly the same way - even if the apps are supposed to be sandboxed.
There is one million os wide settings , or system apps and services that can get screwed up and their internally stored data will start causing issues.
Is the battery drain on your android the same as it was after factory reset ? Didn't think so.
Android doesn't sandbox apps.
iOS does, and it doesn't suffer from this problem. All software is given a directory that they can read from/write to. There are a few places outside that which can be read, but virtually nothing has write access (except for a few cases where a system app will expose access to it's data via inter-app communication. Calendar for example has this).
When you uninstall the app, that directory is deleted. There is no trace at all that the app ever existed.
When a program is UNinstalled, all traces of it should be gone. Apple took a different approach, which arguably works far better. Even if stuff is left behind, it just takes up a bit of disk space, and doesn't affect the system at all.
Apple took a different approach on iOS.
OS X suffers the same problems as Windows, although perhaps not as severe.
"Balic goes on to explain to Apple that he was able to try over 20,000 passwords combinations on any account."
20,000 is not a brute force attack. That will only succeed if your password was 3 characters long.
I find it hard to believe anyone was actually vulnerable to this.
I use my phone more often than any other possession I own.
This means any extra money I spend on top of what I "need" is well worth it.
FWIW, I purchased a 5s a few days ago. Not a 6.
My sister is just using Safari on her PowerMac G5.
Anything with flash is pig slow... but most stuff still works. The kids play lots of games without any issues.
Bose and Beats are both highly brand-focused. Bose targets the more mature quality-seeking crowd, while Beats targets the bass-hungry and fashion-conscious youth. There's some overlap, but generally I'd say their targets kept competition to a minimum, and they've pretty much cornered those targets
Apple has the best of both worlds being viewed both as high quality and a status symbol. If they start using their monster marketing teams to align peoples' view of Beats with that of Apple, Bose stands a chance of being pushed out of the market by a frightening direct competition. They've got good reason to try to stall the acquisition as much as possible
Bose also targets youth, although they do a terrible job of it and are getting their ass kicked by Beats.
And Beats also targets musicians with their "Pro" headphone which is not bass hungry at all and has higher quality than anything Bose has ever shipped. As far as I can tell, Beats Pro are some of the best studio headphones money can buy at the moment. If they weren't so expensive I would probably own a pair.
"Those who can't create, litigate" --- who does this remind you of over last 2-3 years? Funny to see Apple whine about plays outta their OWN playbook
Apple filed a patent lawsuit against HTC in 2010, and Samsung in 2011. According to Wikipedia, are the only two patent lawsuits Apple has ever filed in the entire history of the company.
Both those lawsuits only happened after Apple spent years trying to negotiate their disagreements without involving the legal system.
A company that has only filed two lawsuits hardly has a "playbook" for suing people for patent infringement.
Stronger than steel is cool and all, but that doesn't necessarily mean "all the same properties of steel". Durability, heat tolerance, reaction to moisture and a host of other things are likely to mean it's not a drop-in replacement for fibreglass/plastic/metal.
Fibreglass is terrible at all of the things you just listed and we use it for all kinds of things. It just has to be coated with a thin protective layer.
Maybe Apple or the carriers will cut a deal... or maybe their marketing material will just start referring to "apple phones."
Apple is also a trademark, so they are not allowed to use that in advertising either.
I'm not familiar with Mexican law either but these laws are pretty well unified by international treaties. You cannot use another company's trademark in your advertising material unless you have permission. Any carrier who sells the iPhone to customers would have permission to use the trademark, so this tells me the carrier does not sell iPhones and therefore has no business using iPhone in their ads.
This is one of many reasons why I like Safari -you have to jump into the command line settings to *enable* backspace-to-go-back.
It's definitely the best browser available, in terms of getting little things like this right.
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
