What are you talking about? Is a Mac Pro not "POWER-USER" enough for you? Or is Two 2.4GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon processors and 12Gigs of RAM packaged in the most easily accessible case around too "braindead consumer"
I'm so sick of "braindead pc-bigots" who use the same tactics as the GOP/FOX News by ignoring or blatantly distorting the facts to make their bullshit points.
Ohhh and then their's this gem
Apple users, largely but not exclusively, are less computer owner and more internet user.
What a complete pile of bullshit. Why don't you head on over to Silicon Valley and take a look at the Dot Coms WHO ARE CREATING YOUR INTERNET -- 90% of the Web Developers in SV use Macs -- not having to use bullshit like Cygwin or VMs to develop for Linux-based services and the ability to run development tasks (as Zend, Rails or Coffeescript are want to do) on a commandline is a joy. In fact I switched from Windows to OS X in 2001 shortly after Creative Suite came out for OS X since the ability to closely mirror my production environment and have access to Adobe and other commercial products my profession required was a huge draw for me.
In fact in over 10 years of consulting dot coms in the Bay Area, I've only come across a handfull of PC users -- and typically they tend to be bigoted PC-zealots who refer to Macs as toys and make all sorts of false and clueless claims.
Ohh -- and FYI, HTTP was developed on a Next running NextStep, the predecessor of OS X
You've made it very clear that you don't now what you're talking about -- so how about shutting the hell up.
That's a pretty harsh judgment and totally unfounded.
I'm a person who is able o freely visualize and conceptualize and when in grammer school was tested and proven to be a very astute speed reader, able to digest and retain knowledge at an intake of a page every few seconds.
So while that may sound like skimming, when I could read the entirety f the Andromeda Strain and visualize it in my head in a 6 hour timespan in the 6th grade, I guess I was only skimming.
And so far every audiobook title I've encountered has given me excellent mental imagery on par with normal reading no matter what other activity I was engaged in at the time. Which is exactly why I prefer audiobooks over reading and why I meant not to return to any visual input format.
I always go to Amazon first for product searching, then turn to Google for reviews. Google shopping is simply pathetic -- sorry Newegg and Nextag, never used you never will -- and their listed vendors simply can not match Amazon's pricing and turnaround -- especially since I am a Prime Subscriber.
Recently however, I've largely stopped even using Google for searching for reviews and comparative products since I've found Amazon's reviews to be more than adequate and with plenty of competitive products listed on their site.
Honestly, I think Google should reconsider their misguided foray into shopping -- it's just a ham-fisted ploy to capture data on the shopping preferences of their "user-commodities" and just doesn't stack up because it's a half-assed attempt at entering a market that they really don't understand and isn't core to their company.
But really -- hear me out. I found myself in the same position, having once been a voracious reader to not reading books at all. And I found that when I did make a conscious effort to start reading books again, I would finish a book and then take some time to start another, up to a year - or worse, start reading a book I really did not like, *cough*Crytonomicon*cough* which would stop me from reading all together for a period because I felt obligated to finish something that I really, really hated reading and would never actually get around to finishing.
What did get me "reading" again on a regular basis was audio books. It seems that it wasn't so much my lack of interest in reading, but my lack of ability to make time for reading and that the pace of my life is much more condensed than it was in my early 20s. So audiobooks fit in with my schedule better, I can listen to them while driving, while eating or while working and have averaged about 4 books a month. And since it was much less effort of my time, I found that I could even make it through books I found I HATED such as Bleak House (sorry Dickens -- that was a long-winded turd), if only because it didn't take physical effort of actually reading the book and feeling I was wasting my time. Audiobooks are not dumbed down and while being read to you, they require your mind to provide the mental imagery and are every bit as cerebral as a paper or digital book. And often times they have well known actors such as Tim Curry, or even Samuel L Jackson doing the narration, which adds it's own element to the book.
So you might want to ask if it's rally a factor of being able to make time and how busy your schedule is, and if it is pretty busy to the point of being unable to keep a constant commitment to a couple hours a day for reading, you might want to head over to Audible and give audio books a go.
Not Necessarily true -- Tesla knowingly and intentionally mislead JP Morgan as to his real intentions and knew that even if successful, Morgan would never realize an ROI. Frankly Tesla was a major dick for pulling that stunt and is lucky to only have suffered the revocation of his funding.
Dude - you are a supreme troll for trotting out that graph. I mean, can you even read the damn thing? Are you capable of objective thinking?
ICP has hitting the OEM rollout over the last few months and everyone and their brother is holding their breath for iPhone 5 -- It should be out this fall. So it only goes that the sales numbers will decline, it's SV tradition -- just look to the Osbourne.
Paste that graph again in November and talk to us then about how the Smartphone Market is slipping through Apple's "Iron Hand". Sals ebb and flow like the tide nd your little chart just shows that as new iOS and Android products come out the line, their sales adjust accordingly. But don't let reality stop you from declaring iOS dead.
Once again Slashdot links to a woefully inadequate article that only details one side of the story as a blatant attack on whatever service the author decides to pull out of his ass.
If you could anyone could actually be bothered to take a few minutes to find more informative articles, you'll come across Google's Official response:
"Google tries to provide a World-Class Social Networking Service. In order to meet the high standards of our users, we must be diligent in monitoring the behavior of our users to identify and block parties that may be a threat to the enjoyment of our site and safety to other users. In this case we saw that this particular user was using Google+ far too much, essentially using it for more than 5 minutes a day, which is a big red flag, since everyone knows that no one uses Google+ for anything. As such, he was blocked for being a spam bot. However, since receiving his butt-hurt email, we have reinstated his account, since spam-bots are incapable of getting their jimmies rustled."
Poloshirt with a popped collar and a pair of tennis shirts worn in the "commando-style" are all the rage, be sure to finish it off with a pair of Top-Siders without socks and a faux-hawk and you will be the fashionista rock-star of the IT Dept.
FFS -- I am so fucking sick and tired of whiny passive-aggressive asshats who say shit like "XYZ-SITE IS DEAD TO ME!! Booh-hoo" every time they change ToS policy or slightly increase rates to stay in business.
You know just as well as I that you will be back to Craigslist in full force... just as soon as your jimmies get unrustled. Here's a clue: Next time, instead of acting like a whiny little shit, why don't you write an email to whatever service has offended you and encourage others to do the same. Unlike the US Govt, corporations, and especially online services take feedback very earnestly. If they see a push-back from their user base, they are likely to reconsider their position.
It was a lot simpler to just wipe out the user's account than merely remove the offending Tweet. Because by removing the Tweet, Twitter would themselves have been in violation of their own privacy policies by having tampered with the User's Account and would be enacting censorship -- which is bad. And after all, User Accounts and the data they contain are virtual and have no actual value. Frankly, I wonder why people still use crap like private email and other open messaging services when we have all these wonderful Monolithic Services like Twitter and Facebook to provide all our communication needs.
As you note, it's called JSON, and we've been using it for years. It doesn't "need to be in the spec" when everyone is doing it that way.
FFS! JSON IS NOT A DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE!!!
Just get a fucking clue. JSON is a syntax, nothing less nothing more. It is up to the client to inspect the packet and has NO WAY to validate that the contents of the packet are indeed correct. Contrast this with an XSD that would outline which elements could exist, which attributes they had, where they could exist, what they could contain and even limit exactly how many could exist.
JSON provides none of that. Also, Javascript, which is what JSON is is a dynamically typed language, so you can't even give clues as to hat the data types of your values are so it's impossible to nil out invalid values without doing it programmatically.
And having a Schema is NOT WASTEFUL -- it's a condom to prevent asswipes like you who know jackshit about Service Architecture from going all willynilly over a well-designed system and clogging up the internals with shit you just slapped in place because you can't be bothered to understand how the environment works. To me, making Devs conform to an XSD, Strong Typing and MVC layers is fucking awesome on the service side where underlings like you can't be trusted to do your work without mucking things up.
Because as an architect, my greatest enemy is not the consumer, it's asswipe developers that don't know what the hell they are doing who are the greatest concern.
With that said, I think RoR with a JSON REST API is the way to go for a basic web service. Ruby is a typed language so you can't be throwing strings or bools into floats or vice-versa and Rails is a decent enough MVC layer that prevents the clueless from going willy-nilly with their "ace software design skills", but is flexible enough that it's easy to get your work done.
But is it suitable for an enterprise roll out to handle all the various internal systems? I think not. And that's where you bring things in like Java or Python that can handle these things and that's where you get real nit-picky about validation, since those are vital internal processes and not JSON crap you feed consumers.
Yeah -- because we see such an independent revolutionary spirit alive and well in America. Sure, we get some gun nuts who talk big about taking down the gov't with their band of freedom fighting rednecks. But the fact is the people want shiny iDevices, SUVs and lots of gratuitous titties on HBO Dramas. You don't get those things if you are off fighting for silly things like freedom from an oppressive government.
Android? Greener Pastures? If you mean you'd rather code for Android users who would rather spend a week figuring out how to break and hack things to get around paying that exorbitant $0.99 for your app is preferable to coding for iOS and actually get that $0.70 from each App purchase.
Funny how Linux users think everyone should work for free because they don't want to pay for shit. Of course this attitude has no bearing on why Linux fails to attract successful commercial products to it's OS and why Android is losing developers due to rampant piracy.
Seriously, I've yet to see a WYSIWYG that did anything but create timewaste by having to first learn it's interface then spend time getting around it's interface when it comes to the inevitable real world scenario requiring you to do things the WYSIWYG designers didn't account for.
I do however love IDE's and use Aptana Studio 3 for Rails, PHP and HTML5 development. With that framework, I use HAML to speed up my HTML generation, since it's a nice short-hand format that produces compliant HTML and XHTML and SCSS that allows for the use of mixins, functions and variables in CSS, as well as coffeescript for Javascript.
Yes, all these things have to be compiled, which is no biggie and I notice the time savings by using these shorthand syntaxes with high reusability and environment integration are indeed significant. And these things DO NOT require a specific IDE, they can be installed as commandline tools via Node.JS and some quick helper shell scripts can be created to handle the compiling or you can use tools like grunt.
Because they couldn't be bothered to pay $0.99 at the App Store, they'll be teaming like gang busters to DONATE that dollar. Look there's a damn good reason why Linux fails as a Mainstream OS -- because the core user base are those who think that everything should be free and would rather spend DAYS OR WEEKS trying to pirate something than pay anyone a dime.
Funny how Linux's main core of developers think that developers who make software they like should be made to code in the gutter like paupers -- or go "get a real" job and do their Linux App coding as a "hobby". The fact is every mainstream App that has come to Linux HAS LEFT in short order.
So go rail on about how it's an evil conspiracy between the hated Apple and M$ that keeps the killer Apps away while you go on pirating the works of anyone who develops for your "free and open" platform who tries to do so while paying the rent.
Well considering that Nixon took the US off the Gold Standard, effectively turning into a "fiat currency" that the bankers have complete control over -- you may have made a very profound point.
For it was Jefferson that predicted that the Bankers and Corporations would enrich themselves and cast the people into poverty. In 2000, a family of four making $90k a year was considered poverty level in Silicon Valley. Now days it would not surprise me to see that bar raised to $125,000 since US buying power has fallen sharply and greatly increased gas prices have led to greater costs for food (up 30% over the last ten years) and other basic living necessities.
At the rate we're going, with raising gas and food prices and climate change slated to increase and make farming harder -- most every middle-class American will hit poverty level in the next decade. Or so that's what MIT, the Pentagon and a couple other research Institutions predict.
And I'm not saying Comcast or AT&T is any better. But it least they don't publicly productize it.
To them, the beholder is the Gov't, who are nasty enough. Google has no Masters and the Gov't protecting them as a Private Citizen. So they have no one to answer to as an authority to mortally fear.
"Thanks, but I'd take Google any day, over that shit."
WTF -- I've been ranked a lowly Troll for speaking my mind against Google You do know they want to know what's in your fridge, they wat to know what's in your closet and they want to know what you read and what you do.
And if you can sit there and tell me that's preferable -- THEN FUCK YOU. Frankly -- maybe we need a civil war, where we can discuss this shit OFFLINE.
To me Freedom from unlawful searches and freedom to seek my own knowledge and conduct my business is freedom from an OPPRESSIVE REGIME CONTROLLING IT ALL.
So fuck you -- I am for being anonymous, for being free and NOT for some asswipe "Not Evil Larry's" Corp trying to control me and use me to their ends.
And FUCK YOU for saying that we should just trust some CITIZEN that has NOT MASTER, NO OVERSIGHT, NO ONE TO JAIL for their actions and that we should call them Master.
Google has made it clear for several years that KNOWLEDGE ABOUT US is their product and commodity. But in USA 2012 I AM A TROLL. Maybe in USA 2020, I can shoot to kill fucktards like you off my lawn.
Oh yes, I am passionate about this. I love freedom from Hall Monitors and Snoops.
Fuck you slave, I will lovingly kill thralls who try to enslave me to their master.
First of, this question is pedestrian -- any techie over the age of 25 knows that Google has been buying up Dark Fiber for several years and has already been expecting the obvious outcome.
Secondly, there's been considerable success in keeping Google OUT OF the ISP market due to their intent to work with Municipalities -- which AT&T, Verizon and Comcast have successfully sued to prevent happening.
Thirdly, Lastly and Not Least, Google would be the most invasive and scary ISP of all. They quite literally would do everything they could to bring every device into search index as possible down to your shitter.
Google has backed off a bit in the last couple years, but their intentions are clear -- to know, index and predict everything about you. And if they were to become an ISP, they would do all the same shit AT&T, Verizon and Comcast does, but with far worse breaches of privacy.
Google pulled an Larry the Salesguy just before their IPO -- they said they would not be Evil. When at the time, they knew full well they already were.
Funny how not so many people talked about their assrape of Safari Users -- guess that's what they get for being Apple Faggot Fanbois huh?
Google so good? Yeah right.
They are slime and make their products as a means to collect info -- effectively the most pervasive spymaster ever.
But hey -- don't let me dissuade you from the Free Google internet when it finally does come. I mean hey -- they probably already know about your man on chihuahua anal rape fetish.
Because that's all he did was generate hype. It's not like he helped give birth to the Home Brew computing culture that all the Linux fags circle jerk about -- because that's what the Apple-1 was, a bare-bones integrated board that at the time was every bit as revolutionary as Linux or the Raspberry Pi. And even more so, because back then, computers weren't something people had in their homes or even at work. It was the first hobbyist board to allow enthusiasts to build their own PC in their Mom's basement.
Sure, he knew how to market -- but he had innovative products to back the hype up and it was usually the consumers that generated the hype because the products they made were actually very cool and exciting. Which is why they get copied to no end by all the shit ass, low rent PC makers you must love so much. Think about that next time you consider purchasing an Ultrabook, a Samsung Galaxy or an Android Phone.
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What are you talking about? Is a Mac Pro not "POWER-USER" enough for you? Or is Two 2.4GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon processors and 12Gigs of RAM packaged in the most easily accessible case around too "braindead consumer"
I'm so sick of "braindead pc-bigots" who use the same tactics as the GOP/FOX News by ignoring or blatantly distorting the facts to make their bullshit points.
Ohhh and then their's this gem
Apple users, largely but not exclusively, are less computer owner and more internet user.
What a complete pile of bullshit. Why don't you head on over to Silicon Valley and take a look at the Dot Coms WHO ARE CREATING YOUR INTERNET -- 90% of the Web Developers in SV use Macs -- not having to use bullshit like Cygwin or VMs to develop for Linux-based services and the ability to run development tasks (as Zend, Rails or Coffeescript are want to do) on a commandline is a joy. In fact I switched from Windows to OS X in 2001 shortly after Creative Suite came out for OS X since the ability to closely mirror my production environment and have access to Adobe and other commercial products my profession required was a huge draw for me.
In fact in over 10 years of consulting dot coms in the Bay Area, I've only come across a handfull of PC users -- and typically they tend to be bigoted PC-zealots who refer to Macs as toys and make all sorts of false and clueless claims.
Ohh -- and FYI, HTTP was developed on a Next running NextStep, the predecessor of OS X
You've made it very clear that you don't now what you're talking about -- so how about shutting the hell up.
That's a pretty harsh judgment and totally unfounded.
I'm a person who is able o freely visualize and conceptualize and when in grammer school was tested and proven to be a very astute speed reader, able to digest and retain knowledge at an intake of a page every few seconds.
So while that may sound like skimming, when I could read the entirety f the Andromeda Strain and visualize it in my head in a 6 hour timespan in the 6th grade, I guess I was only skimming.
And so far every audiobook title I've encountered has given me excellent mental imagery on par with normal reading no matter what other activity I was engaged in at the time. Which is exactly why I prefer audiobooks over reading and why I meant not to return to any visual input format.
I always go to Amazon first for product searching, then turn to Google for reviews. Google shopping is simply pathetic -- sorry Newegg and Nextag, never used you never will -- and their listed vendors simply can not match Amazon's pricing and turnaround -- especially since I am a Prime Subscriber.
Recently however, I've largely stopped even using Google for searching for reviews and comparative products since I've found Amazon's reviews to be more than adequate and with plenty of competitive products listed on their site.
Honestly, I think Google should reconsider their misguided foray into shopping -- it's just a ham-fisted ploy to capture data on the shopping preferences of their "user-commodities" and just doesn't stack up because it's a half-assed attempt at entering a market that they really don't understand and isn't core to their company.
But really -- hear me out. I found myself in the same position, having once been a voracious reader to not reading books at all. And I found that when I did make a conscious effort to start reading books again, I would finish a book and then take some time to start another, up to a year - or worse, start reading a book I really did not like, *cough*Crytonomicon*cough* which would stop me from reading all together for a period because I felt obligated to finish something that I really, really hated reading and would never actually get around to finishing.
What did get me "reading" again on a regular basis was audio books. It seems that it wasn't so much my lack of interest in reading, but my lack of ability to make time for reading and that the pace of my life is much more condensed than it was in my early 20s. So audiobooks fit in with my schedule better, I can listen to them while driving, while eating or while working and have averaged about 4 books a month. And since it was much less effort of my time, I found that I could even make it through books I found I HATED such as Bleak House (sorry Dickens -- that was a long-winded turd), if only because it didn't take physical effort of actually reading the book and feeling I was wasting my time. Audiobooks are not dumbed down and while being read to you, they require your mind to provide the mental imagery and are every bit as cerebral as a paper or digital book. And often times they have well known actors such as Tim Curry, or even Samuel L Jackson doing the narration, which adds it's own element to the book.
So you might want to ask if it's rally a factor of being able to make time and how busy your schedule is, and if it is pretty busy to the point of being unable to keep a constant commitment to a couple hours a day for reading, you might want to head over to Audible and give audio books a go.
Not Necessarily true -- Tesla knowingly and intentionally mislead JP Morgan as to his real intentions and knew that even if successful, Morgan would never realize an ROI. Frankly Tesla was a major dick for pulling that stunt and is lucky to only have suffered the revocation of his funding.
Yes -- but they are sheep who are scared shitless to say anything against the government, much less do anything against the government.
The UK is an island of mommy-worshipping pussies
Dude - you are a supreme troll for trotting out that graph. I mean, can you even read the damn thing? Are you capable of objective thinking?
ICP has hitting the OEM rollout over the last few months and everyone and their brother is holding their breath for iPhone 5 -- It should be out this fall. So it only goes that the sales numbers will decline, it's SV tradition -- just look to the Osbourne.
Paste that graph again in November and talk to us then about how the Smartphone Market is slipping through Apple's "Iron Hand".
Sals ebb and flow like the tide nd your little chart just shows that as new iOS and Android products come out the line, their sales adjust accordingly. But don't let reality stop you from declaring iOS dead.
Once again Slashdot links to a woefully inadequate article that only details one side of the story as a blatant attack on whatever service the author decides to pull out of his ass.
If you could anyone could actually be bothered to take a few minutes to find more informative articles, you'll come across Google's Official response:
"Google tries to provide a World-Class Social Networking Service. In order to meet the high standards of our users, we must be diligent in monitoring the behavior of our users to identify and block parties that may be a threat to the enjoyment of our site and safety to other users. In this case we saw that this particular user was using Google+ far too much, essentially using it for more than 5 minutes a day, which is a big red flag, since everyone knows that no one uses Google+ for anything. As such, he was blocked for being a spam bot. However, since receiving his butt-hurt email, we have reinstated his account, since spam-bots are incapable of getting their jimmies rustled."
Poloshirt with a popped collar and a pair of tennis shirts worn in the "commando-style" are all the rage, be sure to finish it off with a pair of Top-Siders without socks and a faux-hawk and you will be the fashionista rock-star of the IT Dept.
Lotus wont run!
Nor much of anything else for that matter.
FFS -- I am so fucking sick and tired of whiny passive-aggressive asshats who say shit like "XYZ-SITE IS DEAD TO ME!! Booh-hoo" every time they change ToS policy or slightly increase rates to stay in business.
You know just as well as I that you will be back to Craigslist in full force ... just as soon as your jimmies get unrustled.
Here's a clue: Next time, instead of acting like a whiny little shit, why don't you write an email to whatever service has offended you and encourage others to do the same. Unlike the US Govt, corporations, and especially online services take feedback very earnestly. If they see a push-back from their user base, they are likely to reconsider their position.
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It was a lot simpler to just wipe out the user's account than merely remove the offending Tweet. Because by removing the Tweet, Twitter would themselves have been in violation of their own privacy policies by having tampered with the User's Account and would be enacting censorship -- which is bad. And after all, User Accounts and the data they contain are virtual and have no actual value. Frankly, I wonder why people still use crap like private email and other open messaging services when we have all these wonderful Monolithic Services like Twitter and Facebook to provide all our communication needs.
As you note, it's called JSON, and we've been using it for years. It doesn't "need to be in the spec" when everyone is doing it that way.
FFS! JSON IS NOT A DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE!!!
Just get a fucking clue. JSON is a syntax, nothing less nothing more. It is up to the client to inspect the packet and has NO WAY to validate that the contents of the packet are indeed correct. Contrast this with an XSD that would outline which elements could exist, which attributes they had, where they could exist, what they could contain and even limit exactly how many could exist.
JSON provides none of that. Also, Javascript, which is what JSON is is a dynamically typed language, so you can't even give clues as to hat the data types of your values are so it's impossible to nil out invalid values without doing it programmatically.
And having a Schema is NOT WASTEFUL -- it's a condom to prevent asswipes like you who know jackshit about Service Architecture from going all willynilly over a well-designed system and clogging up the internals with shit you just slapped in place because you can't be bothered to understand how the environment works. To me, making Devs conform to an XSD, Strong Typing and MVC layers is fucking awesome on the service side where underlings like you can't be trusted to do your work without mucking things up.
Because as an architect, my greatest enemy is not the consumer, it's asswipe developers that don't know what the hell they are doing who are the greatest concern.
With that said, I think RoR with a JSON REST API is the way to go for a basic web service. Ruby is a typed language so you can't be throwing strings or bools into floats or vice-versa and Rails is a decent enough MVC layer that prevents the clueless from going willy-nilly with their "ace software design skills", but is flexible enough that it's easy to get your work done.
But is it suitable for an enterprise roll out to handle all the various internal systems? I think not.
And that's where you bring things in like Java or Python that can handle these things and that's where you get real nit-picky about validation, since those are vital internal processes and not JSON crap you feed consumers.
Yeah -- because we see such an independent revolutionary spirit alive and well in America. Sure, we get some gun nuts who talk big about taking down the gov't with their band of freedom fighting rednecks. But the fact is the people want shiny iDevices, SUVs and lots of gratuitous titties on HBO Dramas. You don't get those things if you are off fighting for silly things like freedom from an oppressive government.
Android? Greener Pastures? If you mean you'd rather code for Android users who would rather spend a week figuring out how to break and hack things to get around paying that exorbitant $0.99 for your app is preferable to coding for iOS and actually get that $0.70 from each App purchase.
Funny how Linux users think everyone should work for free because they don't want to pay for shit.
Of course this attitude has no bearing on why Linux fails to attract successful commercial products to it's OS
and why Android is losing developers due to rampant piracy.
Considering what a piece of crap the animated show was, I think I'd just pass.
It works as a comic strip -- but that's about as far as it goes.
Seriously, I've yet to see a WYSIWYG that did anything but create timewaste by having to first learn it's interface then spend time getting around it's interface when it comes to the inevitable real world scenario requiring you to do things the WYSIWYG designers didn't account for.
I do however love IDE's and use Aptana Studio 3 for Rails, PHP and HTML5 development. With that framework, I use HAML to speed up my HTML generation, since it's a nice short-hand format that produces compliant HTML and XHTML and SCSS that allows for the use of mixins, functions and variables in CSS, as well as coffeescript for Javascript.
Yes, all these things have to be compiled, which is no biggie and I notice the time savings by using these shorthand syntaxes with high reusability and environment integration are indeed significant. And these things DO NOT require a specific IDE, they can be installed as commandline tools via Node.JS and some quick helper shell scripts can be created to handle the compiling or you can use tools like grunt.
Because they couldn't be bothered to pay $0.99 at the App Store, they'll be teaming like gang busters to DONATE that dollar.
Look there's a damn good reason why Linux fails as a Mainstream OS -- because the core user base are those who think that everything should be free and would rather spend DAYS OR WEEKS trying to pirate something than pay anyone a dime.
Funny how Linux's main core of developers think that developers who make software they like should be made to code in the gutter like paupers -- or go "get a real" job and do their Linux App coding as a "hobby". The fact is every mainstream App that has come to Linux HAS LEFT in short order.
So go rail on about how it's an evil conspiracy between the hated Apple and M$ that keeps the killer Apps away while you go on pirating the works of anyone who develops for your "free and open" platform who tries to do so while paying the rent.
Well considering that Nixon took the US off the Gold Standard, effectively turning into a "fiat currency" that the bankers have complete control over -- you may have made a very profound point.
For it was Jefferson that predicted that the Bankers and Corporations would enrich themselves and cast the people into poverty. In 2000, a family of four making $90k a year was considered poverty level in Silicon Valley. Now days it would not surprise me to see that bar raised to $125,000 since US buying power has fallen sharply and greatly increased gas prices have led to greater costs for food (up 30% over the last ten years) and other basic living necessities.
At the rate we're going, with raising gas and food prices and climate change slated to increase and make farming harder -- most every middle-class American will hit poverty level in the next decade. Or so that's what MIT, the Pentagon and a couple other research Institutions predict.
And I'm not saying Comcast or AT&T is any better.
But it least they don't publicly productize it.
To them, the beholder is the Gov't, who are nasty enough.
Google has no Masters and the Gov't protecting them as a Private Citizen.
So they have no one to answer to as an authority to mortally fear.
"Thanks, but I'd take Google any day, over that shit."
WTF -- I've been ranked a lowly Troll for speaking my mind against Google You do know they want to know what's in your fridge, they wat to know what's in your closet and they want to know what you read and what you do.
And if you can sit there and tell me that's preferable -- THEN FUCK YOU.
Frankly -- maybe we need a civil war, where we can discuss this shit OFFLINE.
To me Freedom from unlawful searches and freedom to seek my own knowledge and conduct my business is freedom from an OPPRESSIVE REGIME CONTROLLING IT ALL.
So fuck you -- I am for being anonymous, for being free and NOT for some asswipe "Not Evil Larry's" Corp trying to control me and use me to their ends.
And FUCK YOU for saying that we should just trust some CITIZEN that has NOT MASTER, NO OVERSIGHT, NO ONE TO JAIL for their actions and that we should call them Master.
Google has made it clear for several years that KNOWLEDGE ABOUT US is their product and commodity.
But in USA 2012 I AM A TROLL. Maybe in USA 2020, I can shoot to kill fucktards like you off my lawn.
Oh yes, I am passionate about this.
I love freedom from Hall Monitors and Snoops.
Fuck you slave, I will lovingly kill thralls who try to enslave me to their master.
First of, this question is pedestrian -- any techie over the age of 25 knows that Google has been buying up Dark Fiber for several years and has already been expecting the obvious outcome.
Secondly, there's been considerable success in keeping Google OUT OF the ISP market due to their intent to work with Municipalities -- which AT&T, Verizon and Comcast have successfully sued to prevent happening.
Thirdly, Lastly and Not Least, Google would be the most invasive and scary ISP of all.
They quite literally would do everything they could to bring every device into search index as possible
down to your shitter.
Google has backed off a bit in the last couple years, but their intentions are clear -- to know, index and predict everything about you. And if they were to become an ISP, they would do all the same shit AT&T, Verizon and Comcast does, but with far worse breaches of privacy.
Google pulled an Larry the Salesguy just before their IPO -- they said they would not be Evil.
When at the time, they knew full well they already were.
Funny how not so many people talked about their assrape of Safari Users -- guess that's what they get for being Apple Faggot Fanbois huh?
Google so good? Yeah right.
They are slime and make their products as a means to collect info -- effectively the most pervasive spymaster ever.
But hey -- don't let me dissuade you from the Free Google internet when it finally does come.
I mean hey -- they probably already know about your man on chihuahua anal rape fetish.
Because that's all he did was generate hype. It's not like he helped give birth to the Home Brew computing culture that all the Linux fags circle jerk about -- because that's what the Apple-1 was, a bare-bones integrated board that at the time was every bit as revolutionary as Linux or the Raspberry Pi. And even more so, because back then, computers weren't something people had in their homes or even at work. It was the first hobbyist board to allow enthusiasts to build their own PC in their Mom's basement.
Sure, he knew how to market -- but he had innovative products to back the hype up and it was usually the consumers that generated the hype because the products they made were actually very cool and exciting. Which is why they get copied to no end by all the shit ass, low rent PC makers you must love so much. Think about that next time you consider purchasing an Ultrabook, a Samsung Galaxy or an Android Phone.
Finally -- an OS that CAN'T PLAY MP3's. I'm sure it will be very popular.
Mozilla is floundering hard -- maybe they should just go away.