I'm very similar, finances are the one area where I was forced to add some organizational help to preserve my credit score. By far the most helpful thing I've found in that area is Mint.com, I have it set up to start bugging me via email when the bills need to be paid soon.
Interesting, I hadn't thought about the placement of the sound source. I'm not an audiophile by any means but I do try to make sure I have decent speakers and headphones available as I love music. I'll check it out when I'm home sometime, thanks!
I'm curious do you say this because a lot of people tend to have better quality headphones than computer speakers or do the headphones still make a big difference even if a high quality speaker setup is used?
Having visited the region this summer I can't say much about inner Detroit as I only drove through but the area surrounding it is actually very nice. Go north more and it's beautiful. Another plus, they actually know how to drive out there, unlike my area of NJ.
As much as I like Android the most open source friendly current smartphone I know of is the Nokia N900. I would poke around some of the N900 focused forums, they may already be capable of what you're looking for and if not someone may have figured out how to add it already.
Bear in mind that as a publicly traded company they are legally obligated to maximize shareholder value. In this situation ethics and legal obligations are divergent. If you take the position that it is ethical to follow the law you are looking at a conundrum.
Ah, I don't have much experience with that one, not much of a Java Dev myself. At the time I was really using the MacBook I was doing a lot of Python and PHP, now I work as a C# developer. If I end up getting into Java more I'll definitely give it a shot.
If you stand on a public street, it is legal to take pictures of anything you see: there is no expectation of privacy in public.
This is not necessarily the best analogy. Arguably if you stand on a public street with a high powered telephoto lens and take pictures of someone through a small opening in the drapes of a window....the story may be different.
Personally, I do agree with you that people using unencrypted wireless shouldn't expect it to be private--however, since most people are uneducated in this area they in fact do expect privacy and therefore the law grants it to them.
It could be argued that peeping through a small opening in the drapes is circumventing the users effort at protection. They did close the drapes, they clearly made an effort to prevent peeping. I would view that as similar to WEP encryption, it's full of holes and easily broken but in the case of intercepting WEP encrypted data you know the user made an effort to keep it private. Unencrypted wifi seems more equivalent to the person leaving the drapes wide open.
While it may seem like a noble goal nobody learns anything that way. When governments start worrying about protecting people from themselves it often results in the loss of freedoms over time.
While I agree with this on principle in some areas it really doesn't make a difference. Where my parents live for instance you can't even detect the SSID from the road, the signal simply won't reach that far and they would notice someone running around in their yard with a laptop. (Houses tend to be very spread out in rural Maine) In their case I have the network set up for WEP but due to the aforementioned reasons it's fairly pointless anyway. (Thanks to Nintendo's crappy encryption support on the DS they can't use WPA or higher).
I've found more often than not the salespeople barely know anything about the product they are selling. It makes me sad that as a casual automotive enthusiast I can walk into the local dealership for a few different brands and easily know more about the cars being sold than the person whose job it is to sell them. I had to educate one on the difference between AWD and 4x4 (the classic, selectable kind) a few weeks ago.
All I can say on Symantec about this is maybe they talk to IT but they clearly don't talk to the end users who end up dealing with it on their machines.
My suspicion is that whoever posted the tweet had also grabbed a shortened URL for that video to send to their friends ("Hey check this out, lol") but then posted the wrong link.
I wish nobody clicked on those animated ads, possibly the most annoying form of advertising and the main reason I run adblock. If they didn't work the internet would be free of them.
I personally didn't find Xcode that impressive (If that's the IDE you are referring to). The one thing I really miss from when I used my MBP is TextMate, it's simply a brilliant piece of software. I wouldn't quite call it an IDE but calling it an editor doesn't seem to do it justice so I won't attempt to classify it.
For the record not all the complaints are baseless. I for one only started complaining about things that really drove me nuts when I had an iPhone, things that ultimately drove me away from the platform. The real annoyance for me was that Apple easily could have solved most of them were they not so damn draconian about the platform.
The first time I flashed Cyanogen mod it took me less than 15 minutes and one cable that came with the phone, now there are guides available that will take even less time. The first time I jailbroke my iPhone took me longer than that so forgive me if I fail to see your point here.
In addition, many of the things I jailbroke the iPhone to be able to do I was able to do out of the box with Android.
Android is still just as open, I think you are confusing things here. In the case you described the problem was not that Android wasn't open but that your hardware was crippled and not fully functional (which was likely done at AT&T's behest). The blame should be laid on the carrier and the hardware manufacturer, not the OS.
I've had both, and installing a custom ROM on your Android device can open up far more possibilities and changes than you get with jailbreaking. I would equate jailbreaking more closely with gaining root, that said from the day I took my N1 out of the box I was able to do things that required a jailbreak on iOS without root access.
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I'm very similar, finances are the one area where I was forced to add some organizational help to preserve my credit score. By far the most helpful thing I've found in that area is Mint.com, I have it set up to start bugging me via email when the bills need to be paid soon.
Interesting, I hadn't thought about the placement of the sound source. I'm not an audiophile by any means but I do try to make sure I have decent speakers and headphones available as I love music. I'll check it out when I'm home sometime, thanks!
I'm curious do you say this because a lot of people tend to have better quality headphones than computer speakers or do the headphones still make a big difference even if a high quality speaker setup is used?
Having visited the region this summer I can't say much about inner Detroit as I only drove through but the area surrounding it is actually very nice. Go north more and it's beautiful. Another plus, they actually know how to drive out there, unlike my area of NJ.
I think some anger management classes would do you a lot of good...
As much as I like Android the most open source friendly current smartphone I know of is the Nokia N900. I would poke around some of the N900 focused forums, they may already be capable of what you're looking for and if not someone may have figured out how to add it already.
Bear in mind that as a publicly traded company they are legally obligated to maximize shareholder value. In this situation ethics and legal obligations are divergent. If you take the position that it is ethical to follow the law you are looking at a conundrum.
I wish I had mod points so I could mod you up, the only difficulty would be choosing between Informative and Insightful.
Ah, I don't have much experience with that one, not much of a Java Dev myself. At the time I was really using the MacBook I was doing a lot of Python and PHP, now I work as a C# developer. If I end up getting into Java more I'll definitely give it a shot.
If you stand on a public street, it is legal to take pictures of anything you see: there is no expectation of privacy in public.
This is not necessarily the best analogy. Arguably if you stand on a public street with a high powered telephoto lens and take pictures of someone through a small opening in the drapes of a window....the story may be different.
Personally, I do agree with you that people using unencrypted wireless shouldn't expect it to be private--however, since most people are uneducated in this area they in fact do expect privacy and therefore the law grants it to them.
It could be argued that peeping through a small opening in the drapes is circumventing the users effort at protection. They did close the drapes, they clearly made an effort to prevent peeping. I would view that as similar to WEP encryption, it's full of holes and easily broken but in the case of intercepting WEP encrypted data you know the user made an effort to keep it private. Unencrypted wifi seems more equivalent to the person leaving the drapes wide open.
to protect people from themselves
While it may seem like a noble goal nobody learns anything that way. When governments start worrying about protecting people from themselves it often results in the loss of freedoms over time.
While I agree with this on principle in some areas it really doesn't make a difference. Where my parents live for instance you can't even detect the SSID from the road, the signal simply won't reach that far and they would notice someone running around in their yard with a laptop. (Houses tend to be very spread out in rural Maine) In their case I have the network set up for WEP but due to the aforementioned reasons it's fairly pointless anyway. (Thanks to Nintendo's crappy encryption support on the DS they can't use WPA or higher).
I've found more often than not the salespeople barely know anything about the product they are selling. It makes me sad that as a casual automotive enthusiast I can walk into the local dealership for a few different brands and easily know more about the cars being sold than the person whose job it is to sell them. I had to educate one on the difference between AWD and 4x4 (the classic, selectable kind) a few weeks ago.
All I can say on Symantec about this is maybe they talk to IT but they clearly don't talk to the end users who end up dealing with it on their machines.
My suspicion is that whoever posted the tweet had also grabbed a shortened URL for that video to send to their friends ("Hey check this out, lol") but then posted the wrong link.
I wish nobody clicked on those animated ads, possibly the most annoying form of advertising and the main reason I run adblock. If they didn't work the internet would be free of them.
I personally didn't find Xcode that impressive (If that's the IDE you are referring to). The one thing I really miss from when I used my MBP is TextMate, it's simply a brilliant piece of software. I wouldn't quite call it an IDE but calling it an editor doesn't seem to do it justice so I won't attempt to classify it.
I would have to disagree that HTML 5 is a suitable all-around replacement for Java.
I've wondered this myself, it's quite annoying.
People are still blaming Geohot for Sony's actions? Let Sony be responsible for their own decisions.
For the record not all the complaints are baseless. I for one only started complaining about things that really drove me nuts when I had an iPhone, things that ultimately drove me away from the platform. The real annoyance for me was that Apple easily could have solved most of them were they not so damn draconian about the platform.
Don't you think blaming AT&T would be more appropriate than blaming the OS?
The first time I flashed Cyanogen mod it took me less than 15 minutes and one cable that came with the phone, now there are guides available that will take even less time. The first time I jailbroke my iPhone took me longer than that so forgive me if I fail to see your point here.
In addition, many of the things I jailbroke the iPhone to be able to do I was able to do out of the box with Android.
Android is still just as open, I think you are confusing things here. In the case you described the problem was not that Android wasn't open but that your hardware was crippled and not fully functional (which was likely done at AT&T's behest). The blame should be laid on the carrier and the hardware manufacturer, not the OS.
I've had both, and installing a custom ROM on your Android device can open up far more possibilities and changes than you get with jailbreaking. I would equate jailbreaking more closely with gaining root, that said from the day I took my N1 out of the box I was able to do things that required a jailbreak on iOS without root access.