> Why not let those with the inclination and ability to fix their issue for themselves?
Only very few people would be in a position to do something sensible with an SDK, other than mess-up their iPhone. The iPhone is like a lot of other Apple-products: a compromise. Judging from initial feedback, the compromise satisfies most people. We'll see how many annoyances creep-up after weeks of usage and how many people get fed-up by the appliance-style of the iPhone. But due to the fact that it does a few things *very* well and those few things match with what more than 95% like to do most (phoning, SMS, email, web-browsing and now even youtube), I can't imagine many re-stockings.
Nevertheless, I also believe, there is an SDK in the works - it's just that Apple may want to get it right, again, first-time. Of course, it's also about control. Apple doesn't want mediocre software to water-down the brand and reputation they have spend years of work and billions of dollars to build. Still, other manufacturers will have a hard-time. The iPhone is already the gold-standard in a lot of categories that any other phone (cheap or expensive) will have to measure up to - and it is the first version of the first phone from a manufacturer who has never released one before (if you agree that the newton wasn't a phone and thus cannot be counted fully...) - and it has been on sale for half a week.
All useless to the general public. Apple probably sold more iPhones in the first 90 minutes than there are people who need those features. The HTC phone my co-worker has seems to have a very bad voice-quality. Personally, I bought a Siemens SK65, specifically for the quert-Keyboard - it also has quite a nice form-factor in that it isn't to wide (but rather thick). I even managed to get it so sync with iSync last week;-) Using it for anything else than phoning and SMSing is a nightmare, though - but those two use-cases are all I need to do, mostly, so it's OK and I'm not sure I need an iPhone. I will probably get one, when a) my employer continues to pay the monthly fees, as he does for my current phone. b) it's actually available from the telco where our company has the business-contract (in Switzerland, I should add)
I'm not going to to spend big bucks on the monthly contract just for fun, or to impress co-workers. But I'll also avoid a Windoze-phone like the plague, I have to admit that;-)
The object that caused the impact moved very fast - it is believed that had it crossed the path of the earth a mere two seconds earlier, it would have hit St. Petersburg. The consequences on history as we know it might have been dramatic. But we will never know - the object came done in one of the least densly populated areas of the world instead, forming no crater and only a footnote in some geography-books.
To this date, it is unknown why German troops stopped short of throwing the British into the water at Dunkirk. They had the means to do it and actually wanted to go forward - but Hitler ordered his generals to stop. Thus the British could salvage a large supply of troops and material.
I'm German, but I'm not sorry for the outcome. The end-result was bad enough, even with a military "genius" like Hitler at the top...
> And to the article poster: The Ferrari wasn't Magnum P.I.'s -- it belonged to Higgins.
ACtually, I thought that Higgins himself was only the house-keeper and the Ferrari was part of the inventory. [,,,checks...[ Ah, yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum%2C_P.I.
Bingo. Same thing happened with other shows (Hart to Hart, for example). Just google for one of the sites that collect plots for all the shows - it's a pain to even read it. No wonder my parents didn't want me to see it back then....
> At the very least, MS should've waited until > NVidia & ATI had their drivers polished
Rest assured that that (i.e. user-experience after the user has bought it) was very low on the list. With enough cynism, your posting could be marked as "funny".
Licensing 6.0 was all what was driving the release-date. A lot of businesses signed the Licensing 6.0 agreement back in... oh wait, 2002/2003, under the assumption that the "next windows" was just around the corner and they would somehow be left behind if they couldn't have it cheaply (I've seen it first-hand). Those contracts ran... 3 years, which brings us to X-mas 2006, when Vista was released to OEMs and large-accounts, so that all the CIOs who signed those contracts didn't look like complete fools to their beancounters, who are still using the same desktop and the same MS-Office they have used for three years.
A maxed out Mac Pro (for MacOS) and a maxed out XW9400 (from HP) for Linux and FreeBSD. But I'd wait with the former until Leopard and iLife 07 is released, because I can get them for free with the new hardware.
> Is recruiting the main goal of a terrorist group?
Bingo. Did it cross your mind that both the current administration and the terrorist groups profit most from the status quo? What would Bush Jr. be without the terrorist threat? He'd be only a footnote in history. Same with Mr. Bin-Laden et.al. They'd be just bumpkins in the nowhere. A similar situation exists in the Israel/Hamas conflict: hardliners on both sides make quite a good living with the status-quo. In a peaceful Israel-Palestine coexistence, hardcore-nationalists (on both sides) would have no place, to political agenda, no power and thus also no influence and no money. Guess how likely a political solution is going to be found with these people still in charge? Same with the Al Quaeda et.al: they will stay in "business" for as long as they can - which in this part of the world means _very_ long. Think decades.
Either the international community finds a cheaper way to fight these people, or we'll be all bankrupt in a couple of years - based on the current spending-rate, you can do your own calculations as to when exactly this will be.
> In my country (America), unless you live in a handful of big cities > (New York, LA, Washington, Chicago) then odds are that you can't > make a living, buy groceries or do much of anything without a car.
I've heard of that. Admittedly, Europe is more densely populated and things are much "closer together". But the lack of public-transport (inter-state) will seriously harm your economy, once oil gets so expensive that only the rich can buy it (which is how it all began - gasoline was formerly only available in pharmacies). Building towns where two shops are 500m apart (and next to nothing in between) also doesn't help.
> A $1,500 - $2,000 licensing process would ruin a lot of livelihoods.
Well, that will be the least problem, then.
In the end, we all get the politicians we deserve.
> Yes, because drivers' licenses solve the problem of bad drivers
In my country (Germany, and most of Europe) it does, surprisingly. But getting the license is not easy at all and costs around 1200-1500 Euro (don't know exactly, I got mine before Euro kicked in). Of course, you can also drive a car without license, but if they catch you, chances are good you end-up in jail. You can buy a car without a driving license, though - same as a computer. So, while I'm a supporter of the "PC driver's license", I'm ready to admit that it may be a bit difficult to enforce. OTOH, e.g. complicated tax-laws don't relieve people from paying them - you've got to hire somebody to do it for you, if you can't do the paperwork yourself.
This reportedly happened at our corporate datacenter.
Our then-CEO liked to appear on-stage and in the company's promo videos (he was quite good at that, mind you). One day, the film-crew was filming him in the "Class A datacenter" (it reportedly had these piezo-electric windows that you could darken with a remote-control). Anyway, the heat of the lamps somehow tripped the fire-alarms and the sprinklers went off. The water caused the fuses to trip, which in turn reportedly put the UPSs into force (causing more short-circuits, because of the water). I don't know how that worked. After the dust had settled, they needed several days of non-stop work to get things into shape again.
In Germany, where unmarked policecars follow and film suspicious cars on the Autobahn regularly (there are speed-limits, too, you know), we have all kinds of "funny" videos. Like the guy who was playing his violin (no kidding) while driving. Recently, a women was stopped in Switzerland on the highway because she was driving, using her phone and her laptop (on her lap) at the same time. She was very angry for being stopped, because her schedule was very dense... Another guy killed a man with his car, because he had to eat a Hamburger and phone and drive all at the same time. He steered the car with two fingers, but glitched off and drove into the person on the sidewalk.
> Google was absolutely certain that they wanted to hire me, > but they hadn't done anything to convince me that I > wanted the job they were offering.
They probably have some kind of "WTF, who the hell *doesn't* want to work here - even Bill Gates would want to work here"-attitude.
I've never applied to Google, but the way various online-sources describe it, they'd like to keep everything confidential. Might be one reason why you weren't shown around - Google seems to like to cultivate this aura of secrecy, even after one has joined the company.
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> Why not let those with the inclination and ability to fix their issue for themselves?
Only very few people would be in a position to do something sensible with an SDK, other than mess-up their iPhone.
The iPhone is like a lot of other Apple-products: a compromise. Judging from initial feedback, the compromise satisfies most people.
We'll see how many annoyances creep-up after weeks of usage and how many people get fed-up by the appliance-style of the iPhone.
But due to the fact that it does a few things *very* well and those few things match with what more than 95% like to do most (phoning, SMS, email, web-browsing and now even youtube), I can't imagine many re-stockings.
Nevertheless, I also believe, there is an SDK in the works - it's just that Apple may want to get it right, again, first-time.
Of course, it's also about control. Apple doesn't want mediocre software to water-down the brand and reputation they have spend years of work and billions of dollars to build.
Still, other manufacturers will have a hard-time. The iPhone is already the gold-standard in a lot of categories that any other phone (cheap or expensive) will have to measure up to - and it is the first version of the first phone from a manufacturer who has never released one before (if you agree that the newton wasn't a phone and thus cannot be counted fully...) - and it has been on sale for half a week.
> ssh, vnc, vi ...
;-)
;-)
> etc.pp.
All useless to the general public. Apple probably sold more iPhones in the first 90 minutes than there are people who need those features.
The HTC phone my co-worker has seems to have a very bad voice-quality.
Personally, I bought a Siemens SK65, specifically for the quert-Keyboard - it also has quite a nice form-factor in that it isn't to wide (but rather thick). I even managed to get it so sync with iSync last week
Using it for anything else than phoning and SMSing is a nightmare, though - but those two use-cases are all I need to do, mostly, so it's OK and I'm not sure I need an iPhone. I will probably get one, when
a) my employer continues to pay the monthly fees, as he does for my current phone.
b) it's actually available from the telco where our company has the business-contract (in Switzerland, I should add)
I'm not going to to spend big bucks on the monthly contract just for fun, or to impress co-workers.
But I'll also avoid a Windoze-phone like the plague, I have to admit that
The object that caused the impact moved very fast - it is believed that had it crossed the path of the earth a mere two seconds earlier, it would have hit St. Petersburg.
The consequences on history as we know it might have been dramatic.
But we will never know - the object came done in one of the least densly populated areas of the world instead, forming no crater and only a footnote in some geography-books.
...backups are only for whimps.
I'll install a homeserver when
- there's a reliable way to back it up
- someone invents free energy
- it's maintenance-free
"Lonely Programmer Writes 352 Webcam Drivers For Linux"
Nevermind...
To this date, it is unknown why German troops stopped short of throwing the British into the water at Dunkirk.
They had the means to do it and actually wanted to go forward - but Hitler ordered his generals to stop. Thus the British could salvage a large supply of troops and material.
I'm German, but I'm not sorry for the outcome. The end-result was bad enough, even with a military "genius" like Hitler at the top...
> Probably they don't want to fix what isn't broken.
./john passwd ?
> Many enterprises have existed before SMB was even created.
You mean LDAP?
Nis -- LDAP
NFS -- SMB
I can understand that one doesn't want to change a working system, but in todays world, NIS really doesn't have any place anymore - at all.
Do you really want all your l33t users try
ypcat passwd > file &&
[...NIS...]
Why would a sane "enterprise" use NIS anyway?
> And to the article poster: The Ferrari wasn't Magnum P.I.'s -- it belonged to Higgins.
ACtually, I thought that Higgins himself was only the house-keeper and the Ferrari was part of the inventory.
[,,,checks...[
Ah, yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum%2C_P.I.
> Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Bingo.
Same thing happened with other shows (Hart to Hart, for example).
Just google for one of the sites that collect plots for all the shows - it's a pain to even read it.
No wonder my parents didn't want me to see it back then....
> At the very least, MS should've waited until
... oh wait, 2002/2003, under the assumption that the "next windows" was just around the corner and they would somehow be left behind if they couldn't have it cheaply (I've seen it first-hand).
> NVidia & ATI had their drivers polished
Rest assured that that (i.e. user-experience after the user has bought it) was very low on the list.
With enough cynism, your posting could be marked as "funny".
Licensing 6.0 was all what was driving the release-date.
A lot of businesses signed the Licensing 6.0 agreement back in
Those contracts ran... 3 years, which brings us to X-mas 2006, when Vista was released to OEMs and large-accounts, so that all the CIOs who signed those contracts didn't look like complete fools to their beancounters, who are still using the same desktop and the same MS-Office they have used for three years.
While you mention those cute SANdisk drives.
This thing will beat the shit out of these SANdisk-toys.
I'd take one of these, too.
A maxed out Mac Pro (for MacOS) and a maxed out XW9400 (from HP) for Linux and FreeBSD.
But I'd wait with the former until Leopard and iLife 07 is released, because I can get them for free with the new hardware.
"There's no finished software.
Finished software is outdated.
> Is recruiting the main goal of a terrorist group?
Bingo.
Did it cross your mind that both the current administration and the terrorist groups profit most from the status quo?
What would Bush Jr. be without the terrorist threat? He'd be only a footnote in history.
Same with Mr. Bin-Laden et.al.
They'd be just bumpkins in the nowhere.
A similar situation exists in the Israel/Hamas conflict: hardliners on both sides make quite a good living with the status-quo. In a peaceful Israel-Palestine coexistence, hardcore-nationalists (on both sides) would have no place, to political agenda, no power and thus also no influence and no money.
Guess how likely a political solution is going to be found with these people still in charge?
Same with the Al Quaeda et.al: they will stay in "business" for as long as they can - which in this part of the world means _very_ long.
Think decades.
Either the international community finds a cheaper way to fight these people, or we'll be all bankrupt in a couple of years - based on the current spending-rate, you can do your own calculations as to when exactly this will be.
cheers,
Rainer
> In my country (America), unless you live in a handful of big cities
> (New York, LA, Washington, Chicago) then odds are that you can't
> make a living, buy groceries or do much of anything without a car.
I've heard of that.
Admittedly, Europe is more densely populated and things are much "closer together".
But the lack of public-transport (inter-state) will seriously harm your economy, once oil gets so expensive that only the rich can buy it (which is how it all began - gasoline was formerly only available in pharmacies).
Building towns where two shops are 500m apart (and next to nothing in between) also doesn't help.
> A $1,500 - $2,000 licensing process would ruin a lot of livelihoods.
Well, that will be the least problem, then.
In the end, we all get the politicians we deserve.
> Yes, because drivers' licenses solve the problem of bad drivers
In my country (Germany, and most of Europe) it does, surprisingly.
But getting the license is not easy at all and costs around 1200-1500 Euro (don't know exactly, I got mine before Euro kicked in).
Of course, you can also drive a car without license, but if they catch you, chances are good you end-up in jail.
You can buy a car without a driving license, though - same as a computer.
So, while I'm a supporter of the "PC driver's license", I'm ready to admit that it may be a bit difficult to enforce.
OTOH, e.g. complicated tax-laws don't relieve people from paying them - you've got to hire somebody to do it for you, if you can't do the paperwork yourself.
...water bottles in the US of A don't carry some sort of fancy warning label like "Drinking to much water can kill you".
This reportedly happened at our corporate datacenter.
Our then-CEO liked to appear on-stage and in the company's promo videos (he was quite good at that, mind you). One day, the film-crew was filming him in the "Class A datacenter" (it reportedly had these piezo-electric windows that you could darken with a remote-control).
Anyway, the heat of the lamps somehow tripped the fire-alarms and the sprinklers went off.
The water caused the fuses to trip, which in turn reportedly put the UPSs into force (causing more short-circuits, because of the water).
I don't know how that worked.
After the dust had settled, they needed several days of non-stop work to get things into shape again.
In Germany, where unmarked policecars follow and film suspicious cars on the Autobahn regularly (there are speed-limits, too, you know), we have all kinds of "funny" videos.
;-)
Like the guy who was playing his violin (no kidding) while driving.
Recently, a women was stopped in Switzerland on the highway because she was driving, using her phone and her laptop (on her lap) at the same time.
She was very angry for being stopped, because her schedule was very dense...
Another guy killed a man with his car, because he had to eat a Hamburger and phone and drive all at the same time. He steered the car with two fingers, but glitched off and drove into the person on the sidewalk.
So don't believe Americans 0wn stupidity
A kid could r00t it.
Hell, he's probably witnessed it himself.
> Google was absolutely certain that they wanted to hire me,
> but they hadn't done anything to convince me that I
> wanted the job they were offering.
They probably have some kind of "WTF, who the hell *doesn't* want to work here - even Bill Gates would want to work here"-attitude.
I've never applied to Google, but the way various online-sources describe it, they'd like to keep everything confidential.
Might be one reason why you weren't shown around - Google seems to like to cultivate this aura of secrecy, even after one has joined the company.
Hilarious.
Mod parent up.
> I work in IT for a Fortune 500 manufacturer. .... :-/
> The PC on my desktop (a business desktop) has 256MB
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