It's not the language at fault, it's the design of the architecture. The same architecture design would have the same flaws even if Erlang or Python was used instead of Javascript.
You know, I was going to lament the waste that it seems it will be to pump the relief well and seal off this oil well because of the vastness of the reserve and how much oil and natural gas they could get from it
Techdirt is probably making a killing off of Slashdot this week, but here's another article about several musicians who are able to be successful without the RIAA:
Just out of curiosity, if everything you use is non-Apple, why bother with the Apple platform at all? If all you're paying for is the hardware, why bother?
It's not just about the freshest content (which is why I think a lot of people frequent Digg or Hacker News), the comments are what makes a user-generated-content site work... at least for me.
The Fark comments section has technical limitations also. I've got an account there, and have posted a few times, but it's nearly impossible for me to have a conversation with anyone there. The single technological measure they employ to help me with that is a red line to indicate the last comment I loaded. The lack of threads in the comments is a deal-breaker, I'm not going to wade through 10 pages of comments to try and figure out if anyone responded to me. I sign on here, and the top right box tells me which of my comments I have people flaming me on, who called me a moron, which of my comments are overrated, etc. It's infinitely easier to carry on a discourse at Slashdot than it is at Fark.
Initially, the video was meant to be shared amongst friends and family. At the time, however, YouTube's only alternative to sharing a video with the world was to share it with just 25 people. So, instead of setting "David After Dentist" as "Private," the video went "Public" for everyone to see.
The DeVores, however, say the licensing deals for their video fell right into their laps.
Their largest deal came from a Vizio Super Bowl ad featuring several other Internet celebrities, such as the "Numa Numa Guy." In total, they received around $8,000 and young David DeVore, already used to the on-screen exposure, was seen by millions during the biggest game of the year.
the younger David is just trying to live like a normal 9-year old kid. After finishing the 3rd grade on the honor roll, David is on summer break and just attended football camp in Tampa Bay. He is also taking guitar lessons though that doesn't necessarily translate to more on-camera time for the young viral star.
"He's not interested in becoming a TV star, he's just a regular kid," his father tells us. "He's got other things that interest him."
The father speaks very highly of his wife and two sons, and he is extremely grateful for the video's wild success. "We do look at it as a blessing, in a crazy 21st century way," says David. "It's allowed me to have the flexibility and freedom to be with my family."
They're also open to posting videos of aspiring musicians or performers looking for exposure onto their YouTube channel which, according to David, still attracts 100,000 - 125,000 views a day.
Despicable, despicable people. No doubt these people are deserving of the world's scorn, and are in fact useless human beings. I am only too pleased to be able to cast my righteous judgement down upon these worthless sub-humans. I look forward to more opportunities where I can judge people I don't know from the internet. I believe that doing so makes me a better person. I'm glad that you agree.
Do you disagree that the vast majority of Windows users would find an application repository useful?
Cloud Computing? Really? Isn't it here now today?
What? Yeah. What does that have to do with anything? It may be a surprise to you that technologies invented or used at one time may also be used at later times (it's true!). It's weird, I know.
Searching the Web or Locally? (Hmm... I dunno if I have been doing this my whole life)
If you are under 15, then you may have been searching online your whole life (for what, I don't know, but it doesn't look like you've found it).
This will give them a defacto stranglehold on the entire Windows software market.
Not if their market is open, similar to the Linux package repository model.
That argument also completely ignores the fact that there are zero restrictions about what software you are allowed to install on Windows. Do you think that Microsoft is going to move to a model where the only way to install software on Windows is through their market?
"Gee Mr Coder, you appear to have a Linux version.... we don't like these kinds of apps in our store."
No problem, I'll just host it on my web site where anyone can download and install it.
"Gee Mr Coder, this appears to be an office suite.. we don't like competitors in our store."
No problem, I'll just host it on my web site where anyone can download and install it.
But, somehow, it's still Worse With Microsoft(tm).
Identity helps establish credibility. Without knowing who he is, we can't know if he's being paid by anyone to do what he's doing. He may be getting $200k per year from Apple for PR, and we wouldn't know. If he was being paid by Apple, then anything he says would be suspect.
This in my mind makes him an expert, whether his identity is known or not, whether he sells apple products or not.
The question is not whether he's good at what he does, it's whether the information he's giving is tainted or influenced by Apple corporate or not. Again, we have no way to verify that.
He, being an expert reverser, is also more likely employed in an engineering position at an electronics company than actually selling apple products.
That's complete conjecture, there's no way to back that up.
Again, this has zero to do with his level of experience, and everything to do with any other motives he might have for wanting to give Apple good PR. And, again, it's impossible to verify that he has no other motives. He might as well be an Apple shill, we have no way to verify otherwise.
The person I'm talking about has nothing to do with apple.
Really? I bet if you dug into his financials you'd find out that he makes money developing and selling Apple software or supporting and consulting for Apple products. In other words, he has a monetary interest in more people using Apple products. But this claim is impossible to back up, because we don't even know this person's name.
This has nothing to do with apple getting a free pass
Substitute "Microsoft" for "Apple" and "Windows" for "iOS" in your posts and see if you feel the same way.
This is a hacker who I know is stupidly smart regarding the operating system who has inspected it and determined this is not the case.
How do you know that he's inspected all of iOS4?
getting the word from the foremost expert
...who's identity is unknown.
Either way, code is not needed, just run a tcpdump and examine what is going on yourself
It's easy enough to hide information in various byte fields in a message stream. I can't guarantee by looking at a string of bytes that the information there doesn't tell Apple that this is a jailbroken device. That does require a code inspection to look at how that message stream gets encoded and decoded.
If he said he did code inspection and it's BS, then I personally believe him.
That's fine for you, I would want to see the relevant code myself. That's the proof I require, not the judgement of some anonymous guy online with no skin in the game (or something to gain by more people using iOS).
How exactly does the source code for Apple's mobile OS make it into the hands of random people online? I'm trying to treat this with the same level of cynicism as I would with dealing with Microsoft. If someone wouldn't trust the word of a "Windows hacker" without seeing the actual code, there's likewise zero reason to trust the word of an "Apple hacker" without seeing the code. These people don't get a free pass because it's Apple instead of Microsoft. Quite the opposite, in fact, I think Apple deserves more scrutiny now than Microsoft ever did.
I think it's correct to call IceCube an observatory, but not a telescope. All telescopes are observatories, but the inverse isn't true. Observatory is a broad term (my house can be an observatory), but telescope refers to a specific kind of instrument (I definitely do not live in a telescope).
MuscleNerd, one of the, if not THE foremost Apple device hacker out there has implied he has done code inspection and just through common sense says its all BS.
Oh. Well that settles it then. If "MuscleNerd" tweeted it, then that's enough for me.
I usually stay away from trolls, but.. are you really suggesting that American education is akin to slavery?
I wonder what an 18th century slave in the American south would think of that comparison..
How about jury duty, is that also slavery? I'm sure all those people picking cotton were just thankful they didn't have to sit in a classroom or jury box all day. Imagine the horror.
This one was a little vague for me. "Phone state" could mean several things. It may be looking for other Google applications installed or running that it could work with.
"record audio"
Speech-to-text voice searching (it needs to record your voice telling it what you want to search for).
"modify/delete SD card contents"
That's the standard permission for applications which need to save local data. For Maps, that probably includes things like a list of the last several locations that you've searched for or navigated to/from. I haven't looked through the SD card to see what's actually stored there.
When you keep telling everyone to speak in codes on the phone and remind them that the military is using cold fusion to power their CPUs, do you keep getting ignored?
You can't really interact with the flash because no flash videos are designed for touch input.
you can't control playback because the clickable area on the time-line is far too narrow to hit
Aren't those problems with the content, and not the player? There are in fact FLV players which are usable on a phone, where all of the buttons are big (like, you know, YouTube, which plays perfectly on my Evo). Of course, that doesn't stop you from generating a conclusion for all Flash content based apparently on the BBC video player as launched through your Nexus One.
Why not take advantage of a more advanced and mature UI widget set, such as that provided by Java
Java is 20 years old, Javascript is 15 years old, and Java is mature while Javascript is not? Does that extra 5 years really make that much of a difference? Was Java considered not mature in 2005? There are plenty of mature Javascript UI libraries around that developers can take advantage of (ExtJS/Sencha, jQuery, Mootools, etc). There are several use cases where Java is a pain in the ass and an offline application is not an option. A rich internet application implemented in Javascript is perfectly fine for many situations. There's no shoehorn involved when it's the best tool for the job.
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In this case the email client is the web browser. I'm not sure if gmail allows you to disable HTML in the emails you receive.
It's not the language at fault, it's the design of the architecture. The same architecture design would have the same flaws even if Erlang or Python was used instead of Javascript.
You know, I was going to lament the waste that it seems it will be to pump the relief well and seal off this oil well because of the vastness of the reserve and how much oil and natural gas they could get from it
.. and then you realized that, at the time of the explosion, the rig was trying to fill the well with cement in preparation for abandoning it?
Techdirt is probably making a killing off of Slashdot this week, but here's another article about several musicians who are able to be successful without the RIAA:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091119/1634117011.shtml
The danger is if musicians start to think that the RIAA is their only connection to the fans. Nothing could be further from the truth.
I'm not sure what Opera is, maybe SCO?
Linux. It has a lot of great features, a lot of people have a lot of good things to say about it, and no one uses it. Except me. And sopssa.
Just out of curiosity, if everything you use is non-Apple, why bother with the Apple platform at all? If all you're paying for is the hardware, why bother?
It's not just about the freshest content (which is why I think a lot of people frequent Digg or Hacker News), the comments are what makes a user-generated-content site work... at least for me.
The Fark comments section has technical limitations also. I've got an account there, and have posted a few times, but it's nearly impossible for me to have a conversation with anyone there. The single technological measure they employ to help me with that is a red line to indicate the last comment I loaded. The lack of threads in the comments is a deal-breaker, I'm not going to wade through 10 pages of comments to try and figure out if anyone responded to me. I sign on here, and the top right box tells me which of my comments I have people flaming me on, who called me a moron, which of my comments are overrated, etc. It's infinitely easier to carry on a discourse at Slashdot than it is at Fark.
The links can be interesting, but the moderators are pillow-biting nancies who will shadowban you at the drop of a hat.
Notwithstanding that I don't know what a "shadowban" is, but I've never had any trouble with the mods.
Then again, I don't wear hats.
the owners (the kid's despicable parents)
Initially, the video was meant to be shared amongst friends and family. At the time, however, YouTube's only alternative to sharing a video with the world was to share it with just 25 people. So, instead of setting "David After Dentist" as "Private," the video went "Public" for everyone to see.
The DeVores, however, say the licensing deals for their video fell right into their laps.
Their largest deal came from a Vizio Super Bowl ad featuring several other Internet celebrities, such as the "Numa Numa Guy." In total, they received around $8,000 and young David DeVore, already used to the on-screen exposure, was seen by millions during the biggest game of the year.
the younger David is just trying to live like a normal 9-year old kid. After finishing the 3rd grade on the honor roll, David is on summer break and just attended football camp in Tampa Bay. He is also taking guitar lessons though that doesn't necessarily translate to more on-camera time for the young viral star.
"He's not interested in becoming a TV star, he's just a regular kid," his father tells us. "He's got other things that interest him."
The father speaks very highly of his wife and two sons, and he is extremely grateful for the video's wild success. "We do look at it as a blessing, in a crazy 21st century way," says David. "It's allowed me to have the flexibility and freedom to be with my family."
They're also open to posting videos of aspiring musicians or performers looking for exposure onto their YouTube channel which, according to David, still attracts 100,000 - 125,000 views a day.
Despicable, despicable people. No doubt these people are deserving of the world's scorn, and are in fact useless human beings. I am only too pleased to be able to cast my righteous judgement down upon these worthless sub-humans. I look forward to more opportunities where I can judge people I don't know from the internet. I believe that doing so makes me a better person. I'm glad that you agree.
And really? an App store? For WIndows?
Do you disagree that the vast majority of Windows users would find an application repository useful?
Cloud Computing? Really? Isn't it here now today?
What? Yeah. What does that have to do with anything? It may be a surprise to you that technologies invented or used at one time may also be used at later times (it's true!). It's weird, I know.
Searching the Web or Locally? (Hmm... I dunno if I have been doing this my whole life)
If you are under 15, then you may have been searching online your whole life (for what, I don't know, but it doesn't look like you've found it).
Last time I booted windows it took 5 mins.
Oh... you're just a troll. Never mind then.
This will give them a defacto stranglehold on the entire Windows software market.
Not if their market is open, similar to the Linux package repository model.
That argument also completely ignores the fact that there are zero restrictions about what software you are allowed to install on Windows. Do you think that Microsoft is going to move to a model where the only way to install software on Windows is through their market?
"Gee Mr Coder, you appear to have a Linux version.... we don't like these kinds of apps in our store."
No problem, I'll just host it on my web site where anyone can download and install it.
"Gee Mr Coder, this appears to be an office suite.. we don't like competitors in our store."
No problem, I'll just host it on my web site where anyone can download and install it.
But, somehow, it's still Worse With Microsoft(tm).
What does his identity matter.
Identity helps establish credibility. Without knowing who he is, we can't know if he's being paid by anyone to do what he's doing. He may be getting $200k per year from Apple for PR, and we wouldn't know. If he was being paid by Apple, then anything he says would be suspect.
This in my mind makes him an expert, whether his identity is known or not, whether he sells apple products or not.
The question is not whether he's good at what he does, it's whether the information he's giving is tainted or influenced by Apple corporate or not. Again, we have no way to verify that.
He, being an expert reverser, is also more likely employed in an engineering position at an electronics company than actually selling apple products.
That's complete conjecture, there's no way to back that up.
Again, this has zero to do with his level of experience, and everything to do with any other motives he might have for wanting to give Apple good PR. And, again, it's impossible to verify that he has no other motives. He might as well be an Apple shill, we have no way to verify otherwise.
The person I'm talking about has nothing to do with apple.
Really? I bet if you dug into his financials you'd find out that he makes money developing and selling Apple software or supporting and consulting for Apple products. In other words, he has a monetary interest in more people using Apple products. But this claim is impossible to back up, because we don't even know this person's name.
This has nothing to do with apple getting a free pass
Substitute "Microsoft" for "Apple" and "Windows" for "iOS" in your posts and see if you feel the same way.
This is a hacker who I know is stupidly smart regarding the operating system who has inspected it and determined this is not the case.
How do you know that he's inspected all of iOS4?
getting the word from the foremost expert
...who's identity is unknown.
Either way, code is not needed, just run a tcpdump and examine what is going on yourself
It's easy enough to hide information in various byte fields in a message stream. I can't guarantee by looking at a string of bytes that the information there doesn't tell Apple that this is a jailbroken device. That does require a code inspection to look at how that message stream gets encoded and decoded.
If he said he did code inspection and it's BS, then I personally believe him.
That's fine for you, I would want to see the relevant code myself. That's the proof I require, not the judgement of some anonymous guy online with no skin in the game (or something to gain by more people using iOS).
How exactly does the source code for Apple's mobile OS make it into the hands of random people online? I'm trying to treat this with the same level of cynicism as I would with dealing with Microsoft. If someone wouldn't trust the word of a "Windows hacker" without seeing the actual code, there's likewise zero reason to trust the word of an "Apple hacker" without seeing the code. These people don't get a free pass because it's Apple instead of Microsoft. Quite the opposite, in fact, I think Apple deserves more scrutiny now than Microsoft ever did.
I think it's correct to call IceCube an observatory, but not a telescope. All telescopes are observatories, but the inverse isn't true. Observatory is a broad term (my house can be an observatory), but telescope refers to a specific kind of instrument (I definitely do not live in a telescope).
Why? It captures information from a flux of particles emitted by astrophysical objects.
So does the sensor on my roof that detects sunlight, but I don't refer to that thing as a telescope. It's a sensor, or a detector, not a telescope.
I'm not sure that a neutrino detector is any more of a telescope than the sensor that decides when it's time for the lights to come on at night.
MuscleNerd, one of the, if not THE foremost Apple device hacker out there has implied he has done code inspection and just through common sense says its all BS.
Oh. Well that settles it then. If "MuscleNerd" tweeted it, then that's enough for me.
I usually stay away from trolls, but.. are you really suggesting that American education is akin to slavery?
I wonder what an 18th century slave in the American south would think of that comparison..
How about jury duty, is that also slavery? I'm sure all those people picking cotton were just thankful they didn't have to sit in a classroom or jury box all day. Imagine the horror.
"read phone state and identity"
This one was a little vague for me. "Phone state" could mean several things. It may be looking for other Google applications installed or running that it could work with.
"record audio"
Speech-to-text voice searching (it needs to record your voice telling it what you want to search for).
"modify/delete SD card contents"
That's the standard permission for applications which need to save local data. For Maps, that probably includes things like a list of the last several locations that you've searched for or navigated to/from. I haven't looked through the SD card to see what's actually stored there.
What Microsoft doesn't want you to know though is that Gates has almost nothing to do with the company anymore.
And Slashdotters are happy to help Microsoft with this.
I keep telling this to everyone.
When you keep telling everyone to speak in codes on the phone and remind them that the military is using cold fusion to power their CPUs, do you keep getting ignored?
You can't really interact with the flash because no flash videos are designed for touch input.
you can't control playback because the clickable area on the time-line is far too narrow to hit
Aren't those problems with the content, and not the player? There are in fact FLV players which are usable on a phone, where all of the buttons are big (like, you know, YouTube, which plays perfectly on my Evo). Of course, that doesn't stop you from generating a conclusion for all Flash content based apparently on the BBC video player as launched through your Nexus One.
My "web page" "works" just fine in Lynx, there's a helpful message telling the user about the technologies needed to use the application hosted there.
Surely you're not under the assumption that there exist people out there who use no browser other than Lynx?
Why not take advantage of a more advanced and mature UI widget set, such as that provided by Java
Java is 20 years old, Javascript is 15 years old, and Java is mature while Javascript is not? Does that extra 5 years really make that much of a difference? Was Java considered not mature in 2005? There are plenty of mature Javascript UI libraries around that developers can take advantage of (ExtJS/Sencha, jQuery, Mootools, etc). There are several use cases where Java is a pain in the ass and an offline application is not an option. A rich internet application implemented in Javascript is perfectly fine for many situations. There's no shoehorn involved when it's the best tool for the job.