Because you are obviously just trolling me, I have decided no more quotes for you.
All of my developers that use Flash are proficient in Flash. It takes time to get developers up to speed on another platform. This costs money. It takes time to hire/fire developers. This costs money. OR, I buy Flash CS5 (btw one seat is still cheaper than one mac, vis-a-vis) and spend less money OVERALL. You said it yourself:
you want maximum dollars for minimum effort.
So allow me to clarify your own statement for you. You want to maximize your profit while minimizing expenses. So again, flash would be cheaper for me, right now, than going the full-blown mac route. You can try to argue this but I did the numbers and, assuming we don't make a blockbuster app, the Flash mini-step route would have ended up saving us money in the long run and smoothing costs over an extended period. Which, for my employees, means better bonuses for them.
As for my numbers... You can ignore the giant elephant in the room and not calculate developer time, not calculate recurring costs, etc. But as a businessman, i ask WHY? You want to know every single penny you're spending. I'm trying to maximize my dollars, so I should track where all of my dollars I'm spending is going correct? Not to mention the personal investment I have since this company was funded with MY money and all profits come back to ME.
However all I am doing for you is explaining how Apple's monopoly affects me. Again. Apple requires ME to purchase THEIR development products to develop on THEIR hardware EVEN WHEN a THIRD PARTY has created development products. But then again according to your logic, it's perfectly fine for your cable company to force you to buy their dvr to tape tv shows even when a third party has created dvr's which do the same thing for less.
A monopoly? Really? Because of Apple's actions, there's no other smartphone you can develop for? And they have such a big marketshare that they're really the only game on the block?
There are many smart phones I can develop for. Now are you saying that it is OK that i have to limit my market just to phones? Because i can't develop for apple's non-smartphone platforms when I am forced to use apple's hardware and software for development even after a competitor has released software for development on apple's hardware. What?
Flash CS5 is the only product that comes with the Flash-to-.ipa converter. It retails for $700. The Mac Mini starts at $600. Last I checked, $600 was less than $700.
And you have assumed I am the only developer. And you have assumed all of my developers are proficient with xcode/objective-c/mac os x. And you have assumed no other costs involved with purchasing new hardware. So I will now assume you have no clue about the business side of development (or business in general).
1) Changing your terms of service does not give you a monopoly in your market.
You must use apple, apple, and apple only. If you choose to use anything but apple, you cannot use apple. So in order to develop anything useful for apple, i MUST fork over more money to apple. What's wrong with this paragraph.
2) Apple's US smartphone marketshare is 25%--18% less than RIM. How can you have a monopoly in your market if you're not even the largest player?
Your statistics are void because they are about smartphones and they were compiled before the ipad was released. Care to provide a different set of statistics to further prove my point?
I'd ask for a refund on whatever it was you spent on your "education."
Apple's not dictating what tools you may or may not use to develop on iPhone OS. Apple's dictating what tools you may use to develop software you wish to distribute through their distribution channel.
Uh yes you are. As an independent developer I have to spend more money to develop for the iphone since I must use a Mac and I must use Snow Leopard. Adobe allowed me to skirt this requirement by using Flash, which has a significantly lower starting cost. Lower starting cost = entry to market = lower out of pocket funding for iphone development. Apple says we don't want Flash to create binaries for our hardware, so I cannot develop for the iphone. Sure I can use flash and create some apps, but what good are they to my business? What if it weren't Adobe that created this product, but a startup? They don't have the funds to start a legal fight, nor could they survive apple's change in terms of services. That, sir, is a monopoly. Apple has a monopoly on the market... one can only hope that this paves the way to split Apple into two companies (ala Microsoft.eu). It won't happen, but it feels good to dream.
5. Limitations on Patent License. Except as expressly stated in Section 2, no other patent rights, express or implied, are granted by Apple herein. Modifications and/or Larger Works may require additional patent licenses from Apple which Apple may grant in its sole discretion.
so why signal. i can understand if its a three lane road and you're trying to move to the middle and a car on the outerlane may not notice you. but if there are no cars there or its a two lane road, fuck you i'm not using my blinker. i don't care how enraged you get. i'm driving faster, i am in front of you. be aware of your surroundings and you won't need to worry about my signal. see new york city and nj suburb driving for examples of an entire metropolitan region that doesn't use turn signals
you know what i hate the most when i'm driving? when i use my turn signal to indicate i'm merging and the fucker in the next lane speeds up and doesn't let me in. you know what else i hate the most when i'm driving? fuckers who try to merge into my lane in front of me, so i speed up to block them. fuckers.
if you brick an android its because you did something dumb. REALLY DUMB. cyrogen, joeys kernel, etc. all do not have this problem as long as you keep the revision the same as your phone. the only problem i have ever run into was flashing my phone from a custom kernel to an official cell carrier upgrade. and then all that did was make it more difficult to keep root (had to back down to a previous kernel and upload an unofficial kernel with all the fixes, took 2 seconds).
don't forget android has a complete dev environment so you can test your phone mods before you apply it to your phone. second, android phones have a recovery mode so you can reflash everything. there is no permanent damage, please stop modding parent insightful, it is completely wrong.
There is no constitutional right to health care of any kind.
so why are you paying for libraries and fire departments? there's no constitutional right for that, but i'm pretty sure the majority of the us public wanted it the way it is now rather than how it was in the early 1900s when you had to PAY for fire coverage
Not by forcing those who do not need or want coverage to buy it.
what do you think happens to the kid making $45k/year who doesn't have insurance because they want to take that money and buy more beer or ps3s or whatever. their dumb fault right? now in their drunken stupor they fall off a balcony. someone sees and calls 911 (mind you this kid didn't want insurance and said they will suffer the consequences themselves). 911 shows up with an ambulance and takes the kid to the hospital. now the kid comes to and is denying coverage left in right... but the hospital has already accepted the kid, so they stablize the kid and let them go. the kid ends up with a $40,000 bill. the kid doesn't have money.. attempts to pay the bill over the next 6 years but the kid loses his job. so the kid faces garnishment and levys and goes into depression. mind you the kid does not have a follow up visit, so the kids arm does not set properly and can't move a certain way without extreme pain, limiting the kids work. the kid files for bankruptcy, $28,000 of the debt is discharged. WHAT HAPPENS TO THAT $28,000 IN DEBT.
Oh right... taxpayers like you and may pay for it. So not only do we STILL pay for uninsured americans, but the uninsured american may not be able to work again meaning we get to continue paying for them to live on our dime. Not saying healthcare will fix every single case, but imagine if that kid was forced to have insurance. He could still make the choice to not go to the hospital, but we're all now $0.0001 richer because we didn't have to pay for him. Multiply this by the number of people who could be in similar situations and suddenly you see the savings.....
Yes. You learn this in Computer Engineering 101. A chip may only run at 2.7ghz so they sell it at 2.4ghz. This is why you get varying speeds. They already designed the 3.0ghz model but they won't release it until its stable at 3.2ghz. until then you get a 2.4ghz chip at the cost which evens out the loss of 2.7ghz chips and profit from extra 2.2ghz chips. catch my drift? it's called manufacturing, dog.
what i am saying is that you are naive for assuming that your silly suggestion of hardcoding a proxy will solve the problem. you completely ignore the fact that there is a gaping hole in your security recommendation by trivializing the design option of a malware author.
by the way, you can import the "bulky" IE COM ojbect and use it without a gui and without security-warning pop ups because, you know, the malware author didn't decide to put the gui and security warnings in his code. oh and the IE COM object (a) makes it harder to detect since it could just be a legitimate user using IE, (b) IE is tried and tested, a malware's http stack could be buggy, leave identifying footprints, (c) saves the malware author time from reinventing the wheel.
in security it is *ALSO* about the lowest common denominator. great woohoo, you can stop malware that doesn't follow the rules of your network. you cannot ignore malicious software that does follow the rules of the network. you're fooling only yourself if you believe malware can't evolve (did we not realize this the first time when a virtualized rootkit was as powerful as the first offerings of vm software?)
rely on other methods to stop spam, not blacklists. my blacklists have the lowest priority so that a valid mail from a blacklisted address will not get blocked. as of last check we catch 98% of spam. i'll take the bandwidth hit if it means my customers don't miss valid emails.
that's fine. but now these russian malware gangs keep jumping ship over and over. a host provider gets a malware gang, catch it and disable them within 24 hours, but by then so much spam went out they were blacklisted. when does that ip or netblock get removed from the blacklist? most likely never. and that is the problem i have with blacklists.
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All of my developers that use Flash are proficient in Flash. It takes time to get developers up to speed on another platform. This costs money. It takes time to hire/fire developers. This costs money. OR, I buy Flash CS5 (btw one seat is still cheaper than one mac, vis-a-vis) and spend less money OVERALL. You said it yourself:
you want maximum dollars for minimum effort.
So allow me to clarify your own statement for you. You want to maximize your profit while minimizing expenses. So again, flash would be cheaper for me, right now, than going the full-blown mac route. You can try to argue this but I did the numbers and, assuming we don't make a blockbuster app, the Flash mini-step route would have ended up saving us money in the long run and smoothing costs over an extended period. Which, for my employees, means better bonuses for them.
As for my numbers... You can ignore the giant elephant in the room and not calculate developer time, not calculate recurring costs, etc. But as a businessman, i ask WHY? You want to know every single penny you're spending. I'm trying to maximize my dollars, so I should track where all of my dollars I'm spending is going correct? Not to mention the personal investment I have since this company was funded with MY money and all profits come back to ME.
However all I am doing for you is explaining how Apple's monopoly affects me. Again. Apple requires ME to purchase THEIR development products to develop on THEIR hardware EVEN WHEN a THIRD PARTY has created development products. But then again according to your logic, it's perfectly fine for your cable company to force you to buy their dvr to tape tv shows even when a third party has created dvr's which do the same thing for less.
Game, Set, Match.
An Educated Negro
ipod touch and ipad.
A monopoly? Really? Because of Apple's actions, there's no other smartphone you can develop for? And they have such a big marketshare that they're really the only game on the block?
There are many smart phones I can develop for. Now are you saying that it is OK that i have to limit my market just to phones? Because i can't develop for apple's non-smartphone platforms when I am forced to use apple's hardware and software for development even after a competitor has released software for development on apple's hardware. What?
Flash CS5 is the only product that comes with the Flash-to-.ipa converter. It retails for $700. The Mac Mini starts at $600. Last I checked, $600 was less than $700.
And you have assumed I am the only developer. And you have assumed all of my developers are proficient with xcode/objective-c/mac os x. And you have assumed no other costs involved with purchasing new hardware. So I will now assume you have no clue about the business side of development (or business in general).
1) Changing your terms of service does not give you a monopoly in your market.
You must use apple, apple, and apple only. If you choose to use anything but apple, you cannot use apple. So in order to develop anything useful for apple, i MUST fork over more money to apple. What's wrong with this paragraph.
2) Apple's US smartphone marketshare is 25%--18% less than RIM. How can you have a monopoly in your market if you're not even the largest player?
Your statistics are void because they are about smartphones and they were compiled before the ipad was released. Care to provide a different set of statistics to further prove my point?
I'd ask for a refund on whatever it was you spent on your "education."
:-)
Apple's not dictating what tools you may or may not use to develop on iPhone OS. Apple's dictating what tools you may use to develop software you wish to distribute through their distribution channel.
Uh yes you are. As an independent developer I have to spend more money to develop for the iphone since I must use a Mac and I must use Snow Leopard. Adobe allowed me to skirt this requirement by using Flash, which has a significantly lower starting cost. Lower starting cost = entry to market = lower out of pocket funding for iphone development. Apple says we don't want Flash to create binaries for our hardware, so I cannot develop for the iphone. Sure I can use flash and create some apps, but what good are they to my business? What if it weren't Adobe that created this product, but a startup? They don't have the funds to start a legal fight, nor could they survive apple's change in terms of services. That, sir, is a monopoly. Apple has a monopoly on the market... one can only hope that this paves the way to split Apple into two companies (ala Microsoft.eu). It won't happen, but it feels good to dream.
disclaimer: i have been drinking.
because, douchebag, local libraries make the ui platform dependent. have you looked at the architecture diagram of xul lately?
We evolved to communicate one on one - not via a computer terminal.
Says the man posting on Slashdot
uh "larger works" is fucking vague. if i redistribute their source, they could consider it a larger work and suddenly its no longer open source.
5. Limitations on Patent License. Except as expressly stated in Section 2, no other patent rights, express or implied, are granted by Apple herein. Modifications and/or Larger Works may require additional patent licenses from Apple which Apple may grant in its sole discretion.
in case you missed my previous post... NOT OPEN SOURCE
read what you post, bitch.
unenforceable i know, but still
just in case you missed it
so why signal. i can understand if its a three lane road and you're trying to move to the middle and a car on the outerlane may not notice you. but if there are no cars there or its a two lane road, fuck you i'm not using my blinker. i don't care how enraged you get. i'm driving faster, i am in front of you. be aware of your surroundings and you won't need to worry about my signal. see new york city and nj suburb driving for examples of an entire metropolitan region that doesn't use turn signals
IAAEN (i am an educated negro)
Can't have more than one facebook account. Against facebook TOS
unenforceable i know, but still
you know what i hate the most when i'm driving? when i use my turn signal to indicate i'm merging and the fucker in the next lane speeds up and doesn't let me in. you know what else i hate the most when i'm driving? fuckers who try to merge into my lane in front of me, so i speed up to block them. fuckers.
aEN
if you brick an android its because you did something dumb. REALLY DUMB. cyrogen, joeys kernel, etc. all do not have this problem as long as you keep the revision the same as your phone. the only problem i have ever run into was flashing my phone from a custom kernel to an official cell carrier upgrade. and then all that did was make it more difficult to keep root (had to back down to a previous kernel and upload an unofficial kernel with all the fixes, took 2 seconds).
don't forget android has a complete dev environment so you can test your phone mods before you apply it to your phone. second, android phones have a recovery mode so you can reflash everything . there is no permanent damage, please stop modding parent insightful, it is completely wrong.
don't you mean in this blog post?
you don't get umd's radio station? ilad, imperial china, us royalty etc. have all had air time there. i suspect you don't follow the indie scene in dc
There is no constitutional right to health care of any kind.
so why are you paying for libraries and fire departments? there's no constitutional right for that, but i'm pretty sure the majority of the us public wanted it the way it is now rather than how it was in the early 1900s when you had to PAY for fire coverage
Not by forcing those who do not need or want coverage to buy it.
what do you think happens to the kid making $45k/year who doesn't have insurance because they want to take that money and buy more beer or ps3s or whatever. their dumb fault right? now in their drunken stupor they fall off a balcony. someone sees and calls 911 (mind you this kid didn't want insurance and said they will suffer the consequences themselves). 911 shows up with an ambulance and takes the kid to the hospital. now the kid comes to and is denying coverage left in right... but the hospital has already accepted the kid, so they stablize the kid and let them go. the kid ends up with a $40,000 bill. the kid doesn't have money.. attempts to pay the bill over the next 6 years but the kid loses his job. so the kid faces garnishment and levys and goes into depression. mind you the kid does not have a follow up visit, so the kids arm does not set properly and can't move a certain way without extreme pain, limiting the kids work. the kid files for bankruptcy, $28,000 of the debt is discharged. WHAT HAPPENS TO THAT $28,000 IN DEBT.
Oh right... taxpayers like you and may pay for it. So not only do we STILL pay for uninsured americans, but the uninsured american may not be able to work again meaning we get to continue paying for them to live on our dime. Not saying healthcare will fix every single case, but imagine if that kid was forced to have insurance. He could still make the choice to not go to the hospital, but we're all now $0.0001 richer because we didn't have to pay for him. Multiply this by the number of people who could be in similar situations and suddenly you see the savings.....
Yes. You learn this in Computer Engineering 101. A chip may only run at 2.7ghz so they sell it at 2.4ghz. This is why you get varying speeds. They already designed the 3.0ghz model but they won't release it until its stable at 3.2ghz. until then you get a 2.4ghz chip at the cost which evens out the loss of 2.7ghz chips and profit from extra 2.2ghz chips. catch my drift? it's called manufacturing, dog.
aEN
what i am saying is that you are naive for assuming that your silly suggestion of hardcoding a proxy will solve the problem. you completely ignore the fact that there is a gaping hole in your security recommendation by trivializing the design option of a malware author.
by the way, you can import the "bulky" IE COM ojbect and use it without a gui and without security-warning pop ups because, you know, the malware author didn't decide to put the gui and security warnings in his code. oh and the IE COM object (a) makes it harder to detect since it could just be a legitimate user using IE, (b) IE is tried and tested, a malware's http stack could be buggy, leave identifying footprints, (c) saves the malware author time from reinventing the wheel.
in security it is *ALSO* about the lowest common denominator. great woohoo, you can stop malware that doesn't follow the rules of your network. you cannot ignore malicious software that does follow the rules of the network. you're fooling only yourself if you believe malware can't evolve (did we not realize this the first time when a virtualized rootkit was as powerful as the first offerings of vm software?)
-aEN
and for the malware that uses internet explorer's api to make its runs?
-aEN
ok i'll bite. how is it fake? money runs the us. the trick is just to get money and do whatever you want. i'll take your money, thanks.
now run along.
welcome to capitalism. nothing new to see here, run along.
So.
rely on other methods to stop spam, not blacklists. my blacklists have the lowest priority so that a valid mail from a blacklisted address will not get blocked. as of last check we catch 98% of spam. i'll take the bandwidth hit if it means my customers don't miss valid emails.
aEN
that's fine. but now these russian malware gangs keep jumping ship over and over. a host provider gets a malware gang, catch it and disable them within 24 hours, but by then so much spam went out they were blacklisted. when does that ip or netblock get removed from the blacklist? most likely never. and that is the problem i have with blacklists.
aEN