I used to fly American all the time. Then their service started getting really bad. Then not only did they started charging for baggage, their fairs where hardly ever competitive.
They say go to their website to get the cheapest fairs, well going to their website vs Expedia usually meant you paid at least twice the price. I haven't flown American in over two years. I stopped buying flights on their website over five years ago. I wasn't going to pay double the price for the same flight Expedia was offering.
So many people speak like they are an authority on a subject without any real knowledge or true understanding of what they are speaking about.
Rule #1. Assume nothing as to assume is always the first mistake. The odds in someone here on Slashdot speaking with authority on the subject are next to nil yet people imply a lack of creditability on the magazine because they don't like their articles. Yet others claim they are doing the right thing because said information has no barring on Wikileaks or indicts Wired's parent company. How do they know?
What about death by alienation, because you shit where you eat? (ie on your open source developers)
As for Scott's comments, I don't see Redhat in the same free fall Sun was in. Of course Sun was passive aggressive towards the OS community in many aspects. Redhat for the most part hasn't been.
If they don't like it, don't sell via iTunes. If everyone does it, Steve Jobs will get the hint. The 30% Apple charges is absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe companies accept that. It's straight up robbery.
And you think Apple customers are that worried about price?
Apple customers are going to pay a premium no matter what. It's Apple that wants the discount. The less Apple pays for the hardware, the larger the margin they get with each product. Apple's customers aren't going to see any discount, even if Apple's discount is $100 per processor to move to AMD.
Apple has $50B in the cash. Considering what they sell, that's an absurd amount of money. Enough to buy Sony outright. It just goes to show you the enormous margins that consumers pay for Apple products. It's like Sun / Oracle / Cisco in the 90s except these are consumers that are paying the outrageous margins rather than large money-fat corporations.
This sounds very problematic. First off, you can text from a computer without a phone number. Prank text messages sounds like it could be a real problem.
Second, dispatch can't ask distinct questions and anyone who works in IT that has dealt with people with problems, they aren't always clear and concise what is happening.
Isn't it the same thing has having two different retail establishments selling a game? So GameStop and Best Buy both sell a game, will GameStop stop selling it because Activision is also selling it through Best Buy?
This is just behind the curve retailers lashing out at the fact they are behind the curve. I'm sure Blockbuster was mad as hell about Netflix before they broke down and tried to compete.
I'm not against these types of screenings at all. I would prefer them to pat downs or strip searches.
Lets face it. People have to be screened before the board a plane and I prefer the safety that these provide vs being a victim of someones terror. (being blown up, or being touched by a security officer)
What irritates me the most is how many apps now request access to my GPS data. I mean, why does Com2Us's Homerun Battle 3D need to know my GPS location? It's a freaking game! Pageonce personal finance or Live Scores? Why do you need to know where I'm at?
Also, is oracle really trying to state that they have never heard of clean room design? Oracle is pretty screwed on this case, and with google's intent to fight hard, all Oracle is going to do is kill their own business off.
Java has now become a liability, so now people won't want to use it. Simple.
The issues is Google recreating the JVM. Most people who use Java do not do that. While Oracle's actions may put some people off, Java's use is far to wide spread for people to just stop using it.
Nobody is liking Oracle right now, but I'm sure any serious developer isn't going to let what happen stop them from using Java if it's the best tool for the job. I mean do you realize how many major applications / frameworks are built using Java?
It's just not going to happen. Oracle would have to do something a whole lot worse for that to happen.
This guy definitely doesn't write business centric web applications that must be certified on specific browsers.
IE is a pain in the butt most of the time. Firefox is generally the easiest to certify on. You can forget certifying on Chrome. While our app works pretty much all the time on Chrome, certifying on it is a pain because they release so many versions so quickly that we are uncomfortable with making it a certified browsers for our application. That many releases that quick becomes a QA nightmare.
Jobs never does stuff like this. He is very worried. He must have gotten a peak the latest Android growth figures. It's not slowing or even staying the same, it's exploding at a rate Apple can't match on several fronts. Manufacturing alone has to be the biggest worry. They just can't match the output of HTC, Samsung, and Motorola who are all spitting them out as fast as they can. That doesn't even scratch the surface. With all these smartphones coming out, you are going to be able to buy them for next to nothing or even get them free. Apple doesn't want any part of that, but it's coming.
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Sound alone in Linux blows goats. People work hard to create new sound management (PulseAudio) and it royally sucks too.
All of our developers all use Linux. If they attempt update or upgrade, there is a whole slew of things that break. (sound, SMB file share mounting, video drivers, etc)
It's always something. Not to mention Idea (IntelliJ) has is their favorite IDE, but it causes some of them pain because it freezes for long periods of time (X related).
Nothing is really polished on the desktop. If you do find something that is, it won't be after the next update/upgrade.
This is why I don't use any social media. Twitter has to be the absolute worst invention in the world. I don't get it just like I don't get people who respond to spam.
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I used to fly American all the time. Then their service started getting really bad. Then not only did they started charging for baggage, their fairs where hardly ever competitive.
They say go to their website to get the cheapest fairs, well going to their website vs Expedia usually meant you paid at least twice the price. I haven't flown American in over two years. I stopped buying flights on their website over five years ago. I wasn't going to pay double the price for the same flight Expedia was offering.
So many people speak like they are an authority on a subject without any real knowledge or true understanding of what they are speaking about.
Rule #1. Assume nothing as to assume is always the first mistake. The odds in someone here on Slashdot speaking with authority on the subject are next to nil yet people imply a lack of creditability on the magazine because they don't like their articles. Yet others claim they are doing the right thing because said information has no barring on Wikileaks or indicts Wired's parent company. How do they know?
What about death by alienation, because you shit where you eat? (ie on your open source developers)
As for Scott's comments, I don't see Redhat in the same free fall Sun was in. Of course Sun was passive aggressive towards the OS community in many aspects. Redhat for the most part hasn't been.
If they don't like it, don't sell via iTunes. If everyone does it, Steve Jobs will get the hint. The 30% Apple charges is absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe companies accept that. It's straight up robbery.
This makes me incredibly happy. I can't tell you how many times I've dozed off while watching TV only to be rudely awaken by some idiot commercial.
If I were Level3, I block all traffic too and from Comcast. I don't just block it, I accept then blackhole it. DROP
And you think Apple customers are that worried about price?
Apple customers are going to pay a premium no matter what. It's Apple that wants the discount. The less Apple pays for the hardware, the larger the margin they get with each product. Apple's customers aren't going to see any discount, even if Apple's discount is $100 per processor to move to AMD.
Apple has $50B in the cash. Considering what they sell, that's an absurd amount of money. Enough to buy Sony outright. It just goes to show you the enormous margins that consumers pay for Apple products. It's like Sun / Oracle / Cisco in the 90s except these are consumers that are paying the outrageous margins rather than large money-fat corporations.
This sounds very problematic. First off, you can text from a computer without a phone number. Prank text messages sounds like it could be a real problem.
Second, dispatch can't ask distinct questions and anyone who works in IT that has dealt with people with problems, they aren't always clear and concise what is happening.
Some people use sharding to scale horizontally.
I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.
That is a typical idiot media response. Like what happen or not, save the idiotic hyperbole for yourself in the mirror.
Isn't it the same thing has having two different retail establishments selling a game? So GameStop and Best Buy both sell a game, will GameStop stop selling it because Activision is also selling it through Best Buy?
This is just behind the curve retailers lashing out at the fact they are behind the curve. I'm sure Blockbuster was mad as hell about Netflix before they broke down and tried to compete.
I'm not against these types of screenings at all. I would prefer them to pat downs or strip searches.
Lets face it. People have to be screened before the board a plane and I prefer the safety that these provide vs being a victim of someones terror. (being blown up, or being touched by a security officer)
What irritates me the most is how many apps now request access to my GPS data. I mean, why does Com2Us's Homerun Battle 3D need to know my GPS location? It's a freaking game! Pageonce personal finance or Live Scores? Why do you need to know where I'm at?
You don't. You just want to sell my information.
China is paying $1,000 and $6267.40 for any security bugs found in any of Googles web services. ;)
Let that be a lesson to all those idiots who wrote IE only web applications.
Brilliant!
Also, is oracle really trying to state that they have never heard of clean room design? Oracle is pretty screwed on this case, and with google's intent to fight hard, all Oracle is going to do is kill their own business off.
Java has now become a liability, so now people won't want to use it. Simple.
The issues is Google recreating the JVM. Most people who use Java do not do that. While Oracle's actions may put some people off, Java's use is far to wide spread for people to just stop using it.
Nobody is liking Oracle right now, but I'm sure any serious developer isn't going to let what happen stop them from using Java if it's the best tool for the job. I mean do you realize how many major applications / frameworks are built using Java?
It's just not going to happen. Oracle would have to do something a whole lot worse for that to happen.
This guy definitely doesn't write business centric web applications that must be certified on specific browsers.
IE is a pain in the butt most of the time. Firefox is generally the easiest to certify on. You can forget certifying on Chrome. While our app works pretty much all the time on Chrome, certifying on it is a pain because they release so many versions so quickly that we are uncomfortable with making it a certified browsers for our application. That many releases that quick becomes a QA nightmare.
No thanks, I will keep Firefox.
Apparently this is legal, so why should I care? It's not as if the government is going to do better things with that money than Google is.
That's a straight up ignorant statement.
Jobs never does stuff like this. He is very worried. He must have gotten a peak the latest Android growth figures. It's not slowing or even staying the same, it's exploding at a rate Apple can't match on several fronts. Manufacturing alone has to be the biggest worry. They just can't match the output of HTC, Samsung, and Motorola who are all spitting them out as fast as they can. That doesn't even scratch the surface. With all these smartphones coming out, you are going to be able to buy them for next to nothing or even get them free. Apple doesn't want any part of that, but it's coming.
Sound alone in Linux blows goats. People work hard to create new sound management (PulseAudio) and it royally sucks too.
All of our developers all use Linux. If they attempt update or upgrade, there is a whole slew of things that break. (sound, SMB file share mounting, video drivers, etc)
It's always something. Not to mention Idea (IntelliJ) has is their favorite IDE, but it causes some of them pain because it freezes for long periods of time (X related).
Nothing is really polished on the desktop. If you do find something that is, it won't be after the next update/upgrade.
The real reason is because both Microsoft and Facebook see eye-to-eye when it comes to user security. ;)
Both eyes are blind.
Confluence integrates with Jira. I like and can't argue against it.
I've never used Plone, but as the old cliché goes, best tool for the job.
Brett Favre just traded in his iPhone for an Android phone, story at 11. :)
This is why I don't use any social media. Twitter has to be the absolute worst invention in the world. I don't get it just like I don't get people who respond to spam.
Wasn't this already figured out by Ancient Greek mathematicians? :)