I dislocated my jaw yawning at the offerings. Yes, neat, as long as you only do a couple light-weight tasks at a time. Otherwise, S-L-O-W. Want speed, get a desktop, want to sacrifice speed for portability, tablet/slate is fine, just don't expect it to be a desktop. Effectively it's the revolution of the Kindle-wannabes.
(quote)The bigger problem is the people who are "stuck" with Verizon for the next (up to) 24 months, and not those considering a new plan with Verizon(/end quote)
Every time Verizon or someone else futher distills evil in the telco field I just thanks my lucky stars I'm on a pre-paid plan and have my mind made up that I will NEVER do a contract again.
Feel pity for the business users who are stuck with this bullshit.
Any site which provides enough flashy ads to pull me away from content is en bloc, that means block 'http://annoying.adserver.com/*'
Unobtrustive ads sitting quietly to the side are the ultimate winners as I don't block anything that doesn't move (or try to talk to me,) unless it's served up by 'http://annoying.adserver.com' then that advertiser has been harmed by the ads from Big Flashy In Your Face Company.
The funny thing is, by reading Slashdot, one gets the impression that the CCP (and thus the gummint) has clamped down on everything.
Yet, I know people who travel there regularly and they state, you can get anything you want as long as you know where to go or who to talk to. Much is readily available in stores which is supposedly banned.
China may pass laws, but the enforcement is a whole different matter.
Then it's still part of a normal curve for the iPhone.
1. Wild Enthusiasm And Promises Of Products To Come 2. First Crude Products 3. High Quality Products 4. Too Many Products 5. Thinning Of The Herd 6. Low Quality Products 7. Market Is Barren Wasteland
So when those very enterprising chinese get around to the knock-offs on these which you'll be able to buy on eBay (without the brand name, but at a fraction of the cost!) I'm thinking I stop flying.
I'm on my 4th mobile phone, since the 1980's. Mostly because of gaps here and there, because plans were expensive and I didn't really need a mobile too much.
Now I'm on Pre-Paid and love it. Per month cost is 5 to 10 bucks, which leaves a _lot_ of money for things like buying a GPSr which will work more reliably in most places my mobile phone can't even score 1 bar (like much of Uvas Road, near Morgan Hill, California, where I witnessed an accident, but couldn't make a mobile phone call - nobody could! This, not far outside Silicon Valley!)
For commuters in Chicago, Lost Angeles, New Yawk, Bahston, Houston, Atalanta, etc. I expect their mobile to do a fine job for them, but in the crags, hollers and gulches they will likely find themselves utterly lost ("Why does the arrow say I'm 500 ft off the road?" - because it's guessing, based upon rate of speed and direction, which doesn't work is mazes of twisty little passages - all alike.)
I'll stick with a mobile for mobile stuff and a GPSr for GPSr stuff.
I wanna be the first Martian. The Sun is too harsh on this rock, I need a few more million miles between it and me. Also, I'll be able to plant the first GeoCaches *8^)
Biggest Gripe about coding .. shouldn't be coders
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I'm disguted, repeatedly, at what passes for applications these days. Back when I started we wrote tight, purposeful code and optimised for speed or size. But now I'm constantly encountering untested code, applications which have the most bombastic interfaces, layouts which seem more ad hoc than well planned and a dozen other gripes.
Can't be all the coders faults. Whatever happened to Q/A? Whatever happened to analysts who have a clue? I keep seeing people who have no background in IT making decisions and overruling experince wiht seat of the pants decisions. Even to the point of corrupting data and having no fall-back plan.
I feel I need to retire, but I'm many, many years from that.
I'd like a book which discusses the EPIC FAIL of present day standards and practices of software development.
Seriously, I try to scroll and the delay is very noticable to the point of annoying. I can load other large pages and scroll no problem. Is it a javascript performance issue or Firefox?
"AT&T currently offers two types of prepaid plans: GoPhone, its "pay as you go" plan, and Pick Your Plan, its "prepay once a month" plan. AT&T's statement says that GoPhone will not be available for either original iPhones or iPhone 3Gs; Pick Your Plan will only continue to work for existing subscribers using the original iPhone, as long as they have an unlimited data plan. Current Pick Your Plan users who don't have an unlimited data plan will be asked to add one. iPhone 3G users are not eligible for Pick Your Plan.
According to Erica Sadun at TUAW, who's been investigating this issue, all pay-as-you-go users are being strongly encouraged to sign up for a postpaid plan, which includes making a new two-year commitment."
Looks like I'll be waiting a year for the Apple/AT&T agreement to time-out. I'll not do a two year agreement again, ever.
I looked at the Microvision ShowWx and it's this beautifully CGI rendered object. I expect, should it ever actually become available, it will look exactly like it.:-\
Most shop will just ignore this little twist and downgrade to xp anyway. No sane admin will run a mix of os on user workstations if he can prevent it.
Guess you live in that mythical land where the bean counters, CIO and CEO all believe in lock-step technology moves. Unlike we here, who must do with when money is available we buy computers, often stuck for choice to what the market is selling at that point (i.e. WinXP boxen not for sale, but Vista are, so we have some Vista boxen.)
ffs. Where's the bloke hammering his keyboard and spitting at the screen over the OS cock up which lost all his work? Last night I didn't so much as get a blue screen, It just went black. (oh yes, Arrr!!!)
Slashdot Mirror
Part of managing a company is knowing your weaknesses.
Knowing your weaknesses is not the same as having them advertised to the world by a White House advisor!
There was something in Hamlet about a ghost not needing to appear to tell us this.
Spew Cornflakes, sure.
Actually do anything about it? Dream on.
of the new Virus.
I dislocated my jaw yawning at the offerings. Yes, neat, as long as you only do a couple light-weight tasks at a time. Otherwise, S-L-O-W. Want speed, get a desktop, want to sacrifice speed for portability, tablet/slate is fine, just don't expect it to be a desktop. Effectively it's the revolution of the Kindle-wannabes.
(quote)The bigger problem is the people who are "stuck" with Verizon for the next (up to) 24 months, and not those considering a new plan with Verizon(/end quote)
Every time Verizon or someone else futher distills evil in the telco field I just thanks my lucky stars I'm on a pre-paid plan and have my mind made up that I will NEVER do a contract again.
Feel pity for the business users who are stuck with this bullshit.
I'm expecting Dave Bing (formerly of the Detroit Pistons and Bing Steel) to chime in on this, as well as the estate of Bing Crosby. :)
Any site which provides enough flashy ads to pull me away from content is en bloc, that means block 'http://annoying.adserver.com/*'
Unobtrustive ads sitting quietly to the side are the ultimate winners as I don't block anything that doesn't move (or try to talk to me,) unless it's served up by 'http://annoying.adserver.com' then that advertiser has been harmed by the ads from Big Flashy In Your Face Company.
Nah, it's all the front door - javascript through ie
The funny thing is, by reading Slashdot, one gets the impression that the CCP (and thus the gummint) has clamped down on everything.
Yet, I know people who travel there regularly and they state, you can get anything you want as long as you know where to go or who to talk to. Much is readily available in stores which is supposedly banned.
China may pass laws, but the enforcement is a whole different matter.
Then it's still part of a normal curve for the iPhone.
1. Wild Enthusiasm And Promises Of Products To Come
2. First Crude Products
3. High Quality Products
4. Too Many Products
5. Thinning Of The Herd
6. Low Quality Products
7. Market Is Barren Wasteland
I measure the average person's respect for the next person by the metric of cigarette butts per square metre in the local parks.
It's not looking good.
So when those very enterprising chinese get around to the knock-offs on these which you'll be able to buy on eBay (without the brand name, but at a fraction of the cost!) I'm thinking I stop flying.
So they flee.
Where there's money others will step in.
(This is still capitalism, isn't it?)
I'm on my 4th mobile phone, since the 1980's. Mostly because of gaps here and there, because plans were expensive and I didn't really need a mobile too much.
Now I'm on Pre-Paid and love it. Per month cost is 5 to 10 bucks, which leaves a _lot_ of money for things like buying a GPSr which will work more reliably in most places my mobile phone can't even score 1 bar (like much of Uvas Road, near Morgan Hill, California, where I witnessed an accident, but couldn't make a mobile phone call - nobody could! This, not far outside Silicon Valley!)
For commuters in Chicago, Lost Angeles, New Yawk, Bahston, Houston, Atalanta, etc. I expect their mobile to do a fine job for them, but in the crags, hollers and gulches they will likely find themselves utterly lost ("Why does the arrow say I'm 500 ft off the road?" - because it's guessing, based upon rate of speed and direction, which doesn't work is mazes of twisty little passages - all alike.)
I'll stick with a mobile for mobile stuff and a GPSr for GPSr stuff.
I wanna be the first Martian. The Sun is too harsh on this rock, I need a few more million miles between it and me. Also, I'll be able to plant the first GeoCaches *8^)
The lesson:
Jerks are easier to sell to.
I'm disguted, repeatedly, at what passes for applications these days. Back when I started we wrote tight, purposeful code and optimised for speed or size. But now I'm constantly encountering untested code, applications which have the most bombastic interfaces, layouts which seem more ad hoc than well planned and a dozen other gripes.
Can't be all the coders faults. Whatever happened to Q/A? Whatever happened to analysts who have a clue? I keep seeing people who have no background in IT making decisions and overruling experince wiht seat of the pants decisions. Even to the point of corrupting data and having no fall-back plan.
I feel I need to retire, but I'm many, many years from that.
I'd like a book which discusses the EPIC FAIL of present day standards and practices of software development.
This is the bummer of all bummers this weekend. And me with a cache I'm about to hide.
Nope, not gonna tell. It's a puzzle cache and no freebies!
When did Slashdot become such a COW?
Seriously, I try to scroll and the delay is very noticable to the point of annoying. I can load other large pages and scroll no problem. Is it a javascript performance issue or Firefox?
GoPhone subscribers warned the upgrade will be the end of the service.
AT&T Narrows Prepaid Plan Options
"AT&T currently offers two types of prepaid plans: GoPhone, its "pay as you go" plan, and Pick Your Plan, its "prepay once a month" plan. AT&T's statement says that GoPhone will not be available for either original iPhones or iPhone 3Gs; Pick Your Plan will only continue to work for existing subscribers using the original iPhone, as long as they have an unlimited data plan. Current Pick Your Plan users who don't have an unlimited data plan will be asked to add one. iPhone 3G users are not eligible for Pick Your Plan.
According to Erica Sadun at TUAW, who's been investigating this issue, all pay-as-you-go users are being strongly encouraged to sign up for a postpaid plan, which includes making a new two-year commitment."
Looks like I'll be waiting a year for the Apple/AT&T agreement to time-out. I'll not do a two year agreement again, ever.
Where's the fun in that?
I looked at the Microvision ShowWx and it's this beautifully CGI rendered object. I expect, should it ever actually become available, it will look exactly like it. :-\
Most shop will just ignore this little twist and downgrade to xp anyway. No sane admin will run a mix of os on user workstations if he can prevent it.
Guess you live in that mythical land where the bean counters, CIO and CEO all believe in lock-step technology moves. Unlike we here, who must do with when money is available we buy computers, often stuck for choice to what the market is selling at that point (i.e. WinXP boxen not for sale, but Vista are, so we have some Vista boxen.)
Is your ideal company taking applications?
I won't see it in theatres.
I wouldn't download and watch it either.
I'm feeling serverly burned out on Comic Book movies. I liked Iron Man, but have been nonplused by the other offerings in the past few years.
What's the saturation point for these things?
Why wouldn't they just go for 1 million people?
This is MPAA, after all.
ffs. Where's the bloke hammering his keyboard and spitting at the screen over the OS cock up which lost all his work? Last night I didn't so much as get a blue screen, It just went black. (oh yes, Arrr!!!)