Applications? DB2, Oracle, SAP, and goodness knows how many super advanced and mega expensive packages for specific industries that the average person never knows about.
In other words it isn't wasted on Office, Vista, and other low end applications.
Yea then when there kids get older those mothers will probably let them play on your law. I suggest next time that happens you throw your truss at them. If that doesn't work then throw your teeth at them.
Well maybe he only wants DSL? Or maybe his apartment building has a deal with one provider. I live in a smallish city in Florida and I have better than 3 MBs from my cable modem in tests. I really doubt his options in NYC are as limited as he says. In fact here is a map of FIOS availability. http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios Looks to me that it is all over NY. Maybe not in his area but there seems like there is a lot of it.
The US doesn't have regions that have a low population density. We have VAST areas with low population density.
The babies don't bother me. The Adults tend to be 10 times worse. I used to fly a lot. I never had a terrible problem with babies. Yes sitting next to a 450 lbs woman that thought a beach umbrella was carry on luggage. A jerk that not only yelled at me for putting my bag in the over head because it might crush his cell phone. A bodybuilder that started to cry when we hit a little rough air. The wost had to be the guy that yelled at the two nuns with orphans. They made a tiny bit of noise and this guy started yelling them to shut them up. Just being in the same plane with that guy has got to be really bad karma. Babies? Heck they are babies, they don't know any better. It is the adults that make the flights hell.
Sorry but yes busting pedophiles and people that deal with child pornography is important and worth while. The Police really did blow it in this case for sure. They should have checked the IPs and the time and dates involved.
Objective C sounds very nice but the lack of bindings is the problem for me. Of course then you have the problem of thinking between Objective-C and C++. I don't know how big of a problem it would be but a project I an close to ran into issues thunking between STL strings and MFC strings. It caused a huge performance hit in part of the program. Of course MFC is a nightmare but it was what the program used when it was written and now we are trying to move to STL.
I have not looked at Objective-C in much detail. And yes a mini app in a day is almost a sure thing. However I can tell you that just from moving between PHP, Perl, C++ and Java that there is a big difference between knowing a language and just knowing how to use the language. I worked in C++ for months after working in Java for months and still didn't feel like I knew C++.
I can tell you from experience that a GUI on a large complex program like Photoshop is far from a simple construct. I agree that it can be done. I just don't know if for a lot of companies if it will be worth the effort. As I said it will be good news for QT.
There is a difference between being picking up a language and knowing the language. Yes a good C++ developer can start coding in Objective-C in a few days or maybe weeks. I would bet that it will take a few months before they are really comfortable with it. Then toss in Cocoa and you have a pretty steep learning curve. It will just make it harder to develop software for both Windows and Mac. There are few companies that will choose to drop the Windows market for the Mac market. I would love to try Objective-C but the lack of bindings for GTK, QT, and Windows keeps me from putting in the effort. It is a shame since I hear that Objective-C is better than C++ in many ways.
"Yeah, Carbon is dead and they should be going to all Cocoa, but that takes time, and if it was your intention to kill Carbon, why even promise a 64 bit version at all?" Actually killing carbon is DUMB. To use Cocoa you have to use Objective-C for the GUI. There is a lot more experienced c++ developers than Objective-C developers. Objective-C isn't widely used on Windows or Unix so cross platform is now going to be a bigger pain for developers. This is going to be a great thing for TrollTech. The end result will be a lot of 32 bit apps will stay 32 bit apps.
I live right across the state from you. Guess what? I have never had a choice in Cable providers. I think in most of Florida your choices are. Cable or Satellite. Cable modem, DSL, or dial up. Not really competition IMHO.
Why in the name of heaven would you have to pay a monthly fee for GPS when you don't have to with the cell tower system? The GPS receiver in the phone doesn't place any load on the cell network so there shouldn't be a charge to use it? As far as cell tower based positioning. I would bet that I am often in an area where I only can see a single tower. I have heard mixed results with it. GPS is not expensive. My $100 cell phone has it as does my wifes $60 cell phone. Their really should be no extra expense and GPS is better than Cell tower location systems. If Apple does put in GPS and allows developers access to it then You may see some very interesting applications.
Yea in my hometown I know my favorite places to eat. And no I don't need my GPS. But here are some examples of when I have used my GPS. My wife got us involved in a book club. The meeting was at a members. I had the address so I had no real problem finding it. I was in the Next town over and needed to find an ATM. GPS works just great for that. I stopped to get gas in that same town and an older gentleman asked me where the nearest Walmart was. I had no idea until I took out my Cell phone and did a search and found it for him and told him how to get there. About a month ago My wife and wanted to go a Japanese museum about seventy miles to the south of us. Searched for it and put it in the GPS and got there with no problem. When we got there my wifes camera's batteries died. The museum shop didn't carry batteries. Searched for a Walgreen's near by and went and got fresh batteries. Yes I didn't have to have a GPS. But because I did it was a lot easier to find what I wanted and I didn't have to drive around looking and waste time and gas. People don't have to have a GPS. They also don't have to have a Cell phone, Computer, Ipod, or TiVO. But once you have one it is just way too useful. I can think of lots of other uses for it that current GPS systems don't offer. But yes if you live in Chicago and can manage to commute just about everywhere on a bike you may not need it.
Because a GPS that network enabled is a great tool. Traveling? Want to find a restaurant? Just use your cell with GPS and you can even dial the number and make reservations. Yes auto GPS systems have that but do you carry them in your pocket? When you travel you may or may not have a GPS in your rental car. Yea you could take your portable one with you but what if you don't have a rental car and are just walking? What if you are riding with someone that doesn't have a GPS? Again it is always in my pocket. It is the same reason that I have web browser on my phone and a media player. It is always with me and it is small and light.
"All else being equal, you would choose the locations that already had the best infrastructure, so you as a business wouldn't have to build it from scratch."
Yes but that is just it. In the US broadband is available in every major city and most suburbs. It is even available in many small towns and rural areas. Will those areas attract more jobs? I think so. Just like areas with good schools, Universities, roads, and airports do better than places that don't.
Should smaller towns and rural areas invest in broadband? I think that would be very wise. There are some very nice places to live in the US that have very cheap housing. The problem is they lack jobs. People are leaving and schools are closing. The problem is that they don't have the money to put in the infrastructure and they don't have the customers to make it worth while. I could see a nice small town in Iowa spending millions of dollars to put in fiber and then have nobody use it. It is a problem but not what I would consider a crisis.
1. The NSA wouldn't announce that they are trying to make Linux more secure and then slip in back doors. Heck they submit there patches for all the world to see. If they tried it the finger would point right back at them. And don't you think that everybody and their dog will look at the NSA patches just to check them for such a stupid move? 2. If the NSA wanted to pull something like that they would simply create a person and start adding code that ISN"T under their name!
Hate to tell you but this Internet thingy you are using was created in large part by the government spooks that you fear so much.
According to what I have read 79% of phone users have access to Broadband. In the US that is almost 100% of the population. That penetration number I believe is for how many internet users actually use broadband. I would say that a very large number of people in the US are opting out of broadband.
I do work at a software firm with a customer base of well over 15,000. It is a small but significant sample. Here are some more hard numbers "79 percent of those with a home phone (which is nearly everyone in the US, thanks to the Universal Service Fund) could get DSL. In addition, 96 percent of all households who can get a cable signal can purchase Internet access through their cable provider".
That puts the number of homes in the US that can not get broadband at less than $21% Since I am sure that there is at least one home that can get a cable modem that can not get DSL.
Could it be better? Yes it could. Is it a national crisis? Not really. The vast majority of people that don't have broadband don't have broadband because they don't want it and not because they can not get it.
Well except I don't know a single person that can not get broadband. I have a good friend that lives in the middle of no where Idaho. Somewhere near a town called Rupert... He has broadband. My father in a cabin in mountains of Northern GA. He has broadband there. I think that if you take a look at the percentage of people and the actual number of people in the US that have Broadband available you will see that it is a pretty big number.
I have a cable modem at home. Most of the time I can not saturate that link when I am downloading an ISO so I don't think that FIOS would be much of an advantage since most of the time I am limited by the server speed more than my connection. Would I like a super fast and cheap broadband connection? Well yes I would. Do I need it it? Not really. It would be great if my office could get a fast two way connection that was cheap but for home not so much.
The problem with broadband in the US is most people do have access to it but a lot of them don't see the need for the extra cost over dial up. The economics of broadband vs dial up is much different in the US than other countries. In most EU contries you pay by them minute even for local calls. In the US local calls are part of your flat rate bill. So in those countries it is actually cheaper for everybody to get broadband even if they just use it for email and surfing than it is for people in the US. I deal with about 15,000 users. They are everywhere from North Dakota to Alaska. I don't know of a single one that can not get broadband.
Can it be better? Yes it can. Is it a national crisis? I just don't think so. Do I want my FIOS? Yes I do.
I looked at that search. I didn't fine any that linked to the actual data. Notice that my link was to the study and was hosted by Harvard. I just don't buy the number of defensive gun uses. If you read even the links given it will say that a very high percentage didn't involve the gun being fired and a huge percentage where not reported to the police. Okay where did they get that data from? Second if the defensive use of the gun didn't involve a gun shot or a police report what where those uses? Someone heard something and felt better because they had a gun? Someone drove through a bad area of town and felt better because they had a gun? You are saying that CDC claims between 30 and 40 thousand gun deaths a year. Are you saying that gun owners prevented over 830,000 shootings a year? That just doesn't make any sense.
"Sure, criminal gun owners are more likely to go down in a gunfight. However, law-abiding gun owners are less likely." You see that is such a great way to stack the odds. Suicide is illegal so you don't have to count those. Not securing your gun is illegal in many places so you don't have to count those. Someone that losses their temper and shoots their wife they have broken the law. I am not for outlawing guns. But they are dangerous. For most people do not make you or your family safer. My brother in law is a SWAT sniper and my brother owns some guns. I do not.
"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/index.html" I am afraid that the it really does hold water. If you take every accident, suicide, and domestic shooting and then compare them to the number of times that having a gun has prevented a death and or injury you will find that gun ownership is more likely to cause a death or injury than not owning a gun. Buy restricting it to just law-abiding citizens well you are stacking the deck big time. How about restricting it to people that legally own guns.
As I said those are statistics so yes it is not mandatory that they apply to the individual.
"The safest thing a gun-carrying father of a 6 year old can do is thus to make it absolutely sure said gun isn't something new and strange." No the safest thing is to not carry a gun. Gun owners are far more likely to die from a gun shot than none gun owners. That is a statistical fact. Of course that may or may not apply to the individual. If you must own a gun then yes I think teaching your child gun safety is a positive thing. But even if you do teach your child gun safety locking the guns in a gun safe is STILL a very very very good idea. Even if your child is the most responsible person in the world that doesn't mean his friends will be. As for shielding your children? I am actually all for it. I think too many parents spend to much time pushing children into the adult world and or not enough time protecting their childhood. I think it would be great if every child thought that they lived in a safe comfortable world where they would be protected and nurtured. Now when we are talking about adolecnets and teens... Yea all too often they are being given all the "rights" of adults with out the responsibilities.
Dude chemtrails? You are so clueless. The US government has nothing to do with Chemtrails. At least not the US government you know about. Everybody knows that the Aerospace industry, Oil companies, and by extension the Airlines are controlled by the Masons. They are the ones that from the Shadow government with the Greys that are doing the Chemtrail tests. And yes Cleveland is a major target of the tests. Why else do you think they put the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame there! Please get your facts right and stop just making stuff up.
Oh come on there is no proof that nitrogen is needed complex life. Just because every known life form on earth needs doesn't mean that it is required. BTW yes I am just kidding. Thanks for your post. I loved science but never really got into biology. Probably because the required biology classes in high school and college where mainly what I called "gross plumbing" classes. I did like Chemistry so I have to admit that I get a chuckle out of it when people make a statment like. "Maybe life could just use something to replace nitrogen."
It maybe possible but the first biologist that finds a form of life that does it will make it to the history books.
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Well the big ones are.
Linux
AIX
and i5/OS
Applications?
DB2, Oracle, SAP, and goodness knows how many super advanced and mega expensive packages for specific industries that the average person never knows about.
In other words it isn't wasted on Office, Vista, and other low end applications.
Yea then when there kids get older those mothers will probably let them play on your law.
I suggest next time that happens you throw your truss at them. If that doesn't work then throw your teeth at them.
Well maybe he only wants DSL? Or maybe his apartment building has a deal with one provider.
I live in a smallish city in Florida and I have better than 3 MBs from my cable modem in tests.
I really doubt his options in NYC are as limited as he says.
In fact here is a map of FIOS availability. http://www.dslreports.com/gmaps/fios
Looks to me that it is all over NY. Maybe not in his area but there seems like there is a lot of it.
The US doesn't have regions that have a low population density. We have VAST areas with low population density.
The babies don't bother me. The Adults tend to be 10 times worse. I used to fly a lot. I never had a terrible problem with babies. Yes sitting next to a 450 lbs woman that thought a beach umbrella was carry on luggage. A jerk that not only yelled at me for putting my bag in the over head because it might crush his cell phone. A bodybuilder that started to cry when we hit a little rough air.
The wost had to be the guy that yelled at the two nuns with orphans. They made a tiny bit of noise and this guy started yelling them to shut them up.
Just being in the same plane with that guy has got to be really bad karma.
Babies? Heck they are babies, they don't know any better. It is the adults that make the flights hell.
Sorry but yes busting pedophiles and people that deal with child pornography is important and worth while.
The Police really did blow it in this case for sure. They should have checked the IPs and the time and dates involved.
Objective C sounds very nice but the lack of bindings is the problem for me. Of course then you have the problem of thinking between Objective-C and C++. I don't know how big of a problem it would be but a project I an close to ran into issues thunking between STL strings and MFC strings. It caused a huge performance hit in part of the program. Of course MFC is a nightmare but it was what the program used when it was written and now we are trying to move to STL.
I have not looked at Objective-C in much detail. And yes a mini app in a day is almost a sure thing. However I can tell you that just from moving between PHP, Perl, C++ and Java that there is a big difference between knowing a language and just knowing how to use the language. I worked in C++ for months after working in Java for months and still didn't feel like I knew C++.
I can tell you from experience that a GUI on a large complex program like Photoshop is far from a simple construct.
I agree that it can be done. I just don't know if for a lot of companies if it will be worth the effort.
As I said it will be good news for QT.
There is a difference between being picking up a language and knowing the language. Yes a good C++ developer can start coding in Objective-C in a few days or maybe weeks. I would bet that it will take a few months before they are really comfortable with it. Then toss in Cocoa and you have a pretty steep learning curve. It will just make it harder to develop software for both Windows and Mac. There are few companies that will choose to drop the Windows market for the Mac market.
I would love to try Objective-C but the lack of bindings for GTK, QT, and Windows keeps me from putting in the effort.
It is a shame since I hear that Objective-C is better than C++ in many ways.
"Yeah, Carbon is dead and they should be going to all Cocoa, but that takes time, and if it was your intention to kill Carbon, why even promise a 64 bit version at all?"
Actually killing carbon is DUMB. To use Cocoa you have to use Objective-C for the GUI. There is a lot more experienced c++ developers than Objective-C developers. Objective-C isn't widely used on Windows or Unix so cross platform is now going to be a bigger pain for developers.
This is going to be a great thing for TrollTech.
The end result will be a lot of 32 bit apps will stay 32 bit apps.
I live right across the state from you. Guess what? I have never had a choice in Cable providers.
I think in most of Florida your choices are.
Cable or Satellite.
Cable modem, DSL, or dial up.
Not really competition IMHO.
but that is just it. The cell provider doesn't have to and shouldn't add a fee for GPS. I doubt that the IPhone providers will have to.
Why in the name of heaven would you have to pay a monthly fee for GPS when you don't have to with the cell tower system? The GPS receiver in the phone doesn't place any load on the cell network so there shouldn't be a charge to use it?
As far as cell tower based positioning. I would bet that I am often in an area where I only can see a single tower. I have heard mixed results with it.
GPS is not expensive. My $100 cell phone has it as does my wifes $60 cell phone.
Their really should be no extra expense and GPS is better than Cell tower location systems. If Apple does put in GPS and allows developers access to it then You may see some very interesting applications.
Yea in my hometown I know my favorite places to eat. And no I don't need my GPS.
But here are some examples of when I have used my GPS. My wife got us involved in a book club. The meeting was at a members. I had the address so I had no real problem finding it.
I was in the Next town over and needed to find an ATM. GPS works just great for that.
I stopped to get gas in that same town and an older gentleman asked me where the nearest Walmart was. I had no idea until I took out my Cell phone and did a search and found it for him and told him how to get there.
About a month ago My wife and wanted to go a Japanese museum about seventy miles to the south of us. Searched for it and put it in the GPS and got there with no problem. When we got there my wifes camera's batteries died. The museum shop didn't carry batteries. Searched for a Walgreen's near by and went and got fresh batteries.
Yes I didn't have to have a GPS. But because I did it was a lot easier to find what I wanted and I didn't have to drive around looking and waste time and gas.
People don't have to have a GPS. They also don't have to have a Cell phone, Computer, Ipod, or TiVO.
But once you have one it is just way too useful.
I can think of lots of other uses for it that current GPS systems don't offer.
But yes if you live in Chicago and can manage to commute just about everywhere on a bike you may not need it.
Because a GPS that network enabled is a great tool.
Traveling? Want to find a restaurant? Just use your cell with GPS and you can even dial the number and make reservations. Yes auto GPS systems have that but do you carry them in your pocket? When you travel you may or may not have a GPS in your rental car. Yea you could take your portable one with you but what if you don't have a rental car and are just walking? What if you are riding with someone that doesn't have a GPS?
Again it is always in my pocket. It is the same reason that I have web browser on my phone and a media player.
It is always with me and it is small and light.
Space Elevators are not simple to build!
I never saw that one coming!
"All else being equal, you would choose the locations that already had the best infrastructure, so you as a business wouldn't have to build it from scratch."
Yes but that is just it. In the US broadband is available in every major city and most suburbs. It is even available in many small towns and rural areas. Will those areas attract more jobs? I think so. Just like areas with good schools, Universities, roads, and airports do better than places that don't.
Should smaller towns and rural areas invest in broadband? I think that would be very wise. There are some very nice places to live in the US that have very cheap housing. The problem is they lack jobs. People are leaving and schools are closing.
The problem is that they don't have the money to put in the infrastructure and they don't have the customers to make it worth while.
I could see a nice small town in Iowa spending millions of dollars to put in fiber and then have nobody use it.
It is a problem but not what I would consider a crisis.
1. The NSA wouldn't announce that they are trying to make Linux more secure and then slip in back doors. Heck they submit there patches for all the world to see. If they tried it the finger would point right back at them. And don't you think that everybody and their dog will look at the NSA patches just to check them for such a stupid move?
2. If the NSA wanted to pull something like that they would simply create a person and start adding code that ISN"T under their name!
Hate to tell you but this Internet thingy you are using was created in large part by the government spooks that you fear so much.
According to what I have read 79% of phone users have access to Broadband. In the US that is almost 100% of the population. That penetration number I believe is for how many internet users actually use broadband. I would say that a very large number of people in the US are opting out of broadband.
I do work at a software firm with a customer base of well over 15,000. It is a small but significant sample.
Here are some more hard numbers
"79 percent of those with a home phone (which is nearly everyone in the US, thanks to the Universal Service Fund) could get DSL. In addition, 96 percent of all households who can get a cable signal can purchase Internet access through their cable provider".
That puts the number of homes in the US that can not get broadband at less than $21% Since I am sure that there is at least one home that can get a cable modem that can not get DSL.
Could it be better? Yes it could. Is it a national crisis? Not really.
The vast majority of people that don't have broadband don't have broadband because they don't want it and not because they can not get it.
Well except I don't know a single person that can not get broadband.
I have a good friend that lives in the middle of no where Idaho. Somewhere near a town called Rupert... He has broadband.
My father in a cabin in mountains of Northern GA. He has broadband there. I think that if you take a look at the percentage of people and the actual number of people in the US that have Broadband available you will see that it is a pretty big number.
I have a cable modem at home. Most of the time I can not saturate that link when I am downloading an ISO so I don't think that FIOS would be much of an advantage since most of the time I am limited by the server speed more than my connection. Would I like a super fast and cheap broadband connection? Well yes I would. Do I need it it? Not really. It would be great if my office could get a fast two way connection that was cheap but for home not so much.
The problem with broadband in the US is most people do have access to it but a lot of them don't see the need for the extra cost over dial up. The economics of broadband vs dial up is much different in the US than other countries. In most EU contries you pay by them minute even for local calls. In the US local calls are part of your flat rate bill. So in those countries it is actually cheaper for everybody to get broadband even if they just use it for email and surfing than it is for people in the US.
I deal with about 15,000 users. They are everywhere from North Dakota to Alaska. I don't know of a single one that can not get broadband.
Can it be better? Yes it can. Is it a national crisis? I just don't think so. Do I want my FIOS? Yes I do.
I looked at that search. I didn't fine any that linked to the actual data. Notice that my link was to the study and was hosted by Harvard.
I just don't buy the number of defensive gun uses. If you read even the links given it will say that a very high percentage didn't involve the gun being fired and a huge percentage where not reported to the police. Okay where did they get that data from? Second if the defensive use of the gun didn't involve a gun shot or a police report what where those uses? Someone heard something and felt better because they had a gun? Someone drove through a bad area of town and felt better because they had a gun?
You are saying that CDC claims between 30 and 40 thousand gun deaths a year. Are you saying that gun owners prevented over 830,000 shootings a year?
That just doesn't make any sense.
"Sure, criminal gun owners are more likely to go down in a gunfight. However, law-abiding gun owners are less likely."
You see that is such a great way to stack the odds.
Suicide is illegal so you don't have to count those. Not securing your gun is illegal in many places so you don't have to count those. Someone that losses their temper and shoots their wife they have broken the law.
I am not for outlawing guns. But they are dangerous. For most people do not make you or your family safer. My brother in law is a SWAT sniper and my brother owns some guns. I do not.
"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/index.html"
I am afraid that the it really does hold water.
If you take every accident, suicide, and domestic shooting and then compare them to the number of times that having a gun has prevented a death and or injury you will find that gun ownership is more likely to cause a death or injury than not owning a gun.
Buy restricting it to just law-abiding citizens well you are stacking the deck big time. How about restricting it to people that legally own guns.
As I said those are statistics so yes it is not mandatory that they apply to the individual.
"The safest thing a gun-carrying father of a 6 year old can do is thus to make it absolutely sure said gun isn't something new and strange."
No the safest thing is to not carry a gun. Gun owners are far more likely to die from a gun shot than none gun owners. That is a statistical fact. Of course that may or may not apply to the individual.
If you must own a gun then yes I think teaching your child gun safety is a positive thing. But even if you do teach your child gun safety locking the guns in a gun safe is STILL a very very very good idea. Even if your child is the most responsible person in the world that doesn't mean his friends will be.
As for shielding your children? I am actually all for it. I think too many parents spend to much time pushing children into the adult world and or not enough time protecting their childhood. I think it would be great if every child thought that they lived in a safe comfortable world where they would be protected and nurtured.
Now when we are talking about adolecnets and teens... Yea all too often they are being given all the "rights" of adults with out the responsibilities.
Dude chemtrails? You are so clueless. The US government has nothing to do with Chemtrails. At least not the US government you know about.
Everybody knows that the Aerospace industry, Oil companies, and by extension the Airlines are controlled by the Masons. They are the ones that from the Shadow government with the Greys that are doing the Chemtrail tests. And yes Cleveland is a major target of the tests. Why else do you think they put the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame there!
Please get your facts right and stop just making stuff up.
Oh come on there is no proof that nitrogen is needed complex life. Just because every known life form on earth needs doesn't mean that it is required.
BTW yes I am just kidding.
Thanks for your post. I loved science but never really got into biology. Probably because the required biology classes in high school and college where mainly what I called "gross plumbing" classes.
I did like Chemistry so I have to admit that I get a chuckle out of it when people make a statment like. "Maybe life could just use something to replace nitrogen."
It maybe possible but the first biologist that finds a form of life that does it will make it to the history books.