My then new MBP fell from chair back height, as it slipped out of my bag somehow:), landed on one corner, then the next, then flopped on the floor flat. I was sitting in the chair at the time and felt it go, and in my lame rush to save it, I knocked over a glass of water on the table that spilled ice and fluid on the now grounded Mac. My only thought was "well, that's toast, as I picked up the dented and soaking wet laptop. After drying off and saying a few mantras, I hit the power button. It booted right up and has been running fine now for over a year. I conclude that karma is the best protection.
Considering that would probably mutate and kill off all humans as well, leaving the oceans to the fish and sea mammals alone, I'd say that's a great solution. At this point, eliminating the human species IS the only hope for all the other animals and plants on the planet today. But I really like the idea of paying out of work and under fished men a salary for cleaning the oceans sounds good to me, albeit a tremendous undertaking.
What an achievement for a country where you can't use your credit card in most places, and where Banks don't even have reliable phone service. Reminds of the time I enfielded from Delhi to Gaya and in the middle of a tea stop a white-robed local came up to me shouting angrily in Hindi and broken English, "India is Great! India is Great!" I responded by buying him a cup, and that seemed to calm him down after I halfheartedly agreed with him, but now I wish now I had the stats on Chandrayaan-1 and perhaps some print outs of the photos sent back. Congrats to the Bangalore team!
Honestly, I write about software all day, open & closed source, and I have never taken what's being discussed as a problem. That's the job: to dig out the facts of the case. There is hardly a lack of facts about, but it does take a bit of work to find them and then write something coherent - a task that most mainstream tech journalists can't seem to complete these days. If you're a writer that can't deal with a stressed or overworked developer, or a lack of information or understanding of the subject, then perhaps tech writing is not for you. I was lucky, as I cut my teeth writing about software while working at old school IBM, with the most uptight and cranky developers on the face of the 1980s planet to deal with. That was great basic training, as the developers of today act like powder puffs when compared to those guys:+)
As a new employee @ the World Bank, you have to take a class to get certified before being issued an office phone. While on the outside, this looks like a responsible training practice, on the inside it seems to be establishment of control and an insult to one's intelligence, especially since this agency hires quite a few PhDs'. Nanny-state agencies and government bodies love these kinds of ideas, while a rational business person does not. If they did, Banks would require licenses to use ATMs.
Re:So how come they can review apps, and I can't!?
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That's an interesting idea, and I think if the App store were a regular website it would be easier to do: dump all the userids into a db and then see what you could find out about reviewing habits. But being the iTunes Store, it's a closed area it seems. But still, someone should do it to see if there is any fraud involved within the "store."
That would be 201 or less countries, as Nepal has no such nonsense and no legislation preventing such obscene behavior. It could be that calls are just too expensive to randomly make, but I like to think that the Nepalese are just too polite to behave so terribly to each other. But I guess this new law will set a precedent for email spammers? That would be nice, as they are way more annoying here.
Since these are the same folks that distribute training packages that included contract torture and assassination techniques, the government should immediately reverse it's stance and allow all forms of entertainment to be downloaded, in hopes that employees and contractors will be so busy enjoying that won't upload any more drones or missiles over Muslim-inhabited countries (or any country for that matter). This crackdown is sure to backfire, as the more angry DOD workers are, the more likely they are to press the big red button and blow us ALL into the bardo. Peace.
Doubleplusgood for MS the International Flavor. What a bunch of bozos in suits. The model defaced should sue in the Hague. Ironic, the advert speaks to empowerment of the people...must be that limited definition of "people" some folks in the EU have: Nazi Ethnicity Haters. Maybe that British Photoshop Law is needed after all:)
Working fine here. All this talk of "fixing" is just a way to control what should not be controlled. Let the demons roam free, and the angels mingle in the muck. The global connection project has succeeded. Now some would like to see it fail, or stop working so well. Beware...
Well of course these old school dogs of an era gone by are having troubles, and they deserve them. They need to get on the band wagon with the iTunes "false commentators" and just bypass any sort of "ethical" surveys and just lie to their clients and to us - face up! Program something that creates user ratings to boost Nielsen Company revenue and be done with it already, why pretend to be different?
So why is the FCC standing up for the common surfer? Sounds fishy to me and there must be a catch. The government must want something from Net Neutrality, and what it wants can't be good for us. What would they lose without NN? The ability to monitor everything perhaps? The loss of honeypots? Hmmm...
This is true, but technology has changed how we can interpret crowd behavior. If done well, we can clearly see the snakes from the grass. Only Apple has not implemented a "done well" commenting system. Too bad for us.
So how come they can review apps, and I can't!?!
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Love it. I get an error every time I try to review a worthless app purchased from the App Store (messages tells me I must buy the app first). Ironic that marketeers can do something I can't. Apple really needs to scrap iTunes and start over, maybe buy Facebook and use an interface like that, where you can have a network of trusted friends, and then look at their reviews of apps instead of all the bozo ones. U can almost tell the fake review from the real ones, but why bother? The comment section on iTunes is just a mess.
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My then new MBP fell from chair back height, as it slipped out of my bag somehow:), landed on one corner, then the next, then flopped on the floor flat. I was sitting in the chair at the time and felt it go, and in my lame rush to save it, I knocked over a glass of water on the table that spilled ice and fluid on the now grounded Mac. My only thought was "well, that's toast, as I picked up the dented and soaking wet laptop. After drying off and saying a few mantras, I hit the power button. It booted right up and has been running fine now for over a year. I conclude that karma is the best protection.
Considering that would probably mutate and kill off all humans as well, leaving the oceans to the fish and sea mammals alone, I'd say that's a great solution. At this point, eliminating the human species IS the only hope for all the other animals and plants on the planet today. But I really like the idea of paying out of work and under fished men a salary for cleaning the oceans sounds good to me, albeit a tremendous undertaking.
What an achievement for a country where you can't use your credit card in most places, and where Banks don't even have reliable phone service. Reminds of the time I enfielded from Delhi to Gaya and in the middle of a tea stop a white-robed local came up to me shouting angrily in Hindi and broken English, "India is Great! India is Great!" I responded by buying him a cup, and that seemed to calm him down after I halfheartedly agreed with him, but now I wish now I had the stats on Chandrayaan-1 and perhaps some print outs of the photos sent back. Congrats to the Bangalore team!
Honestly, I write about software all day, open & closed source, and I have never taken what's being discussed as a problem. That's the job: to dig out the facts of the case. There is hardly a lack of facts about, but it does take a bit of work to find them and then write something coherent - a task that most mainstream tech journalists can't seem to complete these days. If you're a writer that can't deal with a stressed or overworked developer, or a lack of information or understanding of the subject, then perhaps tech writing is not for you. I was lucky, as I cut my teeth writing about software while working at old school IBM, with the most uptight and cranky developers on the face of the 1980s planet to deal with. That was great basic training, as the developers of today act like powder puffs when compared to those guys:+)
As a new employee @ the World Bank, you have to take a class to get certified before being issued an office phone. While on the outside, this looks like a responsible training practice, on the inside it seems to be establishment of control and an insult to one's intelligence, especially since this agency hires quite a few PhDs'. Nanny-state agencies and government bodies love these kinds of ideas, while a rational business person does not. If they did, Banks would require licenses to use ATMs.
That's an interesting idea, and I think if the App store were a regular website it would be easier to do: dump all the userids into a db and then see what you could find out about reviewing habits. But being the iTunes Store, it's a closed area it seems. But still, someone should do it to see if there is any fraud involved within the "store."
That would be 201 or less countries, as Nepal has no such nonsense and no legislation preventing such obscene behavior. It could be that calls are just too expensive to randomly make, but I like to think that the Nepalese are just too polite to behave so terribly to each other. But I guess this new law will set a precedent for email spammers? That would be nice, as they are way more annoying here.
Since these are the same folks that distribute training packages that included contract torture and assassination techniques, the government should immediately reverse it's stance and allow all forms of entertainment to be downloaded, in hopes that employees and contractors will be so busy enjoying that won't upload any more drones or missiles over Muslim-inhabited countries (or any country for that matter). This crackdown is sure to backfire, as the more angry DOD workers are, the more likely they are to press the big red button and blow us ALL into the bardo. Peace.
Doubleplusgood for MS the International Flavor. What a bunch of bozos in suits. The model defaced should sue in the Hague. Ironic, the advert speaks to empowerment of the people...must be that limited definition of "people" some folks in the EU have: Nazi Ethnicity Haters. Maybe that British Photoshop Law is needed after all:)
Working fine here. All this talk of "fixing" is just a way to control what should not be controlled. Let the demons roam free, and the angels mingle in the muck. The global connection project has succeeded. Now some would like to see it fail, or stop working so well. Beware...
Well of course these old school dogs of an era gone by are having troubles, and they deserve them. They need to get on the band wagon with the iTunes "false commentators" and just bypass any sort of "ethical" surveys and just lie to their clients and to us - face up! Program something that creates user ratings to boost Nielsen Company revenue and be done with it already, why pretend to be different?
So why is the FCC standing up for the common surfer? Sounds fishy to me and there must be a catch. The government must want something from Net Neutrality, and what it wants can't be good for us. What would they lose without NN? The ability to monitor everything perhaps? The loss of honeypots? Hmmm...
This is true, but technology has changed how we can interpret crowd behavior. If done well, we can clearly see the snakes from the grass. Only Apple has not implemented a "done well" commenting system. Too bad for us.
Love it. I get an error every time I try to review a worthless app purchased from the App Store (messages tells me I must buy the app first). Ironic that marketeers can do something I can't. Apple really needs to scrap iTunes and start over, maybe buy Facebook and use an interface like that, where you can have a network of trusted friends, and then look at their reviews of apps instead of all the bozo ones. U can almost tell the fake review from the real ones, but why bother? The comment section on iTunes is just a mess.