I recall one wag claiming Lipitor should be given away with every fast food meal. Sad to see it is still being held hostage by the ultimate drug dealer: Big Pharma.
It's available in a generic variety now, although according to the wikipedia article, the price won't be dropped to "normal generic" price until May 31st of this year.
Be careful, the Sprint Unlimited Plan is only on their 4G service. If 4G service is not available, the phone silently downshifts to 3g where the 5gig caps still apply.
This isn't true, in my experience. Both my wife and I have the "Unlimited Plan" on 3G phones, and haven't had to worry about any caps, even with very heavy tethering use.
Well, I am free to update my HTC Hero on Sprint to whatever I want. Granted I do void the warranty but a call to SquareTrade Warranty fixes that and its cheaper than Sprints insurance and easier to deal with than Sprint. I have Cyanogen6 on mine and she purrs like a kitten. I do see the point though, and it is bull. Less than 2 years old and now Sprint isn't updating the os on the Hero anymore, and Samsung pulling that bs, It's a sad sad world.
I'm running CM 6.1 on mine (was running nightly builds before that) and it's running better than the original stock firmware. The first step was getting rid of that "Sense" crap that HTC bundles. I also wish that the carriers and/or phone vendors would be more open with their software, but it still beats a closed platform, in that the community can still hack newer versions of the OS onto older phones and keep them viable, much as CyanogenMod has done for the Hero.
Yes, because people have proven that having more than one drug store, supermarket, or fast food chain inevitably disorients them and fouls up their lives. Oh, wait.
I have only one Google Marketplace on my phone but the prices are in different world currencies. I have more than one drug store, supermarket, and fast food chain near me most of the time, and they ALWAYS give their prices in my LOCAL currency. Apple's App Store is the same way.
Google's Marketplace needs more work before it can approach the user experience given by Apple's App Store.
The last time I looked at the market on 2.2, it showed everything in ~ USD amounts.
I have found that stock Android is pretty nice. HTC Sense is a good *looking* UI, but it suffers in some places. The stock mail client for stock 2.1 is much nicer than the sense variant, for example, and there are a number of other places where it looks like HTC tried to "reinvent the wheel" (with shiny chrome) for what appears to be little or no reason. Perhaps they're trying a little too hard to offer a differentiator on the software side...
I've been much happier with the stock android versions of 2.1 and 2.2 (thanks to CyanogenMod) on my HTC CDMA Hero, since switching from the stock firmware. (Doesn't exactly help that HTC orphaned OS support for that model before 2.2...)
Pretty much every political party and candidate they run promises change and transformation -- otherwise they would tell you to keep the person you've got in office now. Both parties seem to favor policies which tend to benefit the richest and best connected, which doesn't seem as though it's going to change any time soon. Sadly, it seems as though the only "ideology" we're seeing now is "tax cuts and fuck you" from both sides of the two party system, in the name of budgetary balancing.
You can also use a Hackintosh, if you don't want to buy a new Mac (you can always buy a second hand one of course).
If you are seriously thinking about Mac development, then buying a second hand Mac might be the way to go, or you could just drop OS X on a hackintosh and be done with it.
Who'd have thought actually having the target platform would be necessary for decent development on that platform!
A "hackintosh" isn't really a way of doing this, since Apple has been trying (and is continuing to try) to make it impossible to run Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple-branded product. They don't use standard toolkits, for the most part, and aren't really meant to be developed on anything other than themselves. It's more of that "walled garden" garbage at work.
They've been around for a while. Apple just doesn't like to play nice. It's similarly pain-in-the-ass to develop for Blackberry on Linux, if I recall correctly.
And I'm sure that their overpriced drugs and the people who are being gouged for them are paying for all of that crapola. I'd rather they turn around and subsidize the cost for some of their lower income customers, but we all know *that* isn't about to happen.
I grew up with industry schwag as well, but that industry was far better off when it couldn't direct market to patients. Turns doctors into mere "prescribers".
Pharma is out of control in the US -- and they're more bloated and less "innovative" than ever.
Also GWT is another alternative to plugin-dependent and OS-dependent solutions like Flex and Silverlight. It has great development support, even down to WYSIWYG design using Eclipse, and has the benefit of code written in Java compiled into Javascript/DHTML to work across modern browsers.
Also, I'd recommend Chrome for testing. It's very fast and has a nice profiling extension available for it, as well as a GWT-specific development extension.
Shit, I used to love my Rebel XT. Great camera, other than Canon not designing it to handle heavy lenses... I found out the hard way that you can destroy the camera by using nicer/heavier lenses (although I did use a Tamron 75-200 for a few years without damaging it). A bit of glass does make a difference...
Not all computers that don't run MacOS or the iPhone operating system run Windows. That's a pretty stupid assumption to make on slashdot, of all places.
If he doesn't like the Internet, he doesn't have to use it.
It's borderline stupid to assume that any one sect or faith can push something out of existence for everyone else, at least in this day and age.
Tomorrow, both the Pope and the Internet will still be there. Perhaps with fewer proselytizing people using the Internet. "And nothing of value was lost."
Why is it that every time someone says "Apple isn't very open", someone has to say "but Microsoft is *less* open, so there!" as if it somehow makes Apple's "walled garden" any less hideous?
Slashdot Mirror
... we must not have a moon base gap."
It's available in a generic variety now, although according to the wikipedia article, the price won't be dropped to "normal generic" price until May 31st of this year.
Be careful, the Sprint Unlimited Plan is only on their 4G service. If 4G service is not available, the phone silently downshifts to 3g where the 5gig caps still apply.
This isn't true, in my experience. Both my wife and I have the "Unlimited Plan" on 3G phones, and haven't had to worry about any caps, even with very heavy tethering use.
Well, I am free to update my HTC Hero on Sprint to whatever I want. Granted I do void the warranty but a call to SquareTrade Warranty fixes that and its cheaper than Sprints insurance and easier to deal with than Sprint. I have Cyanogen6 on mine and she purrs like a kitten. I do see the point though, and it is bull. Less than 2 years old and now Sprint isn't updating the os on the Hero anymore, and Samsung pulling that bs, It's a sad sad world.
I'm running CM 6.1 on mine (was running nightly builds before that) and it's running better than the original stock firmware. The first step was getting rid of that "Sense" crap that HTC bundles. I also wish that the carriers and/or phone vendors would be more open with their software, but it still beats a closed platform, in that the community can still hack newer versions of the OS onto older phones and keep them viable, much as CyanogenMod has done for the Hero.
Palin just lost my vote.
Seriously? *This* is what did it for you?
I have only one Google Marketplace on my phone but the prices are in different world currencies. I have more than one drug store, supermarket, and fast food chain near me most of the time, and they ALWAYS give their prices in my LOCAL currency. Apple's App Store is the same way.
Google's Marketplace needs more work before it can approach the user experience given by Apple's App Store.
The last time I looked at the market on 2.2, it showed everything in ~ USD amounts.
I have found that stock Android is pretty nice. HTC Sense is a good *looking* UI, but it suffers in some places. The stock mail client for stock 2.1 is much nicer than the sense variant, for example, and there are a number of other places where it looks like HTC tried to "reinvent the wheel" (with shiny chrome) for what appears to be little or no reason. Perhaps they're trying a little too hard to offer a differentiator on the software side...
I've been much happier with the stock android versions of 2.1 and 2.2 (thanks to CyanogenMod) on my HTC CDMA Hero, since switching from the stock firmware. (Doesn't exactly help that HTC orphaned OS support for that model before 2.2...)
Not quite, at least according to the NY Times polling: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/11/02/us/politics/1102-nat-webPOLL.gif . It may not be the most scientific poll, but it does look like higher income brackets tend to lean more towards Republican candidates.
Pretty much every political party and candidate they run promises change and transformation -- otherwise they would tell you to keep the person you've got in office now. Both parties seem to favor policies which tend to benefit the richest and best connected, which doesn't seem as though it's going to change any time soon. Sadly, it seems as though the only "ideology" we're seeing now is "tax cuts and fuck you" from both sides of the two party system, in the name of budgetary balancing.
http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/star-raiders/ -- there's some sort of tribute page about that game.
"Tie on the bed, throw the rope out the window." Classic.
Macromedia tools are free?
Also, I haven't had any trouble running the chrome plugin on my Linux machine ...
A "hackintosh" isn't really a way of doing this, since Apple has been trying (and is continuing to try) to make it impossible to run Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple-branded product. They don't use standard toolkits, for the most part, and aren't really meant to be developed on anything other than themselves. It's more of that "walled garden" garbage at work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_compiler
They've been around for a while. Apple just doesn't like to play nice. It's similarly pain-in-the-ass to develop for Blackberry on Linux, if I recall correctly.
And I'm sure that their overpriced drugs and the people who are being gouged for them are paying for all of that crapola. I'd rather they turn around and subsidize the cost for some of their lower income customers, but we all know *that* isn't about to happen.
I grew up with industry schwag as well, but that industry was far better off when it couldn't direct market to patients. Turns doctors into mere "prescribers".
Pharma is out of control in the US -- and they're more bloated and less "innovative" than ever.
You could probably use NoScript or its equivalent in other browsers to keep web-based application from running on your machine based on domain.
Also GWT is another alternative to plugin-dependent and OS-dependent solutions like Flex and Silverlight. It has great development support, even down to WYSIWYG design using Eclipse, and has the benefit of code written in Java compiled into Javascript/DHTML to work across modern browsers.
Also, I'd recommend Chrome for testing. It's very fast and has a nice profiling extension available for it, as well as a GWT-specific development extension.
Shit, I used to love my Rebel XT. Great camera, other than Canon not designing it to handle heavy lenses... I found out the hard way that you can destroy the camera by using nicer/heavier lenses (although I did use a Tamron 75-200 for a few years without damaging it). A bit of glass does make a difference ...
They use RTMP streaming, I believe. There are utilities which can capture it, but they continually vary their implementation. There have been DMCA takedown notices sent to rtmpdump, but perhaps not by them in particular : http://linuxcentre.net/rtmpdump-can-be-used-to-download-copyrighted-works-like-a-web-browser
http://chromeos-blog.com/
Another site with downloads for pre-releases, but without the need for registration.
Not all computers that don't run MacOS or the iPhone operating system run Windows. That's a pretty stupid assumption to make on slashdot, of all places.
Apparently some people have managed to get JIT working with Dalvik: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=652911 (at least on Cyanogen's version)
If he doesn't like the Internet, he doesn't have to use it.
It's borderline stupid to assume that any one sect or faith can push something out of existence for everyone else, at least in this day and age.
Tomorrow, both the Pope and the Internet will still be there. Perhaps with fewer proselytizing people using the Internet. "And nothing of value was lost."
Why is it that every time someone says "Apple isn't very open", someone has to say "but Microsoft is *less* open, so there!" as if it somehow makes Apple's "walled garden" any less hideous?
It doesn't have a search function? That's news to anyone who has used it -- it's the magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner of the screen.