You know you've got a killer app when a demo causes members of your target market to realize how much your software is going to change their lives, and they burst into tears.
Sometimes you burst into tears when management tells you they want you to adopt Lotus Notes, or Novel Netware. That doesn't make either of those a Killer app...
Which, it should be emphasized, we do study. While I'm a major advocate for the study of computer history, CS is not about software development, it is a branch of mathematics. The author of the article would be better off pestering computer engineers.
CS is not a branch of mathematics. It also involves software development. A small part of Computer Science is subset of math. But, neither is CS about the history of trendy software. On the other hand, I would have found the History of Trendy Software much more useful than a few of the other core classes I had to take (like sociology and philosophy and such).
I dunno, I voted for the Dems and got Healthcare out of it.
Did you? I voted for Obama in '08, partially because of his promise to completely socialize health care (as a real, hardline fiscal conservative able to see beyond the end of my own nose, I find myself supporting programs that many people who claim to be fiscal conservatives balk at).
Obama never promised or even advocated to completely socialize healthcare. If you wanted that, you should have voted for Hilary. I actually like Obamacare. I think making the health care companies only be able to keep 20% is great.
Not too long ago Netflix showed a discrepancy between ISPs breaking down somewhere at the 1.8/2.0 megabit realm. Despite service providers almost univerally offering faster "guaranteed" rates than that (3 MBit to 6Mbit, which can be demonstrated with a *regional* bandwidth test) the bandwidth to the Netflix content was markedly lower. Why? Not all 3Mbit/6Mbit/25Mbit pipes are created equal.
Because of the *IAA and friends, Netfix is poorly designed compared to youtube or all of the peer to peer video streaming technology like QVOD or PPStream. Most people can make up for a slow connection by just buffering a video while they go get a drink or go to the bathroom or whatever. But, Netflix intentionally only allows you to buffer a few seconds of video. Hence, it is tough for Netflix to compete with the higher quality free alternatives.
I am not even interested in watching HD, why do they think I'll care about this? Most people I know are pretty happy streaming onto their laptop something that looks pretty low res. I see plenty of details on zombies already.
Hmm.
I guess we run with different crowds. Most of the people I know are long out of college, have real jobs...and can easily afford a nice large flatscreen LCD/Plasma television for the main living room (and usually a few more in the bedrooms/office) and watch streaming, cable, uverse, bluray on those.
If you're a grown adult and can't afford anything more than a laptop (we all have those) to watch your movies or whatever on, you need to close the laptop, and start working a bit harder to get a real job.
HD tv is common now...it isn't like the old days when only a few people had colour television and everyone else could only afford black and white.
Hell, I've driven by the projects and see large flatscreens through the open doors...
It is not about whether or not you can afford a HDTV. I have an HDTV, but I still watch way more often on my laptop (or tablet or phone) than on the TV. It is usually because my wife is watching some show on her laptop and I am watching a different show on mine. Using the TV would tend to make it hard for each of us to hear our own shows.
It was a major design flaw to not have this run Android. By running Android, you make your device have access to a lot of apps right from the start. Without a bunch of apps, this thing will be lame.
I'm willing to bet very, very many internets that Apple hasn't authorized any Mac OS running from this device.
Not.
Gonna.
Happen.
1. They don't necessarily have to authorize it. Someone could just make something like gotomypc
2. They may in fact be developing a cloud based version of the Mac OS
http://gigaom.com/2011/01/05/imaging-a-cloud-based-future-for-mac-os-x/
Though, they may or may not want to make it easy for people to access it via devices like this.
A closed room plus a faraday cage is not sufficient.
How are you going to power the lights in the room? How about the video cameras? A well-placed bribe would allow me to use the power lines that come into the room to hard wire a network through the faraday cage and then put up a wifi access point. Or even an LED up in a corner somewhere that uses a blink code to signal the correct moves.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124448
Another idea that doesn't take into account the fact that a huge population of people are colorblind, similar to the heat-colored shower attachment.
It could easily be modified to blink slowly at first and then steadily faster as you get drunker. And when it would normally turn red, it could be a solid light or something.
Seriously, is it that hard to drink and have a good time without pouring crap down your neck till you're shitfaced, grand slam the bed and wake up next to something that needs to be kept wet until it can be rolled back into the ocean?
Spend hours building a smart ice cube, or thinking, "Hmm the room is spinning, I feel a bit grim and that -2 over there is looking like a 10, I'll ease up a bit". Which is the 'Smart' idea?
The ice cubes should take a picture of the girl and then allow people to upvote or downvote her. This would be an "anti-beer" goggles feature.
People already have lots of warnings that they have too much to drink. First, if you drink six drinks in one bar, you probably had too much. If you are slurring your words, you probably had to much. If your friends say you had too much, you probably had too much. These smart ice-cubes will not help because it is a problem of impaired judgement, not a problem of impaired measuring ability. After a few drinks I bet most people will just put the cubes in their pocket and ignore them.
This will let people know which girls are the drunkest. I wonder if that is a bug or a feature...
I have this idea for a song. But I'm not musical, so I need to find someone who will write, perform, and record it for me."
I would say that this is like the business major that approaches us and says they have an idea for a web site but no idea how to program it and no funding and wants to know if we want to start a company with them. And our response is always,"What value do you bring to the company? Why the hell would we want to share the profits with you when you have nothing of value to contribute?" Likewise, "having an idea for a song" is not really adding much if any value to the process of writing it.
It's in one of the comments, and a pointer from that linked page shows some exercises his instructor had him perform -- singing at different speeds and pitches. I myself wonder why software engineering never tries to teach solving the same problem in a variety of paradigms or languages; 99 bottles is the closest example I can find.
Every computer science degree program that I know of does this. Where the heck did you learn to program that didn't have a Programming Languages course?
I never understood why people were content to drop ~$300 for a PMP every few years but then skimp on headphones which should, in theory, outlast any media player.
Headphones are like sunglasses. In theory, that $100+ purchase should last for years. But in practice, I manage to break them within a few months of purchasing them. I have yet had any headphones that were not lost/broken for more than a year. And who the heck still spends $300 on a PMP? Unless by PMP you mean a phone or a tablet. In that case, I imagine that most people don't spend all that much time listening to music through headphones on the device, and that the sound quality improvement from expensive headphones is not enough to justify spending a bunch of money on them.
The only thing that rises eyebrows a little is that they indeed MITM https traffic by re-encrypting the traffic and using their own certificate (which is installed as trusted on the phone) on phoneproxy communication. But this is how SSL is supposed to work - if you want to be sure about both sides you will also need client-side certificates.
This is *not* how SSL is supposed to work. Any certificate authority that is forging certificates for other people's web servers is not one that should be trusted. Essentially, Nokia is lying to the web browser and saying that they are actually Amazon.com or whoever you are making a secure connection with. By fraudulently representing that they are Amazon.com or whoever, they are intercepting your passwords to these sites.
Client side certificates would not help in this case because the client is controlled by Nokia. So, they would have a copy of your client side certificates as well.
Chris Rock was right. Time for the $1000 bullet. Make it not apply to birdshot (hunting) and build in an exemption for shooting ranges so long as the bullets are used there. I'm okay with home-made bullets and small armory jobs, but the idea that the average person needs a horde of 10,000 bullets in their house is just... dumb.
People hunt more than just birds. Using a shotgun to hunt deer would not work very well. Where my parents live, people hunt deer and elk for food. Hunting actually helps the environment because humans killed off a lot of the predators. Hunting licenses provide millions of dollars of revenue for the government. If you total up the hunting license revenue for all of the states, you will see that it provides about half a billion dollars per year. http://www.amfire.com/statistic.asp?page=32
Keep in mind that bullets are easy enough to manufacture. If the price was $1000/bullet, people would just make their own. My dad, for example, fills his own bullets with gunpowder because the ones that are mass manufactured do not have precisely the same amount in each bullet which decreases accuracy.
Still, I am not sure people really need semi-automatic rifles. And I think that people ought to have a gun safe and keep their guns locked up in that. Not allowing your children easy access to guns would be a good idea.
Anyway, I think that if the students have less effective weapons it only marginally makes the situation better. It would be better if we could decrease the risk of students going postal altogether. That's why I think that ultimately the problem of violence in schools can only be solved through better access to mental health and programs that identify kids that are at risk of going postal and intervening. 71% of kids who did school shootings reported or indicated that they were being bullied. School shooters generally feel alienated and persecuted by their peers. They also tend to have a lack of empathy. I think a lot of reaction to school shootings has been to make school more stressful to students by cracking down on problems like kids bringing cough drops and cold medicine to school. This is most likely counterproductive if the goal is to reduce the likelihood of school shootings.
Feminism is partially to blame. Many women feel entitled to good lives with plenty of thrill and whatnot so they simply dump their boring husbands who slave away 12hr/day to support the family (women initiate divorce in 70% of cases).
Ever heard women saying men have it so good, they live their sweet patriarchical lives with obedient housewives, dinners every day, sex every evening and whatnot, yet whining that there are no good men willing to marry on the horizon? The truth is the marriage is an increasingly lousy deal for men. Due to decades of lobbying based on 'will somebody please think of the women', the law is heavily stacked against men, when they marry they are literally at the mercy of their wives.
Wives are entitled to half of wealth just because, can get their husbands arrested on their word alone (domestic violence even if it didn't happen), in case of divorce get child custody (and have men by the balls if they ever want to see the children), child support and/or alimony (material situation of the man doesn't matter at all and he can be forced to pay more than he earns).
While it is somewhat true that marriage is not as good of a deal for men as it used to be, that is not entirely a bad thing. Women have more career options than they used to. When you have no way to survive without the marriage, you are less likely to initiate a divorce. But, it is true that women more often are awarded alimony and custody and such. But this may be because often men are making more money than their wives.
Here is the paradox though. Women's value on the dating market peaks at age 21. Men's peak value on the dating market is at age 36. So, after the divorce, men stand a much higher chance of finding a better mate than women do.
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-case-for-an-older-woman/
Android has 611,161 apps in the Android Market.
In December, around 37,500 apps were released in the Android Market.
http://www.appbrain.com/stats/number-of-android-apps
Of course, this does not include apps released in other market places. For example, of my 30 or so Android apps, only 3 are released in the Android Market due to their limitations on content.
2 Billion $ devided by 1000's of developers is not much income per dev. I'd rather see an average breakdown per dev or full breakdown.
That is an average of 7000000000/775000 or $9032.25 per app. It is pretty hard to compare Android earnings because they are mostly from third parties via advertising. For example, out of the $100,000 or so I have made on Android apps, about $200 came from the Android market itself.
No, I am dissatisfied with any group that offers only a pretense of action towards their goals.
While many of the goals of the OWS movement are lofty, they have achieved great success. They crushed the Tea Party movement and gave Obama the support he needed to (at least partially) get rid of tax cuts for the rich. I would say that they have been much more successful than I thought they would be...
Large portions of your argument are ad hominem so I won't address those portions. Your cited source has obvious bias. Anything that's "self funded" was ultimately derived from taxation.
I don't think union dues are taxes in that the government does not collect them or use them or touch them in an way. I don't think the government acts as an intermediary either. Likewise, pensions are not taxes. The government is not an intermediary for those either. As far as I know, your employer takes the money out of your paycheck and forwards it to your 401K or whatever.
Do you know what the alternative is? Blanket socialism / communism or whatever other marxist system that does not allow for private ownership and encourages income distribution.
So, that is the only alternative to the 1% controlling the government? You can't think of any other possible solutions? How about the 99% starts being more politically aware of the corruption of the politicians and votes the ones giving tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% at the expense of everyone else out of office?
But the people on very top who finance this -- thought to destabilize political process and banking in the United States to create either a pressure on a certain political leaders through their direct actions or, to a lesser extent, to create a large enough backlash to pressure them into the opposite actions.
So, the people behind this are trying to enact change to the system by organizing a bunch of followers in a peaceful protest. Is that a bad thing for some reason?
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You know you've got a killer app when a demo causes members of your target market to realize how much your software is going to change their lives, and they burst into tears.
Sometimes you burst into tears when management tells you they want you to adopt Lotus Notes, or Novel Netware. That doesn't make either of those a Killer app...
Which, it should be emphasized, we do study. While I'm a major advocate for the study of computer history, CS is not about software development, it is a branch of mathematics. The author of the article would be better off pestering computer engineers.
CS is not a branch of mathematics. It also involves software development. A small part of Computer Science is subset of math. But, neither is CS about the history of trendy software. On the other hand, I would have found the History of Trendy Software much more useful than a few of the other core classes I had to take (like sociology and philosophy and such).
I dunno, I voted for the Dems and got Healthcare out of it.
Did you? I voted for Obama in '08, partially because of his promise to completely socialize health care (as a real, hardline fiscal conservative able to see beyond the end of my own nose, I find myself supporting programs that many people who claim to be fiscal conservatives balk at).
Obama never promised or even advocated to completely socialize healthcare. If you wanted that, you should have voted for Hilary. I actually like Obamacare. I think making the health care companies only be able to keep 20% is great.
Not too long ago Netflix showed a discrepancy between ISPs breaking down somewhere at the 1.8/2.0 megabit realm. Despite service providers almost univerally offering faster "guaranteed" rates than that (3 MBit to 6Mbit, which can be demonstrated with a *regional* bandwidth test) the bandwidth to the Netflix content was markedly lower. Why? Not all 3Mbit/6Mbit/25Mbit pipes are created equal.
Because of the *IAA and friends, Netfix is poorly designed compared to youtube or all of the peer to peer video streaming technology like QVOD or PPStream. Most people can make up for a slow connection by just buffering a video while they go get a drink or go to the bathroom or whatever. But, Netflix intentionally only allows you to buffer a few seconds of video. Hence, it is tough for Netflix to compete with the higher quality free alternatives.
Hmm.
I guess we run with different crowds. Most of the people I know are long out of college, have real jobs...and can easily afford a nice large flatscreen LCD/Plasma television for the main living room (and usually a few more in the bedrooms/office) and watch streaming, cable, uverse, bluray on those.
If you're a grown adult and can't afford anything more than a laptop (we all have those) to watch your movies or whatever on, you need to close the laptop, and start working a bit harder to get a real job.
HD tv is common now...it isn't like the old days when only a few people had colour television and everyone else could only afford black and white.
Hell, I've driven by the projects and see large flatscreens through the open doors...
It is not about whether or not you can afford a HDTV. I have an HDTV, but I still watch way more often on my laptop (or tablet or phone) than on the TV. It is usually because my wife is watching some show on her laptop and I am watching a different show on mine. Using the TV would tend to make it hard for each of us to hear our own shows.
It was a major design flaw to not have this run Android. By running Android, you make your device have access to a lot of apps right from the start. Without a bunch of apps, this thing will be lame.
I'm willing to bet very, very many internets that Apple hasn't authorized any Mac OS running from this device. Not. Gonna. Happen.
1. They don't necessarily have to authorize it. Someone could just make something like gotomypc 2. They may in fact be developing a cloud based version of the Mac OS http://gigaom.com/2011/01/05/imaging-a-cloud-based-future-for-mac-os-x/ Though, they may or may not want to make it easy for people to access it via devices like this.
A closed room plus a faraday cage is not sufficient. How are you going to power the lights in the room? How about the video cameras? A well-placed bribe would allow me to use the power lines that come into the room to hard wire a network through the faraday cage and then put up a wifi access point. Or even an LED up in a corner somewhere that uses a blink code to signal the correct moves. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124448
Another idea that doesn't take into account the fact that a huge population of people are colorblind, similar to the heat-colored shower attachment.
It could easily be modified to blink slowly at first and then steadily faster as you get drunker. And when it would normally turn red, it could be a solid light or something.
Seriously, is it that hard to drink and have a good time without pouring crap down your neck till you're shitfaced, grand slam the bed and wake up next to something that needs to be kept wet until it can be rolled back into the ocean?
Spend hours building a smart ice cube, or thinking, "Hmm the room is spinning, I feel a bit grim and that -2 over there is looking like a 10, I'll ease up a bit". Which is the 'Smart' idea?
The ice cubes should take a picture of the girl and then allow people to upvote or downvote her. This would be an "anti-beer" goggles feature.
People already have lots of warnings that they have too much to drink. First, if you drink six drinks in one bar, you probably had too much. If you are slurring your words, you probably had to much. If your friends say you had too much, you probably had too much. These smart ice-cubes will not help because it is a problem of impaired judgement, not a problem of impaired measuring ability. After a few drinks I bet most people will just put the cubes in their pocket and ignore them.
This will let people know which girls are the drunkest. I wonder if that is a bug or a feature...
I have this idea for a song. But I'm not musical, so I need to find someone who will write, perform, and record it for me."
I would say that this is like the business major that approaches us and says they have an idea for a web site but no idea how to program it and no funding and wants to know if we want to start a company with them. And our response is always,"What value do you bring to the company? Why the hell would we want to share the profits with you when you have nothing of value to contribute?" Likewise, "having an idea for a song" is not really adding much if any value to the process of writing it.
It's in one of the comments, and a pointer from that linked page shows some exercises his instructor had him perform -- singing at different speeds and pitches. I myself wonder why software engineering never tries to teach solving the same problem in a variety of paradigms or languages; 99 bottles is the closest example I can find.
Every computer science degree program that I know of does this. Where the heck did you learn to program that didn't have a Programming Languages course?
I never understood why people were content to drop ~$300 for a PMP every few years but then skimp on headphones which should, in theory, outlast any media player.
Headphones are like sunglasses. In theory, that $100+ purchase should last for years. But in practice, I manage to break them within a few months of purchasing them. I have yet had any headphones that were not lost/broken for more than a year. And who the heck still spends $300 on a PMP? Unless by PMP you mean a phone or a tablet. In that case, I imagine that most people don't spend all that much time listening to music through headphones on the device, and that the sound quality improvement from expensive headphones is not enough to justify spending a bunch of money on them.
The only thing that rises eyebrows a little is that they indeed MITM https traffic by re-encrypting the traffic and using their own certificate (which is installed as trusted on the phone) on phoneproxy communication. But this is how SSL is supposed to work - if you want to be sure about both sides you will also need client-side certificates.
This is *not* how SSL is supposed to work. Any certificate authority that is forging certificates for other people's web servers is not one that should be trusted. Essentially, Nokia is lying to the web browser and saying that they are actually Amazon.com or whoever you are making a secure connection with. By fraudulently representing that they are Amazon.com or whoever, they are intercepting your passwords to these sites. Client side certificates would not help in this case because the client is controlled by Nokia. So, they would have a copy of your client side certificates as well.
Chris Rock was right. Time for the $1000 bullet. Make it not apply to birdshot (hunting) and build in an exemption for shooting ranges so long as the bullets are used there. I'm okay with home-made bullets and small armory jobs, but the idea that the average person needs a horde of 10,000 bullets in their house is just... dumb.
People hunt more than just birds. Using a shotgun to hunt deer would not work very well. Where my parents live, people hunt deer and elk for food. Hunting actually helps the environment because humans killed off a lot of the predators. Hunting licenses provide millions of dollars of revenue for the government. If you total up the hunting license revenue for all of the states, you will see that it provides about half a billion dollars per year. http://www.amfire.com/statistic.asp?page=32 Keep in mind that bullets are easy enough to manufacture. If the price was $1000/bullet, people would just make their own. My dad, for example, fills his own bullets with gunpowder because the ones that are mass manufactured do not have precisely the same amount in each bullet which decreases accuracy. Still, I am not sure people really need semi-automatic rifles. And I think that people ought to have a gun safe and keep their guns locked up in that. Not allowing your children easy access to guns would be a good idea. Anyway, I think that if the students have less effective weapons it only marginally makes the situation better. It would be better if we could decrease the risk of students going postal altogether. That's why I think that ultimately the problem of violence in schools can only be solved through better access to mental health and programs that identify kids that are at risk of going postal and intervening. 71% of kids who did school shootings reported or indicated that they were being bullied. School shooters generally feel alienated and persecuted by their peers. They also tend to have a lack of empathy. I think a lot of reaction to school shootings has been to make school more stressful to students by cracking down on problems like kids bringing cough drops and cold medicine to school. This is most likely counterproductive if the goal is to reduce the likelihood of school shootings.
Feminism is partially to blame. Many women feel entitled to good lives with plenty of thrill and whatnot so they simply dump their boring husbands who slave away 12hr/day to support the family (women initiate divorce in 70% of cases). Ever heard women saying men have it so good, they live their sweet patriarchical lives with obedient housewives, dinners every day, sex every evening and whatnot, yet whining that there are no good men willing to marry on the horizon? The truth is the marriage is an increasingly lousy deal for men. Due to decades of lobbying based on 'will somebody please think of the women', the law is heavily stacked against men, when they marry they are literally at the mercy of their wives. Wives are entitled to half of wealth just because, can get their husbands arrested on their word alone (domestic violence even if it didn't happen), in case of divorce get child custody (and have men by the balls if they ever want to see the children), child support and/or alimony (material situation of the man doesn't matter at all and he can be forced to pay more than he earns).
While it is somewhat true that marriage is not as good of a deal for men as it used to be, that is not entirely a bad thing. Women have more career options than they used to. When you have no way to survive without the marriage, you are less likely to initiate a divorce. But, it is true that women more often are awarded alimony and custody and such. But this may be because often men are making more money than their wives. Here is the paradox though. Women's value on the dating market peaks at age 21. Men's peak value on the dating market is at age 36. So, after the divorce, men stand a much higher chance of finding a better mate than women do. http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-case-for-an-older-woman/
>If they simply say "well, we have no idea of who is using it for what", some clever lawyer will say they're facilitating this.
And it would be laughed out of the courtroom.
Show me one court case where someone was held criminally responsible for having open wireless and it was abused by a third party.
One. Case.
I double-dog-dare you.
-- BMO
This is kind of mixed. It appears that the MPAA will often back down if you run an open wifi defense. However, it might not work for a child porn defense. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/04/child-porn-case-shows-that-an-open-wifi-network-is-no-defense/ http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/WiFi-Network-Shuttered-By-MPAA-ReOpens-105492
Target audience is the hardcore gamers that play on consoles or higher end PCs. Why would they trying the mess with an inferior system as a tablet.
Consoles are essentially low-end PCs for about half of their lifetime...
Android has 611,161 apps in the Android Market. In December, around 37,500 apps were released in the Android Market. http://www.appbrain.com/stats/number-of-android-apps Of course, this does not include apps released in other market places. For example, of my 30 or so Android apps, only 3 are released in the Android Market due to their limitations on content.
2 Billion $ devided by 1000's of developers is not much income per dev. I'd rather see an average breakdown per dev or full breakdown.
That is an average of 7000000000/775000 or $9032.25 per app. It is pretty hard to compare Android earnings because they are mostly from third parties via advertising. For example, out of the $100,000 or so I have made on Android apps, about $200 came from the Android market itself.
No, I am dissatisfied with any group that offers only a pretense of action towards their goals.
While many of the goals of the OWS movement are lofty, they have achieved great success. They crushed the Tea Party movement and gave Obama the support he needed to (at least partially) get rid of tax cuts for the rich. I would say that they have been much more successful than I thought they would be...
Large portions of your argument are ad hominem so I won't address those portions. Your cited source has obvious bias. Anything that's "self funded" was ultimately derived from taxation.
I don't think union dues are taxes in that the government does not collect them or use them or touch them in an way. I don't think the government acts as an intermediary either. Likewise, pensions are not taxes. The government is not an intermediary for those either. As far as I know, your employer takes the money out of your paycheck and forwards it to your 401K or whatever.
Do you know what the alternative is? Blanket socialism / communism or whatever other marxist system that does not allow for private ownership and encourages income distribution.
So, that is the only alternative to the 1% controlling the government? You can't think of any other possible solutions? How about the 99% starts being more politically aware of the corruption of the politicians and votes the ones giving tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% at the expense of everyone else out of office?
But the people on very top who finance this -- thought to destabilize political process and banking in the United States to create either a pressure on a certain political leaders through their direct actions or, to a lesser extent, to create a large enough backlash to pressure them into the opposite actions.
So, the people behind this are trying to enact change to the system by organizing a bunch of followers in a peaceful protest. Is that a bad thing for some reason?