On the other hand Workbench 2's color scheme is a lot like the current OSX: grey with blue highlights. Maybe that's why I like OSX so much, feel's like home.
In my experience the (often self-annointed) "superstars" are seldom the people working their pants off, YMMV. Big differences in pay are also bad for moral as evidenced by your post. The solution is bringing executive pay down not raising the salaries of another chosen few to ridiculous levels.
FWIW they claim keeping wages low wasn't the intent of the agreement :
"The companies have argued to the government that there's nothing anticompetitive about the no-poaching agreements. They say they must be able to offer each other assurances that they won't lure away each others' star employees if they are to collaborate on key innovations that ultimately benefit the consumer."
They have a point. You could spin it as beneficial to employees because it protects the employer from being hurt by competitors hiring away key people (that's economic warfare instead of competing) and it keeps the salaries of "superstars" from inflating to artificial highs (bubbles help no-one.) But it's clearly a grey area.
If they see a cool feature on a friend's phone, they'll buy _that model_, they won't figure out what OS it runs and start looking for phones with that OS expecting it to have that particular feature.
That's the problem because that's exactly what will drive the vendors to proprietary extensions. You might say that's just more choice for the consumer but the real problem of fragmentation is for the developer. They have to make sure their app/game works across all different versions, different hardware, submit it to different carrier specific stores, etc.
perhaps more recently that is true, with the latest 3.x and 4.x Operating systems... but with 1.x and 2.x there were many, many features missing from the Iphone that required jailbreaking to get them to work... such as video recording, cut and paste, VOIP over cellular network instead of wifi only... and the list goes on and on.
The original Iphone OS w/o jailbreak was junk, with the latest 3.x's and 4.x's it's not so bad as most of those features that people jailbroke for have been added in.
It's a cultural thing. Apple generally doesn't ship a feature until they can provide a good & consistent user experience. I used Cycorder and liked it but I could also see why Apple didn't want the quality of video that came out of it to be associated with the iPhone. Same with Facetime over 3G, quality would be uneven so they don't allow it. This is a complete reversal of the dominant industry attitude which is all promise and no delivery. It's frustrating to geeks because we like to push things until they break anyway but if you can make the mental switch to the Apple Way(tm) then it's really nice for you as a consumer.
You could argue that Google is allowing this while they build up critical mass. You would hope that once google is firmly entrenched in the market they would start to dictate what defines the Android brand better.
Play nice with the carriers until they have to play nice with you or risk losing their Android users.
That's BS, the carriers would just keep on using their outdated versions with a new theme slapped on (plenty of precedents with PalmOS and WinCE not changing for years.) Face it, Google caved and gave in to the carriers going as far as compromising their stance on net neutrality for a lucrative Verizon deal. It's a missed opportunity and let's just hope they didn't slam the door that Jobs forced open with the iPhone.
What? you just totally contradicted yourself, and in the same sentence. So you are saying that iOS fragmentation is a user issue, not a device issue, so um, how do you upgrade the original iPhone to the latest version of iOS? There are the same issues here too, so get off your fanboy bus and try to be a bit objective.
Support has ended on the original iPhone. It had 3 major OS updates from 1.0 through to 3.1.3. That's a pretty good run considering some Android phones haven't gotten any new major version. Furthermore because Apple tightly controls the API backwards compatibility for apps should be easy to maintain for developers for the foreseeable future, especially because the iPad is still on iOS 3.x. The difference is mostly in games pushing the envelop in hardware use and apps otherwise dependent on newer hardware but then that's the game isn't it ?
I heard that at some point you could post pictures to 4chan concatenated with a rar file (the extra data would just be ignored and a picture displayed) and a pedobear picture was used sometimes to exchange pictures of dubious morality. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, this is just something I heard in a 4chan thread so it could be bullshit but it certainly sounds plausible enough.
That's not the point. If you are rich enough you can just buy some rent-a-geek for a couple of hours, transmit the test to him, let him solve it while you fake it and then receive the answers. Similar to how people can have a thesis ghost written for them.
That's actually a hotly debated topic here, especially for supposedly neutral government workers. Where do you draw the line ? A burka or ceremonial daggers (as worn by Sikh) would by many considered to go to far, a cross or a yarmulke acceptable and a hijab somewhere in the grey area in the middle. Probably it should be decided by a continual societal dialogue among all involved. As I said a crucifix (of modest size) seems to be acceptable to most people so it's probably ok, barring exceptional circumstances.
Most people just haven't put any thought into it. I remember asking my mother when I was young if she believed in evolution, she said she didn't. After we talked about it some more it became clear she wasn't really aware of arguments one way or the other so she just fell back on a default "conservative" position (what she was taught when she was young.) When I explained some of the arguments for evolution to her she acknowledged that that sounded right to her but really she couldn't care less either way. Which is my point: we should work for a decent education so we get some of the basic facts accepted generally but as long as it doesn't impact their daily lives most people won't really care.
NB, my mother wasn't some kind of idiot either, she was the one that got me interested in computers because she recognized how important they were going to be and she was plenty smart in the areas that actually mattered in her life.
If there was no religion the Library of Alexandria would still be standing.
Except the libraries were also run by priests :
"The Musaeum or Mouseion at Alexandria (Classical Greek ), which included the famous Library of Alexandria"
"Strabo gives an account of the Mouseion as it was in his day: 'The Mouseion is also part of the palaces, possessing a peripatos[6] and exedra[7] and large oikos, in which the common table[8] of the philologoi, men who are members of the Mouseion, is located. This synodos has property in common and a priest in charge of the Mouseion, formerly appointed by the kings, but now by Caesar.'"
The Church all during the dark ages said that when empirical scientific results conflict with the interpretation of the scripture that it is the interpretation that must be changed because reality is what it is.
Related, some good advice from St. Augustine of Hippo (5th century CE) on why Christians shouldn't go around uneducated :
"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion."
I just which more of them took it to hart these days.
Actually the workplace is a neutral environment where men and women with varying moral attitudes have to work together and so you shouldn't browse porn at work even on your own devices. Public places have a different standard of behavior because they have to be used by all of us. So by all means browse whatever you like at home but don't do it at work, in the local library, at Starbucks, etc...
Incidentally that's also why smart people don't generally join the police : smart people have other options and realize the reward isn't worth the risks.
Maybe the iPod touch should be called an app-pod instead of an iPod analogous to how some people call the latest smartphones app-phones. It's literally in a class of its own, why people don't try to jump into that market segment is beyond me.
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On the other hand Workbench 2's color scheme is a lot like the current OSX: grey with blue highlights. Maybe that's why I like OSX so much, feel's like home.
In my experience the (often self-annointed) "superstars" are seldom the people working their pants off, YMMV. Big differences in pay are also bad for moral as evidenced by your post. The solution is bringing executive pay down not raising the salaries of another chosen few to ridiculous levels.
FWIW they claim keeping wages low wasn't the intent of the agreement :
"The companies have argued to the government that there's nothing anticompetitive about the no-poaching agreements. They say they must be able to offer each other assurances that they won't lure away each others' star employees if they are to collaborate on key innovations that ultimately benefit the consumer."
They have a point. You could spin it as beneficial to employees because it protects the employer from being hurt by competitors hiring away key people (that's economic warfare instead of competing) and it keeps the salaries of "superstars" from inflating to artificial highs (bubbles help no-one.) But it's clearly a grey area.
Pretty sure "helicopter Ben" Bernanke is part of a sleeper cell. The beard is a giveaway.
So you're saying I'm gonna need a house-sized tinfoil hat ?
There is some competition around the world. Netlog for example seems to be pretty popular with kids in parts of Europe.
If they see a cool feature on a friend's phone, they'll buy _that model_, they won't figure out what OS it runs and start looking for phones with that OS expecting it to have that particular feature.
That's the problem because that's exactly what will drive the vendors to proprietary extensions. You might say that's just more choice for the consumer but the real problem of fragmentation is for the developer. They have to make sure their app/game works across all different versions, different hardware, submit it to different carrier specific stores, etc.
perhaps more recently that is true, with the latest 3.x and 4.x Operating systems... but with 1.x and 2.x there were many, many features missing from the Iphone that required jailbreaking to get them to work... such as video recording, cut and paste, VOIP over cellular network instead of wifi only... and the list goes on and on.
The original Iphone OS w/o jailbreak was junk, with the latest 3.x's and 4.x's it's not so bad as most of those features that people jailbroke for have been added in.
It's a cultural thing. Apple generally doesn't ship a feature until they can provide a good & consistent user experience. I used Cycorder and liked it but I could also see why Apple didn't want the quality of video that came out of it to be associated with the iPhone. Same with Facetime over 3G, quality would be uneven so they don't allow it. This is a complete reversal of the dominant industry attitude which is all promise and no delivery. It's frustrating to geeks because we like to push things until they break anyway but if you can make the mental switch to the Apple Way(tm) then it's really nice for you as a consumer.
You could argue that Google is allowing this while they build up critical mass. You would hope that once google is firmly entrenched in the market they would start to dictate what defines the Android brand better.
Play nice with the carriers until they have to play nice with you or risk losing their Android users.
That's BS, the carriers would just keep on using their outdated versions with a new theme slapped on (plenty of precedents with PalmOS and WinCE not changing for years.) Face it, Google caved and gave in to the carriers going as far as compromising their stance on net neutrality for a lucrative Verizon deal. It's a missed opportunity and let's just hope they didn't slam the door that Jobs forced open with the iPhone.
What? you just totally contradicted yourself, and in the same sentence. So you are saying that iOS fragmentation is a user issue, not a device issue, so um, how do you upgrade the original iPhone to the latest version of iOS? There are the same issues here too, so get off your fanboy bus and try to be a bit objective.
Support has ended on the original iPhone. It had 3 major OS updates from 1.0 through to 3.1.3. That's a pretty good run considering some Android phones haven't gotten any new major version. Furthermore because Apple tightly controls the API backwards compatibility for apps should be easy to maintain for developers for the foreseeable future, especially because the iPad is still on iOS 3.x. The difference is mostly in games pushing the envelop in hardware use and apps otherwise dependent on newer hardware but then that's the game isn't it ?
I heard that at some point you could post pictures to 4chan concatenated with a rar file (the extra data would just be ignored and a picture displayed) and a pedobear picture was used sometimes to exchange pictures of dubious morality. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, this is just something I heard in a 4chan thread so it could be bullshit but it certainly sounds plausible enough.
That's counterproductive. He'll just hang out in his windowless van and cruise the neighborhood.
Actually I think Larry Ellison is more worried right now.
Hah, we have to use bc and walk uphill through the snow both ways to the terminal to use it.
That's not the point. If you are rich enough you can just buy some rent-a-geek for a couple of hours, transmit the test to him, let him solve it while you fake it and then receive the answers. Similar to how people can have a thesis ghost written for them.
That's actually a hotly debated topic here, especially for supposedly neutral government workers. Where do you draw the line ? A burka or ceremonial daggers (as worn by Sikh) would by many considered to go to far, a cross or a yarmulke acceptable and a hijab somewhere in the grey area in the middle. Probably it should be decided by a continual societal dialogue among all involved. As I said a crucifix (of modest size) seems to be acceptable to most people so it's probably ok, barring exceptional circumstances.
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I thought he just hated amputees.
Most people just haven't put any thought into it. I remember asking my mother when I was young if she believed in evolution, she said she didn't. After we talked about it some more it became clear she wasn't really aware of arguments one way or the other so she just fell back on a default "conservative" position (what she was taught when she was young.) When I explained some of the arguments for evolution to her she acknowledged that that sounded right to her but really she couldn't care less either way.
Which is my point: we should work for a decent education so we get some of the basic facts accepted generally but as long as it doesn't impact their daily lives most people won't really care.
NB, my mother wasn't some kind of idiot either, she was the one that got me interested in computers because she recognized how important they were going to be and she was plenty smart in the areas that actually mattered in her life.
If there was no religion the Library of Alexandria would still be standing.
Except the libraries were also run by priests :
"The Musaeum or Mouseion at Alexandria (Classical Greek ), which included the famous Library of Alexandria"
"Strabo gives an account of the Mouseion as it was in his day:
'The Mouseion is also part of the palaces, possessing a peripatos[6] and exedra[7] and large oikos, in which the common table[8] of the philologoi, men who are members of the Mouseion, is located. This synodos has property in common and a priest in charge of the Mouseion, formerly appointed by the kings, but now by Caesar.'"
The Church all during the dark ages said that when empirical scientific results conflict with the interpretation of the scripture that it is the interpretation that must be changed because reality is what it is.
Related, some good advice from St. Augustine of Hippo (5th century CE) on why Christians shouldn't go around uneducated :
"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion."
I just which more of them took it to hart these days.
Actually the workplace is a neutral environment where men and women with varying moral attitudes have to work together and so you shouldn't browse porn at work even on your own devices. Public places have a different standard of behavior because they have to be used by all of us. So by all means browse whatever you like at home but don't do it at work, in the local library, at Starbucks, etc...
Incidentally that's also why smart people don't generally join the police : smart people have other options and realize the reward isn't worth the risks.
So your Droid has whole disk encryption ? What makes you think you're invulnerable to this kind forensics ?
Maybe the iPod touch should be called an app-pod instead of an iPod analogous to how some people call the latest smartphones app-phones. It's literally in a class of its own, why people don't try to jump into that market segment is beyond me.