Why unemployed? I don't know any IT people who can't find work, either salaried or freelance. You must be one of those folks without skill who didn't deserve to be in the industry to begin with.
Wouldn't that mean open source software was being used to oppress? Or would somehow the spirit of freedom inside of the software refuse to run, knowing what it was being used for?
I know Microsoft is evil and all, but really, it sounds like they had plausible deniability: "..Tunisian government's adherence to its stated goals."
I don't mean at Fry's. I mean, in use. Not at a tech conference, but among the typical, everday, consumer.
I've never seen a 7" Galaxy Tab.
As of June, Apple has supposedly sold 25M iPads. 1M Tabs? That means for every 25 iPads I saw "in the wild", I'd expect to see at least 1 tab.
For fun sake, let's assume they sold 25,000. That means I'd at least see 1 for every 1000 iPads. I know I've seen at least 1000 iPads - probably 2-3 times that means. Not a single 7" Tab. (I've seen one 10", and I've seen one Xoom, but that was because it was at a programmer user group meeting, and Xooms were given away at Adobe's conference last year.)
In related news, Slashdot editors, or "The Tools" as they are known in the geek news community, will access any random posting that is linked to GitHub....
Slashdot these days: 1. your personal PR machine for whatever little open source project you have, with unrestricted hyperbole. 2. copy and paste first paragraph of an article that might be interesting, and call it a submission - coming up with an interesting summary is for wimps
If you spin-up an EC2 instance on AWS, with no additional features (like S3, SimpleDB, etc), it will cost you at least $15 a month. (They do have a "free" tier, but that's for the first instance, and not everyone qualifies).
The bigger question, of course, is usage. I need to sit down and really assess a normal app in terms of various resources used. I know that most of those services are dirt-cheap for AWS. (You have to consider that for a decent app, you wouldn't be using the "Micro" EC2, which is the $15 instance, but the Small instance, which start at about $75 a month or so)
No, it's not really designed to be an integration point for the various Google APIs. However, you can hit those APIs the same way you can with any other platform (theoretically with lower latency), but there's nothing special about those APIs as it related to Google App Engine.
Rather, it's a means to, in a fairly agnostic way, build solutions that do all the normal, boring app things: access a file store, access a data store, message queuing, email, HTTP calls, etc.
So we accept that Bush spent a bunch of money, and that Obama inherited a mess. That's pretty much a fact.
Obamacare? GM buyout? Cash for Clunkers? You don't fix a money problem by creating new programs to spend more. You fix the problems that are there first...
Under Obama, the major accomplishment in the military is what? Ordering all the troops home? No.. repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell.
The Bush administration spent more on education than the Iraq war. Maybe he should be criticized for that, no?
Remember that the stimulus package.. the failed one... cost more than the Iraq war under Bush (2 years vs. 6 years, no less)
Actually the cost of the 2 wars combined is about $1.1 trillion. Also, the last I checked, Obama was the commander in chief - he has ultimate authority as to whether or not those troops are still there. More energy has been placed on repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell than removing our soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. The order was given to kill, not capture, Bin Laden. The wars are the favorite flame fodder of those who are opposed to Bush, and probably rightfully so. To that end, Obama's actions have shown he's pretty much on board with all of it - very little action there.
Obamacare alone is estimated to have a price tag of $2 trillion.
According to the CBO, the cost of Obamacare alone: $2 trillion
I can't discount that Republicans have done some dumb things financially. They poked some pretty big holes in our wall of financial stability. What Obama (and the Democratic controlled Congress that enabled him) did was shove a stick of dynamite in that hole, and telling everyone, "Don't worry, the fuse is long enough, it'll never explode."
Credit ratings: have you ever bought a car? A house? (If not, yell up to your kitchen and ask mom about what credit means when she got the mortgage)
The US government operates at a deficit. All those things we like to scream about on Slashdot - healthcare, the Shuttles, broadband to the last mile, etc, etc.. has to be paid for. Someone, somewhere, gets cut a check, and cashes that check. Where do you think that money comes from if we spend more than we take in? The ability to borrow is key.. and we can only see if those who loan the money ignore what the S&P has to say (in the same way your mom's bank can ignore her FICO if they so choose)
Credit rating is ideologically ignorant - it's a matter of high debt and inability to meet payments.
The debt comes from massive tax cuts coupled with massive spending increases. In this regard Bush and Obama were a perfect tag team.
The inability to pay back debt (or the perception thereof) comes from the crazed grandstanding that happened by both parties.
However, the idea that blaming the person in charge, who pushed a program of new programs in an age when revenues were low, is pretty much common sense. Nice job of trying to cut it off with such eloquent adjectives, however.
The main trick used was to persistently store data via Flash. The article did say that other persistent storage techniques were used (SQLite, localStorage, etc.. technologies iOS has as well) but one less, and a very commonly used technique, is rendered useless if you're on an iPhone or iPad.
Just a matter of experience. I've gone through 2 iPhones, have invested significant amounts of $$ in apps, and they just work. I know, based on experience, that the next one will be a similar experience: I'll plug it in (100% certainty it'll be same cable), it'll sync my apps, and it'll look and feel like my last phone, only a bit faster and shinier. Had a similar experience with my iPad - had to sell my first iPad, recently replaced it with an iPad 2. Plugged it in, and it synced.. so I had essentially the same device I had several months ago.
We could get into the details people always rage about - the tweak-necessary nature of Android, whether or not Android has superior hardware, Android security issues, the philosophy of openness, Apple's gaffe with location data, etc, etc... but the reality is none of that matters. To geeks, maybe. (Hell, I'm a geek.. I spend more time writing code everyday than your typical Slashdotter, and I can see past those issues.) The key is customer experience. Apple, for better or worse, has built up an ecosystem that makes this happen. I dropped my phone, cracked the screen, made an appointment, had a new screen within a couple of hours. Android? Well, I'd have to get online, do some searching, and hope I found a shop that did service. And hope my particular model's replacement parts were in stock. You can't overcome that experience with a free nav app inside of Google Maps.
If Google (or someone else.. Amazon?) can build up that ecosystem, I'd probably commit to buy sight unseen.
I'd recommend you read up on his foundation. One of their largest focuses is education. He's given to plenty of other state-side causes, such as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (largest gift the CFF has ever received, no less).
Reality: money is good at quickly fixing infrastructure issues. It's far less efficient at fixing behavioral issues. I think it's a given that much of the US's problem are behavior based: racial bias, drug dependency, broken homes, and more (and often many of these causes).
It's a matter of impact. Where can his (or yours, or mine) money make an impact? I think Bill thinks beyond "his backyard", as I think is a far more enlightened approach. "How can I best help humanity today?" rather than "'Mericans first!"
I have no doubt that he will tackle domestic issues as well. After all, he's pledged to give away half of his income. That's an undertaking. Our problems will require significant planning - they aren't issues you just write a check for. For now, he's tackling the low hanging fruit.
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Day-for-day, the HP TouchPad from launch to announced discontinuation, had the same lifespan as the Kin.
I've got an idea: rather than report on geek news, let's just randomly talk about something.
Why unemployed? I don't know any IT people who can't find work, either salaried or freelance. You must be one of those folks without skill who didn't deserve to be in the industry to begin with.
Wouldn't that mean open source software was being used to oppress? Or would somehow the spirit of freedom inside of the software refuse to run, knowing what it was being used for?
I know Microsoft is evil and all, but really, it sounds like they had plausible deniability: "..Tunisian government's adherence to its stated goals."
List of features you lose if you don't accept Sony's firmware update
Forgot a few points:
* Remove a feature that you marketed to customers via firmware updates
* Have your online network down for a month
* Have a security infrastructure that allows for 77 M customer records to be accessed
* Sue and harass those who modify the device they paid for
Let me run to the store and pick up a copy of Gran Turismo for XBox ....
I don't mean at Fry's. I mean, in use. Not at a tech conference, but among the typical, everday, consumer.
I've never seen a 7" Galaxy Tab.
As of June, Apple has supposedly sold 25M iPads. 1M Tabs? That means for every 25 iPads I saw "in the wild", I'd expect to see at least 1 tab.
For fun sake, let's assume they sold 25,000. That means I'd at least see 1 for every 1000 iPads. I know I've seen at least 1000 iPads - probably 2-3 times that means. Not a single 7" Tab. (I've seen one 10", and I've seen one Xoom, but that was because it was at a programmer user group meeting, and Xooms were given away at Adobe's conference last year.)
In related news, Slashdot editors, or "The Tools" as they are known in the geek news community, will access any random posting that is linked to GitHub ....
+1 parent
Slashdot these days:
1. your personal PR machine for whatever little open source project you have, with unrestricted hyperbole.
2. copy and paste first paragraph of an article that might be interesting, and call it a submission - coming up with an interesting summary is for wimps
If you spin-up an EC2 instance on AWS, with no additional features (like S3, SimpleDB, etc), it will cost you at least $15 a month. (They do have a "free" tier, but that's for the first instance, and not everyone qualifies).
The bigger question, of course, is usage. I need to sit down and really assess a normal app in terms of various resources used. I know that most of those services are dirt-cheap for AWS. (You have to consider that for a decent app, you wouldn't be using the "Micro" EC2, which is the $15 instance, but the Small instance, which start at about $75 a month or so)
No, it's not really designed to be an integration point for the various Google APIs. However, you can hit those APIs the same way you can with any other platform (theoretically with lower latency), but there's nothing special about those APIs as it related to Google App Engine.
Rather, it's a means to, in a fairly agnostic way, build solutions that do all the normal, boring app things: access a file store, access a data store, message queuing, email, HTTP calls, etc.
I've seen the last Airbender on my dash, talking to me
So we accept that Bush spent a bunch of money, and that Obama inherited a mess. That's pretty much a fact.
Obamacare? GM buyout? Cash for Clunkers? You don't fix a money problem by creating new programs to spend more. You fix the problems that are there first...
Under Obama, the major accomplishment in the military is what? Ordering all the troops home? No .. repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell.
The Bush administration spent more on education than the Iraq war. Maybe he should be criticized for that, no?
Remember that the stimulus package.. the failed one ... cost more than the Iraq war under Bush (2 years vs. 6 years, no less)
Actually the cost of the 2 wars combined is about $1.1 trillion. Also, the last I checked, Obama was the commander in chief - he has ultimate authority as to whether or not those troops are still there. More energy has been placed on repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell than removing our soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. The order was given to kill, not capture, Bin Laden. The wars are the favorite flame fodder of those who are opposed to Bush, and probably rightfully so. To that end, Obama's actions have shown he's pretty much on board with all of it - very little action there.
Obamacare alone is estimated to have a price tag of $2 trillion.
Again, such impressive descriptive adjectives.
CostOfWar.com: BOTH wars cost $1.1 trillion
According to the CBO, the cost of Obamacare alone: $2 trillion
I can't discount that Republicans have done some dumb things financially. They poked some pretty big holes in our wall of financial stability. What Obama (and the Democratic controlled Congress that enabled him) did was shove a stick of dynamite in that hole, and telling everyone, "Don't worry, the fuse is long enough, it'll never explode."
Credit ratings: have you ever bought a car? A house? (If not, yell up to your kitchen and ask mom about what credit means when she got the mortgage)
The US government operates at a deficit. All those things we like to scream about on Slashdot - healthcare, the Shuttles, broadband to the last mile, etc, etc.. has to be paid for. Someone, somewhere, gets cut a check, and cashes that check. Where do you think that money comes from if we spend more than we take in? The ability to borrow is key .. and we can only see if those who loan the money ignore what the S&P has to say (in the same way your mom's bank can ignore her FICO if they so choose)
Credit rating is ideologically ignorant - it's a matter of high debt and inability to meet payments.
The debt comes from massive tax cuts coupled with massive spending increases. In this regard Bush and Obama were a perfect tag team.
The inability to pay back debt (or the perception thereof) comes from the crazed grandstanding that happened by both parties.
However, the idea that blaming the person in charge, who pushed a program of new programs in an age when revenues were low, is pretty much common sense. Nice job of trying to cut it off with such eloquent adjectives, however.
It's called a web browser.
EFF has shown that you free transmit all sorts of info, that taken as a whole, can uniquely identify you.
Visit it yourself and see where you're at: it told me my fingerprint was unique out of over 1.6M browsers already checked.
You can block pieces - such as using NoScript, or Tor - but then you only *reduce* your uniqueness
The main trick used was to persistently store data via Flash. The article did say that other persistent storage techniques were used (SQLite, localStorage, etc .. technologies iOS has as well) but one less, and a very commonly used technique, is rendered useless if you're on an iPhone or iPad.
George Clinton's Atomic Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A
Just a matter of experience. I've gone through 2 iPhones, have invested significant amounts of $$ in apps, and they just work. I know, based on experience, that the next one will be a similar experience: I'll plug it in (100% certainty it'll be same cable), it'll sync my apps, and it'll look and feel like my last phone, only a bit faster and shinier. Had a similar experience with my iPad - had to sell my first iPad, recently replaced it with an iPad 2. Plugged it in, and it synced .. so I had essentially the same device I had several months ago.
We could get into the details people always rage about - the tweak-necessary nature of Android, whether or not Android has superior hardware, Android security issues, the philosophy of openness, Apple's gaffe with location data, etc, etc ... but the reality is none of that matters. To geeks, maybe. (Hell, I'm a geek .. I spend more time writing code everyday than your typical Slashdotter, and I can see past those issues.) The key is customer experience. Apple, for better or worse, has built up an ecosystem that makes this happen. I dropped my phone, cracked the screen, made an appointment, had a new screen within a couple of hours. Android? Well, I'd have to get online, do some searching, and hope I found a shop that did service. And hope my particular model's replacement parts were in stock. You can't overcome that experience with a free nav app inside of Google Maps.
If Google (or someone else.. Amazon?) can build up that ecosystem, I'd probably commit to buy sight unseen.
29% of Android owners do too - some may be legit 4G phones, but those phones sure as hell don't make up 29% of the market.
24% of Blackberry too - even though they don't offer a 4G model.
LOL, I agree, except I'm full-time out of my house :-)
I'd recommend you read up on his foundation. One of their largest focuses is education. He's given to plenty of other state-side causes, such as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (largest gift the CFF has ever received, no less).
Reality: money is good at quickly fixing infrastructure issues. It's far less efficient at fixing behavioral issues. I think it's a given that much of the US's problem are behavior based: racial bias, drug dependency, broken homes, and more (and often many of these causes).
It's a matter of impact. Where can his (or yours, or mine) money make an impact? I think Bill thinks beyond "his backyard", as I think is a far more enlightened approach. "How can I best help humanity today?" rather than "'Mericans first!"
I have no doubt that he will tackle domestic issues as well. After all, he's pledged to give away half of his income. That's an undertaking. Our problems will require significant planning - they aren't issues you just write a check for. For now, he's tackling the low hanging fruit.