Well if the claims are true, then he intentionally caused damage, deleted files, and otherwise caused mayhem to the US Government. IT wasn't like he logged in, had a quick look around and then GTFO'd. No he left threats and harassing messages. I'd say there is a world of difference.
It's entirely possible. I can quite easily get caffeine withdrawal headaches if I drink too much coffee and then stop.
Funny you mention tramadol cause I actually have a bottle of the stuff and use it once in awhile for when I get my special tension headaches that ibuprofen or tylenol doesn't even dent. It makes me a little loopy but I feel no pain and have never yet had to take more than one.
I can't even imagine what it would be like to be in so much pain that you're willing to become addicted to pain killers for relief. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
You must be especially sensitive to them. Maybe you have extra Mu receptors or something? I can take a tramadol and not feel a thing. In fact, I had a really bad neck and head injury from playing ice hockey a few years ago and the neurologist I saw for the concussion only wanted to give him tramadol and anti-depressants. He insisted that the pain I was feeling was due to depression and couldn't possibly have been to the recent physical trauma I had experienced.
If you get hurt badly enough, you'll find that there are few things you would refuse to do to ease the pain. And for most people, the addiction they feel from those opiods is from physical dependency more than anything else. The people who abuse them for the high they feel would likely abuse alcohol or something else in its place. But for some people they literally have two choices: A) Stay in bed in complete pain and misery or B) take some meds that don't make them feel all that great, but allow them to try and live their lives. It's a choice that one hopes they never have to make.
The battery is quite adequate. I can literally use the Nexus 7 all day without it dying. Now if i play an intensive game, then it may only last 3 or 4 hours. But I have literally used it for non-stop book reading, web browsing, email, etc for over 24 hours without recharging.
You must become easily addicted to things. Do you have the same problem with caffeine? I had a very invasive and painful surgery on my shoulder, with complications after the fact and was taking 2- 10x325 perocets every 4 hours for over a month and I only felt a little bit of discomfort coming off the medication. It lasted a day or two were I had the sniffles and felt a little achy.
Of course someone above also said that caffeine is significantly worse than the side-effects from stopping habitual pot smoking. I wouldn't know. I am completely unaffected by caffeine and have never had a headache (or had one get better) by drinking or not drinking it. I think I read a study somewhere indicating that people with certain enzymes in their liver can metabolize caffeine so fast that it has almost no effect on them. This could be my issue.
I will say that there are pain meds that are far stronger and more effective than hydro or oxycodone. If you cannot go 2 days without having problems with hydrocodone (what they usually prescribe for a toothache), then I strongly recommend you do not touch any other, more effective pain meds. In fact you may want to stick with tramadol or darvocet if you ever need a narcotic pain medicine. Something like Fentanyl is very effective, but your body gets used to its presence very quickly, and it is very uncomfortable to stop taking it. There are people in this world who would be miserable without such drugs, due to accidents or injuries. While these medications can often make them feel bad in other ways, it can also help people who would otherwise consider suicide and such things to end physical pain.
You don't have to turn to third parties to unlock the Nexus 7. You do "fastboot oem unlock" and away you go. You can do whatever you want at that point.
Honestly, no I haven't used the calendar or address book apps on Lion. And why should I? I always have my phone and usually a tablet. I almost always schedule appointments when I am away from home, and I can quickly see what my calendar looks like on my mobile devices. I also find that I pay attention to notifications on my phone more easily than pop-ups by iCal on the computer. Apple doesn't really do notifications well, without Growl, and even if there was a growl notification it would disappear in a moment if I didn't lock it on the screen.
Just for the sake of curiosity I did load up the address book and you're right it is rather annoying. The right hand page is almost completely wasted. I don't know what they were smoking, but I do believe that the iOS instances are far worse. Especially if you've looked at the way the maps look on iOS6. They remind me of old paper maps from yesteryear. Ugly.
Have you looked at their maps? They are ugly. I feel like I am looking at an old 1980 RandMcnally paper map of the country when i start up the iOS6 simulator. I for one will not willingly get iOS6 with that crap. If Google maps are still available then that may be a different story. However, everyone buying an iPhone 5 or a new iDevice after the release of iOS6 has no say in the matter, regardless. They will get iOS6 and they will like it (at least that's what Apple tells them).
The skeuomorphism is mostly on in the iOS environment. I haven't seen any examples of it in Lion, perhaps there are some in Mountain Lion, I don't know. But either way, I think it is valid to compare Metro on a mobile device to iOS. I would certainly not want it on a computer, but I have played around with Windows 7+ phones and I think their tiles are quite handy for some things. Not to mention the fact that we're already to iOS 6 and we don't have widgets. I really love widgets. I had to jailbreak my phone and iPad for work so that I could get widgets. Sad world.
That's not true. If your Mac has a FN key (and it looks like they all do. On bluetooth/Macbook its in the lower left and its by home/delete on the fullsize), you can just hit FN-Del and it will delete the files you have highlighted. Or maybe it is FN-Backspace. Can't remember. Anyway, I do that sometimes out of instinct on the laptop.
Are you trollin'? Cause I can't think of a single version of Windows since 98 (maybe even 95, I can't remember that far back) where you didn't just do Start->Settings->Control Panel. And in Windows Vista and 7 its not even in a second menu, it literally is right in front of your face the second you hit start. Oh and in Windows 7 you can pin stuff to your start menu or your task bar and its just as easy to access as the Mac's dock.
And... if you had read the summary they are really talking about things like the Address book on the iPad and what not. They really weren't doing a Desktop OS to Desktop OS comparison, but more of a mobile OS to mobile OS. Really a lot of people have been complaining about the skeuomorphism that Apple loves. In fact, I am working on an iOS app for a Fortune 500 company and our UX guy tried to skin it just like the iPad's calendar app and the board of directors (guys used to the old school stuff) bashed it to pieces because they thought it was too cheesy. So it's not just a bunch of young guys who don't know about Rolodexes and Franklins that are complaining about what's going on there.
Hmm, my boss and my girlfriend both think I do an amazing job of tuning aboslutely all noise out to focus on things. In fact, if I am reading, or coding, or even watching TV I can completely lose track of the fact that there are other people around. I often listen to music while I code and realize suddenly that I hadn't heard a sing song in 20-30 minutes. I think this comes from the fact that I grew up in a very large family, with a very noisy house. If you couldn't learn to tune everything out, you could never read, do homework, or even watch TV.
The estimated temperature of the Sun's inner core is about 15.8 million K. I don't believe that number was reached by flying a grad student through the sun with a thermometer. Unless someone has invented a time machine, no one was measuring temperatures for the
last hundreds of thousands of years with a thermometer. It's all proxy.
Or so you think. I knew that grad student.... poor kid. Didn't even last a fraction of a second... and neither did his thermometer. It was only designed to stand up to 15.7 million K, which is why they estimated the temperature at 15.8. True story.
LOL well I used to be able to palm an NBA sized basketball with just my pinky and thumb. I don't have that kind of forearm strength anymore, but my hands are pretty big. I actually really liked when the Evo 4G came out because the phone felt like it fit in my hand, and wasn't tiny. Then I had to get an iPhone 4S for work. Part of me really wants the iPhone 5 for its size, but I think it would be silly to pay to upgrade at this time. In any event, I've never been able to hit just one key on the blackberry keyboard. As someone else suggested it has nothing to do with weight, I'm about right BMI-wise.
but you'll see the strangers only once; and you'll have to see your co-workers again and again. how is this better?
That's exactly my point. If are a good employee then your coworkers will value you despite your embarrassing attempt to present to them. You only get one attempt at showing those strangers that your product (whether it is you as an employee, or your company's product) is worth the money. If you mess that up, the game is over. But if you've had a great career and you get a little bit of stage fright in front of your coworkers, they will (in my experience) genuinely offer constructive criticism and help you to do a great job selling the company.
At the time that I put an Intel SSD into my Dell XPS 15, I could actually power on the computer and type in the password to log in to the desktop faster than a friend could wake his brand new Mac Book Pro from sleep. It was pretty amazing. My desktops all boot from an SSD and I use a mechanical drive for my personal files.
Honestly, I haven't noticed a problem with decreased battery life with an SSD. In fact, I think that the CPU does a whole bunch of quick processing and then powers itself down as low as it goes. I've seen battery life increase when switching a Dell XPS 15" from a 5W mechanical drive to a 150mW (max) Intel SSD drive. I ended up ditching the SSD and putting it into a desktop though because I didn't really have enough storage for it to be useful.
I'll bet the Roomba could pick stuff up after the Dyson, too. They probably use different methods for cleaning, and one will do a better job at cleaning up certain types of things than the other. I have two vacuums in my closet, one a Hoover and I forget who makes the other, Dirt Devil? And I can easily run one and then the other and get more junk up no matter which one I use first.
It wasn't a matter of him stating that he preferred a real keyboard for the tactile feel of it, but because he had large fingers. But I can tell you from experience that the keys on a blackberry are tiny indeed, especially for someone with large fingers. It doesn't make any sense that you would chose a tiny little keyboard when you fat finger 3+ keys every time you hit a button. Maybe he has a different definition for large fingers, I don't know.
I can respect someone preferring a real keyboard, certainly the bumps representing the home row are very nice, but that does no good when you have to be very careful typing so that you do not press multiple keys. So I guess you could say that my incredulity lies with the fact that this person believes they have large fingers, and is not due to his preference for a keyboard. That or perhaps he prefers Homer Simpson's dialing wand.
He wasn't sweating, and didn't look like he would flea in terror but he had DTMF tones blaring loudly from his powerpoints, had long pauses where he had to figure out what he wanted to say, and was constantly saying "Umm umm umm." This is why most universities require you to take public speaking classes, and things of that nature. At my last company I would go to a tradeshow every year and give 2 presentations a day for a week. I also gave demos to government officials (Including a 1-star [Brig. General] and a 3-star equivalent[Undersecretary of Defense]). If I presented like this guy did, they would have replaced me a long time ago. I know some people think that they can never get over their nerves and make great presentations, but it really is an acquired skill just like any other. The more you practice, the better you will do. I would practice my demo in front of several hundred coworkers before I left for every show, just to get reacquainted with a large crowd. Its better to embarrass yourself in front of your coworkers than an entire room of strangers.
Are you serious? I have large fingers and I can't use those tiny excuse of plastic they call keys on blackberries. Whereas, I can use the keyboards on android and iOS devices just fine. Why? Because I can keep typing on the soft keyboards and they eventually correct my mistakes. Not so on the blackberry. Its easier for me to thread a needle than to use a blackberry keyboard. Ugh I have hated those things since the beginning, and it is one reason why I never had a blackberry for work. I refused to have one.
I'm sorry, I know this guy probably isn't a native English speaker, but he is a horrible presenter. One of the worse I have ever seen. It doesn't seem like he practiced or anything, and you can tell he is terribly uncomfortable. The presentation is also very long, and not very interesting most of the time.
You do know that you can sync your calendar and contacts to the iPhone via gmail? Just like you can on android? I don't let Google or any one host that info for me though. I have my own CalDav, CardDav, and WebDav server and host all of that stuff for my family. Google has enough of my info from searches and their trackers, they don't need to know all of my family, friends and acquaintances too.
It's not the same as garbage collection, it's exactly what the name says - AUTOMATED reference counting. The moment your code no longer needs an object code is inserted to release it for you. It has no cost over the code you would have written manually.
Wow. Apple really does have a bunch of geniuses, then. I would have sworn that the act of reference counting would have overhead in and of itself. Not to mention having to lock/unlock the code in the critical path for reference counting. Now I know that Google made a presentation on how to implement critical paths without locking, but there has to be overhead to ARC. It is impossible for there not to be overhead over manually new and delete, or malloc and free. I'm not trying to say that it is as bad as Java's GC, but it can't possibly be free.
And wow, you are going to allow him to grovel? You are so magnanimous. I wish Slashdot had more users like you...
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Well if the claims are true, then he intentionally caused damage, deleted files, and otherwise caused mayhem to the US Government. IT wasn't like he logged in, had a quick look around and then GTFO'd. No he left threats and harassing messages. I'd say there is a world of difference.
It's entirely possible. I can quite easily get caffeine withdrawal headaches if I drink too much coffee and then stop.
Funny you mention tramadol cause I actually have a bottle of the stuff and use it once in awhile for when I get my special tension headaches that ibuprofen or tylenol doesn't even dent. It makes me a little loopy but I feel no pain and have never yet had to take more than one.
I can't even imagine what it would be like to be in so much pain that you're willing to become addicted to pain killers for relief. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
You must be especially sensitive to them. Maybe you have extra Mu receptors or something? I can take a tramadol and not feel a thing. In fact, I had a really bad neck and head injury from playing ice hockey a few years ago and the neurologist I saw for the concussion only wanted to give him tramadol and anti-depressants. He insisted that the pain I was feeling was due to depression and couldn't possibly have been to the recent physical trauma I had experienced.
If you get hurt badly enough, you'll find that there are few things you would refuse to do to ease the pain. And for most people, the addiction they feel from those opiods is from physical dependency more than anything else. The people who abuse them for the high they feel would likely abuse alcohol or something else in its place. But for some people they literally have two choices: A) Stay in bed in complete pain and misery or B) take some meds that don't make them feel all that great, but allow them to try and live their lives. It's a choice that one hopes they never have to make.
The battery is quite adequate. I can literally use the Nexus 7 all day without it dying. Now if i play an intensive game, then it may only last 3 or 4 hours. But I have literally used it for non-stop book reading, web browsing, email, etc for over 24 hours without recharging.
Me too! Actually I stopped reading slashdot for a while too, from around 2000 until 2006 when I started having more free time...
You must become easily addicted to things. Do you have the same problem with caffeine? I had a very invasive and painful surgery on my shoulder, with complications after the fact and was taking 2- 10x325 perocets every 4 hours for over a month and I only felt a little bit of discomfort coming off the medication. It lasted a day or two were I had the sniffles and felt a little achy.
Of course someone above also said that caffeine is significantly worse than the side-effects from stopping habitual pot smoking. I wouldn't know. I am completely unaffected by caffeine and have never had a headache (or had one get better) by drinking or not drinking it. I think I read a study somewhere indicating that people with certain enzymes in their liver can metabolize caffeine so fast that it has almost no effect on them. This could be my issue.
I will say that there are pain meds that are far stronger and more effective than hydro or oxycodone. If you cannot go 2 days without having problems with hydrocodone (what they usually prescribe for a toothache), then I strongly recommend you do not touch any other, more effective pain meds. In fact you may want to stick with tramadol or darvocet if you ever need a narcotic pain medicine. Something like Fentanyl is very effective, but your body gets used to its presence very quickly, and it is very uncomfortable to stop taking it. There are people in this world who would be miserable without such drugs, due to accidents or injuries. While these medications can often make them feel bad in other ways, it can also help people who would otherwise consider suicide and such things to end physical pain.
You don't have to turn to third parties to unlock the Nexus 7. You do "fastboot oem unlock" and away you go. You can do whatever you want at that point.
Honestly, no I haven't used the calendar or address book apps on Lion. And why should I? I always have my phone and usually a tablet. I almost always schedule appointments when I am away from home, and I can quickly see what my calendar looks like on my mobile devices. I also find that I pay attention to notifications on my phone more easily than pop-ups by iCal on the computer. Apple doesn't really do notifications well, without Growl, and even if there was a growl notification it would disappear in a moment if I didn't lock it on the screen.
Just for the sake of curiosity I did load up the address book and you're right it is rather annoying. The right hand page is almost completely wasted. I don't know what they were smoking, but I do believe that the iOS instances are far worse. Especially if you've looked at the way the maps look on iOS6. They remind me of old paper maps from yesteryear. Ugly.
Have you looked at their maps? They are ugly. I feel like I am looking at an old 1980 RandMcnally paper map of the country when i start up the iOS6 simulator. I for one will not willingly get iOS6 with that crap. If Google maps are still available then that may be a different story. However, everyone buying an iPhone 5 or a new iDevice after the release of iOS6 has no say in the matter, regardless. They will get iOS6 and they will like it (at least that's what Apple tells them).
The skeuomorphism is mostly on in the iOS environment. I haven't seen any examples of it in Lion, perhaps there are some in Mountain Lion, I don't know. But either way, I think it is valid to compare Metro on a mobile device to iOS. I would certainly not want it on a computer, but I have played around with Windows 7+ phones and I think their tiles are quite handy for some things. Not to mention the fact that we're already to iOS 6 and we don't have widgets. I really love widgets. I had to jailbreak my phone and iPad for work so that I could get widgets. Sad world.
That's not true. If your Mac has a FN key (and it looks like they all do. On bluetooth/Macbook its in the lower left and its by home/delete on the fullsize), you can just hit FN-Del and it will delete the files you have highlighted. Or maybe it is FN-Backspace. Can't remember. Anyway, I do that sometimes out of instinct on the laptop.
Are you trollin'? Cause I can't think of a single version of Windows since 98 (maybe even 95, I can't remember that far back) where you didn't just do Start->Settings->Control Panel. And in Windows Vista and 7 its not even in a second menu, it literally is right in front of your face the second you hit start. Oh and in Windows 7 you can pin stuff to your start menu or your task bar and its just as easy to access as the Mac's dock.
And... if you had read the summary they are really talking about things like the Address book on the iPad and what not. They really weren't doing a Desktop OS to Desktop OS comparison, but more of a mobile OS to mobile OS. Really a lot of people have been complaining about the skeuomorphism that Apple loves. In fact, I am working on an iOS app for a Fortune 500 company and our UX guy tried to skin it just like the iPad's calendar app and the board of directors (guys used to the old school stuff) bashed it to pieces because they thought it was too cheesy. So it's not just a bunch of young guys who don't know about Rolodexes and Franklins that are complaining about what's going on there.
Hmm, my boss and my girlfriend both think I do an amazing job of tuning aboslutely all noise out to focus on things. In fact, if I am reading, or coding, or even watching TV I can completely lose track of the fact that there are other people around. I often listen to music while I code and realize suddenly that I hadn't heard a sing song in 20-30 minutes. I think this comes from the fact that I grew up in a very large family, with a very noisy house. If you couldn't learn to tune everything out, you could never read, do homework, or even watch TV.
The estimated temperature of the Sun's inner core is about 15.8 million K. I don't believe that number was reached by flying a grad student through the sun with a thermometer. Unless someone has invented a time machine, no one was measuring temperatures for the last hundreds of thousands of years with a thermometer. It's all proxy.
Or so you think. I knew that grad student.... poor kid. Didn't even last a fraction of a second... and neither did his thermometer. It was only designed to stand up to 15.7 million K, which is why they estimated the temperature at 15.8. True story.
You mean 11rd. 10 is definitely 10nd. And 01st. Where did you learn your binary?
LOL well I used to be able to palm an NBA sized basketball with just my pinky and thumb. I don't have that kind of forearm strength anymore, but my hands are pretty big. I actually really liked when the Evo 4G came out because the phone felt like it fit in my hand, and wasn't tiny. Then I had to get an iPhone 4S for work. Part of me really wants the iPhone 5 for its size, but I think it would be silly to pay to upgrade at this time. In any event, I've never been able to hit just one key on the blackberry keyboard. As someone else suggested it has nothing to do with weight, I'm about right BMI-wise.
but you'll see the strangers only once; and you'll have to see your co-workers again and again. how is this better?
That's exactly my point. If are a good employee then your coworkers will value you despite your embarrassing attempt to present to them. You only get one attempt at showing those strangers that your product (whether it is you as an employee, or your company's product) is worth the money. If you mess that up, the game is over. But if you've had a great career and you get a little bit of stage fright in front of your coworkers, they will (in my experience) genuinely offer constructive criticism and help you to do a great job selling the company.
At the time that I put an Intel SSD into my Dell XPS 15, I could actually power on the computer and type in the password to log in to the desktop faster than a friend could wake his brand new Mac Book Pro from sleep. It was pretty amazing. My desktops all boot from an SSD and I use a mechanical drive for my personal files.
Honestly, I haven't noticed a problem with decreased battery life with an SSD. In fact, I think that the CPU does a whole bunch of quick processing and then powers itself down as low as it goes. I've seen battery life increase when switching a Dell XPS 15" from a 5W mechanical drive to a 150mW (max) Intel SSD drive. I ended up ditching the SSD and putting it into a desktop though because I didn't really have enough storage for it to be useful.
I'll bet the Roomba could pick stuff up after the Dyson, too. They probably use different methods for cleaning, and one will do a better job at cleaning up certain types of things than the other. I have two vacuums in my closet, one a Hoover and I forget who makes the other, Dirt Devil? And I can easily run one and then the other and get more junk up no matter which one I use first.
It wasn't a matter of him stating that he preferred a real keyboard for the tactile feel of it, but because he had large fingers. But I can tell you from experience that the keys on a blackberry are tiny indeed, especially for someone with large fingers. It doesn't make any sense that you would chose a tiny little keyboard when you fat finger 3+ keys every time you hit a button. Maybe he has a different definition for large fingers, I don't know.
I can respect someone preferring a real keyboard, certainly the bumps representing the home row are very nice, but that does no good when you have to be very careful typing so that you do not press multiple keys. So I guess you could say that my incredulity lies with the fact that this person believes they have large fingers, and is not due to his preference for a keyboard. That or perhaps he prefers Homer Simpson's dialing wand.
He wasn't sweating, and didn't look like he would flea in terror but he had DTMF tones blaring loudly from his powerpoints, had long pauses where he had to figure out what he wanted to say, and was constantly saying "Umm umm umm." This is why most universities require you to take public speaking classes, and things of that nature. At my last company I would go to a tradeshow every year and give 2 presentations a day for a week. I also gave demos to government officials (Including a 1-star [Brig. General] and a 3-star equivalent[Undersecretary of Defense]). If I presented like this guy did, they would have replaced me a long time ago. I know some people think that they can never get over their nerves and make great presentations, but it really is an acquired skill just like any other. The more you practice, the better you will do. I would practice my demo in front of several hundred coworkers before I left for every show, just to get reacquainted with a large crowd. Its better to embarrass yourself in front of your coworkers than an entire room of strangers.
Are you serious? I have large fingers and I can't use those tiny excuse of plastic they call keys on blackberries. Whereas, I can use the keyboards on android and iOS devices just fine. Why? Because I can keep typing on the soft keyboards and they eventually correct my mistakes. Not so on the blackberry. Its easier for me to thread a needle than to use a blackberry keyboard. Ugh I have hated those things since the beginning, and it is one reason why I never had a blackberry for work. I refused to have one.
I'm sorry, I know this guy probably isn't a native English speaker, but he is a horrible presenter. One of the worse I have ever seen. It doesn't seem like he practiced or anything, and you can tell he is terribly uncomfortable. The presentation is also very long, and not very interesting most of the time.
You do know that you can sync your calendar and contacts to the iPhone via gmail? Just like you can on android? I don't let Google or any one host that info for me though. I have my own CalDav, CardDav, and WebDav server and host all of that stuff for my family. Google has enough of my info from searches and their trackers, they don't need to know all of my family, friends and acquaintances too.
It's not the same as garbage collection, it's exactly what the name says - AUTOMATED reference counting. The moment your code no longer needs an object code is inserted to release it for you. It has no cost over the code you would have written manually.
Wow. Apple really does have a bunch of geniuses, then. I would have sworn that the act of reference counting would have overhead in and of itself. Not to mention having to lock/unlock the code in the critical path for reference counting. Now I know that Google made a presentation on how to implement critical paths without locking, but there has to be overhead to ARC. It is impossible for there not to be overhead over manually new and delete, or malloc and free. I'm not trying to say that it is as bad as Java's GC, but it can't possibly be free.
And wow, you are going to allow him to grovel? You are so magnanimous. I wish Slashdot had more users like you...