Normally, I'm not this paranoid, but this reads like a false flag operation by some religious group looking to get filters installed by default.
That requires a Venn diagram overlap of "rich", "organized", and "stupid". Apple's not-really-an-alternative is to implement filters by default and make them 100% infallible, so that no one will ever accidentally see porn who doesn't mean to and so that someone who wants to see porn won't be accidentally blocked from doing so. Put another way, if Apple added filters, they'd be legally obligated to make them work perfectly. I can imagine that they wouldn't be in any rush to take that deal.
But for many of us, apps are the phone. I run my life on OmniFocus, and I'm about 99.99% sure there'll never be a Windows Phone port of it. What about 1Password? Simple Bank? I'm sure everyone on an iPhone or Android has a pet app (or dozen) that they don't want to live without.
And that's my main gripe against Windows Phone. It's a pretty decent system by all accounts, but it just doesn't (and won't) do the stuff I'd need it to do. That's not hating - that's pragmatism.
This does not in any way effect enterprise deployments using a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) as the encryption keys are generated at the server and kept only by the enterprise.
Well, one set is. Have you read the source to see whether there's a second keypair?
I agree with you, in principle. I mean, they've clearly been doing this wrong and props to them for recognizing that and trying to fix it. But did you catch the part about the person liable for Windows Phone being set to lead the new Operating System Engineering Group?
If you had any hopes of Metro going away, any at all, abandon them now.
And yet my iPhone 4 sounded great for voice conversations. I can certainly believe that the implementation was optimized for the 4S, but I'm highly skeptical that the overall design required any 4S-specific features.
I wouldn't say that. I love my iPhone 5 and iPad Mini, but know the day will come when a new OS won't support some core feature on my device for no other reason than that Apple doesn't want to. For instance, Siri wasn't available on my old iPhone 4 and there's no way you can make me believe that wasn't for marketing reasons. There was some bullshit excuse about the 4 not having enough computing power, but for what? All of Siri's work is done on a remote server farm. You expect me to believe the 4 didn't have enough processing ability to encode a few seconds of voice into an MP3, AAC, or whatever and upload it to the server? That's ludicrous.
Some features don't make sense on older devices. I remember being bummed when iOS 4 came out and my 2nd-gen iPod Touch couldn't use multitasking, but understood that you just can't run that many simultaneous apps in 128MB of RAM. I also remember being pissed that the same iPod Touch didn't support setting the home screen's background picture. WTF? A 480x320x32bpp image takes 600KB of RAM, whether it's a picture of my kids or nothing but solid black.
Up? Sideways. They both fit in the same solutionspace of "internal, in-process databases" but serve utterly different use cases. BDB is sweet when you want a key-value store. SQLite is awesome when you want a relational DB with an SQL frontend. Neither is better than the other because you wouldn't really use them for the same problems.
They're dirty, overcrowded, and getting around requires insane amounts of walking because you're never going to find a place to park and you're taking your life in your hands if you actually drive up there.
Who the hell drives in SF? I take a transbay bus to and from work because it's cheaper than paying the bridge toll, I don't have to pay for parking, and I can play with my iPad for half an hour while someone else drives. Once in the city, there are a lot of really good iPhone apps for getting from point A to point B via public transit as easily as possible.
I had never not owned a car from the time I turned 16 to right after I moved here, but almost immediately sold mine once I figured out the transit system. We kept my wife's minivan for tearing about East Bay but almost never drive it into the city because there's just no need to.
Half the places you want to walk, you're constantly being hit up by people begging for money
Then choose not to walk in the Tenderloin. You still see the random homeless in SoMa and Financial District, sure, but they leave you alone.
I live in East Bay but work in SoMa. That's pretty much my perfect combination: I get to run around the city during the day but go home to a small town at night. Rents are way cheaper here, too, perhaps by half.
You could get a 1g acceleration on the astronauts just by spinning the craft at the appropriate speed. That also gives you a nice gradient between 1g living spaces and 0g work spaces.
You could make the point that the AG was defending the residents of California, and protecting them from the dumbass laws that they passed against themselves.
If they tell you you're being laid off, but you still need to do the training of your replacements, you likely only get any severance package they're giving you if you comply.
Does your agreement typically say anything about the quality or effectiveness of the training? Because I'll train my local-job-destroying replacement, but he might end up with some interesting ideas about needing to regularly "git filter-branch" as part of routine builds, and about how everyone is doing unversioned server-side configuration these days.
"the web's most popular scripting language"?!?
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Given that I've seen exactly zero PHP programs running as scripts outside of a webserver environment, I'm calling bullshit on the idea of PHP being a scripting language, let alone "the web's most popular" one.
You're reading it as English. Don't do that. It's not English, but legal jargon. We throw our own jargon around all the time, and expect people to understand it as such and not interpret it as literal.
Proof: "Use the mouse to move your cursor on the desktop until it's over Firefox icon, then click it.". A more literal translation would be "Use a small rodent to move your sliderule part on the desk you're sitting at until it has a higher vertical height than a religious depiction of a red panda, then make it emit a sharp sound."
We use tech jargon on tech websites. He's using legal jargon on a legal website. That's wholly appropriate, and it's your job to interpret it through the proper filters.
Really? What a baseless statement. No benchmarks whatsoever!
So you haven't actually used both of them. Got it. I used and advocated SVN for a long time - to the point that my Git-using friends were teasing me about "legacy systems" and all that. I finally caved in one weekend and tried Git, and after about an hour started converting all my personal repos over to use it. It was so much faster (and so much better at merging) that I never looked back after that day.
Git is faster than SVN. Also, steel is stronger than bubblegum and the Space Shuttle is faster than a Cessna. I don't feel the need to run benchmarks or quote figures to "prove" any of those statements.
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Normally, I'm not this paranoid, but this reads like a false flag operation by some religious group looking to get filters installed by default.
That requires a Venn diagram overlap of "rich", "organized", and "stupid". Apple's not-really-an-alternative is to implement filters by default and make them 100% infallible, so that no one will ever accidentally see porn who doesn't mean to and so that someone who wants to see porn won't be accidentally blocked from doing so. Put another way, if Apple added filters, they'd be legally obligated to make them work perfectly. I can imagine that they wouldn't be in any rush to take that deal.
But for many of us, apps are the phone. I run my life on OmniFocus, and I'm about 99.99% sure there'll never be a Windows Phone port of it. What about 1Password? Simple Bank? I'm sure everyone on an iPhone or Android has a pet app (or dozen) that they don't want to live without.
And that's my main gripe against Windows Phone. It's a pretty decent system by all accounts, but it just doesn't (and won't) do the stuff I'd need it to do. That's not hating - that's pragmatism.
This does not in any way effect enterprise deployments using a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) as the encryption keys are generated at the server and kept only by the enterprise.
Well, one set is. Have you read the source to see whether there's a second keypair?
1. Mac's -- Apple doesn't seem go give a fck about them
...except that they accounted for about 12% of revenue last quarter, and got a lot of the WWDC keynote time.
Um, they already did.
I agree with you, in principle. I mean, they've clearly been doing this wrong and props to them for recognizing that and trying to fix it. But did you catch the part about the person liable for Windows Phone being set to lead the new Operating System Engineering Group?
If you had any hopes of Metro going away, any at all, abandon them now.
And yet my iPhone 4 sounded great for voice conversations. I can certainly believe that the implementation was optimized for the 4S, but I'm highly skeptical that the overall design required any 4S-specific features.
I wouldn't say that. I love my iPhone 5 and iPad Mini, but know the day will come when a new OS won't support some core feature on my device for no other reason than that Apple doesn't want to. For instance, Siri wasn't available on my old iPhone 4 and there's no way you can make me believe that wasn't for marketing reasons. There was some bullshit excuse about the 4 not having enough computing power, but for what? All of Siri's work is done on a remote server farm. You expect me to believe the 4 didn't have enough processing ability to encode a few seconds of voice into an MP3, AAC, or whatever and upload it to the server? That's ludicrous.
Some features don't make sense on older devices. I remember being bummed when iOS 4 came out and my 2nd-gen iPod Touch couldn't use multitasking, but understood that you just can't run that many simultaneous apps in 128MB of RAM. I also remember being pissed that the same iPod Touch didn't support setting the home screen's background picture. WTF? A 480x320x32bpp image takes 600KB of RAM, whether it's a picture of my kids or nothing but solid black.
Think about something like phpbb where they want to release full code for it, but don't want people to modify it even if "only for their server".
So in other words, it's not really Free Software. Got it.
It will only affect people distributing less free software.
...for certain bizarre-ass values of "distributing" that include "running on their own server but allowing external users to interact with it".
Up? Sideways. They both fit in the same solutionspace of "internal, in-process databases" but serve utterly different use cases. BDB is sweet when you want a key-value store. SQLite is awesome when you want a relational DB with an SQL frontend. Neither is better than the other because you wouldn't really use them for the same problems.
They're dirty, overcrowded, and getting around requires insane amounts of walking because you're never going to find a place to park and you're taking your life in your hands if you actually drive up there.
Who the hell drives in SF? I take a transbay bus to and from work because it's cheaper than paying the bridge toll, I don't have to pay for parking, and I can play with my iPad for half an hour while someone else drives. Once in the city, there are a lot of really good iPhone apps for getting from point A to point B via public transit as easily as possible.
I had never not owned a car from the time I turned 16 to right after I moved here, but almost immediately sold mine once I figured out the transit system. We kept my wife's minivan for tearing about East Bay but almost never drive it into the city because there's just no need to.
Half the places you want to walk, you're constantly being hit up by people begging for money
Then choose not to walk in the Tenderloin. You still see the random homeless in SoMa and Financial District, sure, but they leave you alone.
I live in East Bay but work in SoMa. That's pretty much my perfect combination: I get to run around the city during the day but go home to a small town at night. Rents are way cheaper here, too, perhaps by half.
Numer of WinRT devices: like, what, 8?
No one not smoking crack would trade the laptop market for the WinRT market.
He meant what he said, and even if he didn't, I do.
You could get a 1g acceleration on the astronauts just by spinning the craft at the appropriate speed. That also gives you a nice gradient between 1g living spaces and 0g work spaces.
Because Apple just announced Mavericks and iOS 7. Microsoft is having their regularly scheduled "me too!" moment.
You could make the point that the AG was defending the residents of California, and protecting them from the dumbass laws that they passed against themselves.
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While I wholeheartedly agree with you, DOMA supporters would probably consider that a feature and not a bug.
If they tell you you're being laid off, but you still need to do the training of your replacements, you likely only get any severance package they're giving you if you comply.
Does your agreement typically say anything about the quality or effectiveness of the training? Because I'll train my local-job-destroying replacement, but he might end up with some interesting ideas about needing to regularly "git filter-branch" as part of routine builds, and about how everyone is doing unversioned server-side configuration these days.
Given that I've seen exactly zero PHP programs running as scripts outside of a webserver environment, I'm calling bullshit on the idea of PHP being a scripting language, let alone "the web's most popular" one.
You're reading it as English. Don't do that. It's not English, but legal jargon. We throw our own jargon around all the time, and expect people to understand it as such and not interpret it as literal.
Proof: "Use the mouse to move your cursor on the desktop until it's over Firefox icon, then click it.". A more literal translation would be "Use a small rodent to move your sliderule part on the desk you're sitting at until it has a higher vertical height than a religious depiction of a red panda, then make it emit a sharp sound."
We use tech jargon on tech websites. He's using legal jargon on a legal website. That's wholly appropriate, and it's your job to interpret it through the proper filters.
Git is much faster than Subversion
Really? What a baseless statement. No benchmarks whatsoever!
So you haven't actually used both of them. Got it. I used and advocated SVN for a long time - to the point that my Git-using friends were teasing me about "legacy systems" and all that. I finally caved in one weekend and tried Git, and after about an hour started converting all my personal repos over to use it. It was so much faster (and so much better at merging) that I never looked back after that day.
Git is faster than SVN. Also, steel is stronger than bubblegum and the Space Shuttle is faster than a Cessna. I don't feel the need to run benchmarks or quote figures to "prove" any of those statements.
"Just following orders" isn't widely regarded as a legitimate excuse for being a son of a bitch.
That's awesome, but a little bit of a letdown after I'd misread "bonds" as "bombs".