Programming is too hard with all that darn syntax and obscure words and stuff. We have to make this for the common man. So now, programming will all be done via Scratch and Sense.
Sure, need a loop? Drag over a loop. Need and if/then/else? it's on that toolbar over there. Need to consume a web service? Look in the Mashable toolbar.
Oh, need to parse a string of text to see if the input matches your criteria? No, that's called regex, you'll need to find a real programmer to help you with that.
Need to test your security/performance/useability? Sorry, go see that real programmer again.
There has to be some correlation between the guy preaching the end of the world this week and Duke Nukem actually coming out. One of the two was just off by a few days. Is hell going to freeze over? The doomsday guy didn't scare me before (I'm a christian, he's a nut) But NOW I''m starting to worry.
amen brother. I have me a psuedo TV-Monitor,a samsung T260HD, we bought last year. Guess what, Native IS 1920*1200. I call it psuedo TV because it actually HAS a tuner in it, no computer needed.
We tried to get another this year but can't. It's been replaced with the newer betterrer model, the T270somethingornother... which maxes at 1920*1080. What shit.
1st - code view, full screen. 2nd pallets/toolbars etc (either in dreamweaver or eclipse) 3rd the output, results, test, whatever you want to call it. 4th this one switches a bit. Sometimes the database manager, or a putty to the server. Even mail or IM distractions...
I can't imagine the limitations on 2 or 3 monitors:)
I'm on 4!
And not 4 little ones, they all do 1920*1200 or more. I'm currently thinking about a new job and one of the things that gives me the most anxiety is not having the monitors!!!
Mail is down to a trickle. Every time I see the mail lady drive down my street of about 20 houses, she stops at oh, 5 of them, unless it's a day we all get some junkmail.
So, lets back it down to 3 days a week. Mon, Wed Fri? Mon, Wed, Sat?
And for rural areas, lets limit pickup. I used to live down a 1/2 mile dirt road. We rarely got any mail, however, every day the mail lady drove to the end of the road to see if our flag was up. What a waste. How about we make some community drop boxes that can be checked without getting out, going behind it, and dumping a bag.
Agreed, if the company in question (and WE DO) want to be in compliance, then it's a pretty good set of security rules to apply. It's a baseline, each operation has to have their own rules to go along with it.
But if a company wants to lie, and say they are (and it's easy to fake it) then it's usesless.
I'm the single admin in a small shop. I'm responsible for the firewalls, the servers, the programming and.... PCI compliance. All I can tell you is, PCI compliance is on the honor system until you have an incident. You have to pass a scan from a 3rd party vendor (easy) and fill out a survey, just put yes in all the boxes.
Sorry, there are so many ways to fake the external scan if you want, it's so trivial. 1. Don't list all your IP's just use a clean server. 2. have your website send a different (simple) page when it see's the scanners IP.
We got the inspection twice. They called before coming of course. Here comes this person from an inspection service... Do you have passwords? Yes. Do people share computers? No. Where's the firewall? There... Hu? That device? Oh, I usually inspect buildings, firewalls are something entirely different. Ok, I'm going to take some pictures now.
Bestbuy has ALL the hardware your need. Buy linksys or dlink or netgear. Oh, and their off the shelf computers are great too. remember lots of harddrives, that's important for a good fast server... So get some of those external cases and a bunch of USB hubs. Spindles = Good, for some reason.
They are in gross violation of PCI. Criminal Negligence is "suitable"
They can be seriously damaged by this... I would love to see their ability to take credit cards revoked. That would put an end to their entire online business. Can you imagine Playstation Network if it was prepay, or paper billed only?
The point is, many people already HAVE an ipad, based on it's current merits alone. No one in their right mind would buy an iPad to play angry birds... But if they already had one (and maybe an iphone4/5 as well) and all they had to do was buy a dock and controller, no brainer.
But how many people WOULD spend $500 for a box that plays games, surfs WELL, has TONS of free apps and overall does a lot more than an xbox or 360. Sure those two devices have the hardware to do all this, but they don't have the software, and with the amount of developers between the different platforms, they'll never come close to what apple has.
Wow, that's pretty sad. where are the productivity apps? where's everything that's NOT a game? Oh, I see.
And lets see, prices? If you pay less than $30 it better be used or it's going to suck. Want an AAA game? Yeah, that's $60. So, for the price of two first class xbox360 games I can buy my fictional ipad dock. Or an existing apple tv...
Nintendo ahead of the curve? They came out with weak device that plays cute, yet overpriced, games and doesn't do HD. Have you looked at the wii/ds store? Wow, what a load of crap! My kids have a DSiXL and a Wii... The amount of downloadable content there is a joke. The DS has almost nothing. Yeah, they had a good idea on the controller. I use it on my PC as an extra input. My kids have a DS and about 25 games between them. What do they constantly want to play? my iphone. If I ever can't find my phone, the kids have it. Nintendo is a has-been.
Seriously, they've already got all the power they need in the ipad... It just needs a few, rather cheap, pieces to bring it all together.
First off, give it a dock, something nice looking, but small to fit in your stack of electronics. On the front, nothing except maybe a light to let you know there's something docked. On the back, power, video/audio out. Maybe ethernet, but that's not really apple's way.
As for controllers... just make it bluetooth. This way, when you're travelling with your games, you don't need the dock, just grab your pad and controllers and go.
$50 for the dock, $25 for each controller.
So, now, for everyone who already has an ipad, for $75 or $100 they can now have a console that's considerably more capable than a wii. Oh yeah, it's also a damn good web browser. Oh, and facebook. And outlook, and gmail, and maps, and reminders and media player and everything else you can imagine. Oh, and lets add facetime to it. Cisco is now trying to get into home video chat. This may raise the price of the dock a bit because when docked the camera wouldn't necessarily be exposed.
It may not be as powerful as an xbox360, but id has already shown that some good stuff can come out of it. And who needs 55million poly/sec for angrybirds?
He's right... originally there was no way to turn it off until web developers bitched, me included, about how it's slowing down development. The problem was, as a developer i may reload a page often, or make a tweak, reload, etc. Waiting for this to clear was a bitch, so they put in the command line switch for us.
You'd be surprised when tweaking code or css how often you reload a page.
Valve CHOSE to sell that way. And a good decision it was.
If I choose NOT to do what valve did, that doesn't give the rest of the world permission to steal my wares because they don't like my price. At what point to we get to steal a Ferrari because they priced it too high?
If the consensus is no, hive-mind behavior will kick in, and the internet will provide your widget at a more reasonable cost.
So true, that will always be the outcome. Does that make it any more legal? No. Does it make it right? No. Just because the masses think my product is overpriced does not give them the RIGHT to steal it. Even more so when the product is a luxury, not a necessity. Software, video, music... none of that is a necessity. Now If I was selling WATER at a high price and people where dying, that's a different story.
True, the analogy doesn't apply, comparing virtual to physical goods. But what about artwork, particularly photography. I know there are some people getting paid high dollar for photography. Duplication cost is negligible, but not zero, for this stuff.
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Programming is too hard with all that darn syntax and obscure words and stuff. We have to make this for the common man. So now, programming will all be done via Scratch and Sense.
Sure, need a loop? Drag over a loop. Need and if/then/else? it's on that toolbar over there. Need to consume a web service? Look in the Mashable toolbar.
Oh, need to parse a string of text to see if the input matches your criteria? No, that's called regex, you'll need to find a real programmer to help you with that.
Need to test your security/performance/useability? Sorry, go see that real programmer again.
not sure which, but I'm pretty sure you can exclude all of these...
http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/
Show me a person who doesn't believe in SOMETHING others deem crazy, and I'll show you a liar :)
There has to be some correlation between the guy preaching the end of the world this week and Duke Nukem actually coming out. One of the two was just off by a few days. Is hell going to freeze over? The doomsday guy didn't scare me before (I'm a christian, he's a nut) But NOW I''m starting to worry.
amen brother. I have me a psuedo TV-Monitor,a samsung T260HD, we bought last year. Guess what, Native IS 1920*1200. I call it psuedo TV because it actually HAS a tuner in it, no computer needed.
We tried to get another this year but can't. It's been replaced with the newer betterrer model, the T270somethingornother... which maxes at 1920*1080.
What shit.
He hasn't yet learned that he can reuse those iso's.
yeah, don't rely on it too heavily, it's no frontpage, but can still make a mess of things.
It has decent representation of CSS, but I mostly just use it for file/upload management
how many points if I'm running this on my 4th?
1st - code view, full screen.
2nd pallets/toolbars etc (either in dreamweaver or eclipse)
3rd the output, results, test, whatever you want to call it.
4th this one switches a bit. Sometimes the database manager, or a putty to the server. Even mail or IM distractions...
I can't imagine the limitations on 2 or 3 monitors :)
I'm on 4!
And not 4 little ones, they all do 1920*1200 or more. I'm currently thinking about a new job and one of the things that gives me the most anxiety is not having the monitors!!!
How many non-geeks are also wildly famous.
How many former geeks are now terrorists or serial killers?
Come to me when you have some numbers.
This is not to say I don't agree with the trend... but don't sell it like someone's done some quantitative research.
Mail is down to a trickle. Every time I see the mail lady drive down my street of about 20 houses, she stops at oh, 5 of them, unless it's a day we all get some junkmail.
So, lets back it down to 3 days a week. Mon, Wed Fri? Mon, Wed, Sat?
And for rural areas, lets limit pickup. I used to live down a 1/2 mile dirt road. We rarely got any mail, however, every day the mail lady drove to the end of the road to see if our flag was up. What a waste. How about we make some community drop boxes that can be checked without getting out, going behind it, and dumping a bag.
Agreed, if the company in question (and WE DO) want to be in compliance, then it's a pretty good set of security rules to apply. It's a baseline, each operation has to have their own rules to go along with it.
But if a company wants to lie, and say they are (and it's easy to fake it) then it's usesless.
I'm the single admin in a small shop. I'm responsible for the firewalls, the servers, the programming and.... PCI compliance. All I can tell you is, PCI compliance is on the honor system until you have an incident. You have to pass a scan from a 3rd party vendor (easy) and fill out a survey, just put yes in all the boxes.
Sorry, there are so many ways to fake the external scan if you want, it's so trivial.
1. Don't list all your IP's just use a clean server.
2. have your website send a different (simple) page when it see's the scanners IP.
We got the inspection twice. They called before coming of course. Here comes this person from an inspection service...
Do you have passwords? Yes.
Do people share computers? No.
Where's the firewall? There... Hu? That device? Oh, I usually inspect buildings, firewalls are something entirely different.
Ok, I'm going to take some pictures now.
Bestbuy has ALL the hardware your need. Buy linksys or dlink or netgear. Oh, and their off the shelf computers are great too. remember lots of harddrives, that's important for a good fast server... So get some of those external cases and a bunch of USB hubs. Spindles = Good, for some reason.
They are in gross violation of PCI. Criminal Negligence is "suitable"
They can be seriously damaged by this... I would love to see their ability to take credit cards revoked. That would put an end to their entire online business. Can you imagine Playstation Network if it was prepay, or paper billed only?
his #2? I would think that is probably in some nearby hole. I don't think they have a municipal sewer system there.
or apple could tap the unused power of all the iDevices connected to the internet and give it to you in real time.
The point is, many people already HAVE an ipad, based on it's current merits alone. No one in their right mind would buy an iPad to play angry birds... But if they already had one (and maybe an iphone4/5 as well) and all they had to do was buy a dock and controller, no brainer.
But how many people WOULD spend $500 for a box that plays games, surfs WELL, has TONS of free apps and overall does a lot more than an xbox or 360. Sure those two devices have the hardware to do all this, but they don't have the software, and with the amount of developers between the different platforms, they'll never come close to what apple has.
Huge back catalog of games? No. And worse, it's 99% games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_360_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_3_games
Wow, that's pretty sad. where are the productivity apps? where's everything that's NOT a game? Oh, I see.
And lets see, prices? If you pay less than $30 it better be used or it's going to suck. Want an AAA game? Yeah, that's $60. So, for the price of two first class xbox360 games I can buy my fictional ipad dock. Or an existing apple tv...
Nintendo ahead of the curve? They came out with weak device that plays cute, yet overpriced, games and doesn't do HD. Have you looked at the wii/ds store? Wow, what a load of crap! My kids have a DSiXL and a Wii... The amount of downloadable content there is a joke. The DS has almost nothing. Yeah, they had a good idea on the controller. I use it on my PC as an extra input. My kids have a DS and about 25 games between them. What do they constantly want to play? my iphone. If I ever can't find my phone, the kids have it. Nintendo is a has-been.
yup, on samsung made processors... NT-4 for ARM maybe?
Seriously, they've already got all the power they need in the ipad... It just needs a few, rather cheap, pieces to bring it all together.
First off, give it a dock, something nice looking, but small to fit in your stack of electronics. On the front, nothing except maybe a light to let you know there's something docked. On the back, power, video/audio out. Maybe ethernet, but that's not really apple's way.
As for controllers... just make it bluetooth. This way, when you're travelling with your games, you don't need the dock, just grab your pad and controllers and go.
$50 for the dock, $25 for each controller.
So, now, for everyone who already has an ipad, for $75 or $100 they can now have a console that's considerably more capable than a wii. Oh yeah, it's also a damn good web browser. Oh, and facebook. And outlook, and gmail, and maps, and reminders and media player and everything else you can imagine. Oh, and lets add facetime to it. Cisco is now trying to get into home video chat. This may raise the price of the dock a bit because when docked the camera wouldn't necessarily be exposed.
It may not be as powerful as an xbox360, but id has already shown that some good stuff can come out of it. And who needs 55million poly/sec for angrybirds?
He's right... originally there was no way to turn it off until web developers bitched, me included, about how it's slowing down development. The problem was, as a developer i may reload a page often, or make a tweak, reload, etc. Waiting for this to clear was a bitch, so they put in the command line switch for us.
You'd be surprised when tweaking code or css how often you reload a page.
Yeah, exactly what I was thinking... here in the U.S. 'made it' implies sex.
So, her AE was no longer having sex with her access point.
We knew this was all make-believe when he started talking about his 'Girlfriend'
I would have told him to take his little souvenir back where it came from.
The part they miss here, is the transmission from him to his wife was NOT the FIRST time that's ever happened.... But the second!
I think you're the only one that noticed that I didn't RTFA :)
Thanks, i'll go read it now.
Valve CHOSE to sell that way. And a good decision it was.
If I choose NOT to do what valve did, that doesn't give the rest of the world permission to steal my wares because they don't like my price. At what point to we get to steal a Ferrari because they priced it too high?
If the consensus is no, hive-mind behavior will kick in, and the internet will provide your widget at a more reasonable cost.
So true, that will always be the outcome. Does that make it any more legal? No. Does it make it right? No. Just because the masses think my product is overpriced does not give them the RIGHT to steal it. Even more so when the product is a luxury, not a necessity. Software, video, music... none of that is a necessity. Now If I was selling WATER at a high price and people where dying, that's a different story.
True, the analogy doesn't apply, comparing virtual to physical goods. But what about artwork, particularly photography. I know there are some people getting paid high dollar for photography. Duplication cost is negligible, but not zero, for this stuff.