Really? I don't often use IE for anything besides testing against and I rarely find a site that doesn't work because of my browser. Occasionally you'll see a weird glitch but that is about it. Usually the only sites that give a problem are crap sites I wouldn't go to anyway. Little Bobby next doors personal blog about Star Trek and bondage at zero g.
To point a finger though I've recently had annoying problems in individual web-based developer tools for Amazon that would not work with Safari or Firefox. I was shocked that Amazon would be so badly programmed but I've noticed that a lot of their developer and business tools are really clumsy and buggy. MTurk is cool but it feels beta - real beta not like Google beta.
I think Microsoft is full of shit though. IMPOSSIBLE to port to XP? Give me a break. They mean they might have to backport a subsystem to make it possible and they don't want to? I hope they choke on IE9. I'm sick of supporting their broken crappy browsers.
The only identity theft I've ever suffered is through the IRS. Supposedly four years ago someone else filed with my SSN. I haven't got my tax refund since. They won't talk to me about what is going on. I've done everything they've asked including filing a police report and verifying my identity with the social security office. If you call the customer support number they aren't able to help because my account is being handled by a secret agency within the IRS that not even they can talk to. They've twice sent me [different] dead phone numbers that are supposedly my point of contact for finding out what is going on. They've gone so far as to send me a bill and to threaten what will happen to me if they find out I'm doing something bad.
Last year they finally sent me a letter confirming they recognize that I am me. They sent me a couple hundred dollar check (they owe me thousands) and said there might be more after further review. I've never heard from them again. This year my tax refund got flagged and lost in limbo again.
I doubt it. Testing in IE takes longer than in all other major browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome) combined. Besides IE, all major browsers are reasonably standards compliant. IE is the only browser with enough market share to make it the developers problem if they aren't standards compliant. Only really crappy developers will have any major issues and lets face it - they deserve it.
More like comparing a tinker toy set to a luxury car. XML is great in theory but doing anything practical with it is often a bad idea. I do think XML is often a great tool but it is often badly applied.
The problem is businesses fighting to keep from offering decent service we've already paid for. Charge me $100 more a month but give me freaking fast, reliable, uncapped service. Tell the telcos to fsck off when they sue community efforts to roll out their own Internet. Stupid anti-consumer anti-competitive behavior needs to stop. If the taxpayer pays for strong infrastructure it enables business growth which of course provides jobs and a higher quality of life. Being cheap is a bad idea.
I think we should send Scientologist to work camps. They can produce crappy movies day and night until they are cured of their stupid religious ideas or die in the process. Safer than letting them roam the streets preaching alien conquest or whatever it is. Let's pack the Raelians in too as they're probably dangerous too.
It is per year if you go the developer route. THAT is something I think Apple is dishonest about. Even when you have paid for your developer fee they aren't clear that it's yearly until the next year when they send you a renewal notice.
I don't know about non-standard. Like what? As I said you can do anything with it if you care to bother. How many things are truly not allowed? You can get hundreds of thousands of apps for it, write your own, or compile somebody else's program. Jailbroken you can do damn near anything on it. Again, if you're the kind of person that can't manage a jailbreak or to write your own code then you have no business doing 'non standard things' because you'll get yourself in trouble and probably get infected and be a plague to the rest of us.
Win Mobile can't be any worse than WinCE. I can't see why anybody would bother supporting it though unless it is better than iPhone and Android which is doubtful. I guess people that only know how to write Windows code and use Microsoft tools might. So you'll get the crappiest programmers writing code for Win Mobile which naturally leads to a worse experience for users. The challenge of writing iPhone code weeds out most of the complete crap although I've noticed that you still get a lot of geeks with no sense of quality. If anything I think Apple should block more from being allowed into the App Store. Crap just makes a worse user experience and takes money away from good developers.
I just spent $1000 on an iPad whereas I can't see spending more than $250 for an Android tablet (and probably nothing for any other tablet) because they haven't learned the Linux desktop lesson. They are often incompatible, have poorly designed interface, and allow any random rubbish to clutter things up. Call it flexibility if you want but I call it a crappy user experience. Pay $100 for a developer license or jailbreak your iPhone OS and you can install damn near anything you want. How many people do it? Not many because that isn't what most people want. The only selling point the competition has is cheaper price tags. A smart competitor would mod Android to be as well designed as iPhone including the restrictions and sell a cheaper device.
Most symbols are at most one extra click away and are rarely used. It inserts periods automatically which is obviously the most often used symbol. Capitals are no harder than on a standard keyboard. Have you even used an iPhone?
I'll agree that it wouldn't be ideal for coding on but that is way different than normal typing anyway. I'd bet that most typists would type really slowly if suddenly tasked with typing code. For the iPhone you could set up an alternative keyboard for coding. I expect I might end up doing that on the iPad if they don't have available a better coding keyboard for it since it's screen will be big enough to actually be useful for more than emergency fixes.
I sort of peck with two fingers and my thumb on each hand and occasionally the other fingers if the mood strikes me. I don't rest my hands on the keyboard or look at the keyboard. I can usually use multiple keyboards at once even if I'm not sitting near the desk or am sitting at a weird angle.
I never really understood the whole touch typing thing. It falls apart when you're holding a screwdriver anyway.
I can type almost as fast on my iPod as I do on a full size keyboard - much faster than most people type on a full size keyboard. It's all muscle memory. My hunt and peck method doesn't impede me at all.
I type fast and am accurate. I look crazy when I type in my strange pecking way but it works and it takes the stress off my wrists that 'correct' typing would cause. Stick to what you're doing and screw what other people think.
I agree. If ads are annoying or make the content difficult to read I'll block it. If it's offensive or inappropriate for work or family I'll block it. I use ads for my own business but I try to make sure they are discrete and in appropriate places. I prefer to sponsor a site for a small mention than to put big obvious ads every where.
Different screens are the biggest issue IMO. They want you to use vector graphics but vector graphics look like crap. They do provide some facilities for making it easier to handle the screen sizes but it still isn't as easy as the iPhone. Even with the iPad developers only have to worry about two screen sizes. I think there is a benefit to being slow to offer options.
Your argument would carry more weight if I didn't have years of experience in how crappy a platform Windows is - especially for games. Refusing to install, failing to run, random crashes, conflicting versions, missing dll files, etc. You can keep that crap - I'll stick to consoles where programmers and users know what to expect and will have many fewer problems. Android isn't a bad platform to develop for, it's better than Windows anyway, but it does have issues largely due to the flexibility it tries to offer (and a crap UI). Maybe this is balanced by letting developers code in Java instead of having to learn an oddball language like Objective-C.
Or you can jailbreak your iPhone in about five minutes and do the same thing if you really want to. Personally I think jailbreaking the iPhone makes it have almost as poorly designed an interface as Android so I don't do it. I did try it though to see just how easy it is to do.
Yeh, just like the people that claim that if you use Windows correctly it won't crash. Oh except you can't open 40 apps at once or use it on the third Thursday of the month. (To be fair OS X crashes fairly often too under heavy [ab]use. Linux doesn't crash but gets really slow sometimes.)
I haven't gotten a Windows virus either but I've had plenty of well configured and maintained machines that did when left to the whims of the average user. Of course it's their fault they get infected but it's still a lot easier as a programmer to infect the Windows machine.
Of course products like Deep Freeze help a lot and I've been experimenting with running Windows machines out of VM so I can revert them when they have an issue. If Windows was more secure products like Deep Freeze wouldn't be so popular.
At least so far as Vista, Windows is still really easy to infect. Most of it's security is more superficial than effective. I haven't actually bothered to try on Windows 7 yet so maybe it's better although I doubt it.
A lot of Linux users are bad about patching and should also be punished but it's different than Windows which is insecure by design and encourages users to be brainless morons. Some of the blame falls to Linux distros too I think which are stupid and don't make auto-updates the default and which like to keep breaking updates by jumping to a new version. If they are going to do that then their update manager should be able to upgrade the OS between versions automatically.
Actually, I think ISPs should kick users offline if they are detected to be insecure or infected until they can verify that they are no longer a threat to the community. Regardless of OS.
Doesn't work nearly as well on most other OSs because they intrinsically have better security. It's easy to infect one account on Linux or Mac OS but to really infect the whole system is much harder. Also it's easy to turn off program execution from user directories in other OSs which is more difficult to manage in Windows.
Of course worms are a different issue. You still get dumbass users that don't keep their systems up-to-date which opens them right up for a worm to infect their system.
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Really? I don't often use IE for anything besides testing against and I rarely find a site that doesn't work because of my browser. Occasionally you'll see a weird glitch but that is about it. Usually the only sites that give a problem are crap sites I wouldn't go to anyway. Little Bobby next doors personal blog about Star Trek and bondage at zero g.
To point a finger though I've recently had annoying problems in individual web-based developer tools for Amazon that would not work with Safari or Firefox. I was shocked that Amazon would be so badly programmed but I've noticed that a lot of their developer and business tools are really clumsy and buggy. MTurk is cool but it feels beta - real beta not like Google beta.
I think Microsoft is full of shit though. IMPOSSIBLE to port to XP? Give me a break. They mean they might have to backport a subsystem to make it possible and they don't want to? I hope they choke on IE9. I'm sick of supporting their broken crappy browsers.
The only identity theft I've ever suffered is through the IRS. Supposedly four years ago someone else filed with my SSN. I haven't got my tax refund since. They won't talk to me about what is going on. I've done everything they've asked including filing a police report and verifying my identity with the social security office. If you call the customer support number they aren't able to help because my account is being handled by a secret agency within the IRS that not even they can talk to. They've twice sent me [different] dead phone numbers that are supposedly my point of contact for finding out what is going on. They've gone so far as to send me a bill and to threaten what will happen to me if they find out I'm doing something bad. Last year they finally sent me a letter confirming they recognize that I am me. They sent me a couple hundred dollar check (they owe me thousands) and said there might be more after further review. I've never heard from them again. This year my tax refund got flagged and lost in limbo again.
I doubt it. Testing in IE takes longer than in all other major browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome) combined. Besides IE, all major browsers are reasonably standards compliant. IE is the only browser with enough market share to make it the developers problem if they aren't standards compliant. Only really crappy developers will have any major issues and lets face it - they deserve it.
I thought you said CPAN. Much confusion.
More like comparing a tinker toy set to a luxury car. XML is great in theory but doing anything practical with it is often a bad idea. I do think XML is often a great tool but it is often badly applied.
The problem is businesses fighting to keep from offering decent service we've already paid for. Charge me $100 more a month but give me freaking fast, reliable, uncapped service. Tell the telcos to fsck off when they sue community efforts to roll out their own Internet. Stupid anti-consumer anti-competitive behavior needs to stop. If the taxpayer pays for strong infrastructure it enables business growth which of course provides jobs and a higher quality of life. Being cheap is a bad idea.
I think we should send Scientologist to work camps. They can produce crappy movies day and night until they are cured of their stupid religious ideas or die in the process. Safer than letting them roam the streets preaching alien conquest or whatever it is. Let's pack the Raelians in too as they're probably dangerous too.
It is per year if you go the developer route. THAT is something I think Apple is dishonest about. Even when you have paid for your developer fee they aren't clear that it's yearly until the next year when they send you a renewal notice. I don't know about non-standard. Like what? As I said you can do anything with it if you care to bother. How many things are truly not allowed? You can get hundreds of thousands of apps for it, write your own, or compile somebody else's program. Jailbroken you can do damn near anything on it. Again, if you're the kind of person that can't manage a jailbreak or to write your own code then you have no business doing 'non standard things' because you'll get yourself in trouble and probably get infected and be a plague to the rest of us. Win Mobile can't be any worse than WinCE. I can't see why anybody would bother supporting it though unless it is better than iPhone and Android which is doubtful. I guess people that only know how to write Windows code and use Microsoft tools might. So you'll get the crappiest programmers writing code for Win Mobile which naturally leads to a worse experience for users. The challenge of writing iPhone code weeds out most of the complete crap although I've noticed that you still get a lot of geeks with no sense of quality. If anything I think Apple should block more from being allowed into the App Store. Crap just makes a worse user experience and takes money away from good developers.
I just spent $1000 on an iPad whereas I can't see spending more than $250 for an Android tablet (and probably nothing for any other tablet) because they haven't learned the Linux desktop lesson. They are often incompatible, have poorly designed interface, and allow any random rubbish to clutter things up. Call it flexibility if you want but I call it a crappy user experience. Pay $100 for a developer license or jailbreak your iPhone OS and you can install damn near anything you want. How many people do it? Not many because that isn't what most people want. The only selling point the competition has is cheaper price tags. A smart competitor would mod Android to be as well designed as iPhone including the restrictions and sell a cheaper device.
Most symbols are at most one extra click away and are rarely used. It inserts periods automatically which is obviously the most often used symbol. Capitals are no harder than on a standard keyboard. Have you even used an iPhone? I'll agree that it wouldn't be ideal for coding on but that is way different than normal typing anyway. I'd bet that most typists would type really slowly if suddenly tasked with typing code. For the iPhone you could set up an alternative keyboard for coding. I expect I might end up doing that on the iPad if they don't have available a better coding keyboard for it since it's screen will be big enough to actually be useful for more than emergency fixes.
I sort of peck with two fingers and my thumb on each hand and occasionally the other fingers if the mood strikes me. I don't rest my hands on the keyboard or look at the keyboard. I can usually use multiple keyboards at once even if I'm not sitting near the desk or am sitting at a weird angle. I never really understood the whole touch typing thing. It falls apart when you're holding a screwdriver anyway.
I can type almost as fast on my iPod as I do on a full size keyboard - much faster than most people type on a full size keyboard. It's all muscle memory. My hunt and peck method doesn't impede me at all.
I type fast and am accurate. I look crazy when I type in my strange pecking way but it works and it takes the stress off my wrists that 'correct' typing would cause. Stick to what you're doing and screw what other people think.
I like to dump garbage on the ground and break things at the store. That way they'll have to hire more people to keep up with me.
I agree. If ads are annoying or make the content difficult to read I'll block it. If it's offensive or inappropriate for work or family I'll block it. I use ads for my own business but I try to make sure they are discrete and in appropriate places. I prefer to sponsor a site for a small mention than to put big obvious ads every where.
Yes, not putting all your eggs in one basket is a new and crazy concept I just came up with. I invented financial diversity.
Anyone that relies on a single app, cateogry of app, or platform for their financial well being is crazy.
Different screens are the biggest issue IMO. They want you to use vector graphics but vector graphics look like crap. They do provide some facilities for making it easier to handle the screen sizes but it still isn't as easy as the iPhone. Even with the iPad developers only have to worry about two screen sizes. I think there is a benefit to being slow to offer options.
Your argument would carry more weight if I didn't have years of experience in how crappy a platform Windows is - especially for games. Refusing to install, failing to run, random crashes, conflicting versions, missing dll files, etc. You can keep that crap - I'll stick to consoles where programmers and users know what to expect and will have many fewer problems. Android isn't a bad platform to develop for, it's better than Windows anyway, but it does have issues largely due to the flexibility it tries to offer (and a crap UI). Maybe this is balanced by letting developers code in Java instead of having to learn an oddball language like Objective-C.
Or you can jailbreak your iPhone in about five minutes and do the same thing if you really want to. Personally I think jailbreaking the iPhone makes it have almost as poorly designed an interface as Android so I don't do it. I did try it though to see just how easy it is to do.
I will call it the zombie bride and run screaming before it can enfold me in it's embrace and eat my brain.
I'm waiting to dance on it's grave. It's been dead for years but some disgusting people out there just keep hanging on to it's rotting corpse.
Yeh, just like the people that claim that if you use Windows correctly it won't crash. Oh except you can't open 40 apps at once or use it on the third Thursday of the month. (To be fair OS X crashes fairly often too under heavy [ab]use. Linux doesn't crash but gets really slow sometimes.) I haven't gotten a Windows virus either but I've had plenty of well configured and maintained machines that did when left to the whims of the average user. Of course it's their fault they get infected but it's still a lot easier as a programmer to infect the Windows machine. Of course products like Deep Freeze help a lot and I've been experimenting with running Windows machines out of VM so I can revert them when they have an issue. If Windows was more secure products like Deep Freeze wouldn't be so popular.
At least so far as Vista, Windows is still really easy to infect. Most of it's security is more superficial than effective. I haven't actually bothered to try on Windows 7 yet so maybe it's better although I doubt it. A lot of Linux users are bad about patching and should also be punished but it's different than Windows which is insecure by design and encourages users to be brainless morons. Some of the blame falls to Linux distros too I think which are stupid and don't make auto-updates the default and which like to keep breaking updates by jumping to a new version. If they are going to do that then their update manager should be able to upgrade the OS between versions automatically. Actually, I think ISPs should kick users offline if they are detected to be insecure or infected until they can verify that they are no longer a threat to the community. Regardless of OS.
Doesn't work nearly as well on most other OSs because they intrinsically have better security. It's easy to infect one account on Linux or Mac OS but to really infect the whole system is much harder. Also it's easy to turn off program execution from user directories in other OSs which is more difficult to manage in Windows. Of course worms are a different issue. You still get dumbass users that don't keep their systems up-to-date which opens them right up for a worm to infect their system.