I hate to be a stick in the mud old guy, but I still think Snowden is a traitor that should be tried as such. I know I'll get modded down for it, but I think he made us all less safe.
So you feel your choices are (a) the crook or (b) the stupid, racist, misogynist, egomaniacal hate monger with an inferiority complex and no political ability at all who cheats people.
And you choose (b).
If IT and software development were unionized, or better, entry was controlled by a professional organization, people would have a better quality of life.
I think you're doing it wrong if that is your experience. My company treats developers like kings. Free snacks, unlimited vacation, $5k in training every year, a week of paid leave to volunteer at a charity of your choice.
Unions seem like a good idea for unskilled or commodity labor that cannot command reasonable compensation as an individual, but in high-skill positions collective bargaining only hurts the good developers. I know I wouldn't be happy making the same thing as everyone around me if I think I am better at my craft.
Fortune added an add blocker detector. As a result, I never read Fortune articles anymore, or share them with any friends. Clearly this was their intention, and it worked.
I guess that tells me that I don't need their content. That likely proves true for every web site on the internet.
I admit that I sort of hope those signing keys are on an offline computer in a big white room at Cupertino HQ with lead lined walls, where someone must walk in with a GM binary on a flash drive, sign it, and walk out with only the signed copy.
In Europe they are fine saying "Yes you complied with every tax law but we just changed our minds. Pay us $8B" and there's nothing you can do if you want to continue to do business there. It's not the US.
How can Apple increase market share? If they had a removable battery, expandable memory, and allowed direct filesystem access, this geek may consider it.
None of these things will add even 1% market share. Not one person in my family could tell you how much RAM is in any device we own besides me (and on some of the tablets I couldn't tell you). We have five laptops, two desktops, four tablets, and four phones. Geeks are not the way to increase market share. They represent a microscopic fraction of a percent of all users.
My wife uses an iPad 3. I got her an iPad Pro for Christmas. The things I am concerned about are printing, durability, battery life, and integration with the rest of the home ecosystem. Meanwhile my son's Windows 10 tablet just "lost" its wi-fi radio -- that has never, ever happened on any Apple product I have ever owned.
If a "professional organization" means some sort of stupid union, then no. Unions did not prevent outsourcing of US jobs, and cannot. The reality is, if you want substandard work on the cheap, you're always going to get that in India. As my boss says of our products, "(software) products without revenue are built in India, products that make money are built in the US".
We do all the design work in the US, because our 250+ Indian counterparts cannot design anything correctly. They code by trial and error. You'll never have a best-in-class product that way. We just give them menial coding tasks, and even then 1 US engineer is as productive as 3 in India.
Entry level is about $85-90K in California. And this entry level means, PhD in hard science from a good university, and often a couple of years of postdoc at a major lab. No relocation paid either, local hires only. And there's never been a problem finding a pipeline of very good to brilliant hires.
We pay nearly that for fresh undergraduates in Atlanta, and our cost of living is half yours. Anyone with 5 years of experience can make $120k easily in Atlanta.
Instead of PGP they should use S/MIME. It's functionally the same but is far more widely supported. It's even included in the Exchange ActiveSync protocol via ResolveRecipients to retrieve the public keys of other users.
I don't dislike PGP/GPG, but if it were me I'd go with a more standard envelope.
I work at AirWatch and work on every mobile device and platform that exists.
They each have their merits and drawbacks. Trying to turn it into some holy war is absurd and pointless.
My two main devices are an iPhone 5 and a Nexus 7 tablet. I love them both for different reasons. As a developer both platforms have merit and both have annoying limitations.
Everything Tim Cook said is technically true but none if it means that a Nexus 5 isn't an awesome phone.
I have an LED football game from about 1983 that still works.
I have my HP 48 GX RPN calculator from my college years (1992+) that works as well now as it ever did. I'll be using that calculator 30 years from now when I am 70 years old.
I was going to post something just like this, but you beat me to it.
Eclipse is "the devil you know" for 99% of Android developers (and probably a majority of Java developers). It may not be as great as IntelliJ or IDEA or NetBeans for somethings, but it's functional and has worked well for a long time. It's got plugins for everything, good git integration, decent UI build tools, good support for JNI and ABI cross compilation, and it was used for 99% of the apps in the Google Play store.
This Android Studio IDE may very well be awesome (I haven't tried it as Eclipse works for me), but this article does not make any case for it whatsoever.
My wife is a veterinarian and I cringe when I see stories like this. Some sensationalist with no medical knowledge skims a few studies or reports and makes a sensationalist article that has no basis in science or fact.
Tramadol is a good drug that helps a lot of animals with chronic pain. Cosequin helped my dog with hip dysplasia to be more comfortable for his last few years. Like many human drugs, efficacy varies by the patient, but the reality is that veterinarians as a whole are great people who truly love animals and would not prescribe things that did not work.
I'm not interested in Bitcoin either, but let's be fair. No fiat currency has any intrinsic value either. In the case of the US$, it hasn't been backed by anything of material value for a long time, since we went off the gold standard.
True but US currency is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US federal government, a body worth $66.07 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_United_States) versus Bitcoin, which is backed by mathematics and some currency speculators.
If a customer tried to pay me in bitcoins I'd laugh. It's got no intrinsic value (like gold or some other barter material), and it isn't accepted as payment for anything I'd want to buy. Until I can spend it at the local grocery store it's just gambling.
I say hang him. And shoot him with a firing squad while he's hanging there.
I bet that's not a popular opinion either but I think he's an asshole who screwed over everyone else for his giant ego.
Jobs like this, with no skills are a dime a dozen, and are the types of jobs (like fast food) that are FIRST jobs, ones for young kids to start with and learn the work ethic and then move up and on to better jobs.
Someone sorting mail or flipping burgers does not rate getting $20/hr or more. That's just nonsense.
I'm not disagreeing with you in principle. However, the reality is, there are tens (hundreds?) of millions of Americans and billions of people worldwide with no real skills whatsoever. None. They're capable of nothing but jobs without a skill requirement. These people rightfully want to sleep, eat, buy stuff, and get healthcare just like everyone else. And yet, they either lack the circumstance, the ability, the willpower, or the mental acuity to grow beyond a job that requires no skills. I am not judging how they came to be in this situation, only remarking that this is their reality.
This is a fact. These people need to be able to survive their whole lives. They need to earn enough not to be a burden on the rest of us. How can this be accomplished? If we aren't willing to give them higher wages, and we're not willing to pay for them to get training to do something more meaningful, then this situation will never change.
They picked the worst company on earth, gave them $300M and thought they were going to get something for it. This has been covered for months by NPR -- nobody has signed up because the site has not been online yet, at all.
Anecdotally, a company I worked for in 2001 hired Oracle consulting to implement their own ERP system for us, and we ended up getting our money back because they could not even make their own software work.
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It's certainly not worth 1/3 the base subscription fee.
Maybe not to you. If it's not worth it to Spotify they aren't required to be on Apple's platform.
I hate to be a stick in the mud old guy, but I still think Snowden is a traitor that should be tried as such. I know I'll get modded down for it, but I think he made us all less safe.
So you feel your choices are (a) the crook or (b) the stupid, racist, misogynist, egomaniacal hate monger with an inferiority complex and no political ability at all who cheats people. And you choose (b).
If IT and software development were unionized, or better, entry was controlled by a professional organization, people would have a better quality of life.
I think you're doing it wrong if that is your experience. My company treats developers like kings. Free snacks, unlimited vacation, $5k in training every year, a week of paid leave to volunteer at a charity of your choice.
Unions seem like a good idea for unskilled or commodity labor that cannot command reasonable compensation as an individual, but in high-skill positions collective bargaining only hurts the good developers. I know I wouldn't be happy making the same thing as everyone around me if I think I am better at my craft.
Fortune added an add blocker detector. As a result, I never read Fortune articles anymore, or share them with any friends. Clearly this was their intention, and it worked.
I guess that tells me that I don't need their content. That likely proves true for every web site on the internet.
I have this for the iPad. It went along with an Atari controller. http://www.amazon.com/Atari-Ar... The games are here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap... It costs $10 to unlock all the games. It is a bit old now, but not as old as Atari :)
I admit that I sort of hope those signing keys are on an offline computer in a big white room at Cupertino HQ with lead lined walls, where someone must walk in with a GM binary on a flash drive, sign it, and walk out with only the signed copy.
In a related study, 53 percent of Americans are ignorant and/or stupid.
In Europe they are fine saying "Yes you complied with every tax law but we just changed our minds. Pay us $8B" and there's nothing you can do if you want to continue to do business there. It's not the US.
How can Apple increase market share? If they had a removable battery, expandable memory, and allowed direct filesystem access, this geek may consider it.
None of these things will add even 1% market share. Not one person in my family could tell you how much RAM is in any device we own besides me (and on some of the tablets I couldn't tell you). We have five laptops, two desktops, four tablets, and four phones. Geeks are not the way to increase market share. They represent a microscopic fraction of a percent of all users.
My wife uses an iPad 3. I got her an iPad Pro for Christmas. The things I am concerned about are printing, durability, battery life, and integration with the rest of the home ecosystem. Meanwhile my son's Windows 10 tablet just "lost" its wi-fi radio -- that has never, ever happened on any Apple product I have ever owned.
If a "professional organization" means some sort of stupid union, then no. Unions did not prevent outsourcing of US jobs, and cannot. The reality is, if you want substandard work on the cheap, you're always going to get that in India. As my boss says of our products, "(software) products without revenue are built in India, products that make money are built in the US".
We do all the design work in the US, because our 250+ Indian counterparts cannot design anything correctly. They code by trial and error. You'll never have a best-in-class product that way. We just give them menial coding tasks, and even then 1 US engineer is as productive as 3 in India.
Entry level is about $85-90K in California. And this entry level means, PhD in hard science from a good university, and often a couple of years of postdoc at a major lab. No relocation paid either, local hires only. And there's never been a problem finding a pipeline of very good to brilliant hires.
We pay nearly that for fresh undergraduates in Atlanta, and our cost of living is half yours. Anyone with 5 years of experience can make $120k easily in Atlanta.
This whole thing is stupid. It's not like there weren't 800 other companies they could have gone to work for. I have 10 unsolicited job offers a week.
Instead of PGP they should use S/MIME. It's functionally the same but is far more widely supported. It's even included in the Exchange ActiveSync protocol via ResolveRecipients to retrieve the public keys of other users. I don't dislike PGP/GPG, but if it were me I'd go with a more standard envelope.
I work at AirWatch and work on every mobile device and platform that exists. They each have their merits and drawbacks. Trying to turn it into some holy war is absurd and pointless. My two main devices are an iPhone 5 and a Nexus 7 tablet. I love them both for different reasons. As a developer both platforms have merit and both have annoying limitations. Everything Tim Cook said is technically true but none if it means that a Nexus 5 isn't an awesome phone.
I have an LED football game from about 1983 that still works. I have my HP 48 GX RPN calculator from my college years (1992+) that works as well now as it ever did. I'll be using that calculator 30 years from now when I am 70 years old.
With a very biased verdict. ... No thanks.
I was going to post something just like this, but you beat me to it.
Eclipse is "the devil you know" for 99% of Android developers (and probably a majority of Java developers). It may not be as great as IntelliJ or IDEA or NetBeans for somethings, but it's functional and has worked well for a long time. It's got plugins for everything, good git integration, decent UI build tools, good support for JNI and ABI cross compilation, and it was used for 99% of the apps in the Google Play store.
This Android Studio IDE may very well be awesome (I haven't tried it as Eclipse works for me), but this article does not make any case for it whatsoever.
They key is to find a good farm supply store with knowledgeable staff who've been there for a while.
Or, you could find a good vet who does their job well and charges a reasonable price for their expertise, which you will not find at a feed store.
My wife is a veterinarian and I cringe when I see stories like this. Some sensationalist with no medical knowledge skims a few studies or reports and makes a sensationalist article that has no basis in science or fact.
Tramadol is a good drug that helps a lot of animals with chronic pain. Cosequin helped my dog with hip dysplasia to be more comfortable for his last few years. Like many human drugs, efficacy varies by the patient, but the reality is that veterinarians as a whole are great people who truly love animals and would not prescribe things that did not work.
I'm not interested in Bitcoin either, but let's be fair. No fiat currency has any intrinsic value either. In the case of the US$, it hasn't been backed by anything of material value for a long time, since we went off the gold standard.
True but US currency is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US federal government, a body worth $66.07 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_United_States) versus Bitcoin, which is backed by mathematics and some currency speculators.
If a customer tried to pay me in bitcoins I'd laugh. It's got no intrinsic value (like gold or some other barter material), and it isn't accepted as payment for anything I'd want to buy. Until I can spend it at the local grocery store it's just gambling.
Or treason. I think that's also an apt definition of what he did.
I say hang him. And shoot him with a firing squad while he's hanging there. I bet that's not a popular opinion either but I think he's an asshole who screwed over everyone else for his giant ego.
Jobs like this, with no skills are a dime a dozen, and are the types of jobs (like fast food) that are FIRST jobs, ones for young kids to start with and learn the work ethic and then move up and on to better jobs.
Someone sorting mail or flipping burgers does not rate getting $20/hr or more. That's just nonsense.
I'm not disagreeing with you in principle. However, the reality is, there are tens (hundreds?) of millions of Americans and billions of people worldwide with no real skills whatsoever. None. They're capable of nothing but jobs without a skill requirement. These people rightfully want to sleep, eat, buy stuff, and get healthcare just like everyone else. And yet, they either lack the circumstance, the ability, the willpower, or the mental acuity to grow beyond a job that requires no skills. I am not judging how they came to be in this situation, only remarking that this is their reality.
This is a fact. These people need to be able to survive their whole lives. They need to earn enough not to be a burden on the rest of us. How can this be accomplished? If we aren't willing to give them higher wages, and we're not willing to pay for them to get training to do something more meaningful, then this situation will never change.
They picked the worst company on earth, gave them $300M and thought they were going to get something for it. This has been covered for months by NPR -- nobody has signed up because the site has not been online yet, at all.
See here and here.
Anecdotally, a company I worked for in 2001 hired Oracle consulting to implement their own ERP system for us, and we ended up getting our money back because they could not even make their own software work.