One advantage with top-down planning is that you could simply have a rule that companies have to share lines - which is what they are trying for here.
We don't need more local control over telco's - can you imagine the management nightmare that would create? One rule in this city, one rule in that city etc etc - it would end up costing more money. If we had federally enforced standards over what telco's had to do there would be consistency and it would be cheaper/easier to implement.
I worked for a small computer shop in high school (give you a vintage - Pentium 90 was bleeding edge and like a 1500$ chip). We got a machine that had failed because a cat used it for a litter box. We refused to work on it, and it smelled awful.
We used to charge extra to work on machines at a local bottling plant - the insides were caked with syrup.
I dunno - I think Apple was ok in doing this because they determined the machine was being abused outside its normal operating parameters. If you used the machine for a litterbox, or used it outdoors in the rain and the damp weather - both of which may lead to environmentally caused points of failure - I think that is abusing the warranty.
A lot of these apps are pretty useless though - there are apps where you push a guy and he farts around the screen, another app that simulates drinking water so you can play around with the accelerometer.
Anyhow I think that's what the parent is talking about - finding useful apps in a sea of virtual water and fart noise apps seems counter productive.
Well its a Nokia N97. I had a student come by who had an iPhone and was getting the exact same results in this building (no signal at all). Pretty sure its not the phone.
I dunno - call me old fashioned - I don't think AT&T should have dead zones in the middle of a city (like Seattle) or other cities. I don't live there anymore, but I do live in another city where they claim solid blue (3g) coverage for the entire city - no dead spots wherever. Its an outright lie, and my phone gets zero bars in my office (no calls, no data what-so-ever) while all my friends who have verizon phones seem to never have dead spots in the same building or around town.
Interestingly - when I went back to Seattle for a convention my phone missed 3 calls on AT&T because of lack of coverage - where was I? In the Seattle Convention center in the middle of town - c'mon...
Verizon's EVDO CDMA '3G' network is much slower than the HSDPA GSM '3G' that ATT has.
As an AT&T customer who waits like 10 minutes for text based web pages to appear in edge mode in a supposedly 3g covered area there is NO WAY THIS IS TRUE!
I love how the Apple ads droned on about how it was the real internet and not a kind of internet. In my experience the iPhone's built in browser supports less features of the internet than any other mobile platform (Flash, JS, SSL etc) - all of which work on my S60r5 device (who's browser is based on KHTML).
The problem is ReactOS doesn't actually meet all the customer requirements like Windows does. Having worked in development one of the biggest problems you'll ever face with a really popular application is I think 3 fold. Putting features in that sales wants (or thinks they want) so they can market the product, putting features in the product that enterprises and end users want and finally after all that making sure said product still meets user requirements - which may entail features from the current shipping products and stuff shipped before that. After all that - your project can get quite big. If you strip windows down to what reactos supports you'd probably find its about the same footprint.
From what I've seen - a good chunk of Windows is there for legacy purposes. The whole application compatibility toolkit/shim system for example, the WOW layer (windows on windows).
Speaking of shims - you can see how seriously Microsoft took compatibility in Vista/Windows 7 - there are shims in there for Acrobat 3 (or Acrobat 4 - I can't remember really) - a product that hasn't shipped in 13 years.
Seriously - every software company I've ever worked at (3 so far - and one of them was big enough that every one of you has heard of them) every single exploit we ever found was reviewed - often by multiple people.
Who would have thought the human factor would play such a large role in software development?
I work in IT and belong to a union;). So far its been pretty good for my career as I've been allowed to apply internally for all positions opened before they go to the public.
Why alt-f-s when command-s will do? While most Windows users will actually click on file->save to save their document, very few Mac users I've seen bother with clicking on the menus for most common tasks; it's all done with the keyboard.
Windows apps conventionally use ctrl+s to save, ctrl+p to print etc. Also like the mac ctrl+xvc (cut, copy and paste) is the same.
Makes me wonder though if Apple would have had a task bar if it wasn't for Windows 95 - the first OS I ever saw that concept.
The taskbar rocked - so much so that KDE and Gnome have identical replica's of it to this day. Hard to imagine before that - on the Mac (with multifinder) you had to click that menu in the top right of the screen.
So Anita Dun saying that Mao is one of her favorite philosophers makes her a communist? Does that make you a communist? Either way its hardly outrageous.
One of the countries biggest economies (California and New York) and consequently represent a good chunk of the nations gdp receive less money than many red states.
They do - I run several labs at a community college, and for some reason students want to print everything they get their hands on. Anyhow I saw some A&P slides in the recycle bin with a publisher trademark on them.
This whole story is nothing about his claims - its about making fun of his tactic where he'll say something like "well if your not a terrorist then prove it!". Think about that for a minute - the person he asked that too was convicted of less crimes than George W. Bush - other than saying - "well I've never done anything seriously wrong in my life". Its very much akin to the question "so - have you stopped beating your wife yet?". If I asked that same question of you - how would you answer? You can't - and that's why Glen is an idiot. Please explain this > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFkpEduQJZo - seriously please do.
Its similar to when the convservatives tried to take down Bill Moyer by saying he's not patriotic because he doesn't wear an American flag on his lapel. Totally insane. I love my mother, but I don't wear her picture on my shirt everyday - does that mean I don't love her?
I've never seen anyone on the mainstream left make outrageous claims like these guys do - and they are in the mainstream media!
On Rush Limbaugh and racism - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTdGIduruGs - the quote isn't out of context (he's basically saying Jews and Muslims are dumb because they don't win as many nobel prizes). Please explain again... There are literally hundreds of racist comments on youtube recorded by listeners from Rush. The NFL was concerned enough that they wouldn't let him bid on Rams because of it.
I've taken my Nokia N97 all over the US and Canada and never been without an edge connection - at least as far as AT&T coverage goes (which goes without saying - complete abysmal).
I'm that sad girl. The building I work in (while covered by AT&T's map in solid dark blue) I get zero bars, but Verizon customers all around me are using their apps just fine - WTF.
Whats awful is if you have an AT&T phone and its in edge mode all the time (even though their map covers where I live) - no the smart phones don't work so well on edge. Dropped packets, slow performance - makes for a crappy experience.
If Verizon supported GSM phones I would have switched ages ago - and I might do so if their Droid isn't a complete pile.
Well having worked for Adobe - specifically on Acrobat - anything post Acrobat 6 (first Windows 2000 logo certified app) was just fine. That came out 8 years ago?
My point being - vendors have had quite a bit of time to get their programming standards in line.
It's really not even that difficult to figure out. Nine times out of ten, the program either wants to write to HKLM\Software\$appname or wants to write to two or three configuration or log files in %programfiles%\$appname.
Anything with Windows 2000 logo certification shouldn't have this issue - reason being - Microsoft's programming rules forbid logo certified apps to do the things you mentioned above.
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One advantage with top-down planning is that you could simply have a rule that companies have to share lines - which is what they are trying for here.
We don't need more local control over telco's - can you imagine the management nightmare that would create? One rule in this city, one rule in that city etc etc - it would end up costing more money. If we had federally enforced standards over what telco's had to do there would be consistency and it would be cheaper/easier to implement.
Also on a side note - I love how conservatives are against welfare for all people, but some of the best examples of welfare have come from the most famous conservatives.
Its like sending an encoded message that itself is an encoded message ;).
I worked for a small computer shop in high school (give you a vintage - Pentium 90 was bleeding edge and like a 1500$ chip). We got a machine that had failed because a cat used it for a litter box. We refused to work on it, and it smelled awful.
We used to charge extra to work on machines at a local bottling plant - the insides were caked with syrup.
I dunno - I think Apple was ok in doing this because they determined the machine was being abused outside its normal operating parameters. If you used the machine for a litterbox, or used it outdoors in the rain and the damp weather - both of which may lead to environmentally caused points of failure - I think that is abusing the warranty.
A lot of these apps are pretty useless though - there are apps where you push a guy and he farts around the screen, another app that simulates drinking water so you can play around with the accelerometer.
Anyhow I think that's what the parent is talking about - finding useful apps in a sea of virtual water and fart noise apps seems counter productive.
Well its a Nokia N97. I had a student come by who had an iPhone and was getting the exact same results in this building (no signal at all). Pretty sure its not the phone.
I guess reading comprehension for the win?
I dunno - call me old fashioned - I don't think AT&T should have dead zones in the middle of a city (like Seattle) or other cities. I don't live there anymore, but I do live in another city where they claim solid blue (3g) coverage for the entire city - no dead spots wherever. Its an outright lie, and my phone gets zero bars in my office (no calls, no data what-so-ever) while all my friends who have verizon phones seem to never have dead spots in the same building or around town.
Interestingly - when I went back to Seattle for a convention my phone missed 3 calls on AT&T because of lack of coverage - where was I? In the Seattle Convention center in the middle of town - c'mon...
As an AT&T customer who waits like 10 minutes for text based web pages to appear in edge mode in a supposedly 3g covered area there is NO WAY THIS IS TRUE!
I love how the Apple ads droned on about how it was the real internet and not a kind of internet. In my experience the iPhone's built in browser supports less features of the internet than any other mobile platform (Flash, JS, SSL etc) - all of which work on my S60r5 device (who's browser is based on KHTML).
The problem is ReactOS doesn't actually meet all the customer requirements like Windows does. Having worked in development one of the biggest problems you'll ever face with a really popular application is I think 3 fold. Putting features in that sales wants (or thinks they want) so they can market the product, putting features in the product that enterprises and end users want and finally after all that making sure said product still meets user requirements - which may entail features from the current shipping products and stuff shipped before that. After all that - your project can get quite big. If you strip windows down to what reactos supports you'd probably find its about the same footprint.
From what I've seen - a good chunk of Windows is there for legacy purposes. The whole application compatibility toolkit/shim system for example, the WOW layer (windows on windows).
Speaking of shims - you can see how seriously Microsoft took compatibility in Vista/Windows 7 - there are shims in there for Acrobat 3 (or Acrobat 4 - I can't remember really) - a product that hasn't shipped in 13 years.
Seriously - every software company I've ever worked at (3 so far - and one of them was big enough that every one of you has heard of them) every single exploit we ever found was reviewed - often by multiple people.
Who would have thought the human factor would play such a large role in software development?
I work in IT and belong to a union ;). So far its been pretty good for my career as I've been allowed to apply internally for all positions opened before they go to the public.
Windows apps conventionally use ctrl+s to save, ctrl+p to print etc. Also like the mac ctrl+xvc (cut, copy and paste) is the same.
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Makes me wonder though if Apple would have had a task bar if it wasn't for Windows 95 - the first OS I ever saw that concept.
The taskbar rocked - so much so that KDE and Gnome have identical replica's of it to this day. Hard to imagine before that - on the Mac (with multifinder) you had to click that menu in the top right of the screen.
So Anita Dun saying that Mao is one of her favorite philosophers makes her a communist? Does that make you a communist? Either way its hardly outrageous.
Van Jones calls Republicans assholes? Like the Republicans haven't never done that > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5O5VY8saw
Cass Sunstein believes in animal rights - I think that quote was taken out of context.
Wow this took me literally 5 seconds on google:
http://southofheaven.typepad.com/south_of_heaven/2009/07/most-scientists.html
Like this? http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/09/red_states_feed.html red states DO spend all the money blue states make.
One of the countries biggest economies (California and New York) and consequently represent a good chunk of the nations gdp receive less money than many red states.
They do - I run several labs at a community college, and for some reason students want to print everything they get their hands on. Anyhow I saw some A&P slides in the recycle bin with a publisher trademark on them.
This whole story is nothing about his claims - its about making fun of his tactic where he'll say something like "well if your not a terrorist then prove it!". Think about that for a minute - the person he asked that too was convicted of less crimes than George W. Bush - other than saying - "well I've never done anything seriously wrong in my life". Its very much akin to the question "so - have you stopped beating your wife yet?". If I asked that same question of you - how would you answer? You can't - and that's why Glen is an idiot. Please explain this > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFkpEduQJZo - seriously please do.
Its similar to when the convservatives tried to take down Bill Moyer by saying he's not patriotic because he doesn't wear an American flag on his lapel. Totally insane. I love my mother, but I don't wear her picture on my shirt everyday - does that mean I don't love her?
I've never seen anyone on the mainstream left make outrageous claims like these guys do - and they are in the mainstream media!
On Rush Limbaugh and racism - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTdGIduruGs - the quote isn't out of context (he's basically saying Jews and Muslims are dumb because they don't win as many nobel prizes). Please explain again... There are literally hundreds of racist comments on youtube recorded by listeners from Rush. The NFL was concerned enough that they wouldn't let him bid on Rams because of it.
I've taken my Nokia N97 all over the US and Canada and never been without an edge connection - at least as far as AT&T coverage goes (which goes without saying - complete abysmal).
We are suchs nerds.
I'm that sad girl. The building I work in (while covered by AT&T's map in solid dark blue) I get zero bars, but Verizon customers all around me are using their apps just fine - WTF.
Whats awful is if you have an AT&T phone and its in edge mode all the time (even though their map covers where I live) - no the smart phones don't work so well on edge. Dropped packets, slow performance - makes for a crappy experience.
If Verizon supported GSM phones I would have switched ages ago - and I might do so if their Droid isn't a complete pile.
Well having worked for Adobe - specifically on Acrobat - anything post Acrobat 6 (first Windows 2000 logo certified app) was just fine. That came out 8 years ago?
My point being - vendors have had quite a bit of time to get their programming standards in line.
Anything with Windows 2000 logo certification shouldn't have this issue - reason being - Microsoft's programming rules forbid logo certified apps to do the things you mentioned above.