I guess it might be non-obvious to people who never use it, but the vast majority of the value I get from Facebook is the things that my friends post that I may not otherwise hear about. I'm talking about things like concert announcements, parties, etc that I see posted there that someone may not have remembered to call me about. The rest of the value is from family updates. My sister isn't going to personally email me every picture or video she takes of her son, and I wouldn't necessarily want her to. But I can go to her photo albums and look at all of the pictures that I want to of my nephew. And before you say it, yeah some other photo sharing service would fill that role also, but neither my sister nor myself has any use for an account on a dedicated photo sharing site.
That being said, the amount of inane posts I see from my female friends is staggering. At any given point, probably 90% of the communication I see is coming from females, and most of it is pointless. The few updates I see from guys are usually links to funny stories or videos, plus the announcements I mentioned.
Granted, I haven't read all the documentation, but I don't see anything in ExtJs that would help you to write a native mobile application for iPhone/iPad, Android, and Blackberry with a single code base that:
Right on the front page of the Sencha Touch section is a paragraph about how it integrates with PhoneGap to provide a single code base that allows access to native APIs on 6 platforms (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Symbian, Bada).
I'm just wondering whether to invest my time in Actionscript or Javascript.
If you're asking that question in 2011, the answer is Javascript. 10 years ago the answer would have been different. I'm not sure which "experimental" frameworks you've looked at, but I would suggest using a mature framework like ExtJS version 4. You won't find better documentation in a Javascript framework, and it even has a version specifically for mobile devices (Sencha Touch).
The web is not for documents, it is for storing and displaying data. Flexible and powerful interfaces to that data are a part of the web. A client-side scripting language is required for any interface that doesn't require a page refresh on every click.
Leave the web for documents. Run applications natively. Why is this so hard?
Yeah, and phones should only be used for making and receiving calls. And GPUs should only be used for rendering graphics.
I'm sorry you're getting old, but things change whether you want them to or not.
OCZ should know better than to throw their weight behind the most rapidly declining platform in the market.
Yeah, just look at the numbers plummet. Over the last 2 years, from September '09 until now, Windows went from 93.85% to 92.90%, so it dropped just under 1%. So in another 2 years, it will be, what, around 91% - 92%? Yeah, why would OCZ want to pin their hopes on a prospect as miserable as that? They should probably go for that 6% - 7% that OSX commands instead.
There are plenty of arguments to be had between Windows and OSX, but market share isn't one of them.
I like how this is a story about privacy, and the article includes an example report sent to a client. But it's OK, because they blur out everything in the report. They blur out "parkerpdx", for example, so that you can't tell that the report is about someone called "parkerpdx", who incidentally has a Facebook page under that name (hi, Parker Bell, good luck with your Oxycontin biz). They also helpfully blurred out "Test Company" in the name (why bother?) and I may be able to figure out the guy's hotmail.com address if I want to spend that much time (it starts with "lynch").
So yeah, great job on protecting privacy guys, especially in the story about how this company is a threat to privacy.
I'm pretty sure they're not worried about anyone drowning if the booster stage that landed on the boat tips over. They're just trying to recover their launch vehicle.
That being said, this is a perfect example of bad patents hindering innovation. There's nothing novel about landing a rocket booster on a ship. There's no reason someone should have to pay a licensing fee if they want to recover their launch vehicle by having it land on a ship.
You've argued about what is meaningful to you, but you fail to recognise that you are not representative of most people.
That's not true, I was simply responding to this claim:
anyone who can afford it is going to buy the real thing. The only people buying non-iPad tablets are those who can't afford the iPad.
That statement is simply not true, there are plenty of people who can afford any tablet they want that do not choose iPads. It is not the case that iPads, or any Apple product, are for the "elite" while everything else is for poor people.
In Apple's case, the brand's values are about "Apple 'gets' you as a consumer" "Apple products delight you" "Apple products don't break easily or often and are nicely built" "Apple products feel slick, look good, work well" "Apple products allow you to easily do things that are difficult with competitor products" etc.
You left out the biggest one: "Apple products improve your social standing." That's one of the major reasons people buy Apple products, the perception that somehow you're a cooler person for having bought an Apple product, or that you need Apple products if you're going to be cool. I've never seen a single sticker on someone's car for any other consumer electronics company. I've never seen someone driving down the road with a Sony sticker on their car, so they can let everyone know that they use (or at least buy) Sony products. Apple has an image of being an "elite" company, but that doesn't automatically mean that all of their products are always superior to all of their competitors.
Various Android devices support plenty of places from which to buy applications. You'll need to point out why Apple's store is better than your options on Android, because I don't see anything compelling about Apple's store relative to any other offering. The integration with iTunes might be desirable if you use iTunes a lot, but I personally don't like that program.
Relative lack of malware. And no, just because you can name ONE iPad malware doesn't mean the situation is the same as Android's wild-west free for all.
"Wild west free for all?" You want to know how many pieces of malware my Android device has? Zero. The score is zero to zero. That's not an advantage. Let's stick to reality here instead of hypothetical possibilities.
Apple's polish and ease of use.
That's, like, your opinion, man.
I've never seen someone yet say that they think Android works better than IOS.
I haven't polled everyone, but I do have friends with iPhones who complain about various bugs. Oddly enough, my own phone also has some of the same issues (e.g. occasional inability to answer a call). Again, I don't see a compelling advantage either way in terms of OS stability. I do notice that some of my friends are reluctant to point out the problems with their iPhones unless I prompt them.
Dude, just admit it: the iPad has 90%+ of the tablet market, and there is a reason for this. Just because YOU don't see the reasons, don't mean they aren't there.
I don't know what the numbers are, but I admit that there is in fact a reason why the iPad is popular. I just don't think it's the same reason that you think it is. I think the vast majority of it is marketing and brand loyalty, not product superiority. You can't seriously argue that the majority of Apple users research the devices and competitors before buying Apple. My mom didn't say she wanted a tablet for Christmas, she said she wanted an iPad. When I asked her why she wanted an iPad instead of another tablet her response was "what else is out there?" She's not going to research her options, she just sees what gets advertised to her and wants that. She's not even aware that she even has options (this was last Christmas, there has been more competitive advertising since then).
The only people buying non-iPad tablets are those who can't afford the iPad.
I was just in my boss' office about an hour an ago and he had an iPad box on his desk that we bought for research for a new project. He took the box off his desk and called it a "piece of crap" or something, and went on to wonder why anyone would buy an iPad when you can buy a Galaxy and have things like USB connectivity and the freedom to use it how you want to. This is from a guy in his 50s who runs a company creating online training courses. There are plenty of people who see the iPad for what it actually is who don't buy into Apple's marketing BS. Meanwhile, the lady who works here who actually does own an iPad primarily uses it to play Angry Birds, so there's your shrewd Apple consumer.
all you can do is attempt to sell a much lower end product without the compelling advantages that draw people to buy iPads.
What exactly are those compelling advantages? I don't own an iPad and I don't see anything compelling about it, so maybe you can fill me in.
I feel much safer now, knowing our government has the power to stop Microsoft from rolling out security updates in a country.
I doubt they have "the power" so much as common courtesy. I bet the exchange went something like this:
Microsoft: "We're going to push out an update to block DigiNotar certificates soon." The Dutch: "Hey Microsoft, most of our government infrastructure uses those certs. Our IT staff is pretty backed up right now. Can you delay the release a week for the Dutch version?" Microsoft: "Sure."
Microsoft could have refused, if they wanted to be dicks about it, and the Dutch gov probably could have threatened some sort of legal action, if they also wanted to be dicks about it, but I bet this is more of a non-story about two organizations working together than whatever Orwellian scenario you have in mind.
There is no point in doing "news" when you assuming your audience is all-knowing.
I'm not sure if the assumption is that the audience is all-knowing so much as the assumption that the audience is capable of rubbing together two brain cells in order to find more information. The summary referred to Burning Man (capitalized) as a "hedonistic adventure" which apparently takes place in Black Rock City and is attended by 50,000 or so people. If you can't use that information to conclude that this is some sort of event, one that you can easily find more information about if you're so inclined, then you're probably the type of person who relies on Fox News to form your opinions for you.
I can't see a whole lot of development going into hybrid drives when it's entirely possible that the price point of SSDs will drop enough in a few years to justify mainstream use.
Any number of wheels: "Beamer" (while flipping off those who insist otherwise)
I prefer that people refer to 2-door Ford vehicles as a "Furd", and 4-door vehicles as a "Fooooord". That makes a lot of sense. Also, any Toyota cars are to be referred to as "Toyota", while Toyota trucks should be called "BMW" (not to be confused with Beamers).
I understand nose art, and labeling an aircraft to described what it's armed with, but would you stick a piece of masking tape on a missile and write "missile" on it?
That's great, the next time someone asks me what MySQL is I'm going to tell them it's an enterprise server infrastructure brick. That sounds like a term the buzzword generator would throw out.
I didn't consider the task manager (oddly enough). I was thinking about using hotkeys to bring up the Run dialog, and I believe that the shell is what controls the hotkeys.
I believe the new thing is that now it doesn't need to be running at all, only on-demand. If I just shut down explorer.exe in XP and try to go about launching applications and trying to get the OS to do various things, I think some things will fail since the shell isn't running. In fact, it's pretty hard to do anything at all in XP without the shell running.
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I guess it might be non-obvious to people who never use it, but the vast majority of the value I get from Facebook is the things that my friends post that I may not otherwise hear about. I'm talking about things like concert announcements, parties, etc that I see posted there that someone may not have remembered to call me about. The rest of the value is from family updates. My sister isn't going to personally email me every picture or video she takes of her son, and I wouldn't necessarily want her to. But I can go to her photo albums and look at all of the pictures that I want to of my nephew. And before you say it, yeah some other photo sharing service would fill that role also, but neither my sister nor myself has any use for an account on a dedicated photo sharing site.
That being said, the amount of inane posts I see from my female friends is staggering. At any given point, probably 90% of the communication I see is coming from females, and most of it is pointless. The few updates I see from guys are usually links to funny stories or videos, plus the announcements I mentioned.
Also, nice sig.
Granted, I haven't read all the documentation, but I don't see anything in ExtJs that would help you to write a native mobile application for iPhone/iPad, Android, and Blackberry with a single code base that:
Right on the front page of the Sencha Touch section is a paragraph about how it integrates with PhoneGap to provide a single code base that allows access to native APIs on 6 platforms (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS, Symbian, Bada).
http://www.phonegap.com/about/features
I'm just wondering whether to invest my time in Actionscript or Javascript.
If you're asking that question in 2011, the answer is Javascript. 10 years ago the answer would have been different. I'm not sure which "experimental" frameworks you've looked at, but I would suggest using a mature framework like ExtJS version 4. You won't find better documentation in a Javascript framework, and it even has a version specifically for mobile devices (Sencha Touch).
The web is not for documents, it is for storing and displaying data. Flexible and powerful interfaces to that data are a part of the web. A client-side scripting language is required for any interface that doesn't require a page refresh on every click.
Leave the web for documents. Run applications natively. Why is this so hard?
Yeah, and phones should only be used for making and receiving calls. And GPUs should only be used for rendering graphics.
I'm sorry you're getting old, but things change whether you want them to or not.
OCZ should know better than to throw their weight behind the most rapidly declining platform in the market.
Yeah, just look at the numbers plummet. Over the last 2 years, from September '09 until now, Windows went from 93.85% to 92.90%, so it dropped just under 1%. So in another 2 years, it will be, what, around 91% - 92%? Yeah, why would OCZ want to pin their hopes on a prospect as miserable as that? They should probably go for that 6% - 7% that OSX commands instead.
There are plenty of arguments to be had between Windows and OSX, but market share isn't one of them.
Whoops, that report is not in TFA, it's on a page linked to in TFA (here).
I like how this is a story about privacy, and the article includes an example report sent to a client. But it's OK, because they blur out everything in the report. They blur out "parkerpdx", for example, so that you can't tell that the report is about someone called "parkerpdx", who incidentally has a Facebook page under that name (hi, Parker Bell, good luck with your Oxycontin biz). They also helpfully blurred out "Test Company" in the name (why bother?) and I may be able to figure out the guy's hotmail.com address if I want to spend that much time (it starts with "lynch").
So yeah, great job on protecting privacy guys, especially in the story about how this company is a threat to privacy.
If only our (US) lawmakers would have had the balls to do the same thing with the banks.
Me: "Install Firefox or Chrome or Opera or Safari or Netscape Navigator 4.1"
Why do you hate your mom?
I'm pretty sure they're not worried about anyone drowning if the booster stage that landed on the boat tips over. They're just trying to recover their launch vehicle.
That being said, this is a perfect example of bad patents hindering innovation. There's nothing novel about landing a rocket booster on a ship. There's no reason someone should have to pay a licensing fee if they want to recover their launch vehicle by having it land on a ship.
You've argued about what is meaningful to you, but you fail to recognise that you are not representative of most people.
That's not true, I was simply responding to this claim:
anyone who can afford it is going to buy the real thing. The only people buying non-iPad tablets are those who can't afford the iPad.
That statement is simply not true, there are plenty of people who can afford any tablet they want that do not choose iPads. It is not the case that iPads, or any Apple product, are for the "elite" while everything else is for poor people.
In Apple's case, the brand's values are about "Apple 'gets' you as a consumer" "Apple products delight you" "Apple products don't break easily or often and are nicely built" "Apple products feel slick, look good, work well" "Apple products allow you to easily do things that are difficult with competitor products" etc.
You left out the biggest one: "Apple products improve your social standing." That's one of the major reasons people buy Apple products, the perception that somehow you're a cooler person for having bought an Apple product, or that you need Apple products if you're going to be cool. I've never seen a single sticker on someone's car for any other consumer electronics company. I've never seen someone driving down the road with a Sony sticker on their car, so they can let everyone know that they use (or at least buy) Sony products. Apple has an image of being an "elite" company, but that doesn't automatically mean that all of their products are always superior to all of their competitors.
The App Store, which android does not support.
Various Android devices support plenty of places from which to buy applications. You'll need to point out why Apple's store is better than your options on Android, because I don't see anything compelling about Apple's store relative to any other offering. The integration with iTunes might be desirable if you use iTunes a lot, but I personally don't like that program.
Relative lack of malware. And no, just because you can name ONE iPad malware doesn't mean the situation is the same as Android's wild-west free for all.
"Wild west free for all?" You want to know how many pieces of malware my Android device has? Zero. The score is zero to zero. That's not an advantage. Let's stick to reality here instead of hypothetical possibilities.
Apple's polish and ease of use.
That's, like, your opinion, man.
I've never seen someone yet say that they think Android works better than IOS.
I haven't polled everyone, but I do have friends with iPhones who complain about various bugs. Oddly enough, my own phone also has some of the same issues (e.g. occasional inability to answer a call). Again, I don't see a compelling advantage either way in terms of OS stability. I do notice that some of my friends are reluctant to point out the problems with their iPhones unless I prompt them.
Dude, just admit it: the iPad has 90%+ of the tablet market, and there is a reason for this. Just because YOU don't see the reasons, don't mean they aren't there.
I don't know what the numbers are, but I admit that there is in fact a reason why the iPad is popular. I just don't think it's the same reason that you think it is. I think the vast majority of it is marketing and brand loyalty, not product superiority. You can't seriously argue that the majority of Apple users research the devices and competitors before buying Apple. My mom didn't say she wanted a tablet for Christmas, she said she wanted an iPad. When I asked her why she wanted an iPad instead of another tablet her response was "what else is out there?" She's not going to research her options, she just sees what gets advertised to her and wants that. She's not even aware that she even has options (this was last Christmas, there has been more competitive advertising since then).
The only people buying non-iPad tablets are those who can't afford the iPad.
I was just in my boss' office about an hour an ago and he had an iPad box on his desk that we bought for research for a new project. He took the box off his desk and called it a "piece of crap" or something, and went on to wonder why anyone would buy an iPad when you can buy a Galaxy and have things like USB connectivity and the freedom to use it how you want to. This is from a guy in his 50s who runs a company creating online training courses. There are plenty of people who see the iPad for what it actually is who don't buy into Apple's marketing BS. Meanwhile, the lady who works here who actually does own an iPad primarily uses it to play Angry Birds, so there's your shrewd Apple consumer.
all you can do is attempt to sell a much lower end product without the compelling advantages that draw people to buy iPads.
What exactly are those compelling advantages? I don't own an iPad and I don't see anything compelling about it, so maybe you can fill me in.
I feel much safer now, knowing our government has the power to stop Microsoft from rolling out security updates in a country.
I doubt they have "the power" so much as common courtesy. I bet the exchange went something like this:
Microsoft: "We're going to push out an update to block DigiNotar certificates soon."
The Dutch: "Hey Microsoft, most of our government infrastructure uses those certs. Our IT staff is pretty backed up right now. Can you delay the release a week for the Dutch version?"
Microsoft: "Sure."
Microsoft could have refused, if they wanted to be dicks about it, and the Dutch gov probably could have threatened some sort of legal action, if they also wanted to be dicks about it, but I bet this is more of a non-story about two organizations working together than whatever Orwellian scenario you have in mind.
500 gb hdd, with intelligent caching using solid state memory
How is that different than a 500GB drive with a 4GB cache? Caching on hard drives is always implemented with solid state memory. What am I missing?
There is no point in doing "news" when you assuming your audience is all-knowing.
I'm not sure if the assumption is that the audience is all-knowing so much as the assumption that the audience is capable of rubbing together two brain cells in order to find more information. The summary referred to Burning Man (capitalized) as a "hedonistic adventure" which apparently takes place in Black Rock City and is attended by 50,000 or so people. If you can't use that information to conclude that this is some sort of event, one that you can easily find more information about if you're so inclined, then you're probably the type of person who relies on Fox News to form your opinions for you.
Are you sure that's not just a 500GB disk with a 4GB cache?
I can't see a whole lot of development going into hybrid drives when it's entirely possible that the price point of SSDs will drop enough in a few years to justify mainstream use.
Am I supposed to just run out and buy SSDs for the whole load?
No. I think that in the open source world you're expected to write the update yourself.
Any number of wheels: "Beamer" (while flipping off those who insist otherwise)
I prefer that people refer to 2-door Ford vehicles as a "Furd", and 4-door vehicles as a "Fooooord". That makes a lot of sense. Also, any Toyota cars are to be referred to as "Toyota", while Toyota trucks should be called "BMW" (not to be confused with Beamers).
I understand nose art, and labeling an aircraft to described what it's armed with, but would you stick a piece of masking tape on a missile and write "missile" on it?
Military ineptness jokes aside, I'm pretty sure they don't go around labeling and dating parts of their vehicles with masking tape.
That's great, the next time someone asks me what MySQL is I'm going to tell them it's an enterprise server infrastructure brick. That sounds like a term the buzzword generator would throw out.
I didn't consider the task manager (oddly enough). I was thinking about using hotkeys to bring up the Run dialog, and I believe that the shell is what controls the hotkeys.
I believe the new thing is that now it doesn't need to be running at all, only on-demand. If I just shut down explorer.exe in XP and try to go about launching applications and trying to get the OS to do various things, I think some things will fail since the shell isn't running. In fact, it's pretty hard to do anything at all in XP without the shell running.