You do know you can use any external drive right? Even average computer users have external drives nowadays and often do manual backups. TM just automates the process.
I think programming while not at work is the wrong use of words. When I hire someone I want someone who is genuinely interested in technology. Back in the.com days people were becoming programmers just because they heard you could make big money at it. They had no interest in anything but the money and the quality of their work showed. Nowadays it isn't much of a problem anymore.
I'm willing to bet every person you worked around at NeXT and Apple was very interested in technology and the IT industry as whole. They were probably always 'working' in their minds even if they were not sitting at a computer typing up code 24/7.
Good point, I was thinking about reviews, but ended up writing about everything. My point is that full disclosure is generally a worthless charade. Even though this is specifically about investments it's the best explanation of the sham of full disclosure I've seen.
You should always assume everything you read is biased. If it wasn't biased why would you read it anyways? The best you can do is hope to find someone with your similar biases and even then you still have to make your own decision.
Even if you can use satellite you can still be locked to Comcast. I have DirecTV and noticed the VS channel was off the other day with the message that Comcast owns it and was trying to charge some higher rate for DTV to carry it.
So you think it's okay to just put GPS tracking devices in each person? The device would do nothing more than automate following each everywhere. The device could be put it at birth and the owner may never had any knowledge of it.
Stuff like this would make it real easy to round up those people who don't quite agree with the current government.
Yeah, basically anything you do to the extreme that pushes out other parts of your life can be considered bad.
If looking at porn causes you to not look for a GF or quit spending time with your SO then yes, it's a problem. Then again, so are MMOs and any other OC type of vices that people get into.
But as a matter of philosophy, Microsoft boldly claims "You will never need a shell" and a lot of people rejoice.
This just isn't true though. To set up and lockdown IIS properly I always end up needing to edit the metabase.xml file. It's possible this has finally changed in win7 though.
Exactly. All of Joel's articles about about good to expert developers. More than likely the people he describes could use any tool or methodology and ship correct, working software.
This reminds me of when people try to copy a particular athletes workout or diet. Most professional athletes are genetic wonders and many succeed at their sport not because of their workout and diet, but in spite of it.
Actually you've touched on the running theme in all of Joel's articles. Good developers are good developers. A good developer can get away with being a duct tape programmer, because they are good. Chances are that good developer could use almost any methodology and/or tool and ship working software. While it's interesting to look at the tools and methodologies good developers use, I would rather see ways to make mediocre developers better.
not dating anyone serious or long enough to 'bring home to play video games'
I've been amazed at the random girls that will happily come on back to my place to play wii and keep partying. Of course you need to be looking at the 20 something crowd, but Nintendo really did expand game playing with the wii.
In my anecdotal study;) bowling is typically the game of choice, especially to the non-gamer girls. Sometimes though, you come across those that will jam out with you on rockband.
Plus, asking some random girls to come back to your place to play the wii (all wii jokes aside) sounds so....innocent;)
Um, no it wouldn't. Palm made their device compatible with iTunes. Apple didn't have to do a thing. Instead, they deliberately broke the compatibility.
Just to play devils advocate, how do you know this? Apple could very well be updating the protocol with every release and since they rightly assume it only needs to work with their players it could be breaking the Pre as a side effect. If Apple were truly to support other players in iTunes again they would have to publish and maintain the API or be blamed when an update breaks the other players.
For record, I think the whole fight is stupid to begin with.
I wouldn't say AS is a roach motel of a book. The story is pretty good, and you don't have to buy into her entire philosophy to get some positive take aways from the book (don't mooch off other peoples hard work, work hard yourself, be responsible for yourself, stick to your ideals and don't sell out etc...).
That said, her dialog is lacking at times and she can get quite wordy. Some of the monologues in the book are so extremely long that I wonder if her editor actually edited anything.
I found The Fountainhead to be a much better story though and while it still had dialog issues, she did much less beating you over the head with the long monologues about her personal philosophy.
Irrelevant - if they are moving into an RV simply to avoid being homeless, then they'd better not be taking vacations to remote areas with no cell coverage.
Yeah, some people love walking around with a Batman like utility belt full of all their devices. So far we have music player, cell phone, GPS, computer, video player....
I have a friend who just got hired into group A working for the DOD. His job is to track how the stimulus money gets spent in group B. Actually his entire groups job is to track that money. Guess what group B's job is? Track how the money gets spent in group A. It's so ludicrous that you can't make this stuff up.
It's white collar welfare and has been for years. It's the advanced version of dig a hole and fill it in.
I never said it was new, just that the motivations of blocking the google voice app from the app store were finally clear. Before it didn't make sense because you still paid for talk minutes even when using google voice, now, not so much.
It hurts ATT and thus hurts Apple. The reason for the Google Voice rejection became clear when ATT announced their 'a-list' program to start on the 20th of this month. As long as you have a plan costing $59+ (most iphone plans) you can put 5 numbers on your a-list that will not count against your minutes. Add the Google Voice number to your a-list and boom, unlimited talk time.
I'm with you on cable TV, but sacrificing internet? I don't know if you work with technology and/or can work at home, but faster more reliable internet equates to money for many many people.
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You do know you can use any external drive right? Even average computer users have external drives nowadays and often do manual backups. TM just automates the process.
I think programming while not at work is the wrong use of words. When I hire someone I want someone who is genuinely interested in technology. Back in the .com days people were becoming programmers just because they heard you could make big money at it. They had no interest in anything but the money and the quality of their work showed. Nowadays it isn't much of a problem anymore.
I'm willing to bet every person you worked around at NeXT and Apple was very interested in technology and the IT industry as whole. They were probably always 'working' in their minds even if they were not sitting at a computer typing up code 24/7.
If you have at least a 900 minute plan you get the new ATT A-List. Add your GV number to the A-list and you now get unlimited cell voice minutes.
Good point, I was thinking about reviews, but ended up writing about everything. My point is that full disclosure is generally a worthless charade. Even though this is specifically about investments it's the best explanation of the sham of full disclosure I've seen.
You should always assume everything you read is biased. If it wasn't biased why would you read it anyways? The best you can do is hope to find someone with your similar biases and even then you still have to make your own decision.
Even if you can use satellite you can still be locked to Comcast. I have DirecTV and noticed the VS channel was off the other day with the message that Comcast owns it and was trying to charge some higher rate for DTV to carry it.
So you think it's okay to just put GPS tracking devices in each person? The device would do nothing more than automate following each everywhere. The device could be put it at birth and the owner may never had any knowledge of it.
Stuff like this would make it real easy to round up those people who don't quite agree with the current government.
Yeah, basically anything you do to the extreme that pushes out other parts of your life can be considered bad.
If looking at porn causes you to not look for a GF or quit spending time with your SO then yes, it's a problem. Then again, so are MMOs and any other OC type of vices that people get into.
This just isn't true though. To set up and lockdown IIS properly I always end up needing to edit the metabase.xml file. It's possible this has finally changed in win7 though.
Exactly. All of Joel's articles about about good to expert developers. More than likely the people he describes could use any tool or methodology and ship correct, working software.
This reminds me of when people try to copy a particular athletes workout or diet. Most professional athletes are genetic wonders and many succeed at their sport not because of their workout and diet, but in spite of it.
Actually you've touched on the running theme in all of Joel's articles. Good developers are good developers. A good developer can get away with being a duct tape programmer, because they are good. Chances are that good developer could use almost any methodology and/or tool and ship working software. While it's interesting to look at the tools and methodologies good developers use, I would rather see ways to make mediocre developers better.
Well here's your problem...
I've been amazed at the random girls that will happily come on back to my place to play wii and keep partying. Of course you need to be looking at the 20 something crowd, but Nintendo really did expand game playing with the wii.
In my anecdotal study ;) bowling is typically the game of choice, especially to the non-gamer girls. Sometimes though, you come across those that will jam out with you on rockband.
Plus, asking some random girls to come back to your place to play the wii (all wii jokes aside) sounds so....innocent ;)
And you think banning swastikas can prevent this from happening? Interesting.
Well in truth they would have to succeed at seceding, a feat that would not happen very easily.
Just to play devils advocate, how do you know this? Apple could very well be updating the protocol with every release and since they rightly assume it only needs to work with their players it could be breaking the Pre as a side effect. If Apple were truly to support other players in iTunes again they would have to publish and maintain the API or be blamed when an update breaks the other players.
For record, I think the whole fight is stupid to begin with.
I wouldn't say AS is a roach motel of a book. The story is pretty good, and you don't have to buy into her entire philosophy to get some positive take aways from the book (don't mooch off other peoples hard work, work hard yourself, be responsible for yourself, stick to your ideals and don't sell out etc...).
That said, her dialog is lacking at times and she can get quite wordy. Some of the monologues in the book are so extremely long that I wonder if her editor actually edited anything.
I found The Fountainhead to be a much better story though and while it still had dialog issues, she did much less beating you over the head with the long monologues about her personal philosophy.
Or job prospects...
FYI, bars have free wifi for 1 thing...fantasy drafts.
While that is true, the new low bar to entry is an app store. Also included is the touch screen, camera, etc...
Yeah, some people love walking around with a Batman like utility belt full of all their devices. So far we have music player, cell phone, GPS, computer, video player....
I have a friend who just got hired into group A working for the DOD. His job is to track how the stimulus money gets spent in group B. Actually his entire groups job is to track that money. Guess what group B's job is? Track how the money gets spent in group A. It's so ludicrous that you can't make this stuff up.
It's white collar welfare and has been for years. It's the advanced version of dig a hole and fill it in.
I never said it was new, just that the motivations of blocking the google voice app from the app store were finally clear. Before it didn't make sense because you still paid for talk minutes even when using google voice, now, not so much.
Sounds like a stimulus to me...
It hurts ATT and thus hurts Apple. The reason for the Google Voice rejection became clear when ATT announced their 'a-list' program to start on the 20th of this month. As long as you have a plan costing $59+ (most iphone plans) you can put 5 numbers on your a-list that will not count against your minutes. Add the Google Voice number to your a-list and boom, unlimited talk time.
I'm with you on cable TV, but sacrificing internet? I don't know if you work with technology and/or can work at home, but faster more reliable internet equates to money for many many people.