How is it that people conveiniently forget how much more expensive hardware was 10-20 years ago. My PC in the late 80's wouldn't hold a candle to an iPhone in processor, memory, storage anything. I payed nearly 5K for that beast, and it was the best money I ever spent. Hard drives used to cost hundred, if not thousands of sollars, as did memory... Saying the iPad is a 'better value' as compared to a 12 year old device is just moronic.
Exactly. I remember I spent $4000 on a *desktop* computer back then. It was amazing and it had something around a whopping 300Mhz. It had awesome hardware and could run all the latest games. Should we also make a story how shit and useless that computer was and how idiot I was to buy it because now 15 years later theres a better product?
Well, the base charge for developer license and a Macintosh system limits freeware authors. They also need to submit it to Apple, pay their fee and hope it gets approved. If Apple rejects their app they have no way to give it to users. Is that the kind of closed computer systems you want to live with?
You bring this same reason to every iPad story.. Do you understand the difference between a computer and microwave?
And yes, before anyone brings in the "but it's meant for appliance" story, there is no reason why Apple needs to restrict you so much (other than their revenue, mind you).
They have the built-in capability do so, microwaves don't.
How many people you think use ATM's around the world a day compared to iPad? Add in the factor that they are commercial products and hence more pricey. Just because it isn't marketed more and you have more fanbois telling everyone how revolutionary, life changing and great it is, doesn't mean theres no significant use of the system.
Sure they aren't, but it's not a good route they're taking along with all the lawsuits they're sending out everywhere in the world. Isn't marketing and advertisement something all slashdotters hate? So why are there so many apple fanbois here?
(btw your point would had been good enough without the direct attack too)
Just look how successful the Windows CE OS is to this day.
If you actually look at it and don't just look at the public marketing, I would say it's quite successful. It was used in millions of PDA's, mobile phones (and Windows Mobile is based on it too), embedded systems and most of the ATM's in the world.
Difference is that Apple markets you to believe they're more successful, while almost any other player including MS is more discrete about those and doesn't have major marketing campaigns to get their systems around.
Well what it's worth the first tech demos about it were disclosed 4-5 months ago and more details now an month ago. They usually disclose technical things earlier on rather like Apple who goes fully by PR and marketing (and where it makes sense to disclose products and have strict NDA's to keep it secret just prior launch to keep all the fanboys hype it)
Why do you think I absolutely dislike the window mobile 7 move to Apple like App Store and not allowing to run your own or freeware apps? Sometimes people can think on their and not be someones shill and see faults and goods at anyones products.
They ban every other programming language and tool than their own. Before some flash bashing comes in, note that its about Novell and every other cross-compiler too. Apple is the most closed and evil manufacturer there is, beating both MS and Google.
It's actually quite funny to see how similar and in some aspects even better it is (and for a product 12 years ago!). Apart from the obvious (larger price and more weight), the older product actually has 12-16 hour life compared to iPad's 8 hour life. There's also dial-up modem (remember how bulky those were?), more apps, syncing software, and multitasking. 640x480 resolution and touch display.
Pretty awesome for a product in the 1998, considering it even beats iPad at some aspects. Oh and Windows CE also let you install any app you wanted (there was a lot of freeware apps too), not just something Apple didn't block from AppStore or where you have to pay for every app you want, no matter how simple task it does. And you also could program your own apps to it.
But what comes to current generation tablets, I'm waiting to see what happens with Courier. The two touch-screen booklike sure is something a tablet should look like. I mean, you're supposed to hold these with your hands and on top you, while laying on sofa or bed. It's a lot more natural to hold them like a book, either for browsing the internet while having a game or IM window on the other screen or just to read an ebook. The non-book feel of tablets has turn me off. I have a bad feeling they will want to go the Apple route and have only App Store-approved apps like with Windows Mobile 7, but I still hope for the best. The ability to have what applications you want or code your own is a really importantant one.
As long as you're interested in what you program, you can easily do it full work days. However it seems like you're doing the usual code monkey job - these effects are what happens when its not fulfilling or at all interesting. Not in your area of interest and not challenging in the needing-to-think-and-solve-problems way, but just to produce code. That's what it basically comes down to.
A friend of mine gets his job done and still plays computer games and codes his own projects at work a lot. Since he gets his work done, it's not a problem (though he hasn't told this). Another programmer I know spends 30-40 minutes breaks playing Civilization or other games he enjoys and his boss knows this and likes it because after those gaming breaks he has unwind, maybe has think some of the problems and gets really good programming done again. But he works at a software house, attends to meetings and is in other ways involved in the business too.
It's no surprise that so many programmers also go as developers later. You get to solve actual problems and do more interesting stuff. When you were a teen, you didn't just program - you developed and spend time thinking what you did. It's no fun if you leave that part out.
But why do babies have racial bias? I've never really felt anything like that but I know some people that do and I don't know why and think it's weird. And this beside the fact that I live in place that is 99% white people and my own culture. Most of the racial bias seem to come from other people or established things, and babies can't have that.
So eons later, whoever inherited this planet discovers this relic "Library of Congress". Seeking the ancient wisdom, they finally manage to decipher them after much struggle, and goes:
WTF?
But maybe the world has always been WTF? All we know are romanticized stories.
Santos suggests that children with Williams syndrome don’t develop the same biases that their peers do, because they don’t experience social fear. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, who led the study, says, “There are hyper-social, very empathetic, very friendly, and do not get danger signals.” And because they’ll freely interact with anyone, they are less likely to cultivate a preference for people of their own ethnic groups. Alternatively, it could be that because they don’t fall prey to stereotypes, they’re more likely to socialise with everyone.
I think that's the cause, not because theres some difference in genes that makes you lose racial bias. They're friendly people and open to anyone. Rasism comes from not being open and friendly to people you think are somehow different.
But their complete lack of social fear is also a bad thing because not everyone are so and they might get hurt because of it. It's better than the other way more with geeky people though - I had trouble speaking to people or be open with them and it obviously got in the way of my relationships too. Somehow that changed when I was put in to social situations (with the help of beer) and got myself in to an relationship. Yes, one girl actually fell in love with me and because I acted like an open and social guy I kind of had to continue doing it. It took its time but it made an everlasting change to me, and now I can talk about things openly, be social and be friendly to people.
In the history only popular news or writings were archived. Wouldn't it be interesting to see what someone else, normal people, said about Shakespeare or some kings 1000 years from now? All we have now is what was archived - popular writings that governments agreed to.
It's not like it takes a lot of space to archive them, it's just 140 characters per tweet. There's a lot of useless information in the newspapers and books too, but they have archived them too because some of that info is valuable or might become valuable.
I think what he means is that you don't need to erase (and overwrite) the filesystem because it's encrypted. You just start overwriting it with your new data.
It's quite often (actually pretty much always when people are over for some beers) when friends say "can I check my facebook?" or girlfriends or similar want to do some browsing, chat on IM or forums etc. People don't really carry their computers with you. It's a lot more comfortable when they can login to guest account rather than mine with an open browser, email, IM and all my other stuff.
it's about dereferencing your actual raw NUL pointers themselves in languages that either don't have the exception mechanism or where it simply hasn't been used.
But if this gains you root access without you actually having it, it's a fault in the OS security. You cant rely on programming languages to protect against such methods.
iPad only has a single user and not even a guest account, do you really want to let your kids, friends or random people to use it access all your browser history, photos, emails and such?
Of course I don't. I expect them to use their own mobile computing device. The days of one computer per family are long since gone. Multiple accounts aren't worth the extra complexity for consumer mobile devices.
Uh, a lot of families have a single computer with multiple user accounts for each family member. It's usually enough, especially if you have a single kid still living at home and don't use the computer so much. It only makes sense when the parents or kids are more geeky or spend more time on computer. We slashdotters do, but not most people.
Also, when my friends or sister or someone else is over and wants to use my computer, I hate it when they do so using my own user account. Not only they can see what tabs I have open in my browser, read my emails and IM windows or any files/photos, they mess up the browser and other apps from the state I left it at.
Extra complexity isn't an excuse. Have it default to one user account (like all Windows, Linux and Mac do), but have the possibility of creating other ones too. Your reasoning is the same as when most people say that not allowing multitasking saves battery time and there won't be programs in the background eating up cpu, but you can just have a setting to enable it and the default to the Apple way. One setting that makes your device a lot nicer for the people who want multitasking.
If want to view Flash videos (like most people do), I do think it bothers them. Sure there are apps for YouTube and such, but your Flash is still broken on other websites. How exactly is iPhone the best 'internet experience'? Other mobile phones work good especially if you have (or get) the Opera mobile browser for it.
Like past tablets? It also all the things that make iPad "innovative" and good like marketplace and sleek look and UI. It doesn't have the "features" that make iPad shitty, like limiting how many processes you can run, what software you can install and has open source OS.
Appealing to a market? I'm not sure their size is really the same as Apple's or that they can pull off same kind of PR and marketing tricks, but they have compete with good features. For me that is a good thing.
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How is it that people conveiniently forget how much more expensive hardware was 10-20 years ago. My PC in the late 80's wouldn't hold a candle to an iPhone in processor, memory, storage anything. I payed nearly 5K for that beast, and it was the best money I ever spent. Hard drives used to cost hundred, if not thousands of sollars, as did memory... Saying the iPad is a 'better value' as compared to a 12 year old device is just moronic.
Exactly. I remember I spent $4000 on a *desktop* computer back then. It was amazing and it had something around a whopping 300Mhz. It had awesome hardware and could run all the latest games. Should we also make a story how shit and useless that computer was and how idiot I was to buy it because now 15 years later theres a better product?
Well, the base charge for developer license and a Macintosh system limits freeware authors. They also need to submit it to Apple, pay their fee and hope it gets approved. If Apple rejects their app they have no way to give it to users. Is that the kind of closed computer systems you want to live with?
You bring this same reason to every iPad story.. Do you understand the difference between a computer and microwave?
And yes, before anyone brings in the "but it's meant for appliance" story, there is no reason why Apple needs to restrict you so much (other than their revenue, mind you).
They have the built-in capability do so, microwaves don't.
Yes, but I was just pointing the lunacy in the whole story. Comparing a just released 2010 product for one in 1998, full 12 years ago? What?
How many people you think use ATM's around the world a day compared to iPad? Add in the factor that they are commercial products and hence more pricey. Just because it isn't marketed more and you have more fanbois telling everyone how revolutionary, life changing and great it is, doesn't mean theres no significant use of the system.
Sure they aren't, but it's not a good route they're taking along with all the lawsuits they're sending out everywhere in the world. Isn't marketing and advertisement something all slashdotters hate? So why are there so many apple fanbois here?
(btw your point would had been good enough without the direct attack too)
Just look how successful the Windows CE OS is to this day.
If you actually look at it and don't just look at the public marketing, I would say it's quite successful. It was used in millions of PDA's, mobile phones (and Windows Mobile is based on it too), embedded systems and most of the ATM's in the world.
Difference is that Apple markets you to believe they're more successful, while almost any other player including MS is more discrete about those and doesn't have major marketing campaigns to get their systems around.
Well what it's worth the first tech demos about it were disclosed 4-5 months ago and more details now an month ago. They usually disclose technical things earlier on rather like Apple who goes fully by PR and marketing (and where it makes sense to disclose products and have strict NDA's to keep it secret just prior launch to keep all the fanboys hype it)
Why do you think I absolutely dislike the window mobile 7 move to Apple like App Store and not allowing to run your own or freeware apps? Sometimes people can think on their and not be someones shill and see faults and goods at anyones products.
Can you believe that Apple is banning frameworks that create ipod compatible software???
Sorry Adobe. Sorry developers. Apple is about control and butsecks.
Steve Jobs and his evil empire Apple may impress the sheeple, but I was born free.
Exactly, I also submitted a story about it today.
They ban every other programming language and tool than their own. Before some flash bashing comes in, note that its about Novell and every other cross-compiler too. Apple is the most closed and evil manufacturer there is, beating both MS and Google.
Oh, forgot the link to how Courier looks like.
It's actually quite funny to see how similar and in some aspects even better it is (and for a product 12 years ago!). Apart from the obvious (larger price and more weight), the older product actually has 12-16 hour life compared to iPad's 8 hour life. There's also dial-up modem (remember how bulky those were?), more apps, syncing software, and multitasking. 640x480 resolution and touch display.
Pretty awesome for a product in the 1998, considering it even beats iPad at some aspects. Oh and Windows CE also let you install any app you wanted (there was a lot of freeware apps too), not just something Apple didn't block from AppStore or where you have to pay for every app you want, no matter how simple task it does. And you also could program your own apps to it.
But what comes to current generation tablets, I'm waiting to see what happens with Courier. The two touch-screen booklike sure is something a tablet should look like. I mean, you're supposed to hold these with your hands and on top you, while laying on sofa or bed. It's a lot more natural to hold them like a book, either for browsing the internet while having a game or IM window on the other screen or just to read an ebook. The non-book feel of tablets has turn me off. I have a bad feeling they will want to go the Apple route and have only App Store-approved apps like with Windows Mobile 7, but I still hope for the best. The ability to have what applications you want or code your own is a really importantant one.
As long as you're interested in what you program, you can easily do it full work days. However it seems like you're doing the usual code monkey job - these effects are what happens when its not fulfilling or at all interesting. Not in your area of interest and not challenging in the needing-to-think-and-solve-problems way, but just to produce code. That's what it basically comes down to.
A friend of mine gets his job done and still plays computer games and codes his own projects at work a lot. Since he gets his work done, it's not a problem (though he hasn't told this). Another programmer I know spends 30-40 minutes breaks playing Civilization or other games he enjoys and his boss knows this and likes it because after those gaming breaks he has unwind, maybe has think some of the problems and gets really good programming done again. But he works at a software house, attends to meetings and is in other ways involved in the business too.
It's no surprise that so many programmers also go as developers later. You get to solve actual problems and do more interesting stuff. When you were a teen, you didn't just program - you developed and spend time thinking what you did. It's no fun if you leave that part out.
But why do babies have racial bias? I've never really felt anything like that but I know some people that do and I don't know why and think it's weird. And this beside the fact that I live in place that is 99% white people and my own culture. Most of the racial bias seem to come from other people or established things, and babies can't have that.
So eons later, whoever inherited this planet discovers this relic "Library of Congress". Seeking the ancient wisdom, they finally manage to decipher them after much struggle, and goes:
WTF?
But maybe the world has always been WTF? All we know are romanticized stories.
TFA notes this
Santos suggests that children with Williams syndrome don’t develop the same biases that their peers do, because they don’t experience social fear. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, who led the study, says, “There are hyper-social, very empathetic, very friendly, and do not get danger signals.” And because they’ll freely interact with anyone, they are less likely to cultivate a preference for people of their own ethnic groups. Alternatively, it could be that because they don’t fall prey to stereotypes, they’re more likely to socialise with everyone.
I think that's the cause, not because theres some difference in genes that makes you lose racial bias. They're friendly people and open to anyone. Rasism comes from not being open and friendly to people you think are somehow different.
But their complete lack of social fear is also a bad thing because not everyone are so and they might get hurt because of it. It's better than the other way more with geeky people though - I had trouble speaking to people or be open with them and it obviously got in the way of my relationships too. Somehow that changed when I was put in to social situations (with the help of beer) and got myself in to an relationship. Yes, one girl actually fell in love with me and because I acted like an open and social guy I kind of had to continue doing it. It took its time but it made an everlasting change to me, and now I can talk about things openly, be social and be friendly to people.
In the history only popular news or writings were archived. Wouldn't it be interesting to see what someone else, normal people, said about Shakespeare or some kings 1000 years from now? All we have now is what was archived - popular writings that governments agreed to.
It's not like it takes a lot of space to archive them, it's just 140 characters per tweet. There's a lot of useless information in the newspapers and books too, but they have archived them too because some of that info is valuable or might become valuable.
But it wasn't mandatory, was it? They did implement the feature badly, but there was other ways to pay too right?
I think what he means is that you don't need to erase (and overwrite) the filesystem because it's encrypted. You just start overwriting it with your new data.
It's quite often (actually pretty much always when people are over for some beers) when friends say "can I check my facebook?" or girlfriends or similar want to do some browsing, chat on IM or forums etc. People don't really carry their computers with you. It's a lot more comfortable when they can login to guest account rather than mine with an open browser, email, IM and all my other stuff.
it's about dereferencing your actual raw NUL pointers themselves in languages that either don't have the exception mechanism or where it simply hasn't been used.
But if this gains you root access without you actually having it, it's a fault in the OS security. You cant rely on programming languages to protect against such methods.
Of course I don't. I expect them to use their own mobile computing device. The days of one computer per family are long since gone. Multiple accounts aren't worth the extra complexity for consumer mobile devices.
Uh, a lot of families have a single computer with multiple user accounts for each family member. It's usually enough, especially if you have a single kid still living at home and don't use the computer so much. It only makes sense when the parents or kids are more geeky or spend more time on computer. We slashdotters do, but not most people.
Also, when my friends or sister or someone else is over and wants to use my computer, I hate it when they do so using my own user account. Not only they can see what tabs I have open in my browser, read my emails and IM windows or any files/photos, they mess up the browser and other apps from the state I left it at.
Extra complexity isn't an excuse. Have it default to one user account (like all Windows, Linux and Mac do), but have the possibility of creating other ones too. Your reasoning is the same as when most people say that not allowing multitasking saves battery time and there won't be programs in the background eating up cpu, but you can just have a setting to enable it and the default to the Apple way. One setting that makes your device a lot nicer for the people who want multitasking.
If want to view Flash videos (like most people do), I do think it bothers them. Sure there are apps for YouTube and such, but your Flash is still broken on other websites. How exactly is iPhone the best 'internet experience'? Other mobile phones work good especially if you have (or get) the Opera mobile browser for it.
Like past tablets? It also all the things that make iPad "innovative" and good like marketplace and sleek look and UI. It doesn't have the "features" that make iPad shitty, like limiting how many processes you can run, what software you can install and has open source OS.
Appealing to a market? I'm not sure their size is really the same as Apple's or that they can pull off same kind of PR and marketing tricks, but they have compete with good features. For me that is a good thing.