Now you're upset and become very vocal about the problems you now have to deal with.
From my experience with one company, that is about the same time as the ask you to leave. Granted not all companies are like that, but some are and you have to decide what management decides is good for the company. Remember management rarely, if ever, see the code, so they can't appreciate the real issue. To some guys in management its just the rantings of one of the developers.
I assume they mean those with a roaming agreement, right and even then there might only be one roaming slot open for data services in any given area.
There are a few ways of using a GSM on a network:
- If your already have an agrement:
- Roaming agreement between the host network and your provider.
- Buying a temporary agreement or a pay as you go and put into your phone. Of course these requires an unblocked phone.
- Buying a unblocked phone off the highstreet and popping in the SIM, optionally signing up to the network if you aren't already part of it.
CDMA on the other has various levels of incompatibility and in all cases requires a phone call to the operator to get the account switched over to the new phone, even if you are on the same network.
Say all you want about Internet Explorer, but I can't stress how important Silverlight is. Regardless of what you think of Microsoft, the folks at Adobe want the same world domination as the Redmont folks do. A little competition never hurts...the customers.:)
The big problem with Silverlight is that all the developer tools are Windows only and the public specification seems to be missing (if there is public spec please post a reference). You can't create a new standard if you are hiding the specs.
File format specs are available for SWF: http://osflash.org/swf, but that doesn't been I appreciate a web site designed exclusively in Flash either.
Finally IE7 supports transparent PNGs, but CSS support is still poor at best. Here's a table [quirksmode.org] that lists support of various CSS styles on a per-browser basis. IE doesn't look good.
The seasoned web developer's point of view: anything that works in Opera, Firefox and Safari might work in IE7, but chances are you will probably need to adjust the whole design just to compensate.
Implementations include: Adobe Reader, xpdf, Preview.app and some others here: http://www.hsinlin.com/software/pdf.html It should be noted that ghostscript can convert to PDF, MacOS X can create PDFs straight from the print dialog and there are even tools to generate PDF man pages.
Considering the weight of non-Adobe implementations I can agree that they deserved to become an ISO standard. My metric for deciding whether something is worth of ISO standardisation is whether a third-party has been able to implement the specification, without sponsorship of the company who defined the standard - the reason I take this approach is that it is clear sign that there aren't any hidden issues. BTW I am not part of the ISO process.
Hell, they don't even look before they change lanes. I had one force me over a lane just the other day. They're crazy if they think truckers will just turn around and go another way if the road says "no trucks".
If you don't respect the trucks blind spots, then don't be surprised. Their blind spots are huge and because of this I give them wide berth or make sure I pass them quickly.
At least according to AT&T, the phones aren't just going to disappear. What the article says is that AT&T is getting out of the pay phone business, turning some or all of their phones over to independent operators.
The phones are feasable for them and they would rather concentrate on where the money is. Nothing is stopping your local convenience store from installing one, and the advantage there is that at least you have greater chances of having them work, since they are less likely to defaced or vandalised.
You don't create competition by regulating an industry, you create competition by making it easy for competition to form.
Regulation and competition aren't necessarily opposites. In reality it all comes down to the nature of the regulation and what intended mission of the regulation is. If your regulation is to limit anti-competitive behaviour, ensure the prevention of dilution of free-speech and ensure that companies operate within the social structure of the country, then I can only see it as a good thing. If your regulation ensures all the opposite, then I can see why you wouldn't want it.
MP4 is only a buzzword that you see on dodgy half assed Chinese PMPs these days:P
What gets me are players saying they support MPEG4 video, but not AAC audio!? You would have thought that AAC support was just as step away from MPEG4.
Surely a hybrid MD5+SHA1 signature would prove better? You can find weaknesses in each, but putting them together and the likelihood of the both weaknesses appearing at the same time would be greatly diminished. Other than extra CPU requirements, are there any issues with this approach?
How many gamers here haven't been suspicious of Gamespot being influenced by their advertisers, I stopped going to their site for reviews after feeling burned a few times by the reviews and wondering what the hell that person was thinking.
This is why in many ways the reviews given by readers are so important. They usually help shed light of the real state of the game.
Technical problems can usually be traced back to poor hiring decisions. Do you think the industry is ever going to learn that it is worth it to pay more for better developers?
F*ck-ups come in many forms. While developers can be to blame, so are architects, team leads and management. I have worked for a company where there was no process, or the process was that bad, development was done on production machines and developers were given bad information. I tried to improve things, but sometimes some companies are so engrained in their mess that no one is going to clean up until management accepts they need to clean-up.
The reality that the members of the copyright alliance fail to recognise is that if you make fair use so difficult to achieve, then people will default to piracy. The reasoning behind this is that if laws are so absurdly stringent that no mortal being can follow, then they won't even bother.
The other problem is that culture loses out when copryright still applies to works that the owner refuse to distribute due to 'economic reasons', but fail to allow the public domain to take over.
With the strength of these fascist copyright holders, we need a fair use lobby with equally strong support. The sad thing is that when so many people fail to realise what they are losing, such counter-lobbies are unlikely to get much support or funding.
Games that have levels usually have them as way to indicate that the game just got harder. For example, games such as tetris increase speed each time a certain number of blocks are cleared and arkanoid after a screen is cleared. Games that can't be broken down into such simplified logic rarely ever have the notion of levels and instead make it so that you can't get into a certain area, or fail in it, if you haven't got the necessary equipment, XP, etc.
In short the existence, or lack of, all depends on the type of game in play.
I never thought that we would start needing charities to fund astronimcal science, but maybe it is time? It doesn't help that people think NASA is better funded than it is. Maybe there needs to be a campaign illustrating this, as a form of hitting people with the clue stick.
I would be curious to see how they both compare on badly marked up, but renderable HTML, and XHTML. Normally XHTML should require a smaller memory overhead, than HTML, because HTML needs so many special case handling in order to handle badly marked up websites.
Maybe they need to realize when some pages that people make are taking up too much memory, or some extensions are using too much memory.
Yup. This is where usage studies are handy. It is easy to get into the trap of thinking "this is the way it is designed, this is how it should be used and therefore everyone is using it this way". Dropping into internet-cafés or looking at a non-technical user surfing the internet often show things about usage that you didn't necessarily think about.
I am not saying I do a better job as a developer, since I am often isolated from the end-user through management, but in a ideal world sitting down or observing the user counts for a lot.
It's about time someone challenged this tie-in with phones and carriers.
The biggest irony in all this is that Apple might have just made this happen, due to their exclusivity contract. Europe and the USA are different when it comes to the notion of competition and citizen rights. The fact that a major cell-phone can't be used on any network, the customer chooses, or doesn't have a version that can be used on any network is an issue.
There are few to no exclusivity contracts in European countries when it comes to cell phones, so generally the issue never came up, but now it has you can be sure that law maker will want to change things. The fact this cellphone is considered an object of desire by some, makes this issue stand out even more.
It should be noted that in Belgium you can only buy cellphones contract free. The contract you sign is independant to the cell phone. In France you have to be given the choice of buying your cell phone with or without contract. Note, that there is no law in France preventing the phone you buy with contract being priced less than the out of contract phone. I am not aware of laws in other European countries.
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Now you're upset and become very vocal about the problems you now have to deal with.
From my experience with one company, that is about the same time as the ask you to leave. Granted not all companies are like that, but some are and you have to decide what management decides is good for the company. Remember management rarely, if ever, see the code, so they can't appreciate the real issue. To some guys in management its just the rantings of one of the developers.
I assume they mean those with a roaming agreement, right and even then there might only be one roaming slot open for data services in any given area.
There are a few ways of using a GSM on a network:
- If your already have an agrement:
- Roaming agreement between the host network and your provider.
- Buying a temporary agreement or a pay as you go and put into your phone. Of course these requires an unblocked phone.
- Buying a unblocked phone off the highstreet and popping in the SIM, optionally signing up to the network if you aren't already part of it.
CDMA on the other has various levels of incompatibility and in all cases requires a phone call to the operator to get the account switched over to the new phone, even if you are on the same network.
What was the question? Seriously I didn't see one, I just saw 42 as the answer.
Say all you want about Internet Explorer, but I can't stress how important Silverlight is. Regardless of what you think of Microsoft, the folks at Adobe want the same world domination as the Redmont folks do. A little competition never hurts...the customers. :)
The big problem with Silverlight is that all the developer tools are Windows only and the public specification seems to be missing (if there is public spec please post a reference). You can't create a new standard if you are hiding the specs.
File format specs are available for SWF: http://osflash.org/swf, but that doesn't been I appreciate a web site designed exclusively in Flash either.
Finally IE7 supports transparent PNGs, but CSS support is still poor at best. Here's a table [quirksmode.org] that lists support of various CSS styles on a per-browser basis. IE doesn't look good.
The seasoned web developer's point of view: anything that works in Opera, Firefox and Safari might work in IE7, but chances are you will probably need to adjust the whole design just to compensate.
Is this Steve Jobs wanting to charge you or the MPAA? I suspect the latter.
Luckily iTunes is not the only tool in town.
For anyone curious:
Spec: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html
Implementations include: Adobe Reader, xpdf, Preview.app and some others here: http://www.hsinlin.com/software/pdf.html
It should be noted that ghostscript can convert to PDF, MacOS X can create PDFs straight from the print dialog and there are even tools to generate PDF man pages.
Considering the weight of non-Adobe implementations I can agree that they deserved to become an ISO standard. My metric for deciding whether something is worth of ISO standardisation is whether a third-party has been able to implement the specification, without sponsorship of the company who defined the standard - the reason I take this approach is that it is clear sign that there aren't any hidden issues. BTW I am not part of the ISO process.
Hell, they don't even look before they change lanes. I had one force me over a lane just the other day. They're crazy if they think truckers will just turn around and go another way if the road says "no trucks".
If you don't respect the trucks blind spots, then don't be surprised. Their blind spots are huge and because of this I give them wide berth or make sure I pass them quickly.
At least according to AT&T, the phones aren't just going to disappear. What the article says is that AT&T is getting out of the pay phone business, turning some or all of their phones over to independent operators.
The phones are feasable for them and they would rather concentrate on where the money is. Nothing is stopping your local convenience store from installing one, and the advantage there is that at least you have greater chances of having them work, since they are less likely to defaced or vandalised.
You don't create competition by regulating an industry, you create competition by making it easy for competition to form.
Regulation and competition aren't necessarily opposites. In reality it all comes down to the nature of the regulation and what intended mission of the regulation is. If your regulation is to limit anti-competitive behaviour, ensure the prevention of dilution of free-speech and ensure that companies operate within the social structure of the country, then I can only see it as a good thing. If your regulation ensures all the opposite, then I can see why you wouldn't want it.
MP4 is only a buzzword that you see on dodgy half assed Chinese PMPs these days :P
What gets me are players saying they support MPEG4 video, but not AAC audio!? You would have thought that AAC support was just as step away from MPEG4.
Why would you want to memorize Asians?
:)
If they happen to be the female of the specicies, then I have a few ideas
... the "war on terror" isn't about keeping people safe, it's about keeping people scared.
So fighting terrorism with terrosim of another sort - <sarcasm> sweet </sarcasm>
Surely a hybrid MD5+SHA1 signature would prove better? You can find weaknesses in each, but putting them together and the likelihood of the both weaknesses appearing at the same time would be greatly diminished. Other than extra CPU requirements, are there any issues with this approach?
just spray-foam it.
I know that was meant to be a joke, but can't they just spray some dye in the air and see where it goes?
How many gamers here haven't been suspicious of Gamespot being influenced by their advertisers, I stopped going to their site for reviews after feeling burned a few times by the reviews and wondering what the hell that person was thinking.
This is why in many ways the reviews given by readers are so important. They usually help shed light of the real state of the game.
Technical problems can usually be traced back to poor hiring decisions. Do you think the industry is ever going to learn that it is worth it to pay more for better developers?
F*ck-ups come in many forms. While developers can be to blame, so are architects, team leads and management. I have worked for a company where there was no process, or the process was that bad, development was done on production machines and developers were given bad information. I tried to improve things, but sometimes some companies are so engrained in their mess that no one is going to clean up until management accepts they need to clean-up.
When I first read the headline I thought that they had brought out another Star Trek series and shocked their fans by early termination.
I better hurry patenting the wheel before it's too late... the one purchasable through a shopping cart model that is.
That should be:
I better hurry patenting a wheel before it's too late... the one purchasable through a shopping cart model that is.
The reality that the members of the copyright alliance fail to recognise is that if you make fair use so difficult to achieve, then people will default to piracy. The reasoning behind this is that if laws are so absurdly stringent that no mortal being can follow, then they won't even bother.
The other problem is that culture loses out when copryright still applies to works that the owner refuse to distribute due to 'economic reasons', but fail to allow the public domain to take over.
With the strength of these fascist copyright holders, we need a fair use lobby with equally strong support. The sad thing is that when so many people fail to realise what they are losing, such counter-lobbies are unlikely to get much support or funding.
Games that have levels usually have them as way to indicate that the game just got harder. For example, games such as tetris increase speed each time a certain number of blocks are cleared and arkanoid after a screen is cleared. Games that can't be broken down into such simplified logic rarely ever have the notion of levels and instead make it so that you can't get into a certain area, or fail in it, if you haven't got the necessary equipment, XP, etc.
In short the existence, or lack of, all depends on the type of game in play.
I never thought that we would start needing charities to fund astronimcal science, but maybe it is time? It doesn't help that people think NASA is better funded than it is. Maybe there needs to be a campaign illustrating this, as a form of hitting people with the clue stick.
I would be curious to see how they both compare on badly marked up, but renderable HTML, and XHTML. Normally XHTML should require a smaller memory overhead, than HTML, because HTML needs so many special case handling in order to handle badly marked up websites.
Maybe they need to realize when some pages that people make are taking up too much memory, or some extensions are using too much memory.
Yup. This is where usage studies are handy. It is easy to get into the trap of thinking "this is the way it is designed, this is how it should be used and therefore everyone is using it this way". Dropping into internet-cafés or looking at a non-technical user surfing the internet often show things about usage that you didn't necessarily think about.
I am not saying I do a better job as a developer, since I am often isolated from the end-user through management, but in a ideal world sitting down or observing the user counts for a lot.
It's about time someone challenged this tie-in with phones and carriers.
The biggest irony in all this is that Apple might have just made this happen, due to their exclusivity contract. Europe and the USA are different when it comes to the notion of competition and citizen rights. The fact that a major cell-phone can't be used on any network, the customer chooses, or doesn't have a version that can be used on any network is an issue.
There are few to no exclusivity contracts in European countries when it comes to cell phones, so generally the issue never came up, but now it has you can be sure that law maker will want to change things. The fact this cellphone is considered an object of desire by some, makes this issue stand out even more.
It should be noted that in Belgium you can only buy cellphones contract free. The contract you sign is independant to the cell phone. In France you have to be given the choice of buying your cell phone with or without contract. Note, that there is no law in France preventing the phone you buy with contract being priced less than the out of contract phone. I am not aware of laws in other European countries.