I'm just a one man operation doing a browser with mobile app API for my own service (for extra money revenue -- not a true startup in the typical sense) that got shutdown mid-development by this fracas. However, I'm not ready to move to Seattle -- lived there for 15 years, and unless you are wealthy the place has fuck all going on. I'm not wealthy and my CPA advises me that simply filing incorporation in another state without significant infrastructure there will not pass the smell test. However, I'm considering living in Cabo San Lucas for the next couple years on an FM3 and looking at ways to swing that little complexity. But personally, I'd rather set up shop in Reno or Vegas under Nevada Charter than Washington State, if anything because Nevada is very corporation friendly and in much closer proximity to CA than Seattle and the property values there are still very reasonable since they didn't have the quite housing bubble that Seattle and other major Metro areas did over the last 10 years.
Frankly, I'm ticked-off at Amazon since they seem to be willing to settle this matter with CA, but have pissed all over their affiliates and haven't even sent a damned email about this latest development and how it effects the possibility of reinstature. And that really speaks a lot to what trash and garbage they view their affiliates as. So I've moved on to other projects for now.
You'd think Google would combine Desktop + Cloud search in their Desktop Search offering to provide seamless Cloud integration and use of Cloud as an online file backup.
It appears Google would disagree. Cloud or nothing then!
My stint was in 93 and prior to the Jaguar release. As far as who ran the show then, I have no clue -- I was a contractor, worked from home and only met the team in Milpitas once when I was in the Bay Area for a visit since I lived in Seattle back then.
In name only. I believe the company that bought the name was known as Infogrames, but acquired the Atari trademark and game library sometime in the early naughties.
Back in the 90's I worked as an artist on a game for the original Atari in Milpitas, they folded over a decade ago.
Anyone that has ever read Machiavelli's the Prince knows that mercenaries are bound to bite you in the ass sooner or later. And while the US has made light use of mercenary troops, we've already seen BlackWater have to change it's name to "Xe Services" after it's outrageous actions caused such a shit storm around the world.
You take a maverick group like Blackwater, give them greyhats with a black lining and put them in charge of cyberwarfare, it's only a matter of time till they abuse it to such an extent that they create more problems than they are worth or worse, are ordered to spy on or act against US citizens on US soil in an overt attempt to circumvent US laws regarding the actions of the US gov't.
Clearly you've never lived in SF or you'd know that Liberal Progressives are the flip side of the coin to Neo-Conservative nutbaggers.
Thanks to Liberal Progressives, SF is knee deep in it's own piss and shit while it's political environment while always to the left has become an absolute farce and quite frankly an international joke thanks to these clueless assholes blocking gentrification and non-affordable housing development which has driven out the middle class while increasing the number of homeless and urban blight throughout the city.
Liberal Progressive is every inch as much an oxymoron as Fiscal Conservative
Ahhh -- you're a Networking guy, as in routers, firewalls and the sorts, I can see why you're having trouble. I had a friend have to leave SF to get work (went back to E. Coast) because Network Admin jobs are scarce in the Bay Area. Most start ups have fuck all for infrastructure and hire young, cheap admins to run their internal services while buying Managed servers or Cloud solutions for their public enterprise.
You might consider consulting, but that takes people skill and business accumen -- so it's not for everyone
Oh FFS, so he's supposed to mine for rare earths and smelt his own exotic materials in order to say he INVENTED something? Look, he DESIGNED and ASSEMBLED something that did not exist before. If you don't consider that inventing, you're just a dumb-ass.
BTW: what have you invented? I got good money that says fuck all.
When I want to compare California to another State, New Hampshire immediately coms to mind -- what with it's vast industrial and agricultural base, it's teaming coast line with international shipping, it's influx of international tourism, it's ongoing immigration crises and gang activity. Aise from the fact that California has 36x the population of New hampshire, these two states are almost exactly alike in every way.
Now that lawsuit brought against Google for use of the name Nexus doesn't seem so frivolous. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/07/content_12772459.htm
For the student or casual hobbyist, PHP is more likely to be immediately useful and beneficial. Sure, it's not a language for desktop apps -- but it's great for web apps which is what your student/hobbyist will most likely benefit from being able to create. Plus. PHP is a great gateway language since it gives you many of the programming elements of C or Java without all the overhead and complexity of a typical C or Java project and can be done solely in a text editor without requiring a compiler or IDE and most every web host will have PHP preinstalled. Also, they can get a taste for mobile app development without requiring a developer license by leveraging HTML5 in their UI with JavaScript -- which should be a fairly simple language to learn in tandem with PHP. When they're ready, they can move up to C, Java, Python or Ruby as their needs or interests dictate.
Let's face it, the days of the desktop app are waning, it's fast becoming all about web and mobile -- PHP, HTML5 and JavaScript are a solid set of languages to have a working knowledge of.
Once I think I've gotten used to the weirdness that comes out of Japan -- they go and top themselves. I suppose they'll be coming out with Tentacle and Used Panty flavored Shit-Meat® in short order
By joking around that it will look like a landed spaceship, no one would ever suspect that it was a space-time ship ready to take Steve jobs back home where he can be given a new cancer free body and then return with a new range of gadgets to hawk.
What the article plainly ignores is that OS X is the de-facto development environment for the Web Services industry. Most if not all web development shops are based on OS X for their development platforms. It's this core base of web developers already on OS X that caused the App Store to be the success it is today.
Take away OS X and shoving iOS down everyone's throats would be a sure fire way to drive developers AWAY from Apple's offerings and TOWARDS Ubuntu + Windows + Parallels for the majority of the web developer user base where only iPhone/iPad developers (read 2 or 3 tops even for a large shop) would be the only ones using Apple "computers" for development. At that point Ubuntu will see a HUGE increase in use causing Android and Java App development to sky rocket, while the iPhone/iPad development will simply stagnate before a long decline into eventual irrelevancy.
-- That is if the predictions of this article are indeed true --
I don't think they are though. I do believe that the iMac and Macbook will go the route of iOS. However, xCode is far too reliant on OS X to be moved into iOS -- and it will be a cold day in hell that Adobe, Auto Desk and other high end software manufacturers give up 30% of their profits to Apple, aside from losing their core developer base, they's lose their core designer base as well.
So no -- a move to iOS for their professional line makes no sense, since iOS requires developers and those developers are reliant upon xCode to deliver apps. And Apple can not simply just up and kill off it's professional line. Because of this reality, I believe that Apple will continue to deliver OS X Server on the Mac Mini Server and OS X on Mac Pros and MacBook pros for the foreseeable future -- read as long as Apple exists.
However, all their consumer-level products WILL be transitioned to iOS, where those users will happily play with Final Cut Express, PhotoShop Elements and iWork along side their Fart apps and Farmville.
Nothing new here, aside from maybe the 3G chip. When I rented out a loft in SF 10 years back, the landlady gave me the manual to the door intercom and I was able to program it via it's dial in touch-tone API to dial my cell so I could answer the door from wherever -- which was very handy.
If a news article about a possible link to cancer from cell phones has you worried about brain cancer I don't think you are actually qualified to get brain cancer -- so you have no reason to worry.
Next up: Breathing air and eating food can cause cancer
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I'm just a one man operation doing a browser with mobile app API for my own service (for extra money revenue -- not a true startup in the typical sense) that got shutdown mid-development by this fracas. However, I'm not ready to move to Seattle -- lived there for 15 years, and unless you are wealthy the place has fuck all going on. I'm not wealthy and my CPA advises me that simply filing incorporation in another state without significant infrastructure there will not pass the smell test.
However, I'm considering living in Cabo San Lucas for the next couple years on an FM3 and looking at ways to swing that little complexity. But personally, I'd rather set up shop in Reno or Vegas under Nevada Charter than Washington State, if anything because Nevada is very corporation friendly and in much closer proximity to CA than Seattle and the property values there are still very reasonable since they didn't have the quite housing bubble that Seattle and other major Metro areas did over the last 10 years.
Frankly, I'm ticked-off at Amazon since they seem to be willing to settle this matter with CA, but have pissed all over their affiliates and haven't even sent a damned email about this latest development and how it effects the possibility of reinstature. And that really speaks a lot to what trash and garbage they view their affiliates as. So I've moved on to other projects for now.
You'd think Google would combine Desktop + Cloud search in their Desktop Search offering to provide seamless Cloud integration and use of Cloud as an online file backup.
It appears Google would disagree.
Cloud or nothing then!
My stint was in 93 and prior to the Jaguar release. As far as who ran the show then, I have no clue -- I was a contractor, worked from home and only met the team in Milpitas once when I was in the Bay Area for a visit since I lived in Seattle back then.
In name only. I believe the company that bought the name was known as Infogrames, but acquired the Atari trademark and game library sometime in the early naughties.
Back in the 90's I worked as an artist on a game for the original Atari in Milpitas, they folded over a decade ago.
Corpse Stomping!
Move to Europe -- that's how it's done over there.
Worked out real swell for Air France 447.
Oh my god -- wow -- what a mind blowing concept...
If more than one universe, can it really be called a universe?
Maybe we will need to call it something else...
If more than one universe - hmmm - that'd possibly be very many.
Many is multiple of one...
I got it!
We'll call it a MANYVERSE! .. that doesn't have a catchy enough ring to it.
No... wait
Many... mega... multi... multiple... hmmm....
Multipleverse?? multiver..
Ahh yes that's it -- A MULTIVERSE!
Or you could have just read the damned summary.
Anyone that has ever read Machiavelli's the Prince knows that mercenaries are bound to bite you in the ass sooner or later. And while the US has made light use of mercenary troops, we've already seen BlackWater have to change it's name to "Xe Services" after it's outrageous actions caused such a shit storm around the world.
You take a maverick group like Blackwater, give them greyhats with a black lining and put them in charge of cyberwarfare, it's only a matter of time till they abuse it to such an extent that they create more problems than they are worth or worse, are ordered to spy on or act against US citizens on US soil in an overt attempt to circumvent US laws regarding the actions of the US gov't.
Over the last 10 years the only products Microsoft has succeeded in killing are it's own
"America needs a valid liberal progressive party"
Clearly you've never lived in SF or you'd know that Liberal Progressives are the flip side of the coin to Neo-Conservative nutbaggers.
Thanks to Liberal Progressives, SF is knee deep in it's own piss and shit while it's political environment while always to the left has become an absolute farce and quite frankly an international joke thanks to these clueless assholes blocking gentrification and non-affordable housing development which has driven out the middle class while increasing the number of homeless and urban blight throughout the city.
Liberal Progressive is every inch as much an oxymoron as Fiscal Conservative
It took long enough, but the Terran's have just found their natural expansion point for a second Command Post -- better send some over some SCV's
of Global Thermonuclear War?
Ahhh -- you're a Networking guy, as in routers, firewalls and the sorts, I can see why you're having trouble. I had a friend have to leave SF to get work (went back to E. Coast) because Network Admin jobs are scarce in the Bay Area. Most start ups have fuck all for infrastructure and hire young, cheap admins to run their internal services while buying Managed servers or Cloud solutions for their public enterprise.
You might consider consulting, but that takes people skill and business accumen -- so it's not for everyone
Oh FFS, so he's supposed to mine for rare earths and smelt his own exotic materials in order to say he INVENTED something?
Look, he DESIGNED and ASSEMBLED something that did not exist before. If you don't consider that inventing, you're just a dumb-ass.
BTW: what have you invented?
I got good money that says fuck all.
The lab monkey as desease vector scenario bares far more resemblance to 28 Days Later than "The Last Man on Earth/Omega Man/I am Legend"
When I want to compare California to another State, New Hampshire immediately coms to mind -- what with it's vast industrial and agricultural base, it's teaming coast line with international shipping, it's influx of international tourism, it's ongoing immigration crises and gang activity. Aise from the fact that California has 36x the population of New hampshire, these two states are almost exactly alike in every way.
FTFA: "The SSA suspended mailings of the statement in March citing budgetary concerns"
When they can't even afford postage, how far off can the warnings of the SSA's eminent collapse be?
Now that lawsuit brought against Google for use of the name Nexus doesn't seem so frivolous.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/07/content_12772459.htm
For the student or casual hobbyist, PHP is more likely to be immediately useful and beneficial. Sure, it's not a language for desktop apps -- but it's great for web apps which is what your student/hobbyist will most likely benefit from being able to create. Plus. PHP is a great gateway language since it gives you many of the programming elements of C or Java without all the overhead and complexity of a typical C or Java project and can be done solely in a text editor without requiring a compiler or IDE and most every web host will have PHP preinstalled. Also, they can get a taste for mobile app development without requiring a developer license by leveraging HTML5 in their UI with JavaScript -- which should be a fairly simple language to learn in tandem with PHP. When they're ready, they can move up to C, Java, Python or Ruby as their needs or interests dictate.
Let's face it, the days of the desktop app are waning, it's fast becoming all about web and mobile -- PHP, HTML5 and JavaScript are a solid set of languages to have a working knowledge of.
Card Blanche -- What's in your wallet?
Once I think I've gotten used to the weirdness that comes out of Japan -- they go and top themselves.
I suppose they'll be coming out with Tentacle and Used Panty flavored Shit-Meat® in short order
By joking around that it will look like a landed spaceship, no one would ever suspect that it was a space-time ship ready to take Steve jobs back home where he can be given a new cancer free body and then return with a new range of gadgets to hawk.
What the article plainly ignores is that OS X is the de-facto development environment for the Web Services industry. Most if not all web development shops are based on OS X for their development platforms. It's this core base of web developers already on OS X that caused the App Store to be the success it is today.
Take away OS X and shoving iOS down everyone's throats would be a sure fire way to drive developers AWAY from Apple's offerings and TOWARDS Ubuntu + Windows + Parallels for the majority of the web developer user base where only iPhone/iPad developers (read 2 or 3 tops even for a large shop) would be the only ones using Apple "computers" for development. At that point Ubuntu will see a HUGE increase in use causing Android and Java App development to sky rocket, while the iPhone/iPad development will simply stagnate before a long decline into eventual irrelevancy.
-- That is if the predictions of this article are indeed true --
I don't think they are though. I do believe that the iMac and Macbook will go the route of iOS. However, xCode is far too reliant on OS X to be moved into iOS -- and it will be a cold day in hell that Adobe, Auto Desk and other high end software manufacturers give up 30% of their profits to Apple, aside from losing their core developer base, they's lose their core designer base as well.
So no -- a move to iOS for their professional line makes no sense, since iOS requires developers and those developers are reliant upon xCode to deliver apps. And Apple can not simply just up and kill off it's professional line. Because of this reality, I believe that Apple will continue to deliver OS X Server on the Mac Mini Server and OS X on Mac Pros and MacBook pros for the foreseeable future -- read as long as Apple exists.
However, all their consumer-level products WILL be transitioned to iOS, where those users will happily play with Final Cut Express, PhotoShop Elements and iWork along side their Fart apps and Farmville.
Nothing new here, aside from maybe the 3G chip. When I rented out a loft in SF 10 years back, the landlady gave me the manual to the door intercom and I was able to program it via it's dial in touch-tone API to dial my cell so I could answer the door from wherever -- which was very handy.
If a news article about a possible link to cancer from cell phones has you worried about brain cancer I don't think you are actually qualified to get brain cancer -- so you have no reason to worry.
Next up: Breathing air and eating food can cause cancer