I recently watched a documentary (it may of been BBC's The Virtual Revolution) where they showed a principle in a New York City area school spying on what his students where doing during the day at school via their school issued laptops. He could see what they where doing on the machine and even them via the webcam. They even showed him taking a snap of a student combing her hair to get her attention as in 'get back to work'.
At one point in space-time, Messysoft used to farm out their downloads to 3rd parties. Possibly they've hired enough highly educated idjits to do it themselves by now.
Why can't I just download an app from any vendor's site
Do you really want to be running anti-virus/anti-malware software on your mobile device? Do you really want a repeat of the junkware/crapware/malware idiocy on desktops, on mobile devices too?
who keeps 30% of the revenue
Go ahead. Set up your own vendor site that takes credit cards from over 50 countries in the world and drops the revenue right into your bank account, or go with an established provider of this kind of service, see how much of your take is left -- hint: not as much you think.
start off with a single screen size and a whole bunch of simple assumptions, and then try to patch things up as additional demands become apparent.
You are an epic idiot. Read through the iPhone OS SDK before making completely ignorant statements. Start with struts and springs in Interface Builder -- laying out UIs that scale as screen size or orientation changes is trivial. If that isn't enough, all the APIs are there to find out device orientation, size of the status bar and every single UI element -- and have been there for over a decade since iPhone OS and Mac OS X share over 80% of their source code. Writing custom UI classes that adjust is also trivial. Please extract your head from your Apple bashing rectum.
writing Objective C on a Mac, which is the only supported environment for the iPhone
Don't know much about iPhone OS, do you? Mac OS X and iPhone OS share over 80% of their core source code. Why the frak should Apple bootstrap OS X development under Windows or Linux when they already have a perfectly wonderful OS? All Apple had to do was add iPhone support to Xcode. GCC is used as the compiler, so as long as your UI code is in Objective C, your work code can be in C, C++ or Objective C++.
Sergey Brin was born in Soviet Russia. The modus operandi of Soviet Communism was to control everything and know everything about everyone. Certainly explains Google's modus operandi, don't it?
...you can always write the performance sensitive guts of your iPhone app in C or C++ if the Objective-C run time proves to be the bottleneck in your particular case. After all it is GCC that compiles the Obj-C/C/C++ code on that platform...
Do you really want Google to know how you spend your money? In addition to having access to all your correspondence (Google Email), documents (Google Docs), activities (Google Calendar) and phone conversations (Google Voice) they should rename themselves to EPIC (Evil Privacy Invading Corporation).
Apple's [user experience] model for OS X is totally, completely separate from the iPhone
Agreed, 110%, however what a lot of people don't realize, at least those that aren't iPhone or Mac OS X developers, is that the iPhone OS and core Mac OS X share over 80% of their source code [Apple WWDC'09]. You also use the same tools and many of the frameworks to develop apps (in Objective-C, C and/or C++) for either platform. It is plausible to have the same code base and then change a build target to create a Mac OS X or iPhone version of a product.
Alrighty then, given that English is my second language, how would you peck out the following on your keyboard using modern American English punctuation rules and regulations?
"some say {short pause} that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future {long pause} and that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of Walmart and the current political system in business {pause} all we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence {pause} welcome to 2010"
Some say, that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future. And that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of Walmart and the current political system in business. All we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence. Welcome to 2010.
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You mean the iPhone. Without it there would be no spike in interest in Obj-C.
Around here we call those folks "highly educated idiots".
I recently watched a documentary (it may of been BBC's The Virtual Revolution) where they showed a principle in a New York City area school spying on what his students where doing during the day at school via their school issued laptops. He could see what they where doing on the machine and even them via the webcam. They even showed him taking a snap of a student combing her hair to get her attention as in 'get back to work'.
Binghoo! Yahbing!
At one point in space-time, Messysoft used to farm out their downloads to 3rd parties.
Possibly they've hired enough highly educated idjits to do it themselves by now.
Sergey Brin was born in Soviet Russia. Any racist antics of Google should come as no surprise.
Do not want - have no need - for any of that crap. Want Flash to dry up and blow away like old dog shit.
Why can't I just download an app from any vendor's site
Do you really want to be running anti-virus/anti-malware software on your mobile device? Do you really want a repeat of the junkware/crapware/malware idiocy on desktops, on mobile devices too?
who keeps 30% of the revenue
Go ahead. Set up your own vendor site that takes credit cards from over 50 countries in the world and drops the revenue right into your bank account, or go with an established provider of this kind of service, see how much of your take is left -- hint: not as much you think.
start off with a single screen size and a whole bunch of simple assumptions, and then try to patch things up as additional demands become apparent.
You are an epic idiot. Read through the iPhone OS SDK before making completely ignorant statements. Start with struts and springs in Interface Builder -- laying out UIs that scale as screen size or orientation changes is trivial. If that isn't enough, all the APIs are there to find out device orientation, size of the status bar and every single UI element -- and have been there for over a decade since iPhone OS and Mac OS X share over 80% of their source code. Writing custom UI classes that adjust is also trivial. Please extract your head from your Apple bashing rectum.
3,180 videos matching the term "lighting farts"
That is why around this neck of the woods we call it IdiotTube. And American Idol is referred to as "American Idiot".
- Brought to you by the "Just say No! to Idiocracy" coalition.
Apple designed the OS to prevent multitasking, most likely because too many apps abuse this and suck up energy
And memory. iPhone 3G has 128MB of RAM, the iPhone 3GS has 256MB. Hoping the iPad has at least 512MB of RAM...
writing Objective C on a Mac, which is the only supported environment for the iPhone
Don't know much about iPhone OS, do you? Mac OS X and iPhone OS share over 80% of their core source code. Why the frak should Apple bootstrap OS X development under Windows or Linux when they already have a perfectly wonderful OS? All Apple had to do was add iPhone support to Xcode. GCC is used as the compiler, so as long as your UI code is in Objective C, your work code can be in C, C++ or Objective C++.
Sergey Brin was born in Soviet Russia. The modus operandi of Soviet Communism was to control everything and know everything about everyone. Certainly explains Google's modus operandi, don't it?
That's a long and complicated way to do a Format C: and leave the drive blank...
...you can always write the performance sensitive guts of your iPhone app in C or C++ if the Objective-C run time proves to be the bottleneck in your particular case. After all it is GCC that compiles the Obj-C/C/C++ code on that platform...
How about EPIC? Evil Privacy Invading Corporation.
Let the down-mods begin...
Do you really want Google to know how you spend your money? In addition to having access to all your correspondence (Google Email), documents (Google Docs), activities (Google Calendar) and phone conversations (Google Voice) they should rename themselves to EPIC (Evil Privacy Invading Corporation).
"Finalist in Google's Android Developer's Challenge!"
Change the wording to "Finalist in Evil-Privacy-Invading-Corporation's Humanoid-form-Robot Developer's Challenge!"
no power switch
Press and hold the 'power on button' at the top left for several seconds. Slide the slider to turn it off.
no reset button
Press the 'power on button' and 'home' button until reset.
Not when they get a taste of the almighty Dollar (or Euro). They will then be turned to the dark side...
Apple's [user experience] model for OS X is totally, completely separate from the iPhone
Agreed, 110%, however what a lot of people don't realize, at least those that aren't iPhone or Mac OS X developers, is that the iPhone OS and core Mac OS X share over 80% of their source code [Apple WWDC'09]. You also use the same tools and many of the frameworks to develop apps (in Objective-C, C and/or C++) for either platform. It is plausible to have the same code base and then change a build target to create a Mac OS X or iPhone version of a product.
In case you haven't heard, Google has deprecated Gears in favor of the HTML5 wunderkind.
Alrighty then, given that English is my second language, how would you peck out the following on your keyboard using modern American English punctuation rules and regulations?
"some say {short pause} that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future {long pause} and that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of Walmart and the current political system in business {pause} all we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence {pause} welcome to 2010"
Some say, that Idiocracy was a documentary sent back from the future. And that The Man needs a dumbed-down populace to keep the likes of Walmart and the current political system in business. All we know is that popular culture emphasizes dumbness over intelligence. Welcome to 2010.
...ambiguous vulgarity...
Then we have the Nintendo Wii (piss, pee, urinate, tinkle). No one made a big fuss when that was announced.