Why? If you're going to arrest someone then you must have some evidence of a crime committed. And, if you have evidence then why not press the charges? When people are detained/arrested then they need to be charged quickly, otherwise don't arrest them. I have yet to see a good reason to allow people to be detained for any length of time w/o charging them with a crime.
Is the choice of Objective-C a part of the reason why I'm not planning on doing iPhone development any time soon? Yes. Because it's a dead end.
Dead end? The most popular computing device in the world is the cell phone. The current most talked (as in nearly everyone has heard about and wants one) about cell phone is the iPhone. Even if the iPhone ends up not being the most popular 'smart' phone in the world when everything is said and done, it will be one of the major players. Learning to program for it will in no way be a 'dead end'. Add to the fact that learning obj-c will give you a leg up for OS X programming (mac market share while small, is growing) and it's a win-win for you in the future.
Also, for me, a good programmer is someone who is personally, privately, and passionately interested in Esoteric Programming Languages - which brings us to the "Indifference to Syntax" - or "Being amazed by Syntax
I'm with you! I had a programming language class in my graduate studies where we ended up learning Erlang, LUA, and 2 others languages that are no longer used (I can't remember their names atm). In fact the only way to get a compiler for them was to install a 1.x version of linux in a VM and use a precompiled compiler. I learned a lot about every language and other general programming problems by learning those other languages.
Perhaps you should go into education since you seem to have all the answers.
I've thought about it. The smallish school I went did a fine job teaching the theory where languages were just tools to apply it. But really, my post was more tongue and cheek at the GP post of learning obj-c is a hindrance.
Yeah! Real programmers never re-use old, battle tested code. They reinvent the wheel EVERY time no matter how tedious and time consuming that process is...
This has nothing to do with re-inventing the wheel. You simple use what tool is best for the job. If you're doing doing text processing on files then c/c++ is probably not the best choice of a language regardless of how well you know it. There are better languages suited to the job.
Code re-use issues aside, most of us can do it, but that doesn't mean that learning an API happens instantaneously either. Learning Obj-C may be simple enough, but learning the Cocoa API and the dev tools, on the other hand, is not. Any monkey can turn the knob. Turning the knob is no problem... but you have to know which knob to turn, and *exactly* how far to turn it. Otherwise, you won't be whipping out much of an app.
The GPP said obj-c and nothing about the frameworks, but you might have a good point if part of every developers daily job is just that...learning new frameworks. When you do AJAX are you still writing everything from scratch? How about.net, still using v.1? Continuously learning is part of our job as developers.
They do: Problem-Need an income, now. Solution-Language and libraries I know, now.
The libraries/frameworks you know now are most likely going to be useless in 5 years time. IIRC, cell phones outsell every other computing device over the entire world. It would seem to me that moving towards mobile development is the way to future proof your income. Now you can disagree that the iphone won't be one of the main players in the future, but learning to program for it is definitely not a waste of time from a financial standpoint b/c it will be a player.
If you want to develop for the iPhone, you MUST have an intel based Mac.
This part is somewhat bothersome, but it's hard to avoid when all the tools are OS X based. I'm not a WM developer, but can you write software for it with other platforms?
Because today's programmers don't learn programming or engineering, but instead a language. A real programmer should be able to program regardless of a language. In fact they should be able to pick a language based on the problem at hand and not the other way around.
If you know C and any OO language then obj-C should be easy for a real developer to pick up. Keep in mind that C runs just fine on the iphone (at least on the simulator) you just won't have access to any of the Cocoa frameworks and thus no UI.
Well technically ATT is only charging $20/month for unlimited data on the iphone. Not sure if it's still the case, but when the iphone first came out you could keep your older plan and simply add the $20/month for unlimited data if you wanted to.
That's true, but I picked one of the middle of the road plans to show they over 2 years you aren't spending 'several thousand dollars' on cell phone service. They have cheaper plans with less minutes/texts and unlimited data. And IIRC, if you already have a cheap grandfathered plan with ATT you can simply add iphone data for $20/month which isn't a bad deal at all.
I have an iPhone 1.0 and bought it knowing that I don't live in a 3G area (that and GPS are the only new things I won't be able to get). That's like saying anyone who owned anything prior to a new version coming out is going to feel stupid. If anything I would think that geeks understand that technology usually a) moves at a quick pace and b) gets more features and usually goes down in price over time.
Not if you don't ignore the several thousand dollar 2-year contract.
Several? Lets say you get a normalish plan and with taxes ends up costing you $100/month. So over the course of 2 years you spend $2400. This plan would include something like 900 minutes, unlimited nights/weekends, unlimited data, and 1500 texts. The Sprint everything plan is $99/month and that's before taxes (although it does include unlimited minutes). Can you show me any other cell phone with unlimited data that's cheaper than I've listed here?
Their app shouldn't be necessary in order to make a sale and their NIH format is not supported by other devices out there.
Huh? DRM-free AAC (this is what the Radiohead tracks were released in) is support by nearly every device you can buy today. For the size and bit-rate it's also mostly superior to MP3.
Well, we can be pretty sure that less American soldiers and by far less Iraqis would have died in the last 5 years.
Saddam had very little problem killing the curds. It's a numbers game, but don't think Iraqis would've been all fine and dandy if Saddam had stayed in power.
There is also a good chance that Iran would not feel like they must have nukes in order be safe from invasion by the USA.
That's simply Irans current excuse. As long as their is an Israel, Iran would've been trying to get nukes. You also have/had Pakistan (a neighbor) and India playing with nukes. In the end Iran would be trying to get nukes regardless of whether or not the US invaded Iraq.
There are lots of reason to oppose the war without bringing in questionable opinions into the debate.
Actual gas taxes aren't that much of the price anymore. And, if you think the gov. is propping up the price of gas to move money from the poor to the rich, then you need to go back to economics 101 and study supply/demand. While there are many factors causing the high oil prices right now a big one is the socialist policies of Chindia of capping gas prices and thus not allowing demand to subside as oil prices go up. Now that Chindia is talking of uncapping or at least letting prices rise some, oil is quickly pulling back.
I have an iPhone and it's a cool device. The phone part sucks. It drops more calls and gets worse reception than any other cell phone I've owned. Everything else on the phone is very nice though. Texting, internet, and email are easy to use. I find myself using my phone instead of my computer to check and respond to emails and check daily news websites. This part surprised me, since I originally though having the internet on your phone was more of a gimmick.
From my iPhone use and GPS use, GPS works much better while on the move. The iphone has problems getting a triangulation while driving in my experience.
If Android will be anything like Linux, what you'll end up with is *many* disparate projects that are by themselves quite functional
Interesting aside. I was speaking with an interviewer from Google a couple weeks ago and he mentioned that 'nearly everyone who works here has an iPhone.' I wonder if all those people are working on Android apps or iPhone apps in their free time?;)
I'm sure and that's fine. Look at all the people who trade in their cars to dealers and get nowhere near the cars actual value. I have no problem RE agents doing just that, and people paying for it.
It will be interesting to see how many people continue to use REs when the NARs anti-competitive practices are dismantled. 3%-6% of the value of a house can be a big incentive clean up once in awhile.
1) I think it depends on how old you are and how old the area is that you are buying/selling in. The younger the area, the less important an MLS listing is. I also think sites are going to start popping up that are similar to autotrader.
2) Clean the house up and let people look. I've looked at houses and hate when some realtor is standing over me. If I have any questions, I the buyers have always been in the best position to answer.
3) This is going to be true with anything you sell. I've managed to sell a few used cars without too much hassle in showing. I guess I could've gotten an agent to show the car for me and give them 6% of the sale.
4) Get a lawyer! Your lawyer is the one who should be filling out any legal documents anyways.
5) Common sense!
6) Like #1, as the younger generation starts buying houses they are going to be using the internet more and more and these personal contacts mean less and less.
Her clients also get her experience. I've seen a number of For Sale By Owner homes, and they never look as nice as my wifes listings. People just don't realize that you have to clean your home and make repairs before you try to sell it. Otherwise, it looks like run-down junk, and buyers will treat it accordingly. First impressions are everything, and you need an agent who knows what to spend money on and how much to spend, so that you get the best return on your last-minute fix-up dollar.
This is just common sense. I don't need to pay someone 3%-6% to tell me that cleaning my house will make it sell easier. I didn't need to hire a Used Car Agent for me to know that cleaning my car and taking nice pictures would help it sell. You better tell your wife she might want to start thinking of her next career because the $50 listing on housetrader.com isn't very far away into the future.
They do have 'buyers agents' that you can use now. They have their own association and you pay them a flat fee to act on your behalf. They end up being your expert during the RE transaction.
Now, if you've gone through a buy or sell before you realize it's really not all that hard and start wondering wtf you need either a buyer or sellers agent. IMHO, selling is very easy. Just find a lawyer to draw up the papers and have the buyer's bank write you a bank check. Buying is a little more complicated since you need to make sure the house isn't falling down with inspections, etc... Again, just finding a lawyer (which everyone should have anyways) to draw up the papers and go over whatever you sign is probably all you need.
RE agents IMHO are mostly useless now. I'm glad to see their anti-competitive practices finally start getting dismantled.
In response to you and the ACs who posted. I don't live on or really even near a farm so I just have what I read to go by. These farmers seem to be doing just fine.
From the article: "Farmers have a lot of money to spend," says Jerry Carder, a 49-year-old Albion corn and soybean farmer who recently bought a $40,000 2008 Mercedes-Benz ML350.
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Why? If you're going to arrest someone then you must have some evidence of a crime committed. And, if you have evidence then why not press the charges? When people are detained/arrested then they need to be charged quickly, otherwise don't arrest them. I have yet to see a good reason to allow people to be detained for any length of time w/o charging them with a crime.
Dead end? The most popular computing device in the world is the cell phone. The current most talked (as in nearly everyone has heard about and wants one) about cell phone is the iPhone. Even if the iPhone ends up not being the most popular 'smart' phone in the world when everything is said and done, it will be one of the major players. Learning to program for it will in no way be a 'dead end'. Add to the fact that learning obj-c will give you a leg up for OS X programming (mac market share while small, is growing) and it's a win-win for you in the future.
I'm with you! I had a programming language class in my graduate studies where we ended up learning Erlang, LUA, and 2 others languages that are no longer used (I can't remember their names atm). In fact the only way to get a compiler for them was to install a 1.x version of linux in a VM and use a precompiled compiler. I learned a lot about every language and other general programming problems by learning those other languages.
I've thought about it. The smallish school I went did a fine job teaching the theory where languages were just tools to apply it. But really, my post was more tongue and cheek at the GP post of learning obj-c is a hindrance.
This has nothing to do with re-inventing the wheel. You simple use what tool is best for the job. If you're doing doing text processing on files then c/c++ is probably not the best choice of a language regardless of how well you know it. There are better languages suited to the job.
The GPP said obj-c and nothing about the frameworks, but you might have a good point if part of every developers daily job is just that...learning new frameworks. When you do AJAX are you still writing everything from scratch? How about
The libraries/frameworks you know now are most likely going to be useless in 5 years time. IIRC, cell phones outsell every other computing device over the entire world. It would seem to me that moving towards mobile development is the way to future proof your income. Now you can disagree that the iphone won't be one of the main players in the future, but learning to program for it is definitely not a waste of time from a financial standpoint b/c it will be a player.
This part is somewhat bothersome, but it's hard to avoid when all the tools are OS X based. I'm not a WM developer, but can you write software for it with other platforms?
Because today's programmers don't learn programming or engineering, but instead a language. A real programmer should be able to program regardless of a language. In fact they should be able to pick a language based on the problem at hand and not the other way around.
If you know C and any OO language then obj-C should be easy for a real developer to pick up. Keep in mind that C runs just fine on the iphone (at least on the simulator) you just won't have access to any of the Cocoa frameworks and thus no UI.
I saw that. Since there is no 3G in my area I'll be sticking with my 1st gen phone for awhile I think.
Well technically ATT is only charging $20/month for unlimited data on the iphone. Not sure if it's still the case, but when the iphone first came out you could keep your older plan and simply add the $20/month for unlimited data if you wanted to.
That's true, but I picked one of the middle of the road plans to show they over 2 years you aren't spending 'several thousand dollars' on cell phone service. They have cheaper plans with less minutes/texts and unlimited data. And IIRC, if you already have a cheap grandfathered plan with ATT you can simply add iphone data for $20/month which isn't a bad deal at all.
I had always heard t-mobile has good data plans, but they aren't in my area...
And your plan has unlimited data for $20/month? Where do I sign up!? I'll switch over my home internet while I'm at it.
I have an iPhone 1.0 and bought it knowing that I don't live in a 3G area (that and GPS are the only new things I won't be able to get). That's like saying anyone who owned anything prior to a new version coming out is going to feel stupid. If anything I would think that geeks understand that technology usually a) moves at a quick pace and b) gets more features and usually goes down in price over time.
Not if you don't ignore the several thousand dollar 2-year contract.
Several? Lets say you get a normalish plan and with taxes ends up costing you $100/month. So over the course of 2 years you spend $2400. This plan would include something like 900 minutes, unlimited nights/weekends, unlimited data, and 1500 texts. The Sprint everything plan is $99/month and that's before taxes (although it does include unlimited minutes). Can you show me any other cell phone with unlimited data that's cheaper than I've listed here?
Their app shouldn't be necessary in order to make a sale and their NIH format is not supported by other devices out there.
Huh? DRM-free AAC (this is what the Radiohead tracks were released in) is support by nearly every device you can buy today. For the size and bit-rate it's also mostly superior to MP3.
Well, we can be pretty sure that less American soldiers and by far less Iraqis would have died in the last 5 years.
Saddam had very little problem killing the curds. It's a numbers game, but don't think Iraqis would've been all fine and dandy if Saddam had stayed in power.
There is also a good chance that Iran would not feel like they must have nukes in order be safe from invasion by the USA.
That's simply Irans current excuse. As long as their is an Israel, Iran would've been trying to get nukes. You also have/had Pakistan (a neighbor) and India playing with nukes. In the end Iran would be trying to get nukes regardless of whether or not the US invaded Iraq.
There are lots of reason to oppose the war without bringing in questionable opinions into the debate.
Actual gas taxes aren't that much of the price anymore. And, if you think the gov. is propping up the price of gas to move money from the poor to the rich, then you need to go back to economics 101 and study supply/demand. While there are many factors causing the high oil prices right now a big one is the socialist policies of Chindia of capping gas prices and thus not allowing demand to subside as oil prices go up. Now that Chindia is talking of uncapping or at least letting prices rise some, oil is quickly pulling back.
I have an iPhone and it's a cool device. The phone part sucks. It drops more calls and gets worse reception than any other cell phone I've owned. Everything else on the phone is very nice though. Texting, internet, and email are easy to use. I find myself using my phone instead of my computer to check and respond to emails and check daily news websites. This part surprised me, since I originally though having the internet on your phone was more of a gimmick.
From my iPhone use and GPS use, GPS works much better while on the move. The iphone has problems getting a triangulation while driving in my experience.
If Android will be anything like Linux, what you'll end up with is *many* disparate projects that are by themselves quite functional
;)
Interesting aside. I was speaking with an interviewer from Google a couple weeks ago and he mentioned that 'nearly everyone who works here has an iPhone.' I wonder if all those people are working on Android apps or iPhone apps in their free time?
I'm sure and that's fine. Look at all the people who trade in their cars to dealers and get nowhere near the cars actual value. I have no problem RE agents doing just that, and people paying for it.
It will be interesting to see how many people continue to use REs when the NARs anti-competitive practices are dismantled. 3%-6% of the value of a house can be a big incentive clean up once in awhile.
1) I think it depends on how old you are and how old the area is that you are buying/selling in. The younger the area, the less important an MLS listing is. I also think sites are going to start popping up that are similar to autotrader.
2) Clean the house up and let people look. I've looked at houses and hate when some realtor is standing over me. If I have any questions, I the buyers have always been in the best position to answer.
3) This is going to be true with anything you sell. I've managed to sell a few used cars without too much hassle in showing. I guess I could've gotten an agent to show the car for me and give them 6% of the sale.
4) Get a lawyer! Your lawyer is the one who should be filling out any legal documents anyways.
5) Common sense!
6) Like #1, as the younger generation starts buying houses they are going to be using the internet more and more and these personal contacts mean less and less.
Her clients also get her experience. I've seen a number of For Sale By Owner homes, and they never look as nice as my wifes listings. People just don't realize that you have to clean your home and make repairs before you try to sell it. Otherwise, it looks like run-down junk, and buyers will treat it accordingly. First impressions are everything, and you need an agent who knows what to spend money on and how much to spend, so that you get the best return on your last-minute fix-up dollar.
This is just common sense. I don't need to pay someone 3%-6% to tell me that cleaning my house will make it sell easier. I didn't need to hire a Used Car Agent for me to know that cleaning my car and taking nice pictures would help it sell. You better tell your wife she might want to start thinking of her next career because the $50 listing on housetrader.com isn't very far away into the future.
They do have 'buyers agents' that you can use now. They have their own association and you pay them a flat fee to act on your behalf. They end up being your expert during the RE transaction.
Now, if you've gone through a buy or sell before you realize it's really not all that hard and start wondering wtf you need either a buyer or sellers agent. IMHO, selling is very easy. Just find a lawyer to draw up the papers and have the buyer's bank write you a bank check. Buying is a little more complicated since you need to make sure the house isn't falling down with inspections, etc... Again, just finding a lawyer (which everyone should have anyways) to draw up the papers and go over whatever you sign is probably all you need.
RE agents IMHO are mostly useless now. I'm glad to see their anti-competitive practices finally start getting dismantled.
I don't think buying a house that is still +60% of '00 values would be considered anywhere near the bottom.
In response to you and the ACs who posted. I don't live on or really even near a farm so I just have what I read to go by. These farmers seem to be doing just fine.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120303832040070169.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
From the article:
"Farmers have a lot of money to spend," says Jerry Carder, a 49-year-old Albion corn and soybean farmer who recently bought a $40,000 2008 Mercedes-Benz ML350.