Shit happens, the way handle crisis is what matters. Zappos was very open about this, sent me an email, asked me to change password, set up new email addresses and web pages for this problem and questions that customers may have, and announced the issue quickly.
And this usage will increase hugely when Internet of Things as promoted by IBM and others will be more real. Don't forget that number of devices like TVs, cars, and refrigerators that people use is massive when compared with computers.
Here in Iran messages are censored but nobody knows for which words. It's not even consistent: when there's going to be a protest event or news the filtering increases. Normally it filters less words. People guess these words.
The worst happens for advertisers and advertising companies that send bulk SMS and later find out that nothing has delivered!
I'm really tired of hearing that Picasso quote again and again out of context. No, it's not about designing products. It's about getting something from the world around you and making it into a piece of art.
Yes, they're great in may aspects. But there's something wrong with them.
I can't exactly say what is this, but a major part of it is that they hate non-Apple. In the early 80s they were hating IBM. Later they switched to Microsoft. Now Google and Android is the devil of the time. That's why being a fan of Apple usually means hating Google, Microsoft, Linux, FSF, and everybody else. I don't get it. I'm a fan of Apple, and am a big of lots of others too.
They think they are the only one doing actual work. Everybody else is copying Apple, but everything Apple does is new. They always talk about Apple's "innovation," and love talking about how everyone else is doing nothing but copying Apple. When we're talking about Apple products, they understand it very well that technology evolves, and Apple using already-available technology seems second-nature to them. When we turn to others... no, technology does not evolve. It begins at One Infinite Loop.
Also, they think everything Apple does is superior to every other competitor with no question. iTunes and iDevice don't support FLAC because they have Apple Lossless, but most of audiophiles have large collections of FLAC files. I remember John Gruber had lots of problems with a particular version of Safari, but the only solution he didn't consider was switching to another browser, because Safari is the browser.
And all of this comes from Steve Jobs' personality. That's normal because most companies are like their founders.
I wish Apple itself was half as good as their products.
It's not a secret that professionals were a major target of Apple's marketing for a long time, and now things have changed.
Most of Slashdot readers here might remember the time when "Pro" was among the items of apple.com's menu bar. Professionals were important to Apple then because they were the source of a considerable portion of company's revenue. Apple's main campaign then encouraged people to be different. Now it encourages people to buy an iPhone because everybody else have one. Because there's no need to focus on a niche market when you can have a major market.
But Apple is not pushing anyone away. Why should it do that? It just doesn't put them at the top of their list anymore.
There's no one today in the tech world who can easily claim he's not been affected by RMS's works. It's funny that Apple's Xcode uses FSF's GCC.
But he's a lot like super fanboys of Apple: blind about their own choice and thinking that others who don't use what they use have a problem. Calling others fool because they use Apple products is not a great way of achieving any constructive goal.
What saddens me is seeing people who think that liking one of these good things also means hating others. I'm a big fan of Apple, but I'm also a big fan of FSF, Google, and others too.
Today I spent most of time using Emacs on a MacBook Air.
Talking in public about these is not a good idea (specially that you're name in the story links directly to your Gmail address), but no, I didn't have to change the port. It stopped working last week, but that was for a few days only. Anyway, I suggest that you never rely on only one anti-censorship solution. Have a handful of them at your disposal, and switch to another when one of them doesn't work.
The summary says Iran started internet censorship after the election and people started using VPN from then. No, it's not like that.
First, internet censorship goes back to at 7 or 8 years, IIRC. Long before the election. Second, anti-censorship tools have always been changing in all these years. VPN is just the main tool of most of people now, but even two years ago (right after election) few people knew VPN and used other tools.
So, things look tough, but it's not that we are going to lose our connection with the world. We always find a solution. Even right now I'm using a PPTP VPN and if you see this comment it works well.
The only solution to prevent people from accessing sites the government doesn't like would be to shut down internet connection with the outside world completely. And I hope they won't do that, at least not for long.
Forgot to mention Brightly in my submitted story! This part is FAQ of the email is interesting:
How does this affect our cloud IDE (Brightly)?
Brightly will enable building any web application in V1 using today’s
Javascript plus the additions in Harmony. As soon as it is ready, Brightly
will support Dash as well. We expect that the more prescriptive development
aspects of Brightly that will come on line in the future will be more Dash
focused.
We expect Brightly itself to be the first application written in Dash.
The most strange point of yesterday for me was iCloud: cloud storage without native apps. Everybody talks about cloud with web apps and all (and that's why they call it cloud "computing"), but with new iCloud API Apple is trying to provide a cloud experience to it's users and keeping it's native apps at the same time.
Apple enjoys it's famous "app gap" when it comes to native app, and it also has a great income for them. More importantly: it locks users in.
I'm certainly interested in web apps, and really love developing and using them much more than native apps in most cases, but I should admit Apple's move is smart in keeping both cloud and it's native apps. Time will show how they will succeed in this.
That's shit!
Why are you suggesting new sanctions and why everybody +1-ed this as "Interesting"? The government here doesn't give a shit about any of these and the only ones who actually suffer these restrictions are us Iranian people who live in the country.
Our government already does enough silly things to us, why do you suggest accompanying them with more powerful, international silly things against us?
"I decided to just bite the bullet, and call the next version 3.0. It will get released close enough to the 20-year mark, which is excuse enough for me, although honestly, the real reason is just that I can no longe rcomfortably count as high as 40," said Linus.
Oh, please, don't take this claim seriously. Ask almost any Iranian and they'll tell you the truth: he's lying. Very simple. After all, nobody knows our government better than ourselves. In the similar cases, first of all, a security-related officer comes and says we've arrested the spies and other people involved with the crime (even if all the experts say this virus is about destruction, not spying). Then they arrest a few people unrelated to the matter (usually guilty of other things, sometimes innocent). Then the media forget the thing and we're ready for the next spies. Maybe I am a spy myself, writing our internal country culture and information on a spying website (surely sponsored by CIA, hosted in Tel Aviv).
If you're going to take Android's route, and you need just one book I recommend this. I'm managing a team of three Android developers and this is one book everybody in the team is fighting for! Don't look at the title, you can start learning Android with it.
Sometimes you don't launch a product for the use of the customers who are willing to buy it, but to show off that your brand is a leader and ahead of the others, giving reason to people for loving your brand, and helping the sales of your other products.
I don't think so, not because MS have been making phone OS for a decade, but because iOS and Android are so young too. After all, Android is just two years old and iPhone has not finished its fourth year yet. Indeed, they've been doing great in these short years, but that doesn't mean they've guaranteed they're eternal success in the mobile industry.
Do you still remember the term "netbook"? That's a good use for Chrome OS. Though it will be nice if we could see Android and Chrome OS for different tablet devices. After all, "tablet" is going to be meaning something like "computer," and having different OSes for different tablets isn't that bad.
Content providers somewhat have to agree on whatever pricing policy Apple forces them. Apple have been so successful for the last ten years that companies don't think they can afford losing its platform to sell their product or service. If Steve Jobs suggested something similar to music companies in 2000 for iTunes and iPod they would have kicked him out of their offices.
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All the companies that I used to love are doing shit these days. What's happening?
Shit happens, the way handle crisis is what matters. Zappos was very open about this, sent me an email, asked me to change password, set up new email addresses and web pages for this problem and questions that customers may have, and announced the issue quickly.
I wish more companies would act like this.
And this usage will increase hugely when Internet of Things as promoted by IBM and others will be more real. Don't forget that number of devices like TVs, cars, and refrigerators that people use is massive when compared with computers.
I used to love not only computer games, but also those "cool" people who made it. It no longer feels like that. Where are they?
Here in Iran messages are censored but nobody knows for which words. It's not even consistent: when there's going to be a protest event or news the filtering increases. Normally it filters less words. People guess these words. The worst happens for advertisers and advertising companies that send bulk SMS and later find out that nothing has delivered!
"Good artists borrow; great artists steal." -Steve Jobs
I'm really tired of hearing that Picasso quote again and again out of context. No, it's not about designing products. It's about getting something from the world around you and making it into a piece of art.
There's something badly wrong about Apple.
Yes, they're great in may aspects. But there's something wrong with them.
I can't exactly say what is this, but a major part of it is that they hate non-Apple. In the early 80s they were hating IBM. Later they switched to Microsoft. Now Google and Android is the devil of the time. That's why being a fan of Apple usually means hating Google, Microsoft, Linux, FSF, and everybody else. I don't get it. I'm a fan of Apple, and am a big of lots of others too.
They think they are the only one doing actual work. Everybody else is copying Apple, but everything Apple does is new. They always talk about Apple's "innovation," and love talking about how everyone else is doing nothing but copying Apple. When we're talking about Apple products, they understand it very well that technology evolves, and Apple using already-available technology seems second-nature to them. When we turn to others... no, technology does not evolve. It begins at One Infinite Loop.
Also, they think everything Apple does is superior to every other competitor with no question. iTunes and iDevice don't support FLAC because they have Apple Lossless, but most of audiophiles have large collections of FLAC files. I remember John Gruber had lots of problems with a particular version of Safari, but the only solution he didn't consider was switching to another browser, because Safari is the browser.
And all of this comes from Steve Jobs' personality. That's normal because most companies are like their founders.
I wish Apple itself was half as good as their products.
It's not a secret that professionals were a major target of Apple's marketing for a long time, and now things have changed.
Most of Slashdot readers here might remember the time when "Pro" was among the items of apple.com's menu bar. Professionals were important to Apple then because they were the source of a considerable portion of company's revenue. Apple's main campaign then encouraged people to be different. Now it encourages people to buy an iPhone because everybody else have one. Because there's no need to focus on a niche market when you can have a major market.
But Apple is not pushing anyone away. Why should it do that? It just doesn't put them at the top of their list anymore.
Record retro-looking films with them! Retro pictures and videos are the trend now.
There's no one today in the tech world who can easily claim he's not been affected by RMS's works. It's funny that Apple's Xcode uses FSF's GCC.
But he's a lot like super fanboys of Apple: blind about their own choice and thinking that others who don't use what they use have a problem. Calling others fool because they use Apple products is not a great way of achieving any constructive goal.
What saddens me is seeing people who think that liking one of these good things also means hating others. I'm a big fan of Apple, but I'm also a big fan of FSF, Google, and others too.
Today I spent most of time using Emacs on a MacBook Air.
Talking in public about these is not a good idea (specially that you're name in the story links directly to your Gmail address), but no, I didn't have to change the port. It stopped working last week, but that was for a few days only. Anyway, I suggest that you never rely on only one anti-censorship solution. Have a handful of them at your disposal, and switch to another when one of them doesn't work.
The summary says Iran started internet censorship after the election and people started using VPN from then. No, it's not like that. First, internet censorship goes back to at 7 or 8 years, IIRC. Long before the election. Second, anti-censorship tools have always been changing in all these years. VPN is just the main tool of most of people now, but even two years ago (right after election) few people knew VPN and used other tools. So, things look tough, but it's not that we are going to lose our connection with the world. We always find a solution. Even right now I'm using a PPTP VPN and if you see this comment it works well. The only solution to prevent people from accessing sites the government doesn't like would be to shut down internet connection with the outside world completely. And I hope they won't do that, at least not for long.
How does this affect our cloud IDE (Brightly)?
Brightly will enable building any web application in V1 using today’s Javascript plus the additions in Harmony. As soon as it is ready, Brightly will support Dash as well. We expect that the more prescriptive development aspects of Brightly that will come on line in the future will be more Dash focused.
We expect Brightly itself to be the first application written in Dash.
So what is it going to be called? Dart or Dash?
It seems that it used to be called Dash, but was later renamed to Dart.
And you slashdot their homepage at the same time? Poor admins!
The most strange point of yesterday for me was iCloud: cloud storage without native apps. Everybody talks about cloud with web apps and all (and that's why they call it cloud "computing"), but with new iCloud API Apple is trying to provide a cloud experience to it's users and keeping it's native apps at the same time.
Apple enjoys it's famous "app gap" when it comes to native app, and it also has a great income for them. More importantly: it locks users in.
I'm certainly interested in web apps, and really love developing and using them much more than native apps in most cases, but I should admit Apple's move is smart in keeping both cloud and it's native apps. Time will show how they will succeed in this.
That's shit! Why are you suggesting new sanctions and why everybody +1-ed this as "Interesting"? The government here doesn't give a shit about any of these and the only ones who actually suffer these restrictions are us Iranian people who live in the country. Our government already does enough silly things to us, why do you suggest accompanying them with more powerful, international silly things against us?
"I decided to just bite the bullet, and call the next version 3.0. It will get released close enough to the 20-year mark, which is excuse enough for me, although honestly, the real reason is just that I can no longe rcomfortably count as high as 40," said Linus.
Oh, please, don't take this claim seriously. Ask almost any Iranian and they'll tell you the truth: he's lying. Very simple. After all, nobody knows our government better than ourselves. In the similar cases, first of all, a security-related officer comes and says we've arrested the spies and other people involved with the crime (even if all the experts say this virus is about destruction, not spying). Then they arrest a few people unrelated to the matter (usually guilty of other things, sometimes innocent). Then the media forget the thing and we're ready for the next spies. Maybe I am a spy myself, writing our internal country culture and information on a spying website (surely sponsored by CIA, hosted in Tel Aviv).
If you're going to take Android's route, and you need just one book I recommend this. I'm managing a team of three Android developers and this is one book everybody in the team is fighting for! Don't look at the title, you can start learning Android with it.
Sometimes you don't launch a product for the use of the customers who are willing to buy it, but to show off that your brand is a leader and ahead of the others, giving reason to people for loving your brand, and helping the sales of your other products.
They're entering the market so late, ...
I don't think so, not because MS have been making phone OS for a decade, but because iOS and Android are so young too. After all, Android is just two years old and iPhone has not finished its fourth year yet. Indeed, they've been doing great in these short years, but that doesn't mean they've guaranteed they're eternal success in the mobile industry.
Do you still remember the term "netbook"? That's a good use for Chrome OS. Though it will be nice if we could see Android and Chrome OS for different tablet devices. After all, "tablet" is going to be meaning something like "computer," and having different OSes for different tablets isn't that bad.
Also, Google itself have admitted that Android currently isn't the OS for tablets. They say version 3.0 will be their "tablet-friendly" Android. Maybe that's why Motorola says it won't enter tablet market until 2010. They say they want to deliver a device thats "competitive in the marketplace." I guess that means they can't compete with iPad with Android 2.2.
Content providers somewhat have to agree on whatever pricing policy Apple forces them. Apple have been so successful for the last ten years that companies don't think they can afford losing its platform to sell their product or service. If Steve Jobs suggested something similar to music companies in 2000 for iTunes and iPod they would have kicked him out of their offices.
I was in India a few months ago and saw the car there. Its price in India was almost one third of this.