And that's assuming he actually agreed to and was abound by them in the first place.
Exactly. His incident was the inspiration for my signature. One day someone will have the will to go through years of legal battles necessary to take down abusive EULAs...is what I was going to end this post with, but then I realized that iPhone jailbreakers already won their battle and nothing changed. Sigh...
If you're a MOBILE native application developer, I suspect that you'd be absolutely miserable if you ever had to work on web apps full-time.
Web UI development is challenging for all the wrong reasons. Whether it's having to deal with inconsistent widgets across browsers, or dealing with users whose browser settings break your page, you won't find much enjoyable about it.
At least mobile applications allow you to either use their rich interfaces for run-of-the-mill layouts, or (better yet) create your own layouts for flexibility and portability. Even Android's XML hell is much more enjoyable than figuring out how to make your page compatible with both limited mobile browsers and their small screens AND the wide array of computer resolutions and browser variants, or coping with the heavy limitations on interactive content and convoluted hacks to get around them, or putting up with the unintuitive APIs.
I'm too young to declare myself as fortunate as the retiree whose parody was parodied, but I'm happy to say I've avoided professional web development thus far. Anything closer to the bare metal is freedom -- anything as far removed as web development, with all the layers above you just itching to break your page in the next revision, would probably make people take advantage of prop 215 to get through the day.
Not sure if you read the article, but we non-puritans just won a 7-2 victory in the Supreme Court today. It's not 9-0 but it's still pretty decisive. Even [insert the opposing side of the other side that sort of matches your own ideology here] is on your side. I couldn't have jumped to./ any quicker after reading the story elsewhere.
Most "common folk" tea partiers want to bring back disenfranchised libertarians like myself. Unfortunately, there's a number of fake self-declared libertarians with a microphone (i.e. Glenn Beck) who are probably going to drive libertarians like me to vote for a third party in 2012...again.
I groggily listened to CNN debate while engaging in insomnia denialism, and with three tea partiers and four mainstream Republicans, the only libertarian in the group was Ron Paul. (again)
Global warming is very much a political issue, in that the changes that undoing it demands require a great amount of sacrifice, and thus the will of the people. So modding down conservatives (or liberals for that matter) accomplishes nothing, because they're still going to have Al Gore's embarassing Kilamanjaro prediction or the amazing invisible medieval warm period issues in the backs of their minds.
Climate scientists need to tell their political wing to behave if they want to get anything done. As a skeptic, I see the validity of other arguments on the less popular side (i.e. sunspot activity) and choose not pick sides at all at this point, but said politicians are not helping your cause. Seriously.
The more I think about it, the more this makes perfect sense. If one can just type "apple" to go the current apple.com, www-google-com could become quite the commodity. Or better yet, www-chase-com, www-bankofamerica-com, www-citibank-com...
ICANN employees, some of you read this site, surely?
I tend to agree. I'm not a fan of the ten degrees of litigation that have somewhat wrecked U.S. society, but whoever coded that site needs to not be protected from said litigation. Webmasters of sites hosting animated GIFs of dancing deities and lolcats know better than that, and said idiot(s) is(are) responsible for safeguarding the finances of millions worldwide?!
The wording of all these "internet tax" articles are vague. Are virtual goods included in this mess?
Amazon and other internet-only vendors may yank their California offices, but nowhere in the U.S. are there more virtual goods manufacturers than in California, Bay Area specifically.
Funny to see I'm not the only one who felt exhausted and in an "eff it, I give up" mood after reading the summary.
That said, unless this one gets picked up by the major networks, most users will remain unaware of it. Geeks like us, followed by news junkies, followed by everyone else (especially kids and adolescents) make up a scale from intense awareness to utter cluelessness re: Facebook's privacy practices.
I don't know which way to reply to this video, so I'll reply both ways:
1. They offered us their heads in traditional fashion, and we didn't take them?
2. Apparently all hackers operate deep within a cave, lit only by their own LCD screen, are in their mid 40's, male, wear glasses, and type in a non-frenetic pace. And most definitely, hackers never have mountain dew, pop tarts, or gamer swag in background.
As a nerd I think there's plenty of angles to this story...4chan's alleged "hijacking" of the event, the way the internet changes the dynamics of an open invitation event, but most importantly the way that the Aussie government is handling what most of us would consider a prank. It's also amusing to see how misinterpreted the notion of one's account h(ij)acked is by less seasoned users.
The Apple comment further mystifies me. While terrible that they should lose so much money to Apple, it does give Apple incentive to see this succeed since it's designed for their product. So consider first how amazing Apple is at promoting products and how terribly backward News Corp has been as of late. It might turn out to be a paltry sum to have Apple selling their product with interest of seeing it succeed.
On the contrary, I don't think Apple really cares about this News Corp deal. The 50% premium (versus their typical 30%) is probably made up of promotional fees, and perhaps to offset the revenue that Apple won't be getting via advertising. (though unlikely, as they won't take down other apps for not using iAd) Apple only needs for users to click on their iAds and purchase apps -- any apps -- regardless of where they're from.
Unrelated, but even though I'd never use The Daily in a million years, I could see it having an audience with iPad fanatics who:
- Don't like loading times
- Don't have the time or willpower (or give enough of a damn) to search multiple sources
- Are casual news junkies
I can also see the retro-futuristic appeal to multimedia newspapers. I'm a bit neutral in regards to its long term success, but isn't it a bit early to be writing the epitaph?
I can just see someone taking the bait two years down the road, then pundits questioning the limits of free speech, gun control advocates tossing in their two cents, Palin probably getting dragged in somehow(even though you'd think Gore would), then people start chanting for more civility in politics, etc. The cycle begins anew...
I don't think this will go far, though. iPhone "social" games rely on UDID, as do many middleware providers. A ruling in favor of hiding the UDID will hurt a lot of non-shady companies as well as ad providers.
"Win-tel PC" or "Windows/Intel PC" is a perfectly good replacement to describe machines that were once known as IBM PC Compatibles.
I guess some people really don't understand the opposition mindset on this one. (see the all caps post below) We're not offended by new words entering the lingo, we're offended by the media artificially trying to inflate words they "invented" by acting like it's been in the wide vernacular all this time, and for acting like everyone else is some kind of neerdowell for not having picked up on it.
I'm asking the media to stop inventing words to fill their 24/7 reporting gaps. (like staycation) Let the rest of us do that, then report on it when it's getting to be near omnipresent...like you used to.
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And that's assuming he actually agreed to and was abound by them in the first place.
Exactly. His incident was the inspiration for my signature.
One day someone will have the will to go through years of legal battles necessary to take down abusive EULAs...is what I was going to end this post with, but then I realized that iPhone jailbreakers already won their battle and nothing changed. Sigh...
If you're a MOBILE native application developer, I suspect that you'd be absolutely miserable if you ever had to work on web apps full-time.
Web UI development is challenging for all the wrong reasons. Whether it's having to deal with inconsistent widgets across browsers, or dealing with users whose browser settings break your page, you won't find much enjoyable about it.
At least mobile applications allow you to either use their rich interfaces for run-of-the-mill layouts, or (better yet) create your own layouts for flexibility and portability. Even Android's XML hell is much more enjoyable than figuring out how to make your page compatible with both limited mobile browsers and their small screens AND the wide array of computer resolutions and browser variants, or coping with the heavy limitations on interactive content and convoluted hacks to get around them, or putting up with the unintuitive APIs.
I'm too young to declare myself as fortunate as the retiree whose parody was parodied, but I'm happy to say I've avoided professional web development thus far. Anything closer to the bare metal is freedom -- anything as far removed as web development, with all the layers above you just itching to break your page in the next revision, would probably make people take advantage of prop 215 to get through the day.
We are not free but slaves of puritanism...
Not sure if you read the article, but we non-puritans just won a 7-2 victory in the Supreme Court today. It's not 9-0 but it's still pretty decisive. Even [insert the opposing side of the other side that sort of matches your own ideology here] is on your side. I couldn't have jumped to ./ any quicker after reading the story elsewhere.
Close, but my predictions for frontrunners (on the same line of thought): .viagra .cialis ...
Most "common folk" tea partiers want to bring back disenfranchised libertarians like myself. Unfortunately, there's a number of fake self-declared libertarians with a microphone (i.e. Glenn Beck) who are probably going to drive libertarians like me to vote for a third party in 2012...again.
I groggily listened to CNN debate while engaging in insomnia denialism, and with three tea partiers and four mainstream Republicans, the only libertarian in the group was Ron Paul. (again)
Global warming is very much a political issue, in that the changes that undoing it demands require a great amount of sacrifice, and thus the will of the people. So modding down conservatives (or liberals for that matter) accomplishes nothing, because they're still going to have Al Gore's embarassing Kilamanjaro prediction or the amazing invisible medieval warm period issues in the backs of their minds.
Climate scientists need to tell their political wing to behave if they want to get anything done. As a skeptic, I see the validity of other arguments on the less popular side (i.e. sunspot activity) and choose not pick sides at all at this point, but said politicians are not helping your cause. Seriously.
The more I think about it, the more this makes perfect sense. If one can just type "apple" to go the current apple.com, www-google-com could become quite the commodity. Or better yet, www-chase-com, www-bankofamerica-com, www-citibank-com...
ICANN employees, some of you read this site, surely?
I tend to agree. I'm not a fan of the ten degrees of litigation that have somewhat wrecked U.S. society, but whoever coded that site needs to not be protected from said litigation. Webmasters of sites hosting animated GIFs of dancing deities and lolcats know better than that, and said idiot(s) is(are) responsible for safeguarding the finances of millions worldwide?!
Maybe not the Supreme Court, but how many tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees would it take to get that far? All for a $2500 fine?
Looks like Tennessee has a strong extortion racket going, so long as they don't get greedy and go after rotten.com or something.
The wording of all these "internet tax" articles are vague. Are virtual goods included in this mess?
Amazon and other internet-only vendors may yank their California offices, but nowhere in the U.S. are there more virtual goods manufacturers than in California, Bay Area specifically.
"Hmm, how about we 'extend' taxes online and piss off silicone valley?"
Silicon Valley.
Silicone Valley encompasses Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Orange County.
You lost me when you bashed lolcats.
Funny to see I'm not the only one who felt exhausted and in an "eff it, I give up" mood after reading the summary.
That said, unless this one gets picked up by the major networks, most users will remain unaware of it. Geeks like us, followed by news junkies, followed by everyone else (especially kids and adolescents) make up a scale from intense awareness to utter cluelessness re: Facebook's privacy practices.
I don't know which way to reply to this video, so I'll reply both ways:
1. They offered us their heads in traditional fashion, and we didn't take them?
2. Apparently all hackers operate deep within a cave, lit only by their own LCD screen, are in their mid 40's, male, wear glasses, and type in a non-frenetic pace. And most definitely, hackers never have mountain dew, pop tarts, or gamer swag in background.
It seems that the one thing that bash-fu black belts and complete novices have in common is that they don't realize both can be used in parallel...
As a nerd I think there's plenty of angles to this story...4chan's alleged "hijacking" of the event, the way the internet changes the dynamics of an open invitation event, but most importantly the way that the Aussie government is handling what most of us would consider a prank. It's also amusing to see how misinterpreted the notion of one's account h(ij)acked is by less seasoned users.
Also, it's very, very funny.
Oh, it's easy to reproduce. It's just an incredibly bad study.
I want to see a study of people in national parks vs. Facebook vs. MMO -- if we're lucky it'll give me hope for humanity.
Leave him alone!
-Android Fanboy
I'm trying to figure out if you meant that to be multilayered humor or not...
The Apple comment further mystifies me. While terrible that they should lose so much money to Apple, it does give Apple incentive to see this succeed since it's designed for their product. So consider first how amazing Apple is at promoting products and how terribly backward News Corp has been as of late. It might turn out to be a paltry sum to have Apple selling their product with interest of seeing it succeed.
On the contrary, I don't think Apple really cares about this News Corp deal. The 50% premium (versus their typical 30%) is probably made up of promotional fees, and perhaps to offset the revenue that Apple won't be getting via advertising. (though unlikely, as they won't take down other apps for not using iAd) Apple only needs for users to click on their iAds and purchase apps -- any apps -- regardless of where they're from.
Unrelated, but even though I'd never use The Daily in a million years, I could see it having an audience with iPad fanatics who:
- Don't like loading times
- Don't have the time or willpower (or give enough of a damn) to search multiple sources
- Are casual news junkies
I can also see the retro-futuristic appeal to multimedia newspapers. I'm a bit neutral in regards to its long term success, but isn't it a bit early to be writing the epitaph?
I can just see someone taking the bait two years down the road, then pundits questioning the limits of free speech, gun control advocates tossing in their two cents, Palin probably getting dragged in somehow(even though you'd think Gore would), then people start chanting for more civility in politics, etc. The cycle begins anew...
Nokia has ceased to matter in the states, but I agree with your sentiment. TFA has an extremely American bent.
I don't think this will go far, though. iPhone "social" games rely on UDID, as do many middleware providers. A ruling in favor of hiding the UDID will hurt a lot of non-shady companies as well as ad providers.
I apologize. I thought Slashdot would be the one place to get away from buzzword bingo.
"Win-tel PC" or "Windows/Intel PC" is a perfectly good replacement to describe machines that were once known as IBM PC Compatibles.
I guess some people really don't understand the opposition mindset on this one. (see the all caps post below) We're not offended by new words entering the lingo, we're offended by the media artificially trying to inflate words they "invented" by acting like it's been in the wide vernacular all this time, and for acting like everyone else is some kind of neerdowell for not having picked up on it.
I'm asking the media to stop inventing words to fill their 24/7 reporting gaps. (like staycation) Let the rest of us do that, then report on it when it's getting to be near omnipresent...like you used to.
Oh if only I didn't post in this thread already...I even have mod points.
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