Apple are already struggling, and widely criticised, for their slow and inconsistent 'approvals' process. Imagine the explosion of apps that would happen if multiple, and easy, development paths were opened up on the iPad/Phone. They'd drown... I
Jobs went on the record saying that something like HyperCard on the iPad would be great, 'but someone would have to create it'.
This being the same Steve Jobs that effectively killed the original Apple Hypercard back in 2000?
Maybe that should have read, "something like HyperCard on the iPad would be great, but we would have to create it, otherwise it clearly would not be insanely great..."
1. Tethering your 'phone, via USB or bluetooth, is a lot easier these days. Easily within the reach of those technically sophisticated enough to use/need it. (Plus it's nice to be able to charge your phone via USB - saves a wall-wart when travelling) 2. What happens when your 'phone rings but it's plugged into your 'puter? So now you need to keep your bluetooth earpiece in? 3. Linked to the above point, can foresee some funky situations if you're using bluetooth audio...I use my PC as a handsfree / music player for my phone sometimes 4. Looks like a great way to lose/get stolen your phone along with your laptop.
I went through this whole 'integration' thing with in-car PCs; A PC which does bluetooth phone, mp3, DVD and also sat-nav? Too complex Tomtom that does bluetooth handsfree? Have to cut the radio when it 'rings'; crappy sound. In the end me and my wife found the best compromise to be a car audio set that does bluetooth handfree, (cuts the music automatically when you answer a call; great sound over the car stereo speakers), but a stand-alone sat-nat device.
You're right. Would need a clutch for the reasons you mention. However, since the clutch would be used rarely, and never to engage drive when under power, it could be very compact, simple and hence cheap.
Because: 1. Given the choice, any sane (project/team) manager would rather hire someone who is highly-experienced in their required environment, (not just a language, but the toolsets that go with it, and 2. Nobody's going to believe a resumé which says 'I really, really know the fundamentals of programming languages'.
I've seen plenty of allegedly super-smart guys turn out crap code.
It's consistent with Google's almost-fanatic insistence on an uncluttered but useful search return. Personally, I like it.
But it also reminds me of Murdoch bitching about news aggregators 'stealing' his content.
Now Google will be accused of 'stealing' from everyone, without even giving them the possibility of some meagre ad revenue from a clickthru...
Cue oblig 'Full Metak Jacket' quote: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around.
@#2 I'm not sure if you're aware of this or not but in the case of a 911 emergency cellular phones without a SIM or account are still capable of dialing out. (At least phone's I'm aware of can). Basically if you're stranded somewhere without a land-line and your account is frozen you can still dial 911 and it will go through. You can't dial other numbers however. Also a thing to note is that your phone will be more aggressive when fetching a signal. I've been able to get a 911 connection when my phone reported "no service". On top of that if you're not a preferred carrier (your carrier rents towers from a larger corporation) you sometimes will not be able to call out if the towers are 'occupied', but with 911 it forces your connectivity.
Your phone is not "more aggressive when fetching a signal"; it's just that 911 calls will be routed via ANY carrier's network.
Hell, I have been considering even getting rid of the phone part of the cell phone and going data only, with Skype et al, is there even any point in paying the $30 or $40 a month for voice service?
I've thought about that two, but: 1. You've got to support non-tech people 'calling in', (OK, you've got SkypeIn', but 2. Whadda you do when you cut your leg off @ home, and either Skype or your local data link is down? POTS is very reliable..
Cool, so I can install uzbl and have a "Unixy" browser that does next to nothing without a headache and a weekend of tinkering... or I can install Firefox and actually get shit done. Sounds about right.
Cool, so I could Firefox and actually get shit done, or I could install uzbl and have a "Unixy" browser that does next to nothing without a headache and a weekend of tinkering.
FTFY (this is/., after all...) *goes away to play with uzbl*
...attempting to sell fake networking equipment to the US Marine Corps...
After all the polemic about cyber-attacks from Russia & China, this could be more sneaky. Mass-produce some Cisco knock-offs, with a backdoor, and sell 'em cheap...I can see it now:
NetAdmin1: "So, no worried about $latest_attack, then?
NetAdmin2: "Nah, just installed the latest Cisco gear. Got a good price too!!!
FTA: "Since 'gmail' is 50% fewer characters than 'googlemail' we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day," wrote software engineer Greg Bullock on Google's Gmail blog.
OK, so that's 5 characters less. So he claims that 12 million gmail addresses are manually typed per day? I find that hard to believe. Surely most addresses are cut & pasted, or automatically included as a reply, or from an address book lookup?
Mod up. Beat me to it. A competent admin, (and if you're running a 'mission critical Exchange server', you'd better be) will be all over this... Of course, patched or not, Exchange is still a steaming pile IMHO
Keep 'em deep enough, and nothing will grow. (No sunlight) Corrosion will of course be a problem, as will be keeping the electrical generating and transmission bits nice and watertight.
Is it possible to exhaust the wind or sea's natural momentum, if there is such a thing? Where does the energy ultimately come from? In other words, is it theoretically possible to have so many wind farms (or, in this case, tide farms) that the atmosphere becomes still?
(captcha: "universe". heh.)
I think we're OK for a while. There's many 'renewable' energy sources that can, and are, being tapped, and we're nowhere near extracting any significant fraction of them so far: 1. Tides, as in this article, come from the sun & moon interacting with the earth; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides 2. Sunlight; there's plenty to spare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy "Solar radiation, along with secondary solar-powered resources such as wind and wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass, account for most of the available renewable energy on earth. Only a minuscule fraction of the available solar energy is used." 3. Let's not forget geothermal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power
Of course, that last one, being strictly a gift of today's Earth, could be compared to 'traditional' energy sources such as hydrocarbons (oil, gas, coal) and nuclear. We're nowhere near running out of those yet either.
Yes, I'm aware of that. Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but there's a difference between 'Flash' (which most people - OK, perhaps not here - think of the pretty graphical thingy that opens in their phone or browser) and the development tools that create the Flash app. OK Adobe's tool is called 'Adobe Flash CS5 Professional', but would you be correct in shortening Ajax Animator or Ming to 'Flash'?
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I would love to take a sea voyage. Only problem is that it's time consuming and not real feasible unless I want to quit my job :(
So quit your job.
Part of the charm of sea travel is that you *get* time...you can earn plenty by blogging and/or writing a book.
Start here: http://www.freightercruises.com/
Which will be the inevitable result...good!
Are they smoking crack?
Judging by the evidence, I'd guess that the WinMo 'leadership' team has been toking something pretty hefty for years...
Apple are already struggling, and widely criticised, for their slow and inconsistent 'approvals' process.
Imagine the explosion of apps that would happen if multiple, and easy, development paths were opened up on the iPad/Phone.
They'd drown...
I
Jobs went on the record saying that something like HyperCard on the iPad would be great, 'but someone would have to create it'.
This being the same Steve Jobs that effectively killed the original Apple Hypercard back in 2000?
Maybe that should have read, "something like HyperCard on the iPad would be great, but we would have to create it, otherwise it clearly would not be insanely great..."
There's a number of issues here:
1. Tethering your 'phone, via USB or bluetooth, is a lot easier these days. Easily within the reach of those technically sophisticated enough to use/need it.
(Plus it's nice to be able to charge your phone via USB - saves a wall-wart when travelling)
2. What happens when your 'phone rings but it's plugged into your 'puter? So now you need to keep your bluetooth earpiece in?
3. Linked to the above point, can foresee some funky situations if you're using bluetooth audio...I use my PC as a handsfree / music player for my phone sometimes
4. Looks like a great way to lose/get stolen your phone along with your laptop.
I went through this whole 'integration' thing with in-car PCs;
A PC which does bluetooth phone, mp3, DVD and also sat-nav? Too complex
Tomtom that does bluetooth handsfree? Have to cut the radio when it 'rings'; crappy sound.
In the end me and my wife found the best compromise to be a car audio set that does bluetooth handfree, (cuts the music automatically when you answer a call; great sound over the car stereo speakers), but a stand-alone sat-nat device.
Sometimes too much integration is a bad thing...
Like this does?
http://www.gizmag.com/go/4909/
Email, a blog and - if just for photos - Picasa; all freely available from Google...
You're right. Would need a clutch for the reasons you mention. However, since the clutch would be used rarely, and never to engage drive when under power, it could be very compact, simple and hence cheap.
Yup. Timmy is the new Zonk
Because:
1. Given the choice, any sane (project/team) manager would rather hire someone who is highly-experienced in their required environment, (not just a language, but the toolsets that go with it, and
2. Nobody's going to believe a resumé which says 'I really, really know the fundamentals of programming languages'.
I've seen plenty of allegedly super-smart guys turn out crap code.
It's consistent with Google's almost-fanatic insistence on an uncluttered but useful search return. Personally, I like it.
But it also reminds me of Murdoch bitching about news aggregators 'stealing' his content.
Now Google will be accused of 'stealing' from everyone, without even giving them the possibility of some meagre ad revenue from a clickthru...
Cue oblig 'Full Metak Jacket' quote:
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around.
@#2 I'm not sure if you're aware of this or not but in the case of a 911 emergency cellular phones without a SIM or account are still capable of dialing out. (At least phone's I'm aware of can). Basically if you're stranded somewhere without a land-line and your account is frozen you can still dial 911 and it will go through. You can't dial other numbers however. Also a thing to note is that your phone will be more aggressive when fetching a signal. I've been able to get a 911 connection when my phone reported "no service". On top of that if you're not a preferred carrier (your carrier rents towers from a larger corporation) you sometimes will not be able to call out if the towers are 'occupied', but with 911 it forces your connectivity.
Your phone is not "more aggressive when fetching a signal"; it's just that 911 calls will be routed via ANY carrier's network.
Hell, I have been considering even getting rid of the phone part of the cell phone and going data only, with Skype et al, is there even any point in paying the $30 or $40 a month for voice service?
I've thought about that two, but:
1. You've got to support non-tech people 'calling in', (OK, you've got SkypeIn', but
2. Whadda you do when you cut your leg off @ home, and either Skype or your local data link is down? POTS is very reliable..
1. Activate 'master password' option in firefox
2. Store 'trivial' passwords (facebook..) in ff
http://www.uzbl.org/faq.php
Cool, so I can install uzbl and have a "Unixy" browser that does next to nothing without a headache and a weekend of tinkering ... or I can install Firefox and actually get shit done. Sounds about right.
Cool, so I could Firefox and actually get shit done, or I could install uzbl and have a "Unixy" browser that does next to nothing without a headache and a weekend of tinkering.
FTFY (this is /., after all...) *goes away to play with uzbl*
Yes, and the dumbasses at Monsanto should have foreseen this, and been ready with the roundup, and associated foodcrop, replacements.
...attempting to sell fake networking equipment to the US Marine Corps...
After all the polemic about cyber-attacks from Russia & China, this could be more sneaky. Mass-produce some Cisco knock-offs, with a backdoor, and sell 'em cheap...I can see it now:
NetAdmin1: "So, no worried about $latest_attack, then?
NetAdmin2: "Nah, just installed the latest Cisco gear. Got a good price too!!!
FTA: "Since 'gmail' is 50% fewer characters than 'googlemail' we estimate this name change will save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day," wrote software engineer Greg Bullock on Google's Gmail blog.
OK, so that's 5 characters less. So he claims that 12 million gmail addresses are manually typed per day?
I find that hard to believe. Surely most addresses are cut & pasted, or automatically included as a reply, or from an address book lookup?
BTW, is that the wind or the car?
(Had one of the cars back in the 80s; amazing, but you needed to be either rich or a great mechanic)
Mod up. Beat me to it.
A competent admin, (and if you're running a 'mission critical Exchange server', you'd better be) will be all over this...
Of course, patched or not, Exchange is still a steaming pile IMHO
Keep 'em deep enough, and nothing will grow. (No sunlight)
Corrosion will of course be a problem, as will be keeping the electrical generating and transmission bits nice and watertight.
Is it possible to exhaust the wind or sea's natural momentum, if there is such a thing? Where does the energy ultimately come from? In other words, is it theoretically possible to have so many wind farms (or, in this case, tide farms) that the atmosphere becomes still?
(captcha: "universe". heh.)
I think we're OK for a while. There's many 'renewable' energy sources that can, and are, being tapped, and we're nowhere near extracting any significant fraction of them so far:
1. Tides, as in this article, come from the sun & moon interacting with the earth; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides
2. Sunlight; there's plenty to spare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy "Solar radiation, along with secondary solar-powered resources such as wind and wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass, account for most of the available renewable energy on earth. Only a minuscule fraction of the available solar energy is used."
3. Let's not forget geothermal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power
Of course, that last one, being strictly a gift of today's Earth, could be compared to 'traditional' energy sources such as hydrocarbons (oil, gas, coal) and nuclear. We're nowhere near running out of those yet either.
Yes, I'm aware of that. Maybe I'm just being pedantic, but there's a difference between 'Flash' (which most people - OK, perhaps not here - think of the pretty graphical thingy that opens in their phone or browser) and the development tools that create the Flash app. OK Adobe's tool is called 'Adobe Flash CS5 Professional', but would you be correct in shortening Ajax Animator or Ming to 'Flash'?
I thought that would be something more like: http://www.multidmedia.com/software/zinc/ or AIR, no?