If you want to sell more tablets...or smart phones, please be aware that it isn't only the price of the device that slows things down.
It is also the price of the service.
Not everyone is keen to add another monthly, recurring bill for $50 a month.
I'm on my computer all day at work and in the evenings during the week once I finished doing other things. I barely feel need for a tablet or a smart phone as it is, so I don't feel like plopping out $50 a month to run one.
I would rather put the money towards buying a house or going out to a nice restuarant.
The Instagram move has to be the most brain dead decision from the tech world since Google Buzz.
In both situations any ordinary person would be asking themselves
"How could they NOT think that this decision would upset their users, big time?"
To be un-PC, not everyone who works in tech, especially management has an autism spectrum disorder.
That leaves management surronding themselves with and reweard synchophants.........yes men, who insulate them from reality, letting them make assinine decisions like this one.
Last week I found a gun in the street just outside of my house on my way to work.
The police called me later that day to let me know that the gun had been stolen from someone in Kentucky.
I don't think it was very smart for that paper to publish a list of gun owners. They just told criminals where they might potentially break in and find guns. Maybe some little old lady's home who keeps a glock in the house for protection.
Maybe some gun nut who has an automatic weapon in his garage, which will now be stolen and used in some gang fight........or school massacre.
We all pretend not to see the occasional article about cell phone radiation. That is us. Do you really want an infant having one of those devices close to their head all of the time?
For most of my career I was one of those programmers who clinged to his own particular style of coding. I got away with it because I used an IDE that could rearrange other people's code into my style for me to work on it and then put it back in the other style when I was done.
A few years ago I spent a lot of time studying new stuff on my platform where all the code was written in a style I didn't like and that I had always told myself made things harder to read.
I got over myself as a result.
I think I became a better programmer by reading code written in different styles.
I now think it is the mark of a provincial thinking to cling to your own style at the expense of good relations at your job.
I know all of the reasons why this wouldn't happen, but if they wanted to win people away from Microsoft they would have had better luck passing out copies of MINT with the KDE
Canadians manage to watch movies and play video games without shooting each other. Regardless of the reason why someone picks up a gun, the problem is that they are still able to get one when they are not fit to have one. Issues about mental health and culture SHOULD be addressed, but I think the NRA and other pro-gun people are going to use those things as diversions to the real issue.......keeping automatic weapons away from most people.
I don't know if this correct or PC, but when I first started I read code like a book. Every single word, left to right, down to the next line.
Now I skip.
I look where arguments go in, where they come out, where functions are called.
If I go into a code block, I look where the result is first and back track as needed
I look at the connections and only go deeper when I need to.
If I have to read legacy procedural code, I do what I do when I read the web. I ignore sub levels of information until I finish a level. On a web page I read the content, ignore the side bars and I don't click on links until I am done with that page. In procedural code I read top down and ignore nested blocks until I see what is going on the first level.
Right wingers believe that new laws will prevent people from getting abortions. Why don't they believe that new laws will prevent people from shooting guns at people?
However, that is when people do not have a choice.
At home, I ditched Ubuntu despite having used since it came out because I had enough of Unity and now their links with Amazon. I had a choice. Here have a MINT or maybe you prefer to have an Apple instead.
1. The global climate change that brought hurricane Sandy to New York and New Jersey will someday put those same homes underwater. I doubt it would be feasible to relocate the populations of NYC and coastal NJ, so it is time to start building things to protect those areas from being submerged......before the solar panels.
2. This may be a moot point given #1. A centralized power grid has the most benefits. The grid needs to use alternative fuel sources and more importantly the investment needs to be made to put powerlines underground. Very old countries with very old infrastructures in Europe did it. The US can too. Especially with sudden strong storms like El Derechios becoming more common. It is the only way to keep service more reliable and make post-storm repairs fewer.
When I was a kid there were many articles about how the increased number of UFO sightings was due in part to the anxiety of the Cold War and the bomb.
These days it isn't enough to have a simple apocalyptic movie/show with almost everyone dead. It isn't enough to have survivors battling mutants. Now, the survivors have escape walking corpses.
It would be interesting to read something about the unconscious hook zombie apocalypses have on us.
Important decisions are made based on the census. It behooves people to answer honestly, particularly if they do not belong to the majority religion. Atheists and agnostics are under-represented
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If you want to sell more tablets...or smart phones, please be aware that it isn't only the price of the device that slows things down.
It is also the price of the service.
Not everyone is keen to add another monthly, recurring bill for $50 a month.
I'm on my computer all day at work and in the evenings during the week once I finished doing other things. I barely feel need for a tablet or a smart phone as it is, so I don't feel like plopping out $50 a month to run one.
I would rather put the money towards buying a house or going out to a nice restuarant.
The Instagram move has to be the most brain dead decision from the tech world since Google Buzz.
In both situations any ordinary person would be asking themselves
"How could they NOT think that this decision would upset their users, big time?"
To be un-PC, not everyone who works in tech, especially management has an autism spectrum disorder.
That leaves management surronding themselves with and reweard synchophants.........yes men, who insulate them from reality, letting them make assinine decisions like this one.
They deserve to be sued.
I'm 100% gun control.
Last week I found a gun in the street just outside of my house on my way to work.
The police called me later that day to let me know that the gun had been stolen from someone in Kentucky.
I don't think it was very smart for that paper to publish a list of gun owners. They just told criminals where they might potentially break in and find guns. Maybe some little old lady's home who keeps a glock in the house for protection.
Maybe some gun nut who has an automatic weapon in his garage, which will now be stolen and used in some gang fight........or school massacre.
FAIL
We all pretend not to see the occasional article about cell phone radiation. That is us. Do you really want an infant having one of those devices close to their head all of the time?
For most of my career I was one of those programmers who clinged to his own particular style of coding. I got away with it because I used an IDE that could rearrange other people's code into my style for me to work on it and then put it back in the other style when I was done.
A few years ago I spent a lot of time studying new stuff on my platform where all the code was written in a style I didn't like and that I had always told myself made things harder to read.
I got over myself as a result.
I think I became a better programmer by reading code written in different styles.
I now think it is the mark of a provincial thinking to cling to your own style at the expense of good relations at your job.
I know all of the reasons why this wouldn't happen, but if they wanted to win people away from Microsoft they would have had better luck passing out copies of MINT with the KDE
I agree, getting HURD finished would solve many of the FSF problems. Their operating system could be just "GNU" and the FSF would look much better.
Of course, a kernel is a lot of work?
Is there another reason why HURD was never finished?
Torvalds made the first Linux kernels himself.
Is there a lack of interest among the people with the knowledge to build HURD?
The person who wrote that clearly never had a job as a programmer.
These days, you can't even count on code from computer books compiling, let alone being exemplars of good code.
I never heard of that distro before?
What is it like?
Zero proprietary drivers and media files?
GNOME desktop?
PITA to install?
Curious
Thanks
Steve
Canadians manage to watch movies and play video games without shooting each other. Regardless of the reason why someone picks up a gun, the problem is that they are still able to get one when they are not fit to have one. Issues about mental health and culture SHOULD be addressed, but I think the NRA and other pro-gun people are going to use those things as diversions to the real issue.......keeping automatic weapons away from most people.
I don't know if this correct or PC, but when I first started I read code like a book. Every single word, left to right, down to the next line.
Now I skip.
I look where arguments go in, where they come out, where functions are called.
If I go into a code block, I look where the result is first and back track as needed
I look at the connections and only go deeper when I need to.
If I have to read legacy procedural code, I do what I do when I read the web. I ignore sub levels of information until I finish a level. On a web page I read the content, ignore the side bars and I don't click on links until I am done with that page. In procedural code I read top down and ignore nested blocks until I see what is going on the first level.
Most Christians have never read the entire bible -- any version. Why would they read the Dead Sea scrolls?
One guy, over 10 years ago, makes a failed shoe bombing attempt so the Republicans make all of us take off our shoes whenever we get on an airplane.
One guy successfully guns down almost all 30 people and they will not pass one law regulating guns.
I'm so glad I never got around to using that service.
I'll stick with my privately hosted blog where I control all of the material.
Right wingers believe that new laws will prevent people from getting abortions. Why don't they believe that new laws will prevent people from shooting guns at people?
+1
I'm glad someone mentioned having a problem with Microsoft collecting data off of people PERSONAL Computers (PC)
True, very true.
However, that is when people do not have a choice.
At home, I ditched Ubuntu despite having used since it came out because I had enough of Unity and now their links with Amazon. I had a choice. Here have a MINT or maybe you prefer to have an Apple instead.
More importantly, can you delete all of your old tweets, as in having them be completely off of Twitters severs?
This isn't really news. I've been having discussions online since before AOL & Windows 3.1 existed, when the hot things were email lists and Usenet.
Trolls were around even then and once they would get booted off or blocked they would don new aliases, which fooled nobody.
Their style of writing gave them away.
I don't use either tablets or e-readers.
I thought the point of ereaders is that they have non-computer -like, non-bright, non-glaring screens.
I also thought e-readers are lighter and consume less power.
Both important things for someone who reads a lot of books.
1. The global climate change that brought hurricane Sandy to New York and New Jersey will someday put those same homes underwater. I doubt it would be feasible to relocate the populations of NYC and coastal NJ, so it is time to start building things to protect those areas from being submerged......before the solar panels.
2. This may be a moot point given #1. A centralized power grid has the most benefits. The grid needs to use alternative fuel sources and more importantly the investment needs to be made to put powerlines underground. Very old countries with very old infrastructures in Europe did it. The US can too. Especially with sudden strong storms like El Derechios becoming more common. It is the only way to keep service more reliable and make post-storm repairs fewer.
When I was a kid there were many articles about how the increased number of UFO sightings was due in part to the anxiety of the Cold War and the bomb.
These days it isn't enough to have a simple apocalyptic movie/show with almost everyone dead. It isn't enough to have survivors battling mutants. Now, the survivors have escape walking corpses.
It would be interesting to read something about the unconscious hook zombie apocalypses have on us.
Interesting point about deaf people. Thanks for posting.
No, but the police can zap you with electricity for peacefully spending your own money.
Important decisions are made based on the census. It behooves people to answer honestly, particularly if they do not belong to the majority religion. Atheists and agnostics are under-represented