It's in the works - check out Blue Stacks which is an Android player for Windows that doesn't rely on emulation. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds pretty cool.
While George Bush certainly deserves a smackdown for his assault on civil liberties, the scanners were introduced on Obama's watch. Obama also signed into law the indefinite detention of American citizens and has no problem ordering the execution of American citizens who have not been formally accused of any crime. It depresses me to see fellow progressives cheer "four more years" for a man who has extended the very policies they decried during Bush's watch.
And it continues to baffle me why anyone would choose to vote for either Republican or Democrat when both parties have shown utter contempt for the people whom they serve. The only thing that seems to motivate politicians to do the "right thing" is the fear of losing their job and with advent of unlimited spending during election cycles, that fear doesn't have the weight it used to.
And JFK wore a flounder on his head to bed every night. I mean... back that shit up. It goes doubly so when you post as an AC. And really, even if Overly Critical Guy is a paid marketer, I expect a knowledgeable tech orientated community to rebut his arguments instead of suppress them.
Jesus Christ... these smart phone arguments are really tanking this site.
As an app developer, I won't abandon the iPad 1 until iOS5 is well out of reach. We're talking three or four years when iOS7 is released. And you know something - even if apps are no longer written for it, it's not like the device will stop working. It will still make for a great email/surfing device.
We'll be probably being seeing the numbers shift as more ios developers start incorporating ARC into their code. For those not in the know, ARC is compiler optimization that handles object deallocation for the developer thereby preventing the most common kinds of crashes. People often get it confused with garbage collection and while the end results are similar, ARC occurs only occurs at compile time so there is no runtime performance hit. It's a big win for developers and end users.
I don't know... your post reads like an excuse and an apology for the guy. As far as I'm concerned, if the guy signs an extension of the Patriot Act, then he takes ownership of it. If he couldn't rally congress to shutdown gitmo, then he takes ownership of that. If the guy orders the assassination of an American citizen, well, you know the rest. Your justifying his failures when you should be holding him accountable to them.
And comparing him to Bush does no one any favors. It's like trumpeting your D- as a major accomplishment because the guy next to you got an F.
If people did hold their representatives accountable to them, then these politicians would hesitate to make stupid ass choices for fear of getting thrown out (their greatest fear). And this means in practice not being afraid to lose an election by either nominating an "unelectable" candidate who at least - voting wise - is consistent with your party's beliefs, or voting third party. You gotta sacrifice the present for a better tomorrow. If not in your life, at least your children's life.
Have you ever thought about making a reservation at an Apple store and having them take a look at it in person? Or, if you're too far from a store, mail your hardware to them for inspection? I've needed their assistance a couple times and they've always been very accommodating and helpful.
I grew up on the game and my best friend bought all the books (1st edition rules, the monster manual, etc) so we played a lot.
The problem was that he wasn't a very good storyteller, so one day, someone made the sly remark for him to start using one of his precooked modules.
And when he did -- it was the most fun we had ever experienced. In retrospect, it was far better than any computer game if have played since. It's pretty awesome that your sixteen year old and his friends can experience it.
*thankyou* I'm an ios dev and it's nice to see some rationale discussion about platforms instead of the typical feces tossing match that typically occurs here.
You just put yourself at risk for losing your house over a few percentage points. You may have great resources but you just never know what may happen that may prevent you from paying in the future. I mean, look around - people who were making good money a few years back are losing their homes left and right.
Personally, I think you should have bought the house outright, then taken the projected cost of the mortgage and deposit it into a range of mutual funds. That way, you would have eliminated the risk. And hell - with a paid for home - you won't feel pressured to stay in a job that sucks (if it ever goes south).
Meh... I had my debit card stolen from me in CA and before I could put a lock on it, over five hundred dollars were stolen from my checking account.
So, my bank and I filed a police report, cancelled the card, and the funds were reimbursed to me. And I've never been skimmed. Ever.
And yes, you can dispute debit charges well.
Really, the only difference between credit and debit cards is frequent flyer miles and owing someone money at the end the month. Personally, I don't like to be in anyone's pocket so I stick with debit although some car rental companies may make a hassle.
Libre office works fine. I use it as my primary office suite at a workplace that uses Microsoft Office for everything. When I do run into an edge case with a docx file - I just ask my coworker to resave it as a doc file and send back over to me. Works great.
I don't know. It's a mess on OSX. The process peaks around a gig on my machine before it pukes all over itself and crashes. This with maybe four or five extensions with about six or seven tabs open. I restart the damn thing at least once a day.
Sometime back, some slashdotter informed me that I was spreading pure FUD and then a week later, the firefox team announced that version 7 would address the memory problems (which it hasn't on my machine). Although Installing flashblock did improve the browser's responsiveness.
Honestly, I could care less at this point. I'm just waiting for Chrome's web developer tools to get as good as Firebug and then firefox will be relegated to a pure testing browser. And personally, I think Mozilla has grown too big and lost sight of its priorities.
I'm guessing it is a result of the large adoption of Android. I'm guessing for every high grade device, there are probably three or four crappy ones out there. Probably more are hitting the market every day. It's definitely not a reflection of the quality of the os but rather the quality of manufacturers trying to vomit out anything android branded for a quick buck.
Dude... the contemporary news media is entirely shameful. They will do this to any story that gets eyeballs. They will wring it for every last drop of blood, then jump on it to see if it produces any more and even when it's clearly dead, they will continue to twist and shimmy the fucker until there's nothing left.
Do yourself and cut the cable. There's plenty of other ways to get your news. Or at the very least, keep it off for awhile. After awhile, you'll be surprised to find out that you won't miss it.
Granted I haven't used Windows in the past three years, but I always hated the mish mash of user interfaces. Never mind all the hidden secrets (press alt to see the menu, disable personalized menus to see the actual options, wave a dead chicken over the keyboard to get to the command prompt). I had often wished they would just pick one and be consistent across the board.
But doesn't the mozilla foundation make millions of dollars per year? Can't they afford a team of dedicated engineers to close out these bugs? This isn't some scrappy open source project anymore. It's making serious money which begs the question.... where is that money going?
All you have to do is open the xpi in e.g. 7zip or winrar, open the install.rdf in a text editor, search for maxVersion, and change it to match your version. Change it to something big, like 10, and you'll be in the clear for a long time.
Holy shit... I can't believe I just read that. That's not a solution. That's not even close to one. It may work for you and other developers, but for the average user, you might as well have them download another browser.
What someone needs to do is actually fix the add-on code in firefox itself so that users don't have to jump through hoops for every release. This new release schedule is forcing people to avoid upgrading which is the last thing you want.
Jeez... I'm tired of reading comments from people who have no clue how the system actually works. If you did, you'd realize how AT&T actually loses money per text.
Here's the breakdown...
You send a text message which transmits the data in digital format (ones and zeros, to the layman). The message is received in a central building where the message is repeated by flashing lightbulbs. One pulse for zero. Two pulses for one. Workers transcribe the texts then pass them off to their editorial department who double checks the transcription. Then it's passed to another department (whom I'm not at liberty say who or what it does*cough*NSA*cough) before it is passed to the encoding department where workers hand encode the messages into paper rolls that are fed into the central dispatch unit to where it is communicated to your phone.
And you complain that it costs twenty bucks a month? .
As far as I understand, objects will still have their retain counts, but the compiler will analyze your code, then add the release calls for you. If you try and make your own release calls, you'll get a compiler error. Crazy stuff.
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It's in the works - check out Blue Stacks which is an Android player for Windows that doesn't rely on emulation. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds pretty cool.
While George Bush certainly deserves a smackdown for his assault on civil liberties, the scanners were introduced on Obama's watch. Obama also signed into law the indefinite detention of American citizens and has no problem ordering the execution of American citizens who have not been formally accused of any crime. It depresses me to see fellow progressives cheer "four more years" for a man who has extended the very policies they decried during Bush's watch.
And it continues to baffle me why anyone would choose to vote for either Republican or Democrat when both parties have shown utter contempt for the people whom they serve. The only thing that seems to motivate politicians to do the "right thing" is the fear of losing their job and with advent of unlimited spending during election cycles, that fear doesn't have the weight it used to.
And JFK wore a flounder on his head to bed every night. I mean ... back that shit up. It goes doubly so when you post as an AC. And really, even if Overly Critical Guy is a paid marketer, I expect a knowledgeable tech orientated community to rebut his arguments instead of suppress them.
Jesus Christ ... these smart phone arguments are really tanking this site.
As an app developer, I won't abandon the iPad 1 until iOS5 is well out of reach. We're talking three or four years when iOS7 is released. And you know something - even if apps are no longer written for it, it's not like the device will stop working. It will still make for a great email/surfing device.
So in summation: Whoop, Whoop, Whoop, Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk
Yeah, that's my experience with JavaScript too.
(i kid, well written post, btw)
We'll be probably being seeing the numbers shift as more ios developers start incorporating ARC into their code. For those not in the know, ARC is compiler optimization that handles object deallocation for the developer thereby preventing the most common kinds of crashes. People often get it confused with garbage collection and while the end results are similar, ARC occurs only occurs at compile time so there is no runtime performance hit. It's a big win for developers and end users.
I don't know ... your post reads like an excuse and an apology for the guy. As far as I'm concerned, if the guy signs an extension of the Patriot Act, then he takes ownership of it. If he couldn't rally congress to shutdown gitmo, then he takes ownership of that. If the guy orders the assassination of an American citizen, well, you know the rest. Your justifying his failures when you should be holding him accountable to them.
And comparing him to Bush does no one any favors. It's like trumpeting your D- as a major accomplishment because the guy next to you got an F.
If people did hold their representatives accountable to them, then these politicians would hesitate to make stupid ass choices for fear of getting thrown out (their greatest fear). And this means in practice not being afraid to lose an election by either nominating an "unelectable" candidate who at least - voting wise - is consistent with your party's beliefs, or voting third party. You gotta sacrifice the present for a better tomorrow. If not in your life, at least your children's life.
Have you ever thought about making a reservation at an Apple store and having them take a look at it in person? Or, if you're too far from a store, mail your hardware to them for inspection? I've needed their assistance a couple times and they've always been very accommodating and helpful.
That's like mailing Genghis Kahn some arrows in protest of his pillaging campaign.
Nerd, no. Devi worshiper, yes :)
I grew up on the game and my best friend bought all the books (1st edition rules, the monster manual, etc) so we played a lot.
The problem was that he wasn't a very good storyteller, so one day, someone made the sly remark for him to start using one of his precooked modules.
And when he did -- it was the most fun we had ever experienced. In retrospect, it was far better than any computer game if have played since. It's pretty awesome that your sixteen year old and his friends can experience it.
*thankyou* I'm an ios dev and it's nice to see some rationale discussion about platforms instead of the typical feces tossing match that typically occurs here.
That was an ios 4.3 issue. It was resolved in ios 5.
You just put yourself at risk for losing your house over a few percentage points. You may have great resources but you just never know what may happen that may prevent you from paying in the future. I mean, look around - people who were making good money a few years back are losing their homes left and right.
Personally, I think you should have bought the house outright, then taken the projected cost of the mortgage and deposit it into a range of mutual funds. That way, you would have eliminated the risk. And hell - with a paid for home - you won't feel pressured to stay in a job that sucks (if it ever goes south).
Meh ... I had my debit card stolen from me in CA and before I could put a lock on it, over five hundred dollars were stolen from my checking account.
So, my bank and I filed a police report, cancelled the card, and the funds were reimbursed to me. And I've never been skimmed. Ever.
And yes, you can dispute debit charges well.
Really, the only difference between credit and debit cards is frequent flyer miles and owing someone money at the end the month. Personally, I don't like to be in anyone's pocket so I stick with debit although some car rental companies may make a hassle.
Libre office works fine. I use it as my primary office suite at a workplace that uses Microsoft Office for everything. When I do run into an edge case with a docx file - I just ask my coworker to resave it as a doc file and send back over to me. Works great.
I don't know. It's a mess on OSX. The process peaks around a gig on my machine before it pukes all over itself and crashes. This with maybe four or five extensions with about six or seven tabs open. I restart the damn thing at least once a day.
Sometime back, some slashdotter informed me that I was spreading pure FUD and then a week later, the firefox team announced that version 7 would address the memory problems (which it hasn't on my machine). Although Installing flashblock did improve the browser's responsiveness.
Honestly, I could care less at this point. I'm just waiting for Chrome's web developer tools to get as good as Firebug and then firefox will be relegated to a pure testing browser. And personally, I think Mozilla has grown too big and lost sight of its priorities.
I'm guessing it is a result of the large adoption of Android. I'm guessing for every high grade device, there are probably three or four crappy ones out there. Probably more are hitting the market every day. It's definitely not a reflection of the quality of the os but rather the quality of manufacturers trying to vomit out anything android branded for a quick buck.
Dude ... the contemporary news media is entirely shameful. They will do this to any story that gets eyeballs. They will wring it for every last drop of blood, then jump on it to see if it produces any more and even when it's clearly dead, they will continue to twist and shimmy the fucker until there's nothing left.
Do yourself and cut the cable. There's plenty of other ways to get your news. Or at the very least, keep it off for awhile. After awhile, you'll be surprised to find out that you won't miss it.
If it does, you'll die. Which you were going to do anyway.
Not to sound like the Jim Morrisson downer in the room, but you ARE going to die. We are all on death row.
Don't wait until a doctor reaffirms this fact to try and do the things that you consider fulfilling.
Granted I haven't used Windows in the past three years, but I always hated the mish mash of user interfaces. Never mind all the hidden secrets (press alt to see the menu, disable personalized menus to see the actual options, wave a dead chicken over the keyboard to get to the command prompt). I had often wished they would just pick one and be consistent across the board.
But doesn't the mozilla foundation make millions of dollars per year? Can't they afford a team of dedicated engineers to close out these bugs? This isn't some scrappy open source project anymore. It's making serious money which begs the question .... where is that money going?
Then get to work. Start submitting patches. Advocate for your vision. Otherwise, don't support the products that run counter to it.
All you have to do is open the xpi in e.g. 7zip or winrar, open the install.rdf in a text editor, search for maxVersion, and change it to match your version. Change it to something big, like 10, and you'll be in the clear for a long time.
Holy shit ... I can't believe I just read that. That's not a solution. That's not even close to one. It may work for you and other developers, but for the average user, you might as well have them download another browser.
What someone needs to do is actually fix the add-on code in firefox itself so that users don't have to jump through hoops for every release. This new release schedule is forcing people to avoid upgrading which is the last thing you want.
Jeez ... I'm tired of reading comments from people who have no clue how the system actually works. If you did, you'd realize how AT&T actually loses money per text.
Here's the breakdown ...
You send a text message which transmits the data in digital format (ones and zeros, to the layman). The message is received in a central building where the message is repeated by flashing lightbulbs. One pulse for zero. Two pulses for one. Workers transcribe the texts then pass them off to their editorial department who double checks the transcription. Then it's passed to another department (whom I'm not at liberty say who or what it does*cough*NSA*cough) before it is passed to the encoding department where workers hand encode the messages into paper rolls that are fed into the central dispatch unit to where it is communicated to your phone.
And you complain that it costs twenty bucks a month? .
As far as I understand, objects will still have their retain counts, but the compiler will analyze your code, then add the release calls for you. If you try and make your own release calls, you'll get a compiler error. Crazy stuff.