Still with an OS that lacks features that have become standard in other platforms, still with sucky app management, still with a lack of control for a device you won.....all for twice the price of an equivalent Nexus phone.
No thanks. A phone where I can't install a browser of my choice(not just a reskin), download torrents on, use widgets(yes, they greatly increase productivity) on or not have every damn app as an icon on a home screen isn't much use to me.
I just bought a Nexus 5, coming from an iPhone5. I still haven't figured out how to get widgets on my lock screen (apparently, it's *not* just a setting in security - all the JB guides refer to things that KitKat doesn't permit). I sure hope that isn't a feature regression, cause I can get weather on my iOS7 lockscreen (with a drop-slider). Furthermore, during setup/install, I had to enter my wifi password twice (once before update, then after update it forgot all my settings), and it blanked out in an enitre screen. Add to that the fact that the built-in PDF renderer failed on 2 documents I tried to download, and that swiftkey is slow to load, the Chrome location bar is poorly spaced (causing me to wipe out several addresses), and the general confusion about how things are done (there's a search app and the browser app - look and behave similarly but aren't the same).
The bluetooth seems to work better with apps on my Nexus, and the screen real-estate is nice. But... there are a lot of things that the previous-year iPhone did much better/cleaner than the Nexus does. I'm not going back just yet - but so far it isn't a bed of roses here. Hoping I can sort out some of these expectation misses before I feel forced to send this device back.
Point is, change can be wrought, even by children. If all (or most) of the kids held hands at every recess on every day, what could the authorities do? Suspend the entire school?
Great story, but how does this apply for Kindergarteners? (RTFA: this is a K-level only policy) My daughter was K-grade last year and there's no way she'd be able to coordinate this kind of resistance even as a 1st grader, much less as a Kinder.
Parents need to carry the flag here and their main complaint point should be to school administration.
Furthermore, as a taxpayer, I'd see this kind of rule as stupid, unenforceable and a waste of administration/staff time, and thus my tax money. Perhaps that's a better complaint angle - get parents, grandparents, family and friends to complain to the city if the school doesn't listen.
It's an overreactionary policy by the school, nothing more.
Undoubtedly an overreaction due to some hoverparent threatening to sue the school. I think this is a case where they should tell the parent to take their child to another school or to homeschool.
They should just publicize the legal action and parent that's caused this over-reaction. If there is one. While I'm sure the over-litigious nature of western society is often to blame, sometimes (see here), the school admins and staff do the fucking up all on their own.
They need to respond to pressure by exposing the cause. That will only come about if parents apply pressure to the policy change. Let's see what happens.
Many, if not most, IT initiatives with homebrew tech fails.
s/with homebrew tech//
Failure is the default for IT projects - last I heard it was 80% failure rate - most of this is due to unrealistic expectations, newbies billed as "senior" devs, and a project management methodology steeped in anti-patterns [1]. None of this is more prevalent in home-brew over vendor-supplied projects, in fact I'd say it's more likely the other way around.
It's a cat and mouse game and unfortunately the TSA isn't going to win
Oh ye of little faith - the TSA can and will use their ineptness as justification that we need *more TSA*.
Expect it. The only valid purpose of the TSA is to grow until life is unbearable. And then grow further.
This madness will only stop once we see the TSA (and the corrupt politicians and soulless equipment suppliers who create/feed it) as the terrorists who are bent on destroying our freedoms.
Are we getting to where we could create this? IF we can replace blood completely or in part with a substance that has nanites that accomplish some tasks better - perhaps we're ready for SmartBlood.
From a blog synopsizing the technology[1]:
SmartBlood is a suspension of nanomachines that can, among its other abilities, instantly clot severe wounds. It has an increased oxygen-carrying capability, four times greater than ordinary human blood. In this, Scalzi is being very conservative. The "respirocytes" designed by Robert Freitas (1998) are cell-sized pressure tanks that can carry thousands of times the oxygen of an equivalent volume of erythrocytes. But perhaps the CDF doesn't possess full Drexlerian diamondoid nano tech.
udr, If you haven't already , pretty please get these companies putting your password on a "sharing" plan identifed then slotted, pronto at http://plaintextoffenders.com/ - we need to shame these idiots who abuse our security and apparently feel no downside to doing so.
Robin's Choclate's salted caramels at my house this Halloween (For the first 150-ish people who show up.) I figure the children should develop a taste for good candy early, then maybe they won't be so tempted by that cheap wal-mart crap that usually comes in "fun" sizes. What's the deal with "fun" sized candy anyway? Apparently I and someone else have a VERY different definition of "fun." Perhaps they define it as "Not getting type 2 diabetes by the time you're 13." By that definition it'd be more fun to not have candy at all...
Some chick in North Dakota is giving out letters accusing parents of contributing to childhood obesity. If I were a parent and got one of those, I'd help my kids TP that house. We'd be going down to costco for the industrial-sized crate of TP.
We're giving out snickers bars and dental floss sample packets (got 100+ on Amazon for $40). Not that it'll make much of a difference but what the hell.
When The Guardian publishes again --- which it absolutely will --- he can choose to do nothing and further relinquish control, further harming himself politically. Or he can take it to the courts like he threatened, spending a fortune trying to get an unpopular order which will also harm him politically. If he succeeds at getting the order all it will do is make the UK government and the crown look even more the fools. He is playing a game that has no winning moves.
Let's change how we look at David Cameron. Instead of viewing him as the PM, look at him instead as a very expensive property of the Murdochs. How much would Rupert and his clan pay to finally silence the Guardian or any joint willing to publish in the UK? Who cares if their latest pawn (Cameron) goes down in flames - they'll just bribe the opposition or push one of their other pawns forward.
Seriously, these ridiculous numbers, like: 50,000 companies were clients of whatevermoomoo.com should not be trusted.
My Google Apps was one of those "businesses" that tried out Manymoon's Google Apps plugin. I'm not going to buy anything, and stopped using it shortly. If that's the quality of the businesses that are part of the 50,000 then I wouldn't be surprised it's being shuttered. That said its bizarre that Salesforce couldn't just rebrand it and merge it into it's CRM offering.
The current process of mining rare earths in China is horrendously bad for the environment, however because of Greenpeace inspired laws almost no else would do it. Rare earths aren't rare, but environmental laws that actually have anything to do with the environment are.
Why didn't Greenland just amend the legislation to remove rare earths from the ban? Or put in place a gradual effort to also mine uranium?
My guess: Rare Earths are a red herring. The real issue is uranium mining, which would have never passed, but because of "rare earths" and "scary China" and "jobs!!!" the extraction industry got exactly what they wanted - sensible sounding repeal, hiding their intentions to pull up lucrative but environmentally damaging uranium mining.
Look for massive contributions to reelection funds (aka bribes) for the legislative members who happened to support the full repeal. In fact, bribery could be as subtle as market timing information letting those individuals (or their family members) profit massively from external markets.
Don't worry, the EU isn't about to invade the US in some weird reincarnation of Red Dawn. But they (or individual member states) could do a lot of things which would hurt the US a great deal.
Off the top of my head for example, while still keeping things at least nominally relatively "targeted": [a list of things which would be highly unpopular with their constituency or go against WTO rules]
Almost of these things you mention are very costly responses to the US, in some cases, the EU would actually lose more (e.g.: uprooting of a US base from German soil would likely have an economic effect like a tactical nuke).
About the only things I think are low-cost for the EU would be the diplomatic moves - i.e., high profile, no major business or strategic impact. The removal of extradition/rendition agreements are probably for the best - given the dark and dirty uses they've been put to since the "war on terrah".
The likely biggest viable slap in the face to the US would be to ditch, and just start getting very friendly with another superpower like China of course, this likely won't happen either because, who's worse on human rights? I think before the end of the decade it could be that China has far more bases than she has now.
All I can get from this cold-war type move is that Info Sec will be a hot market in the coming days. Intrusion / CounterIntrusion will be the new game by which big organizations (including governments) thrive or suffer.
As a EU citizen, I can only agree. We're increasingly seeing the US (government) as the actual terrorists, which is the only truth as far as i'm concered. I'm happy these economic and data sharing relations are crumbling down. Maybe it will knock some sense into the US government.
It's a pity for the social and human aspect though, I've been twice and love the country and people.
Don't pity us. Be happy. The demise of the NSA and US security empire as it exists begins at the extremities... we should never have annexed EU data in the first place.
Even Anglo-US relations are tenuous nowadays. You've just pissed off the French and the Germans. That's pretty much the three biggest economies/countries in the EU. There's not much of a step left until the whole of the EU has problems with the way you do things.
What are they going to do? We have far more military might than the EU combined, and the EU doesn't have a military chain of command worth speaking about.
So this info "sharing" (aka data fealty) agreement is going to end. Perhaps this is for the best even for the US. As a citizen of the world, I think it's a move in the right direction.
This article sums up my views [1] essentially, city planning is shite for bikers a lot of times, and salmoning is the workaround. The article has some great map-based arguments.
"Bikers who ride the wrong way up a one-way street or bike-lane are called salmon.
There are certain places in the city, particularly in neighborhoods with a lot of one-way streets, like DUMBO, that are difficult to bike around in without salmoning. To get from Point A to Point B legally, you'll need to bike up a hill, around a park, through a tunnel, and generally out of the way at least 5 blocks. Or, you can salmon: ride that tempting one or two blocks the wrong way, carefully pedaling slowly to avoid putting anyone in danger, giving reassuring smiles to the parents pushing strollers giving you the finger and the truck drivers honking at you to get out of the way."
if you want a cell phone you get a cap even with 'unlimited' access there is a fee for using tethering as they want that phone id. and most people are pissy about uing cell bandwith and always nag for the wifi password on the broadband in houses.
T-mobile Simple Choice is moving things back towards the "good" side. They don't charge overage [1], they just drop your data rate after your cap is hit. Every line on a family plan gets it's own 500MB to start, and can go to 2GB or 5GB for $10 or $20 respectively.
AND every single line has tethering.
I've never had a such a low stress mobile carrier relationship than with T-Mobile. No more worrying about data usage or minutes (I did for the first couple of months, but now just don't care - I verify the monthly bill is the same and smile). I don't even have to worry about international data or texts - it's all covered for subscribers [2]. No Gouging.
VZ and AT&T need to take a long walk off a short plank.
In my experience writing your own framework for longevity purposes only makes sense if a) you work for yourself or it's hobby code or b) you get a written guarantee from your employer that you can open-source it or own it outright (latter is exceedingly unlikely)
You can accomplish b) by adding a dash of a). Develop the framework in your home office as a contractor and license it to your employer. Or are there laws keeping someone from being a 1099 contractor and a W-2 employee (or foreign counterparts) at once?
If it's not illegal, it's generally not practiced/advised. I'm sure it's something that'd be red-flagged on financial audits. In this case, it'd be best to just stay 1099 or corporate supplier, and not actually be employed by your customer, so basically still option (a).
However, these days it's much more preferable to not go 1099 (you can't do that for more than 1 year at a time), so consequently major corps hiring contractors generally require you incorporate or work for one of their existing contracting corps (as a sub contractor). In the latter example, all the same IP contractual issues will likely still apply unless that happens to also be a small contracting firm that's somewhat flexible (in which case, I'd be wary since it likely indicates they're not familiar with the legal complexities).
I'd mod you up if I had points. The reason the US has such expensive health care is the insurance companies. They're simply parasitic middlemen who do nothing but add cost.
Please don't forget about two other major reasons "healthcare" is so expensive here in the states: 1) Medical device companies that charge an arm and a leg for basic supplies and 2) Big Pharma, that for some reason (well, billion$ of reasons, actually) lobby to prevent organizations like Medicare from negotiating perscription drug costs.
Insurance companies are evil, but with ACA, their evil has been toned down considerably (no recission from pre-existing conditions + medical loss ratio + fallback of state exchanges) and if things with Obamacare progress, we might get more single-payer down the road.
I see ACA/Obamacare like hybrid gas-engine cars (ie, Prius) - by straddling the private and public insurance options, the road is eased such that a more moderate progression happens. Whether you feel this progressive approach is wise or not is another matter.
Depending on what you're doing, you should consider writing your own framework. I love using the one I wrote from scratch 10+ years ago: it's proven, high quality code, there are no secret corners I don't understand, and I know how to fix or modify it to do new things. It's also small and fast because it only needs to solve the problems *I* encounter.
To anyone who starts preaching the religion of code reuse, I think you're just scared of the unknown... or not a very good programmer. The sorts of things most people need a "framework" for are so simple that any experienced programmer should be able to do it.
Sorry, This doesn't necessarily work either. If it's produced at a workplace, that code is now owned by them. I've had this happen to me before where, on my departure, I wasn't given permission to open-source my framework, it was "competitive advantage" that stayed with the company.
Instead, if I had used an existing framework, I would have a much stronger angle to open-source fundamental changes (ie, ones that aren't part of the business logic) that would benefit others (possibly me in my future role outside the company).
In my experience writing your own framework for longevity purposes only makes sense if a) you work for yourself or it's hobby code or b) you get a written guarantee from your employer that you can open-source it or own it outright (latter is exceedingly unlikely) or c) you never plan on leaving that employer.
Even with option (a) above, if I decided later on to join a company, I've found employers very resistant to licensing my IP (or buying it) - almost all the employment contracts indicate that if I do own such IP, that an agreement exists that any use/licensing is not authorized. Sure, if it's open-sourced, it's easier to get employers to adopt it, but again, I've never been in a position where I've either been allowed to open-source my work or had time outside of work to develop it independently.
this kind of criminal behavior from our gov makes us look like fools. how can we bomb the shit out of people around the world to bring them freedom when we don't even have it at home?
Hey, here's an idea: how about Texas and California fire up a trade agreement: CA can sell electric cars in TX, so long as TX can sell semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines in CA.
Sounds fair - do you think either legislature would go for it? Why/why not?
I would be willing to bet you that a majority of the populace in CA wouldn't like that agreement, while a majority of the people in TX would like it just fine.
Teslas used properly don't kill people. Assault firearms used properly DO kill people, that's what they're made for.
From the comments on the main article, I read this link [1].
Most people who transform their netbooks into Hackintoshes typically do so to gain access to Mac OS X-specific applications and functionality. As it turns out, there is a rather substantial secondary advantage as well.
This isn’t at all confirmed or verified, but it seems that loading up an otherwise Windows-equipped netbook with Mac OS X can boost the battery life on the little computer by up to 33%.
The kicker? This was from 2009, referencing 10.5.7, a four-year old OSX vs. Windows 7. I'd be interested to see if a recent netbook hackintosh with Mavericks vs. WIndows 8.1 would show... likely an even wider divergence given the findings in this/. post.
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Still with an OS that lacks features that have become standard in other platforms, still with sucky app management, still with a lack of control for a device you won.....all for twice the price of an equivalent Nexus phone.
No thanks. A phone where I can't install a browser of my choice(not just a reskin), download torrents on, use widgets(yes, they greatly increase productivity) on or not have every damn app as an icon on a home screen isn't much use to me.
I just bought a Nexus 5, coming from an iPhone5. I still haven't figured out how to get widgets on my lock screen (apparently, it's *not* just a setting in security - all the JB guides refer to things that KitKat doesn't permit). I sure hope that isn't a feature regression, cause I can get weather on my iOS7 lockscreen (with a drop-slider). Furthermore, during setup/install, I had to enter my wifi password twice (once before update, then after update it forgot all my settings), and it blanked out in an enitre screen. Add to that the fact that the built-in PDF renderer failed on 2 documents I tried to download, and that swiftkey is slow to load, the Chrome location bar is poorly spaced (causing me to wipe out several addresses), and the general confusion about how things are done (there's a search app and the browser app - look and behave similarly but aren't the same).
The bluetooth seems to work better with apps on my Nexus, and the screen real-estate is nice. But ... there are a lot of things that the previous-year iPhone did much better/cleaner than the Nexus does. I'm not going back just yet - but so far it isn't a bed of roses here. Hoping I can sort out some of these expectation misses before I feel forced to send this device back.
Point is, change can be wrought, even by children. If all (or most) of the kids held hands at every recess on every day, what could the authorities do? Suspend the entire school?
Great story, but how does this apply for Kindergarteners? (RTFA: this is a K-level only policy) My daughter was K-grade last year and there's no way she'd be able to coordinate this kind of resistance even as a 1st grader, much less as a Kinder.
Parents need to carry the flag here and their main complaint point should be to school administration.
Furthermore, as a taxpayer, I'd see this kind of rule as stupid, unenforceable and a waste of administration/staff time, and thus my tax money. Perhaps that's a better complaint angle - get parents, grandparents, family and friends to complain to the city if the school doesn't listen.
It's an overreactionary policy by the school, nothing more.
Undoubtedly an overreaction due to some hoverparent threatening to sue the school. I think this is a case where they should tell the parent to take their child to another school or to homeschool.
They should just publicize the legal action and parent that's caused this over-reaction. If there is one. While I'm sure the over-litigious nature of western society is often to blame, sometimes (see here), the school admins and staff do the fucking up all on their own.
They need to respond to pressure by exposing the cause. That will only come about if parents apply pressure to the policy change. Let's see what happens.
Many, if not most, IT initiatives with homebrew tech fails.
s/with homebrew tech//
Failure is the default for IT projects - last I heard it was 80% failure rate - most of this is due to unrealistic expectations, newbies billed as "senior" devs, and a project management methodology steeped in anti-patterns [1]. None of this is more prevalent in home-brew over vendor-supplied projects, in fact I'd say it's more likely the other way around.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern#Project_management
It's a cat and mouse game and unfortunately the TSA isn't going to win
Oh ye of little faith - the TSA can and will use their ineptness as justification that we need *more TSA*.
Expect it. The only valid purpose of the TSA is to grow until life is unbearable. And then grow further.
This madness will only stop once we see the TSA (and the corrupt politicians and soulless equipment suppliers who create/feed it) as the terrorists who are bent on destroying our freedoms.
Are we getting to where we could create this? IF we can replace blood completely or in part with a substance that has nanites that accomplish some tasks better - perhaps we're ready for SmartBlood.
From a blog synopsizing the technology[1]:
[1] http://underbase.livejournal.com/49019.html
udr, If you haven't already , pretty please get these companies putting your password on a "sharing" plan identifed then slotted, pronto at http://plaintextoffenders.com/ - we need to shame these idiots who abuse our security and apparently feel no downside to doing so.
Robin's Choclate's salted caramels at my house this Halloween (For the first 150-ish people who show up.) I figure the children should develop a taste for good candy early, then maybe they won't be so tempted by that cheap wal-mart crap that usually comes in "fun" sizes. What's the deal with "fun" sized candy anyway? Apparently I and someone else have a VERY different definition of "fun." Perhaps they define it as "Not getting type 2 diabetes by the time you're 13." By that definition it'd be more fun to not have candy at all...
Some chick in North Dakota is giving out letters accusing parents of contributing to childhood obesity. If I were a parent and got one of those, I'd help my kids TP that house. We'd be going down to costco for the industrial-sized crate of TP.
We're giving out snickers bars and dental floss sample packets (got 100+ on Amazon for $40). Not that it'll make much of a difference but what the hell.
is a series 6 PowerVR part [1], not a 5XT as implied by the article. Wonder if anything else is wrong with Rightware's analysis.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A7
When The Guardian publishes again --- which it absolutely will --- he can choose to do nothing and further relinquish control, further harming himself politically. Or he can take it to the courts like he threatened, spending a fortune trying to get an unpopular order which will also harm him politically. If he succeeds at getting the order all it will do is make the UK government and the crown look even more the fools. He is playing a game that has no winning moves.
Let's change how we look at David Cameron. Instead of viewing him as the PM, look at him instead as a very expensive property of the Murdochs. How much would Rupert and his clan pay to finally silence the Guardian or any joint willing to publish in the UK? Who cares if their latest pawn (Cameron) goes down in flames - they'll just bribe the opposition or push one of their other pawns forward.
Seriously, these ridiculous numbers, like: 50,000 companies were clients of whatevermoomoo.com should not be trusted.
My Google Apps was one of those "businesses" that tried out Manymoon's Google Apps plugin. I'm not going to buy anything, and stopped using it shortly. If that's the quality of the businesses that are part of the 50,000 then I wouldn't be surprised it's being shuttered. That said its bizarre that Salesforce couldn't just rebrand it and merge it into it's CRM offering.
The current process of mining rare earths in China is horrendously bad for the environment, however because of Greenpeace inspired laws almost no else would do it. Rare earths aren't rare, but environmental laws that actually have anything to do with the environment are.
Why didn't Greenland just amend the legislation to remove rare earths from the ban? Or put in place a gradual effort to also mine uranium?
My guess: Rare Earths are a red herring. The real issue is uranium mining, which would have never passed, but because of "rare earths" and "scary China" and "jobs!!!" the extraction industry got exactly what they wanted - sensible sounding repeal, hiding their intentions to pull up lucrative but environmentally damaging uranium mining.
Look for massive contributions to reelection funds (aka bribes) for the legislative members who happened to support the full repeal. In fact, bribery could be as subtle as market timing information letting those individuals (or their family members) profit massively from external markets.
Don't worry, the EU isn't about to invade the US in some weird reincarnation of Red Dawn. But they (or individual member states) could do a lot of things which would hurt the US a great deal.
Off the top of my head for example, while still keeping things at least nominally relatively "targeted": [a list of things which would be highly unpopular with their constituency or go against WTO rules]
Almost of these things you mention are very costly responses to the US, in some cases, the EU would actually lose more (e.g.: uprooting of a US base from German soil would likely have an economic effect like a tactical nuke).
About the only things I think are low-cost for the EU would be the diplomatic moves - i.e., high profile, no major business or strategic impact. The removal of extradition/rendition agreements are probably for the best - given the dark and dirty uses they've been put to since the "war on terrah".
The likely biggest viable slap in the face to the US would be to ditch, and just start getting very friendly with another superpower like China of course, this likely won't happen either because, who's worse on human rights? I think before the end of the decade it could be that China has far more bases than she has now.
All I can get from this cold-war type move is that Info Sec will be a hot market in the coming days. Intrusion / CounterIntrusion will be the new game by which big organizations (including governments) thrive or suffer.
As a EU citizen, I can only agree. We're increasingly seeing the US (government) as the actual terrorists, which is the only truth as far as i'm concered. I'm happy these economic and data sharing relations are crumbling down. Maybe it will knock some sense into the US government.
It's a pity for the social and human aspect though, I've been twice and love the country and people.
Don't pity us. Be happy. The demise of the NSA and US security empire as it exists begins at the extremities... we should never have annexed EU data in the first place.
Even Anglo-US relations are tenuous nowadays. You've just pissed off the French and the Germans. That's pretty much the three biggest economies/countries in the EU. There's not much of a step left until the whole of the EU has problems with the way you do things.
What are they going to do? We have far more military might than the EU combined, and the EU doesn't have a military chain of command worth speaking about.
So this info "sharing" (aka data fealty) agreement is going to end. Perhaps this is for the best even for the US. As a citizen of the world, I think it's a move in the right direction.
This article sums up my views [1] essentially, city planning is shite for bikers a lot of times, and salmoning is the workaround. The article has some great map-based arguments.
"Bikers who ride the wrong way up a one-way street or bike-lane are called salmon.
There are certain places in the city, particularly in neighborhoods with a lot of one-way streets, like DUMBO, that are difficult to bike around in without salmoning. To get from Point A to Point B legally, you'll need to bike up a hill, around a park, through a tunnel, and generally out of the way at least 5 blocks. Or, you can salmon: ride that tempting one or two blocks the wrong way, carefully pedaling slowly to avoid putting anyone in danger, giving reassuring smiles to the parents pushing strollers giving you the finger and the truck drivers honking at you to get out of the way."
[1] http://gothamist.com/2013/06/21/in_defense_of_salmoning_on_a_bike.php
if you want a cell phone you get a cap even with 'unlimited' access there is a fee for using tethering as they want that phone id. and most people are pissy about uing cell bandwith and always nag for the wifi password on the broadband in houses.
T-mobile Simple Choice is moving things back towards the "good" side. They don't charge overage [1], they just drop your data rate after your cap is hit. Every line on a family plan gets it's own 500MB to start, and can go to 2GB or 5GB for $10 or $20 respectively.
AND every single line has tethering.
I've never had a such a low stress mobile carrier relationship than with T-Mobile. No more worrying about data usage or minutes (I did for the first couple of months, but now just don't care - I verify the monthly bill is the same and smile). I don't even have to worry about international data or texts - it's all covered for subscribers [2]. No Gouging.
VZ and AT&T need to take a long walk off a short plank.
[1] f*ucking AT&T charged my wife overage for numerous months last year b/c some app kept pushing her usage over the measly 200MB she had. We could never find the culprit.
[2] http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/10/technology/mobile/tmobile-roaming-charges/
In my experience writing your own framework for longevity purposes only makes sense if a) you work for yourself or it's hobby code or b) you get a written guarantee from your employer that you can open-source it or own it outright (latter is exceedingly unlikely)
You can accomplish b) by adding a dash of a). Develop the framework in your home office as a contractor and license it to your employer. Or are there laws keeping someone from being a 1099 contractor and a W-2 employee (or foreign counterparts) at once?
If it's not illegal, it's generally not practiced/advised. I'm sure it's something that'd be red-flagged on financial audits. In this case, it'd be best to just stay 1099 or corporate supplier, and not actually be employed by your customer, so basically still option (a).
However, these days it's much more preferable to not go 1099 (you can't do that for more than 1 year at a time), so consequently major corps hiring contractors generally require you incorporate or work for one of their existing contracting corps (as a sub contractor). In the latter example, all the same IP contractual issues will likely still apply unless that happens to also be a small contracting firm that's somewhat flexible (in which case, I'd be wary since it likely indicates they're not familiar with the legal complexities).
I'd mod you up if I had points. The reason the US has such expensive health care is the insurance companies. They're simply parasitic middlemen who do nothing but add cost.
Please don't forget about two other major reasons "healthcare" is so expensive here in the states: 1) Medical device companies that charge an arm and a leg for basic supplies and 2) Big Pharma, that for some reason (well, billion$ of reasons, actually) lobby to prevent organizations like Medicare from negotiating perscription drug costs.
Insurance companies are evil, but with ACA, their evil has been toned down considerably (no recission from pre-existing conditions + medical loss ratio + fallback of state exchanges) and if things with Obamacare progress, we might get more single-payer down the road.
I see ACA/Obamacare like hybrid gas-engine cars (ie, Prius) - by straddling the private and public insurance options, the road is eased such that a more moderate progression happens. Whether you feel this progressive approach is wise or not is another matter.
As someone else with mod points, I almost modded you +1 Funny , but my god-like powers of commenting kicked in.
Depending on what you're doing, you should consider writing your own framework. I love using the one I wrote from scratch 10+ years ago: it's proven, high quality code, there are no secret corners I don't understand, and I know how to fix or modify it to do new things. It's also small and fast because it only needs to solve the problems *I* encounter.
To anyone who starts preaching the religion of code reuse, I think you're just scared of the unknown ... or not a very good programmer. The sorts of things most people need a "framework" for are so simple that any experienced programmer should be able to do it.
Sorry, This doesn't necessarily work either. If it's produced at a workplace, that code is now owned by them. I've had this happen to me before where, on my departure, I wasn't given permission to open-source my framework, it was "competitive advantage" that stayed with the company.
Instead, if I had used an existing framework, I would have a much stronger angle to open-source fundamental changes (ie, ones that aren't part of the business logic) that would benefit others (possibly me in my future role outside the company).
In my experience writing your own framework for longevity purposes only makes sense if a) you work for yourself or it's hobby code or b) you get a written guarantee from your employer that you can open-source it or own it outright (latter is exceedingly unlikely) or c) you never plan on leaving that employer.
Even with option (a) above, if I decided later on to join a company, I've found employers very resistant to licensing my IP (or buying it) - almost all the employment contracts indicate that if I do own such IP, that an agreement exists that any use/licensing is not authorized. Sure, if it's open-sourced, it's easier to get employers to adopt it, but again, I've never been in a position where I've either been allowed to open-source my work or had time outside of work to develop it independently.
You're completely and utterly wrong on this one.
Just remove the last two words and you're still correct.
this kind of criminal behavior from our gov makes us look like fools.
how can we bomb the shit out of people around the world to bring them freedom when we don't even have it at home?
Hey, here's an idea: how about Texas and California fire up a trade agreement: CA can sell electric cars in TX, so long as TX can sell semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines in CA.
Sounds fair - do you think either legislature would go for it? Why/why not?
I would be willing to bet you that a majority of the populace in CA wouldn't like that agreement, while a majority of the people in TX would like it just fine.
Teslas used properly don't kill people. Assault firearms used properly DO kill people, that's what they're made for.
From the comments on the main article, I read this link [1].
The kicker? This was from 2009, referencing 10.5.7, a four-year old OSX vs. Windows 7. I'd be interested to see if a recent netbook hackintosh with Mavericks vs. WIndows 8.1 would show... likely an even wider divergence given the findings in this /. post.
[1] http://www.mobilemag.com/2009/05/14/hackintosh-netbooks-experience-33-battery-life-boost/