I would, but he doesn't have a local representative.
To tell you the truth, although probably not as bad, some of the conservative government's behaviour remind over a certain 20th century German leader prior to him getting into power and duping his own people - the initials are AH. Maybe I am being a little over-reactive, but some of what Harper is doing disturbs me.
Sure, but this problem is only affecting the second hand market. For the games company it is as if they didn't make that second sale anyhow. How is withholding that second purchase going to make any difference?
I am not sure I can offer a good alternative to the current situation, but trying to play the game in five years will be a problem, unless they offer a solution to unlock after a certain date. I don't know whether price point could be changed or something else could be done to make things more appealing to the first hand market?
If all your computers on the internal network have IPv6 capability then all you need to do is turn it on. They will automatically assign themselves a link local IPv6 address and will be able to talk to each other. After that it is simply a matter of having services that support IPv6. As for name resolution you can either use something like Bonjour (aka mDNS) or have an IPv6 capable router with DHCPv6.
I have been running IPv6 on my home network, using an Apple airport, for the past year and there is really not much setup to do. It would be nice if my ISP supported IPv6, but until then there is 6to4.
I understand the "walled garden" concerns many Android users have but from a developer's perspective an unfragmented distribution channel (a single app store) is also attractive.
For the average user both gardens are walled. It when you come to techies that iOS appears to have a real wall.
Sometimes I wonder whether the fact that Apple controls the whole OS, as opposed to Android when it is a mix of Google, handset manufacturers and service providers makes for a more reassuring and less complex experience.
In Europe, Asia and Africa ISPs are already making the slow move to IPv6. In North America it is only a handful of ISPs that have publicized their efforts (two come to mind: Comcast and TechSavvy), whereas others are putting short term profits before long term success.
In the short term companies that already have massive private networks can install a web proxy to deal with external IPv6 HTTP hosts. Long term they will need to revaluate the design of the network and what really needs to have access to the external IPv6 network and what can stay oblivious. In general anything that is only going to communicate with the internal network can stay IPv4 centric, while other devices with be dual IPv4/IPv6 stack.
The one challenge people with wanting to make the web server accessible from IPv6 clients are hosting centres that don't provide IPv6 yet. It is certainly possible to get around this by using a tunnel, but this is really far from optimal.
BTW Some hosting services that are IPv6 ready are listed here:
On the other hand not supporting or working with a customer like Google in their move to IPv6 would be short sighted. If Google were not happy with Cisco's attitude they could easily go an invest in another company and publicize why they dropped Cisco. That would hurt Cisco down the road as they end up no longer being taken seriously.
Companies know that IPv6 is going to become a reality sooner rather than later, especially in markets such as east Asia and Africa, which already have a rapidly diminishing pool of available IPv4 addresses. To ignore these markets would be handing future success over to companies who recognized the expanding niche and got in there early.
Rather than simply saying use a different mail-server, does anyone know whether limiting access to the Exchange server via IMAP would provide less impact?
One solution is delayed moderation. Essentially any moderation is only seen 24 hours later. This should reduce undue groupthink in the first 24 hours. The danger is that trolls get more time to be visible.
The truth is any moderation based on a group is going to have issues. While it would be nice to have professional moderators, many sites don't have the income to justify it.
It looks good, but it would be nice to see the legacy ports ditched (serial, PS2 and VGA) and focus on current connectors. It would be nice to see display port or mini display port on there.
Lawyers sometimes seem to be in ivory tower when it comes to the technology around them. IT moves so fast, that even as a professional in the field it is hard to keep up. I would be surprised that someone who has a legal background can do as much.
I remember one story about a computer science student doing her masters thought she had come up with something new. She passed her course, but the problem is that people working outside of acedemia saw her work as something that had already been done in industry. Just because something seems new, it doesn't mean it is. Unlike scientific fields, anyone has easy access to IT, so this means that there is so much room for new ideas, but also people thinking they have a new idea. For most professionals solving problems and coming solutions is often more important than understanding everything that went before, especially when there is so much innovation coming at you like a speeding locomotive.
Earth quakes, tornados, floods, etc. It's just God smiting the them for mean spirited politics and wacko religious views. Not that God hates those people mind you. He just doesn't approve of their "lifestyle".
I think programmer is still a fine title. In all reality titles for software developers are so varied and vague, that as long as I am getting my pay cheque, I am quite happy to be called a 'Senior Code Monkey'. At that point I am also happy to treat my boss as 'Manager Monkey' and the CEO as 'Chief Baboon'.;)
He also had top industrial designers. The computer has moved into the same phase the automobile moved into over 60 years ago, whereby having the best engineering is not enough. Sure it will attract the geeks and the spec seekers, but most people are interested how good the product looks and feels, while doing the job they expect from it. Would a Ferrari be the same car without the exterior design?
Too much IT hardware feels as if it was designed on the outside by the people who are doing in the inside. Even as a programmer, I recognize the importance of getting some who understands people to do the user interface. The user experience is down to the little details, that as a programmer I probably ignore because I focus on the functionality.
One thing they attempted to do is keep the product line simple. This helps people find what they want easily and also keeps production manageable. There are some companies that have product lines that are so confusing with too much mediocre selection and badly written specs, that I simply turn away.
Sometimes limited choice is actually better for business and for your customers. You just need to be sure what the best median is.
Pure free market solutions can lead to pure chaos, where the market is only free for those with the control of the market and shafts the customers because they have no alternative place to go. Government controls provide a set a game rules, that while making the market less free, provides a better solution for those consuming the products of the sellers and forces the those sellers to be more 'fair' in their dealings.
Think of a free market as a kid who is allowed his freedoms, until he uses them to abuse others. At that point if he can't be responsable, then he will lose some freedoms. Use your freedoms wisely.
The iPad had adjusted people's expectations about feature set, quality and design. Apple also created something that even novice users could use or felt was targeted at them. The HP and Samsung felt like enterprise was their focus and not consumers (at least that is what it seemed to me). Apple focused on the consumer market and made something people might want to use.
Design is an important part of the whole experience and not an after thought.
In many ways the CDMA+GSM could be significant, especially in Japan and the USA. It increases Apple's potential customer base and allows people more roaming flexibility.
Sure Motorola tried this before, but it was a poor phone in every other respect. Also, trying to locate anywhere that sold the phone was a challenge.
Apple never said they were going to release an iPhone 5, rather everyone else assumed they would. I think we need to try to understand what might make this phone a success. I am going to see how practical Siri is in real life.
Given the length of phone contracts is usually two years, I think it makes sense to do a major release every two and a functional release in between.
The iPhone 4S has a good feature set and anyone with a 3G or 3GS is probably a prime market for the upgrade.
Steve jobs did believe the future 'revolution' would come from software, so we should be watching the software as much as the hardware for signs of improvement.
Other vendors are pushing products that are feature complete, but not design complete. You can't sell high end stuff in the same way as you sell low end stuff. For end stuff you need attention to detail and a presentation that reassures people it is not some random cheap product sold at a higher margin.
C/C++ well get you anywhere, but unless you want to be writing stuff from scratch you want to leverage libraries where the work has already been done for you. If these libraries are cross-platform, then even better. I can't imagine trying to write support for OpenGL or H264 without an existing library to leverage. Languages like Java, also depend on libraries to get their work done and delegates anything low level via a native library.
Why is it that every Java story on Slashdot is infected by an IT Admin Monkey telling us that he's removing Java from his "users" machines. If these IT monkeys really wanted to remove the most targeted attack vector from their "users" machines they would replace "Windows" with something secure.
This generally makes me think of admins who want an easy life, instead of trying to understand what the problem is and solving it properly. This is usually the most dangerous sort of admin - reminds me of the intern who got an application to compile, by removing all the logic from the code. Also, how many time do you have people saying Java is slow or something else negative, only to find the are actually talking about JavaScript in the web browser?
If we uninstalled everything that was a possible vector of attack, then we would be left with a fully erased computer, disconnected from the internet. No computer is immune to attack (this includes Linux and MacOS X), its just that the way they are targeted and the frequency of attacks vary.
I don't think its too late, though they have a lot of work in front of them AWT failed because it was limited in its platform integration and Swing because it really didn't feel like it was intended for any specific platform with a lot of the important UI hooks missing.
The best solution so far has been SWT, IMHO, though I am yet to see any small applications, since they all seems to follow the same UI design approach as Eclipse and tend to feel rather heavy. It would be nice to see SWT as a UI extension that is bundled with the standard OpenJDK.
Getting a good cross-platform UI solution is no easy feat, given all the different expectations of uses on different platforms. There are solutions out there, but they all succeed and fail for different reasons.
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... at least he admits he's evil.
I would, but he doesn't have a local representative.
To tell you the truth, although probably not as bad, some of the conservative government's behaviour remind over a certain 20th century German leader prior to him getting into power and duping his own people - the initials are AH. Maybe I am being a little over-reactive, but some of what Harper is doing disturbs me.
Sure, but this problem is only affecting the second hand market. For the games company it is as if they didn't make that second sale anyhow. How is withholding that second purchase going to make any difference?
I am not sure I can offer a good alternative to the current situation, but trying to play the game in five years will be a problem, unless they offer a solution to unlock after a certain date. I don't know whether price point could be changed or something else could be done to make things more appealing to the first hand market?
If all your computers on the internal network have IPv6 capability then all you need to do is turn it on. They will automatically assign themselves a link local IPv6 address and will be able to talk to each other. After that it is simply a matter of having services that support IPv6. As for name resolution you can either use something like Bonjour (aka mDNS) or have an IPv6 capable router with DHCPv6.
I have been running IPv6 on my home network, using an Apple airport, for the past year and there is really not much setup to do. It would be nice if my ISP supported IPv6, but until then there is 6to4.
Or maybe he is using an OS with a penguin as a mascot?
I understand the "walled garden" concerns many Android users have but from a developer's perspective an unfragmented distribution channel (a single app store) is also attractive.
For the average user both gardens are walled. It when you come to techies that iOS appears to have a real wall.
Sometimes I wonder whether the fact that Apple controls the whole OS, as opposed to Android when it is a mix of Google, handset manufacturers and service providers makes for a more reassuring and less complex experience.
In Europe, Asia and Africa ISPs are already making the slow move to IPv6. In North America it is only a handful of ISPs that have publicized their efforts (two come to mind: Comcast and TechSavvy), whereas others are putting short term profits before long term success.
In the short term companies that already have massive private networks can install a web proxy to deal with external IPv6 HTTP hosts. Long term they will need to revaluate the design of the network and what really needs to have access to the external IPv6 network and what can stay oblivious. In general anything that is only going to communicate with the internal network can stay IPv4 centric, while other devices with be dual IPv4/IPv6 stack.
The one challenge people with wanting to make the web server accessible from IPv6 clients are hosting centres that don't provide IPv6 yet. It is certainly possible to get around this by using a tunnel, but this is really far from optimal.
BTW Some hosting services that are IPv6 ready are listed here:
http://www.sixxs.net/wiki/IPv6_Enabled_Hosting
On the other hand not supporting or working with a customer like Google in their move to IPv6 would be short sighted. If Google were not happy with Cisco's attitude they could easily go an invest in another company and publicize why they dropped Cisco. That would hurt Cisco down the road as they end up no longer being taken seriously.
Companies know that IPv6 is going to become a reality sooner rather than later, especially in markets such as east Asia and Africa, which already have a rapidly diminishing pool of available IPv4 addresses. To ignore these markets would be handing future success over to companies who recognized the expanding niche and got in there early.
Rather than simply saying use a different mail-server, does anyone know whether limiting access to the Exchange server via IMAP would provide less impact?
One solution is delayed moderation. Essentially any moderation is only seen 24 hours later. This should reduce undue groupthink in the first 24 hours. The danger is that trolls get more time to be visible.
The truth is any moderation based on a group is going to have issues. While it would be nice to have professional moderators, many sites don't have the income to justify it.
It looks good, but it would be nice to see the legacy ports ditched (serial, PS2 and VGA) and focus on current connectors. It would be nice to see display port or mini display port on there.
Lawyers sometimes seem to be in ivory tower when it comes to the technology around them. IT moves so fast, that even as a professional in the field it is hard to keep up. I would be surprised that someone who has a legal background can do as much.
I remember one story about a computer science student doing her masters thought she had come up with something new. She passed her course, but the problem is that people working outside of acedemia saw her work as something that had already been done in industry. Just because something seems new, it doesn't mean it is. Unlike scientific fields, anyone has easy access to IT, so this means that there is so much room for new ideas, but also people thinking they have a new idea. For most professionals solving problems and coming solutions is often more important than understanding everything that went before, especially when there is so much innovation coming at you like a speeding locomotive.
Maybe patent lawyers shouldn't be allowed to use computers until they can understand the source code of their software ;)
In many ways this is the same problem, but in reverse that software programmers face.
Earth quakes, tornados, floods, etc. It's just God smiting the them for mean spirited politics and wacko religious views. Not that God hates those people mind you. He just doesn't approve of their "lifestyle".
Either that or he is bored? ;)
I think programmer is still a fine title. In all reality titles for software developers are so varied and vague, that as long as I am getting my pay cheque, I am quite happy to be called a 'Senior Code Monkey'. At that point I am also happy to treat my boss as 'Manager Monkey' and the CEO as 'Chief Baboon'. ;)
How about a talking thermostat with a personality. Something in the vain of Red Dwarf's talking toaster. :)
He also had top industrial designers. The computer has moved into the same phase the automobile moved into over 60 years ago, whereby having the best engineering is not enough. Sure it will attract the geeks and the spec seekers, but most people are interested how good the product looks and feels, while doing the job they expect from it. Would a Ferrari be the same car without the exterior design?
Too much IT hardware feels as if it was designed on the outside by the people who are doing in the inside. Even as a programmer, I recognize the importance of getting some who understands people to do the user interface. The user experience is down to the little details, that as a programmer I probably ignore because I focus on the functionality.
One thing they attempted to do is keep the product line simple. This helps people find what they want easily and also keeps production manageable. There are some companies that have product lines that are so confusing with too much mediocre selection and badly written specs, that I simply turn away.
Sometimes limited choice is actually better for business and for your customers. You just need to be sure what the best median is.
Pure free market solutions can lead to pure chaos, where the market is only free for those with the control of the market and shafts the customers because they have no alternative place to go. Government controls provide a set a game rules, that while making the market less free, provides a better solution for those consuming the products of the sellers and forces the those sellers to be more 'fair' in their dealings.
Think of a free market as a kid who is allowed his freedoms, until he uses them to abuse others. At that point if he can't be responsable, then he will lose some freedoms. Use your freedoms wisely.
The iPad had adjusted people's expectations about feature set, quality and design. Apple also created something that even novice users could use or felt was targeted at them. The HP and Samsung felt like enterprise was their focus and not consumers (at least that is what it seemed to me). Apple focused on the consumer market and made something people might want to use.
Design is an important part of the whole experience and not an after thought.
In many ways the CDMA+GSM could be significant, especially in Japan and the USA. It increases Apple's potential customer base and allows people more roaming flexibility.
Sure Motorola tried this before, but it was a poor phone in every other respect. Also, trying to locate anywhere that sold the phone was a challenge.
Apple never said they were going to release an iPhone 5, rather everyone else assumed they would. I think we need to try to understand what might make this phone a success. I am going to see how practical Siri is in real life.
Given the length of phone contracts is usually two years, I think it makes sense to do a major release every two and a functional release in between.
The iPhone 4S has a good feature set and anyone with a 3G or 3GS is probably a prime market for the upgrade.
Steve jobs did believe the future 'revolution' would come from software, so we should be watching the software as much as the hardware for signs of improvement.
Other vendors are pushing products that are feature complete, but not design complete. You can't sell high end stuff in the same way as you sell low end stuff. For end stuff you need attention to detail and a presentation that reassures people it is not some random cheap product sold at a higher margin.
C/C++ well get you anywhere, but unless you want to be writing stuff from scratch you want to leverage libraries where the work has already been done for you. If these libraries are cross-platform, then even better. I can't imagine trying to write support for OpenGL or H264 without an existing library to leverage. Languages like Java, also depend on libraries to get their work done and delegates anything low level via a native library.
Why is it that every Java story on Slashdot is infected by an IT Admin Monkey telling us that he's removing Java from his "users" machines. If these IT monkeys really wanted to remove the most targeted attack vector from their "users" machines they would replace "Windows" with something secure.
This generally makes me think of admins who want an easy life, instead of trying to understand what the problem is and solving it properly. This is usually the most dangerous sort of admin - reminds me of the intern who got an application to compile, by removing all the logic from the code. Also, how many time do you have people saying Java is slow or something else negative, only to find the are actually talking about JavaScript in the web browser?
If we uninstalled everything that was a possible vector of attack, then we would be left with a fully erased computer, disconnected from the internet. No computer is immune to attack (this includes Linux and MacOS X), its just that the way they are targeted and the frequency of attacks vary.
I don't think its too late, though they have a lot of work in front of them AWT failed because it was limited in its platform integration and Swing because it really didn't feel like it was intended for any specific platform with a lot of the important UI hooks missing.
The best solution so far has been SWT, IMHO, though I am yet to see any small applications, since they all seems to follow the same UI design approach as Eclipse and tend to feel rather heavy. It would be nice to see SWT as a UI extension that is bundled with the standard OpenJDK.
Getting a good cross-platform UI solution is no easy feat, given all the different expectations of uses on different platforms. There are solutions out there, but they all succeed and fail for different reasons.