In the Tracy Kidder book, "The Soul of a New Machine", he documents a year or so with the engineering team designing a new computer. Time pressure... long hours... high tension... and finally one of the engineers called one of the others an asshole.
The project manager called the fellow into the office & explained that we all need to be able to work with each other... yadda yadda.... and you must apologize to him.
The fellow left the office, approached the other engineer and said, "I'm sorry you're an asshole".
Although I'd love to meet you, shake your hand and thank you for your contributions to computing history, it's never going to happen. So, what would you prefer I do locally in order to express my gratitude? Contribute to a charity, community service, something else...?
iOS users have been conditioned to pay for apps, and (I would think) are more likely to pay. I would expect a developer to consider iOS first just because it's more likely to show a return.
After recommending muriatic acid to remove concrete overspray from a cars paint they added the advice to "test it out on a neighbors car first". I will really miss these guys.
The last update upgraded my ATT iPhone 4S from a 3G to 4G! (*holds out phone* See, it says it right here on the bar at the top of the screen. See it?) So, I wonder what I can expect next. Whoa... I'm dizzy....
If what he says is true, there should be lots of evidence including a big stack of affidavits signed by the reverse-engineers swearing that they have never seen the original code. If he can't pull these out of his pocket, along with the Attorney who oversaw the project, I'd be.. erm... skeptical.
Without the active participation of the patent holders this idea is just wishful thinking with as much validity as when I said it eight years ago while I was flipping burgers on the barbecue.
I still miss putzing around with the compiler from Rick DeSmet to communicate with my dot-matrix printer trying to get it to change fonts. The GCC is a remarkable achievement, and important, but my fondest memories are elsewhere.
A big part of the dispute is that some folks aren't happy with saying, "I don't sell my software for profit, I contribute it to the community." but instead insist on adding, "And I think that's what you should do, also."
When I went to the linked site to view the petition it displays "You've already signed this petition". I've never been there before. How do they record signatures, by IP address or what?
Amazon missed the boat on one feature. With my Nook Touch I can hold it in one hand and press the hardware buttons on either side to turn the pages. With no hardware page-turn buttons on the Kindle touch you must tap or swipe the screen to turn a page, so it takes two hands to read a book. But, maybe I'm the only person who sometimes holds their e-reader with one hand.
He's not the first to think along those lines. One of the most well-known examples is the Kaypro II computer. It was actually their first product but they wanted that magic "II" after the name.
I'm not an open source zealot but I'll admit that having learned B&N didn't knuckle under was a factor in my choice of a Nook Touch e-reader & in fact I bought two; one for myself & one as a gift.
I have a T-Mobile MyTouch 4g running Cyanogenmod 7.1 in my pocket right now. It's a very, very nice phone. I also have a friend who is looking to buy his first smartphone. He just wants the Internet in his pocket, and reading product barcodes to immediatly find reviews & prices interests him. No games or videoconferencing or anything fancy.
The main reason I told him to buy an iPhone is that if you go into a store to choose an Android phone there is no way to know if, when an OS update is released, you will receive it at all. The "latest-android" might be out, and you are wondering when you'll have it pushed to your phone. The carrier says to talk to the manufacturer, the manufacturer says they released it to the carrier, no-one knows for sure if you'll get it all. LG, Motorola, HTC, Samsung multiplied by T-mobile, ATT, Verizon and you have a huge matrix of possibilities and no-one can tell you before you choose a handset if that one will recieve OS updates, or how quickly.
Even folks on the same carrier but with different brand handsets see wildly different timeframes for updates.
I can update my Cyanogenmod myself, but he can't & shouldn't need to. He should just be able to walk out of the store with a smartphone and, when an OS update is released, just have it pumped into his phone right away.
Android phones are great for enthusiasts but for my friend & most other folks, the iPhone is a better choice.
I have a cheap router with an Atheros radio. DD-WRT did not deal with it well at all, with the WiFi connection dropping & very unstable. The router works beautifully using OpenWRT - WiFi included. DD-WRT probably works great with a Broadcom radio 'cause that's where it was born but my Atheros radio router likes OpenWRT much better.
Have you used a Nook Touch? I've had mine for a couple of months now and the fingerprint issue simply isn't there. I don't get fingerprints or crud on the screen and it always reads fine without the need to clean it first. In fact, I've never needed to clean the screen other than to blow off the occasional hair. (Male hair follical rejuvination is an issue we won't get into today)
As to the keyboard, Steve Jobs is right. If you're not using a control, keyboard, whatever, it has no reason for existance and shouldn't be there. If a keyboard isn't needed or being used, it should disappear. Touchscreen devices can do that. I like the smaller size of my Nook without a physical keyboard and I like that when I'm reading I see a page of a book, not a page of a book with a keyboard hanging off it.
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WTF does public domain have to do with the GPL?
I drink whisky neat.
If we can raise children who are better, more agile thinkers & at the same time put a dent in the corporate America machine I say, "Go for it".
In the Tracy Kidder book, "The Soul of a New Machine", he documents a year or so with the engineering team designing a new computer. Time pressure... long hours... high tension... and finally one of the engineers called one of the others an asshole.
The project manager called the fellow into the office & explained that we all need to be able to work with each other... yadda yadda.... and you must apologize to him.
The fellow left the office, approached the other engineer and said, "I'm sorry you're an asshole".
Although I'd love to meet you, shake your hand and thank you for your contributions to computing history, it's never going to happen. So, what would you prefer I do locally in order to express my gratitude? Contribute to a charity, community service, something else...?
What does "better support for microSD cards" mean? Were they having problems with reliable reads/writes?
If you're using Wikipedia as a metric to measure anything, you're insane.
Whoa... I didn't know that. Would we have any photos of these sweaty teenage Chines girls.? .. er... for the archives...
iOS users have been conditioned to pay for apps, and (I would think) are more likely to pay. I would expect a developer to consider iOS first just because it's more likely to show a return.
After recommending muriatic acid to remove concrete overspray from a cars paint they added the advice to "test it out on a neighbors car first". I will really miss these guys.
The last update upgraded my ATT iPhone 4S from a 3G to 4G! (*holds out phone* See, it says it right here on the bar at the top of the screen. See it?) So, I wonder what I can expect next. Whoa... I'm dizzy....
It's simply, "Hunh?".
If what he says is true, there should be lots of evidence including a big stack of affidavits signed by the reverse-engineers swearing that they have never seen the original code. If he can't pull these out of his pocket, along with the Attorney who oversaw the project, I'd be.. erm... skeptical.
Without the active participation of the patent holders this idea is just wishful thinking with as much validity as when I said it eight years ago while I was flipping burgers on the barbecue.
I still miss putzing around with the compiler from Rick DeSmet to communicate with my dot-matrix printer trying to get it to change fonts. The GCC is a remarkable achievement, and important, but my fondest memories are elsewhere.
A big part of the dispute is that some folks aren't happy with saying, "I don't sell my software for profit, I contribute it to the community." but instead insist on adding, "And I think that's what you should do, also."
When I went to the linked site to view the petition it displays "You've already signed this petition". I've never been there before. How do they record signatures, by IP address or what?
Amazon missed the boat on one feature. With my Nook Touch I can hold it in one hand and press the hardware buttons on either side to turn the pages. With no hardware page-turn buttons on the Kindle touch you must tap or swipe the screen to turn a page, so it takes two hands to read a book. But, maybe I'm the only person who sometimes holds their e-reader with one hand.
As an owner of a Mac Mini let me just say, "Thank God, I'm safe!".
He's not the first to think along those lines. One of the most well-known examples is the Kaypro II computer. It was actually their first product but they wanted that magic "II" after the name.
I'm not an open source zealot but I'll admit that having learned B&N didn't knuckle under was a factor in my choice of a Nook Touch e-reader & in fact I bought two; one for myself & one as a gift.
I have a T-Mobile MyTouch 4g running Cyanogenmod 7.1 in my pocket right now. It's a very, very nice phone. I also have a friend who is looking to buy his first smartphone. He just wants the Internet in his pocket, and reading product barcodes to immediatly find reviews & prices interests him. No games or videoconferencing or anything fancy.
The main reason I told him to buy an iPhone is that if you go into a store to choose an Android phone there is no way to know if, when an OS update is released, you will receive it at all. The "latest-android" might be out, and you are wondering when you'll have it pushed to your phone. The carrier says to talk to the manufacturer, the manufacturer says they released it to the carrier, no-one knows for sure if you'll get it all. LG, Motorola, HTC, Samsung multiplied by T-mobile, ATT, Verizon and you have a huge matrix of possibilities and no-one can tell you before you choose a handset if that one will recieve OS updates, or how quickly.
Even folks on the same carrier but with different brand handsets see wildly different timeframes for updates.
I can update my Cyanogenmod myself, but he can't & shouldn't need to. He should just be able to walk out of the store with a smartphone and, when an OS update is released, just have it pumped into his phone right away.
Android phones are great for enthusiasts but for my friend & most other folks, the iPhone is a better choice.
I thought Rupert's website paywalls were going to fix all their problems.
I have a cheap router with an Atheros radio. DD-WRT did not deal with it well at all, with the WiFi connection dropping & very unstable. The router works beautifully using OpenWRT - WiFi included. DD-WRT probably works great with a Broadcom radio 'cause that's where it was born but my Atheros radio router likes OpenWRT much better.
Have you used a Nook Touch? I've had mine for a couple of months now and the fingerprint issue simply isn't there. I don't get fingerprints or crud on the screen and it always reads fine without the need to clean it first. In fact, I've never needed to clean the screen other than to blow off the occasional hair. (Male hair follical rejuvination is an issue we won't get into today)
As to the keyboard, Steve Jobs is right. If you're not using a control, keyboard, whatever, it has no reason for existance and shouldn't be there. If a keyboard isn't needed or being used, it should disappear. Touchscreen devices can do that. I like the smaller size of my Nook without a physical keyboard and I like that when I'm reading I see a page of a book, not a page of a book with a keyboard hanging off it.