I use a Mac and Win 7. There are some damn nice features that 7 has I wish my Mac would copy. Namely: snap to sides.
You can achieve this using both Cinch (shareware) and BetterTouchTool which does the same using only keybindings (free). I use both, as sometimes the keybindings and ALT+CMD is faster, while the drag is visually nice when doing demos.
Yes, I also doubt Apple would copy this, and do find the features useful.
Agreed. My favorite versioning schemes are Ubuntu and OSX. I prefer Ubuntu for it's dual-version system, and OSX for it's simplicity (though I think Snow Leopard was a horrible name considering Leopard was right before it).
Android's versioning scheme was upended by their decision to compete with the iPad (since Honeycomb is such a departure in OS). If they acutally manage to do what Apple did, and merge the code bases, then it won't be so bad, but for right now, there is a tablet OS and a phone OS and a single-dimension versioning system does not work.
At the silly end are Microsoft's wildly differing brands for Windows...
You'll save 3-6K in gas, parking and transport alone.
My commute is 6 miles each way. I ride the bike to work on a good day (my daily exercise and 2h of prep, ride and shower time each way) and if I have to drive I'm only out a total of 30-40 min a day.
However, if I were commuting into the city, I'd definitely be up for telecommuting.
In some companies, telecommuters tend to be forgotten about.
I'd say most companies fit this description.
Visibility is a huge issue for almost every worker out there from the VP to the customer support person.
Telecommuting simply exacerbates this problem. Furthermore, lots of folks are just not motivated (despite thinking they are) to work if there aren't people nearby to motivate them.
Seems that this just becomes the standard when you have a stranglehold on the market. Maximize global profits by squeezing every dime out of the rich countries while poorer nations are the wild west.
I was just about to say this. It's also a very 20th century, as times are changing, and power is shifting. Look to businesses that have a grip on wrangling sustainable profit from all regions and not just rent-seeking via platform domination.
Many (not all, but many) Apple fans have an almost cult-like dedication to Apple products
You know your comment would hold a bit more weight if you had actually looked around a bit to confirm you're not talking nonsense. On a quick review, I find that it's a common experience when the product is just very refined or does things right no other product does. Look at brands like BMW, and products like the Toyota Prius, or (say, 5 years ago) TiVo. Look at Nespresso, Dyson vacuums. I'm sure I'm only scratching the surface here.
Apple is not unique in brand loyalty, just well positioned in very profitable markets with high margins.
There is a way to build a brand that fosters rabid loyalty. It's not as simple as just building a kick-ass product, but understanding your customer. Usage of product development strategies like the Kano Model help here.
Couldn't agree more... I have the wifi-only version of the iPad... pretty much most places that I go have free wifi. I can't imagine paying for a cellular data plan for something that 90% of the time I'm connected to a wireless network.
Which is why Apple negotiated and won the on-demand, monthly, post-paid, no-recurrent data option for the iPad. It was, IMHO as important as the OS or device hardware itself; it got worldwide carriers to get on board with the 3G iPad, while at the same time providing a great response to the users' dilemma on 2 data plans (response being: you don't have 2 plans, only one for your smartphone and an option for monthly on the iPad).
Only a huge company like Apple (or Google, or Microsoft) could do this.
While Apple’s iPad 2 has 65,000 applications, excluding those designed for the iPhone. Honeycomb has far fewer, and commentators have been competing to offer lower numbers.
This just in: New tablet has no apps. New cars have no mileage. New bank accounts have a $0 balance. Film at 11.
Seriously? You're comparing Apps to mileage? At least the iPad came with over 1000 pre-launch.
Its in question now if even little ol' Palm WebOS 3.0 will have more Touchpad apps by the time of it's release than Honeycomb.
Then the "nobody could have foreseen" event happens, and we the taxpayers have to spend 10s to 100s of billions cleaning up the mess.
This attitude seems par for the course, for example, in the financial industry here in the US.
The culture of corruption is on the rise, and human progress gets thrown under the bus.
The main issue, is the corporate-owned media that is free to anoint bullshit topics as issues of the day (Obama's Birth Certificate! Japanese Nuclear Cloud to rain on US soil! Kid rides homemade hot air balloon for 50 miles!) without any oversight or consequence.
If we, the rational, science-minded, and humanity-loving individuals are going to do anything it will require the dismantling or making irrelevant of the mass-media misinformation complex. Or else we're headed back to the middle ages (or 1984).
Sure they will... they go in, they don't back out and admit it's a failure unless it's horribly obvious. I wager somewhere between Zune (extremely low) and Xbox (in the game, but not a huge winner) in popularity, probably more like the Zune being fourth after Android, iOS and RIM in some order.
Perhaps the GP comment
I have to wonder whether, in 2015, Microsoft will be in the phone software business at all.
is really more about questioning Microsoft's future, not just the future of Microsoft's phone business. Recently, they just killed Zune... not because they didn't want to stay in, but because they're tightening their belt. Microsoft is facing mounting pressure from the Googles, Apples and Facebooks of this world, who are hungry and execute well. It may come time at some point that they really are forced to focus on what they do best... business desktop software. This could mean the (forced) abandonment of WP software, Bing, etc.
Actually, MS is a highly secure OS. It is the users that are not secure.
Typical blame-the-victim (btw MS is a company, not an OS). Years of Microsoft's poor security practices in the service of extraction of greater profits and margins has led to this situation.
I have a neighbor, running a mac, little old lady. Found hers to be running as a zombie.
Let me match your anecdotal evidence with some of mine (equally valuable): I have numerous (dozen or more) relatives that have migrated to Mac who prior to the migration would always have some spyware or virus on their Windows system, even a botnet client or two. Post migration, I have yet to hear of any slowdowns, erratic behavior or even systems problems (aside from meatspace issues like wrist pain from computer use, etc). My cousin lost a Mac HD, back in '07 and Time Machine (new back then) didn't save his data.... that's about it.
The fact that Vista/7 is more secure than XP does little to counteract the habits and ecosystem of malware that exists to exploit people. Everyone I know would rather focus on setting up their backup software and dealing with how best to configure their keyboard than worrying about running MS security essentials (good on MS for that one, btw) or malwarebytes.
Nope. Google's still playing catchup with Apple and it's barely entered the race with Microsoft.
First off, Apple isn't a software company, it's main revenues are from hardware. The GP comment was in reference to Microsoft, and I do think Google has been successfully competing with Microsoft vis-a-vis anything Internet (and now, mobile). Microsoft has not been competed with on their own turf, but as Google and Apple grow the landscape away from Microsoft, it will be clear to everyone that what was once the entire consumer computing world (Windows) is now just a big continent, and the other areas are growing faster.
The best way to compete is not to destroy your opponent but to grow faster and eventually acquire them or make them irrelevant.
When filling up my water bottles at a local water filtering place here in Cali, the guy mentioned that all the iodine tablets were sold out. I was beside myself at how selfish and completely scared everyone is. Japan is 10+ hours by flight away... and folks here are spending money on iodine tablets because of the "radiation cloud". W. T. F.
You can not only run VMWare, you can run virtualbox if you just want free (linux is free too). There are numerous VMWare appliances stores like Bitnami
You can install MAMP/XAMPP. You can learn to man up and actually use the package managers.
I've done all of the above in different circumstances. Compare and contrast with my windows coworker who had serious issues with symlinks, svn and windows (XP doesn't support junctions, and neither did svn at that point, IIRC).
Just about the only issue I've had with Mac development is that svn is noticeably slower in doing lots of file operations than on our stage and production linux boxes... but not that much.
Next time you pack for a trip where luggage space is at a premium, try rolling up your clothing instead of packing it folded flat in your suitcase/seabag.
During my trip through US Army basic training, I was told to do this. During our first excursion prep, I ignored it initially, then realized that I couldn't pack everything in my rucksack. On a second attempt, placing more emphasis on rolling my clothes, I managed to fit it all in. Ever since I that time, I roll my clothes unless there's ample space in my luggage (sometimes this has resulted in me traveling with a smaller bag).
However, back to the point, I'm not sure that you could actually gain space rolling a display... unlike clothes, I'm sure any given such display will not like having really tight wrap radius, and unlike most clothing, are not generally disposable/replaceable. Consequently, I'm not sure why "roll-able" displays are really worth mentioning... much like the completely useless roll-able keyboard I bought back in 2001, it's neat for show and that's about it... usability sucked and eventually it got torn from being stored wrapped up.
Then Nielsen is fucking stupid, and by extension so are the execs for the channels that are accepting what Neilsen says. Streaming views should be easier to collect and be more accurate than doing statistics on a sample and estimating how many viewers there were.
The reason is Nielsen will also be fighting the rearguard battle that the channels are starting to fight. They are all part of the same old-world horse and buggy-whip economy that gets invalidated by a massively disruptive technology invention.
Example? No one online trusts Neilsen, they use ComScore. As activity shifts from TV to streaming and online, Neilsen hasn't made the transition.
In all seriousness, why take this down? The only people who would legitimately download this are people who are uncomfortable with their kids being homosexual
Still comfortable? Other than being made to be taken down (ie, attention whoring), this app would only have these users.
Actually, there was a lot customers could ask. First, why in the world do you need yet another way to heat food? Kitchens already have an oven and range, plus perhaps a toaster, waffle iron, or a grill on the back porch. And the coffee pot can keep coffee hot anyhow. Do you really need another oven? Plus, surely it won’t work quite like an oven, or quite like a stove. It’s like something in the middle. How could we need that?
[...] But, wonder of all wonders, people started buying microwaves and using them regularly. In the store, a microwave didn’t seem like a must-have item to many, but once you incorporated it into your daily life, it was irreplaceable. How in the world did we used to heat up leftovers? Sure, people tried out the crazy, complicated recipes, but for the most part, they found new uses for microwaves. The microwave didn’t have to be a regular oven or stove; it was a wholely new category of cooking device that made cooking accessible to even the least talented guy on earth.
I'm not going to go into the specifics, but there are places you can use the iPad where a laptop would be very uncomfortable, and vice-versa. Does that mean one is better than the other? Is a microwave better than an oven? Even 20 years after the microwave's introduction, I bet anyone would think that question silly.
I have numerous dev/test sites with similar addresses that change name/config almost weekly. With Firefox/awesomebar, I can just type the differentiator directly into the browser instead of making a bookmark (which in a week or two will be out of date anyway).
As a web engineer, Firefox has no peer yet. Chrome/Safari are nice, and do offer features and speed that FF doesn't (at least on OSX), but Firefox (thanks to awesomebar) keeps me productive in a very dynamic work environment.
Literature, even non-fiction, is highly subjective in nature. Whereas one person may like a bit of sarcastic wit, another might find it boring.
Given this, establishing a brand is highly important. Giving out copies of a book just establishes your brand... the next book will leverage on the brand, while you still may get royalties for the first book.
The basic method, as with any entrepreneurial endeavor, is to invest lots of time into building the company/brand, release something, then keep doing it over and over with successive releases, allowing experience to guide you to better works/products.
Slashdot Mirror
All of the speculative "we should slash x" or "entirely cut y" could be simplified if we just submitted our answers via the NYTimes Budget Puzzle.
Want to balance the budget? Sure. Go ahead and cut what you want (or don't).
I use a Mac and Win 7. There are some damn nice features that 7 has I wish my Mac would copy. Namely: snap to sides.
You can achieve this using both Cinch (shareware) and BetterTouchTool which does the same using only keybindings (free). I use both, as sometimes the keybindings and ALT+CMD is faster, while the drag is visually nice when doing demos.
Yes, I also doubt Apple would copy this, and do find the features useful.
Agreed. My favorite versioning schemes are Ubuntu and OSX. I prefer Ubuntu for it's dual-version system, and OSX for it's simplicity (though I think Snow Leopard was a horrible name considering Leopard was right before it).
Android's versioning scheme was upended by their decision to compete with the iPad (since Honeycomb is such a departure in OS). If they acutally manage to do what Apple did, and merge the code bases, then it won't be so bad, but for right now, there is a tablet OS and a phone OS and a single-dimension versioning system does not work.
At the silly end are Microsoft's wildly differing brands for Windows...
You'll save 3-6K in gas, parking and transport alone.
My commute is 6 miles each way. I ride the bike to work on a good day (my daily exercise and 2h of prep, ride and shower time each way) and if I have to drive I'm only out a total of 30-40 min a day.
However, if I were commuting into the city, I'd definitely be up for telecommuting.
In some companies, telecommuters tend to be forgotten about.
I'd say most companies fit this description.
Visibility is a huge issue for almost every worker out there from the VP to the customer support person.
Telecommuting simply exacerbates this problem. Furthermore, lots of folks are just not motivated (despite thinking they are) to work if there aren't people nearby to motivate them.
Seems that this just becomes the standard when you have a stranglehold on the market. Maximize global profits by squeezing every dime out of the rich countries while poorer nations are the wild west.
I was just about to say this. It's also a very 20th century, as times are changing, and power is shifting. Look to businesses that have a grip on wrangling sustainable profit from all regions and not just rent-seeking via platform domination.
Many (not all, but many) Apple fans have an almost cult-like dedication to Apple products
You know your comment would hold a bit more weight if you had actually looked around a bit to confirm you're not talking nonsense. On a quick review, I find that it's a common experience when the product is just very refined or does things right no other product does. Look at brands like BMW, and products like the Toyota Prius, or (say, 5 years ago) TiVo. Look at Nespresso, Dyson vacuums. I'm sure I'm only scratching the surface here.
Apple is not unique in brand loyalty, just well positioned in very profitable markets with high margins.
There is a way to build a brand that fosters rabid loyalty. It's not as simple as just building a kick-ass product, but understanding your customer. Usage of product development strategies like the Kano Model help here.
Couldn't agree more ... I have the wifi-only version of the iPad ... pretty much most places that I go have free wifi. I can't imagine paying for a cellular data plan for something that 90% of the time I'm connected to a wireless network.
Which is why Apple negotiated and won the on-demand, monthly, post-paid, no-recurrent data option for the iPad. It was, IMHO as important as the OS or device hardware itself; it got worldwide carriers to get on board with the 3G iPad, while at the same time providing a great response to the users' dilemma on 2 data plans (response being: you don't have 2 plans, only one for your smartphone and an option for monthly on the iPad).
Only a huge company like Apple (or Google, or Microsoft) could do this.
While Apple’s iPad 2 has 65,000 applications, excluding those designed for the iPhone. Honeycomb has far fewer, and commentators have been competing to offer lower numbers.
This just in: New tablet has no apps. New cars have no mileage. New bank accounts have a $0 balance. Film at 11.
Seriously? You're comparing Apps to mileage? At least the iPad came with over 1000 pre-launch.
Its in question now if even little ol' Palm WebOS 3.0 will have more Touchpad apps by the time of it's release than Honeycomb.
Could the privacy issue that arose with Netflix's search contest be a concern with this case?
Can "de-identified" data actually be identifiable?
Then the "nobody could have foreseen" event happens, and we the taxpayers have to spend 10s to 100s of billions cleaning up the mess.
This attitude seems par for the course, for example, in the financial industry here in the US.
The culture of corruption is on the rise, and human progress gets thrown under the bus.
The main issue, is the corporate-owned media that is free to anoint bullshit topics as issues of the day (Obama's Birth Certificate! Japanese Nuclear Cloud to rain on US soil! Kid rides homemade hot air balloon for 50 miles!) without any oversight or consequence.
If we, the rational, science-minded, and humanity-loving individuals are going to do anything it will require the dismantling or making irrelevant of the mass-media misinformation complex. Or else we're headed back to the middle ages (or 1984).
Sure they will... they go in, they don't back out and admit it's a failure unless it's horribly obvious. I wager somewhere between Zune (extremely low) and Xbox (in the game, but not a huge winner) in popularity, probably more like the Zune being fourth after Android, iOS and RIM in some order.
Perhaps the GP comment
I have to wonder whether, in 2015, Microsoft will be in the phone software business at all.
is really more about questioning Microsoft's future, not just the future of Microsoft's phone business. Recently, they just killed Zune... not because they didn't want to stay in, but because they're tightening their belt. Microsoft is facing mounting pressure from the Googles, Apples and Facebooks of this world, who are hungry and execute well. It may come time at some point that they really are forced to focus on what they do best... business desktop software. This could mean the (forced) abandonment of WP software, Bing, etc.
I work at a top 20 email provider and can concur that spam levels are down since the November, 2011.
Care to tell me what MSFT and AAPL are trading for in your current time? I'll even be happy with a ballgame score or two.
Actually, MS is a highly secure OS. It is the users that are not secure.
Typical blame-the-victim (btw MS is a company, not an OS).
Years of Microsoft's poor security practices in the service of extraction of greater profits and margins has led to this situation.
I have a neighbor, running a mac, little old lady. Found hers to be running as a zombie.
Let me match your anecdotal evidence with some of mine (equally valuable):
I have numerous (dozen or more) relatives that have migrated to Mac who prior to the migration would always have some spyware or virus on their Windows system, even a botnet client or two. Post migration, I have yet to hear of any slowdowns, erratic behavior or even systems problems (aside from meatspace issues like wrist pain from computer use, etc). My cousin lost a Mac HD, back in '07 and Time Machine (new back then) didn't save his data.... that's about it.
The fact that Vista/7 is more secure than XP does little to counteract the habits and ecosystem of malware that exists to exploit people. Everyone I know would rather focus on setting up their backup software and dealing with how best to configure their keyboard than worrying about running MS security essentials (good on MS for that one, btw) or malwarebytes.
Nope. Google's still playing catchup with Apple and it's barely entered the race with Microsoft.
First off, Apple isn't a software company, it's main revenues are from hardware. The GP comment was in reference to Microsoft, and I do think Google has been successfully competing with Microsoft vis-a-vis anything Internet (and now, mobile). Microsoft has not been competed with on their own turf, but as Google and Apple grow the landscape away from Microsoft, it will be clear to everyone that what was once the entire consumer computing world (Windows) is now just a big continent, and the other areas are growing faster.
The best way to compete is not to destroy your opponent but to grow faster and eventually acquire them or make them irrelevant.
When filling up my water bottles at a local water filtering place here in Cali, the guy mentioned that all the iodine tablets were sold out.
I was beside myself at how selfish and completely scared everyone is.
Japan is 10+ hours by flight away... and folks here are spending money on iodine tablets because of the "radiation cloud". W. T. F.
You can not only run VMWare, you can run virtualbox if you just want free (linux is free too). There are numerous VMWare appliances stores like Bitnami
You can install MAMP/XAMPP. You can learn to man up and actually use the package managers.
I've done all of the above in different circumstances. Compare and contrast with my windows coworker who had serious issues with symlinks, svn and windows (XP doesn't support junctions, and neither did svn at that point, IIRC).
Just about the only issue I've had with Mac development is that svn is noticeably slower in doing lots of file operations than on our stage and production linux boxes... but not that much.
Next time you pack for a trip where luggage space is at a premium, try rolling up your clothing instead of packing it folded flat in your suitcase/seabag.
During my trip through US Army basic training, I was told to do this. During our first excursion prep, I ignored it initially, then realized that I couldn't pack everything in my rucksack. On a second attempt, placing more emphasis on rolling my clothes, I managed to fit it all in. Ever since I that time, I roll my clothes unless there's ample space in my luggage (sometimes this has resulted in me traveling with a smaller bag).
However, back to the point, I'm not sure that you could actually gain space rolling a display... unlike clothes, I'm sure any given such display will not like having really tight wrap radius, and unlike most clothing, are not generally disposable/replaceable. Consequently, I'm not sure why "roll-able" displays are really worth mentioning... much like the completely useless roll-able keyboard I bought back in 2001, it's neat for show and that's about it... usability sucked and eventually it got torn from being stored wrapped up.
... streaming isn't counted by Nielsen
Then Nielsen is fucking stupid, and by extension so are the execs for the channels that are accepting what Neilsen says. Streaming views should be easier to collect and be more accurate than doing statistics on a sample and estimating how many viewers there were.
The reason is Nielsen will also be fighting the rearguard battle that the channels are starting to fight. They are all part of the same old-world horse and buggy-whip economy that gets invalidated by a massively disruptive technology invention.
Example? No one online trusts Neilsen, they use ComScore. As activity shifts from TV to streaming and online, Neilsen hasn't made the transition.
Apple has neither attacked a hacker nor put rootkits on users' systems.
Apple and the FSF may not see eye to eye, but Apple is one of the better corporate citizens when it comes to open source and the end customer.
None of the above has any bearing on whether you want to boycott their closed-system approach. I applaud your boycott, though I won't be joining you.
In all seriousness, why take this down? The only people who would legitimately download this are people who are uncomfortable with their kids being homosexual
Still comfortable? Other than being made to be taken down (ie, attention whoring), this app would only have these users.
From this insightful article
Actually, there was a lot customers could ask. First, why in the world do you need yet another way to heat food? Kitchens already have an oven and range, plus perhaps a toaster, waffle iron, or a grill on the back porch. And the coffee pot can keep coffee hot anyhow. Do you really need another oven? Plus, surely it won’t work quite like an oven, or quite like a stove. It’s like something in the middle. How could we need that?
[...] But, wonder of all wonders, people started buying microwaves and using them regularly. In the store, a microwave didn’t seem like a must-have item to many, but once you incorporated it into your daily life, it was irreplaceable. How in the world did we used to heat up leftovers? Sure, people tried out the crazy, complicated recipes, but for the most part, they found new uses for microwaves. The microwave didn’t have to be a regular oven or stove; it was a wholely new category of cooking device that made cooking accessible to even the least talented guy on earth.
I'm not going to go into the specifics, but there are places you can use the iPad where a laptop would be very uncomfortable, and vice-versa. Does that mean one is better than the other? Is a microwave better than an oven? Even 20 years after the microwave's introduction, I bet anyone would think that question silly.
I have numerous dev/test sites with similar addresses that change name/config almost weekly. With Firefox/awesomebar, I can just type the differentiator directly into the browser instead of making a bookmark (which in a week or two will be out of date anyway).
As a web engineer, Firefox has no peer yet. Chrome/Safari are nice, and do offer features and speed that FF doesn't (at least on OSX), but Firefox (thanks to awesomebar) keeps me productive in a very dynamic work environment.
I wonder why? Maybe even the act of looking something up might be considered dangerous.
Literature, even non-fiction, is highly subjective in nature. Whereas one person may like a bit of sarcastic wit, another might find it boring.
Given this, establishing a brand is highly important. Giving out copies of a book just establishes your brand... the next book will leverage on the brand, while you still may get royalties for the first book.
The basic method, as with any entrepreneurial endeavor, is to invest lots of time into building the company/brand, release something, then keep doing it over and over with successive releases, allowing experience to guide you to better works/products.