What evils the government can get away with is in every way dependent on the public's acquiescence. A public that enjoys the spectacle of stomping on the disloyal is one that has no problem with the government abusing its authority.
You gotta love the freeper mentality: "You believe that the government in the continental US is as degenerate and unaccountable as our military in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay? You're paranoid!"
Look at history: COINTELPRO, agents provocateurs, enemies lists, McCarthyism.
Six years ago a radio station had children stomping on and setting fire to Dixie Chicks albums because they were ashamed of the president, unwittingly reenacting one of the funniest scenes from Starship Troopers. Who knew how far it would go? Who knew how stupid and paranoid the government would become? If the citizenry was any indication, very. After 9/11, our country was on the short bus to crazytown.
If local providers of Internet service didn't have their own content they were pushing, there would be no issues with net neutrality.
What a load of bollocks.
The primary threat is the telcom's stated intention of demanding kickbacks from successful companies in order to remain successful. It is selective price discrimination as protection money: "That sure is a popular website you got there. It'd be a shame if something 'happened' to it."
What you're describing is only possible after they've already turned the Internet into a delivery channel for cable boxes.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Your job isn't to tell developers how to do their jobs. Your job is to tell them what goal needs to be accomplished or what problem needs to be solved, and then get the hell out of the way. Your contribution is to remove impediments to the work, not direct it. When you direct it, you are an impediment.
Then build and launch some actual rockets. Nothing beats hands-on experience.
They've already seen men walking on the moon, Mars won't be any more inspiring. The video game generation is just as easily impressed with high technology and telepresence. The military knows this, their recruiting campaigns are focusing on it.
If you want to realize the dreams of science fiction, we need a lot more engineers than aerospace.
Me, I'd just assume wait for the so-called singularity. I'll never see space, and the only way my descendants will is to make them much lighter (ie. intelligent machines), or have an energy output so large that we are essentially living in a post-scarcity economy.
Why? Do you honestly think Apple would catch something like this? They didn't the first time, and it was their own applications! The vetting process is not QA.
The problem is the disconnect between "roaming" and "network access". Roaming is not a technical issue. Roaming is not a security issue. It is an arbitrary external billing issue. The sandbox probably should enforce it, but I'm not surprised it is merely a suggestion. As far as I know, none of the other platforms include it in their set of capabilities.
You seem to believe students need their hands held. At better schools, higher level classes focus on theory and give you leeway on the languages and tools use to implement projects. The vendor technology you learn is your own prerogative.
Except that it is vocational training. Otherwise, what is the point?
I once worked at a place where the proficiency test was a Visual Studio project where the applicant had to implement code and debug existing code. None of us were fond of Microsoft, and much of our work was on embedded hardware not running WinCE. But if they couldn't handle that simple debugger, they'd be SOL on anything and everything more esoteric.
At this point in time, I'd expect every graduate who wants to be marketable to have some familiarity with C++, POSIX, Win32 and.NET, Java, Cocoa and Objective C, and SQL. Specialization for the young is foolish, like an evolutionary dead end. It limits your options and constrains your thinking.
Music is the single largest, most common thing a person can download. A full album is typically around a 100 MB. And it isn't just saturating the network that scares them, it is the customer experience. It gives the non-technical person a benchmark of just how slow 3G really is compared landline technologies. It is the most embarrassing point of failure after dropped calls, especially because the customer has money on the line. Few people make angry support calls when a YouTube video doesn't load.
The iPhone and the G1 don't have other music stores on them. T-Mobile doesn't even have a music store in the US. The carriers aren't hiding the fact that you can use Amazon and iTunes, they're advertising it! If it was a grand conspiracy, why would they let you browse music over their networks?
The game has changed, and third party content and applications are where its at. That is the whole point of this article's speculation. AT&T knows all phones will be smartphones, and they need a strategy to keep their branded phones relevant lest they end up selling nothing but the iPhone. They're losing control and they know it.
Even the magical GoogleOSPhone has arbitrary limitations, such as you can't download music to the phone over the 3G network, not because of bandwidth concerns, but solely to protect the carriers revenue stream for their existing overpriced music store that they force their customers with other handsets to use.
LOL, don't be a 'tard. Not everything is a conspiracy.
T-Mobile and AT&T have been the carriers most amenable to uncrippled smartphones. That's not going to change, especially now.
That's funny, I was baiting him for the odd spellings, and I didn't even notice his use of the shibboleth "journo". Maybe I should cut him some slack, as the land of the Sun and the Daily Mail has a lower standard of journalism than here, but then again, if Green Street Hooligans is accurate, the quality of person wharrgarbl'ing about it is too.
In web applications the generated HTML is the view. The template code and javascript are the controller. The model is anything and everything providing input to the template.
Just because something is painful or stupid doesn't make it any less MVC.
(What would break his precious pattern definition is putting data-mutating logic in the template, like every php application ever written. Which I guess is the only real value of MVC - it's a simple rule of thumb to prevent noobs from hurting themselves.)
How people with Down's Syndrome would respond "yes" to the question "Do you wish you born normal, like everyone else?"
How could they say that, when having that genetic defect made them who they are? To answer that question in the affirmative is to admit that they would unmake their entire lives, to never to have existed at all.
The false dichotomy is in the minds of the people who equate that reasoning with suicide, and who believe that aborting a Down's fetus is equivalent to executing a living, breathing child in the name of "eugenics".
(And wow, you make a religion out of evolution. Consider this: evolution only works by natural selection, natural selection works through the failure and death of living things. The entirety of life is an engine of suffering whose only purpose is to ensure that some sequences of molecules replicate at the expense of others. Taking control of that process, ensuring that none of Nature's "mistakes" ever suffer for their inadequacy, is a moral imperative.)
You don't like hearing the stark truth, so you call me a troll.
I've probably thought about this issue far more than the knee-jerkers responding to me. I was born with enough complications that I'd have been dead half a century earlier. I still marvel that not only did I survive, I did so with high intelligence and good physical health. I am my abilities, and if I were destined to be without them, I'd rather my parents had thrown that four pound runt into the dumpster.
How many of you are willing to live deformed, retarded, and destined for a premature death? Would you trade your lives to give one of these children a normal life? Would you sacrifice the resources spent on you and your children to care for someone else's burden, only because they believe fetuses have souls and killing them is murder?
To hell with them. No child should be born to suffer, to be anything less than fully human.
There's already a treatment guaranteed to prevent the expression of these symptoms: abortion.
Oh, I know the every sperm is sacred types will whine about this, but consider the desires of the child. Wouldn't you prefer never to have existed if you knew you would be subjected to mental retardation, health complications, and a short lifespan?
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What evils the government can get away with is in every way dependent on the public's acquiescence. A public that enjoys the spectacle of stomping on the disloyal is one that has no problem with the government abusing its authority.
You gotta love the freeper mentality: "You believe that the government in the continental US is as degenerate and unaccountable as our military in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay? You're paranoid!"
Look at history: COINTELPRO, agents provocateurs, enemies lists, McCarthyism.
Six years ago a radio station had children stomping on and setting fire to Dixie Chicks albums because they were ashamed of the president, unwittingly reenacting one of the funniest scenes from Starship Troopers. Who knew how far it would go? Who knew how stupid and paranoid the government would become? If the citizenry was any indication, very. After 9/11, our country was on the short bus to crazytown.
If local providers of Internet service didn't have their own content they were pushing, there would be no issues with net neutrality.
What a load of bollocks.
The primary threat is the telcom's stated intention of demanding kickbacks from successful companies in order to remain successful. It is selective price discrimination as protection money: "That sure is a popular website you got there. It'd be a shame if something 'happened' to it."
What you're describing is only possible after they've already turned the Internet into a delivery channel for cable boxes.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Your job isn't to tell developers how to do their jobs. Your job is to tell them what goal needs to be accomplished or what problem needs to be solved, and then get the hell out of the way. Your contribution is to remove impediments to the work, not direct it. When you direct it, you are an impediment.
Then build and launch some actual rockets. Nothing beats hands-on experience.
They've already seen men walking on the moon, Mars won't be any more inspiring. The video game generation is just as easily impressed with high technology and telepresence. The military knows this, their recruiting campaigns are focusing on it.
If you want to realize the dreams of science fiction, we need a lot more engineers than aerospace.
Me, I'd just assume wait for the so-called singularity. I'll never see space, and the only way my descendants will is to make them much lighter (ie. intelligent machines), or have an energy output so large that we are essentially living in a post-scarcity economy.
Why? Do you honestly think Apple would catch something like this? They didn't the first time, and it was their own applications! The vetting process is not QA.
The problem is the disconnect between "roaming" and "network access". Roaming is not a technical issue. Roaming is not a security issue. It is an arbitrary external billing issue. The sandbox probably should enforce it, but I'm not surprised it is merely a suggestion. As far as I know, none of the other platforms include it in their set of capabilities.
How "free" is your iPhone?
If the moon were real, it would have been created by God. Clearly a large ball of rock is the sign of an intelligent Creator, if it were there.
You seem to believe students need their hands held. At better schools, higher level classes focus on theory and give you leeway on the languages and tools use to implement projects. The vendor technology you learn is your own prerogative.
Except that it is vocational training. Otherwise, what is the point?
I once worked at a place where the proficiency test was a Visual Studio project where the applicant had to implement code and debug existing code. None of us were fond of Microsoft, and much of our work was on embedded hardware not running WinCE. But if they couldn't handle that simple debugger, they'd be SOL on anything and everything more esoteric.
At this point in time, I'd expect every graduate who wants to be marketable to have some familiarity with C++, POSIX, Win32 and .NET, Java, Cocoa and Objective C, and SQL. Specialization for the young is foolish, like an evolutionary dead end. It limits your options and constrains your thinking.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686558.aspx
Music is the single largest, most common thing a person can download. A full album is typically around a 100 MB. And it isn't just saturating the network that scares them, it is the customer experience. It gives the non-technical person a benchmark of just how slow 3G really is compared landline technologies. It is the most embarrassing point of failure after dropped calls, especially because the customer has money on the line. Few people make angry support calls when a YouTube video doesn't load.
The iPhone and the G1 don't have other music stores on them. T-Mobile doesn't even have a music store in the US. The carriers aren't hiding the fact that you can use Amazon and iTunes, they're advertising it! If it was a grand conspiracy, why would they let you browse music over their networks?
The game has changed, and third party content and applications are where its at. That is the whole point of this article's speculation. AT&T knows all phones will be smartphones, and they need a strategy to keep their branded phones relevant lest they end up selling nothing but the iPhone. They're losing control and they know it.
Even the magical GoogleOSPhone has arbitrary limitations, such as you can't download music to the phone over the 3G network, not because of bandwidth concerns, but solely to protect the carriers revenue stream for their existing overpriced music store that they force their customers with other handsets to use.
LOL, don't be a 'tard. Not everything is a conspiracy.
T-Mobile and AT&T have been the carriers most amenable to uncrippled smartphones. That's not going to change, especially now.
That's funny, I was baiting him for the odd spellings, and I didn't even notice his use of the shibboleth "journo". Maybe I should cut him some slack, as the land of the Sun and the Daily Mail has a lower standard of journalism than here, but then again, if Green Street Hooligans is accurate, the quality of person wharrgarbl'ing about it is too.
However in real-life, most journalists write sensationalised [sic], shrill, bloat that is verging on the libellous [sic]
Someone is jealous of all that book learnin'.
In web applications the generated HTML is the view. The template code and javascript are the controller. The model is anything and everything providing input to the template.
Just because something is painful or stupid doesn't make it any less MVC.
(What would break his precious pattern definition is putting data-mutating logic in the template, like every php application ever written. Which I guess is the only real value of MVC - it's a simple rule of thumb to prevent noobs from hurting themselves.)
You might want to Google 'supply and demand'
You might want to google "commodity market" and read a website with more pictures.
Yeah...Walmart has it all WRONG.
LOL. You're so precious. Don't ever change.
Why would anyone want to drive down the prices of the product they sell? I'm pretty sure you failed Econ 101.
How people with Down's Syndrome would respond "yes" to the question "Do you wish you born normal, like everyone else?"
How could they say that, when having that genetic defect made them who they are? To answer that question in the affirmative is to admit that they would unmake their entire lives, to never to have existed at all.
The false dichotomy is in the minds of the people who equate that reasoning with suicide, and who believe that aborting a Down's fetus is equivalent to executing a living, breathing child in the name of "eugenics".
(And wow, you make a religion out of evolution. Consider this: evolution only works by natural selection, natural selection works through the failure and death of living things. The entirety of life is an engine of suffering whose only purpose is to ensure that some sequences of molecules replicate at the expense of others. Taking control of that process, ensuring that none of Nature's "mistakes" ever suffer for their inadequacy, is a moral imperative.)
You don't like hearing the stark truth, so you call me a troll.
I've probably thought about this issue far more than the knee-jerkers responding to me. I was born with enough complications that I'd have been dead half a century earlier. I still marvel that not only did I survive, I did so with high intelligence and good physical health. I am my abilities, and if I were destined to be without them, I'd rather my parents had thrown that four pound runt into the dumpster.
How many of you are willing to live deformed, retarded, and destined for a premature death? Would you trade your lives to give one of these children a normal life? Would you sacrifice the resources spent on you and your children to care for someone else's burden, only because they believe fetuses have souls and killing them is murder?
To hell with them. No child should be born to suffer, to be anything less than fully human.
Then perhaps the solution for a perfectly happy society is to lobotimize ourselves, become completely dependent on our caregivers, and die at thirty.
Wait, isn't that Logan's Run?
There's already a treatment guaranteed to prevent the expression of these symptoms: abortion.
Oh, I know the every sperm is sacred types will whine about this, but consider the desires of the child. Wouldn't you prefer never to have existed if you knew you would be subjected to mental retardation, health complications, and a short lifespan?
If the book has a flaw, it is in promulgating the idea that intellectual elites are to be found in academic cloisters.
Then where are they hiding?