Mod parent up. Software people need to understand this: users cannot be asked to do "deep reasearch" and "understand permissions", they do not have the time, and they paid good money for their device that should simply work.
And we can say they are "noobs" or "stoopid" all we want, and do not deserve nice things, but the reality is that examining permissions is right now really user-unfriendly, and actually not possible: I can easily make a program that requires map access and being able to send a data message for the fun little location game I am selling, and there is no way even the smartest permissions-examiner now knows I have made a remotely-activated stalking device.
Users will vote with their wallets to get phones where they can simply get their stuff done and get some fun out of them without having the feeling every step could be quicksand. So as phone ecosystem manufacturer you have the choice of don't let crap happen on the phone, or watch your consumer pay your competitor for a phone where crap can't happen. And to make crap not happen, you will have to only allow safe programs on the phone. And as parent shows, this means a closed store.
It's certainly contentious, but not outright hostile. However wrong their basis may be, it's implied that the creators are putting that app out to help those who they believe to have a problem.
Um, no, it actually is outright hostile to people with same sex attractions. The methods that Exodus proposes to handle the negative feelings surrounding same sex attractions are methods that are scientifically proven to leave the psyche of the person worse off, sometimes suicidally so. That is incredibly hostile to Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals, and that you do not recognize selling repression, shame, guilt, peer-pressure and thus depression and possibly death as hostile really should tell you something.
If you want to help GLBTs who have a problem to lead well adjusted happy productive lives, the science on this is pretty clear: give them acceptance, love, support, and help instill a feeling of self-confidence and being whole and being fine with these fundamental and immutable romantic feelings.
Exodus is the homo-hating equivalent of treating cancer patients with homeopathy instead of chemotherapy. The way they hurt vulnerable people is downright dangerous, and in my opinion, evil.
If you are going to censor your store from evil and destructive or bigoted apps, this one fully qualifies.
But this need not create a lot of complexity. The failure you are describing is a usability failure of cruft upon cruft of setting and defaults that were not properly constrained by good UI guidelines of where they should be found and how they should be set. Right now setting the default browser on most desktop OSes is a snap: just run the browser and it will ask "Do you want me to be the default?" and we're done. I think that if the OS has a good system for managing these settings -- and WinMo does not because it never cared -- this need not be such a nightmare.
What it will be nighmare for, though, is tech support "Wait, you have what dialer installed? You browser is which?" Still, there is so much power in having a controlled and OS-blessed way to chain little programs together, each adding their own value, from different creative individuals. Very UNIXy.
If Objective-C is a problem, you should not be in mobile development.
Because the limits of J2ME will make you tear your hair out, the installed base of WinMo will make you tear your wallet off, and Symbian C++ will just simply make you tear your brains out.
In the mobile world, Objective C looks good. Yeah, the mobile world is that sucky.
There are perks to being in the military - access to...
Too bad they will throw out around 10% of the most talented computer people right out for not willing to live in suffocating secrecy about their private lives.
There's a lot of very talented GLBT* hackers out there, and the military will have to crawl into this century with its attitudes if it wants this century's warriors. Else civilian contractors it is.
The reverse hopefully might also happen: we will all learn that a humungous amount of people have secrets that are not currently socially sanctioned (fetishes, desires, habits, phobias, fears) and we could become a less puritanical and more understanding society as a result.
Many, many of the people wagging their fingers at Foley are probably also sighing in relief "At least they didn't find out about my...". Shame makes people suicidal, and act irrationally, and be vulnerable to blackmailers and abusive people. As a councellor I once worked with summarized: shame kills. Yes, a lot of us will experience shame as our secrtes are made public, but somewhere along the line there will be strength in numbers, and we as a society can move on from obsessing over details.
So Nintendo is going to bundle The Best Tool Humanity Has Ever made To Access Porn on a family games console, for free? Pretty big risk there, dudes. One day mom comes home and finds out the older kids have set the page to scat pron to gross the children out. Unlesss they lock it down, this will be a PR disaster in the US the first time a wailing mom is on the news saying how she trusted Nintendo to create a kid-safe experience, and then it wasn't.
Bob Iger announced a million dollars revenue in the first week of movie sales on iTunes. This with a very limited catalog and no living room capabilities.
Disney has found a $50M a year outlet for its old catalog requring no production costs and promotionally piggybacking on latest releases and Apple announcements. I bet they'd like more failures like that.
get your artificial hips, knees, bypass surgery or whatever else done in a day, no hassles over any insurance, and be back in a week after checking out the Taj Mahal
Look, your ankle, fine. But any hospital that discharges me fast enough after a bypass surgery to be able to see the Taj Mahal and make it back to the US is so not a hospital I want to deal with. Nor do I want to deal with the pain of joint-replacement operations while stuck in an airplane for 17 hours. The agony after one of those is terrible, do I want to have to deal with turbulence and airplane nausea? The physical therapy after a joint replacement is grueling and even more painful. Do I want to have to do that without my surgical team close enough for consult or referral?
Another option is use-based plans starting at $20 a month with a cap of five megabytes of data and additional charges for transfers above that. In evaluating the Cingular service, I wanted to test how well the connection would hold while mobile; I started the service on a laptop, and using Windows Media Player tuned to a live radio broadcast. I then fastened the laptop to the passenger seat of my car and drove around Austin, Tex., for just under an hour.
From Cingular's TOS for their plans Laptop Connect Unlimited, 80 bucks a month):
Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, using Services: (i) with server devices or with host computer applications, including, without limitation, Web camera posts or broadcasts, continuous jpeg file transfers, automatic data feeds, telemetry applications, automated functions or any other machine-to-machine applications, (ii) as substitute or backup for private lines or dedicated data connections, (iii) for Voice over IP or (iv) in conjunction with WWAN or other applications or devices which aggregate usage from multiple sources prior to transmission. Unlimited plans cannot be used for uploading, downloading or streaming of video content (e.g. movies, TV), music or games. Furthermore, unlimited plans (except for DataConnect and Blackberry Tethered) cannot be used for any applications that tether the device (through use of, including without limitation, connection kits, other phone/PDA-to-computer accessories, Bluetooth® or any other wireless technology) to laptops, PCs, or other equipment for any purpose.
Bolding is mine, but Cingular bolds this whole quote in their document.
Meanwhile, I use T-Mobile's dirt cheap 30-bucks-a-month, around 40Kbps 'antiquated' GPRS system to Bluetooth my subnotebook at work to keep IMing, reading mail, downloading simple pages. These data prices seem outrageous to me for services I am formally not supposed to use any more intensively than I am doing with GPRS right now.
If I am getting broadband I want to stream my own music down already. Instead I am just supposed to download my spam faster?
So few people are going to willingly accept being responsible, once again, for buying decisions regarding their healthcare.
Mostly because we are barely qualified to make them, not having medical degress, and exposed to half-guessed medical opinions from competing clinicians with conflicting financial interests.
Ultralight laptops will cost more, but not much more.
You find me an ultralight laptop of about the size of that media player that costs "not much more" than 500 bucks. Seriously.
Like you I am not sure if the media players hit the market sweet spot in the dimensions of small, versatility, and price, many people will perceive a 600 dollar big notebook a better deal as you point out. But I do know there's no subnotebook that comes close to both the price and size areas of this media player.
I am looking at 6 if not more plane trips in the next month for some multi-hop trips. The airplane is kinda ok, but there's only so much of "taking in of your surroundings" you can do at an airport, having shown up two hours early for the security check, that you can do.
So yeah, after the first five minutes, I am damn glad to have a magazine or seven and some games on my phone on hand. These devices don't fit my other needs -- I travel with a subnotebook so I can also surf and mail besides just watch movies -- so I wouldn't buy one, but I can seriously see the appeal.
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Mod parent up. Software people need to understand this: users cannot be asked to do "deep reasearch" and "understand permissions", they do not have the time, and they paid good money for their device that should simply work.
And we can say they are "noobs" or "stoopid" all we want, and do not deserve nice things, but the reality is that examining permissions is right now really user-unfriendly, and actually not possible: I can easily make a program that requires map access and being able to send a data message for the fun little location game I am selling, and there is no way even the smartest permissions-examiner now knows I have made a remotely-activated stalking device.
Users will vote with their wallets to get phones where they can simply get their stuff done and get some fun out of them without having the feeling every step could be quicksand. So as phone ecosystem manufacturer you have the choice of don't let crap happen on the phone, or watch your consumer pay your competitor for a phone where crap can't happen. And to make crap not happen, you will have to only allow safe programs on the phone. And as parent shows, this means a closed store.
It's certainly contentious, but not outright hostile. However wrong their basis may be, it's implied that the creators are putting that app out to help those who they believe to have a problem.
Um, no, it actually is outright hostile to people with same sex attractions. The methods that Exodus proposes to handle the negative feelings surrounding same sex attractions are methods that are scientifically proven to leave the psyche of the person worse off, sometimes suicidally so. That is incredibly hostile to Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals, and that you do not recognize selling repression, shame, guilt, peer-pressure and thus depression and possibly death as hostile really should tell you something.
If you want to help GLBTs who have a problem to lead well adjusted happy productive lives, the science on this is pretty clear: give them acceptance, love, support, and help instill a feeling of self-confidence and being whole and being fine with these fundamental and immutable romantic feelings.
Exodus is the homo-hating equivalent of treating cancer patients with homeopathy instead of chemotherapy. The way they hurt vulnerable people is downright dangerous, and in my opinion, evil.
If you are going to censor your store from evil and destructive or bigoted apps, this one fully qualifies.
Open API. In the spirit of FOSS: roll your own Symbian client. And J2ME for Series 40 with GPSes.
Every entry point takes fingerprints of every visitor who is not a US Citizen or legal US Resident
Strike that last part: I am a Legal Permanent Resident, and the last time I came in they wanted my picture and fingerprints too.
Android actually indeed, from the ground up, allows applications to advertise to the system that they are willing and able to handle and display certain forms of data, or publish that they will allow the user to do certain things. When an application makes a request to have a certain data-type handled (like "open this web page"), the OS selects which of the installed apps that can will get to handle the request.
But this need not create a lot of complexity. The failure you are describing is a usability failure of cruft upon cruft of setting and defaults that were not properly constrained by good UI guidelines of where they should be found and how they should be set. Right now setting the default browser on most desktop OSes is a snap: just run the browser and it will ask "Do you want me to be the default?" and we're done. I think that if the OS has a good system for managing these settings -- and WinMo does not because it never cared -- this need not be such a nightmare.
What it will be nighmare for, though, is tech support "Wait, you have what dialer installed? You browser is which?" Still, there is so much power in having a controlled and OS-blessed way to chain little programs together, each adding their own value, from different creative individuals. Very UNIXy.
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If Objective-C is a problem, you should not be in mobile development.
Because the limits of J2ME will make you tear your hair out, the installed base of WinMo will make you tear your wallet off, and Symbian C++ will just simply make you tear your brains out.
In the mobile world, Objective C looks good. Yeah, the mobile world is that sucky.
I do not know why you have been modded -1. I have developed in Symbian when I worked for Nokia, and it is exatly as you describe: deeply unpleasant.
There are perks to being in the military - access to ...
Too bad they will throw out around 10% of the most talented computer people right out for not willing to live in suffocating secrecy about their private lives.
There's a lot of very talented GLBT* hackers out there, and the military will have to crawl into this century with its attitudes if it wants this century's warriors. Else civilian contractors it is.
Any chance to actually use that lightning for energy as well?
I was waiting for him to say that he did not welcome his new RIAA overloards, or that he was going In Soviet Russia on the RIAA's ass.
Is this where someone points out that Norway is not in the EU?
The reverse hopefully might also happen: we will all learn that a humungous amount of people have secrets that are not currently socially sanctioned (fetishes, desires, habits, phobias, fears) and we could become a less puritanical and more understanding society as a result.
Many, many of the people wagging their fingers at Foley are probably also sighing in relief "At least they didn't find out about my...". Shame makes people suicidal, and act irrationally, and be vulnerable to blackmailers and abusive people. As a councellor I once worked with summarized: shame kills. Yes, a lot of us will experience shame as our secrtes are made public, but somewhere along the line there will be strength in numbers, and we as a society can move on from obsessing over details.
So Nintendo is going to bundle The Best Tool Humanity Has Ever made To Access Porn on a family games console, for free? Pretty big risk there, dudes. One day mom comes home and finds out the older kids have set the page to scat pron to gross the children out. Unlesss they lock it down, this will be a PR disaster in the US the first time a wailing mom is on the news saying how she trusted Nintendo to create a kid-safe experience, and then it wasn't.
Australian or European Emu?
Content.
Bob Iger announced a million dollars revenue in the first week of movie sales on iTunes. This with a very limited catalog and no living room capabilities.
Disney has found a $50M a year outlet for its old catalog requring no production costs and promotionally piggybacking on latest releases and Apple announcements. I bet they'd like more failures like that.
get your artificial hips, knees, bypass surgery or whatever else done in a day, no hassles over any insurance, and be back in a week after checking out the Taj Mahal
Look, your ankle, fine. But any hospital that discharges me fast enough after a bypass surgery to be able to see the Taj Mahal and make it back to the US is so not a hospital I want to deal with. Nor do I want to deal with the pain of joint-replacement operations while stuck in an airplane for 17 hours. The agony after one of those is terrible, do I want to have to deal with turbulence and airplane nausea? The physical therapy after a joint replacement is grueling and even more painful. Do I want to have to do that without my surgical team close enough for consult or referral?
yes, but it would be breaking their Terms Of Service, and they'll be happy to throw you off and keep their money.
So few people are going to willingly accept being responsible, once again, for buying decisions regarding their healthcare.
Mostly because we are barely qualified to make them, not having medical degress, and exposed to half-guessed medical opinions from competing clinicians with conflicting financial interests.
Um, yeah.
And that is ignoring all the very successful 9x00 series communicators.
Seriously, I held the E61 today and it feels like an awesome pice of kit.
Translation software as a field to play Conway's Game of Life on. Cool.
Ultralight laptops will cost more, but not much more.
You find me an ultralight laptop of about the size of that media player that costs "not much more" than 500 bucks. Seriously.
Like you I am not sure if the media players hit the market sweet spot in the dimensions of small, versatility, and price, many people will perceive a 600 dollar big notebook a better deal as you point out. But I do know there's no subnotebook that comes close to both the price and size areas of this media player.
I am looking at 6 if not more plane trips in the next month for some multi-hop trips. The airplane is kinda ok, but there's only so much of "taking in of your surroundings" you can do at an airport, having shown up two hours early for the security check, that you can do.
So yeah, after the first five minutes, I am damn glad to have a magazine or seven and some games on my phone on hand. These devices don't fit my other needs -- I travel with a subnotebook so I can also surf and mail besides just watch movies -- so I wouldn't buy one, but I can seriously see the appeal.