Some people absolutely have to have some product day 1 and retailers know it. So retailers stack up the bundles forcing customers to buy a bunch of shit they don't need.
As always patience is a virtue. Supply and demand even out and a few weeks or months allows the hype to disappate and consensus to form. If a product is THAT GOOD it will still be on sale, and if it isn't, well you've saved some money.
If I had to pick one thing about Bing which was better than Google, it would be the background. They're very interesting and stimulating. Unfortunately most of the rest of the Bing service is a Google wannabe and delivers subpar results.
The price will drop. In a few years every midrange TV & blu ray player will boast 3D support and chances are the technology will be more stable and full featured by then too.
More likely server maintenance is for something coming up in E3. Perhaps the PSN+ service or whatever. Or maybe they just choose to do major maintenance at this time of year because it's quieter so it's less disruptive.
I don't follow. A plot is the storyline, i.e. the means by which the story is told. You can't have one without the other. Mario games have a plot. Pokemon games have a plot. Doom has a plot.
I can't think of any time in my professional career that being a member of the BCS would have made the slightest bit of difference to my job prospects. Or any occasion where I've been asked about membership or seen a job which had BCS membership as a precondition. Maybe somewhere like the civil service does bestow some kind of recognition on the qualification but for me it would have been a complete waste of time.
That's not to say that some kind of accreditation service for software engineers / IT professionals is a bad thing but the BCS isn't that service. Anyone with a hundred quid to spend annually and some years in the industry would qualify for an MBCS, so what's the point of accreditation at all?
In Short, the staff who make the creative decisions never actually played the fucking games.
Oh I think they've played the games and realised how utterly paper thin, stupid, derivative, repetitive or outright silly most game plots are. However it would be nice that movies did follow the game plot where some or none of these things applied, and improved them in a positive way when they did.
Yeah, just like music in the iTunes store. Oh wait, that music is DRM-free and in an open format...
It is now, it never used to be. Despite being AAC it was blanketed in a DRM envelope.
Anyways, this is more about 3rd-party content being usable in the book reader app. PDFs were perfectly readable from day one on the iPhone. All the new announcement means is that there's an easier way to get them on your device and they will be easier to organize and consolidate than before.
I have no issue with PDF being the choice of reader, but if you think premium book content will be DRM free I have a bridge to sell you. Apple only begrudgingly removed DRM from music and still use it to protect video & apps. Premium book content (i.e. commercial titles) will be wrapped in FairPlay DRM rendering them useless to other devices. Needless to say the iPad won't support other DRM schemes either such as Adobe Digital Editions so it's tough shit if you want to buy something from B&N, or some specialist store.
I'm sure some of the larger online book vendors will produce some hack workaround, serving up pages through a browser or whatever but that is a second rate experience and one which doesn't work if you wish to read somewhere which has no wifi.
No different than the food supplements in America. They make all these claims and then some.
And I wouldn't be surprised if this miracle drink ends up in the US. For North Korea it means some hard currency selling some revolting concoction of inedible weeds & berries. For investors, it gives them a wedge to drive into the already crowded snake oil market.
Press coverage like the BBC has given is useful because it means they don't have to claim health benefits themselves, they can just refer back to the story.
Actually, people should be in awe - and if you're Amazon you should be shitting your pants. One of the big debates lately in the publishing industry has been in regards to a unified format. Allowing PDF's in the iBooks part of iTunes basically makes that a moot point. Brilliant on Apple's part, and a death knell for traditional publishing.
The format is just half the picture. Apple can and probably will slather the format with a proprietary DRM. So your book could be PDF under the DRM but it doesn't make it any more portable to other readers for being so.
Same thing has happened to EPUB too. There is more than one DRM although most of the industry has sensibly chosen to go for the same DRM (Adobe) which does mean content is portable between devices.
The US is already infested with "super drinks". Bottles of acai / gojiberry / mangosteen juice for ridiculous markups. Most of them sold by idiots to idiots via MLM / pyramid schemes -
It wouldn't surprise me at all that North Korea or their western partners have decided they want a piece of this scam by turning some unpalatable unheard of plant / berry / fruit into a "super drink".
The Daily Mail usually doesn't make stuff up. Instead it is just extremely selective about what it reports and toploads its articles with a heavily distorted version of events burying some more moderate thinking / mitigating reason right at the end. Usually stories are selected to push the outrage button on their middle England, closet facist readers. Popular topics might be immigrants, councils, "nanny state" rules, speed cameras, alternate lifestyles etc.
For example, this story is crafted to push buttons on how some barmy council is wasting taxpayers money mandating the number of holes in salt shakers while the entirely reasonable rationale for a pilot study is buried right at the bottom.
It's not racist and it's not BS. Clearly you have never worked with large operations in India or you would know exactly what I mean. Places like Bangalore have so many outsourcing operations that people stay one place for six months and then move on somewhere else. Staff retention is abysmal. Consequently the business knowledge is nonexistent, the development times treble and quality of work is down the toilet. What you pay is what you get and what you get from outsourced development is truly awful. I've seen it happen on countless projects that I was liaising with.
It has nothing to do with the intelligence of the people but the setup and the belief that you can just set up shop in these countries and get the same quality of work for 1/3 price as if coding were some assembly plant. Because you can't.
Learn Java if you enjoy solving the same business problems over and over again. Kernel programming is still C. Most "C++ jobs" neuter C++ down to the point you're really just using C with classes, easy to pick up if you know C.
Why else would a business be hiring you except to solve their problems? Even kernel programming (the few places that require it) are still to address business problems. You might find yourself writing drivers for example.
I recently had lunch with a friend of mine who manages Java development. He's switching jobs because the company is switching to $10/hour Java coders, and he wants nothing to do with that. To the current business mindset, if the problem is best solved with Java, it's best solved from another country.
Someone hiring $10 hour coders will get exactly what they deserve. I used to work for a financial firm that set up a large Indian operation (something like 2000 employees). The theory was US programmers cost the company $300 a day, the Indian ones $90 a day. Of course the quality of code was atrocious, development times were far longer, the business knowledge was non-existent, staff were apathetic and and the turnover / retraining was high. So yeah on paper it looked cheap but they got shit for that. After 2 or 3 years of putting up with substandard quality, they sold their Indian operation but they still outsource stuff to India.
For some reason this isn't as much of a problem with C# (perhaps because there's so much less open source available in C#), but of course you're competing in a world labor market in any language, it's just a matter of degree.
C# and Java have their own way things of doing stuff but fundamentally they are interchangeable technologies. I expect the labour market for C# is weaker than Java but at the same time its not a niche language. My own opinion is there are plenty of C# and Java jobs out there and if you are in any way competent and can convey that competence during an interview you should have no problem finding a job.
Go for a C++ job then. Or suck it up and learn a few languages.
The reason Java and other languages are more prominent these days is because they are more suitable for most business requirements - reliability, scalability, portability etc. Unless an app has to hit the metal, or has hard speed / memory / CPU requirements, chances are C is not the right language to write in any more.
It's a threat because it is an example of cognitive dissonance at its finest. Some people cannot accept that the bible could be wrong about anything so therefore they rationalize away any evidence to the contrary.
Evolution is a threat because it cannot co-exist in someone's mind with firmly held beliefs about creation. So believers pretend evolution doesn't matter ("it's only a theory"), they nitpick minutiae to avoid looking at the overwhelming evidence, they quotemine from their critics, they build up an arsenal of strawmen arguments that are used in rotation, and generally do everything to pretend that no evidence for evolution exists at all.
Funnily enough exactly the same tactics are used by holocaust deniers and 9/11 truthers. It seems some people can become so entrenched in a particular viewpoint that they can ignore any amount of evidence that proves beyond a doubt that they are wrong.
Actually, he clarifies this in his comments on the blog post: Australians can't sell paid apps on the android marketplace yet. This obviously makes it hard to make money and pay rent.
So don't sell a paid app on the marketplace. Give away a trial app for free on marketplace and take users who want to upgrade to paypal (via the browser) where they can purchase an unlock code. Or any other tried and tested mechanism for selling software online.
that they are in need of ObjC without garbage collection. Why use C++ and artificially constrain its capabilities?
C++ isn't a constraint. There are far more people capable of coding in C++ than in Objective C. And with Apple jumping ship for clang the implementation in gcc runs a serious risk of being deprecated or going bit rotten. Neither of which are justifications for using it internally.
Android also has finegrained security permissions and does stick up a warning before installation of what the app is permitted to do. But I think it would be very easy for people to click through these. I think certain permissions are more dangerous that others, especially in combination and I would like to see phones more prominently warn upfront and also when the app tries to invoke them.
Except the book industry is in far worse place than music ever was. It's not just one format but many. It's not just one DRM but many. E-books could have taken off years ago but the warring factions have split the market into a hundred pieces with the consumer confused and disinterested.
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As always patience is a virtue. Supply and demand even out and a few weeks or months allows the hype to disappate and consensus to form. If a product is THAT GOOD it will still be on sale, and if it isn't, well you've saved some money.
If I had to pick one thing about Bing which was better than Google, it would be the background. They're very interesting and stimulating. Unfortunately most of the rest of the Bing service is a Google wannabe and delivers subpar results.
The price will drop. In a few years every midrange TV & blu ray player will boast 3D support and chances are the technology will be more stable and full featured by then too.
More likely server maintenance is for something coming up in E3. Perhaps the PSN+ service or whatever. Or maybe they just choose to do major maintenance at this time of year because it's quieter so it's less disruptive.
I don't follow. A plot is the storyline, i.e. the means by which the story is told. You can't have one without the other. Mario games have a plot. Pokemon games have a plot. Doom has a plot.
That's not to say that some kind of accreditation service for software engineers / IT professionals is a bad thing but the BCS isn't that service. Anyone with a hundred quid to spend annually and some years in the industry would qualify for an MBCS, so what's the point of accreditation at all?
Oh I think they've played the games and realised how utterly paper thin, stupid, derivative, repetitive or outright silly most game plots are. However it would be nice that movies did follow the game plot where some or none of these things applied, and improved them in a positive way when they did.
It is now, it never used to be. Despite being AAC it was blanketed in a DRM envelope.
Anyways, this is more about 3rd-party content being usable in the book reader app. PDFs were perfectly readable from day one on the iPhone. All the new announcement means is that there's an easier way to get them on your device and they will be easier to organize and consolidate than before.
I have no issue with PDF being the choice of reader, but if you think premium book content will be DRM free I have a bridge to sell you. Apple only begrudgingly removed DRM from music and still use it to protect video & apps. Premium book content (i.e. commercial titles) will be wrapped in FairPlay DRM rendering them useless to other devices. Needless to say the iPad won't support other DRM schemes either such as Adobe Digital Editions so it's tough shit if you want to buy something from B&N, or some specialist store.
I'm sure some of the larger online book vendors will produce some hack workaround, serving up pages through a browser or whatever but that is a second rate experience and one which doesn't work if you wish to read somewhere which has no wifi.
And I wouldn't be surprised if this miracle drink ends up in the US. For North Korea it means some hard currency selling some revolting concoction of inedible weeds & berries. For investors, it gives them a wedge to drive into the already crowded snake oil market.
Press coverage like the BBC has given is useful because it means they don't have to claim health benefits themselves, they can just refer back to the story.
The format is just half the picture. Apple can and probably will slather the format with a proprietary DRM. So your book could be PDF under the DRM but it doesn't make it any more portable to other readers for being so.
Same thing has happened to EPUB too. There is more than one DRM although most of the industry has sensibly chosen to go for the same DRM (Adobe) which does mean content is portable between devices.
It wouldn't surprise me at all that North Korea or their western partners have decided they want a piece of this scam by turning some unpalatable unheard of plant / berry / fruit into a "super drink".
For example, this story is crafted to push buttons on how some barmy council is wasting taxpayers money mandating the number of holes in salt shakers while the entirely reasonable rationale for a pilot study is buried right at the bottom.
Hah beat you to it
I need to proof read - s/always ran/also-ran/g.
If the free to play model was so great, why does it always happen to the always-ran MMOs?
It has nothing to do with the intelligence of the people but the setup and the belief that you can just set up shop in these countries and get the same quality of work for 1/3 price as if coding were some assembly plant. Because you can't.
Why else would a business be hiring you except to solve their problems? Even kernel programming (the few places that require it) are still to address business problems. You might find yourself writing drivers for example.
I recently had lunch with a friend of mine who manages Java development. He's switching jobs because the company is switching to $10/hour Java coders, and he wants nothing to do with that. To the current business mindset, if the problem is best solved with Java, it's best solved from another country.
Someone hiring $10 hour coders will get exactly what they deserve. I used to work for a financial firm that set up a large Indian operation (something like 2000 employees). The theory was US programmers cost the company $300 a day, the Indian ones $90 a day. Of course the quality of code was atrocious, development times were far longer, the business knowledge was non-existent, staff were apathetic and and the turnover / retraining was high. So yeah on paper it looked cheap but they got shit for that. After 2 or 3 years of putting up with substandard quality, they sold their Indian operation but they still outsource stuff to India.
For some reason this isn't as much of a problem with C# (perhaps because there's so much less open source available in C#), but of course you're competing in a world labor market in any language, it's just a matter of degree.
C# and Java have their own way things of doing stuff but fundamentally they are interchangeable technologies. I expect the labour market for C# is weaker than Java but at the same time its not a niche language. My own opinion is there are plenty of C# and Java jobs out there and if you are in any way competent and can convey that competence during an interview you should have no problem finding a job.
The reason Java and other languages are more prominent these days is because they are more suitable for most business requirements - reliability, scalability, portability etc. Unless an app has to hit the metal, or has hard speed / memory / CPU requirements, chances are C is not the right language to write in any more.
Evolution is a threat because it cannot co-exist in someone's mind with firmly held beliefs about creation. So believers pretend evolution doesn't matter ("it's only a theory"), they nitpick minutiae to avoid looking at the overwhelming evidence, they quotemine from their critics, they build up an arsenal of strawmen arguments that are used in rotation, and generally do everything to pretend that no evidence for evolution exists at all.
Funnily enough exactly the same tactics are used by holocaust deniers and 9/11 truthers. It seems some people can become so entrenched in a particular viewpoint that they can ignore any amount of evidence that proves beyond a doubt that they are wrong.
I was referring to the android marketplace...
So don't sell a paid app on the marketplace. Give away a trial app for free on marketplace and take users who want to upgrade to paypal (via the browser) where they can purchase an unlock code. Or any other tried and tested mechanism for selling software online.
I think schools should be teaching critical thinking as a mandatory part of the curriculum and ID would make an excellent case study for that course.
C++ isn't a constraint. There are far more people capable of coding in C++ than in Objective C. And with Apple jumping ship for clang the implementation in gcc runs a serious risk of being deprecated or going bit rotten. Neither of which are justifications for using it internally.
Android also has finegrained security permissions and does stick up a warning before installation of what the app is permitted to do. But I think it would be very easy for people to click through these. I think certain permissions are more dangerous that others, especially in combination and I would like to see phones more prominently warn upfront and also when the app tries to invoke them.
Except the book industry is in far worse place than music ever was. It's not just one format but many. It's not just one DRM but many. E-books could have taken off years ago but the warring factions have split the market into a hundred pieces with the consumer confused and disinterested.