Sadly the error message wasn't the worst problem that app had. No multiple accounts. No use of the Important Message feature. I've heard tags could be accessed by swiping right but that never worked for me and seems t have been an issue for many other users as well. Not to mention the whole app felt like a rushed kludge job of half baked ideas, and very inconsistant user interface. Not to mention it was far slower than just using the web site or Apple's own mail app. I think it needs a lot more work before they bother to resubmit it to the iOS app store.
This really does smack as an abuse of power to me.
The sad part is I'm really surprised it took them this long to implement this. It's just another sign that sales and marketing analysts run companies, and make all the decesions. Even small companies face this same thing.
I think it's fair to say pretty much every single chip maker does whatever they possibly can to skew their results. It's what happens when we let the marketing droids control corporate policy and direction.
I think it's pretty obvious Apple did that here, but I'll still use my Mac's anyway. No, I am not a Mac zealot who thinks that Intel or Gates, or whoever it is that day is the devil. I have a PC too. I enjoy building them. I just use my Mac for most things because I'm more comfortable with it. Bad marketing won't turn me off from a product - because then I'd never buy anything! Which actually might be a good thing....
While it's true a lot of the blogging out there is just whining, I don't see that as the end all and be all of it. I see the keeping of these online journals and such the 20 something generations version of pyschatry - which face it, really is just talking about your problems to hear them all out loud - and in the end it gives you a better idea how to deal with the because you were able to recognize and identify them. It's a form of self-therapy. And yes, I know, psychatry is far more than that, I'm just speaking in generalisms here.
I guess this would be something like the IBM Netvista all-in-one flat panel machines. We have a few around here and they turned out to be a lot better of a machine then I would have originally expected them to be. For one thing they take little space on the desk, very little more than just a flat panel and your CPU on the floor. This way your CPU and all the plugs and drives are right in front of you. Sure, there's not too much upgrading you can do to them. But the people who buy iMacs aren't the kind of people who want to cram their CPU with every little goody they can find.
It was a good read and I wish we could do something vaguely similar with our web servers here. Not that we get the server load to demand such improvements at the moment, but I figure it's best to spend the money early on, get a good setup going that can handle high volumes, that way you're not caught with your pants down when things take off for you. It's unfortunate bean counters never think this way.
Of course I don't think I'll be taking this approach at home - even if it would be fun to have a Sun Blade sitting in the living room purring along answering the 1 or 2 web hits we get a day.
Generally the cheaper ones are powered from the wall, and not the firewire bus. The firewire drivers that are powered from the bus are also generally smaller and more expensive than their wall powered counterparts. We have a few of each where I work, most of them VST units and we love them. We've used them for all sorts of problems around here that keep us from taxing out network with obscene file transfers. I can't speak much for compatable with Linux, but on our Mac's and our PC's with Firewire cards they work wonderfuly.
Ooo, maybe we could make it bright pink and green! Yeah! That's the ticket! Make it really bright! So bright that it burns out that nosey guy in the next cubes retinas! Hah! That'll teach him to wear sunglassed indoors at all times.
If we are going to have globalization of business profit making, should we not also have globalization of ethical awareness too ?
But whose ethical awareness? Whose ethics are the better ones? Whose to say that we have a monoply on ethics. In fact I think there is very little ethics involved in our captalistic system. that's not to say I'm against our system, I'm a capitalist at heart and don't think ethics should play a place in it. The world isn't about making a fair and equitable place. It's what it's always been about, survival, evolution, and growth. While I don't advocate "by any means neccesary" policies, I don't think we should be imposing our standards upon other nations. It's up to them to decide how their country opperates. If the people are unhappy then revolt. Worked for us.
The point is we live in a fair an inequitable world. If we try to play all fair and nice we're just going to get screwed over by someone who is going to take advantage of that. In a world of sharks it's best to be the biggest, baddest one in the pond.
Personally I say it's all about the barter system. The parties involved are left to determine the relative worth of the goods and services in question.
Of course this doesn't exactly work on a large scale.
While that might seem obvious, since both the film and the software are distributed on the same disc it does bring up a slew of legal issues. The law has nothing to do with common sense, and everything to do with technicalities. It seems the prime thing here is that the dominant reason for the DVD's existance is to distribute a film, and not the actual software.
However if it were to be ruled that its primary content was the software, or that the softwares legal issues took presedence to the film, then it would open a lot of bad stuff dealing with distribution rights as they are no longer distributing movies, but software, therefor DVD's would be governed under the same set of laws as software. Fortunately that's Australia, and not here - though I'm sure our lovely US lawyers are smelling the blood in the water and waiting for an outcome there.
I don't think they so much need to keep track of what MS is doing as they do bury them in red tape. It's hard enough even in the small business I work for to get things done when you have to go through all the layers of internal beuracracy. But to have to deal with an outside board as well? That's a lot of red tape that could force MS to delay things more often than they normally do. And delays could cost them market share, and that could lead to stock drops. I'm not saying it will kill them, but three people can do a lot more damamge than you might think. Assuming the 3 people aren't just little Bill puppets.
That's what happens when you talk about classics like NetHack. NetHack was potentially the most addictive little computer game I've ever plaid. In fact I still fire it up from time to time for the nostalgia. You'd think with it not being multiplayer it would be boring, but that absolutely isn't the case. It has an elegant charm in its simplicity.
If only our launch date wasn't tomorrow I'd hype myself up on caffeine and partake of the fun.
I don't find it that strange that they won't "offically" support it off the get go. I mean from all I've read and such there are a lot of changes to XP, and a lot more potential to go wrong. I have a feeling RoadRunner, like many other companies, want time to test it out in real world situations, not just the close world betas, to see what it does, what problems it runs in to, if it starts doing wild things to their systems like releasing millions of tiny little Bill Gates which make sure that all the data packets only go to MS friendly sites.
The place I previously worked for only started Windows 2000 "offically" in April of this year. They were quicker about Me, but it wasn't much of a change. XP looks like its going to do things a lot differently, for better or for worse, and I think it's a safe practice to withhold offical support until you've seen what this thing is going to do first hand.
It was a quiet night, just like any other, the cosntant hum of the air condtioning systems nearly putting me to sleep as I stared at the command prompt, the Dell PowerEdge waiting for me to throw some command at it. I'd been at it for hours, resenting the fact that I was being made to work on Halloween. There were people to see, parties to go to, neighbors to egg, and script kiddies to frag in UT. But no, I was sitting in the server room trying to implement the bosses next big whiz bang idea. I knew it wouldn't work. The people in the other division knew it wouldn't work. My manager knew it wouldn't work, the night time cleaning lady Dorris, whose entire computer skills revolved around the fact that once she had dialed in to AOL, knew that it wouldn't work. However the nice consultant who sold us tens of thousands of dollars of gear said it would work just fine, every other reputable company in our line of work was doing it. So here I was, on Halloween, staring at a command prompt.
I threw back another cola and tried to clear my head. The makefile was hosed, some dependency was missing that I couldn't find. I checked site after site but saw it listed nowhere. I even hoped on several IRC channels to now advail. In a leap of desperation I called up the developers tech support number. I was instantly transfered to a machine that transfered my call to the night answering service, but that came up with a message telling me the number was no longer in service.
My brain felt fuzzy, I was getting nowhere quick so I grabbed another cola and tossed it back. It wasn't helping. I just couldn't focus, the caffeine wasn't giving me what I needed. I looked down at the can and then dropped it, pushing my chair back sliding me across to the far side of the server room.
"Caffeine free!" I cried out in horror.
Quickly I got out of my seat, flew from the server room and up the stairs to the small office kitchen. I shuffled around for the coffee. This would do the trick, this would bring me back to life. I opened the can and it was empty. I grabbed another one, but dropped it just as fast as I saw it was decaffeinated, the foul brew of the devil himself. I tore through the kitchen cupbard, looking for anything that contained the substance I so greatly desired. How would I ever get this to compile without the aid of caffeine, the stuff that needed to be flowing through my veins! I found a stash of herbal tea, but it too was without caffeine.
I grabbed for my wallet, there was still some cash in it. Good. I bolted from the office and across the street to the all night convieant store. I pulled on the handle but it was locked. I banged on the door, trying to get someones attention but there was no movement inside.
I could feel the fuzziness creeping deeper in to my brain, taking hold of me, choking me, dragging me further in to darkness. I tried to fight it, tried to do something, anything. I couldn't scream. I couldn't move or breathe. The darkness. The darkness....
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Sadly the error message wasn't the worst problem that app had. No multiple accounts. No use of the Important Message feature. I've heard tags could be accessed by swiping right but that never worked for me and seems t have been an issue for many other users as well. Not to mention the whole app felt like a rushed kludge job of half baked ideas, and very inconsistant user interface. Not to mention it was far slower than just using the web site or Apple's own mail app. I think it needs a lot more work before they bother to resubmit it to the iOS app store.
She probably called and asked the Geek Squad.
This really does smack as an abuse of power to me.
The sad part is I'm really surprised it took them this long to implement this. It's just another sign that sales and marketing analysts run companies, and make all the decesions. Even small companies face this same thing.
I think it's fair to say pretty much every single chip maker does whatever they possibly can to skew their results. It's what happens when we let the marketing droids control corporate policy and direction.
I think it's pretty obvious Apple did that here, but I'll still use my Mac's anyway. No, I am not a Mac zealot who thinks that Intel or Gates, or whoever it is that day is the devil. I have a PC too. I enjoy building them. I just use my Mac for most things because I'm more comfortable with it. Bad marketing won't turn me off from a product - because then I'd never buy anything! Which actually might be a good thing....
While it's true a lot of the blogging out there is just whining, I don't see that as the end all and be all of it. I see the keeping of these online journals and such the 20 something generations version of pyschatry - which face it, really is just talking about your problems to hear them all out loud - and in the end it gives you a better idea how to deal with the because you were able to recognize and identify them. It's a form of self-therapy. And yes, I know, psychatry is far more than that, I'm just speaking in generalisms here.
I guess this would be something like the IBM Netvista all-in-one flat panel machines. We have a few around here and they turned out to be a lot better of a machine then I would have originally expected them to be. For one thing they take little space on the desk, very little more than just a flat panel and your CPU on the floor. This way your CPU and all the plugs and drives are right in front of you. Sure, there's not too much upgrading you can do to them. But the people who buy iMacs aren't the kind of people who want to cram their CPU with every little goody they can find.
Well it did load quickly.
It was a good read and I wish we could do something vaguely similar with our web servers here. Not that we get the server load to demand such improvements at the moment, but I figure it's best to spend the money early on, get a good setup going that can handle high volumes, that way you're not caught with your pants down when things take off for you. It's unfortunate bean counters never think this way.
Of course I don't think I'll be taking this approach at home - even if it would be fun to have a Sun Blade sitting in the living room purring along answering the 1 or 2 web hits we get a day.
Generally the cheaper ones are powered from the wall, and not the firewire bus. The firewire drivers that are powered from the bus are also generally smaller and more expensive than their wall powered counterparts. We have a few of each where I work, most of them VST units and we love them. We've used them for all sorts of problems around here that keep us from taxing out network with obscene file transfers. I can't speak much for compatable with Linux, but on our Mac's and our PC's with Firewire cards they work wonderfuly.
Ooo, maybe we could make it bright pink and green! Yeah! That's the ticket! Make it really bright! So bright that it burns out that nosey guy in the next cubes retinas! Hah! That'll teach him to wear sunglassed indoors at all times.
Where was I going with this?
If we are going to have globalization of business profit making, should we not also have globalization of ethical awareness too ?
But whose ethical awareness? Whose ethics are the better ones? Whose to say that we have a monoply on ethics. In fact I think there is very little ethics involved in our captalistic system. that's not to say I'm against our system, I'm a capitalist at heart and don't think ethics should play a place in it. The world isn't about making a fair and equitable place. It's what it's always been about, survival, evolution, and growth. While I don't advocate "by any means neccesary" policies, I don't think we should be imposing our standards upon other nations. It's up to them to decide how their country opperates. If the people are unhappy then revolt. Worked for us.
The point is we live in a fair an inequitable world. If we try to play all fair and nice we're just going to get screwed over by someone who is going to take advantage of that. In a world of sharks it's best to be the biggest, baddest one in the pond.
Personally I say it's all about the barter system. The parties involved are left to determine the relative worth of the goods and services in question.
Of course this doesn't exactly work on a large scale.
But it's still a pretty dream.
While that might seem obvious, since both the film and the software are distributed on the same disc it does bring up a slew of legal issues. The law has nothing to do with common sense, and everything to do with technicalities. It seems the prime thing here is that the dominant reason for the DVD's existance is to distribute a film, and not the actual software.
However if it were to be ruled that its primary content was the software, or that the softwares legal issues took presedence to the film, then it would open a lot of bad stuff dealing with distribution rights as they are no longer distributing movies, but software, therefor DVD's would be governed under the same set of laws as software. Fortunately that's Australia, and not here - though I'm sure our lovely US lawyers are smelling the blood in the water and waiting for an outcome there.
I don't think they so much need to keep track of what MS is doing as they do bury them in red tape. It's hard enough even in the small business I work for to get things done when you have to go through all the layers of internal beuracracy. But to have to deal with an outside board as well? That's a lot of red tape that could force MS to delay things more often than they normally do. And delays could cost them market share, and that could lead to stock drops. I'm not saying it will kill them, but three people can do a lot more damamge than you might think. Assuming the 3 people aren't just little Bill puppets.
That's what happens when you talk about classics like NetHack. NetHack was potentially the most addictive little computer game I've ever plaid. In fact I still fire it up from time to time for the nostalgia. You'd think with it not being multiplayer it would be boring, but that absolutely isn't the case. It has an elegant charm in its simplicity.
If only our launch date wasn't tomorrow I'd hype myself up on caffeine and partake of the fun.
I don't find it that strange that they won't "offically" support it off the get go. I mean from all I've read and such there are a lot of changes to XP, and a lot more potential to go wrong. I have a feeling RoadRunner, like many other companies, want time to test it out in real world situations, not just the close world betas, to see what it does, what problems it runs in to, if it starts doing wild things to their systems like releasing millions of tiny little Bill Gates which make sure that all the data packets only go to MS friendly sites.
The place I previously worked for only started Windows 2000 "offically" in April of this year. They were quicker about Me, but it wasn't much of a change. XP looks like its going to do things a lot differently, for better or for worse, and I think it's a safe practice to withhold offical support until you've seen what this thing is going to do first hand.
It was a quiet night, just like any other, the cosntant hum of the air condtioning systems nearly putting me to sleep as I stared at the command prompt, the Dell PowerEdge waiting for me to throw some command at it. I'd been at it for hours, resenting the fact that I was being made to work on Halloween. There were people to see, parties to go to, neighbors to egg, and script kiddies to frag in UT. But no, I was sitting in the server room trying to implement the bosses next big whiz bang idea. I knew it wouldn't work. The people in the other division knew it wouldn't work. My manager knew it wouldn't work, the night time cleaning lady Dorris, whose entire computer skills revolved around the fact that once she had dialed in to AOL, knew that it wouldn't work. However the nice consultant who sold us tens of thousands of dollars of gear said it would work just fine, every other reputable company in our line of work was doing it. So here I was, on Halloween, staring at a command prompt.
I threw back another cola and tried to clear my head. The makefile was hosed, some dependency was missing that I couldn't find. I checked site after site but saw it listed nowhere. I even hoped on several IRC channels to now advail. In a leap of desperation I called up the developers tech support number. I was instantly transfered to a machine that transfered my call to the night answering service, but that came up with a message telling me the number was no longer in service.
My brain felt fuzzy, I was getting nowhere quick so I grabbed another cola and tossed it back. It wasn't helping. I just couldn't focus, the caffeine wasn't giving me what I needed. I looked down at the can and then dropped it, pushing my chair back sliding me across to the far side of the server room.
"Caffeine free!" I cried out in horror.
Quickly I got out of my seat, flew from the server room and up the stairs to the small office kitchen. I shuffled around for the coffee. This would do the trick, this would bring me back to life. I opened the can and it was empty. I grabbed another one, but dropped it just as fast as I saw it was decaffeinated, the foul brew of the devil himself. I tore through the kitchen cupbard, looking for anything that contained the substance I so greatly desired. How would I ever get this to compile without the aid of caffeine, the stuff that needed to be flowing through my veins! I found a stash of herbal tea, but it too was without caffeine.
I grabbed for my wallet, there was still some cash in it. Good. I bolted from the office and across the street to the all night convieant store. I pulled on the handle but it was locked. I banged on the door, trying to get someones attention but there was no movement inside.
I could feel the fuzziness creeping deeper in to my brain, taking hold of me, choking me, dragging me further in to darkness. I tried to fight it, tried to do something, anything. I couldn't scream. I couldn't move or breathe. The darkness. The darkness....
NO CAFFEINE!!!! Ahhhhh!!!!!!