What's really scary, being a kid at the time the movies came out, is that pretty soon the "future" they visit in the second movie will be our past (we're only five years away)...
We're probably well on our way to Biff's future...
Right. If that happens, then I think cell providers will be well on their way to becoming dumb pipes.
This still doesn't resolve the fact that you're going through THEIR pipes and given the corporate friendly FCC in this decade that decided to roll back regulations, THEY choose how to fuck you over... there are precious few providers, and two of the four use CDMA (which in its current implementation doesn't allow voice+data) while the other two use GSM/HSDPA (which is what's required for the iPad).
Now the situation in Europe might be different, but that's because their governments mandate standards and interoperability which creates competition.
In short, without government intervention there is very little hope of avoiding the balkanized price-gouging cell market we have today in the USA.
...the web is a massive step backwards. Even MFC development was more enjoyable.
Javascript is amazing and flexible, especially given the new VMs like V8,Squirrelfish,Tracemonkey and advances in DOM... but then again, for our internal app devleopment, we don't care to do special support for IE, if it works with Firefox, Safari and Chrome, it's considered standard enough (for the IE stragglers, we alert to use ChromeFrame as a workaround)
Also, I really loved making sure everyone was on the latest patch release of my client back when I had to deploy my thick-client/client-server app to internal machines... that was great fun </sarcasm>
Thermodynamics says you can't create energy - well then how did it get here in the first place?
Thermodynamics won't tell you the why, as that's more in the philosophical (and spiritual) realm.
My favorite idea/hypothesis is that the universe IS a closed bounded system and that the big bang is one part of a expansion/contraction cycle... fits in neatly with Hindu/Buddhist birth-rebirth cycles. Of course the why still isn't explained, but its more palatable (at least to me).
Should it be any surprise that unmoderated software could introduce security vulnerabilities?
Really, the main problem is that jailbreak processes don't try to change your default root password. So the vulnerability is that Apple supplied a default root password (that isn't workable without jailbreak), and the haxx0rs remove the protection but fail to force user to change or randomize (and remember/show to user) that password.
There's even one book by Stephenson more or less about it.
Stephenson's Diamond Age isn't about mined diamonds, it's about when we're so capable of satisfying our every need with nanotechnology, that diamonds are cheap and easily fabricated (with interesting societal implications)... by far, my favorite Stephenson book.
Why would handset makers care about google "diverging" it's modifications?
The same reason that corporations using Linux worry about "diverging/forking" from the main branch... the future promise of things like Linux and Android is what's exciting, not exactly what currently exists (ie, Android without Google services isn't that much better than Symbian or Mobile OSX, but next years or next decade's Android certainly might be).
Keeping up with software innovation is not free or cheap.
Was about to mod you up until you suggested Google kill it's own (compromised) employees. That's stupid on so many levels.
Google probably isn't firing them because the ones you find are the sloppy ones, and the ones you WANT to find are more clever and will require some pressure on the sloppier ones... which you lose if you terminate them as employees.
Wasn't all that being done for Live Search too though? And that market share was way below Bing's and dropping. It's something more than just those 3 items.
Each purchase/hire will need to undergo a serious cost-benefit evaluation, and the lowest possible dollar paid.
Not to mention continued interest in offshoring almost all actual production capacity (ie, programming, industry, etc)... I'm still competing with folks overseas who cost much less.
And how hot the handset gets when doing common activities like calls or watching videos? These are all far more important to me than the raw hardware numbers...
In fact, I've given up on raw numbers for almost anything that's my personal kit. More megapixels in a camera are worse when the sensor isn't upgraded (see Canon XSi 450D vs. Canon T1i 500D... 20% more megapixels with no sensor upgrade = softer pictures). Likewise, I don't want a phone that's running a hot 1Ghz when fully utilized by a poorly-written app.
Climate change is not in any way a national security issue unless all issues are national security issues, at which point the term has basically zero meaning.
Uh, Gay Marriage is NOT a security issue, and yet, it's a political issue. Climate change impacts are very much a security issue when wars will be fought as resources dry up or become available.
Have you heard of the app store, genius? There is nothing like it before. It was tricky in the past to get some app on phones, even for me. You have to get the right jar file, use Activesync, put it in the right place, then discover it doesn't support your screen res.
That's only half of it, I had lots of Palm games that I properly downloaded, knew would work on my Treo, and that was great... then when iPhone OS 2.0 hit, I went to buy some apps... it's a paradigm shift when you can purchase a needed app via 3G/Edge and have it install in real-time so you can use it immediately... that was something I'd NEVER seen done well before, and Apple nailed it.
I use IE sometimes; there's stuff I try to use that doesn't work in FF or Chrome, especially at work, where government sites still don't work well with either (CAC-enabled DoD sites, especially).
Is there a reason you can't use IEtab on FF? At least you can ditch the malware-magnet IE application frame, even if you don't ditch the trident rendering engine.
USB support was added with an earlier service pack... SP3 if memory serves.
You might want to let Microsoft know about that... they seem to think it's not supported.
I personally had a laptop with SP4 that routinely crashed when I inadvertently plugged in a USB mouse... so I know it was nowhere near as plug-and-play as in win2k.
It's an ideal -- peaceful people living in harmony with nature -- that doesn't hold up to close scrutiny. For instance, what do they do if one of their buddies is born with a genetic disease like Polycystic Kidney Disease or needs some other benefit of modern medicine.
Yeah, I wonder what the Native Americans did back in the 1700's when that happened? Probably the same as any European or Asian: made their buddy's life comfortable as that person died. Harmony doesn't mean your life is easy or long... not sure what doesn't "hold up" there.
I too hate Verizon for forcing $300 of overage on me the only one month I had significant usage (transitioning jobs - lots of telephone interviews that I couldn't take at my desk).
No amount of pleading with them could get them to change even though I threatened to move (my contract was up). I was basically told that they did NOT want me, so I switched as soon as I could.
The worst that Sprint,t-mobile and ATT ever did to me was overpriced international and text (they all do that)... Verizon is truly in a class of it's own with regards to it's rapacious overage.
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We're probably well on our way to Biff's future...
This still doesn't resolve the fact that you're going through THEIR pipes and given the corporate friendly FCC in this decade that decided to roll back regulations, THEY choose how to fuck you over... there are precious few providers, and two of the four use CDMA (which in its current implementation doesn't allow voice+data) while the other two use GSM/HSDPA (which is what's required for the iPad).
Now the situation in Europe might be different, but that's because their governments mandate standards and interoperability which creates competition.
In short, without government intervention there is very little hope of avoiding the balkanized price-gouging cell market we have today in the USA.
Maybe those things that Silverlight can do shouldn't be on the web (especially when it's being forced down the throat of all IE/Windows users).
Javascript is amazing and flexible, especially given the new VMs like V8,Squirrelfish,Tracemonkey and advances in DOM... but then again, for our internal app devleopment, we don't care to do special support for IE, if it works with Firefox, Safari and Chrome, it's considered standard enough (for the IE stragglers, we alert to use ChromeFrame as a workaround)
Also, I really loved making sure everyone was on the latest patch release of my client back when I had to deploy my thick-client/client-server app to internal machines... that was great fun </sarcasm>
Thermodynamics won't tell you the why, as that's more in the philosophical (and spiritual) realm.
My favorite idea/hypothesis is that the universe IS a closed bounded system and that the big bang is one part of a expansion/contraction cycle... fits in neatly with Hindu/Buddhist birth-rebirth cycles. Of course the why still isn't explained, but its more palatable (at least to me).
Really, the main problem is that jailbreak processes don't try to change your default root password. So the vulnerability is that Apple supplied a default root password (that isn't workable without jailbreak), and the haxx0rs remove the protection but fail to force user to change or randomize (and remember/show to user) that password.
Nothing bizarre about that.
Stephenson's Diamond Age isn't about mined diamonds, it's about when we're so capable of satisfying our every need with nanotechnology, that diamonds are cheap and easily fabricated (with interesting societal implications)... by far, my favorite Stephenson book.
[cite needed]... furthermore, the more expensive it is to break out of a sandbox, the less likely any individual app/plugin-maker will do this.
DRM is central to iTunes media, though most of the songs do not... the movies do, as will the forthcoming magazine/ebooks (see iTablet).
Oh, and what about those billions of downloads of Apps... all of them are signed by FairPlay.
The same reason that corporations using Linux worry about "diverging/forking" from the main branch... the future promise of things like Linux and Android is what's exciting, not exactly what currently exists (ie, Android without Google services isn't that much better than Symbian or Mobile OSX, but next years or next decade's Android certainly might be).
Keeping up with software innovation is not free or cheap.
Not to mention, they can effectively live forever (like undead), and continually crowd out real people for money, resources and now rights.
Welcome to the Corporatocracy.
Google probably isn't firing them because the ones you find are the sloppy ones, and the ones you WANT to find are more clever and will require some pressure on the sloppier ones... which you lose if you terminate them as employees.
Like the yahoo acquisition^W partnership?
Perhaps you meant DLP? Not the same as LPD but agreed, it will be confusing.
Not to mention continued interest in offshoring almost all actual production capacity (ie, programming, industry, etc)... I'm still competing with folks overseas who cost much less.
Pleading insanity doesn't necessarily result in no consequences for the offender, you know.
I don't imagine you have root on the vibrator, did you try sudo?
In fact, I've given up on raw numbers for almost anything that's my personal kit. More megapixels in a camera are worse when the sensor isn't upgraded (see Canon XSi 450D vs. Canon T1i 500D ... 20% more megapixels with no sensor upgrade = softer pictures). Likewise, I don't want a phone that's running a hot 1Ghz when fully utilized by a poorly-written app.
Uh, Gay Marriage is NOT a security issue, and yet, it's a political issue. Climate change impacts are very much a security issue when wars will be fought as resources dry up or become available.
That's only half of it, I had lots of Palm games that I properly downloaded, knew would work on my Treo, and that was great... then when iPhone OS 2.0 hit, I went to buy some apps... it's a paradigm shift when you can purchase a needed app via 3G/Edge and have it install in real-time so you can use it immediately... that was something I'd NEVER seen done well before, and Apple nailed it.
Is there a reason you can't use IEtab on FF? At least you can ditch the malware-magnet IE application frame, even if you don't ditch the trident rendering engine.
You might want to let Microsoft know about that... they seem to think it's not supported.
I personally had a laptop with SP4 that routinely crashed when I inadvertently plugged in a USB mouse... so I know it was nowhere near as plug-and-play as in win2k.
So you register each county as having that tax or not.
A zip+4 should give enough accuracy to determine by that level.
Yeah, I wonder what the Native Americans did back in the 1700's when that happened? Probably the same as any European or Asian: made their buddy's life comfortable as that person died. Harmony doesn't mean your life is easy or long... not sure what doesn't "hold up" there.
No amount of pleading with them could get them to change even though I threatened to move (my contract was up). I was basically told that they did NOT want me, so I switched as soon as I could.
The worst that Sprint,t-mobile and ATT ever did to me was overpriced international and text (they all do that)... Verizon is truly in a class of it's own with regards to it's rapacious overage.