So go ahead, keep on buying your fancy iPads and Kindles and whatever. Keep on telling yourself that there's no problem because Joe Hacker somewhere in Paris managed to figure out a way around. Then we'll see where this gets us in 30 or 40 years when all computing is like that. When politically inconvenient or embarrassing content can be made to disappear. When even the last shards of privacy have been obliterated.
Just wanted to point out that the 'alternative browsers' are just skins on top of the built in webkit engine. You're not allowed to provide your own engine. At least, that's the case last I checked.
They can do whatever they want with their Maps application, as long as they don't block Google from releasing their own.
It's one thing to block other people's applications (such as browsers) because they provide insignificant functionality compared to what you already have. But this is a whole different matter. It's unacceptable to eliminate important functionality that you advertised and that people rely on. It's even worse if you do it because you have some childish pissing match with another company.
Sony pulled this shit and paid a serious price for it (although IMO they haven't paid enough). I would hope that Apple learns from Sony's mistake.
Windows RT doesn't support Active Directory? O_o
Why even bother then? The only advantage of using a Windows tablet would be the ability to integrate into Windows infrastructure.
I'm wondering about the target market. Compared to other tablets, the prices are ridiculous. But if this is being aimed at windows-specialized businesses who want to issue tablets to employees, then they can get away with that price because such targets typically prefer 'reassuringly expensive' devices.
I just watched it. Well, part of it at least. It was so painful to watch that I had to stop after a minute or so.
I have to believe that this movie is just an excuse to get rowdy. You would have to be an idiot to actually get so angry over such a laughably bad film.
That is true, but it does not change the fact that an OS is boring. A user doesn't give a fig that the OS provides all these wonderful levels of abstraction to make it easier for developers to write their applications. Users care about what it does *for them*.
Operating Systems are fundamentally boring. Once you get past the fanboi-ism, they are just software that sits there on your computer. They are there to *facilitate* your work, but they don't produce anything in and of themselves.
So you have to jazz them up as much as you can, so people will take notice.
All well and good, until Tabio dies in a freak accident. Next thing you know, they're building a super-powerful robot made in Tabio's image with Tabio's memories.
For any illness, there will always be people who are, for reasons we may or may not understand, immune. There will also always be people who, for reasons we may or may not understand, will become asymptomatic carriers.
Ever heard of the phrase 'Typhoid Mary'?
Conspiracy theories are no different than religion. You have True Believers who will continue to espouse their belief no matter how much evidence you provide to the contrary.
Before science figures out how some specific thing works exactly, it figures out how something works generally. It's just a matter of refinement over time, either due to new ideas, or new techniques.
People though the earth was flat. Over time, enough evidence was collected to show that the earth must be round. Now we know it's actually slightly egg shaped. And mindbogglingly, we still managed to somehow develop a Flat Earth Society. Or look at gravity. We still don't know how it works, but we know that it produces an acceleration effect of approx 9.8 m/s when standing on the surface of the earth, we know that it is somehow related to mass, etc. You can extrapolate my point to pretty much anything else science has discovered, including evolution, climatology, etc. The amount of evidence favouring evolution is so immense, that to deny it should be considered nothing short of mental illness. And yet people refuse to accept it with a fury that awe-inspiring.
But there will always be a group of people who choose to be willfully ignorant because, for whatever reason, they don't find such discoveries convenient to their world view. If people in this day and age are so stupid as to continue to believe that the world is flat, then what hope do we have for things more conceptually complex?
Gee, this is just a fabulous idea. Imagine the dotcom days where everyone and their goldfish were jumping on ship to 'code' because the $$$ was flashing in their eyes. What was the result? Massive massive quantities of crap.
Now lets magnify that umteen-fold, because suddenly everyone 'knows' how to program. Yeah, that's a great idea. Lets give everyone an unlimited amount of rope and let the Dunning-Kruger effect do the knot tying...
How exactly is being able to sit down equivalent to "bending to each and every whim"? Has employment standards in the US fallen so low that employees arn't even entitled to basic amenities anymore? Why not make everyone wear loin cloths and be forced to work while crouching in an insect-infested dirt floor while you're at it?
The fact that the submitter goes from "Can't have anything" to a "$500 stand up desk" is just unfathomable. There are so many options for getting cheap/free furniture, there is no excuse for having to resort to cardboard boxes. You can get perfectly good desks and chairs from Goodwill or some other similar place. Hell, place ads on freecycle requesting old furniture.
I think the first step here is to fix what is clearly an attitude problem at the company. Apparently the people there feel that suffering is a mandatory component to working there, and that's flat out crap.
I did indeed intend to imply that Apple takes better care of it's app store. Has it been perfect? Course not. They've missed a few bad... err.. apples, and they've blocked legitimate apps for very dubious reasons, but in general it's good. The reputation of Apple's app store is 'safe'. Googles? Not nearly so. Hell, they didn't even perform malware detection until relatively recently.
And yes, having the freedom to do what you want with your device does have the cost of increased vigilance. But this is neither here nor there.
The original point is that the poster feels having to wade through garbage apps to find the good ones is a waste of their time. My point was that it is inevitable for a popular platform to have large quantities of crap software. Heck, the amount of junk available for Windows is incomprehensible. The only difference is that people have already learned to ignore 90% of it and stick with software brands they recognize or have recommended to them. The Apple app store is no different.
The only reason it's crammed full of garbage is because it's the current top mobile store and everyone wants to try to make a buck.
There is is also a large amount of crap on the android store. And while yes you can use other stores, you also risk installing malicious software. Even Google's store has been hit several times. While Apple's app store is hardly trouble-free, it's still much a much safer option to use if you don't know enough to tell if the app you're about to install is actually legit.
Sorry, I didn't give your post the response it deserves. Yes, you are right that the results are entirely dependent on the management handling the project, but my sympathy drops precipitously when said designer happily states that they can do that no problem.
I mean, I recently had to hand-hold someone through getting wordpress installation files onto the server because they had never even *heard* of FTP, and had no concept of what a public_html directory was. I'm not sure if I was entirely successful in hiding the contempt from my voice as I explained things to them. Apparently they had never used anything besides cpanel to manage websites.
The hate is because I've seen too many results from designers who think they are also programmers. And those results invariably are not pretty at all from a code and/or security standpoint.
When I look at said results, I get the same feeling one would get if they declared that they were a Christian and then someone asked them if they were good friends with Fred Phelps.
Ugh... seriously. I *despise* flash-based sites. I have yet to see one that isn't a usability nightmare.
However, web design is far far more than just knowing HTML and CSS. For anything more than the most trivial of sites, you also need javascript, SQL, some kind of backend language whether that's PHP, Python, Perl, Java, etc.
And heaven forbid you do something more enterprise-y, cause they you need Java, J2EE, JSP, taglibs, and a family-sized can of alphabet soup for the various other technologies with TLAs.
And then there are the softer development skills you need like an understanding of security issues (cross site scripting issues, data validation, buffer overflows, etc).
Nowadays most decent websites are no less complex than desktop applications, with a developer skill set required to match.
If good programmers were also good at design, then the "Year of the Linux Desktop" would have happened by now. Some programmers do have design talent as well, but the majority certainly don't.
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When you say you're disabled, I can only assume you're referring to your sense of humour?
I think next time I post a comment like this, I'll get a small wind farm set up first. All that woosh must be worth some serious energy.
And this is why I use a Mac. I don't have to worry about any of that unreliable unix-y stuff and shoddy quality from Intel!
So go ahead, keep on buying your fancy iPads and Kindles and whatever. Keep on telling yourself that there's no problem because Joe Hacker somewhere in Paris managed to figure out a way around. Then we'll see where this gets us in 30 or 40 years when all computing is like that. When politically inconvenient or embarrassing content can be made to disappear. When even the last shards of privacy have been obliterated.
Um... isn't it *already* too late for that?
Just wanted to point out that the 'alternative browsers' are just skins on top of the built in webkit engine. You're not allowed to provide your own engine. At least, that's the case last I checked.
They can do whatever they want with their Maps application, as long as they don't block Google from releasing their own. It's one thing to block other people's applications (such as browsers) because they provide insignificant functionality compared to what you already have. But this is a whole different matter. It's unacceptable to eliminate important functionality that you advertised and that people rely on. It's even worse if you do it because you have some childish pissing match with another company. Sony pulled this shit and paid a serious price for it (although IMO they haven't paid enough). I would hope that Apple learns from Sony's mistake.
Windows RT doesn't support Active Directory? O_o Why even bother then? The only advantage of using a Windows tablet would be the ability to integrate into Windows infrastructure.
I'm wondering about the target market. Compared to other tablets, the prices are ridiculous. But if this is being aimed at windows-specialized businesses who want to issue tablets to employees, then they can get away with that price because such targets typically prefer 'reassuringly expensive' devices.
Potayto potahto. ;)
If i ever get in trouble, I want Apple's lawyers defending me. They can't seem to do wrong.
For some reason I was expecting there to be something about galloping abs at the end.
I just watched it. Well, part of it at least. It was so painful to watch that I had to stop after a minute or so.
I have to believe that this movie is just an excuse to get rowdy. You would have to be an idiot to actually get so angry over such a laughably bad film.
That is true, but it does not change the fact that an OS is boring. A user doesn't give a fig that the OS provides all these wonderful levels of abstraction to make it easier for developers to write their applications. Users care about what it does *for them*.
Operating Systems are fundamentally boring. Once you get past the fanboi-ism, they are just software that sits there on your computer. They are there to *facilitate* your work, but they don't produce anything in and of themselves.
So you have to jazz them up as much as you can, so people will take notice.
All well and good, until Tabio dies in a freak accident. Next thing you know, they're building a super-powerful robot made in Tabio's image with Tabio's memories.
For any illness, there will always be people who are, for reasons we may or may not understand, immune. There will also always be people who, for reasons we may or may not understand, will become asymptomatic carriers.
Ever heard of the phrase 'Typhoid Mary'?
Conspiracy theories are no different than religion. You have True Believers who will continue to espouse their belief no matter how much evidence you provide to the contrary.
Before science figures out how some specific thing works exactly, it figures out how something works generally. It's just a matter of refinement over time, either due to new ideas, or new techniques.
People though the earth was flat. Over time, enough evidence was collected to show that the earth must be round. Now we know it's actually slightly egg shaped. And mindbogglingly, we still managed to somehow develop a Flat Earth Society.
Or look at gravity. We still don't know how it works, but we know that it produces an acceleration effect of approx 9.8 m/s when standing on the surface of the earth, we know that it is somehow related to mass, etc.
You can extrapolate my point to pretty much anything else science has discovered, including evolution, climatology, etc. The amount of evidence favouring evolution is so immense, that to deny it should be considered nothing short of mental illness. And yet people refuse to accept it with a fury that awe-inspiring.
But there will always be a group of people who choose to be willfully ignorant because, for whatever reason, they don't find such discoveries convenient to their world view. If people in this day and age are so stupid as to continue to believe that the world is flat, then what hope do we have for things more conceptually complex?
Gee, this is just a fabulous idea. Imagine the dotcom days where everyone and their goldfish were jumping on ship to 'code' because the $$$ was flashing in their eyes. What was the result? Massive massive quantities of crap.
Now lets magnify that umteen-fold, because suddenly everyone 'knows' how to program. Yeah, that's a great idea. Lets give everyone an unlimited amount of rope and let the Dunning-Kruger effect do the knot tying...
How exactly is being able to sit down equivalent to "bending to each and every whim"? Has employment standards in the US fallen so low that employees arn't even entitled to basic amenities anymore? Why not make everyone wear loin cloths and be forced to work while crouching in an insect-infested dirt floor while you're at it?
The fact that the submitter goes from "Can't have anything" to a "$500 stand up desk" is just unfathomable. There are so many options for getting cheap/free furniture, there is no excuse for having to resort to cardboard boxes. You can get perfectly good desks and chairs from Goodwill or some other similar place. Hell, place ads on freecycle requesting old furniture.
I think the first step here is to fix what is clearly an attitude problem at the company. Apparently the people there feel that suffering is a mandatory component to working there, and that's flat out crap.
I did indeed intend to imply that Apple takes better care of it's app store. Has it been perfect? Course not. They've missed a few bad... err.. apples, and they've blocked legitimate apps for very dubious reasons, but in general it's good. The reputation of Apple's app store is 'safe'. Googles? Not nearly so. Hell, they didn't even perform malware detection until relatively recently.
And yes, having the freedom to do what you want with your device does have the cost of increased vigilance. But this is neither here nor there.
The original point is that the poster feels having to wade through garbage apps to find the good ones is a waste of their time. My point was that it is inevitable for a popular platform to have large quantities of crap software. Heck, the amount of junk available for Windows is incomprehensible. The only difference is that people have already learned to ignore 90% of it and stick with software brands they recognize or have recommended to them. The Apple app store is no different.
The only reason it's crammed full of garbage is because it's the current top mobile store and everyone wants to try to make a buck.
There is is also a large amount of crap on the android store. And while yes you can use other stores, you also risk installing malicious software. Even Google's store has been hit several times. While Apple's app store is hardly trouble-free, it's still much a much safer option to use if you don't know enough to tell if the app you're about to install is actually legit.
They need to embrace non-windows platforms cause that's where the action is right now.
Once they've destroyed all semblance of competition, THEN they can tighten the noose and force everyone onto Windows.
Sorry, I didn't give your post the response it deserves. Yes, you are right that the results are entirely dependent on the management handling the project, but my sympathy drops precipitously when said designer happily states that they can do that no problem.
I mean, I recently had to hand-hold someone through getting wordpress installation files onto the server because they had never even *heard* of FTP, and had no concept of what a public_html directory was. I'm not sure if I was entirely successful in hiding the contempt from my voice as I explained things to them. Apparently they had never used anything besides cpanel to manage websites.
The hate is because I've seen too many results from designers who think they are also programmers. And those results invariably are not pretty at all from a code and/or security standpoint.
When I look at said results, I get the same feeling one would get if they declared that they were a Christian and then someone asked them if they were good friends with Fred Phelps.
Ugh... seriously. I *despise* flash-based sites. I have yet to see one that isn't a usability nightmare.
However, web design is far far more than just knowing HTML and CSS. For anything more than the most trivial of sites, you also need javascript, SQL, some kind of backend language whether that's PHP, Python, Perl, Java, etc.
And heaven forbid you do something more enterprise-y, cause they you need Java, J2EE, JSP, taglibs, and a family-sized can of alphabet soup for the various other technologies with TLAs.
And then there are the softer development skills you need like an understanding of security issues (cross site scripting issues, data validation, buffer overflows, etc).
Nowadays most decent websites are no less complex than desktop applications, with a developer skill set required to match.
If good programmers were also good at design, then the "Year of the Linux Desktop" would have happened by now. Some programmers do have design talent as well, but the majority certainly don't.