Apple had long called their programs "applications" while Windows used "Programs" and DOS used "executables".
Then came the iPhone with the "App Store" which Apple Trademarked, quickly everybody else started using the same term to ride on high consumer awareness of the term. Apple sued, and Amazon and finally gave up on it.
Since then "Apps" has become a widespread generic term, and Tim Cook cries a little inside every time he sees it used for non-Apple software.
I used to disagree with the philosophy of the laser zapping mosquito killer...
The information gathered by the non-lethal laser can be used to determine the type of insect, and even its gender because wing beat patterns are unique to each species and gender. This is important in preventing malaria because only female mosquitoes bite humans
But now... if we switch them all to female first, THEN zap them... I can agree.
When I was a kid playing games on a PC was hard. You had to learn DOS, keep enough memory free, install sound card drivers after properly setting the DIP switches and avoiding COM port conflicts that made your mouse play music when you used it. Sometimes you had to tweak BAT files to get a game to install, others required manually using pkzip.
Then you learned how to make boot disks with a bare minimum system or crafted your own multiboot setup. JUST TO PLAY. We were motivated, we had to be. Now kids just tap an icon and punch in their password, done. There's no learning required. Sure they're comfortable with web pages but they don't just pick up HTML and JavaScript unless already inclined. Games no longer LEAD to understanding nor require it, they're simply diversions. As soon as they get bored it's back on Pinterest or Netflix.
I'm glad I got into computers when I did because at that time playing games truly lead to learning.
United States[edit] Further information: Eugenics in the United States
A poster from a 1921 eugenics conference displays the U.S. states that had implemented sterilization legislation by then The United States was the first country to concertedly undertake compulsory sterilization programs for the purpose of eugenics.[44] The heads of the program were avid believers in eugenics and frequently argued for their program. It was shut down due to ethical problems. The principal targets of the American program were the intellectually disabled and the mentally ill, but also targeted under many state laws were the deaf, the blind, people with epilepsy, and the physically deformed. While the claim was that the focus was mainly the mentally ill and disabled, the definition of this during that time was much different than ours. At this time, there were many women that were sent to institutions under the guise of being âoefeeble-minded" because they were promiscuous or became pregnant while unmarried. According to the activist Angela Davis, women of predominantly ethnic minorities (such as Native Americans, as well as African-American women)[45] were sterilized against their will in many states, often without their knowledge while they were in a hospital for other reasons (e.g. childbirth). For example, in Sunflower County Mississippi, 60% of black women living there were sterilized at Sunflower City Hospital without their permission.
Darwinism was a large part of these eugenics campaigns, and they continue to this day in some countries.
Franklin notes that he wasn't even required to file a police report to get reimbursed for the crime: "'As long as their loss is covered they move on to [handling] tomorrow's fraud,' Franklin observes.
Good luck to you when they go ahead and sell your debt to a collections agency even AFTER writing it off as a loss. They may waive the bill from your perspective but the debt doesn't go away. Once the collections agencies come after you they won't leave you alone until you show them that police report. Oh and guess what, a record was never made when they waived the debt for you so you're all on your own now.
It may be different with a credit card company, but that's exactly what happened to me with T-Mobile AND Sprint. (Yeah, yeah... fool me twice...)
There's actually a lot of cross-pollination going in between the 2 platforms. For some things it's easier to release first on the desktop at WWDC and let the devs play with it a year or 2 before it ends up on iOS. Look at the new Force Touch thing they're rolling out. Apple Watch -> MacBook -> iPhones/iPads last.
Then you have things like Continuity in Yosemite that tightly binds a Mac and iPhone, that increases sales of both and prevents commoditization.
Besides, in a few years phones will be at the "good enough" phase like desktops are and people won't be upgrading every 2 years, so the current huge growth of mobiles can't be their only source of income when they start slowing down.
I was flagged for a pat-down by a female agent who took me aside. I requested a male agent which caught her by surprise. He also appeared surprised, I was happy that they were as uncomfortable as well.
RED drives are specifically designed for RAID enclosures to prevent early failure due to vibration and constant sleep/wake cycles. They even avoid synchronizing their vibrations with other disks in the array.
Sure in some situations you can get by with regular consumer gear, but in other situations it's asking for trouble.
Short term solution: experienced driver in the lead truck responsible for the 2-5 following him. Much simpler driving for the automatic ones, and a real human there for taking care of problems.
Since it's been confirmed as worldwide, what's the point in anyone at all paying for it?
I have a genuine copy, but instead of paying the upgrade fee I could pirate the same thing and legally update for free. Heck I'll just use VM clones on my valid copy and keep the original around just in case.
What's the catch? Will they lose future upgrade rights have have to buy a full copy later on?
Maybe it's like in the movie Contact there's a secret base out there they've managed to build without anybody noticing and they're just saving it up for the surprise reveal!
No kidding! It's been a real pain trying to find something reasonably priced with ECC and 8 SATA connectors. The whole industry should have moved to ECC by now.
The researchers selected a small-scale application (about 4,500 lines of C# code) used by the academic staff at the University of Kelaniya for scheduling events and managing online documents for evaluation.
That's hilarious, I have web apps (I'm stuck with) having individual pages larger than that, including tons of other crap. Refactoring allows following the DRY principle and removing duplicated code. It allows moving SQL statements all the heck over the place into single places where they can easily be tested and updated when bugs are found.
They're basically working with a program that's not really that awful in the first place and making it a little bit nicer. How about starting with absolute junk and making it useable? Unmaintainable code is a consequence of technical debt, refactoring pays that debt down and keeps things manageable. Sure you may not need to refactor right now, but taking the time to do it once in a while keeps things from getting out of control.
I don't understand why people are expected to buy more software on their phone then on their PC
But they DO! For a majority of PC users software is scary, many worry about installing *anything* as it could "break" their computer. They lack the savvy to recognize fake vendors and malware apps. Also plain software incompatibility is a huge problem for them to understand. Even if they do buy something, many cant even find where their downloads go.
Now compare this to a smartphone App Store. Your CC goes to one place, Apple or Google who they already trust more than random developers. Installs are single click, generally can't mess up th system and are easily removed if you didn't like it.
All stores are MUCH safer and comfortable for general computer users. This is WHY there are millions of apps, finally non-technical folks are empowered to try out and explore software largely without fear. It's been a huge experience for them and finally showing them the potential of computers that WE have been claiming for decades.
So yes, people most definitely do pay more for apps on their phones than their computers, and they like it that way.
I hope you're joking, I've known enough IT guys who intentionally used bad software for job security. Or allowed things known to be broken to catastrophicly fail so they could swoop in and be the "hero".
If criminals know their DNA will get a thorough health checkup while they can't personally afford such tests....
Some may feel that committing crimes and leaving DNA samples is the only way to get such quality information.
So then the police, in an effort to stop such medically motivated crimes decide to withhold the information which does not directly relate to identification... Leading said criminals to file Lawsuits demanding their own medical data.
Orrrr... The police just run it through the secret DNA database to identify the person and use parallel construction to explain how they found them.
Ahh, Endoscope Pass me the tube so I can take a poke 1 push, 2 push, 3 push, 4 push, 5 I'm feelin deep inside Leaning to the side in my Ophthalmic ride With the KY gangsta glide Woo!, hey now ya know Inhale, exhale with my flow Breakaway, come again like this Hey G promise me use two hands don't miss Cuz if you do, it break you get broke Me and Mista G and the endoscope
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Memory around here is so short.
Apple had long called their programs "applications" while Windows used "Programs" and DOS used "executables".
Then came the iPhone with the "App Store" which Apple Trademarked, quickly everybody else started using the same term to ride on high consumer awareness of the term. Apple sued, and Amazon and finally gave up on it.
Since then "Apps" has become a widespread generic term, and Tim Cook cries a little inside every time he sees it used for non-Apple software.
I used to disagree with the philosophy of the laser zapping mosquito killer...
But now... if we switch them all to female first, THEN zap them... I can agree.
When I was a kid playing games on a PC was hard. You had to learn DOS, keep enough memory free, install sound card drivers after properly setting the DIP switches and avoiding COM port conflicts that made your mouse play music when you used it. Sometimes you had to tweak BAT files to get a game to install, others required manually using pkzip.
Then you learned how to make boot disks with a bare minimum system or crafted your own multiboot setup. JUST TO PLAY. We were motivated, we had to be. Now kids just tap an icon and punch in their password, done. There's no learning required. Sure they're comfortable with web pages but they don't just pick up HTML and JavaScript unless already inclined. Games no longer LEAD to understanding nor require it, they're simply diversions. As soon as they get bored it's back on Pinterest or Netflix.
I'm glad I got into computers when I did because at that time playing games truly lead to learning.
How about forced sterilization of unwanted groups?
Compulsory sterilization
Darwinism was a large part of these eugenics campaigns, and they continue to this day in some countries.
Why go through all that effort reinventing the wheel? It would be much easier to invalidate foreign copyrights and simply pirate everything.
More likely it's for increased security and avoiding a single-supplier system, plus a bit of economic stimulus added in for good measure.
Good luck to you when they go ahead and sell your debt to a collections agency even AFTER writing it off as a loss. They may waive the bill from your perspective but the debt doesn't go away. Once the collections agencies come after you they won't leave you alone until you show them that police report. Oh and guess what, a record was never made when they waived the debt for you so you're all on your own now.
It may be different with a credit card company, but that's exactly what happened to me with T-Mobile AND Sprint. (Yeah, yeah... fool me twice...)
Let's not forget Stacker.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...
There's actually a lot of cross-pollination going in between the 2 platforms. For some things it's easier to release first on the desktop at WWDC and let the devs play with it a year or 2 before it ends up on iOS. Look at the new Force Touch thing they're rolling out. Apple Watch -> MacBook -> iPhones/iPads last.
Then you have things like Continuity in Yosemite that tightly binds a Mac and iPhone, that increases sales of both and prevents commoditization.
Besides, in a few years phones will be at the "good enough" phase like desktops are and people won't be upgrading every 2 years, so the current huge growth of mobiles can't be their only source of income when they start slowing down.
I'm assuming these people, isolated though they were, did not drink water or feed from animals exposed to water tainted with anti-biotic runoff?
You could grow up on an undiscovered island and still have ingested plastics. The smoke doesn't always stay on its side of the restaurant.
I was flagged for a pat-down by a female agent who took me aside. I requested a male agent which caught her by surprise. He also appeared surprised, I was happy that they were as uncomfortable as well.
But yes, female agents can grope male passengers.
I'd love a laptop screen I can use outside in direct sunlight.
RED drives are specifically designed for RAID enclosures to prevent early failure due to vibration and constant sleep/wake cycles. They even avoid synchronizing their vibrations with other disks in the array.
Sure in some situations you can get by with regular consumer gear, but in other situations it's asking for trouble.
In a way, he was right.
Short term solution: experienced driver in the lead truck responsible for the 2-5 following him. Much simpler driving for the automatic ones, and a real human there for taking care of problems.
Since it's been confirmed as worldwide, what's the point in anyone at all paying for it?
I have a genuine copy, but instead of paying the upgrade fee I could pirate the same thing and legally update for free. Heck I'll just use VM clones on my valid copy and keep the original around just in case.
What's the catch? Will they lose future upgrade rights have have to buy a full copy later on?
Where is it? Let's not further exclude the deaf from the internet, daily life is marginalization enough.
Maybe it's like in the movie Contact there's a secret base out there they've managed to build without anybody noticing and they're just saving it up for the surprise reveal!
But probably not.
This is certainly a new claim for me. Can you suggest any further information on the topic? Googling has been quite unfruitful.
No kidding! It's been a real pain trying to find something reasonably priced with ECC and 8 SATA connectors. The whole industry should have moved to ECC by now.
That's hilarious, I have web apps (I'm stuck with) having individual pages larger than that, including tons of other crap. Refactoring allows following the DRY principle and removing duplicated code. It allows moving SQL statements all the heck over the place into single places where they can easily be tested and updated when bugs are found.
They're basically working with a program that's not really that awful in the first place and making it a little bit nicer. How about starting with absolute junk and making it useable? Unmaintainable code is a consequence of technical debt, refactoring pays that debt down and keeps things manageable. Sure you may not need to refactor right now, but taking the time to do it once in a while keeps things from getting out of control.
But they DO! For a majority of PC users software is scary, many worry about installing *anything* as it could "break" their computer. They lack the savvy to recognize fake vendors and malware apps. Also plain software incompatibility is a huge problem for them to understand. Even if they do buy something, many cant even find where their downloads go.
Now compare this to a smartphone App Store. Your CC goes to one place, Apple or Google who they already trust more than random developers. Installs are single click, generally can't mess up th system and are easily removed if you didn't like it.
All stores are MUCH safer and comfortable for general computer users. This is WHY there are millions of apps, finally non-technical folks are empowered to try out and explore software largely without fear. It's been a huge experience for them and finally showing them the potential of computers that WE have been claiming for decades.
So yes, people most definitely do pay more for apps on their phones than their computers, and they like it that way.
I hope you're joking, I've known enough IT guys who intentionally used bad software for job security. Or allowed things known to be broken to catastrophicly fail so they could swoop in and be the "hero".
For those who seriously think that way....
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
The same amount of $$ and work would be much better off making things better.
If criminals know their DNA will get a thorough health checkup while they can't personally afford such tests....
Some may feel that committing crimes and leaving DNA samples is the only way to get such quality information.
So then the police, in an effort to stop such medically motivated crimes decide to withhold the information which does not directly relate to identification... Leading said criminals to file Lawsuits demanding their own medical data.
Orrrr... The police just run it through the secret DNA database to identify the person and use parallel construction to explain how they found them.
Ahh, Endoscope
Pass me the tube so I can take a poke
1 push, 2 push, 3 push, 4 push, 5 I'm feelin deep inside
Leaning to the side in my Ophthalmic ride
With the KY gangsta glide
Woo!, hey now ya know
Inhale, exhale with my flow
Breakaway, come again like this
Hey G promise me use two hands don't miss
Cuz if you do, it break you get broke
Me and Mista G and the endoscope
I would really love a list of toys that cause mental/psychological damage.
Off the top of my head...
Hinton's Cubes
Lament Configuration
My First Waterboard Funtime set.
Am I missing any?