In the interest of full disclaimer, I am the author of CycleMaps, a popular cycling app and a very keen cyclist.
Here in the UK, cycling has increased massively in popularity in the past 4 years or so - the country has had some successes in international cycling competitions, plus London has a very strongly pro-cycling mayor. This has led to the rise of a large number of very casual cyclists - which I think is a very good thing. However among them you get a non trivial number of people that think it's magically fine to drive in the dark without any lights or high-viz jacket, cycling on the pavement scaring pedestrians, or running all red lights. This leads to a lot of antagonism between drivers and cyclists and basically can give us cyclists a bad name. On the other hand, there are drivers that have been known to do massively stupid things, like hit a cyclist, not stop, and then tweet about it.
I am very optimistic about the future as mass cycling in big western cities is still quite a new phenomenon, so I think that things will gradually ease out. In the mean time, if you want to be safe, my advice would be:
* Obey the rules of traffic. Always.
* Make your self visible. Drivers just need to see you
* Be obvious. Make it 100% clear where you intend to go. No surprises. A driver that sees you and knows where you will turn, will not cut you over
* Respect. Pedestrians, drivers, cyclists.
* *NEVER* overtake lorries / trucks from the inside. They cannot see you.
* Learn how to drive. This way, you will learn how to obey the law and (perhaps more importantly) you will understand how it feels to drive next to a cyclist and what kind of perception drivers have
* Where possible, avoid big streets. It's much more possible than you may think. Get a bicycle case for your smartphone. Use (shameless plug) my app, google, or anything else you may like
But it's something that effects even pseudo-public sector- look at the BBC, their iPlayer app prioritised the iPhone well ahead of any platform, despite being completely against the BBCs requirement of providing equal access to content that license payers pay for.
(emphasis mine). Hello Mr Murdoch! Let me correct you: There is *no* BBC iPlayer app, you just go to the BBC iPlayer website, click on the program you want to watch, which launches quicktime / the movie player on the iphone. No iphone specific app. In fact, a lot of the bbc website (including news), does not fully work on the iphone as it's using flash.
The point of blocking flash is to encourage people to ONLY develop for the iPhone. Development costs generally prohibit most apps from getting cross developed for multiple platforms. Sometimes things like Flash facilitate cross-platform development.
No. Apple / The Steve are advocating HTML5 as an alternative to flash. HTML5 is as open and cross platform as you can get. You don't develop for Adobe's platform, you develop against a standard, that can run on the iphone, android, windows mobile, web os and any html5 compatible browser. Encouraging people to use HTML5 is a terrible way to make iphone-only apps.
The point of blocking flash is to encourage people to ONLY develop for the iPhone. Development costs generally prohibit most apps from getting cross developed for multiple platforms. Sometimes things like Flash facilitate cross-platform development. If they get developers to only create apps for the iPhone instead of cross-platform, then people have more reasons to buy the iPhone hardware as the apps they want would only exist on the iPhone.
No it's not. Apple is promoting HTML5 as an alternative to flash (which is valid for 99%of the uses of flash). Guess what? HTML5 is not apple-specific, and runs on android etc. HTML5 is as cross platform as you get.
Gun control basically is the same thing: for a gun to really be a problem one must already be prepared to break the law. So given that a willingness to break the law is already a prerequisite for a gun crime to take place: do you really think that the culprit is gonna give a damn that he's breaking a law by obtaining or carrying a gun? That argument has two major holes:
a) It is assuming that people are rational beings and that all actions are well premeditated. It's pretty well known by now that people are irrational (hey, how's that for a slashdot audience, this is a blog entry by the gmail creator!). Basically, in a surge of emotion (think domestic fights, a depressed / severely stressed kid (say a highschool shooting)), if one can easily have access to guns (by opening the local cabinet, going to a store, etc.), they can cause massively more damage, significantly more easily.
b) That the massive number of guns going around in a society will always be used by the people they were intended in the way they were intended. This is patently not true, as demonstrated by kids getting access to their grandfather's gun, or various people we (the west) have massively funded and provided guns to (think Bin Laden and the Mujahideen's in Afganistan vs the Soviets, or Saddam versus the Iranians).
There's also, of course, a moral argument. The only primary purpose of the gun is to kill. The whole protection stuff is completely secondary; a gun 'protects' by killing, or threatening to kill. I, personally, think that society has an obligation to protect its citizens, and banning a device the purpose of which is to kill is a good idea.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people. And monkeys kill people. If you give them a gun. (to quote eddie izzard)
I was a big palm fan. I use my Tungsten T3 every day. I am also a mobile application developer (J2ME, Palm (not very strong on that one)). However, the PalmOS based Treos are doomed, especially in the face of the iphone which also threatens the Windows mobile ones. I think it's a bit hypocritical for hard core palm fans, like the parent post to blindly defend what is a wreck for many reasons.
Let's take apart this reply about how the treo does the vast majority of what the iphone does (and since 2003! that's hubris)
>> Your Treo has accelerometers and a proximity sensor?
> Not as powerful a one, but there's a reason it shuts down when dropped (and not broken, it just knows when to save itself from corruption)
The answer is that no, the Treo does not have an accelerometer. It does not have a proximity sensor. It does not have an ambient light sensor as the iphone does. Hence it does not switch to landscape mode when you tilt it (actually, it doesn't even have landscape mode as the screen is smaller and square). It does not turn off the screen automatically when it's close to your face when you're speaking. It also does not adjust its brightness based on the ambient light (apple is not the first to do this - my w810i does it too, but your treo doesn't).
Point goes to apple.
>> It has a Dock Connector?
> Yes. It's called a USB cable.
What the GP post probably meant is: Can you connect the vast number of accessories that Apple has enabled through the doc connector to the Treo? External speakers? FM transmitters? The Treo is a USB slave device, which means you can only use that USB port to connect it to a computer - you can't connect an accessory that way. The treo doesn't even ship with a cradle. The iphone does (apparently). And don't get me started on that Palm joke the Universal connector, which they abandoned after 3 models.
Point goes to apple.
>> It has a full web browser (not some shrunken down "baby browser")?
> Correct. [link to blazer]
No. Blazer is a baby browser. Can blazer run in the background while you do something else? Can it view PDFs? Can it run Ajax ("web 2.0") sites? The answer to all of these, as you well know, is no.
Safari can do all of these, however.
Point goes to apple.
>> It has a touchscreen interface?
> Yes, and has for years.
Well, sort of. Your treo digitiser can only detect one "click" with the stylus/finger. The iphone has "multitouch", which means it can detect multiple presses on the screen. And the GUI is *fully* touchscreen driven.
Point goes to apple.
>> It has a virtual keyboard so you don't have to press 7 four times to get an S?
> It has a full keyboard you can type on in your pocket. Have you even seen one? That's the dumbest comment of all these.
yup, you're right there. Point goes to Palm (though it's a really minor one)
>> It syncs with iTunes?
> Who wants that? It syncs like a hard-drive. 4gb SD card slides into computer. mp3's are copied, and then played.
Lots of people do! Have you noticed how popular the store is? In any case you can do that with the treo too, through missing sync (though not the protected stuff). So point goes to Palm.
>> How many people are going to post ignorant "My phone does all this" claims without thinking it through? >> How many people are going to realize many phones have been doing the majority of this stuff for years....and the iPhone won't be about for a number of months?
So 2 points to palm, versus 4 to apple. But you forgot to mention the most vital stuff (and i'm referring to PalmOS based treos, not the winmob ones. But you seem to have a PalmOS one, since you mention blazer)
- A horrible cludge of an OS. Everyone knows it. You can't truly multitask (and don't even try the "zen of palm" defence). It crashes and reboots *very* frequently and easily. You can't run a nat
Sex is a natural thing that happens between two people who like each other a lot.
"Bukkake is when a Mommy and a Daddy and a Daddy and a Daddy and a Daddy and a Daddy and a Daddy all decide that Mommy needs some special facial moisturiser" (from bash.org)
A new study by the Entertainment Software Association reveals that, amazingly, gamers>/b> are regular human beings.
In related news, Microsoft claims Windows less expensive than Linux, the NRA claims that guns don't kill people, people kill people (and so do monkeys, if you give them a gun! - thanks eddie!), tobacco companies claim that smoking is not that bad for you, and SCO claims that they own linux.
Although I obviously agree that gamers are normal people (duh!), shouldn't we question the source of this investigation?
Try Card Export. It exports the SD card in your palm as a usb mass storage drive which you can mount under windows/linux (usb-storage) and access as a normal drive.
- Intel with the Pentium 4 fiasco where speed is placed over performance;
- Microsoft with their ignoring of security concerns until way too late;
- Fast food providers in general, MacDonalds in particular;
- Radio/Television/Movie/Music industries;
I'm with you all the way buddy in disliking all of the above, but I wouldn't exactly call Microsoft, McDonalds, the Radio/Television/Movie/Music conglomerates, or intel famous disasters... Certainly not for the companies or stakeholders.
There must be a preference setting somewhere that says "show me the porn and sick stuff" because so far the two links (resident evil and hello) havent showed me either anime porn or our great goat leader....
As the images are provided by images.google.com, it could be that I've turned off the "adult" filter on images.google.com (which I have) and you haven't;-)
Slashdot Mirror
In the interest of full disclaimer, I am the author of CycleMaps, a popular cycling app and a very keen cyclist.
Here in the UK, cycling has increased massively in popularity in the past 4 years or so - the country has had some successes in international cycling competitions, plus London has a very strongly pro-cycling mayor. This has led to the rise of a large number of very casual cyclists - which I think is a very good thing. However among them you get a non trivial number of people that think it's magically fine to drive in the dark without any lights or high-viz jacket, cycling on the pavement scaring pedestrians, or running all red lights. This leads to a lot of antagonism between drivers and cyclists and basically can give us cyclists a bad name. On the other hand, there are drivers that have been known to do massively stupid things, like hit a cyclist, not stop, and then tweet about it.
I am very optimistic about the future as mass cycling in big western cities is still quite a new phenomenon, so I think that things will gradually ease out. In the mean time, if you want to be safe, my advice would be:
* Obey the rules of traffic. Always.
* Make your self visible. Drivers just need to see you
* Be obvious. Make it 100% clear where you intend to go. No surprises. A driver that sees you and knows where you will turn, will not cut you over
* Respect. Pedestrians, drivers, cyclists.
* *NEVER* overtake lorries / trucks from the inside. They cannot see you.
* Learn how to drive. This way, you will learn how to obey the law and (perhaps more importantly) you will understand how it feels to drive next to a cyclist and what kind of perception drivers have
* Where possible, avoid big streets. It's much more possible than you may think. Get a bicycle case for your smartphone. Use (shameless plug) my app, google, or anything else you may like
be safe, and enjoy cycling!
But it's something that effects even pseudo-public sector- look at the BBC, their iPlayer app prioritised the iPhone well ahead of any platform, despite being completely against the BBCs requirement of providing equal access to content that license payers pay for.
(emphasis mine). Hello Mr Murdoch! Let me correct you: There is *no* BBC iPlayer app, you just go to the BBC iPlayer website, click on the program you want to watch, which launches quicktime / the movie player on the iphone. No iphone specific app. In fact, a lot of the bbc website (including news), does not fully work on the iphone as it's using flash.
But thanks for trying ;-)
I wonder where's that article about android fragmentation now? I remember comments claiming that talk of fragmentation is FUD!. How can you come up with an android 1.6 device in June 2010?
The point of blocking flash is to encourage people to ONLY develop for the iPhone. Development costs generally prohibit most apps from getting cross developed for multiple platforms. Sometimes things like Flash facilitate cross-platform development.
No. Apple / The Steve are advocating HTML5 as an alternative to flash. HTML5 is as open and cross platform as you can get. You don't develop for Adobe's platform, you develop against a standard, that can run on the iphone, android, windows mobile, web os and any html5 compatible browser. Encouraging people to use HTML5 is a terrible way to make iphone-only apps.
The point of blocking flash is to encourage people to ONLY develop for the iPhone. Development costs generally prohibit most apps from getting cross developed for multiple platforms. Sometimes things like Flash facilitate cross-platform development. If they get developers to only create apps for the iPhone instead of cross-platform, then people have more reasons to buy the iPhone hardware as the apps they want would only exist on the iPhone.
No it's not. Apple is promoting HTML5 as an alternative to flash (which is valid for 99%of the uses of flash). Guess what? HTML5 is not apple-specific, and runs on android etc. HTML5 is as cross platform as you get.
Mr Shaw said PRS had a 'religious difference' with YouTube over the
video siteâ(TM)s continuing efforts to push for a flat-fee model.
What a dinosaur!
it's Parmageddon!
a) It is assuming that people are rational beings and that all actions are well premeditated. It's pretty well known by now that people are irrational (hey, how's that for a slashdot audience, this is a blog entry by the gmail creator!). Basically, in a surge of emotion (think domestic fights, a depressed / severely stressed kid (say a highschool shooting)), if one can easily have access to guns (by opening the local cabinet, going to a store, etc.), they can cause massively more damage, significantly more easily.
b) That the massive number of guns going around in a society will always be used by the people they were intended in the way they were intended. This is patently not true, as demonstrated by kids getting access to their grandfather's gun, or various people we (the west) have massively funded and provided guns to (think Bin Laden and the Mujahideen's in Afganistan vs the Soviets, or Saddam versus the Iranians).
There's also, of course, a moral argument. The only primary purpose of the gun is to kill. The whole protection stuff is completely secondary; a gun 'protects' by killing, or threatening to kill. I, personally, think that society has an obligation to protect its citizens, and banning a device the purpose of which is to kill is a good idea.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people. And monkeys kill people. If you give them a gun. (to quote eddie izzard)
As a disclaimer:
I was a big palm fan. I use my Tungsten T3 every day. I am also a mobile application developer (J2ME, Palm (not very strong on that one)). However, the PalmOS based Treos are doomed, especially in the face of the iphone which also threatens the Windows mobile ones. I think it's a bit hypocritical for hard core palm fans, like the parent post to blindly defend what is a wreck for many reasons.
Let's take apart this reply about how the treo does the vast majority of what the iphone does (and since 2003! that's hubris)
>> Your Treo has accelerometers and a proximity sensor?
> Not as powerful a one, but there's a reason it shuts down when dropped (and not broken, it just knows when to save itself from corruption)
The answer is that no, the Treo does not have an accelerometer. It does not have a proximity sensor. It does not have an ambient light sensor as the iphone does. Hence it does not switch to landscape mode when you tilt it (actually, it doesn't even have landscape mode as the screen is smaller and square). It does not turn off the screen automatically when it's close to your face when you're speaking. It also does not adjust its brightness based on the ambient light (apple is not the first to do this - my w810i does it too, but your treo doesn't).
Point goes to apple.
>> It has a Dock Connector?
> Yes. It's called a USB cable.
What the GP post probably meant is: Can you connect the vast number of accessories that Apple has enabled through the doc connector to the Treo? External speakers? FM transmitters? The Treo is a USB slave device, which means you can only use that USB port to connect it to a computer - you can't connect an accessory that way. The treo doesn't even ship with a cradle. The iphone does (apparently). And don't get me started on that Palm joke the Universal connector, which they abandoned after 3 models.
Point goes to apple.
>> It has a full web browser (not some shrunken down "baby browser")?
> Correct. [link to blazer]
No. Blazer is a baby browser. Can blazer run in the background while you do something else? Can it view PDFs? Can it run Ajax ("web 2.0") sites? The answer to all of these, as you well know, is no.
Safari can do all of these, however.
Point goes to apple.
>> It has a touchscreen interface?
> Yes, and has for years.
Well, sort of. Your treo digitiser can only detect one "click" with the stylus/finger. The iphone has "multitouch", which means it can detect multiple presses on the screen. And the GUI is *fully* touchscreen driven.
Point goes to apple.
>> It has a virtual keyboard so you don't have to press 7 four times to get an S?
> It has a full keyboard you can type on in your pocket. Have you even seen one? That's the dumbest comment of all these.
yup, you're right there. Point goes to Palm (though it's a really minor one)
>> It syncs with iTunes?
> Who wants that? It syncs like a hard-drive. 4gb SD card slides into computer. mp3's are copied, and then played.
Lots of people do! Have you noticed how popular the store is? In any case you can do that with the treo too, through missing sync (though not the protected stuff). So point goes to Palm.
>> How many people are going to post ignorant "My phone does all this" claims without thinking it through?
>> How many people are going to realize many phones have been doing the majority of this stuff for years....and the iPhone won't be about for a number of months?
So 2 points to palm, versus 4 to apple. But you forgot to mention the most vital stuff (and i'm referring to PalmOS based treos, not the winmob ones. But you seem to have a PalmOS one, since you mention blazer)
- A horrible cludge of an OS. Everyone knows it. You can't truly multitask (and don't even try the "zen of palm" defence). It crashes and reboots *very* frequently and easily. You can't run a nat
*I* have some of my code in SONY's DRM.
What's interesting, is that according to arstechnica, the offending comment was curiously removed from the site (see here)...
"Bukkake is when a Mommy and a Daddy and a Daddy and a Daddy and a Daddy and a Daddy and a Daddy all decide that Mommy needs some special facial moisturiser" (from bash.org)
My gut instinct tells me.... Maybe!
Hmm, nothing says limited like public ftp...
What's a mouse?
This is the last straw! I'm going back to MSN, where I know that my data and privacy are being protected!!
*duck*
duck?
*fish!*
I'll still see it though. *double sigh*
In related news, Microsoft claims Windows less expensive than Linux, the NRA claims that guns don't kill people, people kill people (and so do monkeys, if you give them a gun! - thanks eddie!), tobacco companies claim that smoking is not that bad for you, and SCO claims that they own linux.
Although I obviously agree that gamers are normal people (duh!), shouldn't we question the source of this investigation?
Try Card Export. It exports the SD card in your palm as a usb mass storage drive which you can mount under windows/linux (usb-storage) and access as a normal drive.
I'm with you all the way buddy in disliking all of the above, but I wouldn't exactly call Microsoft, McDonalds, the Radio/Television/Movie/Music conglomerates, or intel famous disasters... Certainly not for the companies or stakeholders.
Unless you meant the public...
Mrs Claus,
I've been a really naughty boy!
(People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms)
I heard that if you install SP2, "M$oft" kills a kitten. Also, I heard that it ate someone's mom. I'd be careful.
As the images are provided by images.google.com, it could be that I've turned off the "adult" filter on images.google.com (which I have) and you haven't
I guess that's one way to say hello