I promise you that many people are surprised. I was an XP user after ME, then Vista, then I just said screw it. Your browser sucks and you can't make a decent OS. My opinion changed with W7 and what M$ is trying to do with IE. They have always been a giant, but as somebody stated earlier, that competition is helping them avoid travesties like ie6. At least they are making better progress now
When you buy a fully configured PC, the placer you buy it from still, normally, builds it for you (unless we are talking about a laptop or something like that). Those companies building your PC's order the parts to build these. All they are is a middle-man for what most of us/.'ers already do. So unless everybody migrates to factory made pc's (laptops, netbooks, tablets, etc), then PC's will not go away anytime soon.
For a Smartphone, you don't have people sitting there configuring their phone like they would a PC.
And for smartphone vs PC, to get a high-end smartphone on a phone plan, you can get it for what, 300-500 depending on the phone for a top of the line phone. Yeah, pre-configured top of the pc, you are not getting it for 300-500. It is cheaper to fly through phones, but that does not mean that PCs are dying just because smartphones sell more.
I have not done the math, but what is the ratio of bus passes sold vs. motor vehicles bought? If more bus passes are sold, under this same notion, that means that people find cars obsolete and that within 18 months, cars will go away and everybody will take the bus. Do you see how silly that sounds?
When something is cheaper, more people will buy it, but that does not for one second means that the more expensive item is obsolete or going away.
I was under the impression we could download the OS itself and not just use it on proprietary hardware. If that is the case, if vendors are trying to change it in their favor, then that would be dumb since you could always dump that version and get the version directly from Google. Honestly, anybody on/. is smart enough to google this, but you can technically download the beta right now and use it. If that is possible, then It should not matter what 3rd party companies decide to do when you can seriously just reinstall the OS with the google defaults, and not the Samsung defaults
...corporations hiring hooker hunters. at first, I was think, "Oh man, how do I get a job there", but then was very disappointed when I realized I read it incorrectly
Tell that to the 10mil+ subscribers of WoW. With the new expansion getting released, WoW players are going nowhere. Tell the pro Starcraft players that as well. The average consumer doesn't use their pc much anyway, and most of that can be handled through their ps3 or phone now, so they might stop using it alot less.
What about college students? So, how are they going to type up their exams now. On a smartphone? I think it would be absolutely horrid to write a thesus using a phone. Ouch.
18-months? Really?
Now, I consider myself an avid pc gamer, and I have no plans to move away from that anytime soon, plus the 6 cores are starting to roll out in larger numbers. 3-D technology is getting implemented more and more into PC's (I believe it is NVidia who is doing a bunch of stuff with it).
The thing is that PC's can do so much more than a smartphone, and PC's are upgradable (not just software, but hardware) and it won't void your warranty (well I guess if you buy a PC from Dell or something it might since I don't know the rules with pre-made machines). The point is that as pc's evolve, you can easily evolve and adapt with the times by upgrading your PC. To do this with a smartphone means that you need to buy a new phone. Not all that smart if you ask me
Wow, I was seriously going to post this very same thing. I do see that there needs to be a healthy balance between too many comments and not enough comments. I have seen code where somebody put a comment behind something like this:
String startdate;//start date of the application
Yeah, there is no need for a comment there. It is pretty apparent that is the start date of the app. Also, I agree that if you are doing anything complex, comments need to be in there.
What I normally do when I know I am going to write something complex is to write out in plain English what is going to be happening through comments, and then program around the comments. I then use the comments almost like a TODO list to help me along. It helps me and it helps anybody who would look at this code later on down the line.
Complex code + no comments + complex code giving errors = huge pet peeve of mine
Now, I am not saying hand your code to me on a silver platter, but it would be nice to at least know what is going on without wasting precious time figuring out every little thing you did so that I can fix your error.
I use an N-Gage QD, that's right, that old. I don't have any problems with AT&T. Now the kicker: I moved from Nebraska to Vegas and kept my Nebraska number and just use Google Voice. Yeah, my phone still works perfect. Granted, I was smart enough to get a plan that is nationwide so I am not hit for roaming charges, but this is first hand experience from somebody who uses a phone that is completely hated on. My phone is supposed to be really, really bad, but yet, it works just fine. No dropped calls. I have no clue what any of you are talking about. Find a way to send me a private message and I will personally call you. It will go from my Nebraska number in Vegas to Google Voice, then to you, or I can directly call you.
So people are either dropping their phones in the toilets and wondering why they don't work anymore, they are getting the cheapest possible phones on the planet, or they are bitching to bitch. I say this because my phone is so old and crappy to where Nokia themselves to not even support the N-Gage QD anymore. I have no problems with my phone or playing somebody online in a game on my phone or data or texts or anything.
Now there is no reason to give me horrible flashbacks of a woman on her iPhone in front of me in line at Subway and can't decide if she wants lettuce on her sandwich while she is yapping on her phone. I want my meatball sub woman. Move your ass!
I use AT&T and have only had a dropped call when I went into this weird underground bar. The bar was fun, but it was the only time I got low enough bars to where I could not make a call. As for dropped calls, I have never had a dropped call unless it was from the other person.
Now you see what I am getting at. I say go this method and broadcast it streaming online somewhere so I can watch it.
I mean, a house so full of explosives to where the bomb squad even said, "HELL NO!". Let's set it on fire and burn it down. What could possibly go wrong?
Visiting a news stand is like paying for porn or driving a car that is not a sports car or something that has a stick shift: Sure it is fun to remember the good old times, but we live in an age of technology and can put the past times behind us. Anybody on/. is smart enough to get the same information daily and faster than a magazine could ever deliver. While some are reading their magazines, I am 5 steps ahead because I read it on cnn.com a weeks ago.
Until the revolution hits. Once people open their eyes to see they are sheep to the system and that very system is changing everything, then the people will revolt. I no longer live in the USA, but the CSA (Corporate States of America LLC). All it is going to take is one single person to start revolting to get everybody else started. Now, there is a difference between refusing TSA stuff at the airport and revolting. The corporations have taken over to the point where they are now controlling your very security.
We all know these were put into place for money. If you doubt me, I am sure another/.'er can post a link to back that statement up (I am too lazy).
The main problem I am seeing is the generation under me. I am currently 28 years old, so I am talking about the generation that is just getting to their early 20's. More and More they are all getting assimilated to the Jersey Shore/The Hills type attitudes. Do nothing but listen to Clear Channel Radio, go to Lil Wayne concerts (nice rolemodel BTW, as he just got out of jail for gun possession), watch horrible reality TV shows, and then finish the day with some Farmville. My sister is this way, and it is weird. You will mark me a conspiracy theorists, but seriously, sometimes she gets so into this stuff to where it is like she is hypnotized.
Let me clear this up. She is not physically hypnotized, I mean she is so into this life to where as long as she can continue that life, she does not care about anything else. Her boyfriend is the same way, and I have met many people from that generation that are pretty much the same. They don't care about politics, they don't care about what corporations are doing to the Earth, they don't care about world issues. They just want to stick to their corporate people that want them to be "friends".
Once we wake these kids up, we will have an army of followers. They already follow everything MTV and Clear Channel tell them to do, we are just readjusting the dial. An army of violent, crazy followers at our disposal.
Now......who is going to start it? It is not me, I already suggested it, which means I automatically opt out
I am sure they could think of a proper way to get rid of all of that stuff, but they have been looking for an excuse to burn something down and maybe get some cool explosions out of it
Well Apple already has all of that data, so to get anti-corporation about your personal data is a little silly.
Also, besides porn, who goes to magazine kiosks anyway? Even mentioning going to a kiosk here in/. is like telling me I have to put on pants to program: "It's not happening"
That is why I now refer to the USA as the CSA (I just started calling it that in my last post, but it is a good term. Welcome to the Corporate States of America. For the corporations, but the corporations. Please enjoy your stay
and since they will lose their competition, prices will sky rocket. They can charge what they want as long as people keep buying them, which they will. Some people need to take this stuff to not die, so the big corporations will just get retarded about prices.
Oh no, it is still a war on drugs since they are going after people that clone prescription drugs. See, our government gets no piece of the pie when people do that, so this is just a nice way for them to go after those places and say they are going after all copyright infringement. Remember, we now live in CSA (Corporate States of America). If it is not about money that is thrown to CSA, they won't bother
Symantec ripping people off. This can't be true and I don't believe it. I mean, they have never done it before.
I mean, anybody that used to use EarthLink and tried the EarthLink solution more than likely knows how great Symantec is. For those that do not know, please let me enlighten you: I use to take tech support calls for EarthLink. We were supposed to upsell the EarthLink solution, which was Symantec. Now, if a person already had Symantec, we would be trained to talk that person into buying this as well. Symantec loved it when we would get them to pay for our version of Norton (which somehow seemed to never work right), use the EarthLink version (which was a paid service), and talk them into keeping their old Norton subscription just because "you never know".
Yes, some companies would help Symantec get people on double subscriptions.
I have not personally tried it, but more than likely, it will give you an error about incompatibility. Eitehr that or it will work, and you will need to run it in XP mode.
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I promise you that many people are surprised. I was an XP user after ME, then Vista, then I just said screw it. Your browser sucks and you can't make a decent OS. My opinion changed with W7 and what M$ is trying to do with IE. They have always been a giant, but as somebody stated earlier, that competition is helping them avoid travesties like ie6. At least they are making better progress now
For scale, this was approx. one quarter (or one fourth or 1/4) of the circumference of the sun
When you buy a fully configured PC, the placer you buy it from still, normally, builds it for you (unless we are talking about a laptop or something like that). Those companies building your PC's order the parts to build these. All they are is a middle-man for what most of us /.'ers already do. So unless everybody migrates to factory made pc's (laptops, netbooks, tablets, etc), then PC's will not go away anytime soon.
For a Smartphone, you don't have people sitting there configuring their phone like they would a PC.
And for smartphone vs PC, to get a high-end smartphone on a phone plan, you can get it for what, 300-500 depending on the phone for a top of the line phone. Yeah, pre-configured top of the pc, you are not getting it for 300-500. It is cheaper to fly through phones, but that does not mean that PCs are dying just because smartphones sell more.
I have not done the math, but what is the ratio of bus passes sold vs. motor vehicles bought? If more bus passes are sold, under this same notion, that means that people find cars obsolete and that within 18 months, cars will go away and everybody will take the bus. Do you see how silly that sounds?
When something is cheaper, more people will buy it, but that does not for one second means that the more expensive item is obsolete or going away.
I was under the impression we could download the OS itself and not just use it on proprietary hardware. If that is the case, if vendors are trying to change it in their favor, then that would be dumb since you could always dump that version and get the version directly from Google. Honestly, anybody on /. is smart enough to google this, but you can technically download the beta right now and use it. If that is possible, then It should not matter what 3rd party companies decide to do when you can seriously just reinstall the OS with the google defaults, and not the Samsung defaults
...corporations hiring hooker hunters. at first, I was think, "Oh man, how do I get a job there", but then was very disappointed when I realized I read it incorrectly
Rouge zombie satellites. I promise you, I am already in my bunker typing this and connecting to the net through morse code
Tell that to the 10mil+ subscribers of WoW. With the new expansion getting released, WoW players are going nowhere. Tell the pro Starcraft players that as well. The average consumer doesn't use their pc much anyway, and most of that can be handled through their ps3 or phone now, so they might stop using it alot less.
What about college students? So, how are they going to type up their exams now. On a smartphone? I think it would be absolutely horrid to write a thesus using a phone. Ouch.
18-months? Really?
Now, I consider myself an avid pc gamer, and I have no plans to move away from that anytime soon, plus the 6 cores are starting to roll out in larger numbers. 3-D technology is getting implemented more and more into PC's (I believe it is NVidia who is doing a bunch of stuff with it).
The thing is that PC's can do so much more than a smartphone, and PC's are upgradable (not just software, but hardware) and it won't void your warranty (well I guess if you buy a PC from Dell or something it might since I don't know the rules with pre-made machines). The point is that as pc's evolve, you can easily evolve and adapt with the times by upgrading your PC. To do this with a smartphone means that you need to buy a new phone. Not all that smart if you ask me
Wow, I was seriously going to post this very same thing. I do see that there needs to be a healthy balance between too many comments and not enough comments. I have seen code where somebody put a comment behind something like this: //start date of the application
String startdate;
Yeah, there is no need for a comment there. It is pretty apparent that is the start date of the app. Also, I agree that if you are doing anything complex, comments need to be in there.
What I normally do when I know I am going to write something complex is to write out in plain English what is going to be happening through comments, and then program around the comments. I then use the comments almost like a TODO list to help me along. It helps me and it helps anybody who would look at this code later on down the line.
Complex code + no comments + complex code giving errors = huge pet peeve of mine
Now, I am not saying hand your code to me on a silver platter, but it would be nice to at least know what is going on without wasting precious time figuring out every little thing you did so that I can fix your error.
I use an N-Gage QD, that's right, that old. I don't have any problems with AT&T. Now the kicker: I moved from Nebraska to Vegas and kept my Nebraska number and just use Google Voice. Yeah, my phone still works perfect. Granted, I was smart enough to get a plan that is nationwide so I am not hit for roaming charges, but this is first hand experience from somebody who uses a phone that is completely hated on. My phone is supposed to be really, really bad, but yet, it works just fine. No dropped calls. I have no clue what any of you are talking about. Find a way to send me a private message and I will personally call you. It will go from my Nebraska number in Vegas to Google Voice, then to you, or I can directly call you.
So people are either dropping their phones in the toilets and wondering why they don't work anymore, they are getting the cheapest possible phones on the planet, or they are bitching to bitch. I say this because my phone is so old and crappy to where Nokia themselves to not even support the N-Gage QD anymore. I have no problems with my phone or playing somebody online in a game on my phone or data or texts or anything.
Now there is no reason to give me horrible flashbacks of a woman on her iPhone in front of me in line at Subway and can't decide if she wants lettuce on her sandwich while she is yapping on her phone. I want my meatball sub woman. Move your ass!
I use AT&T and have only had a dropped call when I went into this weird underground bar. The bar was fun, but it was the only time I got low enough bars to where I could not make a call. As for dropped calls, I have never had a dropped call unless it was from the other person.
Now you see what I am getting at. I say go this method and broadcast it streaming online somewhere so I can watch it.
I mean, a house so full of explosives to where the bomb squad even said, "HELL NO!". Let's set it on fire and burn it down. What could possibly go wrong?
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DARKNESS BROTHERS! They should have never given y'all *@&$% any money!
Visiting a news stand is like paying for porn or driving a car that is not a sports car or something that has a stick shift: Sure it is fun to remember the good old times, but we live in an age of technology and can put the past times behind us. Anybody on /. is smart enough to get the same information daily and faster than a magazine could ever deliver. While some are reading their magazines, I am 5 steps ahead because I read it on cnn.com a weeks ago.
Until the revolution hits. Once people open their eyes to see they are sheep to the system and that very system is changing everything, then the people will revolt. I no longer live in the USA, but the CSA (Corporate States of America LLC). All it is going to take is one single person to start revolting to get everybody else started. Now, there is a difference between refusing TSA stuff at the airport and revolting. The corporations have taken over to the point where they are now controlling your very security.
/.'er can post a link to back that statement up (I am too lazy).
...who is going to start it? It is not me, I already suggested it, which means I automatically opt out
We all know these were put into place for money. If you doubt me, I am sure another
The main problem I am seeing is the generation under me. I am currently 28 years old, so I am talking about the generation that is just getting to their early 20's. More and More they are all getting assimilated to the Jersey Shore/The Hills type attitudes. Do nothing but listen to Clear Channel Radio, go to Lil Wayne concerts (nice rolemodel BTW, as he just got out of jail for gun possession), watch horrible reality TV shows, and then finish the day with some Farmville. My sister is this way, and it is weird. You will mark me a conspiracy theorists, but seriously, sometimes she gets so into this stuff to where it is like she is hypnotized.
Let me clear this up. She is not physically hypnotized, I mean she is so into this life to where as long as she can continue that life, she does not care about anything else. Her boyfriend is the same way, and I have met many people from that generation that are pretty much the same. They don't care about politics, they don't care about what corporations are doing to the Earth, they don't care about world issues. They just want to stick to their corporate people that want them to be "friends".
Once we wake these kids up, we will have an army of followers. They already follow everything MTV and Clear Channel tell them to do, we are just readjusting the dial. An army of violent, crazy followers at our disposal.
Now...
I am sure they could think of a proper way to get rid of all of that stuff, but they have been looking for an excuse to burn something down and maybe get some cool explosions out of it
Well Apple already has all of that data, so to get anti-corporation about your personal data is a little silly.
/. is like telling me I have to put on pants to program: "It's not happening"
Also, besides porn, who goes to magazine kiosks anyway? Even mentioning going to a kiosk here in
That is why I now refer to the USA as the CSA (I just started calling it that in my last post, but it is a good term. Welcome to the Corporate States of America. For the corporations, but the corporations. Please enjoy your stay
and since they will lose their competition, prices will sky rocket. They can charge what they want as long as people keep buying them, which they will. Some people need to take this stuff to not die, so the big corporations will just get retarded about prices.
Oh no, it is still a war on drugs since they are going after people that clone prescription drugs. See, our government gets no piece of the pie when people do that, so this is just a nice way for them to go after those places and say they are going after all copyright infringement. Remember, we now live in CSA (Corporate States of America). If it is not about money that is thrown to CSA, they won't bother
Wait, 12345, that is the same combination I have on my luggage
Symantec ripping people off. This can't be true and I don't believe it. I mean, they have never done it before.
I mean, anybody that used to use EarthLink and tried the EarthLink solution more than likely knows how great Symantec is. For those that do not know, please let me enlighten you: I use to take tech support calls for EarthLink. We were supposed to upsell the EarthLink solution, which was Symantec. Now, if a person already had Symantec, we would be trained to talk that person into buying this as well. Symantec loved it when we would get them to pay for our version of Norton (which somehow seemed to never work right), use the EarthLink version (which was a paid service), and talk them into keeping their old Norton subscription just because "you never know".
Yes, some companies would help Symantec get people on double subscriptions.
I have not personally tried it, but more than likely, it will give you an error about incompatibility. Eitehr that or it will work, and you will need to run it in XP mode.
Well if they are moving the hookers, I am fine as long as I can whistle over to them (autio-complete for porn) and they will come running over