Its OK to hate a language when your vendor Datatel tells you need Java and Silverlight to make their new UI 4.x work...
Its OK to hate a language when you've had to work with SAP/CRM which only 2 years ago REQUIRED IE6 because it used Javascript, Active X and Java - I used to call their client the unholy trinity.
When you realize that one of the reasons MS does things is simply simply because they want to usurp Java or Flash - thats evil.
I think the argument is the US is things are shitty here for no real good reason other than to line the pockets of the super rich. The notion that no matter how hard you work you'll still be living in a small one room apartment is a hard pill for me to swallow, but then I've resigned myself to the fact that unless I make twice as much as I do now I won't be moving me and family into a house of my own anytime soon.
Also - I have health care and about thousand dollars of bills to sort out right now (stuff they won't pay for) - so we really don't have access to medicine. I really do sit here and wonder what my employer pays them 1200$ a month for when they never pay out consistently.
Also if you compare social inequality with standards of living in Europe - they are doing much better in terms of wages (Europeans work less hours for the same or greater pay and get better vacation benefits), health care (they pay less for it, and get better results across the board) one really does have to wonder why we have to put up with what we do - especially when we might not have to.
Interesting what sparked that revolution - the West Germans were broadcasting into East Germany. Many Germans had build Seacam > PAL converters and were watching on TV all the fun they were missing. People were hungry, cold and they were seeing on TV that not less than a mile away people weren't.
My Gran took a trip past Checkpoint Charlie in the 60's - the photo's she took look like the war ended yesterday (debris in the road, bullet holes in the walls, bombed out/burned out buildings etc) - and on TV they weren't seeing any of that in the west because they rebuilt all of it.
One thing people don't realize often that the government only stands on the peoples mandate. When that fails - government is vulnerable. Rimmer in Red Dwarf episode "Marooned" really said it best - people are 3 meals away from total societal collapse (I'm paraphrasing here - I can't remember the exact quote). When your unemployed, hungry and have nothing else to do - you might as well destroy the status quo.
A lot of this has to do with the legal definition of what makes profit and non-profit. You won't find Harvard being publicly traded on the NYSE for instance, but you can trade in DeVry stocks (NYSE: DV).
Nonprofits don't share their surplus profits with share holders.
First machine I ever ran Linux on was a 386 with 4 megs of ram - and it worked just fine (Ygdrassil kernel 1.2.8 as I recall)
I remember installing it onto a Dell Optiplex P90 with 8 megs of ram and thinking life couldn't get much better. You could compile the kernel in minutes:).
There might be more - but in both these situations here are applications doing something that Apple didn't know they were doing and they were screened applications.
The thing is - the free market takes care of you in situations like this. Those apps - I'm sure had 1 or 2 stars and market reviews along the lines of "malware" - plus the reviews I'm sure were not all that great either "Japanese screaming sexy girls" may have been popular, but its hard to mistake for anything serious like a SSH tool.
I know the CNN article said they were popular apps, but they never showed up on the marketplace home page and I've never heard of them (I've been using Android since the G1).
Also I should mention - even Apple has been a victim of malware. They themselves were shocked to notice that a company had been collecting information on internal iOS builds - they then changed the rules about what kinds of metrics apps could collect on the phone. There was that screensaver that made it onto the app store that was also a teathering tool. Apple isn't infallible when it comes to app use or claims.
Almost every major software firm I've worked at has at least some computer scientists doing research. When I worked at Adobe for instance - they had quite a few.
Google is actually better at storing email for me than my PC's hard drive - even with this failure. At least with Google they'll have the restore process going right now (I assume).
And we've all been in that situation where we've had to move pc's and move our entire inboxes. Cloud email certainly makes that easier;).
As someone who watched a lot of episodes - towards the end I really got the impression they were running out of old 60's and 70's movies to license and riff. A good chunk of the movies they went after during that time period were student/low budget film projects like Soultaker, Merlin and Future War - which were all painful to watch no matter how much riffing was going on.
Having actually done economics classes I can't imagine why a currency based on Italian cars would be so great. I would assume there was more supply of them in places like Italy, and less supply in places like the United States - which would be an immediate currency imbalance - never mind trade imbalance - unless they open more Fiat dealerships stateside, but even then - I suspect there will still be more Fiat's sold and drive in Europe - especially Italy.
Of course it was that mistake that IBM made (and Apple with the Apple II) that is why we all use what used to be called pc compatible computers today. It wasn't Intel that benefited from that mistake, it was Microsoft itself.
Kind of - Intel also had all the support chips ready to go with their CPU's as well. IBM could literally buy everything they needed and build a computer without a whole lot of engineering work - something Motorola really didn't have.
My Droid X has been in my pocket for the last year or so - been dropped 3-4 times and there's still nothing wrong with it (not a scratch on the glass). Smart phones are a lot more durable than you think. They are durable enough that use them in the battlefield...
Its kinda funny isn't it? I have to give my undying loyalty to the company, but then they will turn around and fire my ass as soon as things get tough - sometimes with very little notice.
Like when you write a contract to outsource your email service to google. Microsoft really really really wants our business and they had people come out onsite to write up a proposal. Google is like meh - we have the best cloud software - you'll use us eventually (and we probably will oddly enough). I was just surprised how much more eager MS was to fix the contract so we could do business with them legally, where as with google it took a lawyer from our organization to get them to alter the contract here and there - and even then the deal still seems like its a long way off.
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Its OK to hate a language when your vendor Datatel tells you need Java and Silverlight to make their new UI 4.x work...
Its OK to hate a language when you've had to work with SAP/CRM which only 2 years ago REQUIRED IE6 because it used Javascript, Active X and Java - I used to call their client the unholy trinity.
When you realize that one of the reasons MS does things is simply simply because they want to usurp Java or Flash - thats evil.
I think the argument is the US is things are shitty here for no real good reason other than to line the pockets of the super rich. The notion that no matter how hard you work you'll still be living in a small one room apartment is a hard pill for me to swallow, but then I've resigned myself to the fact that unless I make twice as much as I do now I won't be moving me and family into a house of my own anytime soon.
Also - I have health care and about thousand dollars of bills to sort out right now (stuff they won't pay for) - so we really don't have access to medicine. I really do sit here and wonder what my employer pays them 1200$ a month for when they never pay out consistently.
Also if you compare social inequality with standards of living in Europe - they are doing much better in terms of wages (Europeans work less hours for the same or greater pay and get better vacation benefits), health care (they pay less for it, and get better results across the board) one really does have to wonder why we have to put up with what we do - especially when we might not have to.
Interesting what sparked that revolution - the West Germans were broadcasting into East Germany. Many Germans had build Seacam > PAL converters and were watching on TV all the fun they were missing. People were hungry, cold and they were seeing on TV that not less than a mile away people weren't.
My Gran took a trip past Checkpoint Charlie in the 60's - the photo's she took look like the war ended yesterday (debris in the road, bullet holes in the walls, bombed out/burned out buildings etc) - and on TV they weren't seeing any of that in the west because they rebuilt all of it.
One thing people don't realize often that the government only stands on the peoples mandate. When that fails - government is vulnerable. Rimmer in Red Dwarf episode "Marooned" really said it best - people are 3 meals away from total societal collapse (I'm paraphrasing here - I can't remember the exact quote). When your unemployed, hungry and have nothing else to do - you might as well destroy the status quo.
Well I already do everything my phone tells me to do (thank you google) - why shouldn't we extend this?
A lot of this has to do with the legal definition of what makes profit and non-profit. You won't find Harvard being publicly traded on the NYSE for instance, but you can trade in DeVry stocks (NYSE: DV).
Nonprofits don't share their surplus profits with share holders.
First machine I ever ran Linux on was a 386 with 4 megs of ram - and it worked just fine (Ygdrassil kernel 1.2.8 as I recall)
I remember installing it onto a Dell Optiplex P90 with 8 megs of ram and thinking life couldn't get much better. You could compile the kernel in minutes :).
You mean they will be fragmented?
(sorry couldn't resist)
You can kill an app sure, but if these apps have rooted the phone - they could allow more stuff in :).
Apple has let things slip through. Here's some examples:
http://www.macworld.com/article/152835/2010/07/iphone_flashlight_tethering.html > app allows tethering as a hidden feature to being a flashlight tool.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/02/flurry_modifies_data_collection_after_being_called_out_by_steve_jobs.html > Apple themselves being surprised that Flurry was collecting info on prototype versions of iOS...
There might be more - but in both these situations here are applications doing something that Apple didn't know they were doing and they were screened applications.
The thing is - the free market takes care of you in situations like this. Those apps - I'm sure had 1 or 2 stars and market reviews along the lines of "malware" - plus the reviews I'm sure were not all that great either "Japanese screaming sexy girls" may have been popular, but its hard to mistake for anything serious like a SSH tool.
I know the CNN article said they were popular apps, but they never showed up on the marketplace home page and I've never heard of them (I've been using Android since the G1).
Also I should mention - even Apple has been a victim of malware. They themselves were shocked to notice that a company had been collecting information on internal iOS builds - they then changed the rules about what kinds of metrics apps could collect on the phone. There was that screensaver that made it onto the app store that was also a teathering tool. Apple isn't infallible when it comes to app use or claims.
Google really does have our back on this one ;).
Almost every major software firm I've worked at has at least some computer scientists doing research. When I worked at Adobe for instance - they had quite a few.
Google is actually better at storing email for me than my PC's hard drive - even with this failure. At least with Google they'll have the restore process going right now (I assume).
And we've all been in that situation where we've had to move pc's and move our entire inboxes. Cloud email certainly makes that easier ;).
As someone who watched a lot of episodes - towards the end I really got the impression they were running out of old 60's and 70's movies to license and riff. A good chunk of the movies they went after during that time period were student/low budget film projects like Soultaker, Merlin and Future War - which were all painful to watch no matter how much riffing was going on.
That's why fiat currency is so great
Having actually done economics classes I can't imagine why a currency based on Italian cars would be so great. I would assume there was more supply of them in places like Italy, and less supply in places like the United States - which would be an immediate currency imbalance - never mind trade imbalance - unless they open more Fiat dealerships stateside, but even then - I suspect there will still be more Fiat's sold and drive in Europe - especially Italy.
Of course it was that mistake that IBM made (and Apple with the Apple II) that is why we all use what used to be called pc compatible computers today. It wasn't Intel that benefited from that mistake, it was Microsoft itself.
Kind of - Intel also had all the support chips ready to go with their CPU's as well. IBM could literally buy everything they needed and build a computer without a whole lot of engineering work - something Motorola really didn't have.
Same for the Android marketplace - they do a credit background check on all publishers.
Oh wait - this is a Chinese app store and I doubt many of the submitters even have credit...
Same for the Android marketplace - they do a credit background check on all publishers.
Oh wait - this is a Chinese app store and I doubt many of the submitters even have credit.
Most churches will simply let you walk away if you like - not the CoS...
The N97 is the reason I'd never ever ever ever ever (ever?) buy another Nokia phone ever again - and I had a lot of Nokia phones up until that point.
My Droid X has been in my pocket for the last year or so - been dropped 3-4 times and there's still nothing wrong with it (not a scratch on the glass). Smart phones are a lot more durable than you think. They are durable enough that use them in the battlefield...
Still better than anything netgear makes ;).
Its kinda funny isn't it? I have to give my undying loyalty to the company, but then they will turn around and fire my ass as soon as things get tough - sometimes with very little notice.
What is crazy?
Like when you write a contract to outsource your email service to google. Microsoft really really really wants our business and they had people come out onsite to write up a proposal. Google is like meh - we have the best cloud software - you'll use us eventually (and we probably will oddly enough). I was just surprised how much more eager MS was to fix the contract so we could do business with them legally, where as with google it took a lawyer from our organization to get them to alter the contract here and there - and even then the deal still seems like its a long way off.
I have a friend who managed to get his rooted eris banned - simply because they claimed it was rooted (it was).
Read the reviews for the display out on amazon - decent way to spent an afternoon.
Basically it only works with Apple's photo viewer... (its probably changed since then).