I do agree though. The thing about my Galaxy S that I hate the most is the lack of a hardware keyboard. I loved my LG Lotus to death because of the keyboard on it as well as my ancient Hitachi G1000's keyboard.
When I had this behemoth I got stares, laughs, and jokes about the sheer size of the thing. Many of my colleagues called it my "Tricorder", others would gawk at it, then pull out a Blackberry of some sort, a Palm Treo or Centro, or an Audiovox PPC 6700/6800/6900.
My current Samsung Galaxy S 4G is pretty close to the size of this thing, though considerably thinner and I've seen some of the latest phones coming out and I think it's ridiculous at how close they're getting to the size of my old monster phone... and many still don't have a physical keyboard which, to me, is something I miss dearly (Samsung's Replenish is a modern dead-ringer for the G1000, and if I were still on Sprint I'd own one now).
... however, does an app HAVE to ask permission in order to enable that functionality? Up front, I would imagine that an attempt to access a feature via API call that the info box would automatically pop up to grant permission, but can this be suppressed? And further, if it can be suppressed, can the user input be mimicked or a bit set to say "the user is ok with this"?
This is just my tin-foil hat I-haven't-programmed-anything-since-my-old-Amiga rant, but it seems like it could be plausible.
Indeed it does not. If you add 2 cups of water to 2 cups of ethanol you get almost 4.1 cups of fluid due to the excess volume of mixing. The result is fractionally greater if thermal expansion due to released enthalpy of mixing is included.
Pardon my deficiency in jackassery where physical chemistry is concerned.
the inverse of that would be 2 cups of water added to 2 cups of isopropyl alcohol will give you less than 4 cups due to the liquids dissolving in one another.
Really... People say and do stupid things. Facebook is just another platform for stupid people to talk to other stupid people about things stupid people talk about. Drug dealers set up their next score on social sites, weed heads openly ask "who got da trees?", burglars take pictures in front of their latest haul and post it for everyone to see, pedos try to find underage victims (... but this has been happening since the IRC glory days)... All of this stuff takes place in the same fashion online as it does in person. The difference is that we're supposed to be taken aback when FB calls the cops on you.
Well... guess what??? A lot of criminals and otherwise idiotic people were caught because some overheard their conversation, stumbled upon a carelessly placed written note, or just saw it happening. Nothing different except that FB is actively searching for this type of thing.
Then don't visit that site. I run noscript on my Windows and Linux desktops, sites that refuse to play nice, don't get my traffic. If more people would stop visiting these sites, their ad revenue will start to be impacted. Once you hurt their bottom line, they will start to wonder why and may stumble across a post like this one and they may get the point.
Then again, they were stupid enough to do this int he first place... Their response might be "WE NEEDS MOAR ADS FOR TEH MONAYS SO I CAN BUY A NEW BENZ!!!"
If you are, indeed, one of the Stella team, then I thank you for the years of enjoyment that Stella has brought me and my friends. It gave us a chance to relive the old battles of Combat, Air-Sea Battle, and the like as adults.
I still remember it to this day (I had the 6 switch VCS, family got it in December '79):
Atari 2600/VCS + Space Invaders cart - turn the power off and on rapidly until you get a screen with out the invaders and only the mothership travelling across the screen at the top. Once you see that, start the game and you will fire two shots at a time instead of only.
My dad would get pissed if we did it 'cause he swore we were going to destroy the console.
It will do those things for another year and a half, until April 2014 when Microsoft has decided it doesn't want to support it any longer. By that point you'd best have upgraded or made it so the XP machines can't see the Internet & have hot glue in their USB ports so they can't get viruses that way either.
Keep up with the times or get left behind, gramps.
Sounds like you weren't around for Win2000 vs XP in the business space. It took quite a while for business to get off of Win2000 just like XP nowadays. If you look hard enough, you'll probably still find NT4 and 2000 machines running in mission critical roles even today.
Let's be honest. This has been said with each new version of Windows. Personally, I was sure that Vista would be the opening that Linux needed to make serious inroads on the desktop, but I was wrong. Many thought that XP's Fisher Price looking default theme and clunky performance (initially) was enough to woo consumers over to Linux, but this didn't happen. I don't see it happening with Win8, especially if Microsoft relents and gives users a way to boot directly to the desktop instead of Metro.
... it's amazing how Microsoft still doesn't really get it. Business doesn't really need Metro. There's entire indistries that still get their bread and butter from CLI-based apps (insurance and travel immediately come to mind as does various medical professions) so what advantage does 8 have for them? As stated in the article, unless there's a way to skip Metro all together, many helpdesk staffers will get pissed from fielding many calls asking "Where's my desktop at?".
Were I a CTO or even just an IT manager, I'd go for 7 on the next refresh and give 8 time to mature.
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The Samsung Replenish has a solid keyboard.
I do agree though. The thing about my Galaxy S that I hate the most is the lack of a hardware keyboard. I loved my LG Lotus to death because of the keyboard on it as well as my ancient Hitachi G1000's keyboard.
... I mean its like the phone makers are marketing to a large segment of the population that spend money like it grows on trees...
Re-read that statement until you're able to comprehend it.
You answered your own question.
When I had this behemoth I got stares, laughs, and jokes about the sheer size of the thing. Many of my colleagues called it my "Tricorder", others would gawk at it, then pull out a Blackberry of some sort, a Palm Treo or Centro, or an Audiovox PPC 6700/6800/6900.
My current Samsung Galaxy S 4G is pretty close to the size of this thing, though considerably thinner and I've seen some of the latest phones coming out and I think it's ridiculous at how close they're getting to the size of my old monster phone... and many still don't have a physical keyboard which, to me, is something I miss dearly (Samsung's Replenish is a modern dead-ringer for the G1000, and if I were still on Sprint I'd own one now).
... however, does an app HAVE to ask permission in order to enable that functionality? Up front, I would imagine that an attempt to access a feature via API call that the info box would automatically pop up to grant permission, but can this be suppressed? And further, if it can be suppressed, can the user input be mimicked or a bit set to say "the user is ok with this"?
This is just my tin-foil hat I-haven't-programmed-anything-since-my-old-Amiga rant, but it seems like it could be plausible.
From the novel/movie "A Clockwork Orange"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_technique
Indeed it does not. If you add 2 cups of water to 2 cups of ethanol you get almost 4.1 cups of fluid due to the excess volume of mixing. The result is fractionally greater if thermal expansion due to released enthalpy of mixing is included.
Pardon my deficiency in jackassery where physical chemistry is concerned.
the inverse of that would be 2 cups of water added to 2 cups of isopropyl alcohol will give you less than 4 cups due to the liquids dissolving in one another.
"I had more issue back in the 1990's where people thought AOL was the internet. And the Only Way to get on it."
dark days, indeed.
this should have read:
"2 cups of water + 2 cups of alcohol does not equal 4 cups of fluid. /end chemistry jackassery"
I suggest they be tortured, or at the very least subjected to a Ludovico-style "reconditioning" to ensure this never happens again.
2 cups of water + 2 cups of alcohol 4 cups of fluid. /end chemistry jackassery
We're on Slashdot... It's 2012... I'm pretty sure that this "revelation" was unnecessary for those that frequent this site.
'Cause it won't belong before we see a "commercial" application for something like this.
... Did Microsoft ever get around to fixing the "begin xxxx.xxx.scr/exe/whatever" bug in their basic email client?
Really... People say and do stupid things. Facebook is just another platform for stupid people to talk to other stupid people about things stupid people talk about. Drug dealers set up their next score on social sites, weed heads openly ask "who got da trees?", burglars take pictures in front of their latest haul and post it for everyone to see, pedos try to find underage victims (... but this has been happening since the IRC glory days)... All of this stuff takes place in the same fashion online as it does in person. The difference is that we're supposed to be taken aback when FB calls the cops on you.
Well... guess what??? A lot of criminals and otherwise idiotic people were caught because some overheard their conversation, stumbled upon a carelessly placed written note, or just saw it happening. Nothing different except that FB is actively searching for this type of thing.
Then don't visit that site. I run noscript on my Windows and Linux desktops, sites that refuse to play nice, don't get my traffic. If more people would stop visiting these sites, their ad revenue will start to be impacted. Once you hurt their bottom line, they will start to wonder why and may stumble across a post like this one and they may get the point.
Then again, they were stupid enough to do this int he first place... Their response might be "WE NEEDS MOAR ADS FOR TEH MONAYS SO I CAN BUY A NEW BENZ!!!"
Mine was the big underground pipe organ. Took forever to get that happening.
If you are, indeed, one of the Stella team, then I thank you for the years of enjoyment that Stella has brought me and my friends. It gave us a chance to relive the old battles of Combat, Air-Sea Battle, and the like as adults.
I still remember it to this day (I had the 6 switch VCS, family got it in December '79):
Atari 2600/VCS + Space Invaders cart - turn the power off and on rapidly until you get a screen with out the invaders and only the mothership travelling across the screen at the top. Once you see that, start the game and you will fire two shots at a time instead of only.
My dad would get pissed if we did it 'cause he swore we were going to destroy the console.
I spent many an afternoon/weekend playing Goonies on my old 800XL. I loved that game!
Always trying to do my part to remind people of the hell we once came from.
It will do those things for another year and a half, until April 2014 when Microsoft has decided it doesn't want to support it any longer. By that point you'd best have upgraded or made it so the XP machines can't see the Internet & have hot glue in their USB ports so they can't get viruses that way either.
Keep up with the times or get left behind, gramps.
Sounds like you weren't around for Win2000 vs XP in the business space. It took quite a while for business to get off of Win2000 just like XP nowadays. If you look hard enough, you'll probably still find NT4 and 2000 machines running in mission critical roles even today.
... Or doesn't Metro make you think that it's a 2012 version of Packard Bell's Navigator for Win 3.x?
Let's be honest. This has been said with each new version of Windows. Personally, I was sure that Vista would be the opening that Linux needed to make serious inroads on the desktop, but I was wrong. Many thought that XP's Fisher Price looking default theme and clunky performance (initially) was enough to woo consumers over to Linux, but this didn't happen. I don't see it happening with Win8, especially if Microsoft relents and gives users a way to boot directly to the desktop instead of Metro.
... it's amazing how Microsoft still doesn't really get it. Business doesn't really need Metro. There's entire indistries that still get their bread and butter from CLI-based apps (insurance and travel immediately come to mind as does various medical professions) so what advantage does 8 have for them? As stated in the article, unless there's a way to skip Metro all together, many helpdesk staffers will get pissed from fielding many calls asking "Where's my desktop at?".
Were I a CTO or even just an IT manager, I'd go for 7 on the next refresh and give 8 time to mature.
... just looks like an asshole.