For both cases there are solutions. You can pay a third party to charge you for the software and support (and rights to sue) for all the Open Source software out there. Suse and Red Hat both provide such a service.
People with your low opinion of the sanctity of our Election Process. The crime is worse because he was trying to affect a national election by committing a crime. But if you're okay with it because it was Palin, then you open it up for everyone everywhere to try. What really must piss you off is that the guy didn't find any dirt on Palin.
None of that fixes MY problem with the MarketPlace. It is that there is a bunch of CRAP apps that don't do anything except show T&A or Sports Logos.
I don't need or want to see those, and why can't they be put in their own section? Then people who want to put that crap on their phone can find what they want quicker and easier, and I don't have to sort through the crap to find something useful.
I mean I just looked for something new / interesting and saw one app with several dozen versions, one for each sport team skin for the app. Signal Noise is way too low.
And why would a developer do it that way? Give the app away, charge for skins. If your app is good, it should stand alone, and not have to depend on Logos or T&A girls.
I try Bing about once a month for a day. I'm constantly changing back to Google to find the results I'm looking for. It isn't for lack of trying, but the result is that I can't stand Bing. I've even begun to suggest that BING stands for "Bing Is Not Google".
It is a surprise because it does nothing to prove that he did, or didn't shoot a bunch of people. This is for the later "blame game" that will be played out by the lawyers that has no real bearing on guilt or innocence of the suspect. The end "blame game" is of course not part of "justice" in any sense, but has become ingrained into the legal system because it plays upon the emotions and sympathies of juries.
Yeah, I'm disappointed in the selection of apps for the droid. I'm not sure how many "sexy girl" of the day apps we need, but it seems clear there is a huge demand for naked and scantily clad girls. And Sports Teams.
How about filters that work? Having to scroll through the chaff to get to the nuggets is painful.
So cheating is okay in your world? When is cheating okay?
Let see if everyone played by those rules (Cheaters win), and everyone cheated, how would that really work out for everyone?
Cheating is nothing more than the "end justifies the means" ethics, and people who subscribe to that love systems like Fascism because the trains ran on time.
I'm just saying, that Kobayashi Maru was short sighted. It worked for Kirk, because he realized the simulation was rigged (a kind of cheat), and cheated the cheaters for the win. It doesn't work as general principle to operate on.
I'm sorry, but I'm glad we don't have a "reset" button. I'm the person I am today, because of the experiences I've had. Had I made different choices, I'd be a different person than I am today.
The StarTrek Episode with Q giving Picard a second chance at life gives a good illustration of this point. Picard, choosing the "safe" choices as he went through life ended up not at a Captain of the Flagship, but rather as no-named Red Shirt Lieutenant stuck in the bowels of the ship.
The choices we make have consequences (often unintended). We have to learn to live with them. You may not like the person you would have been.
Just yesterday, one of my best friends, a diehard Apple guy, was asking me about my DroidX and I was showing it to him. He has a iPhone with AT&T right now, and with the iPhone coming to Verizon in a couple weeks, he is considering switching not only carriers but also phones. He wanted to know how I like the DroidX and I was showing him everything on it. He was impressed. He especially liked the widgets on the home screen (ie Multitiasking)
I don't know how impressed he was, of if he was impressed enough to switch, I'll know when he's got a new phone.
But suffice it to say, he is looking at other phones. I wouldn't bet that he gets a Droid, he'll most likely end up on iPhone/VZ, but that isn't exactly what you asked. He's at least considering it.
Hey, question for you. Would you want me to draw the same conclusion based on Desktop OS market share?
What I see is that different people want different things. It isn't as black and white as you seem to be suggesting. In fact, at this point, One set of phones by one vendor on one network and is just about equal to another type of phone, on multiple networks, by multiple vendors.
And soon (within a month) you'll see the phone, on another network, I wonder what the next quarter is going to look like to those numbers.
I'm not sure if you meant it, but the inference you're making is that people are stupid and can't choose right, and that you're smarter than they are. MOST people want a choice of phones and networks and vendors, so they can choose the phone they like without others telling them what to like. That's what I see.
He fixed it. I was in a rewrite loop before. See his post above.
link works. what doesnt work, is the complex seo friendly language virtual subdirectory rewriting mod_rewrite rules that are on the site.htaccess, due to apache 1 - apache 2 difference.
As for "browser" issues, I mainly use FF, because Chrome still doesn't have decent Adblock plugin. Though I use Chrome for Google Goodness, like Gmail. I also have Safari, Opera, IE8 installed.
You might want to fix your GirlieGirlie link, or the website itself, as neither work. And if that is an indication of the work you to for that "codebase"... no thanks.
It is simply called "boundaries". This world is unaccustomed to people who have them. I work to support my life; my work is not my life. The saddest people I know, their work is their life and they know nothing else but work. They are sad and lonely, and will die unremembered and anonymous and they will not be missed, which makes it all the sadder.
I have a wife I love, kids I adore, family and friends I cherish.
Nobody on their death bed ever utters with regret "I wish I spent more time at the office".
On the other hand, I'm happy to trade more time at the office for OT pay, and at my choice. I'm sad for people who don't have this option, they end up slaves to the system.
You are right. Which is why I included the comment on the false dichotomy. You have a choice between the blue pill or the red pill... where is the green pill, yellow pill and my favorite, purple pill?
It was him or Meg Whitman. I'm not liberal at all, but I think the better of those two is now in office. But really, I hate the false dichotomy of (R) vs (D).
Private phones are not allowed on the system. No need for "support" on private equipment. In fact, if you touch someone's personal devices you own it forever.
I work in IT, it is simple as saying "we cannot support personal devices at work". And it requires it to be Policy. At my job, I have a personal cell phone that I get a stipend for, it is my device, I own it, I use it for work and personal. Google Voice to the rescue. I turn on DND at 5:00 PM, and off at 7:30am.Those are the hours you can contact me.. guaranteed. Anything above that requires OT and an account code to pay for it (I'm not salaried), and planning.
I'm on stipend because I don't have a regular office phone, and am fairly mobile. I'm all for cutting the perks. Just because you're "Government" doesn't mean you have rights to stuff normal people have to pay for.
I kill tasks because battery life is WAY better after using it. "Nearly" isn't "Totally" and not "nearly enough" for me. I like using without having to plug it in half way through the day.
Sorry, but I like my analog glasses just fine. I'd hate to have to constantly flip between LCD mode and normal mode. That would drive me nuts more than my graduated glasses are now.
I think part of the reason why Androids aren't as responsive is that they are truly multitasking, while Apples only offer limited multitasking. And when you overtax the multitasking capabilities of a processor, it affects responsiveness.
I have a Droid X, and I keep it lean and clean. IT is responsive as it needs to be. I use it as a PHONE that is smart, not as a smart phone. I don't have a bunch of crap running because "it can". I don't play games, don't have a billion ringtones, don't run fancy live wall paper I'll never look at. And I run task killer to keep the transient applications silent and off the processor.
The iPhone does have more "polish" than Froyo has, but its also been around longer to get more polish. I'm glad I have the Droid. Best damn phone I've ever had.
Because, with the hiring of the guy, comes NDA and contracts and all sorts of legal recourses that are now at my disposal, that I currently do not have. In fact, I'd hire the guy as a "consultant" for a very short period, with a really big legal leash on the guy for exactly that reason alone. Give the guy $250,000 for six months of "consulting" on the security of the new PS4, and have a lifetime of legal immunity from him cracking anything.
The guy gets all sorts of street cred, and a big boost in potential income for the rest of his life, notoriety and fame in the mainstream marketplace, beyond the "hacker community" he currently has.
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For both cases there are solutions. You can pay a third party to charge you for the software and support (and rights to sue) for all the Open Source software out there. Suse and Red Hat both provide such a service.
So, yeah, both are not even an issue.
Finally, a link between Midi-Chlorians and the RDF, proving that Jobs is either a Dark Lord of the Sith, or Jedi Knight.
I'll leave that to another debate
People with your low opinion of the sanctity of our Election Process. The crime is worse because he was trying to affect a national election by committing a crime. But if you're okay with it because it was Palin, then you open it up for everyone everywhere to try. What really must piss you off is that the guy didn't find any dirt on Palin.
They already know he planned it. "I planned it" doesn't give it away??
He is insane. No sane person would be obsessed like he has (by all accounts), going back years.
GTA isn't on trial, but I'm sure it will be (or whatever game), and if he wasn't playing games, maybe even THAT will be on trial.
He'll get his trial (in two years), he'll get his insanity plea. Just don't know why this has any bearing on 1) Did he do it, 2) is he crazy.
None of that fixes MY problem with the MarketPlace. It is that there is a bunch of CRAP apps that don't do anything except show T&A or Sports Logos.
I don't need or want to see those, and why can't they be put in their own section? Then people who want to put that crap on their phone can find what they want quicker and easier, and I don't have to sort through the crap to find something useful.
I mean I just looked for something new / interesting and saw one app with several dozen versions, one for each sport team skin for the app. Signal Noise is way too low.
And why would a developer do it that way? Give the app away, charge for skins. If your app is good, it should stand alone, and not have to depend on Logos or T&A girls.
My $.02
I try Bing about once a month for a day. I'm constantly changing back to Google to find the results I'm looking for. It isn't for lack of trying, but the result is that I can't stand Bing. I've even begun to suggest that BING stands for "Bing Is Not Google".
No, there are FOUR lights.
http://videosift.com/video/How-many-lights-do-you-see-Captain-Great-Picard-Moment
It is a surprise because it does nothing to prove that he did, or didn't shoot a bunch of people. This is for the later "blame game" that will be played out by the lawyers that has no real bearing on guilt or innocence of the suspect. The end "blame game" is of course not part of "justice" in any sense, but has become ingrained into the legal system because it plays upon the emotions and sympathies of juries.
Yeah, I'm disappointed in the selection of apps for the droid. I'm not sure how many "sexy girl" of the day apps we need, but it seems clear there is a huge demand for naked and scantily clad girls. And Sports Teams.
How about filters that work? Having to scroll through the chaff to get to the nuggets is painful.
So cheating is okay in your world? When is cheating okay?
Let see if everyone played by those rules (Cheaters win), and everyone cheated, how would that really work out for everyone?
Cheating is nothing more than the "end justifies the means" ethics, and people who subscribe to that love systems like Fascism because the trains ran on time.
I'm just saying, that Kobayashi Maru was short sighted. It worked for Kirk, because he realized the simulation was rigged (a kind of cheat), and cheated the cheaters for the win. It doesn't work as general principle to operate on.
I'm sorry, but I'm glad we don't have a "reset" button. I'm the person I am today, because of the experiences I've had. Had I made different choices, I'd be a different person than I am today.
The StarTrek Episode with Q giving Picard a second chance at life gives a good illustration of this point. Picard, choosing the "safe" choices as he went through life ended up not at a Captain of the Flagship, but rather as no-named Red Shirt Lieutenant stuck in the bowels of the ship.
The choices we make have consequences (often unintended). We have to learn to live with them. You may not like the person you would have been.
Yes.
Just yesterday, one of my best friends, a diehard Apple guy, was asking me about my DroidX and I was showing it to him. He has a iPhone with AT&T right now, and with the iPhone coming to Verizon in a couple weeks, he is considering switching not only carriers but also phones. He wanted to know how I like the DroidX and I was showing him everything on it. He was impressed. He especially liked the widgets on the home screen (ie Multitiasking)
I don't know how impressed he was, of if he was impressed enough to switch, I'll know when he's got a new phone.
But suffice it to say, he is looking at other phones. I wouldn't bet that he gets a Droid, he'll most likely end up on iPhone/VZ, but that isn't exactly what you asked. He's at least considering it.
Hey, question for you. Would you want me to draw the same conclusion based on Desktop OS market share?
What I see is that different people want different things. It isn't as black and white as you seem to be suggesting. In fact, at this point, One set of phones by one vendor on one network and is just about equal to another type of phone, on multiple networks, by multiple vendors.
And soon (within a month) you'll see the phone, on another network, I wonder what the next quarter is going to look like to those numbers.
I'm not sure if you meant it, but the inference you're making is that people are stupid and can't choose right, and that you're smarter than they are. MOST people want a choice of phones and networks and vendors, so they can choose the phone they like without others telling them what to like. That's what I see.
it works now.
He fixed it. I was in a rewrite loop before. See his post above.
As for "browser" issues, I mainly use FF, because Chrome still doesn't have decent Adblock plugin. Though I use Chrome for Google Goodness, like Gmail. I also have Safari, Opera, IE8 installed.
Which browser would you suggest?
You might want to fix your GirlieGirlie link, or the website itself, as neither work. And if that is an indication of the work you to for that "codebase" ... no thanks.
It is simply called "boundaries". This world is unaccustomed to people who have them. I work to support my life; my work is not my life. The saddest people I know, their work is their life and they know nothing else but work. They are sad and lonely, and will die unremembered and anonymous and they will not be missed, which makes it all the sadder.
I have a wife I love, kids I adore, family and friends I cherish.
Nobody on their death bed ever utters with regret "I wish I spent more time at the office".
On the other hand, I'm happy to trade more time at the office for OT pay, and at my choice. I'm sad for people who don't have this option, they end up slaves to the system.
You are right. Which is why I included the comment on the false dichotomy. You have a choice between the blue pill or the red pill ... where is the green pill, yellow pill and my favorite, purple pill?
most of the 800,000 are simply misplaced or temporary. Amber Alerts are used for Child Abduction, mostly, where a hostile kidnapping has taken place.
Most missing kids don't get Amber Alerts issued.
It was him or Meg Whitman. I'm not liberal at all, but I think the better of those two is now in office. But really, I hate the false dichotomy of (R) vs (D).
Private phones are not allowed on the system. No need for "support" on private equipment. In fact, if you touch someone's personal devices you own it forever.
I work in IT, it is simple as saying "we cannot support personal devices at work". And it requires it to be Policy. At my job, I have a personal cell phone that I get a stipend for, it is my device, I own it, I use it for work and personal. Google Voice to the rescue. I turn on DND at 5:00 PM, and off at 7:30am .Those are the hours you can contact me .. guaranteed. Anything above that requires OT and an account code to pay for it (I'm not salaried), and planning.
I'm on stipend because I don't have a regular office phone, and am fairly mobile. I'm all for cutting the perks. Just because you're "Government" doesn't mean you have rights to stuff normal people have to pay for.
I kill tasks because battery life is WAY better after using it. "Nearly" isn't "Totally" and not "nearly enough" for me. I like using without having to plug it in half way through the day.
breaking and expensive replacements.
Sorry, but I like my analog glasses just fine. I'd hate to have to constantly flip between LCD mode and normal mode. That would drive me nuts more than my graduated glasses are now.
Not everything is better digitally.
I think part of the reason why Androids aren't as responsive is that they are truly multitasking, while Apples only offer limited multitasking. And when you overtax the multitasking capabilities of a processor, it affects responsiveness.
I have a Droid X, and I keep it lean and clean. IT is responsive as it needs to be. I use it as a PHONE that is smart, not as a smart phone. I don't have a bunch of crap running because "it can". I don't play games, don't have a billion ringtones, don't run fancy live wall paper I'll never look at. And I run task killer to keep the transient applications silent and off the processor.
The iPhone does have more "polish" than Froyo has, but its also been around longer to get more polish. I'm glad I have the Droid. Best damn phone I've ever had.
Actually, yes. I would.
Because, with the hiring of the guy, comes NDA and contracts and all sorts of legal recourses that are now at my disposal, that I currently do not have. In fact, I'd hire the guy as a "consultant" for a very short period, with a really big legal leash on the guy for exactly that reason alone. Give the guy $250,000 for six months of "consulting" on the security of the new PS4, and have a lifetime of legal immunity from him cracking anything.
The guy gets all sorts of street cred, and a big boost in potential income for the rest of his life, notoriety and fame in the mainstream marketplace, beyond the "hacker community" he currently has.
So yeah, I would hire him. In a heartbeat.
Slightly off topic, but I can't let this slide.
Hope you're not on the anti-Sarah Palin/Giffords Assassination Attempt bandwagon. Because if you are, you're just a hypocrite.
Yes, I know you are being symbolic, and aren't REALLY suggesting real harm come to Sony Execs.
Sorry, but I'm sick of kneejerks reacting only when it suits them.