Are all of the features of the AT&T data plans functional with a different carrier or is it additionally locked down in some way?
As documented above, at the very least the visual voicemail won't work (which, especially for folks who get a lot of voicemail, is a very nice feature)
Also, what happens when Apple pushes out an update that disables this hack.
With iphone software hacks apple has forced a refresh if you try to upgrade the firmware (i.e. they have brought the phone back to factory settings). Not sure if that will be their continued strategy.
Invest some trust in your employees. Verify that the trust is deserved. Punish breaches of trust.
That's pretty naive. It certainly depends on the job, but many jobs have to use background checks. For example, if a financial institution followed your 'trust them until they break your trust' rule they could expose hundreds of thousands of people's personal information. Its common that you have to hire someone immediately who will need access to confidential information - in that case it is the responsible thing to do to perform a background check. Even with non-confidential positions its pretty easy to hire a psycho and only find out once they do something crazy - I've certainly seen it happen.
I dunno, this sounds like you are trying to bring back 'client-server' as the future of web programming. I think you're saying that 'www' is inadequate because its built on a stateless protocol that forces us to build hacks (i.e. ajax) to have state - given that stateful client-server apps failed for numerous reasons I think it is a little shortighted to think that Ajax will lead us back to stateful protocols that would allow us not to 'hack' around stateless-ness.
Obviously we have been doing state over http for some time, and we have a million simple ways to do asynch requests over http - so the fact that ajax standardizes that communication is great, but its definitly not 'the tip of the iceberg'.
I agree that Mail.app competes well with gmail. But keep in mind that outlook is not so bad - that is if you have 'lookout' installed (full text indexed search). I prefer the other clients, but outlook has the important things to me: a) Threaded views b) Powerful Rules c) Fast, indexed full text search supporting huge reams of email
I think all the clients, including outlook, have quirks, but most can be worked around with plugins and various clever tricks.
Open source software benefits the users, but it's still a drain on the resources of the individual who writes it.
There are exactly zero lead developers on successful open source projects who are not reaping huge personal and professional benefits from its success. I agree that open source contribution is extremely beneficial to everyone, but these days the lead contributors to widely used projects are not picking up welfare checks - in fact they arre more like celebrities.
That said, I like the idea of this tax break to inspire more folks to follow up on their ideas and innovate - wonder how the IRS will audit this one..... counting lines of published code??? What if the code doesn't compile? Or doesn't do anything?
for the majority of yahoo!'s lifespan Google powered its searches
That wouldn't quite be correct. Yahoo was around for a long time before picking up google technology (which wasn't until mid-2000....). But search has never been Yahoo's claim to fame. Before that they used Inktomi.
But again, Yahoo's business has never been about search, its about being a portal, which is what this article is about.
Huh?
I completely disagree. Yahoo! has been innovating in many areas since they first began. Not necessarily in bells and whistles (although they do tend to have lots of good features) but in core technology, uptime, and performance. I'm not sure what half-assed product you're referring to in particular (I'm guessing you're choosing to compare Y!Mail with GMail, since its hip to give google the advantage there), but in general Yahoo! has been a huge innovator in web technology (specifically portal related), and continues to put out quality services on all fronts.
I tend to agree with that. I especially think that having crazy piracy controls in place (locks, complex license servers, etc) usually makes it hard to try out the software - it also makes it hard to use once you buy a license. I work for a large company and we always pay for the software we use - there have been many times that we scrapped software because its too hard, even for a paying customer, to deal with the strict anti-piracy controls (e.g. sometimes you have to go back to the company every time an IP address changes...).
I'd like to see some actual numbers on their crime rate as I would be fucking astounded that a place where almost everything _IS_ illegal could actually have less crimes committed per year.
That's a good point, but unfortunately I don't think you'll ever see actual crime rate numbers - I've been to Singapore a couple of times and it *feels* like there is absolutely no crime. The folks I was working with, however, said it is impossible to know since the government also controls the media. Singapore tends to have the most positive news headlines I've ever seen - so even if there is crime, you would never know about it unless they choose to make an example of someone (like the caning example).
I personally am heavily reliant on the instant rss feeds of news to keep a tab on what's going on, which is certainly a critical part of my news reading.
However, I also rely on the top traditional newspapers for well written, thoughtful commentary on the news (even if it is "yesterday's news". The AP (et. al.) reports are informative, but generally are whipped together and provide little to no actual content. Beyond headline surfing I love to sit down and read a well written news story that was carefully crafted and researched so I can consider myself truly informed.
Why should the lack of errors indicate that it's been "scrubbed" by a staffer?
Sure, he *could* write a blog without spelling mistakes. But you've got to be kidding me if you think this is for real. There is absolutely no way a main stream politician like this would rif in true blog format - it is far too risky. Just like no company does anything publicly without the marketing folks scripting, no politician can afford to shoot from the hip. This just a lame attempt to 'connect with mainstream america'.
Our brains limit us to only create something less "intelligent" if we were to do it from scratch.
I don't want to start a religious battle, but his sounds like a canned version of the argument for 'Intelligent Design', or 'ID', which argues (generally, obviously there is great detail) that beings as complex as Humans must be designed to become that way and could not come from randomness (at least in the given timeframe). I personally have read the literature on ID and do not find this argument very compelling.
We've all seen 'evolutionary agorithms' (genetic programming), and they certainly allow for software to come up with solutions that I (the software developer) could not have, or would not have, come up with, in a short amount of time. This is especially the case where the metrics for children surviving are easy to quantify (as one might argue they are in the real world - with death).
I think the difference is that many homes and businesses come pre-installed with cat5 cable to every room (or at least have already wired it up), so in those cases you WOULDN'T have to run cable. Its much less common that a house (or especially an office) is pre-wired for speaker wiring.
1) Java still has memory leaks, its just manifested in a different way 2) Troubleshooting garbage collection problems can be harder than troubleshooting traditional c memory problems 3) You should almost never manually GC - especially just because you think you your app's got the time. First of all, the garbage collector knows more about when it has time than you do. Second of all, this type of assumption (i.e. that your code is the only thread in the JVM) is never a good idea. Third of all, every jvm has different properties to the garbage collection, so embedding assumptions about these properties in your code can be non-portable. 4) PERL can be more readable than java, in some ways, since it allows shorthand for non business logic operations. Some java code is so littered with overhead that it is impossible to sort through the uninteresting operations to find the business logic. Understood that this shorthand is more apt to being abused, but ugly code is always hard to read.
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The 60 year old master jeweler, or his 30 year old assistant?
Only problem with that analogy is that every 60 year old jeweler is not a MASTER jeweler. Similarly, most of these older experienced mainframe programmers are probably not 'master' engineers.
Here's one - never having to hear "Ship it!". People working on OSS projects on their own time aren't generally being told, "you have to ship before Dec. 31st so we can get the revenue on this quarter's books", with no regard to whether that date is reasonable.
Actually, the large open source projects I've seen DO have pressure to ship fast. Although it may not be due the the quarter's books, there is a lot of pressure on projects to get things done and announce GA. When Apache 2.0 was originally released I believe many developers didn't think it was ready for prime-time, and they still shipped. As a result it took a long time for people to upgrade. Additionally, many important open source projects ARE backed (and essentially developed) by corporations who DO have books to worry about.
MC's gamble is that contactless payment will thus thwart more fraud than it facilitates
MC's main priority, however is not to thwart fraud, so it may not be a huge gamble. They actually make money by resolving disputes in fraud cases (its the banks that usually eat it).
I suppose if fraud became rampant then banks might stop issuing MasterCard and switch to Visa, but if the new system makes people start to use their cards for all small/medium transactions that would probably far outweigh any fraud concerns (as far as MasterCard is concerned, that is).
I See your point, although lets equate this to my house or my car. Sure, if I don't lock my car I'm begging for someone to steal stuff - but that doesn't mean the person taking things from my car has the right to go in there. If I have a private network and don't lock it I may be asking for trouble, but that doesn't mean its ok for someone to walk in, acquire an ip address, and poke around.
I'm currently in the Army Reserves and write software on the civilian side. For the past 8 years I've been trying to find a way to help out the Army Reserves with my computer skills - and from my perspective there are lots of others just like me.... problem is, the Army doesn't know what to do with us. Sure, they have set up special 'Information Operations' units filled with talented people... but most of these people waste their time ordering computers, installing microsoft 2000 on them, and upgrading patches.... not to mention filling out paperwork and stacking boxes... its a complete waste of time. And these are smart people who really want to help out with their skills. I would prefer seeing the military make a plan for how to USE the technology specialists they have before drafting up a plan to pluck people out of their civilian life.
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I always thought everything was eventually 'deterministic', and that non-deterministic machines were purely theoretical.
Why would someone use a camera to detect audio?
That's pretty naive. It certainly depends on the job, but many jobs have to use background checks. For example, if a financial institution followed your 'trust them until they break your trust' rule they could expose hundreds of thousands of people's personal information. Its common that you have to hire someone immediately who will need access to confidential information - in that case it is the responsible thing to do to perform a background check. Even with non-confidential positions its pretty easy to hire a psycho and only find out once they do something crazy - I've certainly seen it happen.
I dunno, this sounds like you are trying to bring back 'client-server' as the future of web programming. I think you're saying that 'www' is inadequate because its built on a stateless protocol that forces us to build hacks (i.e. ajax) to have state - given that stateful client-server apps failed for numerous reasons I think it is a little shortighted to think that Ajax will lead us back to stateful protocols that would allow us not to 'hack' around stateless-ness.
Obviously we have been doing state over http for some time, and we have a million simple ways to do asynch requests over http - so the fact that ajax standardizes that communication is great, but its definitly not 'the tip of the iceberg'.
I agree that Mail.app competes well with gmail. But keep in mind that outlook is not so bad - that is if you have 'lookout' installed (full text indexed search). I prefer the other clients, but outlook has the important things to me:
a) Threaded views
b) Powerful Rules
c) Fast, indexed full text search supporting huge reams of email
I think all the clients, including outlook, have quirks, but most can be worked around with plugins and various clever tricks.
Yup - and If you check his resume, he went to Beverly Hills High...... Money is most likely not an issue.
That said, I like the idea of this tax break to inspire more folks to follow up on their ideas and innovate - wonder how the IRS will audit this one..... counting lines of published code??? What if the code doesn't compile? Or doesn't do anything?
I'm pretty sure my Motorola flip phones have had the 'ignore call' button on the side for quite some time now.
Emacs has all of those things, and pretty much anything else you can drum up from your favorite IDE.
But again, Yahoo's business has never been about search, its about being a portal, which is what this article is about.
Huh?
I completely disagree. Yahoo! has been innovating in many areas since they first began. Not necessarily in bells and whistles (although they do tend to have lots of good features) but in core technology, uptime, and performance. I'm not sure what half-assed product you're referring to in particular (I'm guessing you're choosing to compare Y!Mail with GMail, since its hip to give google the advantage there), but in general Yahoo! has been a huge innovator in web technology (specifically portal related), and continues to put out quality services on all fronts.
I tend to agree with that. I especially think that having crazy piracy controls in place (locks, complex license servers, etc) usually makes it hard to try out the software - it also makes it hard to use once you buy a license. I work for a large company and we always pay for the software we use - there have been many times that we scrapped software because its too hard, even for a paying customer, to deal with the strict anti-piracy controls (e.g. sometimes you have to go back to the company every time an IP address changes...).
That's a good point, but unfortunately I don't think you'll ever see actual crime rate numbers - I've been to Singapore a couple of times and it *feels* like there is absolutely no crime. The folks I was working with, however, said it is impossible to know since the government also controls the media. Singapore tends to have the most positive news headlines I've ever seen - so even if there is crime, you would never know about it unless they choose to make an example of someone (like the caning example).
I personally am heavily reliant on the instant rss feeds of news to keep a tab on what's going on, which is certainly a critical part of my news reading.
However, I also rely on the top traditional newspapers for well written, thoughtful commentary on the news (even if it is "yesterday's news". The AP (et. al.) reports are informative, but generally are whipped together and provide little to no actual content. Beyond headline surfing I love to sit down and read a well written news story that was carefully crafted and researched so I can consider myself truly informed.
Sure, he *could* write a blog without spelling mistakes. But you've got to be kidding me if you think this is for real. There is absolutely no way a main stream politician like this would rif in true blog format - it is far too risky. Just like no company does anything publicly without the marketing folks scripting, no politician can afford to shoot from the hip. This just a lame attempt to 'connect with mainstream america'.
I don't want to start a religious battle, but his sounds like a canned version of the argument for 'Intelligent Design', or 'ID', which argues (generally, obviously there is great detail) that beings as complex as Humans must be designed to become that way and could not come from randomness (at least in the given timeframe). I personally have read the literature on ID and do not find this argument very compelling.
We've all seen 'evolutionary agorithms' (genetic programming), and they certainly allow for software to come up with solutions that I (the software developer) could not have, or would not have, come up with, in a short amount of time. This is especially the case where the metrics for children surviving are easy to quantify (as one might argue they are in the real world - with death).
I think the difference is that many homes and businesses come pre-installed with cat5 cable to every room (or at least have already wired it up), so in those cases you WOULDN'T have to run cable. Its much less common that a house (or especially an office) is pre-wired for speaker wiring.
Point well taken, however, on the price point.
1) Java still has memory leaks, its just manifested in a different way
2) Troubleshooting garbage collection problems can be harder than troubleshooting traditional c memory problems
3) You should almost never manually GC - especially just because you think you your app's got the time. First of all, the garbage collector knows more about when it has time than you do. Second of all, this type of assumption (i.e. that your code is the only thread in the JVM) is never a good idea. Third of all, every jvm has different properties to the garbage collection, so embedding assumptions about these properties in your code can be non-portable.
4) PERL can be more readable than java, in some ways, since it allows shorthand for non business logic operations. Some java code is so littered with overhead that it is impossible to sort through the uninteresting operations to find the business logic. Understood that this shorthand is more apt to being abused, but ugly code is always hard to read.
Only problem with that analogy is that every 60 year old jeweler is not a MASTER jeweler. Similarly, most of these older experienced mainframe programmers are probably not 'master' engineers.
Here's one - never having to hear "Ship it!". People working on OSS projects on their own time aren't generally being told, "you have to ship before Dec. 31st so we can get the revenue on this quarter's books", with no regard to whether that date is reasonable.
Actually, the large open source projects I've seen DO have pressure to ship fast. Although it may not be due the the quarter's books, there is a lot of pressure on projects to get things done and announce GA. When Apache 2.0 was originally released I believe many developers didn't think it was ready for prime-time, and they still shipped. As a result it took a long time for people to upgrade. Additionally, many important open source projects ARE backed (and essentially developed) by corporations who DO have books to worry about.
I suppose if fraud became rampant then banks might stop issuing MasterCard and switch to Visa, but if the new system makes people start to use their cards for all small/medium transactions that would probably far outweigh any fraud concerns (as far as MasterCard is concerned, that is).
I See your point, although lets equate this to my house or my car. Sure, if I don't lock my car I'm begging for someone to steal stuff - but that doesn't mean the person taking things from my car has the right to go in there. If I have a private network and don't lock it I may be asking for trouble, but that doesn't mean its ok for someone to walk in, acquire an ip address, and poke around.
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I'm currently in the Army Reserves and write software on the civilian side. For the past 8 years I've been trying to find a way to help out the Army Reserves with my computer skills - and from my perspective there are lots of others just like me.... problem is, the Army doesn't know what to do with us. Sure, they have set up special 'Information Operations' units filled with talented people... but most of these people waste their time ordering computers, installing microsoft 2000 on them, and upgrading patches.... not to mention filling out paperwork and stacking boxes... its a complete waste of time. And these are smart people who really want to help out with their skills. I would prefer seeing the military make a plan for how to USE the technology specialists they have before drafting up a plan to pluck people out of their civilian life.