I saw one of these demo'd a while back on Dragons Den as the "inventor" tried to get funding.
The dragon nearly showed that while it looks like a shelf, it's really a lever for exposing high voltage electrical wiring.
So we appreciate the idea behind it, but it's so obviously got dangerous and potentially operational modes that can occur in normal (not intended) use.
Better to tie your phone to a piece of string and tie the string to the charger - then if anyone yanks or kicks it, it'll just pull the charger out. I realise that this won't work on flimsy US sockets, I also realise that a half-out plug can be a fire risk as well as cause damage to the connectors that can make it a permanent fire risk, so it's still a bad idea - even making a shelf out of the charger is a bad idea
I didn't think they were badly written until I read the Fablehaven books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fablehaven - (although the wikipedia summary makes the books seem rather lame)
Compared to these, Harry Potter is a good beginner effort.
You are nearly right. Covering all the common bases only sells to the common base customer, and lets be honest, only an average number of people are average.
I don't want loads of features, and neither do you, but it's the feature I WANT that sells the phone to ME. It's the feature YOU WANT that sells the phone to YOU.
The potential features android has are what allows the handset makers to produce handsets with different feature sets to ensure that there is a basic phone model available with the right feature set for each person on the planet.
If everyone on the planet can chose between android and [a personal specific subset of the others which doesn't always include iphone], then more people have android as an option.
Apple clearly are NOT trying to sell a phone for everyone - the pricing cuts out a lot of people, the control freakery cuts out a lot of people, the arrogant customer disservice cuts out a lot of people.
There are enough android manufacturers to cover everyone; to you get WLAN android 2.1 devices for £80 without a contract in the UK. Apple don't WANT to compete there. Android does. it wins by Woz's terms.
This is why the NSA have stopped harping on about the clipper chip and other mandatory back doors.
They don't need 'em!
Makes me laugh about eulas in general:
"I the customer promise not to reverse engineer or copy this big security hole, and to let you disperse all my private data, and in return you promise that you may or may not abuse me in the aforementioned fashion, or permit such abuse by third, fourth and fifth parties."
Maybe, but it is a big deal if it stops people actually using it.
And it actually does stop people using it.
You say curly braces aren't sacred, but it seems tab-stops are sacred, and even though they are the wart that stopped python from ruling the world, they remain.
Perl 6 will be out before python drops tab-stops. And duke-nukem. The Duke uses perl 6.
Software which discovers the relationship all on it's own can't be malicious in using it and the humans may not even know what "complex" strategy the machine is following..
Reminds me of a shareware program in the 90's called "slashbar",a TSR that popped-up a lotus-123 style menu bar and let you compose a command which it the emitted via fake keystrokes.
You could script VERY GOOD menu systems which would also teach the command line by creating the commands you used,
Net neutrality often concerns me - why shouldn't I be able to play less for what I call low priority traffic and have someone else's prioritized above mine.
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Just make sure you know who it is you need to respond to.
I understood that the obligation was to respond to the court and not to ACS (in this case).
I saw one of these demo'd a while back on Dragons Den as the "inventor" tried to get funding.
The dragon nearly showed that while it looks like a shelf, it's really a lever for exposing high voltage electrical wiring.
So we appreciate the idea behind it, but it's so obviously got dangerous and potentially operational modes that can occur in normal (not intended) use.
Better to tie your phone to a piece of string and tie the string to the charger - then if anyone yanks or kicks it, it'll just pull the charger out. I realise that this won't work on flimsy US sockets, I also realise that a half-out plug can be a fire risk as well as cause damage to the connectors that can make it a permanent fire risk, so it's still a bad idea - even making a shelf out of the charger is a bad idea
He's not the only one. My depth-first recursive post counter has found hundreds of such posts.
You possibly weren't looking, or at least carefully, or perhaps not at all of it..
I didn't think they were badly written until I read the Fablehaven books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fablehaven - (although the wikipedia summary makes the books seem rather lame)
Compared to these, Harry Potter is a good beginner effort.
You are nearly right. Covering all the common bases only sells to the common base customer, and lets be honest, only an average number of people are average.
I don't want loads of features, and neither do you, but it's the feature I WANT that sells the phone to ME. It's the feature YOU WANT that sells the phone to YOU.
The potential features android has are what allows the handset makers to produce handsets with different feature sets to ensure that there is a basic phone model available with the right feature set for each person on the planet.
If everyone on the planet can chose between android and [a personal specific subset of the others which doesn't always include iphone], then more people have android as an option.
Apple clearly are NOT trying to sell a phone for everyone - the pricing cuts out a lot of people, the control freakery cuts out a lot of people, the arrogant customer disservice cuts out a lot of people.
There are enough android manufacturers to cover everyone; to you get WLAN android 2.1 devices for £80 without a contract in the UK. Apple don't WANT to compete there. Android does. it wins by Woz's terms.
When they treat you like cattle, it's time to ask whose cattle you are
Don't be slack.
Post a link to this "Sociologyspeak" filter.
Some of us have essays to write for friends before we can get back to coding.
I wanna see a bench of 4 drivers playing supertuxkart with cardboard cut-out steering wheels.
It goes to the courts when there is meaningful dispute or doubt.
There never is - that's why you've never seen it in the courts.
they don't want to tamper with YOUR kinect, they want to tamper with THEIR kinect
This is why the NSA have stopped harping on about the clipper chip and other mandatory back doors.
They don't need 'em!
Makes me laugh about eulas in general:
"I the customer promise not to reverse engineer or copy this big security hole, and to let you disperse all my private data, and in return you promise that you may or may not abuse me in the aforementioned fashion, or permit such abuse by third, fourth and fifth parties."
Where's all the class action lawsuits?
I used my credit card and they gave me the refund.
I want to buy this, but just don't trust cherrypal.
She has a pocket hearing aid, and she said: "Come on, Johnny, keep up or you'll get lost in the crowds"
So you are saying that the second type of fool is the cure for the first type of fool.
No, wait a minute, you are saying that YOU are the cure for the first type of fool.
Maybe, but it is a big deal if it stops people actually using it.
And it actually does stop people using it.
You say curly braces aren't sacred, but it seems tab-stops are sacred, and even though they are the wart that stopped python from ruling the world, they remain.
Perl 6 will be out before python drops tab-stops. And duke-nukem. The Duke uses perl 6.
As it is they get different people braying that we have teachers who don't even know their students, with machines to corral the students like cattle.
The braying is going to happen one way or another, we just got to decide the best way to handle people.
"Worry" is another word for "know"
It saves teachers having to "know" the sorts of things teachers ought to know about.
Technology turns teachers into cattle-farmers
No, I don't remember the 1984 incident. Please remind us.
Which, of course, the machine can't have.
Software which discovers the relationship all on it's own can't be malicious in using it and the humans may not even know what "complex" strategy the machine is following..
But if they had a machine that did this same thing "through a bug" it would have been OK.
Reminds me of a shareware program in the 90's called "slashbar",a TSR that popped-up a lotus-123 style menu bar and let you compose a command which it the emitted via fake keystrokes.
You could script VERY GOOD menu systems which would also teach the command line by creating the commands you used,
In fact, I'm willing to pay the pirates to remove the DRM from the apps I already paid for.
Net neutrality often concerns me - why shouldn't I be able to play less for what I call low priority traffic and have someone else's prioritized above mine.
If that were true you wouldn't have needed to say it