I can understand it being found on Android devices since individual phone companies (who are absolute sh** at making software - personal experience) would want to avoid doing it themselves, but Apple?
Yep. They had appointed a transition manager to integrate our company with the division of the "very large corporation" that purchased us, and after a while I simply BCC'd him on everything I had to re-iterate, such as "Heinrich" - (hint) - ", you *did* receive the two previous e-mails asking you for confirmation of your action items from two weeks ago, yes/no?"
I really don't miss those meetings about having meetings...:)
...that it is a record of responsibilities and commitments; especially in a corporate environment.
An example is a company I used to be involved with was purchased by "very large corporation." The people in this "very large corporation" had a MUCH different work ethic than the people in our Company. They ducked responsibility like it was a fresh dose of bubonic plague. They weaseled, they professed ignorance, they tried the 'plausible deniability' route, they tried everything. Once they realized that I kept every interoffice e-mail permanently and I wielded these as a weapon against their insipid mediocrity (a superlative they don't deserve) - two things happened. Our meetings became less about "what? I thought you were heading that up?" and more about "here's our current update..." The other thing that happened is that people tried to avoid responding to my e-mails that pinned them to accepting or rejecting their responsibilities, LOL.
Thank goodness I don't have to work there anymore.
Oh, and yes, it was a European Company that bought us.
Sure it is, if you have integrity. Don't want to lie because you're asked about something sensitive? Reply "I'm sorry, that's something I cannot talk about."
The most honest politician must be a second term President;)
You seem to be conveniently and repeatedly missing the point.
I have clearly stated that my objection to ANY lie is when the President is holding office; i.e., testifying under oath while holding the office of the President of the United States of America, speaking to the American public while President of the United States of America.
If you think that is acceptable for a President to do, then you and I differ.
First they came for the Head Start,
and I didn’t speak up,
because my kids were already grown. Then they came for the unions,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was retired. Then they came for the national debt,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a tea partier. Then they came for Medicare,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
...(although there are doubtlessly many others) is my predisposition towards people with a P.h.D. in Computer Science.
I didn't use to have this bias until I worked with some of them. I have worked in 3 different corporations/companies that have had Comp Sci. P.h.D. personnel. Only one of them was in any sort of management position and he was seriously useless. The other interactions were with corporate research teams, which tended to have a large number of Comp. Sci. P.h.D.s attached, and some computer vision engineers.
Each and every one of those people was hopeless as a software engineer. They were smart, they were nice, they were idiots when it came to anything pragmatic. Now, I am sure there are many P.h.D.s in Comp. Sci. who can code their way straight to nirvana - I have just not met any of them.
The only P.h.D. in Computer Science I know, outside of professors who are doing it for the love of it, worth his salt is a guy with an MBA as well and a penchant for turning companies in the software world around. That guy is someone I actually admire. His P.h.D. topic was genetic algorithms (I forget the specifics but I believe it was something practical.)
So, unfortunately (and I recognize this as a shortcoming) a P.h.D. in Comp. Sci. who wants to work for me (I'm a CTO now) has to weather the standard - "Why did you spend so much time and money getting a P.h.D. in a field where practical experience is most valuable?" I also tend to ask a lot of sillier basic questions such as "Can you please implement a doubly linked list in C++ on the whiteboard behind you..." - You would be shocked how many graduate and post-graduates stroke out right there (or maybe you wouldn't be surprised.) Occasionally (about once every 5 years) I get some crazy f***er who looks at me and says "How about I write something similar in assembly?" LOL. Really...
To be totally honest, Hillary would probably make a good President - LOL. She's hard as a coffin nail, smart, and seems very conservative for a Democrat (fiscally.) Gingrich is smart, but a hypocrite. I'm not quite sure how to put it into words but I get the feeling he'd be a cocky know-it-all as President and both sides of Congress would tell him to get bent;). Well, maybe not both sides.
I tell you, if Colin Powell ran as a moderate conservative he'd win in a f***ing landslide!
Well, yes. Ever heard of the "Great Compromise", the goings on of the Constitutional Convention, the entire concept of 'checks and balances'?
"In general I think it necessary to give as well as take in a government like ours" - Thomas Jefferson
"A spirit of accomodation was happily infused into the leading characters of the Continent, and the minds of men were gradually prepared by disappointment, for the reception of a good government." - George Washington.
Madison, Henry, Hamilton, all used the phrase "in the spirit of accomodation" relating to decisions made regarding both the formation and the execution of government.
The "Tea Party", by which I mean the uber right wing group that has taken over the Tea Party, espouses total non-compromise. It doesn't matter to what course or purpose. If you cannot compromise, you get the stupid debt-ceiling crisis repeatedly.
F*** what I wouldn't give for the Clinton years again. Smart president, likes a little scandal, smart Republican congress, keeping each other in balance with COMPROMISE and working together. Ignoring that whole ridiculous impeachment thing (personally, I'm happier when the President is known to be getting some.)
Now? Well meaning, if weak (first term-itis), President, diametrically opposed Republican Congress who are caught between a rock and a hard place trying to embrace the Tea Party while ignoring its ridiculous 'no compromise' policies.
I remember when I first heard about the tea-party, it sounded good. People wanting common sense and a return to 'founding father' kinds of ways. Then it became popular and got hijacked by the whack jobs. The founding fathers espoused compromise and working together - the tea party? Hell no, "My way or the highway" is more their tune.
Government meant to operate in balance cannot operate when one part of the government simply will not work with the others.
Do I want my taxes to go up? F*** no. Should they go up to solve debt problems in addition to cutting spending? Of course. Make corporations making over 10 million dollars actually pay taxes? What a crazy idea...
...for example - unless my father is really stepping on it, his Subaru is silent of engine noise from more than 10 feet away. You can hear his tires and the airflow over the body when he's farther away - but not the engine. Hell, I have a friend whose Lexus I can't tell is running or not unless I put my hand on the hood.
This whole "silent cars are killers" thing seems a little ridiculous. If this was a chronic issue, we'd already be suffering an ever growing deluge of pedestrian casualties in the ERs of the world since there are so many quiet combustion powered cars.
Unless it is a radar or a missile, Raytheon couldn't find its a** with both hands - especially regarding software (yes, I have experience dealing with them, know people they have hired to run software projects for them, et cetera...)
Hmmm... I wonder, and will test this tomorrow, if it needs to periodically check in. When I checked them this past week, they hadn't been used in two weeks.
Typical Anonymous Coward - full of... baloney...:)
I develop for iOS and Android, I have several models of iPhone, an iPad, and an iPad2, I also have several Android phones (from the original Nexus to an Atrix 2) and tablets (gTablet, Samsung 7", and wifi only Xoom.)
The Apple 'walled garden' is atrocious and real. That doesn't mean iOS apps are atrocious, they're not, they're just like Android apps though - some good, most crap. Malware plagues? You mean the same problems that plague PCs? "Hey, come install this free copy of a game you want but don't want to pay for..." - btw, read up on Charlie Miller and why he was booted from Apple's walled garden, lol.
How is Android a mess?
Open? I don't care if it is open, I care that Apple/Amazon are forcing me to shop with them and that they actively prevent competition. I care that Apple is freezing out Flash and Java under the pretext that it is buggy when in actuality it is simply a way around their damn garden. Don't think for one second that Amazon won't sell several million Fire tablets and then decide that there are things the fire will and will not do with HTML5 and Flash that seem suspiciously similar to Apple's ban on interpreted code to prevent app store circumvention...
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You damn skippy!
Hint - Apple doesn't let carriers put things on its phones...
...when they wrote iOS? Weird.
I can understand it being found on Android devices since individual phone companies (who are absolute sh** at making software - personal experience) would want to avoid doing it themselves, but Apple?
Yep. They had appointed a transition manager to integrate our company with the division of the "very large corporation" that purchased us, and after a while I simply BCC'd him on everything I had to re-iterate, such as "Heinrich" - (hint) - ", you *did* receive the two previous e-mails asking you for confirmation of your action items from two weeks ago, yes/no?"
I really don't miss those meetings about having meetings... :)
...that it is a record of responsibilities and commitments; especially in a corporate environment.
An example is a company I used to be involved with was purchased by "very large corporation." The people in this "very large corporation" had a MUCH different work ethic than the people in our Company. They ducked responsibility like it was a fresh dose of bubonic plague. They weaseled, they professed ignorance, they tried the 'plausible deniability' route, they tried everything. Once they realized that I kept every interoffice e-mail permanently and I wielded these as a weapon against their insipid mediocrity (a superlative they don't deserve) - two things happened. Our meetings became less about "what? I thought you were heading that up?" and more about "here's our current update..." The other thing that happened is that people tried to avoid responding to my e-mails that pinned them to accepting or rejecting their responsibilities, LOL.
Thank goodness I don't have to work there anymore.
Oh, and yes, it was a European Company that bought us.
Good luck with that resonse in an interview ;).
Sure it is, if you have integrity. Don't want to lie because you're asked about something sensitive? Reply "I'm sorry, that's something I cannot talk about."
The most honest politician must be a second term President ;)
You seem to be conveniently and repeatedly missing the point.
I have clearly stated that my objection to ANY lie is when the President is holding office; i.e., testifying under oath while holding the office of the President of the United States of America, speaking to the American public while President of the United States of America.
If you think that is acceptable for a President to do, then you and I differ.
Funny how that happens, eh? Hehe.
First they came for the Head Start,
and I didn’t speak up,
because my kids were already grown.
Then they came for the unions,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was retired.
Then they came for the national debt,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a tea partier.
Then they came for Medicare,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
I'm being obtuse?
This from the guy who thinks it's acceptable for the President to lie during the course of his job? LOL.
I don't care if he lies to his wife, his kids, his doctor, et cetera - ad nauseum - ad inifinitum.
...(although there are doubtlessly many others) is my predisposition towards people with a P.h.D. in Computer Science.
I didn't use to have this bias until I worked with some of them. I have worked in 3 different corporations/companies that have had Comp Sci. P.h.D. personnel. Only one of them was in any sort of management position and he was seriously useless. The other interactions were with corporate research teams, which tended to have a large number of Comp. Sci. P.h.D.s attached, and some computer vision engineers.
Each and every one of those people was hopeless as a software engineer. They were smart, they were nice, they were idiots when it came to anything pragmatic. Now, I am sure there are many P.h.D.s in Comp. Sci. who can code their way straight to nirvana - I have just not met any of them.
The only P.h.D. in Computer Science I know, outside of professors who are doing it for the love of it, worth his salt is a guy with an MBA as well and a penchant for turning companies in the software world around. That guy is someone I actually admire. His P.h.D. topic was genetic algorithms (I forget the specifics but I believe it was something practical.)
So, unfortunately (and I recognize this as a shortcoming) a P.h.D. in Comp. Sci. who wants to work for me (I'm a CTO now) has to weather the standard - "Why did you spend so much time and money getting a P.h.D. in a field where practical experience is most valuable?" I also tend to ask a lot of sillier basic questions such as "Can you please implement a doubly linked list in C++ on the whiteboard behind you..." - You would be shocked how many graduate and post-graduates stroke out right there (or maybe you wouldn't be surprised.) Occasionally (about once every 5 years) I get some crazy f***er who looks at me and says "How about I write something similar in assembly?" LOL. Really...
I'm quite aware that sometimes people lie, I tend to hold the President of the United State of America to slightly higher standards than children.
I care about whether a sitting President lied about anything. If there's one person in the country we should expect to be integrity personified...
To be totally honest, Hillary would probably make a good President - LOL. She's hard as a coffin nail, smart, and seems very conservative for a Democrat (fiscally.) Gingrich is smart, but a hypocrite. I'm not quite sure how to put it into words but I get the feeling he'd be a cocky know-it-all as President and both sides of Congress would tell him to get bent ;). Well, maybe not both sides.
I tell you, if Colin Powell ran as a moderate conservative he'd win in a f***ing landslide!
Well, no.
Well, yes. Ever heard of the "Great Compromise", the goings on of the Constitutional Convention, the entire concept of 'checks and balances'?
"In general I think it necessary to give as well as take in a government like ours" - Thomas Jefferson
"A spirit of accomodation was happily infused into the leading characters of the Continent, and the minds of men were gradually prepared by disappointment, for the reception of a good government." - George Washington.
Madison, Henry, Hamilton, all used the phrase "in the spirit of accomodation" relating to decisions made regarding both the formation and the execution of government.
The "Tea Party", by which I mean the uber right wing group that has taken over the Tea Party, espouses total non-compromise. It doesn't matter to what course or purpose. If you cannot compromise, you get the stupid debt-ceiling crisis repeatedly.
Clinton was never guilty of perjury. He was seriously god**** evasive, but his responses were 'legally' accurate.
He was impeached on the presumption that he perjured himself and obstructed justice. He was acquitted by the senate...
...seriously people?
F*** what I wouldn't give for the Clinton years again. Smart president, likes a little scandal, smart Republican congress, keeping each other in balance with COMPROMISE and working together. Ignoring that whole ridiculous impeachment thing (personally, I'm happier when the President is known to be getting some.)
Now? Well meaning, if weak (first term-itis), President, diametrically opposed Republican Congress who are caught between a rock and a hard place trying to embrace the Tea Party while ignoring its ridiculous 'no compromise' policies.
I remember when I first heard about the tea-party, it sounded good. People wanting common sense and a return to 'founding father' kinds of ways. Then it became popular and got hijacked by the whack jobs. The founding fathers espoused compromise and working together - the tea party? Hell no, "My way or the highway" is more their tune.
Government meant to operate in balance cannot operate when one part of the government simply will not work with the others.
Do I want my taxes to go up? F*** no. Should they go up to solve debt problems in addition to cutting spending? Of course. Make corporations making over 10 million dollars actually pay taxes? What a crazy idea...
Would a mid 80's Jaguar run? ;)
Yeah, I seem to especially remember the Camry being a car you couldn't tell if it was running or not when you were standing next to the damn thing.
...for example - unless my father is really stepping on it, his Subaru is silent of engine noise from more than 10 feet away. You can hear his tires and the airflow over the body when he's farther away - but not the engine. Hell, I have a friend whose Lexus I can't tell is running or not unless I put my hand on the hood.
This whole "silent cars are killers" thing seems a little ridiculous. If this was a chronic issue, we'd already be suffering an ever growing deluge of pedestrian casualties in the ERs of the world since there are so many quiet combustion powered cars.
Unless it is a radar or a missile, Raytheon couldn't find its a** with both hands - especially regarding software (yes, I have experience dealing with them, know people they have hired to run software projects for them, et cetera...)
This is absolutely ridiculous. I don't care if it is Apple, Google, or Microsoft. This is just freaking ridiculous.
Exactly. If she kept a US bank account, or owned a home in the US - they would be subject to US search and seizure laws.
Hmmm... I wonder, and will test this tomorrow, if it needs to periodically check in. When I checked them this past week, they hadn't been used in two weeks.
Typical Anonymous Coward - full of... baloney... :)
I develop for iOS and Android, I have several models of iPhone, an iPad, and an iPad2, I also have several Android phones (from the original Nexus to an Atrix 2) and tablets (gTablet, Samsung 7", and wifi only Xoom.)
The Apple 'walled garden' is atrocious and real. That doesn't mean iOS apps are atrocious, they're not, they're just like Android apps though - some good, most crap. Malware plagues? You mean the same problems that plague PCs? "Hey, come install this free copy of a game you want but don't want to pay for..." - btw, read up on Charlie Miller and why he was booted from Apple's walled garden, lol.
How is Android a mess?
Open? I don't care if it is open, I care that Apple/Amazon are forcing me to shop with them and that they actively prevent competition. I care that Apple is freezing out Flash and Java under the pretext that it is buggy when in actuality it is simply a way around their damn garden. Don't think for one second that Amazon won't sell several million Fire tablets and then decide that there are things the fire will and will not do with HTML5 and Flash that seem suspiciously similar to Apple's ban on interpreted code to prevent app store circumvention...