Apple should give away WiFi APs that offer both a private AP and an open AP that is secure enough that users don't have to worry and uses bandwidth controls so users of the open network get lower bandwidth priority and can't be abusive. Even if the open AP could only be used by their products. Sprinkle them all over and work at getting them within businesses, parks, etc. Heck, I'd buy the device if I could. I've owned similar APs but they lacked the needed bandwidth and security controls (or were to hard/expensive) for the open AP.
I think Apple would be stupid not to be working on a larger variant of the iPod Touch / iPhone as it's been on the request list of so many people for so long. I'd be waiting in line for it even if it's no more powerful than the existing iPhone but had a bigger screen (paperback sized would be about right). I already use my iPod Touch as a portable computer (but not really as a media player) and my only big wishes are to need to scroll less and have all my keys available at once on my virtual keyboard. (Bluetooth keyboard/mouse would be good too.) My wife would want one immediately too as she is torn between carrying on iPhone or a netbook for keeping track of her daily tasks, checkbook, contacts, etc.
This is a rumor that if it isn't true yet it will be. There is just a world of demand for this product.
I think you are over estimating how confidential most company communication is. Also, email is an unsafe medium - you should never communicate secure information by email without encrypting it. Those two facts make it so it really doesn't matter to most companies. Most businesses just want something that is easy, affordable, fast, and that will stop spam. Google offers exactly that.
We've had half our email running on Google for about six months and it's been a great improvement. We'll probably switch the rest over sometime in the next six months. Absolutely nothing we communicate matters if it's stored on Google's servers. We don't scan our offices for hidden bugs either. Weird.
Maybe they shouldn't name themselves after a common item in the field if they don't want competitors to use their trademark. It shouldn't matter anyway if their product wasn't so extremely overpriced. I've looked at RS but it is $500-$1000. There is no way I'd pay that. It also doesn't run on Mac OS so I'd have to run it in virtualization which is a pain. It's like Photoshop/Illustrator. Sure it's a good product but at those prices most people just can't afford it. Then they complain that they get pirated or people buy cheaper competitor products.
I suggest they price Rosetta Stone Level 1 packages at $50 each. That is what most people are going to be interested in and that's how much most people can pay. For each higher level charge more as by then people are already familiar with your product and if they need the higher levels they'll usually have some reason to pay for it. (Such as their employer is covering the expense.)
So long as they don't claim to be you then yes they can use your trademark. AdWords doesn't really give you room to claim to be anyone but to just give a short hook phrase. It's incredibly annoying that Google blocks trademarks as much as it does. I frequently can't use the products own name in my ads because it's owner has asked for it to be blocked. It's just stupid. Of course my experience is that many manufacturers shoot themselves in the foot with the policies involving selling online. You can't advertise their products, you have MAP prices that are so high that you essentially can't offer any discount, you have tight sale zones, etc. And then they wonder why their cheaper competition does better than them.
The odd thing IMO is that I've been using the GeoIP db for years and it is pretty reliable and very easy to use. Why does the browser even need this feature? It's not perfect as some IP addresses aren't correctly mapped but typically they are very close. I use them on my eCommerce sites to give estimates on shipping without asking the user for their location and to present location aware suggested products.
It shouldn't stop background pages but it should give them less priority. It should have a smart process manager that ensures that the UI always works smoothly and after that the process in focus.
I don't know. I've seen one IE window take down all IE windows and even screw the OS plenty of times. It might protect from certain errors but it obviously doesn't protect against all issues.
I don't really care for Chrome much. I mostly use Firefox and Safari. Chrome and Opera are okay but I just don't like them quite as much. Probably a personal thing. I am a developer so maybe that's why I like Firefox best.
I would like FF to not block connections on the same site if one is busy but it wouldn't be worth making it so I can't have as many tabs open.
A keyboard shortcut can only go so far. Why not combine them with mouse gestures for even more possibilities? Or I've came to like using my touchpad on my laptop to use gestures to do various tasks as I type. Also usually I'm using three different computers at once and it's easier to use a mouse at an odd angle than it is to use a keyboard and KVMs switch to slow so I type on one computer and use the mice or touch pads on the others.
Are you kidding? IE freaks up from Java or Flash at least as much as FF. I haven't done much with IE8 but IE7 still had serious issues - I think it's a curse from plugins. They never work right in the real world.
Of course IE (even 8) has so many issues you might not notice. Even today I had to debug and fix a nasty rendering error that was still a problem in IE8 but not in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari. Lovely.
Including the mail app in the same process was a bit daffy.
I can't agree it's much better to use a multiprocess model so that my 4 core CPU grinds to a crawl when I open up all the tabs I use (40-50 average). Chrome absolutely crawls. Maybe they need to refine the idea a little.
IE had to have a multi-process model because it crashed so much and was tied to the OS. Even so a browser problem totally trashed the system as often as not.
I've been suggesting a fix like this for years but my suggested implementation let users have add further limitations. It's stupid not to let users tighten controls even if they can't make controls any weaker than the site has configured. You'll never have perfect security but at least this is a step in the right direction.
Choice is good. We should always have competition. But it's the kernel maintainers and distro maintainers to package those choices into something end users and developers can work with. It's ridiculous that sound doesn't work well in Linux at this point in time. There should be a single stable API and everything else should be easily plugged in and out as needed with a known good implementation also provided as the default. Don't allow programs to break sound for each other and make sure everyone can input and output. The specifics can change over time so long as those points are maintained behind a stable API.
I can choose Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, or Dr. Pepper and count on them all coming in containers that work to the same specifications. It'd be ridiculous if each choice forced us to figure out a new way to access and consume the product or if you couldn't use the same cup, straw, and ice with any of them.
I hate PA. It's a complex mess and half the time it just doesn't want to work right. There is no way your average user could deal with it. Most of the time I have trouble with it not allowing multiple users to have audio at the same time seemingly due to some twisted sense of how security should work. ALSA is better than PA but still doesn't work a lot of the time.
It sounds like OSS is getting it's act together and just needs someone to hire the lead developer(s) and port all cards missing OSS support over. That sounds like a worthy goal for those selling distros or soundcards. If it works well and is easy for developers then it'll work well for end users. That is what matters. Sound has been my #1 embarrassment when pushing Linux. It has never worked well and it's time we get it fixed.
I've been working on building this kind of game for years and it's actually pretty cool. It allows you to interact with your environment based on location and special objects and nearby players. Instead of going 3D the game is based on a communicator concept similar to Carmen San Diego and you're given clues to complete quests before other players can. Sometimes you work with other players and sometimes against and sometimes in teams.
Who cares if someone knows where you're at? When you walk through the supermarket everyone you see knows where you are at but it's hardly an issue.
This summer I'm killing support for IE6 from all my sites. IE7 is the new dino. Very little revenue comes from IE6 users anyway although they still make up about 10% of my traffic.
I manage development for a small company and while we obviously can't make huge contributions I do try to make sure we make occasional donations and release what source code we can back to the community. Giving back a little is better than doing nothing.
I've been tempted to hire one of the main opensource ERP developers to add all the functionality we need and figure out how to port our data to their system because our proprietary ERP software is a real mess. I'd like to at least have the option of an alternative open. So that is an idea we keep throwing around as a possibility. The support cost alone for our commercial ERP would be enough to pay a developers yearly salary.
I agree that mandatory contributions isn't the way to go. The issue is social and should be handled by socializing users on their responsibilities. Also developers need to make it easier to donate small amounts of money as that is all a lot of smaller businesses and home users can do.
Universities like to forget that they are in our employment and are subject to our demands and not vice versa. It only works because so many of their customers haven't yet learned to demand respect or value for their money. I absolutely think students need to form some sort of union to demand changes from the education system.
I thought Wolf3D for iPhone really sucked. It's hard to play. The controls just don't work well. If they could just make it so you don't have to scrunch your hands up in the corners to play then it'd be much better.
Unfortunately I'm neither liberal or conservative so I doubt I could run as either Republican or Democrat. I'd try to reason through problems and look for real solutions rather than following party lines so everyone would hate me. I guess programmers don't make good politicians because we're used to actually solving problems.
Anyone else think that government is like one of those software projects that just keeps going and going and costing more and more and taking bigger and bigger meetings and nothing ever gets done?
I think it should all be online so that everyone is on equal grounds. We've all done and said stupid things and we need to learn not to be so judgmental of each other. My experience is that it's often those that judge the harshest that did the worst but have managed to keep the evidence well hidden.
Seriously, should I never run for President because someone can Google my stupid ideas from when I was 15 and tell everyone? Who didn't have stupid ideas when they were young? Telling kids not to discuss things in public forums because it could come back to haunt them is denying them a good method of developing.
I think the real idea is to have assorted useful skills. Someone that can work with motors, circuitry, and programming is going to be more useful and more secure than someone that works with only one of these.
In the end anyone that can create is going to be more useful than those that just shuffle paper or do unskilled tasks. The more you can create the better off you are. Take shop class, art, electronics, computers, business, public speaking, and go out for sports.
I drink caffeine free diet soda because in the volumes of soda I was drinking I noticed weight gain issues and nervous system issues (from the caffeine). Recently I've been noticing other issues and I've suspected the soda and backed off drinking it with noticeable improvement in my health. I've also had some sort of muscle/nervous issue in the past couple years where I've had pain in my hands and sudden inability to grip or sudden releases of my grip - I wonder if that could also be related.
But what else can I drink besides water (I don't drink alcohol, tea, or coffee either)? I checked my lemonade mix and it has fructose. Juice is high calorie. What doesn't have glucose, fructose, or caffeine?
Looks like to much UI for me. I like to see my web pages rather than a big wide bar taking up screen space.
I frequently open 40+ tabs and it is a little bit of a pain but I haven't seen a better alternative. Sometimes I do like a second tab bar under the main tab bar but that is about as complex as I like to get. Use the top tab bar to display tab groups and the lower bar to display tabs in that group. Similar to your tree but not so wasteful of screen space. Maybe have the top tab bar disappear once you select a group but pop down if you mouse to the top of the tab bar.
I didn't say you should kill everyone - I said you should destroy the society. How the Romans conquered and how the white man conquered the Native American was much different. The Romans did it better. They didn't kill off everyone but they did express their superior culture. Now most of the world has been changed by that Greek/Roman culture.
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Apple should give away WiFi APs that offer both a private AP and an open AP that is secure enough that users don't have to worry and uses bandwidth controls so users of the open network get lower bandwidth priority and can't be abusive. Even if the open AP could only be used by their products. Sprinkle them all over and work at getting them within businesses, parks, etc. Heck, I'd buy the device if I could. I've owned similar APs but they lacked the needed bandwidth and security controls (or were to hard/expensive) for the open AP.
I think Apple would be stupid not to be working on a larger variant of the iPod Touch / iPhone as it's been on the request list of so many people for so long. I'd be waiting in line for it even if it's no more powerful than the existing iPhone but had a bigger screen (paperback sized would be about right). I already use my iPod Touch as a portable computer (but not really as a media player) and my only big wishes are to need to scroll less and have all my keys available at once on my virtual keyboard. (Bluetooth keyboard/mouse would be good too.) My wife would want one immediately too as she is torn between carrying on iPhone or a netbook for keeping track of her daily tasks, checkbook, contacts, etc.
This is a rumor that if it isn't true yet it will be. There is just a world of demand for this product.
I think you are over estimating how confidential most company communication is. Also, email is an unsafe medium - you should never communicate secure information by email without encrypting it. Those two facts make it so it really doesn't matter to most companies. Most businesses just want something that is easy, affordable, fast, and that will stop spam. Google offers exactly that.
We've had half our email running on Google for about six months and it's been a great improvement. We'll probably switch the rest over sometime in the next six months. Absolutely nothing we communicate matters if it's stored on Google's servers. We don't scan our offices for hidden bugs either. Weird.
Maybe they shouldn't name themselves after a common item in the field if they don't want competitors to use their trademark. It shouldn't matter anyway if their product wasn't so extremely overpriced. I've looked at RS but it is $500-$1000. There is no way I'd pay that. It also doesn't run on Mac OS so I'd have to run it in virtualization which is a pain. It's like Photoshop/Illustrator. Sure it's a good product but at those prices most people just can't afford it. Then they complain that they get pirated or people buy cheaper competitor products.
I suggest they price Rosetta Stone Level 1 packages at $50 each. That is what most people are going to be interested in and that's how much most people can pay. For each higher level charge more as by then people are already familiar with your product and if they need the higher levels they'll usually have some reason to pay for it. (Such as their employer is covering the expense.)
So long as they don't claim to be you then yes they can use your trademark. AdWords doesn't really give you room to claim to be anyone but to just give a short hook phrase. It's incredibly annoying that Google blocks trademarks as much as it does. I frequently can't use the products own name in my ads because it's owner has asked for it to be blocked. It's just stupid. Of course my experience is that many manufacturers shoot themselves in the foot with the policies involving selling online. You can't advertise their products, you have MAP prices that are so high that you essentially can't offer any discount, you have tight sale zones, etc. And then they wonder why their cheaper competition does better than them.
The odd thing IMO is that I've been using the GeoIP db for years and it is pretty reliable and very easy to use. Why does the browser even need this feature? It's not perfect as some IP addresses aren't correctly mapped but typically they are very close. I use them on my eCommerce sites to give estimates on shipping without asking the user for their location and to present location aware suggested products.
It shouldn't stop background pages but it should give them less priority. It should have a smart process manager that ensures that the UI always works smoothly and after that the process in focus.
I don't know. I've seen one IE window take down all IE windows and even screw the OS plenty of times. It might protect from certain errors but it obviously doesn't protect against all issues.
I don't really care for Chrome much. I mostly use Firefox and Safari. Chrome and Opera are okay but I just don't like them quite as much. Probably a personal thing. I am a developer so maybe that's why I like Firefox best.
I would like FF to not block connections on the same site if one is busy but it wouldn't be worth making it so I can't have as many tabs open.
A keyboard shortcut can only go so far. Why not combine them with mouse gestures for even more possibilities? Or I've came to like using my touchpad on my laptop to use gestures to do various tasks as I type. Also usually I'm using three different computers at once and it's easier to use a mouse at an odd angle than it is to use a keyboard and KVMs switch to slow so I type on one computer and use the mice or touch pads on the others.
Are you kidding? IE freaks up from Java or Flash at least as much as FF. I haven't done much with IE8 but IE7 still had serious issues - I think it's a curse from plugins. They never work right in the real world.
Of course IE (even 8) has so many issues you might not notice. Even today I had to debug and fix a nasty rendering error that was still a problem in IE8 but not in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Safari. Lovely.
Including the mail app in the same process was a bit daffy.
I can't agree it's much better to use a multiprocess model so that my 4 core CPU grinds to a crawl when I open up all the tabs I use (40-50 average). Chrome absolutely crawls. Maybe they need to refine the idea a little.
IE had to have a multi-process model because it crashed so much and was tied to the OS. Even so a browser problem totally trashed the system as often as not.
I've been suggesting a fix like this for years but my suggested implementation let users have add further limitations. It's stupid not to let users tighten controls even if they can't make controls any weaker than the site has configured. You'll never have perfect security but at least this is a step in the right direction.
Choice is good. We should always have competition. But it's the kernel maintainers and distro maintainers to package those choices into something end users and developers can work with. It's ridiculous that sound doesn't work well in Linux at this point in time. There should be a single stable API and everything else should be easily plugged in and out as needed with a known good implementation also provided as the default. Don't allow programs to break sound for each other and make sure everyone can input and output. The specifics can change over time so long as those points are maintained behind a stable API.
I can choose Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, or Dr. Pepper and count on them all coming in containers that work to the same specifications. It'd be ridiculous if each choice forced us to figure out a new way to access and consume the product or if you couldn't use the same cup, straw, and ice with any of them.
I hate PA. It's a complex mess and half the time it just doesn't want to work right. There is no way your average user could deal with it. Most of the time I have trouble with it not allowing multiple users to have audio at the same time seemingly due to some twisted sense of how security should work. ALSA is better than PA but still doesn't work a lot of the time.
It sounds like OSS is getting it's act together and just needs someone to hire the lead developer(s) and port all cards missing OSS support over. That sounds like a worthy goal for those selling distros or soundcards. If it works well and is easy for developers then it'll work well for end users. That is what matters. Sound has been my #1 embarrassment when pushing Linux. It has never worked well and it's time we get it fixed.
I've been working on building this kind of game for years and it's actually pretty cool. It allows you to interact with your environment based on location and special objects and nearby players. Instead of going 3D the game is based on a communicator concept similar to Carmen San Diego and you're given clues to complete quests before other players can. Sometimes you work with other players and sometimes against and sometimes in teams.
Who cares if someone knows where you're at? When you walk through the supermarket everyone you see knows where you are at but it's hardly an issue.
This summer I'm killing support for IE6 from all my sites. IE7 is the new dino. Very little revenue comes from IE6 users anyway although they still make up about 10% of my traffic.
I manage development for a small company and while we obviously can't make huge contributions I do try to make sure we make occasional donations and release what source code we can back to the community. Giving back a little is better than doing nothing.
I've been tempted to hire one of the main opensource ERP developers to add all the functionality we need and figure out how to port our data to their system because our proprietary ERP software is a real mess. I'd like to at least have the option of an alternative open. So that is an idea we keep throwing around as a possibility. The support cost alone for our commercial ERP would be enough to pay a developers yearly salary.
I agree that mandatory contributions isn't the way to go. The issue is social and should be handled by socializing users on their responsibilities. Also developers need to make it easier to donate small amounts of money as that is all a lot of smaller businesses and home users can do.
Universities like to forget that they are in our employment and are subject to our demands and not vice versa. It only works because so many of their customers haven't yet learned to demand respect or value for their money. I absolutely think students need to form some sort of union to demand changes from the education system.
I thought Wolf3D for iPhone really sucked. It's hard to play. The controls just don't work well. If they could just make it so you don't have to scrunch your hands up in the corners to play then it'd be much better.
Unfortunately I'm neither liberal or conservative so I doubt I could run as either Republican or Democrat. I'd try to reason through problems and look for real solutions rather than following party lines so everyone would hate me. I guess programmers don't make good politicians because we're used to actually solving problems.
Anyone else think that government is like one of those software projects that just keeps going and going and costing more and more and taking bigger and bigger meetings and nothing ever gets done?
I think it should all be online so that everyone is on equal grounds. We've all done and said stupid things and we need to learn not to be so judgmental of each other. My experience is that it's often those that judge the harshest that did the worst but have managed to keep the evidence well hidden.
Seriously, should I never run for President because someone can Google my stupid ideas from when I was 15 and tell everyone? Who didn't have stupid ideas when they were young? Telling kids not to discuss things in public forums because it could come back to haunt them is denying them a good method of developing.
I think the real idea is to have assorted useful skills. Someone that can work with motors, circuitry, and programming is going to be more useful and more secure than someone that works with only one of these.
In the end anyone that can create is going to be more useful than those that just shuffle paper or do unskilled tasks. The more you can create the better off you are. Take shop class, art, electronics, computers, business, public speaking, and go out for sports.
I drink caffeine free diet soda because in the volumes of soda I was drinking I noticed weight gain issues and nervous system issues (from the caffeine). Recently I've been noticing other issues and I've suspected the soda and backed off drinking it with noticeable improvement in my health. I've also had some sort of muscle/nervous issue in the past couple years where I've had pain in my hands and sudden inability to grip or sudden releases of my grip - I wonder if that could also be related.
But what else can I drink besides water (I don't drink alcohol, tea, or coffee either)? I checked my lemonade mix and it has fructose. Juice is high calorie. What doesn't have glucose, fructose, or caffeine?
Looks like to much UI for me. I like to see my web pages rather than a big wide bar taking up screen space.
I frequently open 40+ tabs and it is a little bit of a pain but I haven't seen a better alternative. Sometimes I do like a second tab bar under the main tab bar but that is about as complex as I like to get. Use the top tab bar to display tab groups and the lower bar to display tabs in that group. Similar to your tree but not so wasteful of screen space. Maybe have the top tab bar disappear once you select a group but pop down if you mouse to the top of the tab bar.
I didn't say you should kill everyone - I said you should destroy the society. How the Romans conquered and how the white man conquered the Native American was much different. The Romans did it better. They didn't kill off everyone but they did express their superior culture. Now most of the world has been changed by that Greek/Roman culture.