this summarizes things nicely. And this is from PALM THEMSELVES.
You want open? It doesn't get any more open than webos. On top of that, it's ELEGANT. Gestures, the card metaphor, unobtrusive notifications and dashboards, synergy, universal search. It's FUN and PRODUCTIVE to USE.
The problem, in general, is the move to forums regardless of company.
I miss being able to just read my subscriptions, along with using a scorefile/killfile. Now I have to create accounts on dozens of web pages and monitor them all separately, without being able to rank based on what I'm interested in. Each web page has its own formats and options. Yes, there are rss feeds, but that doesn't help much if you are an active poster in the community.
I miss the days when everyone just wrote their own web pages, then put it in their.sig, or just pointed people to it while chatting in IRC or posting to usenet. Web forums are so much worse at maintining information than usenet was. You had one place to go to find any topic you were interested in. Then just jumped on IRC if you wanted to chat live with a community or in private. Oh well.
... When they properly support my phone and my 64 bit linux box. Oh, and allow boxee clients. Then we will talk about me paying them for a service that I can actually use.
I thought the global warming folks were freaking out about CO2? Paper is made from trees grown for exactly that purpose. Those trees are young, which means they absorb more CO2 than older trees. Shouldn't we support using paper? New paper also takes less chemicals and such to process than recycling the stuff again as paper.
Anti-virus itself is a virus, and is no replacement for education. Even a properly configured and updated anti-virus program will not detect things in the wild that are not yet in their lists (quite common, as my prior company used to quarantine things and see if they were detected later). And it only takes one.
So, is all of the overhead, conflicts, and other general performance and system problems caused by the anti-virus software itself worth it? IMHO, no. Yes, I know users are idiots. But you cannot fix broken social and education problems with technology. How about more strict policy, education, and enforcement instead?
Really? I recall everyone bitching about katz and what a self-important idiot he was. Especially when he was capitalizing on columbine. Why do you think he's no longer here?
Not to mention that as a forum site, they wouldn't even exist without their users. If anything, they should pay THEM for their contributions (not that I advocate that seriously, but still).
Good thing they've never heard of junkbuster or squid, eh?
Seriously, though. If advertisements had remained a small, unanimated banner at the top of a page, then blocking them would never have even been needed.
You dumbasses dug your own graves and started this ridiculous arms race, sucking down OUR bandwidth and CPU cycles with SHIT WE DON'T WANT TO SEE. Let's not even get started on how a lot of it is a malware vector!!
My computer, my browser. I will format content as *I* see fit. That was the whole point of HTML way back in the old days. Remember?
I wouldn't even enable it on that. Upnp has no place on a firewall. If you have an app that needs to act as a server, port triggering is a better approach. Yup, users need to know how to do that. That's the tradeoff. If you automate allowing access, then access will be automated (by evil things).
The only reason they are bloatware on windoze, is they had to write a lot of code to get some WPS functionality. Their original product, for OS/2, just added a layer on top of WPS.
Ever see gas turbines machined? Goes for cars too. A lot of very cool and useful things wouldn't be possible without awesome machine tools. The physics and math behind these things is pretty amazing too.
Gameloft has been busy porting their catalog of iphone stuff over to WebOS since palm gave them the new PDK. Looking forward to the beta PDK release to see more native goodness on the best mobile platform around.
You have plumbers responsible for piping of huge complex buildings, and you have the Mr. Fix-it guy.
We have the same thing. A fart app or birthday reminder isn't exactly the same as knowing the math and science and good programming practices to, I dunno, control spaceflight dynamics.
So, yeah. this whole thread focuses on the tool, not the professional. Which, as always, is wrong. I own a chisel, but I'm no sculptor (that's a bad analogy, but whatever).
Being a project lead (where you still get to direct others with the 'right' way to do the tech) with solid project management experience is where it's at. Become a project manager. Seriously. Unless you want to be at the lower rung of the ladder for your entire life. Even better, you can then make a difference and direct your vision rather than implementing somebody else's (usually screwed up) vision, and not be fried from it so you can do fun tech projects on your own home networks when you get home. Best of all worlds.
That, or be a government contractor in Information Security. But I'd gladly take a $20-30K reduction in salary to get rid of my current long commute and the total lack of strong leadership (read: clusterfuck) I've found in the research environment.
I'm probably mistaken, but I don't think his royal badness had a problem with the music in the background, but rather the title of the video being the title of his song?
I don't see a problem with them wanting her to change the title of the video in that case.
Definitely agree that a full takedown is ridiculous, however.
It's a shame, as Prince is one artist to break free of the big music groups and produce for himself, but only to act the same as they do? Boo. Otherwise, he gets it right. Check out the 3-disc deal at Target for $11. Some great guitar work on mplsound and lotusflow3r
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Heh! I have the LP that is from... "When you're in love, the whole world is jewish"
Lol, Irving :-)
The RHCT and RHCE tests beg to differ.
this summarizes things nicely. And this is from PALM THEMSELVES.
You want open? It doesn't get any more open than webos. On top of that, it's ELEGANT. Gestures, the card metaphor, unobtrusive notifications and dashboards, synergy, universal search. It's FUN and PRODUCTIVE to USE.
Get back to me when he infects his pacemaker, or muscle controller, or drug release system, etc etc.
brb. Reading the letters in your mailbox. It wasn't locked or anything, and it's right out there for the public to access, so it's cool.
The problem, in general, is the move to forums regardless of company.
I miss being able to just read my subscriptions, along with using a scorefile/killfile. Now I have to create accounts on dozens of web pages and monitor them all separately, without being able to rank based on what I'm interested in. Each web page has its own formats and options. Yes, there are rss feeds, but that doesn't help much if you are an active poster in the community.
We've gone backwards.
I miss the days when everyone just wrote their own web pages, then put it in their .sig, or just pointed people to it while chatting in IRC or posting to usenet. Web forums are so much worse at maintining information than usenet was. You had one place to go to find any topic you were interested in. Then just jumped on IRC if you wanted to chat live with a community or in private. Oh well.
... When they properly support my phone and my 64 bit linux box. Oh, and allow boxee clients. Then we will talk about me paying them for a service that I can actually use.
I thought the global warming folks were freaking out about CO2? Paper is made from trees grown for exactly that purpose. Those trees are young, which means they absorb more CO2 than older trees. Shouldn't we support using paper? New paper also takes less chemicals and such to process than recycling the stuff again as paper.
put *them* on ubuntu?
People will always prefer to take an aspirin for their headache rather than avoid what gives them the headache in the first place.
Anti-virus itself is a virus, and is no replacement for education. Even a properly configured and updated anti-virus program will not detect things in the wild that are not yet in their lists (quite common, as my prior company used to quarantine things and see if they were detected later). And it only takes one.
So,
is all of the overhead, conflicts, and other general performance and system problems caused by the anti-virus software itself worth it? IMHO, no. Yes, I know users are idiots. But you cannot fix broken social and education problems with technology. How about more strict policy, education, and enforcement instead?
Really? I recall everyone bitching about katz and what a self-important idiot he was. Especially when he was capitalizing on columbine. Why do you think he's no longer here?
Not to mention that as a forum site, they wouldn't even exist without their users. If anything, they should pay THEM for their contributions (not that I advocate that seriously, but still).
Good thing they've never heard of junkbuster or squid, eh?
Seriously, though. If advertisements had remained a small, unanimated banner at the top of a page, then blocking them would never have even been needed.
You dumbasses dug your own graves and started this ridiculous arms race, sucking down OUR bandwidth and CPU cycles with SHIT WE DON'T WANT TO SEE. Let's not even get started on how a lot of it is a malware vector!!
My computer, my browser. I will format content as *I* see fit. That was the whole point of HTML way back in the old days. Remember?
I wouldn't even enable it on that. Upnp has no place on a firewall. If you have an app that needs to act as a server, port triggering is a better approach. Yup, users need to know how to do that. That's the tradeoff. If you automate allowing access, then access will be automated (by evil things).
The only reason they are bloatware on windoze, is they had to write a lot of code to get some WPS functionality. Their original product, for OS/2, just added a layer on top of WPS.
Ever see gas turbines machined? Goes for cars too. A lot of very cool and useful things wouldn't be possible without awesome machine tools. The physics and math behind these things is pretty amazing too.
Gameloft has been busy porting their catalog of iphone stuff over to WebOS since palm gave them the new PDK. Looking forward to the beta PDK release to see more native goodness on the best mobile platform around.
Mine was "TeenLesbianOrgy" for awhile. Then I changed it to "Hey Baby, Wanna Fuck?"
It's something more tame now.
It's pretty much the same.
You have plumbers responsible for piping of huge complex buildings, and you have the Mr. Fix-it guy.
We have the same thing. A fart app or birthday reminder isn't exactly the same as knowing the math and science and good programming practices to, I dunno, control spaceflight dynamics.
So, yeah. this whole thread focuses on the tool, not the professional. Which, as always, is wrong. I own a chisel, but I'm no sculptor (that's a bad analogy, but whatever).
Stop focusing on being the techie.
Being a project lead (where you still get to direct others with the 'right' way to do the tech) with solid project management experience is where it's at. Become a project manager. Seriously. Unless you want to be at the lower rung of the ladder for your entire life. Even better, you can then make a difference and direct your vision rather than implementing somebody else's (usually screwed up) vision, and not be fried from it so you can do fun tech projects on your own home networks when you get home. Best of all worlds.
That, or be a government contractor in Information Security. But I'd gladly take a $20-30K reduction in salary to get rid of my current long commute and the total lack of strong leadership (read: clusterfuck) I've found in the research environment.
I'm probably mistaken, but I don't think his royal badness had a problem with the music in the background, but rather the title of the video being the title of his song?
I don't see a problem with them wanting her to change the title of the video in that case.
Definitely agree that a full takedown is ridiculous, however.
It's a shame, as Prince is one artist to break free of the big music groups and produce for himself, but only to act the same as they do? Boo. Otherwise, he gets it right. Check out the 3-disc deal at Target for $11. Some great guitar work on mplsound and lotusflow3r
not sure why you are modded down. Wish I had points to get you back up again.
Op is, indeed, a tool. Enjoying that lock-in, are we?
web stuff is just one thing, and has nothing to do with communicating with the OS.