According to this over 50 LBGT's under the age of 30 have been killed in the USA between 1997 and 2007.
And how does that compare to the number of murders of protestant european-descent heterosexual white males over the age of 30 during the same time period? What would be the "fair" non-prejudicial ratio?
Just the opposite. Far more kids were interested in science and programming back in the days when the chemistry set could burn or blow your fingers off, and the use of unprotected GOTO's, peeks, poke, and global variables could crash your computer a zillion different ways. Choosing safety has taken all the fun out of play.
Teach the kid how to program in BASIC. Bill Gates and Woz can be his role models. What teenage kid has heard of or wants to be Djiskstra?
What they can plead is being the victim of fraud. They were given "stolen" goods (a binary that didn't comply with either the GPL license or the SDK agreement). If they pull the app and eject the developer who committed this fraud, what would a court realistically require in addition? Decompile the app to discover the actual source to the exact build they were given? Not likely.
Get a $300 el-cheapo netbook, and let them configure it however they want. Use it for nothing else. And/or ask them to set up a VM that you can securely RDP into (VPN, VMWare View or Citrix), so there's no data on your remote PC/laptop/mobile phone, just pixels. Or both: have them buy you a thin client netbook.
If you want to be tricky, image the HD of the el-cheapo netbook after they set it up, and run it inside a VM on your personal PC. Note that this may or may not comply with their legal restrictions.
If you go by the metric that, in the typical large project, the resulting product ends up with 10 to 100 "lines of code" per person per day, hey, most programmer's probably took about 15 minutes to type that in if you exclude all thinking (reading, studying, daydreaming while unconsciously problem solving, etc.) and meeting time.
Is it okay for you to hire a gardener for 20 hours of work and have him actually work 10 hours and take a break for 10 hours?
If that gardener (or web consultant, whatever...) leaves behind a better garden and less mess than any alternative available gardeners for the same billed hours, absolutely. Or if he charges less than half as much per hour and I end up paying him less for his 20 billed hours than any alternative gardener's 10 hours, and my garden looks the same after either, why not?
Only deploy thin clients or thin client software to users. With some thin clients, you can even forward USB drive mounts to the VM. Partition your VMs into isolated groups, some with internet connections, others completely locked down. Just assume that any VM open to the net or that any user has used for web browsing, etc., is compromised. Take them offline for a full scan and reimage per login, or at least daily.
Nokia has already paid off its research costs many times over from the sale of cellphones, so it doesn't make sense to pay anything to Nokia.
If only 1% of the patents in a companies portfolio pay off, the a company would need to take in over 100X profit from each valuable patent, on average, just break even on patentable research. But no smart gambler/executive would make the bet on investing in any R&D for just break-even odds. It's only a smart bet if you are looking to take in a payoff is well over the inverse odds. "many times over", for small N, might not even be in the ballpark of enough for that.
...but they will pay the same price for something with half the functionality and none of the openness, just because it's pretty?
The average slashdotter has no clue how much money there is in selling fashion items (purses, shoes, etc.... or for "guy" things, a friend of mine got rich selling bolt-on truck "accessories") all because the buyer thinks they look good. They won't pay the same price... they'll pay more.
The "Magic" is that Apple understands customers who don't code, and what they see when they walk in the store that has nothing to do with the specs on the data sheet, geeks don't.
And the world has more of those people than of you.
Not true. If it's anything like an iPod Touch, for a $99/annum app signing certificate, developers can compile and install (on up to 100 devices) almost anything that will fit in a single process and subdirectory (constraints which makes it harder for even a developer to accidentally brick their device.) That's only a partial lock-down. The extra $99 hoop jump is to help keep your daft great aunt from bricking her device.
Plain old-fashioned Basic might not be perfect, but computer programming literacy seemed much higher back in the days when every popular 8-bit personal computer came with a Basic interpreter. Nowadays, they seem to want to keep young people as mere users, until they are old enough to worship scalable software engineering practices, instead of just having fun coding a few lines of whatever.
IMHO, I think there's great value in a greater number of people learning what it is to code up a few lines of whatever, even with GOTOs and unstructured globally scoped everything included (which is actually closer to how the hardware in simple computers actually works).
Really? Perhaps someone should have mentioned that to Edison? Who definitely made a success out of spending just a "few more hours in the lab".
If you were objective about this instead of religious, you would present evidence on the correlation between hours spent in the lab and getting really rich (I know lots of people who spent years of their lives in labs, and are barely getting by.) Then compare that correlation with correlations against being born into an advantaged family, hours golfing with people with the right connections, etc. etc. And then determine whether more hours in the lab, or more hours doing something else (finding someone from a rich family to marry, buying a lotto ticket, etc.) actually has better odds.
You missed out on the production costs, not of the book actually purchased, but for the 90%+ of the books published which don't sell well enough to cover the author fees and editorial salaries, marketing, etc.
It's a gambling business. No one but idiots takes a big gamble unless there's a potential big payoff in sight.
The physical books are just the near worthless chips (except to the readers of the good/great ones).
You left out the marketing and legal fees and political "contributions" to counteract all the luddites who think that any antenna tower near their backyard will cause their kids to immediately keel over with brain cancer.
That could easily take a fraction of a million.
But probably cheaper than trying to remodel a house with a new roofline that blocks the entire neighborhood's view.
But if Murdoch really thinks Google is stealing from him, and if he really wants Google to stop driving all those readers to his Web sites at no charge, he can simply stop Google from linking to their news stories by going to his Web site's robot.txt file and adding 'Disallow.'"
He would also have to find a way to prevent Google from linking to his competitor's news stories, else the playing field would become uneven, giving a competitive advantage to the first publisher who folds. It's the prisoners dilemma game. They all fold and die slowly instead of being the patsy and being hung at dawn.
Where does it say that whatever it builds on Windows will be directly installable on an iPhone or submittable to the App store without also requiring a Mac somewhere for "post-processing"?
It looks someone didn't read the SDK license when they first started talking about porting Flash early last year. Since then they have which is probably why they created this new tool.
The way not to break the rules is to finish building the translated lash the iPhone app on a Mac using Apple's SDK.
So you're saying Flash CS5 for Windows will not be able to create iPhone apps? I doubt that.
Yes. The required libraries and code signing tools are very likely not licensed for redistribution by Adobe. Good luck creating an app without any libraries, and installing on a non-jailbroken device or submitting an unsigned app to the App store.
Apple's XCode iPhone SDK tool chain supports development and building apps using ARM (armv6 armv7) assembly language, as well as Objective C, C, and even Javascript wrapped up in a local web viewer. Developers occasionally use just a tiny bit of ARM assembly for DSP or vectorized floating point stuff, but there's nothing to prevent 99.9% of an apps source from being compiled from ARM assembly language. So this Flash authoring tool is likely an intermediate assembly language source code generator, with just a bit of Objective C glue to connect to the UI, all compiled into an app using XCode on a Mac.
Apple doesn't want any other company in charge of the API for distributing apps on the iPhone. Open web standards that they can influence are OK. But they don't want to give yet another potentially competing company an opportunity to "extend and embrace".
Apple doesn't want any other company responsible for the security of a language interpreter or publicly exposed library. They want to be able or fix (or not fix) security problems on their own schedule.
Current Flash implementations have terrible performance (s*cks actually) for a given battery life.
Doctors demand (and get) access to the malware laden web from hospital PCs? No problem.
The hospital PC's should have been running linux, with the hospital records and all outside web access restricted to separated virtual machines (both running Windows if so required by the hospital record software). Or running as thin clients, using X or remote desktop access to VM's running in the hospital's server closet. Outside web access VMs get infected? Re-image 'em. Maybe nightly for good measure. No shared data with the HIPPI record access VMs anyway. The malware on the VM can only scrape its virtual display, and see nothing in the other VMs.
Or just junk the PC's as they exceed useful life, and replace them with more power efficient thin client boxen with no HD's to infect/clean.
I'm assuming it is essentially paying a data center to host my data from my home system? Why in the hell would I even WANT to do that?
Yup. Why do I need to depend on any of these utility services that just eat my monthly paycheck. I can buy and run a generator for my own power. Pump water from the well in my back yard. And use my solar powered ham radio rig to contact people without paying any phone company monthly. Buying those 4 racks of servers for the barn which I need once or twice a year to render a few video frames is so much more cost effective than leasing a bunch of virtual CPU time from some money grubbing cloud. Just gotta figure out where to put the horse and buggy now that the barn is full.
For any architecture, there is a point at which a CPU designer gets diminishing returns for added transistors and power. A simple 32-bit RISC or GPU seems to be a lot closer to the peak of useful performance per transistor and per microwatt than are the current laptop implementations of the x86 ISA.
At this point the issue left is whether the application speed required fit the performance near that peak, or will the application be better off with one CPU far from the peak that's maybe 4X faster at a cost of 16X more power and transistors, or with the alternative of 16X more tiny CPUs (the direction OpenCL-style computation is going).
Since the advent of birth control, it won't be which women get hooked up with, but which ones want large families. Some societies will pay a significant portion of the cost or raising the kids, so the women don't even need to hook up with a rich enough guy any more.
Human evolution will favor Muslims, Mormons, Amish, any sect or subculture which strongly encourages having a greater than replacement number of kids. Smart people who only have one child per couple will breed their genes right out of existence eventually, comparative to those other more prolific groups.
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According to this over 50 LBGT's under the age of 30 have been killed in the USA between 1997 and 2007.
And how does that compare to the number of murders of protestant european-descent heterosexual white males over the age of 30 during the same time period? What would be the "fair" non-prejudicial ratio?
NOOOOOOOOOOOO! "GOTO" is EEEEEEVILLLLLLLLLL!
Just the opposite. Far more kids were interested in science and programming back in the days when the chemistry set could burn or blow your fingers off, and the use of unprotected GOTO's, peeks, poke, and global variables could crash your computer a zillion different ways. Choosing safety has taken all the fun out of play.
Teach the kid how to program in BASIC. Bill Gates and Woz can be his role models. What teenage kid has heard of or wants to be Djiskstra?
What they can plead is being the victim of fraud. They were given "stolen" goods (a binary that didn't comply with either the GPL license or the SDK agreement). If they pull the app and eject the developer who committed this fraud, what would a court realistically require in addition? Decompile the app to discover the actual source to the exact build they were given? Not likely.
Get a $300 el-cheapo netbook, and let them configure it however they want. Use it for nothing else. And/or ask them to set up a VM that you can securely RDP into (VPN, VMWare View or Citrix), so there's no data on your remote PC/laptop/mobile phone, just pixels. Or both: have them buy you a thin client netbook.
If you want to be tricky, image the HD of the el-cheapo netbook after they set it up, and run it inside a VM on your personal PC. Note that this may or may not comply with their legal restrictions.
If you go by the metric that, in the typical large project, the resulting product ends up with 10 to 100 "lines of code" per person per day, hey, most programmer's probably took about 15 minutes to type that in if you exclude all thinking (reading, studying, daydreaming while unconsciously problem solving, etc.) and meeting time.
Is it okay for you to hire a gardener for 20 hours of work and have him actually work 10 hours and take a break for 10 hours?
If that gardener (or web consultant, whatever...) leaves behind a better garden and less mess than any alternative available gardeners for the same billed hours, absolutely. Or if he charges less than half as much per hour and I end up paying him less for his 20 billed hours than any alternative gardener's 10 hours, and my garden looks the same after either, why not?
Only deploy thin clients or thin client software to users. With some thin clients, you can even forward USB drive mounts to the VM. Partition your VMs into isolated groups, some with internet connections, others completely locked down. Just assume that any VM open to the net or that any user has used for web browsing, etc., is compromised. Take them offline for a full scan and reimage per login, or at least daily.
If only 1% of the patents in a companies portfolio pay off, the a company would need to take in over 100X profit from each valuable patent, on average, just break even on patentable research. But no smart gambler/executive would make the bet on investing in any R&D for just break-even odds. It's only a smart bet if you are looking to take in a payoff is well over the inverse odds. "many times over", for small N, might not even be in the ballpark of enough for that.
The average slashdotter has no clue how much money there is in selling fashion items (purses, shoes, etc. ... or for "guy" things, a friend of mine got rich selling bolt-on truck "accessories") all because the buyer thinks they look good. They won't pay the same price... they'll pay more.
The "Magic" is that Apple understands customers who don't code, and what they see when they walk in the store that has nothing to do with the specs on the data sheet, geeks don't. And the world has more of those people than of you.
The whole iPad is completely locked.
Not true. If it's anything like an iPod Touch, for a $99/annum app signing certificate, developers can compile and install (on up to 100 devices) almost anything that will fit in a single process and subdirectory (constraints which makes it harder for even a developer to accidentally brick their device.) That's only a partial lock-down. The extra $99 hoop jump is to help keep your daft great aunt from bricking her device.
Plain old-fashioned Basic might not be perfect, but computer programming literacy seemed much higher back in the days when every popular 8-bit personal computer came with a Basic interpreter. Nowadays, they seem to want to keep young people as mere users, until they are old enough to worship scalable software engineering practices, instead of just having fun coding a few lines of whatever.
IMHO, I think there's great value in a greater number of people learning what it is to code up a few lines of whatever, even with GOTOs and unstructured globally scoped everything included (which is actually closer to how the hardware in simple computers actually works).
Really? Perhaps someone should have mentioned that to Edison? Who definitely made a success out of spending just a "few more hours in the lab".
If you were objective about this instead of religious, you would present evidence on the correlation between hours spent in the lab and getting really rich (I know lots of people who spent years of their lives in labs, and are barely getting by.) Then compare that correlation with correlations against being born into an advantaged family, hours golfing with people with the right connections, etc. etc. And then determine whether more hours in the lab, or more hours doing something else (finding someone from a rich family to marry, buying a lotto ticket, etc.) actually has better odds.
You missed out on the production costs, not of the book actually purchased, but for the 90%+ of the books published which don't sell well enough to cover the author fees and editorial salaries, marketing, etc.
It's a gambling business. No one but idiots takes a big gamble unless there's a potential big payoff in sight.
The physical books are just the near worthless chips (except to the readers of the good/great ones).
You left out the marketing and legal fees and political "contributions" to counteract all the luddites who think that any antenna tower near their backyard will cause their kids to immediately keel over with brain cancer.
That could easily take a fraction of a million.
But probably cheaper than trying to remodel a house with a new roofline that blocks the entire neighborhood's view.
But if Murdoch really thinks Google is stealing from him, and if he really wants Google to stop driving all those readers to his Web sites at no charge, he can simply stop Google from linking to their news stories by going to his Web site's robot.txt file and adding 'Disallow.'"
He would also have to find a way to prevent Google from linking to his competitor's news stories, else the playing field would become uneven, giving a competitive advantage to the first publisher who folds. It's the prisoners dilemma game. They all fold and die slowly instead of being the patsy and being hung at dawn.
Where does it say that whatever it builds on Windows will be directly installable on an iPhone or submittable to the App store without also requiring a Mac somewhere for "post-processing"?
It looks someone didn't read the SDK license when they first started talking about porting Flash early last year. Since then they have which is probably why they created this new tool.
The way not to break the rules is to finish building the translated lash the iPhone app on a Mac using Apple's SDK.
No other way that I know of.
So yeah, unless Apple does something radical, Flash CS5 will be able to export to iPhone from Windows.
Apple's already done that. It's their iTunes DRM.
Their iPhone libraries also have a license restriction, try reading it.
So you're saying Flash CS5 for Windows will not be able to create iPhone apps? I doubt that.
Yes. The required libraries and code signing tools are very likely not licensed for redistribution by Adobe. Good luck creating an app without any libraries, and installing on a non-jailbroken device or submitting an unsigned app to the App store.
Apple's XCode iPhone SDK tool chain supports development and building apps using ARM (armv6 armv7) assembly language, as well as Objective C, C, and even Javascript wrapped up in a local web viewer. Developers occasionally use just a tiny bit of ARM assembly for DSP or vectorized floating point stuff, but there's nothing to prevent 99.9% of an apps source from being compiled from ARM assembly language. So this Flash authoring tool is likely an intermediate assembly language source code generator, with just a bit of Objective C glue to connect to the UI, all compiled into an app using XCode on a Mac.
Probably at least 3 issues:
Apple doesn't want any other company in charge of the API for distributing apps on the iPhone. Open web standards that they can influence are OK. But they don't want to give yet another potentially competing company an opportunity to "extend and embrace".
Apple doesn't want any other company responsible for the security of a language interpreter or publicly exposed library. They want to be able or fix (or not fix) security problems on their own schedule.
Current Flash implementations have terrible performance (s*cks actually) for a given battery life.
Doctors demand (and get) access to the malware laden web from hospital PCs? No problem.
The hospital PC's should have been running linux, with the hospital records and all outside web access restricted to separated virtual machines (both running Windows if so required by the hospital record software). Or running as thin clients, using X or remote desktop access to VM's running in the hospital's server closet. Outside web access VMs get infected? Re-image 'em. Maybe nightly for good measure. No shared data with the HIPPI record access VMs anyway. The malware on the VM can only scrape its virtual display, and see nothing in the other VMs.
Or just junk the PC's as they exceed useful life, and replace them with more power efficient thin client boxen with no HD's to infect/clean.
I'm assuming it is essentially paying a data center to host my data from my home system? Why in the hell would I even WANT to do that?
Yup. Why do I need to depend on any of these utility services that just eat my monthly paycheck. I can buy and run a generator for my own power. Pump water from the well in my back yard. And use my solar powered ham radio rig to contact people without paying any phone company monthly. Buying those 4 racks of servers for the barn which I need once or twice a year to render a few video frames is so much more cost effective than leasing a bunch of virtual CPU time from some money grubbing cloud. Just gotta figure out where to put the horse and buggy now that the barn is full.
For any architecture, there is a point at which a CPU designer gets diminishing returns for added transistors and power. A simple 32-bit RISC or GPU seems to be a lot closer to the peak of useful performance per transistor and per microwatt than are the current laptop implementations of the x86 ISA.
At this point the issue left is whether the application speed required fit the performance near that peak, or will the application be better off with one CPU far from the peak that's maybe 4X faster at a cost of 16X more power and transistors, or with the alternative of 16X more tiny CPUs (the direction OpenCL-style computation is going).
Since the advent of birth control, it won't be which women get hooked up with, but which ones want large families. Some societies will pay a significant portion of the cost or raising the kids, so the women don't even need to hook up with a rich enough guy any more.
Human evolution will favor Muslims, Mormons, Amish, any sect or subculture which strongly encourages having a greater than replacement number of kids. Smart people who only have one child per couple will breed their genes right out of existence eventually, comparative to those other more prolific groups.