I used have similar principles, right up to a month ago when I got my Evo 3D. It opened my eyes -- I was amazed at the raw power of the thing, but more amazed at just how dead easy it is to use. Android (and, I assume, iOS) have finally figured out how to make computing not just useful, but easy for regular users. I still don't know if walled gardens in general are the best solution, but we've taken a big step in the right direction.
That's not to say Doctorow and Stallman are absurd; on the contrary they've been very helpful pointing out the goalposts on this particular field. We know what fully-open looks like (Gnu) and what fully-closed looks like (cell phones) and we now know we want to be firmly in the middle.
As for Jobs vs. the labels, I suspect Jobs just said "remove DRM or we stop selling your music." By that time, iTunes was big enough (and CD sales small enough) that it was a meaningful threat.
As a fiscal conservative who has run a business and done the accounting for it, our government's insistence on auctioning spectrum in perpetuity for a one-time fee has always baffled me.
It's not baffling at all, it's simple corruption. It's abuse of a public resource for private gain.
Come on, where it was "Add Remove Programs" it is now "Programs and Features" - is that a change that was really necessary? Nothing worse than trying to support someone that is freaking out because they can't find the "My Computer" icon, when they have renamed it to just "Computer"
Both of those were necessary because they were named wrong to begin with. That GUI never "adds" programs - you run the app's installer to do that. The only thing you need that GUI for is to remove programs, but you can't find it because it's not filed under "remove", "uninstall", or "programs". In Win7, it's filed under "programs", which is where it should have been all along.
And that whole "my" thing was horribly misguided from the beginning.
I believe we live in "the between times:" The laws of physics have made faster cores impossible, so we now have multi-core chips.. but we don't have enough cores to make multi-core software effective. You can either run on one core and ruin performance by not taking advantage of the chip, or you can run on all cores and ruin performance with synchronization overhead.
I suspect this problem won't be resolved until we top 100 cores, where the new programming paradigm (whatever that turns out to be) will be able to be effective. In the mean time.. we're just screwed.
What's a fella to do if he wants a strongly typed object oriented website?
I think JBoss is the usual answer to that. That only takes care of the back end, but GWT has your front end covered anyway, and the more code you can move into JBoss, the less you have to crank through GWT's slow processor.
Yeah, you're screwed, sorry. Eclipse integrates nicely with Ant, but Ant doesn't do multi-core builds either. And Ant tasks are very heavy, so parallelizing them wouldn't help much anyway. You might try rebuilding your build process in plain 'make' and try that -j option.
Also, I'm sorry you have to use GWT. That thing was just absurdly slow last time I used it, to the point that it would be faster to hand-code JavaScript.
I think I got it. It looks alot like a small city. But programming the whole mess is exactly like programming one of them, since each is already a cluster.
Slashdot is always going to give you a tainted answer. slashdot'rs hate everything
Not true at all, this is mostly the standard human resistance to change. The problem is that Slashdotters are tech nuts, so we're always looking for the most powerful tech. Developers get bonus points for making a device simple despite its power, but it must be powerful. Gnome 3 and Unity are researching simplicity, but completely ignoring power in the process.
Software developers are the worst, commonly working with hundreds to thousands of files spread over dozens to hundreds of directories, and requiring a dozen or more tools to manage. No simplified tablet interface is going to work for them, ever.
oh, good you pointed that out. so that makes it alright then
I assume you're trying to be sarcastic, but you're actually correct. This is not secret credit data, this is social networking, which holds information you voluntarily published so people could learn about you. And now you've discovered people are using it to learn about you. Which makes this article total non-news, and yes, perfectly alright.
You're the reporter, why don't you do the research and report your findings? If you want a poll, then do that. But your audience isn't going to have the answer to that kind of philosophical question; that's your job.
BTW, my policy is to never read articles where the title is a question. But I'm such a nerd, I have to click on everything related to the T4.
No, education is irrelevant. For example, broadband providers are currently shrinking their offerings (imposing data caps while increasing prices). You can educate yourself until you have a dozen PhDs, but you'll still be stuck with the same data caps as everyone else.
Competition isn't guaranteed to make things better (see oligopoly), but it's a necessary first step.
No, what balanced capitalism needs is competition. Greed creates the products; competition provides quality and efficiency. Educated consumers are powerless against a monopoly.
(e.g. using knowledge from a medical degree to figure out reasons to refuse insurance payouts rather than using it to treat patients)
This one case is easy to explain -- As long as people refuse to pay their own medical bills, the medical system will be broken. There's a limited pool of money here, and someone must decide who gets it and who dies.
I went there a few days ago to look for old game demos (for the original Call of Duty). Both times CNet sent me a downloader program instead of the real file, and I new CNet was now a waste.
Seeing an individual app become infected is annoying, but seeing an entire SITE become willingly infected is truly disappointing.
Actually, I knew CNet was lost when they became cnet.com.com.
Tell your network admins to schedule wake-on-lan an hour before people arrive in the morning. If they're willing to get fancy, then can customize each machine for the employee's work and vacation schedule.
You fail economics. The "chance" is zero, because it's not random. AT&T strives to make as much money as possible, unless competition forces them to do otherwise.
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A better test would be: "Person 1 has a Commodore 64 and a game on eight floppies." Much better match.
I used have similar principles, right up to a month ago when I got my Evo 3D. It opened my eyes -- I was amazed at the raw power of the thing, but more amazed at just how dead easy it is to use. Android (and, I assume, iOS) have finally figured out how to make computing not just useful, but easy for regular users. I still don't know if walled gardens in general are the best solution, but we've taken a big step in the right direction.
That's not to say Doctorow and Stallman are absurd; on the contrary they've been very helpful pointing out the goalposts on this particular field. We know what fully-open looks like (Gnu) and what fully-closed looks like (cell phones) and we now know we want to be firmly in the middle.
As for Jobs vs. the labels, I suspect Jobs just said "remove DRM or we stop selling your music." By that time, iTunes was big enough (and CD sales small enough) that it was a meaningful threat.
As a fiscal conservative who has run a business and done the accounting for it, our government's insistence on auctioning spectrum in perpetuity for a one-time fee has always baffled me.
It's not baffling at all, it's simple corruption. It's abuse of a public resource for private gain.
But he won't trade the points in for prizes, so it's not worth my bother.
Come on, where it was "Add Remove Programs" it is now "Programs and Features" - is that a change that was really necessary? Nothing worse than trying to support someone that is freaking out because they can't find the "My Computer" icon, when they have renamed it to just "Computer"
Both of those were necessary because they were named wrong to begin with. That GUI never "adds" programs - you run the app's installer to do that. The only thing you need that GUI for is to remove programs, but you can't find it because it's not filed under "remove", "uninstall", or "programs". In Win7, it's filed under "programs", which is where it should have been all along.
And that whole "my" thing was horribly misguided from the beginning.
Works great on my Evo 3D, though I still saw a double-image in places.
FYI, AT&T has a 250GB option, but you need to buy other stuff to get it, like TV and/or the higher speed connections.
Skyrim is what, 20GB? Since you'll be spending the next couple weeks (at least) playing the thing, you're in no danger of going over your limit.
Granted, you might be able to have the box version delivered faster than the download, but that's a different argument.
I believe we live in "the between times:" The laws of physics have made faster cores impossible, so we now have multi-core chips .. but we don't have enough cores to make multi-core software effective. You can either run on one core and ruin performance by not taking advantage of the chip, or you can run on all cores and ruin performance with synchronization overhead.
I suspect this problem won't be resolved until we top 100 cores, where the new programming paradigm (whatever that turns out to be) will be able to be effective. In the mean time .. we're just screwed.
What's a fella to do if he wants a strongly typed object oriented website?
I think JBoss is the usual answer to that. That only takes care of the back end, but GWT has your front end covered anyway, and the more code you can move into JBoss, the less you have to crank through GWT's slow processor.
Yeah, you're screwed, sorry. Eclipse integrates nicely with Ant, but Ant doesn't do multi-core builds either. And Ant tasks are very heavy, so parallelizing them wouldn't help much anyway. You might try rebuilding your build process in plain 'make' and try that -j option.
Also, I'm sorry you have to use GWT. That thing was just absurdly slow last time I used it, to the point that it would be faster to hand-code JavaScript.
Okay, hang on.
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I think I got it. It looks alot like a small city. But programming the whole mess is exactly like programming one of them, since each is already a cluster.
Slashdot is always going to give you a tainted answer. slashdot'rs hate everything
Not true at all, this is mostly the standard human resistance to change. The problem is that Slashdotters are tech nuts, so we're always looking for the most powerful tech. Developers get bonus points for making a device simple despite its power, but it must be powerful. Gnome 3 and Unity are researching simplicity, but completely ignoring power in the process.
Software developers are the worst, commonly working with hundreds to thousands of files spread over dozens to hundreds of directories, and requiring a dozen or more tools to manage. No simplified tablet interface is going to work for them, ever.
As long as it doesn't affect your buying habits, that's fine.
oh, good you pointed that out. so that makes it alright then
I assume you're trying to be sarcastic, but you're actually correct. This is not secret credit data, this is social networking, which holds information you voluntarily published so people could learn about you. And now you've discovered people are using it to learn about you. Which makes this article total non-news, and yes, perfectly alright.
Everyone is mining your social network data.
All rectangles have rounded corners with radii of at least one atom, but usually much much more.
You're the reporter, why don't you do the research and report your findings? If you want a poll, then do that. But your audience isn't going to have the answer to that kind of philosophical question; that's your job.
BTW, my policy is to never read articles where the title is a question. But I'm such a nerd, I have to click on everything related to the T4.
No, education is irrelevant. For example, broadband providers are currently shrinking their offerings (imposing data caps while increasing prices). You can educate yourself until you have a dozen PhDs, but you'll still be stuck with the same data caps as everyone else.
Competition isn't guaranteed to make things better (see oligopoly), but it's a necessary first step.
No, what balanced capitalism needs is competition. Greed creates the products; competition provides quality and efficiency. Educated consumers are powerless against a monopoly.
(e.g. using knowledge from a medical degree to figure out reasons to refuse insurance payouts rather than using it to treat patients)
This one case is easy to explain -- As long as people refuse to pay their own medical bills, the medical system will be broken. There's a limited pool of money here, and someone must decide who gets it and who dies.
I went there a few days ago to look for old game demos (for the original Call of Duty). Both times CNet sent me a downloader program instead of the real file, and I new CNet was now a waste.
Seeing an individual app become infected is annoying, but seeing an entire SITE become willingly infected is truly disappointing.
Actually, I knew CNet was lost when they became cnet.com.com.
I really need that invention that lets me stab people in the face over the internet.
Tell your network admins to schedule wake-on-lan an hour before people arrive in the morning. If they're willing to get fancy, then can customize each machine for the employee's work and vacation schedule.
You fail economics. The "chance" is zero, because it's not random. AT&T strives to make as much money as possible, unless competition forces them to do otherwise.