it said that people could only focus productively for about 6 hours a day at best. Programming and detailed design would qualify. It did say that for 2 or 3 days at a time you could step it up but that you'd need a break. The study acknowledged that many people were at work for many more hours than that; it just said they weren't very sharp the rest of the time and that their productive hours were likely to drop below 6 if they worked too long.
I find that I'm super productive for about 4 hours a day, in the morning. So, I set my schedule so meetings and less creative and mentally challenging (but necessary) work is done in the afternoons. I'd love to play games instead, but that's not an option.
Its a bit worse than that in the U.S. actually. Accidents that are commonly associated with alcohol abuse, i.e. single car accidents at night when the car goes off the road and hits a tree, are also counted as alcohol related with or without any evidence that alcohol or any substance was involved at all. If you fall asleep at the wheel hit a tree and die, that is counted as alcohol-related.
Adobe didn't play nice with Apple in the 1990's and about killed it. Instead they sucked up to Microsoft. Turn about is fair play, but there are still good technical reasons why Flash is not good for devices like iPad and iPhone. They are not personal computers. They are devices and Apple is trying to squeeze the most out of them.
Motorola has always made crappy software for cell phones. If they bought Palm they'd have some first rate software development they could leverage. Somebody whose big in hardware but struggling with software should buy them. Android is not going to be a good differentiator by itself. You still need to have good software skills. Compare HTC's Android UI with the Droid. I'll take HTC's work over Motorola's any day. Apparently Apple agrees which is why they are suing them.
Sorta, but not completely true. Browsers don't all implement the same standards in the same way. You still need to do quite a bit of testing if you want to support multiple browsers on a non-trivial site. Cross-browser compatibility support built into many libraries typically only support a few (2, 3 maybe 4) of the most popular browsers. So since companies cannot afford to or don't want to support all the browsers out there, the ones with the greatest market share get first priority. Right now Firefox is very well supported because it is available on every major platform - except mobile. Mobile browsers and the dominance of a few mobile devices may end up impacting the entire browser market.
What I find interesting is that Chrome is built on Webkit as is Safari and Google promised full Safari compatibility. Since Safari (iPhone) accounts for 64% of mobile web traffic it is in a great position. Android is probably its most viable competitor at the moment and it runs Chrome. Together they (webkit-based browsers) may achieve market shares equal to IE's in its heyday. Is there a place for Firefox? What about the fact that the PC market is relatively stagnant growth wise relative to the new mobile device markets?
If all the standards were fully supported in the same way be everyone, then maybe this wouldn't be an issue, but that's not happening yet.
I've created Facebook profiles for my cat and a fictional dog. All it takes is an e-mail address. I think I'll start posting radical political rants on the dog's profile.
Let's say criminals in Russia compromise a CA site in the U.S. by bribery or threats. You're a lot worse off then you would be with the nefarious Liechtensteiners on your tail. (Like who would care?) The point is that if the CA is compromised by anyone you have a problem.
True. It's also possible that non-government organizations could corrupt a CA for their purposes. My point is that the issue really isn't governments, it's the vulnerability of the entire scheme. Governments will spy. Criminals will spy. That's a given. If you can't secure against physical access to key components of the shared infrastructure or the end points you rely on then you have a vulnerability.
The fact that governments can use or abuse technology to spy on its citizens is not news. That's as newsworthy as saying that if I had possession of your computer long enough I could find out all your secrets. If you want protection from your government, you have to do something about your government. In democracies you have some options and generally have laws and the rule of law (mostly). In such countries being vigilant and vocal can make the government behave if enough citizens participate. In autocratic countries you have to expect the worst I suppose and try to work around it. Which ever is the situation, you can't trust technology, especially one relying on a shared infrastructure (e.g. internet, ca's, etc.) to safeguard your secrets from everyone, especially anyone who has physical access to it.
Nike isn't terrible, but they don't dig as deep as Apple does. Does Nike just respond to complaints or do they have a systematic inspection regime? Do they publicize their findings and the actions they've taken? Do they adhere to a set of standards that go beyond the letter of the law? Apple does.
Google hasn't withdrawn yet and they are still censoring for their partners in China. As for its being easy for Apple to dump one supplier for another, you don't know diddly about manufacturing supply chains especially for companies with strict quality controls like Apple has. It's not simple,easy or automatic. Its a principled stand every company should take.
Excuse me, but Apple did their own investigations and discovered the child labor and other human rights violations including some that are legal in China. Apple penalized the guilty parties and forced them to either correct their practices or terminated their business with them. What other company in the world does this? No other company doing business in China does this, at least no other company of any significant size. The fact that Apple gets beat up by yahoos for investigating their suppliers and being transparent with their findings and the actions they have taken is astounding. Lenovo, Dell, HP, and others don't even look very hard for abuses much less share them with the world.
If you properly manage a smaller number of very high paid IT workers instead of a much larger number of low paid IT workers, you'll find that the ROI is hugely in favor of the higher paid workers - because they were "properly managed". That includes selection, hiring, and allocation of time and resources. (In many ways it means give them the tools and the requirements and then get out of the way.)
Now if you are lousy managers it makes sense to hire low paid IT workers because you pay less and you won't produce much value either way. So perhaps NY is on to something because they didn't say anything about fixing their managers.
The answer is that we need a larger PIN - something with a lot more than 4 digits. Hey, I have an idea (for Americans), why not use our social security numbers as PINs! They are 9 digits and completely private. (Laugh but I know people who use their "last 4" as bank PINs.)
Right. We all have "evil" thoughts from time to time. Acting on those thoughts is what makes us evil. As a married guy, I have experienced "lust in my heart" from time to time. Is that the same as cheating? Am I evil? In Christian doctrine it means I'm a "sinner" but their point is that we are all "sinners" which is not the same as being "evil".
There aren't many sites that can afford to dictate standards to their viewers. The ones that perhaps can, like Google's, support HTML5. Either convert to what your customers use or die. Even in intranets where you can theoretically dictate, all the companies that hardwired to IE6 and ActiveX are now regretting it. They'll learn to be more careful next time.
The flaw in all this is that we can see these aircraft from the U.S. , Russia, et al, so how stealthy are they really? A really stealthy aircraft is the one developed and used by the air force of Bhutan. I know, you'll say that nobody has seen this plane. That proves my point doesn't it?
My first statement is correct. I described 3 ways to install applications other than through the App Store. I wrote that 2 of them still restricted applications to using the supported API's. I wrote that the way around that restrictions (firefox, daemonse, etc.) was to jail break your phone. That you don't like the answer doesn't make it incorrect.
As for your last statement, dream on. It will end when either someone introduces something that changes the game and Apple doesn't keep up or if Apple stagnates. That's what happened to Microsoft, but though they aren't doing well in the new markets, they still dominate the one they started in.
You can install any application you want on an iPod Touch, iPhone and presumably the iPad as well. If you own or manage the device you have 2 options. You can either get the development environment and install applications directly to each device or you can set up a server (intended for but not restricted to enterprises) that manages all the devices in your control. You can install and remove any application, backup and restore data and setting, etc. What you cannot do without jail breaking the device is violate certain restrictions on using some OS APIs or distribute applications to devices you do not directly manage. You can distribute applications to others without jail broken phones who either have a developer set up or enterprise server. You can distribute pretty much anything to people with jail broken devices.
As far as I know, Apple doesn’t arrest, prosecute or sue people who jailbreak their devices. They just don’t support them. Fair enough. If you use unsupported APIs on any OS or application you’ll generally find that you won’t get vendor support or cooperation doing that. No one can stand behind a product that is not being used as it was intended. As a customer, your reasonable expectations about a product and its support are those expressed by the vendor. They don’t include anything that the vendor expressly does not support. They don’t include whatever you can dream up.
Some key differences other than the larger display:
1) supports a bluetooth keyboard;
2) available dock with a keyboard;
3) supports a full blown office suite - iwork
But don't underestimate the difference a larger display makes when reading, watching video or playing games.
That means it really is a better alternative to a PC, Laptop or Netbook for people who do only basic office tasks, surf the net, read books, play games, e-mail, maintain contacts and calendar, watch movies and listen to music. That group includes my wife. Frankly I rarely need a laptop as I don't tend to do development while traveling on my own time. Otherwise I'd use my work laptop.
I love this device and as soon as there is a 128gb version with a camera, I'll get one for me. In the meantime I'll get one for my wife and then monopolize it until I get my own.
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I find that I'm super productive for about 4 hours a day, in the morning. So, I set my schedule so meetings and less creative and mentally challenging (but necessary) work is done in the afternoons. I'd love to play games instead, but that's not an option.
I did twice already, but since you were polite here goes ... http://www.getmadd.com/REALnumbers.htm [getmadd.com]
Care to read the two posts above where I supplied the link, jerkoff?
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Read this then: http://www.getmadd.com/REALnumbers.htm
Its a bit worse than that in the U.S. actually. Accidents that are commonly associated with alcohol abuse, i.e. single car accidents at night when the car goes off the road and hits a tree, are also counted as alcohol related with or without any evidence that alcohol or any substance was involved at all. If you fall asleep at the wheel hit a tree and die, that is counted as alcohol-related.
Adobe can threaten to sue and they can actually file suit. So what? Suing is not prevailing. Adobe needs Apple more than the other way around.
Adobe didn't play nice with Apple in the 1990's and about killed it. Instead they sucked up to Microsoft. Turn about is fair play, but there are still good technical reasons why Flash is not good for devices like iPad and iPhone. They are not personal computers. They are devices and Apple is trying to squeeze the most out of them.
Motorola has always made crappy software for cell phones. If they bought Palm they'd have some first rate software development they could leverage. Somebody whose big in hardware but struggling with software should buy them. Android is not going to be a good differentiator by itself. You still need to have good software skills. Compare HTC's Android UI with the Droid. I'll take HTC's work over Motorola's any day. Apparently Apple agrees which is why they are suing them.
What I find interesting is that Chrome is built on Webkit as is Safari and Google promised full Safari compatibility. Since Safari (iPhone) accounts for 64% of mobile web traffic it is in a great position. Android is probably its most viable competitor at the moment and it runs Chrome. Together they (webkit-based browsers) may achieve market shares equal to IE's in its heyday. Is there a place for Firefox? What about the fact that the PC market is relatively stagnant growth wise relative to the new mobile device markets?
If all the standards were fully supported in the same way be everyone, then maybe this wouldn't be an issue, but that's not happening yet.
I've created Facebook profiles for my cat and a fictional dog. All it takes is an e-mail address. I think I'll start posting radical political rants on the dog's profile.
Let's say criminals in Russia compromise a CA site in the U.S. by bribery or threats. You're a lot worse off then you would be with the nefarious Liechtensteiners on your tail. (Like who would care?) The point is that if the CA is compromised by anyone you have a problem.
True. It's also possible that non-government organizations could corrupt a CA for their purposes. My point is that the issue really isn't governments, it's the vulnerability of the entire scheme. Governments will spy. Criminals will spy. That's a given. If you can't secure against physical access to key components of the shared infrastructure or the end points you rely on then you have a vulnerability.
The fact that governments can use or abuse technology to spy on its citizens is not news. That's as newsworthy as saying that if I had possession of your computer long enough I could find out all your secrets. If you want protection from your government, you have to do something about your government. In democracies you have some options and generally have laws and the rule of law (mostly). In such countries being vigilant and vocal can make the government behave if enough citizens participate. In autocratic countries you have to expect the worst I suppose and try to work around it. Which ever is the situation, you can't trust technology, especially one relying on a shared infrastructure (e.g. internet, ca's, etc.) to safeguard your secrets from everyone, especially anyone who has physical access to it.
Nike isn't terrible, but they don't dig as deep as Apple does. Does Nike just respond to complaints or do they have a systematic inspection regime? Do they publicize their findings and the actions they've taken? Do they adhere to a set of standards that go beyond the letter of the law? Apple does.
Google hasn't withdrawn yet and they are still censoring for their partners in China. As for its being easy for Apple to dump one supplier for another, you don't know diddly about manufacturing supply chains especially for companies with strict quality controls like Apple has. It's not simple,easy or automatic. Its a principled stand every company should take.
Excuse me, but Apple did their own investigations and discovered the child labor and other human rights violations including some that are legal in China. Apple penalized the guilty parties and forced them to either correct their practices or terminated their business with them. What other company in the world does this? No other company doing business in China does this, at least no other company of any significant size. The fact that Apple gets beat up by yahoos for investigating their suppliers and being transparent with their findings and the actions they have taken is astounding. Lenovo, Dell, HP, and others don't even look very hard for abuses much less share them with the world.
If you properly manage a smaller number of very high paid IT workers instead of a much larger number of low paid IT workers, you'll find that the ROI is hugely in favor of the higher paid workers - because they were "properly managed". That includes selection, hiring, and allocation of time and resources. (In many ways it means give them the tools and the requirements and then get out of the way.)
Now if you are lousy managers it makes sense to hire low paid IT workers because you pay less and you won't produce much value either way. So perhaps NY is on to something because they didn't say anything about fixing their managers.
The answer is that we need a larger PIN - something with a lot more than 4 digits. Hey, I have an idea (for Americans), why not use our social security numbers as PINs! They are 9 digits and completely private. (Laugh but I know people who use their "last 4" as bank PINs.)
Right. We all have "evil" thoughts from time to time. Acting on those thoughts is what makes us evil. As a married guy, I have experienced "lust in my heart" from time to time. Is that the same as cheating? Am I evil? In Christian doctrine it means I'm a "sinner" but their point is that we are all "sinners" which is not the same as being "evil".
There aren't many sites that can afford to dictate standards to their viewers. The ones that perhaps can, like Google's, support HTML5. Either convert to what your customers use or die. Even in intranets where you can theoretically dictate, all the companies that hardwired to IE6 and ActiveX are now regretting it. They'll learn to be more careful next time.
The flaw in all this is that we can see these aircraft from the U.S. , Russia, et al, so how stealthy are they really? A really stealthy aircraft is the one developed and used by the air force of Bhutan. I know, you'll say that nobody has seen this plane. That proves my point doesn't it?
As for your last statement, dream on. It will end when either someone introduces something that changes the game and Apple doesn't keep up or if Apple stagnates. That's what happened to Microsoft, but though they aren't doing well in the new markets, they still dominate the one they started in.
You can install any application you want on an iPod Touch, iPhone and presumably the iPad as well. If you own or manage the device you have 2 options. You can either get the development environment and install applications directly to each device or you can set up a server (intended for but not restricted to enterprises) that manages all the devices in your control. You can install and remove any application, backup and restore data and setting, etc. What you cannot do without jail breaking the device is violate certain restrictions on using some OS APIs or distribute applications to devices you do not directly manage. You can distribute applications to others without jail broken phones who either have a developer set up or enterprise server. You can distribute pretty much anything to people with jail broken devices.
As far as I know, Apple doesn’t arrest, prosecute or sue people who jailbreak their devices. They just don’t support them. Fair enough. If you use unsupported APIs on any OS or application you’ll generally find that you won’t get vendor support or cooperation doing that. No one can stand behind a product that is not being used as it was intended. As a customer, your reasonable expectations about a product and its support are those expressed by the vendor. They don’t include anything that the vendor expressly does not support. They don’t include whatever you can dream up.
But don't underestimate the difference a larger display makes when reading, watching video or playing games.
That means it really is a better alternative to a PC, Laptop or Netbook for people who do only basic office tasks, surf the net, read books, play games, e-mail, maintain contacts and calendar, watch movies and listen to music. That group includes my wife. Frankly I rarely need a laptop as I don't tend to do development while traveling on my own time. Otherwise I'd use my work laptop.
I love this device and as soon as there is a 128gb version with a camera, I'll get one for me. In the meantime I'll get one for my wife and then monopolize it until I get my own.