My son described it as "watching the sun explode." [. ..], but each barge just launched an angry ball of fury. As for the sound, it was kinda like filling a football stadium with old tractors and revving them until they backfired and the engines explode.
WTH I am totally laughing myself into tears. What an awesome and hilarious series of phrases to describe an accidentally time-compressed pyrotechnic show. Best part? You end with an analogy involving vehicles withinternal-combustion engined engines!
In The Art of Loving Eric Fromm explains love as action taken to advance the spiritual development of another being. For Fromm, love isn't a feeling but the actions taken whatever one feels toward the spiritual growth of another being.
For Fromm, pets cannot advance spiritually. Spiritual growth necessitates change and sometimes that change increases the independence of the loved one with the consequence that the loved one and the lover grow apart. Fromm argues pet ownership establishes the dependence of the pet on the owner and that it does not advance the possibility of the pet advancing spiritually.
I love animals and have had pets at various points in my life. I have never had children. I love communicating in language with others and I presume most other humans do, too. As a result, I'm guessing the number of people who, having done both, find raising pets as fulfilling as raising children is fairly small.
Not to detract from Jefferson's accomplishments which were many and various, but Monticello and the grounds of the University of Virginia were built with the hands of slaves.
This wouldn't even be a problem except TFS notes Jefferson was "an expert in [. ..] ethnology, anthropology" among other disciplines. Jefferson
Jefferson's post-Enlightenment views regarding blacks and slavery rules out any claims he was an "expert" in the human sciences, especially ethnology and anthropology. Sort of like calling Johann Joachim Becher an expert in fluid dynamics and pyrology.
I can't believe people are proposing the search field for a Google search is a command line and getting multiply modded insightful. It's like calling an HTML-parser an operating system.
From the "Google command line" try to:
Get a listing of the files in the parent directory.
Initiate a process and then terminate its execution.
Create a file.
Reboot the "machine".
Connect to another server using any protocol.
Monitor the processes running on the "machine".
None of these things (and a whole lot more) can be done from inside a Google search field, by users, programmers, not even Page himself. This is because the Google search box is not a CLI as the term is understood in the art of computer interface design.
Your posts in this thread reveal more about your irrational prejudice than Apple's patent-troll behavior, especially when you start enumerating the adoption of open standards as copying.
I literally know not a single OSX user that doesn't use Chrome or Firefox as their main browser and would remove Safari if it was possible, much like pretty much everyone I know with a Windows machine would dump I.E. in a second if that were possible.
Well count one right here then.
I'm a web developer, run several virtualized instances of Windows and have Chrome, and Firefox installed on my host OS as well as my virtualized Windows machines, but I use Safari as my main browser.
He did not say those things because he meant them, they were said because if iOS ran flash then applications could have been used on it that were not vetted by Apple.
You say that as if that's a bad thing. Maybe it is for third parties, but from Apple's point of view and from the point of view of their users, prohibiting third parties from controlling the development ecosystem of a platform is the only thing that makes sense. Read what Jobs called the "most important reason" for disallowing Flash on iOS:
Sixth, the most important reason. [For not allowing Flash on iOS.]
Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.
We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.
Also, to address your "fear is this will mean online video sites will start making their own apps that do not work on my linux desktops" I first want to ask why should iOS users and Apple care about Adobe's proprietary solution for your linux desktop. The only proper answer, of course, is *crickets*. The improper answer is that linux and everyone else in the world would be better off if video were (back-)implemented as an open standard which is where HTML5 comes in.
HTML5 will fix this problem of one company single-handedly controlling the future of web-delivered video. The problem was the fault of the big players who tried to corner the video codec market (Silverlight, Quicktime) with their own stupid plugins and losing to a respectable competitor, in this case Adobe.
Now that the battle has been lost Apple (and everyone else) understand that controlling the widget isn't as important as interoperability and you, as a linux user, should understand that fairly well.
Flash is going to die and everyone except for maybe a few Flash software engineers (and that temporarily) are going to be better off as a result.
I was only 12 at the time banging out BASIC programs copied from magazines so I wouldn't recall lol.
I totally remember doing this!
I imagined on a subconscious level that programming computers was something like data entry. Looking back, clearly I was equating the creation of words (I'm a writer by calling; web developer by historical accident) using a keyboard to being "productive" with computers.
AOL was important because it was the first (and for a while the only) ISP with national modem-pool coverage. When traveling, you didn't have to pay long-distance to access the Internet. Instead, you could just dial the local batch of AOL modems and avoid per-minute charges from Ma Bell.
RIMM has a positive net tangible assets on their balance sheet, loot it up.
I'm terribly sorry but that has got to be the best typo I've ever seen. I mean, the keys "t" and "k" are pretty far apart, it sounds almost intentional.
GP was probably trying to say "loog it up" as in "spit all over the idea that RIM can file for bankruptcy".
I see plenty of people coming to my organization looking for work with 20+ years experience happy to drive 40 minutes and get paid $40k a year for an entry level position because they simply cannot find work right now.
This astounds me. I'm a mid-level web developer in my mid-40s (I'm a university refugee). I am not a coding superstar but I am smart enough to teach myself a bit of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and UNIX scripting. I can raise and deploy a server but I don't quite get, for example, CIDR notation. In other words, I'm not Gomer Pyle nor am I Linus Torvalds.
My first job a few years back was in the low 60s with an accelerated options plan. 18 mos. later I pull down what is the equivalent of about 90K/year. My next job paid about 80K/y. This is with all 2 years of experience. I live in SF.
What is up with all these people with real skills working for 40K? I don't get it. Maybe they should migrate to where the jobs are. Maybe they should code up some web pages and take on some consulting. I know my ex-girlfriend has no end of clients who need stuff coded now who pay at least $30/hour.
Apple had a 30" monitor with massive resolution, Dell brought it too, then Apple decided to pull the plug.
When I first arrived in the Bay Area to start working as a web developer, I bought one of these gorgeous 30" screens. It was beautiful. It was crystal clear. It was too frickin' big.
Even when my seat was adjusted ergonomically, the top of the monitor (i.e. the menubar) was just high enough I was every so slightly lifting my chin to look at it. I started noticing not feeling "settled" when using the main monitor.
The monitor also obscured more of the beautiful view outside the window than I wanted it to. It was that big.
I tried to stay with it for about 10 days before I realized I had to downgrade the monitor for usability! It ended up saving me $800 to boot.
I guarantee you, 99% of guys would gladly agree, not because they've been trained to seek objectification, but because it sure as fuck beats real work.
I don't think this is true in all cases. In fact, I'm guessing this is not true in most cases; it's just that the labor market (such as it is) distorts motivation.
I'm pretty sure most people don't really want a job where they are paid to do nothing or (just as bad) paid too little to do drudge work. Most people want a job that just exceeds their abilities so they can keep growing and learning. Most people want challenges they can meet, and its a good thing if the challenges sometimes stump them (without mistakes jeopardizing their jobs). People want just enough novelty so new things can (and do) appear but not so much that every task requires a complete overhaul of one's skill set.
The problem is that many jobs don't want workers who grow and are appropriately challenged. Most jobs want reliable cogs and, if that's what you're signed up for, no amount of leisure, pay, or security is going to make that job fulfilling.
I think I learned my lesson. my next phone will be a button phone, non-smart and simple.
and when I reach for a calc, I grab a real physical one. or, if I'm on a computer, I just echo stuff to 'bc' and at least I have a real keyboard when I do that!
my prediction: touch screens will fade in interest and we will return to button pads some time in the future. we will have learned our lesson and the fad will have faded. TS's are sexy but they are BAD to use. admit it.
The market has spoken and you choose not to hear.
Dedicated keyboards on smartphones are never again going to lead the market. It's over. Dedicate keyboards won't disappear altogether, but you won't see them dominating the form factor. Bank on it.
Sort of stunning how you blithely ignore the empirical evidence of people voting with their dollars. Good thing you're not in charge of a smartphone company! FWIW, I like my iPhone's touch screen just fine; it's actually the physical buttons that annoy me.
We really only do that when someone makes a factually incorrect statement [. ..]
When Al Gore claimed to be responsible for the internet, were you content with letting people believe that or did you feel the need to point out that people like Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee exist?
Your assertion about Gore seems to be one of those pesky "factually incorrect statements". You're welcome:
Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999.
Slashdot Mirror
Well played.
The options you're probably thinking of are "slow", "long", and "hard".
Add:
You're fucking idiot. It's Bazaar, asshole, not bizarre.
My son described it as "watching the sun explode." [. . .], but each barge just launched an angry ball of fury. As for the sound, it was kinda like filling a football stadium with old tractors and revving them until they backfired and the engines explode.
WTH I am totally laughing myself into tears. What an awesome and hilarious series of phrases to describe an accidentally time-compressed pyrotechnic show. Best part? You end with an analogy involving vehicles withinternal-combustion engined engines!
In The Art of Loving Eric Fromm explains love as action taken to advance the spiritual development of another being. For Fromm, love isn't a feeling but the actions taken whatever one feels toward the spiritual growth of another being.
For Fromm, pets cannot advance spiritually. Spiritual growth necessitates change and sometimes that change increases the independence of the loved one with the consequence that the loved one and the lover grow apart. Fromm argues pet ownership establishes the dependence of the pet on the owner and that it does not advance the possibility of the pet advancing spiritually.
I love animals and have had pets at various points in my life. I have never had children. I love communicating in language with others and I presume most other humans do, too. As a result, I'm guessing the number of people who, having done both, find raising pets as fulfilling as raising children is fairly small.
Not to detract from Jefferson's accomplishments which were many and various, but Monticello and the grounds of the University of Virginia were built with the hands of slaves.
This wouldn't even be a problem except TFS notes Jefferson was "an expert in [. . .] ethnology, anthropology" among other disciplines. Jefferson
shared contemporary racial views that Africans were inferior to whites and needed supervision. This became his rationale for justifying slavery, although he had condemned the institution under his Enlightenment ideals.
Jefferson's post-Enlightenment views regarding blacks and slavery rules out any claims he was an "expert" in the human sciences, especially ethnology and anthropology. Sort of like calling Johann Joachim Becher an expert in fluid dynamics and pyrology.
I can't believe people are proposing the search field for a Google search is a command line and getting multiply modded insightful. It's like calling an HTML-parser an operating system.
From the "Google command line" try to:
None of these things (and a whole lot more) can be done from inside a Google search field, by users, programmers, not even Page himself. This is because the Google search box is not a CLI as the term is understood in the art of computer interface design.
They copied ascii.
Your posts in this thread reveal more about your irrational prejudice than Apple's patent-troll behavior, especially when you start enumerating the adoption of open standards as copying.
I literally know not a single OSX user that doesn't use Chrome or Firefox as their main browser and would remove Safari if it was possible, much like pretty much everyone I know with a Windows machine would dump I.E. in a second if that were possible.
Well count one right here then.
I'm a web developer, run several virtualized instances of Windows and have Chrome, and Firefox installed on my host OS as well as my virtualized Windows machines, but I use Safari as my main browser.
He did not say those things because he meant them, they were said because if iOS ran flash then applications could have been used on it that were not vetted by Apple.
You say that as if that's a bad thing. Maybe it is for third parties, but from Apple's point of view and from the point of view of their users, prohibiting third parties from controlling the development ecosystem of a platform is the only thing that makes sense. Read what Jobs called the "most important reason" for disallowing Flash on iOS:
Sixth, the most important reason. [For not allowing Flash on iOS.]
Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.
We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.
Also, to address your "fear is this will mean online video sites will start making their own apps that do not work on my linux desktops" I first want to ask why should iOS users and Apple care about Adobe's proprietary solution for your linux desktop. The only proper answer, of course, is *crickets*. The improper answer is that linux and everyone else in the world would be better off if video were (back-)implemented as an open standard which is where HTML5 comes in.
HTML5 will fix this problem of one company single-handedly controlling the future of web-delivered video. The problem was the fault of the big players who tried to corner the video codec market (Silverlight, Quicktime) with their own stupid plugins and losing to a respectable competitor, in this case Adobe.
Now that the battle has been lost Apple (and everyone else) understand that controlling the widget isn't as important as interoperability and you, as a linux user, should understand that fairly well.
Flash is going to die and everyone except for maybe a few Flash software engineers (and that temporarily) are going to be better off as a result.
I was only 12 at the time banging out BASIC programs copied from magazines so I wouldn't recall lol.
I totally remember doing this!
I imagined on a subconscious level that programming computers was something like data entry. Looking back, clearly I was equating the creation of words (I'm a writer by calling; web developer by historical accident) using a keyboard to being "productive" with computers.
Good times.
AOL was important because it was the first (and for a while the only) ISP with national modem-pool coverage. When traveling, you didn't have to pay long-distance to access the Internet. Instead, you could just dial the local batch of AOL modems and avoid per-minute charges from Ma Bell.
RIMM has a positive net tangible assets on their balance sheet, loot it up.
I'm terribly sorry but that has got to be the best typo I've ever seen. I mean, the keys "t" and "k" are pretty far apart, it sounds almost intentional.
GP was probably trying to say "loog it up" as in "spit all over the idea that RIM can file for bankruptcy".
Right?!
As William Butler Yeats puts it in his apocalyptic vision of "The Second Coming"
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Android 4.0 Upgrade For Sony Xperia Smarphones Opens a Pandora Box
It's a smartphone, ffs, and the box is Pandora's.
I thought "Smarphones" were phones used by Smarphs.
I got a version that looks like this
when (aProblem.comes(along)){
you.whip(it,must);
}
before(cream.sitsOut(tooLong)){
you.whip(it,must);
}
go(forward);
move(ahead);
try(detect(it));
if(it != too late) {
you.whip(it,good)
}
This throws my entire FY 2012 planning out the window!
I thought the bold text was a new Ask Slashdot feature to help everyone see the OPs replies! Thanks for doing that.
Same here. It made the thread more engaging to be able to easily see the OP's replies.
This astounds me. I'm a mid-level web developer in my mid-40s (I'm a university refugee). I am not a coding superstar but I am smart enough to teach myself a bit of HTML/CSS/JavaScript and UNIX scripting. I can raise and deploy a server but I don't quite get, for example, CIDR notation. In other words, I'm not Gomer Pyle nor am I Linus Torvalds.
My first job a few years back was in the low 60s with an accelerated options plan. 18 mos. later I pull down what is the equivalent of about 90K/year. My next job paid about 80K/y. This is with all 2 years of experience. I live in SF.
What is up with all these people with real skills working for 40K? I don't get it. Maybe they should migrate to where the jobs are. Maybe they should code up some web pages and take on some consulting. I know my ex-girlfriend has no end of clients who need stuff coded now who pay at least $30/hour.
For instance, this [mtsgsm.com] report indicates that Windows Phone is outselling iPhone in Russia,
IN RUSSIA WINDOWS PHONE SELLS IPHONE OUT!
er . . . wait
Apple had a 30" monitor with massive resolution, Dell brought it too, then Apple decided to pull the plug.
When I first arrived in the Bay Area to start working as a web developer, I bought one of these gorgeous 30" screens. It was beautiful. It was crystal clear. It was too frickin' big.
Even when my seat was adjusted ergonomically, the top of the monitor (i.e. the menubar) was just high enough I was every so slightly lifting my chin to look at it. I started noticing not feeling "settled" when using the main monitor.
The monitor also obscured more of the beautiful view outside the window than I wanted it to. It was that big.
I tried to stay with it for about 10 days before I realized I had to downgrade the monitor for usability! It ended up saving me $800 to boot.
I guarantee you, 99% of guys would gladly agree, not because they've been trained to seek objectification, but because it sure as fuck beats real work.
I don't think this is true in all cases. In fact, I'm guessing this is not true in most cases; it's just that the labor market (such as it is) distorts motivation.
I'm pretty sure most people don't really want a job where they are paid to do nothing or (just as bad) paid too little to do drudge work. Most people want a job that just exceeds their abilities so they can keep growing and learning. Most people want challenges they can meet, and its a good thing if the challenges sometimes stump them (without mistakes jeopardizing their jobs). People want just enough novelty so new things can (and do) appear but not so much that every task requires a complete overhaul of one's skill set.
The problem is that many jobs don't want workers who grow and are appropriately challenged. Most jobs want reliable cogs and, if that's what you're signed up for, no amount of leisure, pay, or security is going to make that job fulfilling.
I think I learned my lesson. my next phone will be a button phone, non-smart and simple.
and when I reach for a calc, I grab a real physical one. or, if I'm on a computer, I just echo stuff to 'bc' and at least I have a real keyboard when I do that!
my prediction: touch screens will fade in interest and we will return to button pads some time in the future. we will have learned our lesson and the fad will have faded. TS's are sexy but they are BAD to use. admit it.
The market has spoken and you choose not to hear.
Dedicated keyboards on smartphones are never again going to lead the market. It's over. Dedicate keyboards won't disappear altogether, but you won't see them dominating the form factor. Bank on it.
Sort of stunning how you blithely ignore the empirical evidence of people voting with their dollars. Good thing you're not in charge of a smartphone company! FWIW, I like my iPhone's touch screen just fine; it's actually the physical buttons that annoy me.
We really only do that when someone makes a factually incorrect statement [. . .]
When Al Gore claimed to be responsible for the internet, were you content with letting people believe that or did you feel the need to point out that people like Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee exist?
Your assertion about Gore seems to be one of those pesky "factually incorrect statements". You're welcome: