I wonder if he would have made that same statement about Microsoft's innovative efforts and visionary user experience without laughing just two years ago, pitting Eclair against Windows mobile 6. I dare him to use a Samsung Omnia II for more than five minutes without crushing it to bits.
I have a real Android tablet in the Xoom, but scored a couple of Touchpads when they went fire-sale. I would keep WebOS on the Touchpad at least until HP releases another update to it which I believe they have already said they would.
It runs very well and I hope Android moves in the direction of WebOS' interface. Tablets are coming down in price... I understand the hack cred of showing your Touchpad to your friends with a castrated-functionality Android deployment but I wouldn't do it unless I could put WebOS back on once I realized it wasn't worth the effort.
Actually I typo'd now, meant to type not. Slashdot is my doja, I guess I get a high from being here and it messes with the typing.
Apple has been trading below-value for a long time now. People see the high per-share price and aren't sophisticated enough to know that the share price is simply the result of a division problem involving market cap and shares outstanding, and thus believe stocks that have a high share price are automatically "expensive" stocks when they may be cheap (as with Apple based on earnings and earnings growth), versus a low per-share price that is very expensive (as with Sirius/XM with a $2 share price but not enough earnings to justify that price).
... years ago with the Blackberry Storm, and yet the vast majority of us are still using flat, unfeeling touchscreens and Research In Motion is struggling to stay relevant in the mobile device business.
I'm not sure consumers really care about how the screen feels, and they may even be distracted by such a change.
Google Desktop has really helped hunt through a decade of docs when I need to do it. I know Microsoft released a desktop search but I use Google Desktop for the same reasons I don't use Bing for Internet search... I like Google's search better.
Sad to see it go, but thanks Google for releasing it. I hope it will still be available and just closed to new development.
Isn't it cheaper to simply mug the ATM user after they are done and take cash while out of sight of the ATM machine's own camera? You'd have to do that anyway to get the card from them. Why get all technical?
I developed with Delphi and Interbase for about ten years and then moved to C# and SQL Server for new development. The transition was not hard at all, as Object Pascal and C# are very similar.
As to project management vs development, one solution may be to give yourself a TINY non-critical piece of coding work to yourself for your project. I say tiny because I have worked on teams where the PM fancied himself a developer and gave himself critical chunks of the work, but he was so busy interfacing with higher-ups that he blew the same deadlines he complained to us about missing.
I think the above may satisfy the enjoyment of developing while keeping the age issues consistent with reality in the workforce. I don't like those facts either.
I'm sure Microsoft will have no problem at all with that. At least with "Cairo" is was a decade+ year-old internal product name of Microsoft's they used.
So will Firefox 8's Azure graphics engine make performance with Microsoft Azure cloud apps better? Firefox version confusion plus product name confusion should be fun.
Because code reviews end up being an enabler for OCD coworkers to tell me how to indent.
This.
Conflicts in particular coding styles can easily derail a code review that is supposed to review for security and bugs into how something could be made minimally more efficient while eliminating overall code readability/maintainability. And there is always the guy who never comments his code, the peer reviewers take time to read through it trying to figure out what he is doing, provide comments and include a note to please comment code, and it never happens.
As long as a team has a documented set of coding standards (naming conventions and such) I'm happy to try it. A bug or two or security issues found during a review that don't make it into production pays for itself easily. But code reviews that devolve into coding philosophy debates aren't code reviews anymore.
MS Project is a tool one can use, but not the only one. The PMP exam tests knowledge of the Project Management Body of Knowledge, not skills with Microsoft Project. Go to Brainbench or similar for those kinds of certifications.
"So back to the original question of the origins of C#. The codename of C# was Project Cool, which was rumoured to be a clean-room implementation of Java. This was back in the days when Sun was suing Microsoft over bastardizing the Java language. As I recall, Sun didn’t like the Microsoft-specific extensions in J++, which allowed it to interoperate with COM. So where did the name C# come from?
C# name was musically inspired. It is a C-style language that is a step above C/C++, where sharp (#) means a semi-tone above the note. (Being a musician myself, I think this is awfully fun.) Back when.NET made its debut, an amusing quip from the Linux crowd was to refer to C# as Db (D-flat), which is the same note as C#, but has different connotations. Two MS Research languages also bear musically-related names: Polyphonic C# and F#. "
Lol, not unless you cheated on your PMP exam application form. You have to document years of project management experience, broken down by PMI's definition of project components, as a part of the application. One can lie I supposed, but they randomly audit those applications.
When I read SQL vs Oracle I take that to mean one has experience in Oracle setup, backup, maintenance, etc. as opposed to being a data miner or analyst. In my experience those are different skill sets that one can specialize in.
But the recruiters are just going through key terms to check off, and the questions a non-technical recruiter gives to technical people are often quite amusing.
There are banks (B of A is one) that allow you to create unique credit card numbers that link to yours, with expiration dates and credit limits you specify. Get one of those, and if someone steals it who cares? You can cancel it on the spot and it didn't touch your regular card. The inconvenience is limited to possibly a click to expire the number manually. I wouldn't dream of using my checking account debit/check card number online.
But his whole problem stems from banks not performing due diligence in verifying identities of individuals they extend credit to. If they collect a fee from me for improperly spending even a penny into the negative on my checking account, where is MY fee for the hours of unscrewing I have to deal with when my info does get out or they extend credit to someone they didn't verify was me?
Visa (notices sent for at least 3 cards), the World Financial Network National Bank (12 cards) and Citi (3 cards)
I have not yet seen notes that VISA itself was hit. Banks that use VISA's services may have been, but the article is lumping the network/transaction processor with the banks. It is possible to be a customer of VISA for other purposes, which surprises me that the article is claiming they were independently hit, that is news here.
You obviously don't own a Xoom. Many apps are just tiny rectangles taking the top-half of the screen or so. Some apps scale, most I have tried are not scaling.
Whenever I was asked for info, I would just say "cash" and they knew what to do and stop asking questions. If it is a credit card terminal then I know to plug in my real zip code. If I am pressed for my zip code when the transaction starts with the cashier, as a teen in the late 80's I always just give them 90210 and they don't bat an eye.
If they are asking for my data without my permission, I don't really see a problem with throwing a few data spikes in their data harvest.
Microcenter is another one of these that demands addresses. You can sometimes see the screen they are working on, just tell them your last name is "Jones" and when several pop up say you recently moved and tell them "yeah, the third one on the list there is me".
There is no legal requirement to be truthful with these quizzes, have fun with them!
I still have mine, sounds like we need someone to post code snippets on the back of a T-Shirt, with "only Sony wants Root" on the front, and the proceeds can go to legal defense.
That will get demand to outstrip capacity, and automakers will adjust production to compensate. Leave diesel off the tax for now so the trucking industry won't be destroyed in the process. Presto, lots of new electric cars on the roads. If that doesn't happen, the highway trust fund will be flush enough with cash to take care of just about any road infrastructure need.
If we're serious about Middle East dependencies and carbon footprint, then we need to act serious.
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I disagree with those that are criticizing the article. I found it very educational, I had no idea the entire iPad was covered by a single patent.
I wonder if he would have made that same statement about Microsoft's innovative efforts and visionary user experience without laughing just two years ago, pitting Eclair against Windows mobile 6. I dare him to use a Samsung Omnia II for more than five minutes without crushing it to bits.
Lots out there, Google harder I guess.
August after 3.02 release -
http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/30/hp-touchpad-will-receive-ota-udpate-for-added-functionality/
Today, 3.04 release -
http://gizmodo.com/5850862/hp-touchpad-gets-a-webos-upgrade-from-beyond-the-grave
I have a real Android tablet in the Xoom, but scored a couple of Touchpads when they went fire-sale. I would keep WebOS on the Touchpad at least until HP releases another update to it which I believe they have already said they would.
It runs very well and I hope Android moves in the direction of WebOS' interface. Tablets are coming down in price... I understand the hack cred of showing your Touchpad to your friends with a castrated-functionality Android deployment but I wouldn't do it unless I could put WebOS back on once I realized it wasn't worth the effort.
Actually I typo'd now, meant to type not. Slashdot is my doja, I guess I get a high from being here and it messes with the typing.
Apple has been trading below-value for a long time now. People see the high per-share price and aren't sophisticated enough to know that the share price is simply the result of a division problem involving market cap and shares outstanding, and thus believe stocks that have a high share price are automatically "expensive" stocks when they may be cheap (as with Apple based on earnings and earnings growth), versus a low per-share price that is very expensive (as with Sirius/XM with a $2 share price but not enough earnings to justify that price).
As in Dow Jones Indus--oh never mind.
The writer and the reasons for Apple now being in the Dow 30 are both high.
... years ago with the Blackberry Storm, and yet the vast majority of us are still using flat, unfeeling touchscreens and Research In Motion is struggling to stay relevant in the mobile device business.
I'm not sure consumers really care about how the screen feels, and they may even be distracted by such a change.
Google Desktop has really helped hunt through a decade of docs when I need to do it. I know Microsoft released a desktop search but I use Google Desktop for the same reasons I don't use Bing for Internet search... I like Google's search better.
Sad to see it go, but thanks Google for releasing it. I hope it will still be available and just closed to new development.
Isn't it cheaper to simply mug the ATM user after they are done and take cash while out of sight of the ATM machine's own camera? You'd have to do that anyway to get the card from them. Why get all technical?
One is never too old to learn a new programming language. One can definitely be too old to be paid for learning and using a new programming language.
continual learning appears to keep the mind active longer. I can't remember where I read that.
Hmm, I don't think your premise worked in your case :)
I developed with Delphi and Interbase for about ten years and then moved to C# and SQL Server for new development. The transition was not hard at all, as Object Pascal and C# are very similar.
As to project management vs development, one solution may be to give yourself a TINY non-critical piece of coding work to yourself for your project. I say tiny because I have worked on teams where the PM fancied himself a developer and gave himself critical chunks of the work, but he was so busy interfacing with higher-ups that he blew the same deadlines he complained to us about missing.
I think the above may satisfy the enjoyment of developing while keeping the age issues consistent with reality in the workforce. I don't like those facts either.
I'm sure Microsoft will have no problem at all with that. At least with "Cairo" is was a decade+ year-old internal product name of Microsoft's they used.
So will Firefox 8's Azure graphics engine make performance with Microsoft Azure cloud apps better? Firefox version confusion plus product name confusion should be fun.
Because code reviews end up being an enabler for OCD coworkers to tell me how to indent.
This.
Conflicts in particular coding styles can easily derail a code review that is supposed to review for security and bugs into how something could be made minimally more efficient while eliminating overall code readability/maintainability. And there is always the guy who never comments his code, the peer reviewers take time to read through it trying to figure out what he is doing, provide comments and include a note to please comment code, and it never happens.
As long as a team has a documented set of coding standards (naming conventions and such) I'm happy to try it. A bug or two or security issues found during a review that don't make it into production pays for itself easily. But code reviews that devolve into coding philosophy debates aren't code reviews anymore.
MS Project is a tool one can use, but not the only one. The PMP exam tests knowledge of the Project Management Body of Knowledge, not skills with Microsoft Project. Go to Brainbench or similar for those kinds of certifications.
Other than a clock-based firmware glitch that didn't affect me, I have no memory of anything rising to Red Ring of Death on my Zune.
It is pronounced "Sea Sharp" and here is a blog posting (not mine) about the history of the name:
http://jameskovacs.com/2007/09/07/cnet-history-lesson/
"So back to the original question of the origins of C#. The codename of C# was Project Cool, which was rumoured to be a clean-room implementation of Java. This was back in the days when Sun was suing Microsoft over bastardizing the Java language. As I recall, Sun didn’t like the Microsoft-specific extensions in J++, which allowed it to interoperate with COM. So where did the name C# come from?
C# name was musically inspired. It is a C-style language that is a step above C/C++, where sharp (#) means a semi-tone above the note. (Being a musician myself, I think this is awfully fun.) Back when .NET made its debut, an amusing quip from the Linux crowd was to refer to C# as Db (D-flat), which is the same note as C#, but has different connotations. Two MS Research languages also bear musically-related names: Polyphonic C# and F#. "
Lol, not unless you cheated on your PMP exam application form. You have to document years of project management experience, broken down by PMI's definition of project components, as a part of the application. One can lie I supposed, but they randomly audit those applications.
When I read SQL vs Oracle I take that to mean one has experience in Oracle setup, backup, maintenance, etc. as opposed to being a data miner or analyst. In my experience those are different skill sets that one can specialize in.
But the recruiters are just going through key terms to check off, and the questions a non-technical recruiter gives to technical people are often quite amusing.
There are banks (B of A is one) that allow you to create unique credit card numbers that link to yours, with expiration dates and credit limits you specify. Get one of those, and if someone steals it who cares? You can cancel it on the spot and it didn't touch your regular card. The inconvenience is limited to possibly a click to expire the number manually. I wouldn't dream of using my checking account debit/check card number online.
But his whole problem stems from banks not performing due diligence in verifying identities of individuals they extend credit to. If they collect a fee from me for improperly spending even a penny into the negative on my checking account, where is MY fee for the hours of unscrewing I have to deal with when my info does get out or they extend credit to someone they didn't verify was me?
Visa (notices sent for at least 3 cards), the World Financial Network National Bank (12 cards) and Citi (3 cards)
I have not yet seen notes that VISA itself was hit. Banks that use VISA's services may have been, but the article is lumping the network/transaction processor with the banks. It is possible to be a customer of VISA for other purposes, which surprises me that the article is claiming they were independently hit, that is news here.
You obviously don't own a Xoom. Many apps are just tiny rectangles taking the top-half of the screen or so. Some apps scale, most I have tried are not scaling.
Whenever I was asked for info, I would just say "cash" and they knew what to do and stop asking questions. If it is a credit card terminal then I know to plug in my real zip code. If I am pressed for my zip code when the transaction starts with the cashier, as a teen in the late 80's I always just give them 90210 and they don't bat an eye.
If they are asking for my data without my permission, I don't really see a problem with throwing a few data spikes in their data harvest.
Microcenter is another one of these that demands addresses. You can sometimes see the screen they are working on, just tell them your last name is "Jones" and when several pop up say you recently moved and tell them "yeah, the third one on the list there is me".
There is no legal requirement to be truthful with these quizzes, have fun with them!
I still have mine, sounds like we need someone to post code snippets on the back of a T-Shirt, with "only Sony wants Root" on the front, and the proceeds can go to legal defense.
That will get demand to outstrip capacity, and automakers will adjust production to compensate. Leave diesel off the tax for now so the trucking industry won't be destroyed in the process. Presto, lots of new electric cars on the roads. If that doesn't happen, the highway trust fund will be flush enough with cash to take care of just about any road infrastructure need.
If we're serious about Middle East dependencies and carbon footprint, then we need to act serious.
Logs can be faked. How about a bitwise comparison to the known-good package system?