You said they didn't know Java so that it wouldn't have been easier to switch to Android. I provided links that showed they used Java in their phones. They also use Java for BES, which is not a front-end app, btw.
When installing BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is a prerequisite and the BlackBerry Setup begins to install JRE. During the JRE Installation, an error similar to the following is displayed:
Error 1330. A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file C:\Users\Username\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\jre1.6.0_18\Data1.cab has an invalid digital signature.
This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. This was seen with Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0 Update 18 but similar errors could appear with later versions.
BES is not a "front-end app." So, you're totally wrong, you could have googled this in 5 seconds, but no, you insist on remaining wilfully ignorant. Just like everyone else who suffers from the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Err.. No. It shows that 81% of people do not lie to interviewers, which is a much more positive angle and more true interpretation of said study. Stop being so pessimistic
Actually, it doesn't show that at all. Depending on the question, many more people will lie. For example, as jobs with health insurance were lost since the turn of the century, many smokers lied when looking for coverage, saying they had quit. In their mind, they could justify it by thinking "I'm trying to quit" or "I've stopped for the last few days, so I'm over the hump" but of course, they were lying to themselves.
I've seen smokers who have claimed to have been smoke-free for years, then go and light up in front of me 5 minutes later. "Well, I'm stressed so this is an exception." A bit of digging showed they were making "exceptions" 20x a day - but in their mind, those were exceptions and didn't count. Sort of like the calories in chocolate fudge cake don't count on your birthday.
Addtcts lie all the time - whether they're addicted to drugs, gambling, booze, or whatever... and studies that rely on self-reporting without any means of verifying are pretty much hosed.
That's not what a lot of the comments are indicating. To the contrary, a few even say they'd switch back to WhatsApp if WhatsApp were to include the missing features - so they certainly know the difference between the two. You assume they don't know the difference, but there's no proof of that, and after this week, also no way to make that claim.
You're really stretching it by claiming that WAP has "acted in a fraudulent manner by infringing on trademark to confuse users)" has anything to do with whether either one can be trusted. At this point, there is no reason to trust either one. And given the lame way they're implemented their web app, I wouldn't trust WhatApp to get the code right.
As I've posted elsewhere, it's easy to just unscrew the casing and disable the scrolling function of the scroll wheel with a dab of crazy glue. Or, you can just cut the lead to the wheel inside the mouse - the click will still work.
So, Blackberries used Java, a lot of their code ended up as Java, and your subsequent arguments that ignore that fact are worng. They could have certainly gotten an Android phone on the market quicker than they did with QNX.
Blackberry bought QNX in April 2010. Blackberry's sales went into decline starting January 2011. That's what happens when you give mixed messages to the world and ignore the competition instead of keeping your eye on the ball.
Your fix is wrong. WhatsApp can verify the code of WA, but not WAP. Theirs is true. They may not be saints, but they know what their code does. Only WAP knows what WAP does, and the fact it's infringing trademark to "sneak" in puts them in a higher risk category.
The same can be said for WhatsApp Plus - "WhatsApp Plus can verify the code of WAP, but not WA. Only WA knows what WA does."
Reaction time isn't a problem if you drive at a speed and keep a following distance appropriate for your reaction time. This is why elderly people drive slowly.
Drunks are still (at least sometimes) looking at the road. Texters, not so much. When you're not looking at the road, doesn't matter what your reaction time is, because you just won't see the accident about to happen.
I use the index finger for both the left button and the middle button / wheel, and the middle finger for right-click. It's a lot easier than using one finger per button. This way, the thumb is on one side, the ring finger on the other (both touching the desk) and the pinky just lies there. Less strain on the hand, more accuracy because you're not using your pinky for anything...
The guy who wrote this "story" is a fucking idiot. Most mice now have five buttons, three on top and two on the side. How is that not enough for what he claims he needs it for?
Because, as you said, a bit of an idiot. Probably doesn't realize that pushing down on the mouse wheel generates the middle click.
Right. It's better when my moral standards are compromised. That way I only feel bad about it in the morning.
So next time get up earlier and avoid the whole "walk of shame" thing:-)
As for WhatsApp, the intelligent thing to do would be to include those features in WhatsApp Plus that people obviously want. Hey, when someone else does your market research for you, consider it a freebee and don't get in a snit or throw office chairs around because a competitor is doing it better than you are.
Look how long it took Microsoft to add tabbed browsing, after insisting that nobody really wanted it, and everyone was switching to tabbed browsers. "Head-in-the-sand not-invented-here syndrome.
Please be aware that WhatsApp Plus contains source code which WhatsApp cannot guarantee as safe and that your private information is potentially being passed to 3rd parties without your knowledge or authorization.
Let me fix that for everyone:
Please be aware that both WhatsApp and WhatsApp Plus contain source code which cannot guarantee as safe and that your private information is potentially being passed to 3rd parties without your knowledge or authorization.
Let them release the source for their clients and servers... then we'll see. Ditto for Facebook. I looked on the WhatsApp site, and while they claim to have contributed to open source, they have not released THEIR source.
And most of that is due to cars being made so that crashes are more surviveable and trauma centers are more capable. You look at some of the accidents where they have to use the jaws of life to get the person out, and you think "no way will they survive" - some end up with just a few minor scratches, others with what would have been fatal injuries just a decade ago.
The airlines might actually be happy they don't have to deal with it any more. After all, there's the logistics of getting it into every seat, the time wasted picking up copies that have been dumped on the floor, the extra weight to carry around... my guess is that this magazine was there only because of inertia.
Sharper Image. God truly does save the queens. And republicans. Many of whom are. Queens. Secretly. I have seen Ted Cruz in lipstick and lace. Not a pretty sight.
Actually, not. Sharper Image went bankrupt in 2008, and it's now just a licensed brand name, same as Kodak and Polaroid.
Delta used to give out newspapers I remember one evening I got one that they hadn't noticed the front page had a story (with photo) of an airplane crash that morning. I turned to the woman next to me and said "This flight is going to be super-safe. After all, the odds of TWO airplanes crashing the same day."
My humor wasn't appreciated by her, or the stewardesses...
What they're saying is it wasn't an option on Crapbooks before. And what's the excitement - most chromebooks only have 2 gig of ram and 16 gig of storage. Even the "high end" ones only have 4 gig and 32 gig. And at the price of a high-end chromebook you can buy a laptop with 4 cores, 8 gig ram, and 500 gig-750 gig storage so if you're going to run an OS off a USB key anyway, you're better off without a chromebook. (Of course, you have the option of running it directly off the hdd as well with a laptop).
You totally forget the point that Blackberry didn't always own QNX. Their developers already knew Java, since most of their code was Java, and it would have saved them a lot of time to move to Android and actually get a product out. Instead they bought QNX to try to achieve lock-in, and it dodn't work. Instead they locked themselves out of the biggest market in the smartphone world.
Being more or less absent from the market for several years was stupid, and will probably prove fatal. So in the next year, when android phones come out with UHD and 4k screens and passport users are stuck with 1440 x 1440 on a screen the size of a slice of cheese and looking at android phones running higher res in both dimensions, guess who's going to be envious?
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You said they didn't know Java so that it wouldn't have been easier to switch to Android. I provided links that showed they used Java in their phones. They also use Java for BES, which is not a front-end app, btw.
Blackberry Support for Java Runtime Environment 7 on BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10
Again from blackberry's site, the BlackBerry Java Development
and this
When installing BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is a prerequisite and the BlackBerry Setup begins to install JRE. During the JRE Installation, an error similar to the following is displayed:
Error 1330. A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file C:\Users\Username\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\jre1.6.0_18\Data1.cab has an invalid digital signature.
This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. This was seen with Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0 Update 18 but similar errors could appear with later versions.
BES is not a "front-end app." So, you're totally wrong, you could have googled this in 5 seconds, but no, you insist on remaining wilfully ignorant. Just like everyone else who suffers from the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Err.. No. It shows that 81% of people do not lie to interviewers, which is a much more positive angle and more true interpretation of said study. Stop being so pessimistic
Actually, it doesn't show that at all. Depending on the question, many more people will lie. For example, as jobs with health insurance were lost since the turn of the century, many smokers lied when looking for coverage, saying they had quit. In their mind, they could justify it by thinking "I'm trying to quit" or "I've stopped for the last few days, so I'm over the hump" but of course, they were lying to themselves.
I've seen smokers who have claimed to have been smoke-free for years, then go and light up in front of me 5 minutes later. "Well, I'm stressed so this is an exception." A bit of digging showed they were making "exceptions" 20x a day - but in their mind, those were exceptions and didn't count. Sort of like the calories in chocolate fudge cake don't count on your birthday.
Addtcts lie all the time - whether they're addicted to drugs, gambling, booze, or whatever ... and studies that rely on self-reporting without any means of verifying are pretty much hosed.
That's not what a lot of the comments are indicating. To the contrary, a few even say they'd switch back to WhatsApp if WhatsApp were to include the missing features - so they certainly know the difference between the two. You assume they don't know the difference, but there's no proof of that, and after this week, also no way to make that claim.
You're really stretching it by claiming that WAP has "acted in a fraudulent manner by infringing on trademark to confuse users)" has anything to do with whether either one can be trusted. At this point, there is no reason to trust either one. And given the lame way they're implemented their web app, I wouldn't trust WhatApp to get the code right.
Not really - I just finished checking.
As I've posted elsewhere, it's easy to just unscrew the casing and disable the scrolling function of the scroll wheel with a dab of crazy glue. Or, you can just cut the lead to the wheel inside the mouse - the click will still work.
Me: Their developers already knew Java, since most of their code was Java,
You: You're just trolling now. At this point, we both know that isn't true. Insisting otherwise won't change history.
Blackberry and Java. So who's trolling now?
So, Blackberries used Java, a lot of their code ended up as Java, and your subsequent arguments that ignore that fact are worng. They could have certainly gotten an Android phone on the market quicker than they did with QNX.
Blackberry bought QNX in April 2010. Blackberry's sales went into decline starting January 2011. That's what happens when you give mixed messages to the world and ignore the competition instead of keeping your eye on the ball.
Let me fix that for everyone:
Your fix is wrong. WhatsApp can verify the code of WA, but not WAP. Theirs is true. They may not be saints, but they know what their code does. Only WAP knows what WAP does, and the fact it's infringing trademark to "sneak" in puts them in a higher risk category.
The same can be said for WhatsApp Plus - "WhatsApp Plus can verify the code of WAP, but not WA. Only WA knows what WA does."
Reaction time isn't a problem if you drive at a speed and keep a following distance appropriate for your reaction time. This is why elderly people drive slowly.
Drunks are still (at least sometimes) looking at the road. Texters, not so much. When you're not looking at the road, doesn't matter what your reaction time is, because you just won't see the accident about to happen.
The cheapest mice are symetrical. $14 got me a new keyboard and mouse that work fine left-handed.
You can disable the mouse wheel while keeping the middle-click functionality by taking off the shell and using a dab of crazy glue.
I use the index finger for both the left button and the middle button / wheel, and the middle finger for right-click. It's a lot easier than using one finger per button. This way, the thumb is on one side, the ring finger on the other (both touching the desk) and the pinky just lies there. Less strain on the hand, more accuracy because you're not using your pinky for anything ...
The guy who wrote this "story" is a fucking idiot. Most mice now have five buttons, three on top and two on the side. How is that not enough for what he claims he needs it for?
Because, as you said, a bit of an idiot. Probably doesn't realize that pushing down on the mouse wheel generates the middle click.
Link to requirement for WhatsApp Web needing your phone to be on the internet for WhatsApp web to work. I was incredulous when I read the above post, but it's true. How moronic.
Right. It's better when my moral standards are compromised. That way I only feel bad about it in the morning.
So next time get up earlier and avoid the whole "walk of shame" thing :-)
As for WhatsApp, the intelligent thing to do would be to include those features in WhatsApp Plus that people obviously want. Hey, when someone else does your market research for you, consider it a freebee and don't get in a snit or throw office chairs around because a competitor is doing it better than you are.
Look how long it took Microsoft to add tabbed browsing, after insisting that nobody really wanted it, and everyone was switching to tabbed browsers. "Head-in-the-sand not-invented-here syndrome.
And Microsoft made their browser non-standards-compliant for the same purpose - lock-in of developers and, through them, users.
The actually do have 2 trademark registratons. You can search here.
Please be aware that WhatsApp Plus contains source code which WhatsApp cannot guarantee as safe and that your private information is potentially being passed to 3rd parties without your knowledge or authorization.
Let me fix that for everyone:
Please be aware that both WhatsApp and WhatsApp Plus contain source code which cannot guarantee as safe and that your private information is potentially being passed to 3rd parties without your knowledge or authorization.
Let them release the source for their clients and servers ... then we'll see. Ditto for Facebook. I looked on the WhatsApp site, and while they claim to have contributed to open source, they have not released THEIR source.
How about this one of a driver driving off an overpass? Or this one?.
The airlines might actually be happy they don't have to deal with it any more. After all, there's the logistics of getting it into every seat, the time wasted picking up copies that have been dumped on the floor, the extra weight to carry around ... my guess is that this magazine was there only because of inertia.
Sharper Image. God truly does save the queens. And republicans. Many of whom are. Queens. Secretly. I have seen Ted Cruz in lipstick and lace. Not a pretty sight.
Actually, not. Sharper Image went bankrupt in 2008, and it's now just a licensed brand name, same as Kodak and Polaroid.
Delta used to give out newspapers I remember one evening I got one that they hadn't noticed the front page had a story (with photo) of an airplane crash that morning. I turned to the woman next to me and said "This flight is going to be super-safe. After all, the odds of TWO airplanes crashing the same day."
My humor wasn't appreciated by her, or the stewardesses ...
Don't text and drive - texters have worse reaction times than drunks!
What they're saying is it wasn't an option on Crapbooks before. And what's the excitement - most chromebooks only have 2 gig of ram and 16 gig of storage. Even the "high end" ones only have 4 gig and 32 gig. And at the price of a high-end chromebook you can buy a laptop with 4 cores, 8 gig ram, and 500 gig-750 gig storage so if you're going to run an OS off a USB key anyway, you're better off without a chromebook. (Of course, you have the option of running it directly off the hdd as well with a laptop).
You totally forget the point that Blackberry didn't always own QNX. Their developers already knew Java, since most of their code was Java, and it would have saved them a lot of time to move to Android and actually get a product out. Instead they bought QNX to try to achieve lock-in, and it dodn't work. Instead they locked themselves out of the biggest market in the smartphone world.
Being more or less absent from the market for several years was stupid, and will probably prove fatal. So in the next year, when android phones come out with UHD and 4k screens and passport users are stuck with 1440 x 1440 on a screen the size of a slice of cheese and looking at android phones running higher res in both dimensions, guess who's going to be envious?