except for the wifi/bluetooth and the other radio buttons, these have been on IOS for years in the multi tasking bar app store has had cards for at least a year now if not longer
they got rid of scott forestall last year and he was the one who refused any changes to IOS. once they got rid of him it was pretty easy to make the changes
Every IT project needs to save the company money in some way and these savings should be easily quantifiable.
No ROI then no project should be funded I have seen geeks fall on love with geeky projects that cost a lot of money, seem to have no end and dont do anything for the organization except to show how busy they are
It was on Star Trek only because tv and movies are dialogue driven media. But in reality voice limits input
Take the Siri sports example Ask for your team scores Get scores Open app for detailed sports news
Or just open the app and get the scores and news in one step. Same with any other data. Modern GUI's can present a lot more data faster than using voice to ask for the data
that's because the user base doesn't like the answer. they just want a yes man and someone to blame when things go wrong with their app or what ever they want to bring into the environment. or they want someone to spend days customizing something just for their OCD personality
noticed it around 2004. that year IM was hyped like crazy in the Enterprise tech media. it was going to replace email. dozens of IM products were released that year. come next year no one cared about it.
the cloud thing seems to have lasted longer but no one seems to know exactly what it is. at first the public cloud was going kill corporate IT and everyone was going to outsource everything for a low monthly payment. the next year people figured out it was BS so they made up the private cloud label. suddenly every server in your datacenter is part of this cloud thingy. services are provisioned magically and no need to worry about lack of CPU/RAM or IO. you just provision as you need.
now its BYOD. some companies will emrace it, others won't. depends on the organization and the line of business.
but ignore the hype in the media. it changes every year depending on what is being shown at the trade shows
that i have been doing it we still have servers, we still have data centers. we still have people trying to take our data and processes and lock it up for themselves. except now its called "the cloud"
in the 1990's we had application service providers that rented out virtual desktops in the days of $2000 desktop PC's. these failed and they were ebaying their EMC and Cisco gear for years. now we have "the cloud" which does pretty much the same thing. the cloud is awesome for smaller companies like this AMAG company with only 189 people. large companies still have servers and data centers. I don't know where it is but at some point in your employee count it makes sense to run your own infrastructure rather than rent it out. the cloud and renting can actually be a lot more expensive than buying your own hardware which is fairly cheap.
google apps are nice but Exchange does things that gmail cannot do
Knights of the Old Republic just came out for the iPad. Lots of older Sega and other console games on there as well if you like that sort of thing.
for now MS owns the gaming market where you need a GPU to play decent games which is a minority segment of the market. Tablets can't replace a PC, but outside of work i use my ipad more than my PC. read the news, twitter, facebook, check sports highlights, watch sports highlights, weather and lots of other things i do on my iphone and ipad. only thing i do on my PC outside of work is VPN, dropbox, put in FSA claims and visit a few sites that still need a PC for some things. i haven't replaced my PC, but i don't need to buy one every 2-3 years. and i don't need an expensive one anymore. just a cheapo $500 or less laptop will do for years to come until it dies.
for baseball you have to know what some of the stats mean, especially the newer sabermetric ones
the cool moments are watching a pitcher who gives up around 1.2 guys on base per inning allow bases loaded and then a grand slam or a pitcher who makes $20 MILLION a year but has been average for most of his 7 year contract go out and save a team's play off hopes by giving up a few runs against the statistically top team in baseball
iOS is getting a lot of rereleases. Knights of the old republic just came out too.
With all the consoles supporting downloadable games its cheaper to buy a few older games like this than an old collection. As the retro fad keeps going watch for more old crap to be released again
Just like music. In that biz it's called catalog sales
that's what the constitution says for federal elections. the first or second Tuesday in november. everyone else piggy backs on this day to make things simpler
they are verifying the kids got on and off the school bus
if something happens to a kid the parents will be the first ones to sue the school and say that the school is responsible for keeping track of their kids, etc, etc,etc
except when the schools start to do this there is outrage
check out his stats on fangraphs.com he wasn't good enough to make it to the big leagues. he started in AA where he did OK. in Triple-A his numbers dropped and that was it.
chances are a lot of guys cheat, but which ones? are the best ones who make it to the pro's cheat? most likely not since your average MLB hitter won't swing at most pitches that fly erratically. sure he'll get a few who do, but most average hitters will blow him out of the game
having the ball fly crazy won't make the batter try to hit it. a good pitcher like Justin verlander has control of the ball. he can aim a pitch onto the outside of the strike zone to trick the batter. a good pitcher will know the batter's habits and style of swing and adjust his pitches for that.
a good batter will avoid swinging at a bad pitch
sounds like this guy did a study on a few pitchers who had no chance to make it to the majors and tried to cheat their way in which would not have worked anyway since the worst major league hitters are as good as the best Triple-A hitters
batters kick dirt onto the batters box to make it harder to call a strike catchers call the pitch and jump in or outward just before its thrown. or move their glove after its caught to increase the amount of strikes pitchers are always rubbing their sweaty heads right before throwing the ball
in the end it doesn't really help. a good pitcher is good for 100 some pitches. but these tough guys are always telling the manager they are OK in the 6th inning right before they give up a bunch of runs. or a few pitchers will get injured and the rest of the staff has to take up the slack with less rest. a starting pitcher needs close to a week of rest after a game. a few injured players will tire out your pitching staff and result in more runs given up
fatigue and acting tough has a much greater effect on the game than foreign substances
you would have to keep the tech secret and that's hard to do the limiting factor for the US lead in military tech is our ability to produce it and other nations' lack of that ability. financial and industrial
logically there should only be conflict between races if their populations are so large as to cause competition for resources. if you look at our solar system, there should be more than enough resources for at least triple our population.
same happened in human history. the crusades took place during a global warming cycle when the european population boomed. the mongols attacked when the climate began to cool and they needed grazing for their horses. the european wars took place in a cool climate when glaciers occupied a lot of farm land and sucked water out of the atmosphere that could have been used to water crops
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yeah
my HTC phone in 2010 had the animated weather screen by default. long before jelly bean.
google stole the idea as well
except for the wifi/bluetooth and the other radio buttons, these have been on IOS for years in the multi tasking bar
app store has had cards for at least a year now if not longer
they got rid of scott forestall last year and he was the one who refused any changes to IOS. once they got rid of him it was pretty easy to make the changes
Every IT project needs to save the company money in some way and these savings should be easily quantifiable.
No ROI then no project should be funded
I have seen geeks fall on love with geeky projects that cost a lot of money, seem to have no end and dont do anything for the organization except to show how busy they are
It was on Star Trek only because tv and movies are dialogue driven media. But in reality voice limits input
Take the Siri sports example
Ask for your team scores
Get scores
Open app for detailed sports news
Or just open the app and get the scores and news in one step. Same with any other data. Modern GUI's can present a lot more data faster than using voice to ask for the data
that's because the user base doesn't like the answer. they just want a yes man and someone to blame when things go wrong with their app or what ever they want to bring into the environment. or they want someone to spend days customizing something just for their OCD personality
noticed it around 2004. that year IM was hyped like crazy in the Enterprise tech media. it was going to replace email. dozens of IM products were released that year. come next year no one cared about it.
the cloud thing seems to have lasted longer but no one seems to know exactly what it is. at first the public cloud was going kill corporate IT and everyone was going to outsource everything for a low monthly payment. the next year people figured out it was BS so they made up the private cloud label. suddenly every server in your datacenter is part of this cloud thingy. services are provisioned magically and no need to worry about lack of CPU/RAM or IO. you just provision as you need.
now its BYOD. some companies will emrace it, others won't. depends on the organization and the line of business.
but ignore the hype in the media. it changes every year depending on what is being shown at the trade shows
that i have been doing it
we still have servers, we still have data centers. we still have people trying to take our data and processes and lock it up for themselves. except now its called "the cloud"
in the 1990's we had application service providers that rented out virtual desktops in the days of $2000 desktop PC's. these failed and they were ebaying their EMC and Cisco gear for years.
now we have "the cloud" which does pretty much the same thing. the cloud is awesome for smaller companies like this AMAG company with only 189 people. large companies still have servers and data centers. I don't know where it is but at some point in your employee count it makes sense to run your own infrastructure rather than rent it out. the cloud and renting can actually be a lot more expensive than buying your own hardware which is fairly cheap.
google apps are nice but Exchange does things that gmail cannot do
Knights of the Old Republic just came out for the iPad. Lots of older Sega and other console games on there as well if you like that sort of thing.
for now MS owns the gaming market where you need a GPU to play decent games which is a minority segment of the market. Tablets can't replace a PC, but outside of work i use my ipad more than my PC.
read the news, twitter, facebook, check sports highlights, watch sports highlights, weather and lots of other things i do on my iphone and ipad. only thing i do on my PC outside of work is VPN, dropbox, put in FSA claims and visit a few sites that still need a PC for some things.
i haven't replaced my PC, but i don't need to buy one every 2-3 years. and i don't need an expensive one anymore. just a cheapo $500 or less laptop will do for years to come until it dies.
for baseball you have to know what some of the stats mean, especially the newer sabermetric ones
the cool moments are watching a pitcher who gives up around 1.2 guys on base per inning allow bases loaded and then a grand slam
or a pitcher who makes $20 MILLION a year but has been average for most of his 7 year contract go out and save a team's play off hopes by giving up a few runs against the statistically top team in baseball
Dslr's take photos in raw mode which you can photochop easily
iPhone is in jpeg which you can do some basic editing but the original photo needs to be under optimal conditions
iOS is getting a lot of rereleases. Knights of the old republic just came out too.
With all the consoles supporting downloadable games its cheaper to buy a few older games like this than an old collection. As the retro fad keeps going watch for more old crap to be released again
Just like music. In that biz it's called catalog sales
Did you Europeans finally discover air conditioning? Or are another 20,000 some thousand people going to die in another summer heat wave?
they want to sit in a corner far from other people coding in silence
they hate meetings and talking to people
so what you get is code that only talks to itself
that's what the constitution says for federal elections. the first or second Tuesday in november. everyone else piggy backs on this day to make things simpler
they are verifying the kids got on and off the school bus
if something happens to a kid the parents will be the first ones to sue the school and say that the school is responsible for keeping track of their kids, etc, etc ,etc
except when the schools start to do this there is outrage
is he any worse than Jon Q geek rooting his phone every night and downloading new ROM's for no reason?
true, but in hockey and soccer it seems like all they do is pass the puck/ball around for 2 hours with one or two points scored in a game
check out his stats on fangraphs.com
he wasn't good enough to make it to the big leagues. he started in AA where he did OK. in Triple-A his numbers dropped and that was it.
chances are a lot of guys cheat, but which ones? are the best ones who make it to the pro's cheat? most likely not since your average MLB hitter won't swing at most pitches that fly erratically. sure he'll get a few who do, but most average hitters will blow him out of the game
they do replays for some plays, but i've read the equipment they use is 90's era TV's
no money for new equipment
having the ball fly crazy won't make the batter try to hit it. a good pitcher like Justin verlander has control of the ball. he can aim a pitch onto the outside of the strike zone to trick the batter. a good pitcher will know the batter's habits and style of swing and adjust his pitches for that.
a good batter will avoid swinging at a bad pitch
sounds like this guy did a study on a few pitchers who had no chance to make it to the majors and tried to cheat their way in which would not have worked anyway since the worst major league hitters are as good as the best Triple-A hitters
batters kick dirt onto the batters box to make it harder to call a strike
catchers call the pitch and jump in or outward just before its thrown. or move their glove after its caught to increase the amount of strikes
pitchers are always rubbing their sweaty heads right before throwing the ball
in the end it doesn't really help. a good pitcher is good for 100 some pitches. but these tough guys are always telling the manager they are OK in the 6th inning right before they give up a bunch of runs. or a few pitchers will get injured and the rest of the staff has to take up the slack with less rest. a starting pitcher needs close to a week of rest after a game. a few injured players will tire out your pitching staff and result in more runs given up
fatigue and acting tough has a much greater effect on the game than foreign substances
you would have to keep the tech secret and that's hard to do
the limiting factor for the US lead in military tech is our ability to produce it and other nations' lack of that ability. financial and industrial
logically there should only be conflict between races if their populations are so large as to cause competition for resources. if you look at our solar system, there should be more than enough resources for at least triple our population.
same happened in human history. the crusades took place during a global warming cycle when the european population boomed. the mongols attacked when the climate began to cool and they needed grazing for their horses. the european wars took place in a cool climate when glaciers occupied a lot of farm land and sucked water out of the atmosphere that could have been used to water crops
i don't know, i never buy via itunes for my iphone. my wife likes it because you buy and it automatically adds it to your library
i usually buy via Amazon but with spotify there is very little reason to buy music anymore
most music for sale is already on itunes. just go in there and search for music, why do it through google first?
or amazon if you don't like itunes.