This is not a case of free market failure. In the case of cable tv, electric and phone service, the US suffers from Government established monopolies!!! In a free market, if Comcast Pissed you off, you would be able to call Cox Cable and have a new provider. But because the local governments establish monopolies for each category, the only recourse left is to call your congress person and hope that (in this case) Comcast is not a bigger contributer than you are. This is the worst type of "free" market: Cronie Capitalism.
I am a mobile developer that has worked on android mostly but my company is considering a product that would be cross platform or even tablet based. The initial design meetings centered around providing rich native apps for each platform but after seeing how much code would have to be duplicated, our design has turned to a webservice with the clients on each of the mobile platforms (android, iphone, RIM, Symbian) being a dumb html/javascript ui. It will still be marketed as an app through Itunes/android market or whatever the native delivery mechanism is, but the the app will do not more that fire a series of webservice calls and load the content into a local webpage that we load from the local app resource folders (so we don't have to download the page from the internet). This kind of vendor lockin might prompt more developers to do the same. Imagine if all the apps you downloaded were basically mobile safari/chrome running a locally served html file. Its not bad, it just doesn't encourage developers to really take advantage of the more powerful features of the frameworks/languages. I think this approach could actually lower the quality of cross-platform apps as developers look for the simplest way to deliver a consistent look and feel.
*Tab is a terrible name. For a company who is lauded for their marketing genius, every time I hear the name of their product, I think about menstruation. IPad is just a terrible name. iTab isn't terrible but really Steve, try a new letter or even a whole new word. Not everything in the product line has to start with "i". Google would do well to avoid this trap altogether.
btw I was typing this on my phone and after re-reading I noticed that I mistyped the key combo for organizing imports in eclipse. The key combo is actually ctrl + shift + o.
oh yeah. this problem is solved real elegantly by providing a namespace feature of classes. you simply import the class with its full package and classname and then you can use it everywhere in that class by only referencing the simple classname. come to think of it, this feature is part of java too. if you ware worried about having to type all those import statements don't sweat it. All modern IDEs have a key combo that automatically imports missing fully qualified classnames. In Eclipse, for example, the combo is ctrl + o.
Real worth = (abs(cost_of_game)+(hours_spent_playing * player's_normal_hourly_wage)) * (-1)
Think about that the next time you are boasting to your friends how you are a level 69 dark elf and you just completed your 98th Quest for the Golden Eye of Ramos (or some other such nonsense)
My site gets about 10 hits per week. Of course, I have not done anything specific to increase my googleablity but if he gives me a million dollars I'll sell my domain to him he can do what he likes. If he gives me 500k I'll go index my site in bing. shit I'll do it for 100K. No takers? 50 K? going once....
Apple is not the villian here. Apple sells a device that plays music. Apple gives away a program to manage music libraries and download music from the internet. If you happen to own Apple's music device it will also autmatically sync between the program and the device. If you don't, then you just have to sync your device and your music library manually. I don't get why palm is leveraging apple's work instead of building a better program. Why doesn't palm take an opensource media library and build a plugin or better yet contribute a patch that adds palm sync? With a little honesty and ingenuity, palm could get ahead of apple instead of being asshats and trying to crack itunes (which sucks anyways).
this minimal menu system is actually pretty pervasive in the web browser world. ie7 and chrom* browsers do this and it doesn't mean that any functionality is lost. While I hade the idea of style over function, if done correctly, minimizing the menu could result in more screen real estate for webpage rendering. I don't know about you but I spend 99% of my time in web browsers looking at content not jacking around with the menu. So what if the menu is an extra click away. As long as not configuration options are sacrificed and as long as it doesn't take any extra resources, I could go for this change 100%
I saw the headline and I was really hoping to see that guy who always posts how linux is used to host tron fantasies. For once, that post would have been marginally relevant.
anti mal and anti virus protection are not analogous to insurance. The faulty concept here is more like having a home with all your doors and windows wide open and then paying an anual fee to a guy named Norman Macaffeee to run around your house killing flies all day. Once the fly is in the house, you have already lost. You would be better off to just close all the doors and windows. RULE: once a malicious entity has taken up residence in your life, the extraction of such an entity becomes dangerous and expensive. The concept of antimal/antivirus protection is easily one of the stupidest idea our industry has ever come up with.
no. I work for a bank. But I have had the pleasure of dealing with some of the spring source Engineers in conferences and what not and I have always admired the company. I have thought many times about sending them my resume. Maybe I should. Melbourne Florida is simply gorgeous most of the year.
I'm not saying that SpringSource is the IBM/MS Killer. I was just trying to give context to a company that was being written off as a non-player. If the Sun/Oracle merge has taught us anything, it should be that the technology landscape can change in almost an instant and any move by any company should be watched and analyzed for its potential impact on your product/technology.
Are you kidding? SpringSource is _THE_ standard IoC container for the Java Language. Their ideas have influenced a wide ranging array of Java-based products including hibernate (http://hibernate.org), google guice (http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/), apache tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org), just to name a few. Just because you aren't familiar with these technologies does not mean this is not a pretty big deal. Aside from that, the spring source company has successfully built a profitable company around their open source technologies while still providing the source freely to the community. Their influence can hardly be understated even if you have never used on their technologies directly. http://www.springsource.com/customers
it is one thing to steal music to entertain yourself (and we can argue all day about whether file sharing is copyright infringement or fair use) but it is a _completely_ different story to steal something and then try to resell/market it as your own. At least if you aren't paying for use of some creative work, you are at least appreciating it for its greatness. Trying to pass off someone else' IP as your own obfuscates the true brilliance of the creator, making it more difficult for someone else to recognize and purchase their work. Biden has absolutely no moral authority to talk about the theft of IP. http://www.slate.com/id/2198597/
This is almost as annoying as hearing Al Gore talk about taking the initiative in "creating the Internet" I'd be amazed if Al Gore knew enough about the Internet to explain the difference between TCP and UDP.
Serial IP thieves should should never lecture the masses on the dangers of Filesharing.
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This is not a case of free market failure. In the case of cable tv, electric and phone service, the US suffers from Government established monopolies!!! In a free market, if Comcast Pissed you off, you would be able to call Cox Cable and have a new provider. But because the local governments establish monopolies for each category, the only recourse left is to call your congress person and hope that (in this case) Comcast is not a bigger contributer than you are. This is the worst type of "free" market: Cronie Capitalism.
There's a simple solution to unclean water. Just don't add it to your whiskey!
Yes like T Boone Pickens and Al Gore Neither of whom stand to make money from a climate/energy crisis!
Quick!!!! break out the hubble! I bet we can see george bush and the CEO of Haliburton riding around in an SUV up there!
I am a mobile developer that has worked on android mostly but my company is considering a product that would be cross platform or even tablet based. The initial design meetings centered around providing rich native apps for each platform but after seeing how much code would have to be duplicated, our design has turned to a webservice with the clients on each of the mobile platforms (android, iphone, RIM, Symbian) being a dumb html/javascript ui. It will still be marketed as an app through Itunes/android market or whatever the native delivery mechanism is, but the the app will do not more that fire a series of webservice calls and load the content into a local webpage that we load from the local app resource folders (so we don't have to download the page from the internet). This kind of vendor lockin might prompt more developers to do the same. Imagine if all the apps you downloaded were basically mobile safari/chrome running a locally served html file. Its not bad, it just doesn't encourage developers to really take advantage of the more powerful features of the frameworks/languages. I think this approach could actually lower the quality of cross-platform apps as developers look for the simplest way to deliver a consistent look and feel.
NO MORE PADS!!!!!!!!
*Tab is a terrible name. For a company who is lauded for their marketing genius, every time I hear the name of their product, I think about menstruation. IPad is just a terrible name. iTab isn't terrible but really Steve, try a new letter or even a whole new word. Not everything in the product line has to start with "i". Google would do well to avoid this trap altogether.
btw I was typing this on my phone and after re-reading I noticed that I mistyped the key combo for organizing imports in eclipse. The key combo is actually ctrl + shift + o.
oh yeah. this problem is solved real elegantly by providing a namespace feature of classes. you simply import the class with its full package and classname and then you can use it everywhere in that class by only referencing the simple classname. come to think of it, this feature is part of java too. if you ware worried about having to type all those import statements don't sweat it. All modern IDEs have a key combo that automatically imports missing fully qualified classnames. In Eclipse, for example, the combo is ctrl + o.
if.you.stop.using.notepad.as.your.ide.your.problem.GoesAway
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Here's the formula:
Real worth = (abs(cost_of_game)+(hours_spent_playing * player's_normal_hourly_wage)) * (-1)
Think about that the next time you are boasting to your friends how you are a level 69 dark elf and you just completed your 98th Quest for the Golden Eye of Ramos (or some other such nonsense)
My site gets about 10 hits per week. Of course, I have not done anything specific to increase my googleablity but if he gives me a million dollars I'll sell my domain to him he can do what he likes. If he gives me 500k I'll go index my site in bing. shit I'll do it for 100K. No takers? 50 K? going once....
Apple is not the villian here. Apple sells a device that plays music. Apple gives away a program to manage music libraries and download music from the internet. If you happen to own Apple's music device it will also autmatically sync between the program and the device. If you don't, then you just have to sync your device and your music library manually. I don't get why palm is leveraging apple's work instead of building a better program. Why doesn't palm take an opensource media library and build a plugin or better yet contribute a patch that adds palm sync? With a little honesty and ingenuity, palm could get ahead of apple instead of being asshats and trying to crack itunes (which sucks anyways).
this minimal menu system is actually pretty pervasive in the web browser world. ie7 and chrom* browsers do this and it doesn't mean that any functionality is lost. While I hade the idea of style over function, if done correctly, minimizing the menu could result in more screen real estate for webpage rendering. I don't know about you but I spend 99% of my time in web browsers looking at content not jacking around with the menu. So what if the menu is an extra click away. As long as not configuration options are sacrificed and as long as it doesn't take any extra resources, I could go for this change 100%
someone please mod parent up
I saw the headline and I was really hoping to see that guy who always posts how linux is used to host tron fantasies. For once, that post would have been marginally relevant.
anti mal and anti virus protection are not analogous to insurance. The faulty concept here is more like having a home with all your doors and windows wide open and then paying an anual fee to a guy named Norman Macaffeee to run around your house killing flies all day. Once the fly is in the house, you have already lost. You would be better off to just close all the doors and windows. RULE: once a malicious entity has taken up residence in your life, the extraction of such an entity becomes dangerous and expensive. The concept of antimal/antivirus protection is easily one of the stupidest idea our industry has ever come up with.
I'm still astounded by how unstable and slow Google's Android Network is. It's the main reason I haven't looked at Chrome yet.
fixed that for you
no. I work for a bank. But I have had the pleasure of dealing with some of the spring source Engineers in conferences and what not and I have always admired the company. I have thought many times about sending them my resume. Maybe I should. Melbourne Florida is simply gorgeous most of the year.
I'm not saying that SpringSource is the IBM/MS Killer. I was just trying to give context to a company that was being written off as a non-player. If the Sun/Oracle merge has taught us anything, it should be that the technology landscape can change in almost an instant and any move by any company should be watched and analyzed for its potential impact on your product/technology.
Are you kidding? SpringSource is _THE_ standard IoC container for the Java Language. Their ideas have influenced a wide ranging array of Java-based products including hibernate (http://hibernate.org), google guice (http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/), apache tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org), just to name a few. Just because you aren't familiar with these technologies does not mean this is not a pretty big deal. Aside from that, the spring source company has successfully built a profitable company around their open source technologies while still providing the source freely to the community. Their influence can hardly be understated even if you have never used on their technologies directly. http://www.springsource.com/customers
more likely is iranians, syrians, jordanians and palestinians killing iraqis
We need javafx to be ported to linux and wait until gf v3 is ready for release.
it is one thing to steal music to entertain yourself (and we can argue all day about whether file sharing is copyright infringement or fair use) but it is a _completely_ different story to steal something and then try to resell/market it as your own. At least if you aren't paying for use of some creative work, you are at least appreciating it for its greatness. Trying to pass off someone else' IP as your own obfuscates the true brilliance of the creator, making it more difficult for someone else to recognize and purchase their work. Biden has absolutely no moral authority to talk about the theft of IP. http://www.slate.com/id/2198597/
This is almost as annoying as hearing Al Gore talk about taking the initiative in "creating the Internet" I'd be amazed if Al Gore knew enough about the Internet to explain the difference between TCP and UDP.
Serial IP thieves should should never lecture the masses on the dangers of Filesharing.
blame the church if you like but the real problem here is a government powerful enough to regulate every aspect of our lives.
which distro are you using that makes it so easy to run this abomination?