You wish to escape into a fairytale fantasy land that never existed. I'm not saying it's wrong to aspire to a society with a healthy respect for the privacy of the individual, it's a good thing to strive for, but what you wanted has never been a reality. Actually the world you see now is probably the most privacy conscious that has ever existed.
What would McCarthyism look like with the data available today?
You remember when your president had to publicly reaffirm he wasn't a muslim but a good god-fearing christian with good wholesome christian values ? McCarthyism never left.
You americans and your battles over symbols. You raise a big stink over irrelevancies like ID-cards and Facebook and meanwhile you've got the TSA, warrantless wiretaps, draconian copyright lawsuits, etc.
Then in his opinion, wouldn't email be the same? It's stored on some 3rd party mail server somewhere... and for that matter, wouldn't all form of electronic communication that gets copied/stored somewhere not under your personal control also be classified as a "man in the middle attack"?
Gmail certainly is, its whole point is targeted advertising. Wonder how many of the Facebook tinfoil hat crowd has got a gmail address.
If you ever get that kind of error again you might want to look at one of the jailbreaking and related tools (like tiny umbrella, redsn0w,etc.) Some of those have options that kick off a reboot by sending commands through USB for when a jailbreak goes awry and the device goes into a boot-loop. May not work in your case but worth a shot.
The one that's not withering on the vine. I'd hope that all those Blackberry developers at least have exit plans just in case, even if they are still profitable and don't need them just yet
It's normal that you only have statistical data of a small sample of the group that you are trying to make a general statement about.
Exactly. So the question is is the sample representative ? Impossible to say without knowing who participated. If you polled 100.000 americans the results might be questionable if the majority of those were living in a homeless shelter, are prison inmates or the ultra rich. The sample is everything. In this case the results might be skewed by the fact it's companies that installed a crash-tracker, meaning it might be people who already have trouble with stability, or it might be predominantly popular among Android developer shops who only develop for iOS on the side or of course the results may be completely valid. Little to no information about the sample and methodology and yes that poses a problem especially when the result go counter to conventional wisdom.
Another point I've seen raised on a dutch iPhone site concerns the nature of the crashes being reported. A developer ("Jamie") who uses Crittercism says: (my translation from dutch) "It [the article] presents a distorted view, I use Crittercism and a lot of those crashes are invisible to the end user. So far I've only gotten memory management type crash reports on closing the app. In short the user doesn't notice, but on the next launch I get a crash report and the counter goes up by 1 for iOS. Sorry guys."
despite all of your rambling bullshit, you cannot write apps that will properly multitask for ios AND will get listed in the official market.
For someone who's spectacularly wrong you sure are arrogant. First off iOS is a multitasking OS in the original sense of the word, meaning processes are running concurrently, and it's multithreaded. But I'll let that go and assume you are using multitasking in the colloquial sense, namely running several apps at once and even there you are wrong :
"For tasks that require more execution time to implement, you must request specific permissions to run them in the background without their being suspended. In iOS, only specific app types are allowed to run in the background:
Apps that play audible content to the user while in the background, such as a music player app Apps that keep users informed of their location at all times, such as a navigation app Apps that support Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Newsstand apps that need to download and process new content Apps that receive regular updates from external accessories"
You have nobody to thank for this but a: the carriers and b: apple.
It is they, who in collusion, raised the price of buying a phone to astronomical levels. Remember when the highest price for an unlocked phone was usually $200? What phone broke that trend? Iphone.
It ended up making the carriers a ton of money even though the consumer gets screwed.
And of course other vendors jumped on the chance to offer similar products for a lower price, right ? There are vendors out there getting killed and yet they don't offer smartphones for significantly lower prices in order to scoop up marketshare. That seems to indicate they can't undercut current prices.
iOS crashes more than Android (for those who don't feel like trawling through the (not brilliantly formatted) article.
* for apps which use Crittercism's crash reporting component. That's important since we do not know which apps those are and if they are representative for the whole software catalog for the devices. Only Apple has all the crash reports across all iOS apps (and even then only for people who haven't disabled the sending of crash reports.) Maybe the jailbreak guys could compile some interesting stats, since they've released a tool to upload your crashlogs (Cdevreporter) to them to aid in jail breaking.
No one wants to ban porn, they just wanted to move the guy to another computer where presumably less people had a clear view of his screen. He refused. What a fucking hero.
Because good reading habits start young. If you don't teach people that libraries are awesome when they're young, they won't use libraries as an adult.
OTOH if they can be used to freely watch pron, they're going to really popular among teenagers.
But never-mind that. It's for the children right? -- Oh yes, where is the line? Is studying anatomy on a library computer require censorship? How about blood or vulgar terms? Those should be censored too. We should just make the whole internet PG. Or else we'll have people whipping out their junk in the middle of a library and fornicating!
It's a common sense and common courtesy kind of thing. A public space is there to be used by everybody and that means that you practice discretion even when technically being within your rights. If you're going to studying graphic images of any kind (eg. medical surgery type images) then those images could be upsetting to someone else, so when possible try to choose your position with that in mind. The guy in question is a jerk. When did having manners go out of fashion ?
"The implant was coated with plasma sprayed artificial bone (hydroxy-apatite bone substitute compound) by Cambioceramics, Leiden, The Netherlands. Some anatomical parts, such as the condylar heads and the rims for the mandibular nerves were polished."
So I assume they attach the tendons to the faux-bone.
> Sony wants to not use GPL-licensed code in its proprietary products.
Well, no. If you RTFA, it suggests Sony wants to use GPL-licensed code except for projects the license is actually enforced. They'll use the Linux kernel because the Linux kernel community doesn't bother with GPL enforcement. They don't want to use Busybox because the Busybox developers will sue them for license violations.
Maybe their other products are different but my Sony TV came with a paper explaining where to get the Linux sourcecode. It certainly looked like they made an effort to be compliant.
My take-away is that we're going to have to kick Global Warming into high-gear in order to counteract the much more serious (and embarrassing) Global Shrinkage!
It'd be far easier to do Apple-style "universal binaries" (bundles that contain executables for more than one architecture) than it is to create this kind of hybrid hardware. Apple could already create iOS/OSX universal binaries in Xcode if they wanted to since it can already compiles for both x86 and ARM for the "emulator" and device respectively. The biggest hurdle is the fact that the main control interface (touchscreen) is missing on the dektop.
I hoped that it was _here_ where people can appreciate the last "big" and still free browser.
Maybe it's because we remember when Firefox (then called Phoenix) was the small, lightweight, nimble browser that saved us from Mozilla's insanity ? Unfortunately it has gone over to the dark side.
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You wish to escape into a fairytale fantasy land that never existed. I'm not saying it's wrong to aspire to a society with a healthy respect for the privacy of the individual, it's a good thing to strive for, but what you wanted has never been a reality. Actually the world you see now is probably the most privacy conscious that has ever existed.
What would McCarthyism look like with the data available today?
You remember when your president had to publicly reaffirm he wasn't a muslim but a good god-fearing christian with good wholesome christian values ? McCarthyism never left.
You americans and your battles over symbols. You raise a big stink over irrelevancies like ID-cards and Facebook and meanwhile you've got the TSA, warrantless wiretaps, draconian copyright lawsuits, etc.
Then in his opinion, wouldn't email be the same? It's stored on some 3rd party mail server somewhere... and for that matter, wouldn't all form of electronic communication that gets copied/stored somewhere not under your personal control also be classified as a "man in the middle attack"?
Gmail certainly is, its whole point is targeted advertising. Wonder how many of the Facebook tinfoil hat crowd has got a gmail address.
You have all the privacy you want, but you can't have your pie and eat it too.
The bigfoot argument:
"No one has ever seen one"
- "Well, that doesn't mean they don't exist"
If you ever get that kind of error again you might want to look at one of the jailbreaking and related tools (like tiny umbrella, redsn0w,etc.) Some of those have options that kick off a reboot by sending commands through USB for when a jailbreak goes awry and the device goes into a boot-loop. May not work in your case but worth a shot.
Which platform would you rather develop for?
The one that's not withering on the vine. I'd hope that all those Blackberry developers at least have exit plans just in case, even if they are still profitable and don't need them just yet
This report is about as useful as polls.
It's normal that you only have statistical data of a small sample of the group that you are trying to make a general statement about.
Exactly. So the question is is the sample representative ? Impossible to say without knowing who participated. If you polled 100.000 americans the results might be questionable if the majority of those were living in a homeless shelter, are prison inmates or the ultra rich. The sample is everything. In this case the results might be skewed by the fact it's companies that installed a crash-tracker, meaning it might be people who already have trouble with stability, or it might be predominantly popular among Android developer shops who only develop for iOS on the side or of course the results may be completely valid. Little to no information about the sample and methodology and yes that poses a problem especially when the result go counter to conventional wisdom.
Another point I've seen raised on a dutch iPhone site concerns the nature of the crashes being reported. A developer ("Jamie") who uses Crittercism says: (my translation from dutch) "It [the article] presents a distorted view, I use Crittercism and a lot of those crashes are invisible to the end user. So far I've only gotten memory management type crash reports on closing the app. In short the user doesn't notice, but on the next launch I get a crash report and the counter goes up by 1 for iOS. Sorry guys."
despite all of your rambling bullshit, you cannot write apps that will properly multitask for ios AND will get listed in the official market.
For someone who's spectacularly wrong you sure are arrogant. First off iOS is a multitasking OS in the original sense of the word, meaning processes are running concurrently, and it's multithreaded. But I'll let that go and assume you are using multitasking in the colloquial sense, namely running several apps at once and even there you are wrong :
"For tasks that require more execution time to implement, you must request specific permissions to run them in the background without their being suspended. In iOS, only specific app types are allowed to run in the background:
Apps that play audible content to the user while in the background, such as a music player app
Apps that keep users informed of their location at all times, such as a navigation app
Apps that support Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Newsstand apps that need to download and process new content
Apps that receive regular updates from external accessories"
You have nobody to thank for this but a: the carriers and b: apple.
It is they, who in collusion, raised the price of buying a phone to astronomical levels. Remember when the highest price for an unlocked phone was usually $200? What phone broke that trend? Iphone.
It ended up making the carriers a ton of money even though the consumer gets screwed.
And of course other vendors jumped on the chance to offer similar products for a lower price, right ? There are vendors out there getting killed and yet they don't offer smartphones for significantly lower prices in order to scoop up marketshare. That seems to indicate they can't undercut current prices.
iOS crashes more than Android (for those who don't feel like trawling through the (not brilliantly formatted) article.
* for apps which use Crittercism's crash reporting component. That's important since we do not know which apps those are and if they are representative for the whole software catalog for the devices. Only Apple has all the crash reports across all iOS apps (and even then only for people who haven't disabled the sending of crash reports.) Maybe the jailbreak guys could compile some interesting stats, since they've released a tool to upload your crashlogs (Cdevreporter) to them to aid in jail breaking.
No one wants to ban porn, they just wanted to move the guy to another computer where presumably less people had a clear view of his screen. He refused. What a fucking hero.
It's easier to ignore porn (just don't look at the screen), then it is to ignore a person yelling 1m away from you.
Do the PC's have sound ? And sometimes all it takes is a glimpse, some things cannot be unseen.
Because good reading habits start young. If you don't teach people that libraries are awesome when they're young, they won't use libraries as an adult.
OTOH if they can be used to freely watch pron, they're going to really popular among teenagers.
But never-mind that. It's for the children right? -- Oh yes, where is the line? Is studying anatomy on a library computer require censorship? How about blood or vulgar terms? Those should be censored too. We should just make the whole internet PG. Or else we'll have people whipping out their junk in the middle of a library and fornicating!
It's a common sense and common courtesy kind of thing. A public space is there to be used by everybody and that means that you practice discretion even when technically being within your rights. If you're going to studying graphic images of any kind (eg. medical surgery type images) then those images could be upsetting to someone else, so when possible try to choose your position with that in mind. The guy in question is a jerk. When did having manners go out of fashion ?
There some more information in the university's press release which, handily, is also available in English translation :
"The implant was coated with plasma sprayed artificial bone (hydroxy-apatite bone substitute compound) by Cambioceramics, Leiden, The Netherlands. Some anatomical parts, such as the condylar heads and the rims for the mandibular nerves were polished."
So I assume they attach the tendons to the faux-bone.
"Come with me if you want to live"
How would Sony prove that the coders have never seen Busybox code?
Innocent until proven guilty.
Who would get access to their source to verify that it's not derivative of Busybox?
Auditors appointed by the court.
> Sony wants to not use GPL-licensed code in its proprietary products.
Well, no. If you RTFA, it suggests Sony wants to use GPL-licensed code except for projects the license is actually enforced. They'll use the Linux kernel because the Linux kernel community doesn't bother with GPL enforcement. They don't want to use Busybox because the Busybox developers will sue them for license violations.
Maybe their other products are different but my Sony TV came with a paper explaining where to get the Linux sourcecode. It certainly looked like they made an effort to be compliant.
Indentured servitude to RMS would be much better.
Just don't bring him breakfast, don't even bring it up, and let the man cross the street.
Drawn and quartered ?
My take-away is that we're going to have to kick Global Warming into high-gear in order to counteract the much more serious (and embarrassing) Global Shrinkage!
No, no, the earth is expanding :-)
It'd be far easier to do Apple-style "universal binaries" (bundles that contain executables for more than one architecture) than it is to create this kind of hybrid hardware. Apple could already create iOS/OSX universal binaries in Xcode if they wanted to since it can already compiles for both x86 and ARM for the "emulator" and device respectively. The biggest hurdle is the fact that the main control interface (touchscreen) is missing on the dektop.
Someone should build a new GUI around the Gecko-engine to replace the bloated mess Firefox has become. We could call it Phoenix ...
I hoped that it was _here_ where people can appreciate the last "big" and still free browser.
Maybe it's because we remember when Firefox (then called Phoenix) was the small, lightweight, nimble browser that saved us from Mozilla's insanity ? Unfortunately it has gone over to the dark side.