Most of the time its a HR drone who thinks that PHP is some kind of street name for a drug
PHP is a gateway language, it's easy to start with but before you know it you're hooked on Python, C, Java, and even worse. I get the shakes now if I don't use Perl every few hours. PHP ruined my life man.
I hate to argue, but I found my electives in Liberal Arts to be fairly useful in my professional life. It's fairly important to get a broad education, and knowing about the history and sociology of a variety of places has helped me work in the world more efficiently. YMMV
Completely agree, despite not wanting to... I did my grad work at Texas A&M (Big 12) and despite how much they continually pay their football coaches and the near deification of the players, the program brought money and prestige to the university. I'd blame 6 and 7 figure incomes of useless administrators more than sports for the astronomical rise in tuition.
Here is your requested response...information should be free! If I'm the first to see a car accident do I suddenly own the rights to publish that particular story? I will grant you that simply copying and pasting entire stories without a citation is sketchy. However I'd much rather deal with the ramifications of a few people making a few bucks that way, than have all of the important news locked behind paywalls.
So you're posting on Slashdot...where hordes of experts and wannabe-experts comment on articles posted here from other locations. Would you be more approving of him if he simply cited his sources? As one of my old profs used to say, that was the difference between academic writing and plagiarism.
The difference in going from VHS to DVD was far more substantial than going from DVD to Blu-Ray. No more rewinding, easy seeking, a menu system. Blu-Ray does have a higher quality, but doesn't provide enough new features to warrant upgrading my entire DVD collection...especially when a decent upconverter can be purchased for relatively cheap. Some titles I have purchased for Blu-Ray, Casino Royale, and Dark Knight look gorgeous in high definition. Duck Soup and Spaceballs, however will likely stay in my collection as DVDs.
Plus who's to say that the next iteration of Firefox won't have the same blocking capabilities of Chrome? When browsers get into an arms race, the consumer wins.
Oh, I like em!
When I saw the CU article I immediately sold 100 shares of AAPL in my ROTH for 257.62. Yesterday I bought them back for 47.95. Today its back up over 253.
It makes me cry when the big boys FUD Apple, all the way to the bank.
That is their prerogative. Like any other workplace they do have the right to block access to whatever material they don't want their employees viewing. I'm in the process of setting up a new proxy for a small office, on it they've asked me to block a fairly large list of sites. I will grant you that the "controversial opinion" aspect has shades of big brother, but in all honesty I have to believe that was bureaucratic shorthand for sites that shouldn't be viewed on a work computer. If you want unfettered access to the internet, do it at home.
Wow. Who knew, you need to own a Mac to use development tools made for the Mac.
Next your going to complain that you need a PS3 to play PS3 games.
Congratulations! That may be the dumbest thing I've seen on./ in a long time! Are you saying that you wouldn't have any righteous indignation if Microsoft ordered that all Windows software must be coded on a Windows machine? And not to be a punctuation nazi...but I don't believe anybody owns a "going", the word you were groping for was "you're"
I'm not sure if I buy that logic. When I was a younger man (I'm 29 now) I used to go out to bars with my buddies and try to work up the guts to talk to girls. We'd hit the casinos, bars, clubs, basically any place that stayed open past nine. After the alcohol fueled haze that I like to call grad school I've found myself staying in more often. Hell, this past weekend the only thing I did was take a nature hike with my girlfriend before we made dinner and had a DS9 marathon. My movie and TV consumption has generally gone up as a function of age, although I'm happy to say it still isn't a fraction of the time most Americans spend in front of the TV.
I have little doubt that Microsoft wants to embrace the idea of having the final say over everything that gets installed. However, there is absolutely no way they would be allowed to do this. Either by the consumers who'd want to install software that doesn't have their blessing, or by the DOJ looking for funding...I mean monopolies.
You make a very good point. When I take my G1 apart, short circuit the antenna and make a call, the signal drops as well. The key difference is with phones designed with functionality trumping aesthetics the antenna is typically not put in a user-accessible location. Apple just had to have something new to add as a bullet point on their spec sheet. How this got through QA is beyond me.
Man I hope you're wrong. I (probably like most slashdotters) learned a lot of what I know by tinkering. Apple's philosophy is about as polar opposite as you can get, if they (and the parent) get their way then there will be no tinkering. People like me who only program as hobbyists will be out in the cold. My big fear is that this whole computer-as-an-appliance trend will catch on and we'll be left with a new generation of users too dumb to troubleshoot their own devices.
Then why are you posting here about "freaking phone apps" and not outside enjoying life, running through fields, in the company of another human being? We need to be idealistic about some things, and if Apple's insane policies become more accepted by the public then it's only a matter of time before the rest of the industry follows suit.
How is this any different from what apps on an iPhone can do? Last time I checked many of them had access to address book, text messages, etc. Sounds like FUD to me.
Right, because record breaking box office numbers and DVD sales aren't contributing at all to those who wrote, directed, produced and starred in said movie.
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Most of the time its a HR drone who thinks that PHP is some kind of street name for a drug
PHP is a gateway language, it's easy to start with but before you know it you're hooked on Python, C, Java, and even worse. I get the shakes now if I don't use Perl every few hours. PHP ruined my life man.
I hate to argue, but I found my electives in Liberal Arts to be fairly useful in my professional life. It's fairly important to get a broad education, and knowing about the history and sociology of a variety of places has helped me work in the world more efficiently. YMMV
Completely agree, despite not wanting to... I did my grad work at Texas A&M (Big 12) and despite how much they continually pay their football coaches and the near deification of the players, the program brought money and prestige to the university. I'd blame 6 and 7 figure incomes of useless administrators more than sports for the astronomical rise in tuition.
Here is your requested response...information should be free! If I'm the first to see a car accident do I suddenly own the rights to publish that particular story? I will grant you that simply copying and pasting entire stories without a citation is sketchy. However I'd much rather deal with the ramifications of a few people making a few bucks that way, than have all of the important news locked behind paywalls.
So you're posting on Slashdot...where hordes of experts and wannabe-experts comment on articles posted here from other locations. Would you be more approving of him if he simply cited his sources? As one of my old profs used to say, that was the difference between academic writing and plagiarism.
The difference in going from VHS to DVD was far more substantial than going from DVD to Blu-Ray. No more rewinding, easy seeking, a menu system. Blu-Ray does have a higher quality, but doesn't provide enough new features to warrant upgrading my entire DVD collection...especially when a decent upconverter can be purchased for relatively cheap. Some titles I have purchased for Blu-Ray, Casino Royale, and Dark Knight look gorgeous in high definition. Duck Soup and Spaceballs, however will likely stay in my collection as DVDs.
Plus who's to say that the next iteration of Firefox won't have the same blocking capabilities of Chrome? When browsers get into an arms race, the consumer wins.
Oh, I like em! When I saw the CU article I immediately sold 100 shares of AAPL in my ROTH for 257.62. Yesterday I bought them back for 47.95. Today its back up over 253. It makes me cry when the big boys FUD Apple, all the way to the bank.
And here's your gold star!
As much as I despise Hannity, I'd prefer to see Beck go through twice.
That is their prerogative. Like any other workplace they do have the right to block access to whatever material they don't want their employees viewing. I'm in the process of setting up a new proxy for a small office, on it they've asked me to block a fairly large list of sites. I will grant you that the "controversial opinion" aspect has shades of big brother, but in all honesty I have to believe that was bureaucratic shorthand for sites that shouldn't be viewed on a work computer. If you want unfettered access to the internet, do it at home.
Wow. Who knew, you need to own a Mac to use development tools made for the Mac.
Next your going to complain that you need a PS3 to play PS3 games.
Congratulations! That may be the dumbest thing I've seen on ./ in a long time! Are you saying that you wouldn't have any righteous indignation if Microsoft ordered that all Windows software must be coded on a Windows machine? And not to be a punctuation nazi...but I don't believe anybody owns a "going", the word you were groping for was "you're"
Isn't the same assumption made for radio commercials?
I'm not sure if I buy that logic. When I was a younger man (I'm 29 now) I used to go out to bars with my buddies and try to work up the guts to talk to girls. We'd hit the casinos, bars, clubs, basically any place that stayed open past nine. After the alcohol fueled haze that I like to call grad school I've found myself staying in more often. Hell, this past weekend the only thing I did was take a nature hike with my girlfriend before we made dinner and had a DS9 marathon. My movie and TV consumption has generally gone up as a function of age, although I'm happy to say it still isn't a fraction of the time most Americans spend in front of the TV.
So are you telling me that every time I go the get a snack when Mythbusters goes to commercial I owe the Discovery Channel money?
I have little doubt that Microsoft wants to embrace the idea of having the final say over everything that gets installed. However, there is absolutely no way they would be allowed to do this. Either by the consumers who'd want to install software that doesn't have their blessing, or by the DOJ looking for funding...I mean monopolies.
"Gee Mr Coder, you appear to have a Linux version.... we don't like these kinds of apps in our store."
"Gee Mr Coder, this appears to be an office suite.. we don't like competitors in our store."
Isn't that the EXACT same thing Apple is doing with their App Store?
You make a very good point. When I take my G1 apart, short circuit the antenna and make a call, the signal drops as well. The key difference is with phones designed with functionality trumping aesthetics the antenna is typically not put in a user-accessible location. Apple just had to have something new to add as a bullet point on their spec sheet. How this got through QA is beyond me.
it's like telling a joke! We do it to put smiles on peoples faces. I don't ask for a dollar every time I tell a joke to someone.
Well I do!
Why did the parrot wear a raincoat?
He wanted to be polyunsaturated
Anybody laughing at that owes me a dollar!
Sarcasm detector...that's a useful invention
Maybe you should stop using analogies that over-simplify things then? Oh wait, this is slashdot.
Ya see, signing your name to a petition is like a car...
Man I hope you're wrong. I (probably like most slashdotters) learned a lot of what I know by tinkering. Apple's philosophy is about as polar opposite as you can get, if they (and the parent) get their way then there will be no tinkering. People like me who only program as hobbyists will be out in the cold. My big fear is that this whole computer-as-an-appliance trend will catch on and we'll be left with a new generation of users too dumb to troubleshoot their own devices.
Then why are you posting here about "freaking phone apps" and not outside enjoying life, running through fields, in the company of another human being? We need to be idealistic about some things, and if Apple's insane policies become more accepted by the public then it's only a matter of time before the rest of the industry follows suit.
Which I still use even today! Now if you'll excuse me it's time for my eleventy o'clock lunch break.
How is this any different from what apps on an iPhone can do? Last time I checked many of them had access to address book, text messages, etc. Sounds like FUD to me.
Right, because record breaking box office numbers and DVD sales aren't contributing at all to those who wrote, directed, produced and starred in said movie.