Google "Quaker gun". According to Wiki that phrase dates to the American Revolution; but I bet It's the oldest trick in the book. I bet we can find storis of the ancients doing fakes. There was an entire fake army division prior to D-day in WW2, along with the real ones. My favorite WW2 fake was the bomber with a tail gun that had a double-length barrel with an unusual looking flame arrestor on it. It was either an ordinary gun or a broken tail gun. The Germans didn't want to mess with it though, because it was pretty bad looking.
Meh. It's easier to replace the company than to replace the software. Executives get a golden parachute. Check. Employees get an early retirement or a nice severance package. Check. Customers find a better product from some other company. Check. Big money investors get to invest in a new company and flip it into the market for big bucks. Check. Shareholders of the existing company? Well, somebody has to pay for all that; but as long as they're not paying for new software it's all good. Where's the fun in that?
They could figure out from the UA string that you're not on a phone or tablet.
I'd still use the dimensions if they were available. After all, that's what matters for showing all the options. Also, it would work on a tablet with a big display, and could gracefully go back to "more" mode in a window that the user had deliberately sized to small dimensions.
Now if we could just convince the Web design community not to impose the hacks required for constrained UIs on non-constrained platforms. I'm pointing at you, Google. I do not need a handful of links and a "more" button on my 1680 wide display. Show me all the links if you can, based on the value returned for display dimensions, which I'm pretty sure you can get from the browser.
Until one side or the other has an economic collapse and/or a revolution. Then you declare "victory", lose lots of opportunities brought by peace, and deal with blowback from proxy wars. At least, that's what happened with the USSR.
Your data is compressed so you have to work around that, and it can be removed at any time if they believe you are violating the Terms of Service. Almost certainly, this does. It's not worth the hassle. It certainly isn't worth it for anything serious. Just go to one of the many existing free storage sites and encrypt the files before you put them there if it's something private. If you need more offsite storage, stick a crow bar in your wallet and pay for it, cheapskates.
You could be 100% right about everything in your post, but public companies most still focus on profit, and profit they do:
Typical short-term thinking, feeling happy because you hit a good quarterly number. Now zoom out. That's terrible, even when you account for compounding dividends.
Over the past 5 years they've had rough parity with the S and P. That would be OK if they were just a utility; but this is supposed to be a technology company. Where was the growth the past 10 years? As an investor, I could have just bought SPY, had similar performance, and slept better at night the past several years.
Get back to the fundamentals. Quit trying to copy Apple. You lost site of what made your ecosystem worthwhile on the desktop:
1. Hardware vendors that had to meet your standard, which was relatively open. Result? Lots of hardware that works with Windows.
2. I can develop anything I want without paying you anything except of course the OS and hardware. I buy your development tools because I like them, not because I have to buy them. I can develop with 3rd party tools if I want to do that. Result? Tons of software that runs on Windows.
3. Things take a long time to become obsolete. It seems like just yesterday that DOS applications still ran on Windows. I don't recall when this went away because by the time it did, all my DOS apps were gone because I didn't want them anymore; not because you forced my hand.
No, you're not Free/Open Source; but you're "open enough" and it was working.
You and your company got side-tracked by "app store envy". You thought you could be like Apple. You started clamping down on what was open, gripping too tight. Result? You have a lame Apple clone, and you alienated the people who liked you because of the numbered points above.
I was having a hard time accepting that nonsense about black and white TVs.
In the back of my mind, so was I; but once I accepted it, it became fixed and I started making up plausible explanations for it in my own mind. The biggest tater was the bit about players running into refs. Obviously this wouldn't happen in real life, so I mentally corrected the hoax to assume that they meant that players were "bleeding into" the refs on screen.
Long story short, I got reeled in. Totally hypnotized. I guess maybe it's Karma for all the grammar nazis I nailed with my.sig.
No, I actually didn't know it was a zebra. Thank-you for an interesting link, and for restoring my faith in humanity. When I saw the link to Snopes, I thought they were actually going to debunk that a horse could talk.
If that many people break their devices, then the insurance premiums must be commensurately high, or they will not pay out. There's no way around that. An insurance salesman telling you that lots of accidents happen but that premiums are low is lying about something.
I suppose it depends on context. Definitely don't do it at the office. FWIW, me and several other co-workers received such a display in the office one time. I suppose we could have filed sexual harassment complaints; but we were all guys. None of us were litigious douche bags; but that's not always the case. So yes, you have a good point here. Maybe it's better to just "start with my middle finger"... but still, not in the office, or church, or somebody else's home... but they really shouldn't be conducting mobile surveillance there anyway.
The proper response to somebody wearing Google Glasses is to look at them for a second and then address them as follow: "Hey Google, you want to know everything about me? Great. You can start with my ass". Then, you moon the wearer.
If you do this in the US, there is legal precedent for it as protected speech.
We aren't going to move everything to the cloud, including the cloud?
Sure we can. It's all based on something I call the "metacircular evaluator". My consultancy and I can install MEs in all your software systems so that you can move the software into the software, and define your business in terms of your business. "My god!" the tech business reporter exclaimed, "this is the most revolutionary thing I've ever heard, tell me more about how these MEs work".
Well, you just have to re-write everything in Lis--. And then, before I could even finish, the room was empty.
The Wiki article cites the false dilemma as the opposite of this, and a fallacy also. When you look at it from that PoV, you see that a mixed socialist-capitalist economy is the excluded middle in false dilemmas put forth by radical Libertarians and Communists. (e.g, "freedom to own any firearm we want, or tyranny. Those are the choices we face").
I was discussing this with somebody just yesterday and my take was this:
Greece--tourism is a major part of the economy. If the country was on the Drachma and went into recession, the government could print like crazy and people would suffer from the inflation but there would be a silver lining. The weak Drachma would make Greece an attractive tourist destination as foreigners would find that their Dollars, Euros, Rubles, etc. were now more valuable. A room with an ocean view for $30/night? Sweet! Book it!.
The Euro and austerity are a double-whammy on that. First, you don't get a weak currency making it an attractive destination. Second, the government is being prevented from supporting their citizens with welfare and government jobs to prevent hardship and social unrest. A room with an ocean view for $100/night and a travel advisory from the State Department? I'll pass.
In other words, Greece with austerity and social unrest is a bad place to take a vacation. They're being forced to shoot themselves in the foot by the EU.
This. A Constitutional "public-private partnership" right under their own noses, with no administrative overhead. It's too good. They have to mess it up.
WWDC sold out when they got bought by Chancellor Media, which then merged into Clear Channel. Wait... ummm... what? Some lame Apple conference? Nevermind.
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I hope the guy who did that calculation is not computing the path of the spacecraft.
Google "Quaker gun". According to Wiki that phrase dates to the American Revolution; but I bet It's the oldest trick in the book. I bet we can find storis of the ancients doing fakes. There was an entire fake army division prior to D-day in WW2, along with the real ones. My favorite WW2 fake was the bomber with a tail gun that had a double-length barrel with an unusual looking flame arrestor on it. It was either an ordinary gun or a broken tail gun. The Germans didn't want to mess with it though, because it was pretty bad looking.
Meh. It's easier to replace the company than to replace the software. Executives get a golden parachute. Check. Employees get an early retirement or a nice severance package. Check. Customers find a better product from some other company. Check. Big money investors get to invest in a new company and flip it into the market for big bucks. Check. Shareholders of the existing company? Well, somebody has to pay for all that; but as long as they're not paying for new software it's all good. Where's the fun in that?
They could figure out from the UA string that you're not on a phone or tablet.
I'd still use the dimensions if they were available. After all, that's what matters for showing all the options. Also, it would work on a tablet with a big display, and could gracefully go back to "more" mode in a window that the user had deliberately sized to small dimensions.
Now if we could just convince the Web design community not to impose the hacks required for constrained UIs on non-constrained platforms. I'm pointing at you, Google. I do not need a handful of links and a "more" button on my 1680 wide display. Show me all the links if you can, based on the value returned for display dimensions, which I'm pretty sure you can get from the browser.
Until one side or the other has an economic collapse and/or a revolution. Then you declare "victory", lose lots of opportunities brought by peace, and deal with blowback from proxy wars. At least, that's what happened with the USSR.
Your data is compressed so you have to work around that, and it can be removed at any time if they believe you are violating the Terms of Service. Almost certainly, this does. It's not worth the hassle. It certainly isn't worth it for anything serious. Just go to one of the many existing free storage sites and encrypt the files before you put them there if it's something private. If you need more offsite storage, stick a crow bar in your wallet and pay for it, cheapskates.
You could be 100% right about everything in your post, but public companies most still focus on profit, and profit they do:
Typical short-term thinking, feeling happy because you hit a good quarterly number. Now zoom out. That's terrible, even when you account for compounding dividends.
Over the past 5 years they've had rough parity with the S and P. That would be OK if they were just a utility; but this is supposed to be a technology company. Where was the growth the past 10 years? As an investor, I could have just bought SPY, had similar performance, and slept better at night the past several years.
YOU never liked his business plan. People were free to come up with something else, and did. Different strokes for different folks.
Get back to the fundamentals. Quit trying to copy Apple. You lost site of what made your ecosystem worthwhile on the desktop:
1. Hardware vendors that had to meet your standard, which was relatively open. Result? Lots of hardware that works with Windows.
2. I can develop anything I want without paying you anything except of course the OS and hardware. I buy your development tools because I like them, not because I have to buy them. I can develop with 3rd party tools if I want to do that. Result? Tons of software that runs on Windows.
3. Things take a long time to become obsolete. It seems like just yesterday that DOS applications still ran on Windows. I don't recall when this went away because by the time it did, all my DOS apps were gone because I didn't want them anymore; not because you forced my hand.
No, you're not Free/Open Source; but you're "open enough" and it was working.
You and your company got side-tracked by "app store envy". You thought you could be like Apple. You started clamping down on what was open, gripping too tight. Result? You have a lame Apple clone, and you alienated the people who liked you because of the numbered points above.
I was having a hard time accepting that nonsense about black and white TVs.
In the back of my mind, so was I; but once I accepted it, it became fixed and I started making up plausible explanations for it in my own mind. The biggest tater was the bit about players running into refs. Obviously this wouldn't happen in real life, so I mentally corrected the hoax to assume that they meant that players were "bleeding into" the refs on screen.
Long story short, I got reeled in. Totally hypnotized. I guess maybe it's Karma for all the grammar nazis I nailed with my .sig.
Are you an FBI agent imagining you're a butterfly, or a butterfly imagining you're an FBI agent?
No, I actually didn't know it was a zebra. Thank-you for an interesting link, and for restoring my faith in humanity. When I saw the link to Snopes, I thought they were actually going to debunk that a horse could talk.
You think they fired up their CNC mill and had their horse program the computer to start cutting?
Oh come on. Everybody knows a horse can't program, unless of course he's the famous Mr. Ed.
If that many people break their devices, then the insurance premiums must be commensurately high, or they will not pay out. There's no way around that. An insurance salesman telling you that lots of accidents happen but that premiums are low is lying about something.
It's too creepy and douche-baggy. Nerds should have smart minds, not necessarily smart devices anyway.
I suppose it depends on context. Definitely don't do it at the office. FWIW, me and several other co-workers received such a display in the office one time. I suppose we could have filed sexual harassment complaints; but we were all guys. None of us were litigious douche bags; but that's not always the case. So yes, you have a good point here. Maybe it's better to just "start with my middle finger"... but still, not in the office, or church, or somebody else's home... but they really shouldn't be conducting mobile surveillance there anyway.
The proper response to somebody wearing Google Glasses is to look at them for a second and then address them as follow: "Hey Google, you want to know everything about me? Great. You can start with my ass". Then, you moon the wearer.
If you do this in the US, there is legal precedent for it as protected speech.
We aren't going to move everything to the cloud, including the cloud?
Sure we can. It's all based on something I call the "metacircular evaluator". My consultancy and I can install MEs in all your software systems so that you can move the software into the software, and define your business in terms of your business. "My god!" the tech business reporter exclaimed, "this is the most revolutionary thing I've ever heard, tell me more about how these MEs work".
Well, you just have to re-write everything in Lis--. And then, before I could even finish, the room was empty.
The Wiki article cites the false dilemma as the opposite of this, and a fallacy also. When you look at it from that PoV, you see that a mixed socialist-capitalist economy is the excluded middle in false dilemmas put forth by radical Libertarians and Communists. (e.g, "freedom to own any firearm we want, or tyranny. Those are the choices we face").
I was discussing this with somebody just yesterday and my take was this:
Greece--tourism is a major part of the economy. If the country was on the Drachma and went into recession, the government could print like crazy and people would suffer from the inflation but there would be a silver lining. The weak Drachma would make Greece an attractive tourist destination as foreigners would find that their Dollars, Euros, Rubles, etc. were now more valuable. A room with an ocean view for $30/night? Sweet! Book it!.
The Euro and austerity are a double-whammy on that. First, you don't get a weak currency making it an attractive destination. Second, the government is being prevented from supporting their citizens with welfare and government jobs to prevent hardship and social unrest. A room with an ocean view for $100/night and a travel advisory from the State Department? I'll pass.
In other words, Greece with austerity and social unrest is a bad place to take a vacation. They're being forced to shoot themselves in the foot by the EU.
This. A Constitutional "public-private partnership" right under their own noses, with no administrative overhead. It's too good. They have to mess it up.
We could merge the two and have Howard Stern MC the whole bloody affair. OOOOh! iPod to the head. I CAN'T BELIEVE THE REF DIDN'T SEE THAT!
TTAMF (Thanks To All My Fans). Not that I really pay much attention to that kind of thing.
WWDC sold out when they got bought by Chancellor Media, which then merged into Clear Channel. Wait... ummm... what? Some lame Apple conference? Nevermind.