Even if there is no mortgage on your house, you still don't own it but are only permitted to live there if you pay your property tax on time. Therefore you don't really own it, but rent it from the state.
What a stupid argument. By that logic, I don't really "own" the salary I make because the government only permits me to have it if I pay my income taxes on time.
The only reliable way of testing websites is with virtual machines. It's a little resource intensive, but it guarantees that you are testing with the actual browser and not with some Frankenstein reproduction, and it lets you replicate how a user actually uses the website
Even that isn't enough. I had a nightmare of a time identifying an IE7 bug due to a race condition. Our QA team (at a different office) was able to reliably reproduce it on physical hardware, but I couldn't in VMs because they ran slow enough that the issue didn't present. I finally was able to get my hands on a coworker's machine and replicate on physical hardware (didn't replicate even on VMs on his machine).
Actually, I can shoot while plugged in. I can even switch my camera into a direct streaming mode.
The Android team can write a interface layer so that the contents of the device appear as a mass storage device. It wouldn't be the same thing as direct hardware access to the file storage, but it's certainly possible without introducing a new filesystem format.
The only things being done server-side are game saves (arbitrary decision) and the very-limited group play.
The game saves in particular are a thinly-veiled attempt at implementing DRM through always-on server connections without calling it DRM.
Likewise, making Group Play a mandatory aspect in a game franchise that has primarily been single-player-driven for the last 23 years is clearly an arbitrary move aimed at capitalizing on Farmville players, with the added bonus of having effective DRM without calling it DRM.
Thats exactly my point. Within city limits of one of the 10 largest cities in America (well over 1.5 million residents), yet is considered rural enough that the local baby-bell monopoly (oops, now AT&T once again) won't offer him broadband. AT&T at least is required to run wires to his property for phone service. Cable companies ignore is area altogether.
And he's only 3-4 miles outside of a suburb city which has a population of almost 200,000. So even though he's "rural" he's by no means living in the boonies.
My brother and his wife live within the city limits of one of the 10 largest cities (by population) in the US. Yet his options are dial-up, or cellular data. And no-one is offering unlimited cellular data plans in the region anymore.
Yet a facility half a mile further out of town than him can get fiber. Rural broadband coverage in the US is shit because only a limited number of properties immediately adjacent to switching points can actually get any connectivity.
Yes. Because I've seen what gets tracked in Google Analytics paid products, vs what gets tracked in competitor systems like Adobe Omniture. And you wouldn't believe how many millions (possibly even billions) of dollars get spent on Omniture licenses and implementations. Not to mention the mass of other players in this realm.
I wouldn't consider JQuery a framework, and if that's what you were looking for, no wonder you had problems. JQuery is a nice collection of shortcuts with a selector engine and some cross-platform abstraction, that over time has grown into something more powerful simply because of how common it is. It's getting better, especially as they throw away some backwards compatibility with older versions, but I wouldn't use it as my starting point for a full web app or an ERP system.
If you wanted an honest-to-goodness framework, you should at least have gone with MooTools (which was built ground-up to be a cleaner object-oriented solution), or a full Framework.
Google only does anonymous aggregated data. They act as a gateway between you and the advertiser.
Who you should be worried about is all the other huge companies tracking your behaviors on websites. They're the ones buying and selling your data, trading in "partnership" agreements, and finding other ways to identify you specifically.
Google doesn't want to know *you*, they want to just send ads to various group of people that you can be categorized into.
There's already dozens if not hundreds of 3D authoring apps out there that will all be much better than a web browser hack-on. Why add this to a web browser? Even photoshop has 3D authoring now, and I once built a VRML environment in Notepad. You really want to make web browsers even more bloated with a 3D authoring feature?
Funny, from my trips to Europe, I've seen plenty of public toilets (in better condition that US ones because of full-time staff monitoring them), tap water for free... even with dispensers for your own bottles (which is rare in the US), and never seen the coin-op hot water in my hotels.
The biggest problem I can see is porting the data from the "40 year old antiquated system" to the new one.
It all goes here.... not only do you have 40 years of data to port, but you also have 40 years of policies and procedures stemming from the old system that have to be enshrined in the new one. You also have to do the port in a way that has 0 downtime as you switch. And, since you can't magically switch hundreds of locations overnight, you have to make sure that the data, policies, and procedures stay in sync between the two systems during the migration period, because every location needs identical information from both systems.
Combine this with mandates such as "The specs for the new system are to exactly match all the quirks and behaviors of the old system" and you have a recipe for disasters like this.
Many people sent up junk email accounts specifically for using with things like app stores - you cannot rely on the email the user bought under being the one they would use for support.
When a support request comes in, you can ask "what email address do you use for your Google Play account" and move on from there. It's pretty hard to ask for a serial number or other unique identifying information if the user can't get into the app.
But really the concept of checking is outmoded - real customer service is helping whoever asks, however they came by the app.
Tell that to Redhat or any number of open-source companies that survive on charging for support on their otherwise free product.
Seriously, I use a mousepad from an SGI Indigo. 7 or 8 years ago I had 14 of them at my disposal. Those are old. This, this is just a waste of electricity.
But look at the background through the bubbles. The background behind the bubbles doesn't change when you change the psuedo-POV
Look again. Pay attention to the bubble that masks the rear stair column. As you shift the image, the placement of the column within the bubble shifts (the amount of plant displayed varies).
This is beyond stereoscopy, and is a direct result of how they are capturing images. Stereoscopy only works on a single axis of view. This works on multiple axis.
The reason why it looks "fake" to you, is because none of this is done by the camera itself. Everything is done by running computations on the captured image. And as a result, the only way to display it is via an interactive container like Flash. The computations aren't done in realtime, so you only get whatever focus planes the algorithm (or artist) picked out when running the processing. Presumably, you could reprocess for different focal depth points.
What a stupid policy. My normal online anonymous handle (which has nothing to do with my real name) happens to contain letters from both my first and last name.
With a policy like that, I could legitimately use "hornydog@example.edu" or "pornking@example.edu". No amount of banned word filters would be enough in that scenario. They should have just implemented a sane system and handled conflicts manually.
depth = variation of meaningful tasks a user can engage in complexity = number of options presented to the user
More depth is always a good thing. But many developers fall into the trap that simply increasing the complexity will increase the depth in a meaningful way.
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What a stupid argument. By that logic, I don't really "own" the salary I make because the government only permits me to have it if I pay my income taxes on time.
Even that isn't enough. I had a nightmare of a time identifying an IE7 bug due to a race condition. Our QA team (at a different office) was able to reliably reproduce it on physical hardware, but I couldn't in VMs because they ran slow enough that the issue didn't present. I finally was able to get my hands on a coworker's machine and replicate on physical hardware (didn't replicate even on VMs on his machine).
Actually Goodwill does computer recycling now, and at least in CA they make money at it.
Actually, I can shoot while plugged in. I can even switch my camera into a direct streaming mode.
The Android team can write a interface layer so that the contents of the device appear as a mass storage device. It wouldn't be the same thing as direct hardware access to the file storage, but it's certainly possible without introducing a new filesystem format.
Bullshit.
There's no technical reason why a powered-on Android device can't present sections of the filesystem as USB mass storage.
My digital camera does it all the time as do countless NAT/USB file server devices.
The only things being done server-side are game saves (arbitrary decision) and the very-limited group play.
The game saves in particular are a thinly-veiled attempt at implementing DRM through always-on server connections without calling it DRM.
Likewise, making Group Play a mandatory aspect in a game franchise that has primarily been single-player-driven for the last 23 years is clearly an arbitrary move aimed at capitalizing on Farmville players, with the added bonus of having effective DRM without calling it DRM.
Thats exactly my point. Within city limits of one of the 10 largest cities in America (well over 1.5 million residents), yet is considered rural enough that the local baby-bell monopoly (oops, now AT&T once again) won't offer him broadband. AT&T at least is required to run wires to his property for phone service. Cable companies ignore is area altogether.
And he's only 3-4 miles outside of a suburb city which has a population of almost 200,000. So even though he's "rural" he's by no means living in the boonies.
My brother, his wife, my aunt and her 2 kids.
My brother and his wife live within the city limits of one of the 10 largest cities (by population) in the US. Yet his options are dial-up, or cellular data. And no-one is offering unlimited cellular data plans in the region anymore.
Yet a facility half a mile further out of town than him can get fiber. Rural broadband coverage in the US is shit because only a limited number of properties immediately adjacent to switching points can actually get any connectivity.
Just like all Congress has to do is let the Patriot Act or the Bush Tax Cuts expire, but you don't see those happening do you?
Yes. Because I've seen what gets tracked in Google Analytics paid products, vs what gets tracked in competitor systems like Adobe Omniture. And you wouldn't believe how many millions (possibly even billions) of dollars get spent on Omniture licenses and implementations. Not to mention the mass of other players in this realm.
I wouldn't consider JQuery a framework, and if that's what you were looking for, no wonder you had problems. JQuery is a nice collection of shortcuts with a selector engine and some cross-platform abstraction, that over time has grown into something more powerful simply because of how common it is. It's getting better, especially as they throw away some backwards compatibility with older versions, but I wouldn't use it as my starting point for a full web app or an ERP system.
If you wanted an honest-to-goodness framework, you should at least have gone with MooTools (which was built ground-up to be a cleaner object-oriented solution), or a full Framework.
Google only does anonymous aggregated data. They act as a gateway between you and the advertiser.
Who you should be worried about is all the other huge companies tracking your behaviors on websites. They're the ones buying and selling your data, trading in "partnership" agreements, and finding other ways to identify you specifically.
Google doesn't want to know *you*, they want to just send ads to various group of people that you can be categorized into.
There's already dozens if not hundreds of 3D authoring apps out there that will all be much better than a web browser hack-on. Why add this to a web browser? Even photoshop has 3D authoring now, and I once built a VRML environment in Notepad. You really want to make web browsers even more bloated with a 3D authoring feature?
Funny, from my trips to Europe, I've seen plenty of public toilets (in better condition that US ones because of full-time staff monitoring them), tap water for free... even with dispensers for your own bottles (which is rare in the US), and never seen the coin-op hot water in my hotels.
It all goes here.... not only do you have 40 years of data to port, but you also have 40 years of policies and procedures stemming from the old system that have to be enshrined in the new one. You also have to do the port in a way that has 0 downtime as you switch. And, since you can't magically switch hundreds of locations overnight, you have to make sure that the data, policies, and procedures stay in sync between the two systems during the migration period, because every location needs identical information from both systems.
Combine this with mandates such as "The specs for the new system are to exactly match all the quirks and behaviors of the old system" and you have a recipe for disasters like this.
When a support request comes in, you can ask "what email address do you use for your Google Play account" and move on from there. It's pretty hard to ask for a serial number or other unique identifying information if the user can't get into the app.
Tell that to Redhat or any number of open-source companies that survive on charging for support on their otherwise free product.
No reason of course unless you want to be able to verify the app purchase before providing support.
But considering how many malicious or spoof apps have been on the Android store, I'd be worried too.
My mousepad is older than this server.
Seriously, I use a mousepad from an SGI Indigo. 7 or 8 years ago I had 14 of them at my disposal. Those are old. This, this is just a waste of electricity.
I'd love to have all my time back on my current project that I've wasted managing the word catalog vs. catalogue.
My cousin just landed a summer internship at NVidia for $25/hour
Look again. Pay attention to the bubble that masks the rear stair column. As you shift the image, the placement of the column within the bubble shifts (the amount of plant displayed varies).
This is beyond stereoscopy, and is a direct result of how they are capturing images. Stereoscopy only works on a single axis of view. This works on multiple axis.
The reason why it looks "fake" to you, is because none of this is done by the camera itself. Everything is done by running computations on the captured image. And as a result, the only way to display it is via an interactive container like Flash. The computations aren't done in realtime, so you only get whatever focus planes the algorithm (or artist) picked out when running the processing. Presumably, you could reprocess for different focal depth points.
What a stupid policy. My normal online anonymous handle (which has nothing to do with my real name) happens to contain letters from both my first and last name.
With a policy like that, I could legitimately use "hornydog@example.edu" or "pornking@example.edu". No amount of banned word filters would be enough in that scenario. They should have just implemented a sane system and handled conflicts manually.
You can think of his use of terms like this:
depth = variation of meaningful tasks a user can engage in
complexity = number of options presented to the user
More depth is always a good thing. But many developers fall into the trap that simply increasing the complexity will increase the depth in a meaningful way.
Click + hover on a touchscreen can only be accomplished by touch + hold/drag, which is not the same action.
Touch + hold/drag = swipe
Asian does. Oriental doesn't.
Oriental refers to the Orient Sea. Look it up on a map.