I just decided against an iPhone ( in australia ) and went with a walkman phone from sony-ericsson instead.
remember walkman?
same deal for iPod methinks.
iPhone will probably have to open up once android gets momentum
i talked the provider into 12 months contract on the w980 phone - with the express intent that my next handset will be android based - hey i write java for a living, the api for android is reasonable, and given how cheap flash storage is these days, i'd expect 32gig + in 12 months time. this new handset has 8 gigs built in, which is fine for my needs for now.
and while i have dabbled in j2me for phone software in the past, what the android sdk looks more like is a full blown stack with an implicit 'always connected' promise. gimme gimme gimme!
thing that woz seemed to be getting more toward was there will be a diminished need for the straight up ipod media player, and as a result ipods themselves will probably drop off and things like iPhone will take their place.
I've got an old passive AGP Matrox dual head card laying around the office. It would be a perfect fit for one of my older computers. But I won't take it, even though I'm sure it won't be used anymore
you could always just ask for it - half my home office has been acquired this way. ( and just about all the old crap collecting dust under the desk too. anyone want a 24 port 10-base-T hub? )
-- nuclear weapons provide a means for people to kill Millions of people in one fell swoop.
i've been using confluence for a couple of years now, and cant imagine any sort of collaborative document writing without it.
there are plenty of plugins, including a recent whiteboard thing ( havent used it myself ), and you can always use skype/msn/other instant messaging in the background.
mmmm.. iirc, that guy didnt know what he wanted, who he was or how he got there in the second term, and theres pretty compelling evidence he wasnt all that with it for the latter part of the first!
mind you, it probably isnt too far removed from the way president chaney has run things for the past 8 years.
do i detect a pattern here?
who would be running president mc cain in his twilight years?
I don't think I said that. Yep, I just checked and I didn't say that. But the idea that you could extrapolate that from what I said indicates that not only do they share the blame for our lack of success but you seem to be feeling guilty or something over those parts of our history. Perhaps it is just a situation where you didn't get it then and you don't get it now.
yep. its the democrats fault.
Tell me, does our success threaten you for some reason?
Enemy combatants are sprayed or otherwise marked (lots of ways to do this) with a marker known as a "perfume" or a "stain."
yeah. so a secret agent goes around 'perfuming' each and every one of these surreptitiously ( i see angelina jolie in a black evening dress as the perfect secret agent for this ), then later, after the cocktail party finishes, the drones can then pick them off one by one.
wouldnt it be easier to give angelina a gun? she wields em pretty good in all that other fiction...
You've never heard of PhotoShop or The Gimp? It's pretty easy to fake things well enough that only with careful study can they be shown to be fake...then you save it, print it, and scan it at reduced precision (as happens automatically with scanning) and it can be impossible to tell that the "copy of a photo" is a fake.
so youre telling me that these ultra high tech gizmos with the $$$ pricetag that can pinpoint blah blah blah _actually_ produce images that look like they came out of a cellphone from 5 years ago?
sorry, i dont need any expertise in photo phakery to call colin powell a stooge.
which is a shame, as i always considered him to be about the only credible member of the bush regime.
Are you seriously saying that's a bad thing? An absolute reduction in death is a bad thing
_or_
'A lot of you will die unnecessarily, but not as many as before.'
spot the difference?
perhaps the irony in your argument?
or are you buying into the PR spin and regurgitating it without thinking ?
seriously, there is no 'winning' in this misadventure, only controlling the resources at a price. that price being a shattered society/economy/country and a number of american servicemen every day.
if you consider it in those terms ( i believe chaney/rumsfeld described it as 'the price of security - specifically energy security' [oil if you missed it ), then it becomes pretty clear that a) the US must leave and that b) the US cant leave.
well, not with the current regime in the white house anyway.
its mind-bending to hear 'saving lives' being used to describe 'only dozens' per day being killed.
s/mind-bending/fucking-disgusting/g
until the US starts accepting responsibility, liability and accountability for the actions and outcomes of an illegal war under false pretences, you'll have to appreciate that there isnt an ounce of credibility in anything that comes out of their pr machine.
'progress'? keep polishing that turd - although it sounds like you've already convinced yourself it isnt shit!
There really has been a severe decrease in violence and whilst it's still not exactly going to be your first pick holiday destination it's certainly been cleaned up a whole lot.
Was it tech like this taking out key targets?
Was it the conversion of Sunni groups to the US' cause?
Was it the surge?
was it general public disinterest leading to less media coverage/scrutiny, providing an opening for the pr machine to kick up a gear?
..Iraq and finally finish the job in Afghanistan. It seriously pissed me off that they would screw up in Iraq for so long, getting so many people killed in the process. These new techniques will go into standard practice and hopefully make any future operations easier and faster.
well, first of all they will never finish a job that has not been defined. not just defined clearly, but not defined at all.
second, its nice to see you've accepted its been a screw up in iraq, but i think you've failed to grasp the whole concept was misguided, not merely its implementation.
third... future operations? you really think there's a future in this line of thinking?
your entitled to your opinion but I suspect some people would violently disagree with it
you're entitled to your opinion but I suspect some people would vehemently disagree with it.
is what i _think_ you meant to say ( although the alternate is probably also true ).
I agree with much of your sentiment, but i myself am unconvinced that the US are not themselves behaving as terrorists.
The initial pretext of going after al quaeda in afghanistan by the US as a unilateral action always makes me think the rest of the world was 'letting a friend drive drunk'....
The next pretext of weapons of mass destruction was such a bullshit lie to pretty much do what george bush snr. wouldnt let 'the crazies' ( rumsfeld, cheney, et al ) do, and everything that has happened in iraq since then is a f'ing disgrace - all the result of an illegal invasion under false pretences.
as for these UAV's or whatever it is woodward was alluding to, i presume its all hyperbole ( or as one comment on schneiers blog poignantly noted... ' lipstick on a pit bull' ), although reading in conjunction with recent protestations from pakistan about unauthorised american UAV assaults in some of the tribal regions of pakistan which were denied by the US, perhaps they are just ignoring borders? again?
As easy as it was to say "let's develop it in (name your favourite enterprise technology)", we built apps from start to finish in less than 2 weeks flat (a.k.a. the time it takes to say Oracle, Java, JSP, Struts, Tomcat, Log4J, setting up your Eclipse and getting people to give you test instances of everything you need).
and make the banks, etc reconsider in their next round of development. its actually pretty easy to adhere to standards that make apps cross-browser happy.
geez, if an online app gets 3 years of production life, its done pretty well, so planning for the next version _without_ activeX should be pretty straight forward.
just looking through my web server logs, theres still plenty of nufties running ie5/6, so killing activeX in ie8 wouldnt be the end of the world overnight - ppl would just have to have an older ie around for a bit longer ( or perhaps install it as an optional add-in to ie8...)
( and really, not reading the article is fair enough, but to just flap keys saying ' too lazy to read, but here's what i think...' someone really needs to hurry up and invent that thing that lets me stab people in the face through the internet
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I just decided against an iPhone ( in australia ) and went with a walkman phone from sony-ericsson instead.
remember walkman?
same deal for iPod methinks.
iPhone will probably have to open up once android gets momentum
i talked the provider into 12 months contract on the w980 phone - with the express intent that my next handset will be android based - hey i write java for a living, the api for android is reasonable, and given how cheap flash storage is these days, i'd expect 32gig + in 12 months time. this new handset has 8 gigs built in, which is fine for my needs for now.
and while i have dabbled in j2me for phone software in the past, what the android sdk looks more like is a full blown stack with an implicit 'always connected' promise. gimme gimme gimme!
thing that woz seemed to be getting more toward was there will be a diminished need for the straight up ipod media player, and as a result ipods themselves will probably drop off and things like iPhone will take their place.
I've got an old passive AGP Matrox dual head card laying around the office. It would be a perfect fit for one of my older computers. But I won't take it, even though I'm sure it won't be used anymore
you could always just ask for it - half my home office has been acquired this way. ( and just about all the old crap collecting dust under the desk too. anyone want a 24 port 10-base-T hub? )
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nuclear weapons provide a means for people to kill Millions of people in one fell swoop.
create adam?
god is a poof?
use a wiki.
i've been using confluence for a couple of years now, and cant imagine any sort of collaborative document writing without it.
there are plenty of plugins, including a recent whiteboard thing ( havent used it myself ), and you can always use skype/msn/other instant messaging in the background.
Anyone who has knows that Sendmail should be boycotted for not properly crediting Lovecraft in the design of sendmail.cf
credit?
surely you mean blame!
Yeah, that guy wanted a...
mmmm.. iirc, that guy didnt know what he wanted, who he was or how he got there in the second term, and theres pretty compelling evidence he wasnt all that with it for the latter part of the first!
mind you, it probably isnt too far removed from the way president chaney has run things for the past 8 years.
do i detect a pattern here?
who would be running president mc cain in his twilight years?
I don't think I said that. Yep, I just checked and I didn't say that. But the idea that you could extrapolate that from what I said indicates that not only do they share the blame for our lack of success but you seem to be feeling guilty or something over those parts of our history. Perhaps it is just a situation where you didn't get it then and you don't get it now.
yep. its the democrats fault.
Tell me, does our success threaten you for some reason?
sucess? since when does less bad equal success?
fuckwit confirmed.
ha!
sorry dude, i missed your cues earlier.
although angelina could still be of use..
Enemy combatants are sprayed or otherwise marked (lots of ways to do this) with a marker known as a "perfume" or a "stain."
yeah. so a secret agent goes around 'perfuming' each and every one of these surreptitiously ( i see angelina jolie in a black evening dress as the perfect secret agent for this ), then later, after the cocktail party finishes, the drones can then pick them off one by one.
wouldnt it be easier to give angelina a gun? she wields em pretty good in all that other fiction...
You've never heard of PhotoShop or The Gimp? It's pretty easy to fake things well enough that only with careful study can they be shown to be fake...then you save it, print it, and scan it at reduced precision (as happens automatically with scanning) and it can be impossible to tell that the "copy of a photo" is a fake.
so youre telling me that these ultra high tech gizmos with the $$$ pricetag that can pinpoint blah blah blah _actually_ produce images that look like they came out of a cellphone from 5 years ago?
sorry, i dont need any expertise in photo phakery to call colin powell a stooge.
which is a shame, as i always considered him to be about the only credible member of the bush regime.
The rules are pretty clear
its even easier to work out if you first disregard all the preceding rules, and come up with a 'doctrine'.
you dont even have to quibble over the semantics of 'pre-emptive' vs. 'preventive' if you dont understand them it seems!
When the dems though arbitrarily losing a war would help get them elected, the violence went up exponentially.
yep. its the democrats fault.
fuckwit.
putting lipstick on a pig
i believe the phrase has been updated for the upcoming US presidential election..
'.. putting lipstick on a pit-bull'
or some other such wit.
Are you seriously saying that's a bad thing? An absolute reduction in death is a bad thing
_or_
'A lot of you will die unnecessarily, but not as many as before.'
spot the difference?
perhaps the irony in your argument?
or are you buying into the PR spin and regurgitating it without thinking ?
seriously, there is no 'winning' in this misadventure, only controlling the resources at a price. that price being a shattered society/economy/country and a number of american servicemen every day.
if you consider it in those terms ( i believe chaney/rumsfeld described it as 'the price of security - specifically energy security' [oil if you missed it ), then it becomes pretty clear that a) the US must leave and that b) the US cant leave.
well, not with the current regime in the white house anyway.
i have modpoints, but i'd rather reply in text.
its mind-bending to hear 'saving lives' being used to describe 'only dozens' per day being killed.
s/mind-bending/fucking-disgusting/g
until the US starts accepting responsibility, liability and accountability for the actions and outcomes of an illegal war under false pretences, you'll have to appreciate that there isnt an ounce of credibility in anything that comes out of their pr machine.
'progress'? keep polishing that turd - although it sounds like you've already convinced yourself it isnt shit!
Well something definitely changed in Iraq.
There really has been a severe decrease in violence and whilst it's still not exactly going to be your first pick holiday destination it's certainly been cleaned up a whole lot.
Was it tech like this taking out key targets?
Was it the conversion of Sunni groups to the US' cause?
Was it the surge?
was it general public disinterest leading to less media coverage/scrutiny, providing an opening for the pr machine to kick up a gear?
..Iraq and finally finish the job in Afghanistan. It seriously pissed me off that they would screw up in Iraq for so long, getting so many people killed in the process. These new techniques will go into standard practice and hopefully make any future operations easier and faster.
well, first of all they will never finish a job that has not been defined. not just defined clearly, but not defined at all.
second, its nice to see you've accepted its been a screw up in iraq, but i think you've failed to grasp the whole concept was misguided, not merely its implementation.
third... future operations? you really think there's a future in this line of thinking?
your entitled to your opinion but I suspect some people would violently disagree with it
you're entitled to your opinion but I suspect some people would vehemently disagree with it.
is what i _think_ you meant to say ( although the alternate is probably also true ).
I agree with much of your sentiment, but i myself am unconvinced that the US are not themselves behaving as terrorists.
The initial pretext of going after al quaeda in afghanistan by the US as a unilateral action always makes me think the rest of the world was 'letting a friend drive drunk'....
The next pretext of weapons of mass destruction was such a bullshit lie to pretty much do what george bush snr. wouldnt let 'the crazies' ( rumsfeld, cheney, et al ) do, and everything that has happened in iraq since then is a f'ing disgrace - all the result of an illegal invasion under false pretences.
as for these UAV's or whatever it is woodward was alluding to, i presume its all hyperbole ( or as one comment on schneiers blog poignantly noted ... ' lipstick on a pit bull' ), although reading in conjunction with recent protestations from pakistan about unauthorised american UAV assaults in some of the tribal regions of pakistan which were denied by the US, perhaps they are just ignoring borders? again?
AC??? oh for shame!
( unless this is plagiarised, then yeah, fair enough..)
As easy as it was to say "let's develop it in (name your favourite enterprise technology)", we built apps from start to finish in less than 2 weeks flat (a.k.a. the time it takes to say Oracle, Java, JSP, Struts, Tomcat, Log4J, setting up your Eclipse and getting people to give you test instances of everything you need).
or...
$> mvn archetype:generate \
-DarchetypeGroupId=com.mycorp.archetypes \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=multiModuleWeb \
-DarchetypeVersionId=1.1 newApp
$> svn import . https://svn.mycorp.com/repos/newApp/trunk
iteration zero complete.
now what tends to happen is something like 'ok, you guys start coding, we'll go find out what the customer wants...'
at least our code is well organised and very maintainable.. as opposed to what happens in notes land, where it seems anything goes.
did the inventor produce working samples?
did the inventor ever attempt to manufacture or license his new idea?
or did he think of ways of joining existing technologies together, patent it, and wait for some poor schlepp to try _actually_ doing it?
thus, the cries of 'patent troll' appear to be in order here.
so kill it,
and make the banks, etc reconsider in their next round of development. its actually pretty easy to adhere to standards that make apps cross-browser happy.
geez, if an online app gets 3 years of production life, its done pretty well, so planning for the next version _without_ activeX should be pretty straight forward.
just looking through my web server logs, theres still plenty of nufties running ie5/6, so killing activeX in ie8 wouldnt be the end of the world overnight - ppl would just have to have an older ie around for a bit longer ( or perhaps install it as an optional add-in to ie8...)
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check out the ads.
oh for mod points!
would 'thanks for all the packages' suffice?
( and really, not reading the article is fair enough, but to just flap keys saying ' too lazy to read, but here's what i think...' someone really needs to hurry up and invent that thing that lets me stab people in the face through the internet