1) User groups, conferences: network network network 2) Volunteer to speak, and put that up on your blog 3) Oh yeah, start a blog. Blog regularly 4) Build your own sites/sample sites
Good approach to getting work: build site, find clients later. Most websites aren't that different. Pick an industry (say, air conditioning repair). Build a generic air conditioning repair site. Then go pitch it to those businesses (Google and start with the ones with current ugliest site); they'll always have you make customizations.
I prefer version number, but they rev so fast that it's irrelevant. Not to mention that when they released on iOS (which is merely a wrapper on WebKit, not a full app with some of the original Chrome bits), they didn't start at 1.0. Had Chrome on my phone for a couple of months, and it's telling me I have an update available for 21.0.1180.80.
I believe the poster was referring to the real version number, not the marketing title. They've incremented more or less in the same way since v 1.0, and for years have included revision/build number (Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is 6.1.7601.17514)
What if we identify the so called "gay gene"? Rest assured that the Fox News crowd will be rejoicing at the idea of "designer babies" at that point.
The random parent out there wants their kids to be successful. What if we can identify whether a kid would be a 6'6" outgoing athlete as opposed to an introverted short kid who excels in math?
I have CF. I can't play sports, or spend alot of time outside, or do any kind of manual labor. It sucks, yeah, but it also pushed to intellectualism and a career that fits me perfectly (computer programming). Would the world have been better off with another high school jock or construction worker as opposed to a developer?
An example in the post: Cystic Fibrosis. CF patients have increased cholera survival. Most cholera patients die of dehydration, whereas the sodium chloride imbalance in the cells of CF patients allows them to retain more water. (Disclosure: I have CF)
Why do we celebrate college dropouts who form spectacularly successful Internet startups then?
Science is wonderful: not just the science that supports our world view. Articles on Slashdot frequently parade movements to challenge the science status quo (people making rockets in their garage, open source approaches to publication, etc. Perhaps his findings are garbage, but most of your post was nothing more than an ad hominem attack; your only reference to his research was a link to someone else's challenge, not any original thought of your own.
I don't care who he works for, his education level, or who may have sponsored him at any time. Plenty of lesser men is lesser circumstances have changed the world. Let's talk about his findings, and not cheat ourselves by using words like "trash" as if they carried any weight.
You don't have to be an "Apple fanboy"; you only need to be a competent Slashdot user. A quick search on Slashdot shows dozens of articles about Android malware, dating back to March 2010. iOS is up to 2, both of which are recent.
Still beats the 2 weeks it'll take to get an RMA product shipped out and returned. (If you're lucky, you can cut that time in half assuming the company offers quality customer service and ships you a new product before you ship yours out)
I'm just north of Houston, in a major suburb. AT&T speeds are decent, not great. 2 years ago, I had an HTC Incredible from Verizon: just a hair slower than my iPhone 3G at the time (on AT&T). For the last couple of years, I've had Clear as a backup to my DSL connection. At times it's actually faster, but too much use and they cap to hideous speeds, so I only use in emergencies (or when traveling). I tried replacing with a Verizon LTE MiFi: speed was bad. Worse than bad. Worse than Clear when they cap. Worse than dial up. Really bad.
Maybe it's my location, but it's a lot easier to cancel a cellular contract than to cancel a lease or a mortgage. Have yet to try the AT&T LTE option.
Whether it's true or not, I could care less. I hear about malware on Android so much, it doesn't even register as news anymore. Also, it bears noting the Google typically doesn't deny those stories.
I know a hot topic gets multiple selections, so do Slashdot editors pick the one with the single worst article? This news items is coveredinseveralreputableplaces, yet, they selected a submission that looks like it was written by an 8th grader. They use AP's Tweet to make it look like an official AP story/headline. There's brilliantly nonsensical lines like "Proview is continuing their lawsuit in Santa Clara for $1.5 billion dollars while allging fraud and unfair competition. The case was soon after thrown out by a judge."
Math never has been your strongest subject, has it?
Apple earned almost $8B in revenue last quarter alone in China. So they pull out and lose their ability to legally sell there, over a hissy fit equating to pocket change?
Let's equate this to a typical Slashdotter job: pizza delivery. Your boss asks you to buy a $2 nametag, and out of principle, you quit a job that pays $400 a week (considering your mom isn't charging you rent, that's a pretty sweet gig)
I love how a disparaging play on a company's name gives your point so much more added weight.
Does it work the same if I say I don't buy Motorhole-a or SameSong phones? How about referring to the Galaxy NextCopy?
No, I sound like an idiot. My arguments lose weight due to communication noise, and using such non-sequiturs actually makes me a bit dumber each time I use one. Given the frequency that I hear that on Slashdot these days (the intellectual equivalent of "Your mom's a poo poo head!"), that explains a lot.
My understanding is that this only affects the sale of iPads in China, so I'd imagine they'd tack on an extra fee only for Chinese iPad customers. Even if all iPads had a price increase, since Apple is selling almost 60M of them a year (http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=b738b448-5097-44bd-9bdb-48b8d7c8b083) that'd mean just about $1/unit to recoup all costs within a year. So about the price of a single app, or less than the price of gas to drive up to the Apple store.
In CF (I have CF), most people do still die of upper respiratory infections, rejected lung transplants, or lung failure while waiting for a transplant.
Not sure if it'd make transplants easier, but it could increase survival rates among Cystic Fibrosis patients as they wait for a lung transplant. (I have CF)
When it was rumored that Samsung had lost the Apple contract (note, this was last month, over a year after this lawsuit was filed):
It is claimed that Samsung lost $10 billion of its market value following news that Apple switched suppliers. Wednesday’s decline was the biggest daily fall in nearly four years for Samsung.
This injunction is only a bargaining chip that will be used in the settlement conference that Samsung and Apple have agreed to. If Samsung thought they were going to lose Apple's business over this lawsuit, the Galaxy Tab would become the next TouchPad.
Samsung isn't innovating. They created a device that looks ridiculously like an iPad, because they know people love iPads. There's plenty of innovation going on in the tablet world. Many of these products are of course dead or dying in the marketplace, not because of a design patent injunction, but because no one was buying any. This injunction affects Galaxy Tabs that look like iPads, not the next great tablet device that will do something so much different or better that it destroys the iPad's market share.
Slashdot Mirror
How many users are on the Nexus, as opposed to HTC, Motorola, and Samsung devices?
1) User groups, conferences: network network network
2) Volunteer to speak, and put that up on your blog
3) Oh yeah, start a blog. Blog regularly
4) Build your own sites/sample sites
Good approach to getting work: build site, find clients later. Most websites aren't that different. Pick an industry (say, air conditioning repair). Build a generic air conditioning repair site. Then go pitch it to those businesses (Google and start with the ones with current ugliest site); they'll always have you make customizations.
I prefer version number, but they rev so fast that it's irrelevant. Not to mention that when they released on iOS (which is merely a wrapper on WebKit, not a full app with some of the original Chrome bits), they didn't start at 1.0. Had Chrome on my phone for a couple of months, and it's telling me I have an update available for 21.0.1180.80.
I believe the poster was referring to the real version number, not the marketing title. They've incremented more or less in the same way since v 1.0, and for years have included revision/build number (Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is 6.1.7601.17514)
Even if they left, they wouldn't leave. Most iOS devices use Samsung displays.
What if we identify the so called "gay gene"? Rest assured that the Fox News crowd will be rejoicing at the idea of "designer babies" at that point.
The random parent out there wants their kids to be successful. What if we can identify whether a kid would be a 6'6" outgoing athlete as opposed to an introverted short kid who excels in math?
I have CF. I can't play sports, or spend alot of time outside, or do any kind of manual labor. It sucks, yeah, but it also pushed to intellectualism and a career that fits me perfectly (computer programming). Would the world have been better off with another high school jock or construction worker as opposed to a developer?
An example in the post: Cystic Fibrosis. CF patients have increased cholera survival. Most cholera patients die of dehydration, whereas the sodium chloride imbalance in the cells of CF patients allows them to retain more water. (Disclosure: I have CF)
Why do we celebrate college dropouts who form spectacularly successful Internet startups then?
Science is wonderful: not just the science that supports our world view. Articles on Slashdot frequently parade movements to challenge the science status quo (people making rockets in their garage, open source approaches to publication, etc. Perhaps his findings are garbage, but most of your post was nothing more than an ad hominem attack; your only reference to his research was a link to someone else's challenge, not any original thought of your own.
I don't care who he works for, his education level, or who may have sponsored him at any time. Plenty of lesser men is lesser circumstances have changed the world. Let's talk about his findings, and not cheat ourselves by using words like "trash" as if they carried any weight.
You don't have to be an "Apple fanboy"; you only need to be a competent Slashdot user. A quick search on Slashdot shows dozens of articles about Android malware, dating back to March 2010. iOS is up to 2, both of which are recent.
That thing is horribly slow.
Still beats the 2 weeks it'll take to get an RMA product shipped out and returned. (If you're lucky, you can cut that time in half assuming the company offers quality customer service and ships you a new product before you ship yours out)
FTFY
"Took 5 minutes of searching online and 3-7 business days to receive in the mail"
I'm just north of Houston, in a major suburb. AT&T speeds are decent, not great. 2 years ago, I had an HTC Incredible from Verizon: just a hair slower than my iPhone 3G at the time (on AT&T). For the last couple of years, I've had Clear as a backup to my DSL connection. At times it's actually faster, but too much use and they cap to hideous speeds, so I only use in emergencies (or when traveling). I tried replacing with a Verizon LTE MiFi: speed was bad. Worse than bad. Worse than Clear when they cap. Worse than dial up. Really bad.
Maybe it's my location, but it's a lot easier to cancel a cellular contract than to cancel a lease or a mortgage. Have yet to try the AT&T LTE option.
We wouldn't let the facts interfere with our theory, would we?
Whether it's true or not, I could care less. I hear about malware on Android so much, it doesn't even register as news anymore. Also, it bears noting the Google typically doesn't deny those stories.
I know a hot topic gets multiple selections, so do Slashdot editors pick the one with the single worst article? This news items is covered in several reputable places, yet, they selected a submission that looks like it was written by an 8th grader. They use AP's Tweet to make it look like an official AP story/headline. There's brilliantly nonsensical lines like "Proview is continuing their lawsuit in Santa Clara for $1.5 billion dollars while allging fraud and unfair competition. The case was soon after thrown out by a judge."
Math never has been your strongest subject, has it?
Apple earned almost $8B in revenue last quarter alone in China. So they pull out and lose their ability to legally sell there, over a hissy fit equating to pocket change?
Let's equate this to a typical Slashdotter job: pizza delivery. Your boss asks you to buy a $2 nametag, and out of principle, you quit a job that pays $400 a week (considering your mom isn't charging you rent, that's a pretty sweet gig)
I love how a disparaging play on a company's name gives your point so much more added weight.
Does it work the same if I say I don't buy Motorhole-a or SameSong phones? How about referring to the Galaxy NextCopy?
No, I sound like an idiot. My arguments lose weight due to communication noise, and using such non-sequiturs actually makes me a bit dumber each time I use one. Given the frequency that I hear that on Slashdot these days (the intellectual equivalent of "Your mom's a poo poo head!"), that explains a lot.
My understanding is that this only affects the sale of iPads in China, so I'd imagine they'd tack on an extra fee only for Chinese iPad customers. Even if all iPads had a price increase, since Apple is selling almost 60M of them a year (http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=b738b448-5097-44bd-9bdb-48b8d7c8b083) that'd mean just about $1/unit to recoup all costs within a year. So about the price of a single app, or less than the price of gas to drive up to the Apple store.
Most H1-Bs I know of work for standard wages, or close to.
Even if they work for less, how is this worse than fresh American college grads working for peanuts in the Valley for a chance at the startup lottery?
In CF (I have CF), most people do still die of upper respiratory infections, rejected lung transplants, or lung failure while waiting for a transplant.
Not sure if it'd make transplants easier, but it could increase survival rates among Cystic Fibrosis patients as they wait for a lung transplant. (I have CF)
When it was rumored that Samsung had lost the Apple contract (note, this was last month, over a year after this lawsuit was filed):
It is claimed that Samsung lost $10 billion of its market value following news that Apple switched suppliers. Wednesday’s decline was the biggest daily fall in nearly four years for Samsung.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3358556
This injunction is only a bargaining chip that will be used in the settlement conference that Samsung and Apple have agreed to. If Samsung thought they were going to lose Apple's business over this lawsuit, the Galaxy Tab would become the next TouchPad.
Samsung isn't innovating. They created a device that looks ridiculously like an iPad, because they know people love iPads. There's plenty of innovation going on in the tablet world. Many of these products are of course dead or dying in the marketplace, not because of a design patent injunction, but because no one was buying any. This injunction affects Galaxy Tabs that look like iPads, not the next great tablet device that will do something so much different or better that it destroys the iPad's market share.