I live in the bay area. Let's assume for the sake of argument that the employee quoted is single. That means he's in a higher tax bracket. Earning $160k/yr as a single male, he's losing approximately 48% of his check to taxes, medicare, social security, etc.
Then he's probably paying another $400 month for his mandatory insurance.
So, 160000 * 0.52 = 83,000 / 12 = ~$7K/month.
3K has just been taken away. That's 40% of his salary *just* for rent.
$160k here is not living large,
You could always download the WebKit Nightlies. This just makes it easier.
These installs are also signed by Apple, as opposed to the nightlies. What that means for the end user is that things that they expect to work, like iCloud syncing for example, will continue to work while using the technology preview. They would not work if running the nightlies. Updates to the technology preview will also come every 2 weeks via the App Store, so the user doesn't have to remember to download new technology preview builds.
Disclaimer: Lifelong Android user, fully moved to iOS with purchase of iPhone 5S, iPad Air, and use rMBP as main computer.
Apple Maps continues to give inaccurate directions with implications ranging from incredible inconvenience to downright life threatening danger.
A lifelong Google Maps user, I bought an iPhone 5S on launch day. I switched to Apple Maps largely due to the tighter integration and full screen mode. I wanted to give it a fair shake. Let me share a few brief observations.
A large regional hospital in my home town closed down several years ago, and moved into a new building nearly ten miles away in a different city. The original facility was purchased by the city, and converted into a high school. Apple Maps continues to list the old location - now a high school - as the location of THE HOSPITAL, despite it having moved YEARS AGO. That is the kind of error that could quite possibly KILL SOMEONE.
I continue to receive weird route selections and inaccurate directions that would add miles and several minutes to my drive. Incorrect or inefficient exits. Favoring 55 MPH state routes full of small towns & numerous stop lights over interstate 80 running fully parallel a mile away with 70 MPH speed limit and traffic moving smoothly. Head scratching, bizarre route choices without the deep options available in Google Maps to correct it.
I think this is the problem - Google's army of of > 6,000 contractors endlessly driving & mapping the roads of America vs. Apple's flyover algorithmic mapping.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
I still use Apple Maps, but largely only to keep track of distance driven/remaining and ETA on routes I'm already familiar with. It is, overall in my estimation, about as accurate as Waze - which is to say both products are damn far sight worse than Google Maps.
So have you actually taken the time to report these inaccuracies and errors to Apple -- using the not so hard to find Report A Problem button *right in the maps app* --or do you just vent your spleen on technology sites about how shitty Apple Maps are, complete with relevant examples?
If you can take this amount of time to document and bitch, surely you took the 10 seconds to tap the Report A Problem button? I can assure you that someone inside Apple does read those reports.
Actually, I work at one of the largest ISPs in America with over 10000 employees and there are a LOT more Macs on desktops than you would think. You will still see an occasional Windows desktop, but they are actually in the minority here.
"Seriously, I used pre-iPod MP3 players, I used pre-iPhone smart phones and i used pre-iOS tablets.
They REALLY sucked. The OSes were difficult to use, the interfaces were unfriendly and for the price you paid, it was a goddamned joke."
you know why? because the executives of those companies were complete and utter morons. They would have had a brilliant UI and OS if they made them opena nd invited the OSS community to work with them. But no. Diamond wanted to be raging assholes with their RIO and refused to share with the community. they COULD have owned the market if they did so.
I'm not sure this is the case. I've used and contributed to a lot of open source software. For the most part, they have been very functional and have done the job well. I am not unhappy with how they worked.
But, let's be honest here. The UI sucked. Sucked badly. I have yet to see any OSS that has a usable UI. That's fine for me, I'm an engineer. I can cope with arcane settings and the need to do some things through the command line. Engineers, by and large, cannot develop something that looks good, only something that performs well.
For the non-engineering world, they are an unusable mess. This is the second biggest reason why OSS hasn't become the desktop replacement many hoped it would be.
I've been able to build some surprisingly sophisticated and full-featured web applications using Python wrapped inside CherryPy and sending the output through Django. Really amazing how much you can do with this, with the added benefit of portability if you ever want or need to move it across platforms.
If portability isn't an issue, by using Python's ctypes you can call almost any back-end Linux, Windows or Mac OS X library for the ability to do almost anything you want.
A simple iRule in an F5 LTM will allow you to manage a metric shitload of unique domains and services, on multiple servers, behind a single IPv4 address and TCP port. They've been doing this for years. I've personally set this up for several companies whose domain names might surprise you.:-)
As for tablet and such devices, yes it's true that Apple ones come with Safari and generally make it difficult to install other browsers (though they are now available, if in more limited quantity and not quite the same as the 'native' on-device Safari browser).
It wasn't very difficult for me to open Safari, download Firefox, open the disk image and drag Firefox to my Applications folder. Firefox even popped up a modal dialog box on first launch asking if I wanted to make it the default browser.
Have you looked at techBASIC from Byteworks? It's a great, easy to use BASIC that runs directly on the iPhone and iPad to let you write programs on it.
I'm also an "old expensive" computer professional. It recently took me a total of 18 hours from the time I put my resume online to my first job offer, and 4 days to have 6 offers and to have accepted a new position.
The longest it's ever taken me to find a new position once I've started looking in earnest is 2 weeks. The shortest is 36 hours. Recruiters see my resume and my phone gets 100's of calls a day.
There is definitely a shortage of experienced talent in the marketplace here (Washington, DC).
I think if you want to compare iphones with other smartphones you need to focus on this differing philosophy. Neither Apple nor anyone else makes much money on their phone OS, they make money selling hardware. Apple will charge you a small amount ($5 iirc) to upgrade your phone to their later OS when released, but that amount is trivial and is probably more tied to making it a purchase and making their TOS more binding than anything. (remember the laptop 802-11N updater they also sold for $5 so long ago?)
Um, no. Apple doesn't charge anything for an iOS update. Not $5. Not $1. Not $0.001. Nada. I don't know who told you that you have to pay for an iOS upgrade, but as long as you have a supported model of iPhone, it's free.
Sorry, but there was a stretch of several months this year where there were no security updates released for CentOS 5.x while they worked on 5.6 and 6.0.
My fiancee speaks 6 languages fluently, like a native, and switches between them with an ease that impresses the shit out of me. They are Korean (she is Korean), Tagalog, Mandarin Chinese, English, Japanese and French. The first time she came to America, Immigration didn't want to let her in because her English was so good they didn't believe that she had never been here before.
So, yeah, there are lots of people that speak multiple languages. Just not, unfortunately, in America.
I understand your evil plot now! By stuffing a 16 bit value into an 8 bit location, you're actually inserting the upper 8 bits into the next memory location. Everyone knows that the value 00000001 when put into address 8676 is the "brick my phone" value. By sneakily tricking the user into memory location 8675, you've bypassed the internal security.
Speaking as someone who has done root DNS modifications, Sweden *doesn't do* the modifications. They submit a request, which is verified by two separate agencies, then forwarded on to VeriSign who makes the TLD change. Once the change is made, it is (supposedly) verified by at least 1 other person, and several scripts before being pushed live.
Well, unless you're already root, your command will fail with a permission denied error since the > redirect will run with your user permissions, not with sudo permissions.
So, in that case yes, sudo will prevent an "Oh sh*t!" moment.
Currently I live in the USA and my fiancee lives in Beijing. In the USA I have Verizon Wireless as my cell phone provider, and I'm not sure what company my fiancee uses in Beijing (her cell phone starts with 86 13).
I have no problems sending or receiving SMS messages with her at all hours of the day and night. She has never failed to receive an SMS text from me, nor I her.
I have seen no evidence that there is a problem sending or receiving SMS to China.
Not quite. Darwin is the underlying Unix on an OS X system. Leopard is the Mac frameworks that live on top of Darwin on Mac OS X >= 10.5.0 10.6. Quartz is the GUI.
Gentoo by default will unmount/boot after booting if it is a separate partition. There may be other distro's that do this, but Gentoo I know from personal experience does.
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I live in the bay area. Let's assume for the sake of argument that the employee quoted is single. That means he's in a higher tax bracket. Earning $160k/yr as a single male, he's losing approximately 48% of his check to taxes, medicare, social security, etc. Then he's probably paying another $400 month for his mandatory insurance. So, 160000 * 0.52 = 83,000 / 12 = ~$7K/month. 3K has just been taken away. That's 40% of his salary *just* for rent. $160k here is not living large,
It was Budweiser. I wouldn't call that beer.
You could always download the WebKit Nightlies. This just makes it easier.
These installs are also signed by Apple, as opposed to the nightlies. What that means for the end user is that things that they expect to work, like iCloud syncing for example, will continue to work while using the technology preview. They would not work if running the nightlies. Updates to the technology preview will also come every 2 weeks via the App Store, so the user doesn't have to remember to download new technology preview builds.
Disclaimer: Lifelong Android user, fully moved to iOS with purchase of iPhone 5S, iPad Air, and use rMBP as main computer.
Apple Maps continues to give inaccurate directions with implications ranging from incredible inconvenience to downright life threatening danger.
A lifelong Google Maps user, I bought an iPhone 5S on launch day. I switched to Apple Maps largely due to the tighter integration and full screen mode. I wanted to give it a fair shake. Let me share a few brief observations.
A large regional hospital in my home town closed down several years ago, and moved into a new building nearly ten miles away in a different city. The original facility was purchased by the city, and converted into a high school. Apple Maps continues to list the old location - now a high school - as the location of THE HOSPITAL, despite it having moved YEARS AGO. That is the kind of error that could quite possibly KILL SOMEONE.
I continue to receive weird route selections and inaccurate directions that would add miles and several minutes to my drive. Incorrect or inefficient exits. Favoring 55 MPH state routes full of small towns & numerous stop lights over interstate 80 running fully parallel a mile away with 70 MPH speed limit and traffic moving smoothly. Head scratching, bizarre route choices without the deep options available in Google Maps to correct it.
I think this is the problem - Google's army of of > 6,000 contractors endlessly driving & mapping the roads of America vs. Apple's flyover algorithmic mapping. http://www.businessinsider.com...
I still use Apple Maps, but largely only to keep track of distance driven/remaining and ETA on routes I'm already familiar with. It is, overall in my estimation, about as accurate as Waze - which is to say both products are damn far sight worse than Google Maps.
So have you actually taken the time to report these inaccuracies and errors to Apple -- using the not so hard to find Report A Problem button *right in the maps app* --or do you just vent your spleen on technology sites about how shitty Apple Maps are, complete with relevant examples?
If you can take this amount of time to document and bitch, surely you took the 10 seconds to tap the Report A Problem button? I can assure you that someone inside Apple does read those reports.
Actually, I work at one of the largest ISPs in America with over 10000 employees and there are a LOT more Macs on desktops than you would think. You will still see an occasional Windows desktop, but they are actually in the minority here.
"Seriously, I used pre-iPod MP3 players, I used pre-iPhone smart phones and i used pre-iOS tablets.
They REALLY sucked. The OSes were difficult to use, the interfaces were unfriendly and for the price you paid, it was a goddamned joke."
you know why? because the executives of those companies were complete and utter morons. They would have had a brilliant UI and OS if they made them opena nd invited the OSS community to work with them. But no. Diamond wanted to be raging assholes with their RIO and refused to share with the community. they COULD have owned the market if they did so.
I'm not sure this is the case. I've used and contributed to a lot of open source software. For the most part, they have been very functional and have done the job well. I am not unhappy with how they worked. But, let's be honest here. The UI sucked. Sucked badly. I have yet to see any OSS that has a usable UI. That's fine for me, I'm an engineer. I can cope with arcane settings and the need to do some things through the command line. Engineers, by and large, cannot develop something that looks good, only something that performs well. For the non-engineering world, they are an unusable mess. This is the second biggest reason why OSS hasn't become the desktop replacement many hoped it would be.
I've been able to build some surprisingly sophisticated and full-featured web applications using Python wrapped inside CherryPy and sending the output through Django. Really amazing how much you can do with this, with the added benefit of portability if you ever want or need to move it across platforms.
If portability isn't an issue, by using Python's ctypes you can call almost any back-end Linux, Windows or Mac OS X library for the ability to do almost anything you want.
A simple iRule in an F5 LTM will allow you to manage a metric shitload of unique domains and services, on multiple servers, behind a single IPv4 address and TCP port. They've been doing this for years. I've personally set this up for several companies whose domain names might surprise you. :-)
As for tablet and such devices, yes it's true that Apple ones come with Safari and generally make it difficult to install other browsers (though they are now available, if in more limited quantity and not quite the same as the 'native' on-device Safari browser).
It wasn't very difficult for me to open Safari, download Firefox, open the disk image and drag Firefox to my Applications folder. Firefox even popped up a modal dialog box on first launch asking if I wanted to make it the default browser.
Have you looked at techBASIC from Byteworks? It's a great, easy to use BASIC that runs directly on the iPhone and iPad to let you write programs on it.
I'm also an "old expensive" computer professional. It recently took me a total of 18 hours from the time I put my resume online to my first job offer, and 4 days to have 6 offers and to have accepted a new position.
The longest it's ever taken me to find a new position once I've started looking in earnest is 2 weeks. The shortest is 36 hours. Recruiters see my resume and my phone gets 100's of calls a day.
There is definitely a shortage of experienced talent in the marketplace here (Washington, DC).
It sounds like RealBasic might be a fit for what you're looking for. Have you tried them? http://www.realbasic.com/
I think if you want to compare iphones with other smartphones you need to focus on this differing philosophy. Neither Apple nor anyone else makes much money on their phone OS, they make money selling hardware. Apple will charge you a small amount ($5 iirc) to upgrade your phone to their later OS when released, but that amount is trivial and is probably more tied to making it a purchase and making their TOS more binding than anything. (remember the laptop 802-11N updater they also sold for $5 so long ago?)
Um, no. Apple doesn't charge anything for an iOS update. Not $5. Not $1. Not $0.001. Nada. I don't know who told you that you have to pay for an iOS upgrade, but as long as you have a supported model of iPhone, it's free.
You work at NatGeo too I guess.
Sorry, but there was a stretch of several months this year where there were no security updates released for CentOS 5.x while they worked on 5.6 and 6.0.
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29685&forum=53
My fiancee speaks 6 languages fluently, like a native, and switches between them with an ease that impresses the shit out of me. They are Korean (she is Korean), Tagalog, Mandarin Chinese, English, Japanese and French. The first time she came to America, Immigration didn't want to let her in because her English was so good they didn't believe that she had never been here before.
So, yeah, there are lots of people that speak multiple languages. Just not, unfortunately, in America.
A quick "cont" in the EEPROM would zip that 16-way server back to life faster than anyone noticed it was frozen.
Cutting the strings.
I understand your evil plot now! By stuffing a 16 bit value into an 8 bit location, you're actually inserting the upper 8 bits into the next memory location. Everyone knows that the value 00000001 when put into address 8676 is the "brick my phone" value. By sneakily tricking the user into memory location 8675, you've bypassed the internal security.
My hat is off to you sir!
Speaking as someone who has done root DNS modifications, Sweden *doesn't do* the modifications. They submit a request, which is verified by two separate agencies, then forwarded on to VeriSign who makes the TLD change. Once the change is made, it is (supposedly) verified by at least 1 other person, and several scripts before being pushed live.
For all intents and purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares?"
Fixed that for you.
Well, unless you're already root, your command will fail with a permission denied error since the > redirect will run with your user permissions, not with sudo permissions.
So, in that case yes, sudo will prevent an "Oh sh*t!" moment.
Currently I live in the USA and my fiancee lives in Beijing. In the USA I have Verizon Wireless as my cell phone provider, and I'm not sure what company my fiancee uses in Beijing (her cell phone starts with 86 13).
I have no problems sending or receiving SMS messages with her at all hours of the day and night. She has never failed to receive an SMS text from me, nor I her.
I have seen no evidence that there is a problem sending or receiving SMS to China.
Tom
Not quite. Darwin is the underlying Unix on an OS X system. Leopard is the Mac frameworks that live on top of Darwin on Mac OS X >= 10.5.0 10.6. Quartz is the GUI.
Gentoo by default will unmount /boot after booting if it is a separate partition. There may be other distro's that do this, but Gentoo I know from personal experience does.