Agreed. If Cook is going to continue Apple's success he has only two things to do. No matter how great their work is, he will have to spit on their engineers and designers to constantly remind them that their work is complete and utter shit (Job's word not mine) and keep enough lawyers on the payroll to make sure the competition's work is as horrible, encumbered and hopeless as possible.
The former brings in great people, because they also want to pass the Steve Jobs test, "The best in the industry..with good taste"; while the latter gets everyone else the hell out of your way.
At least once a year someone asks for a page search, as in: "Can we add something that allows us to easily search this one particular page for some text. If you can't do that is there a browser plug-in or something we can use?"
If I recall that was the WolfGL port (not 100% sure of the top of my head). Though I remember following that project intently when it came down the pike, for the life of me I can only remember that it was some "Scandinavian Dude" and it was posted to BR Lowe's wolf page. It amazes me the things people added to that little game.
Anyway, this ended up being a prime example of how opening up your source ends up being beneficial to all involved parties as it cut down dev time for the iPhone port.
I'd imagine that depends on the state. Here you go to jail for removing something from a trash receptacle or a land fill if it belonged to the state. (Actually you go to jail either way, because it is the state's property as soon as it gets thrown in the trash.)
If I recall Diebold was using an unprotected Access database for storing its votes and the whole thing was available from the outside via a dialup modem. Having legislation that makes tampering illegal seems to be the preferred method of CYA.
When I was a kid, my aunt bought a bunch of ballot boxes when our country made the switch (she was the antique type and figured she could sell them for something). We were completely shocked when they showed up on her doorstep, locked, sealed and filled with uncounted ballots from an election 5 years earlier.
Between dead people voting and that, I'm still not sure why I even bother voting.
^^^ This. I've seen people get fired for even attempting to use critical thinking skills, because when the numbers and the procedures are the only thing that matter, critical thinking is a liability, both in the legal sense and the simple fact that it begins to break all of the nifty quality control metrics.
Backups and Liability. I don't think I'm the only person who has lost random messages in Gmail. Also, call me old, but there is some stuff you just don't want sitting on a Gmail account or I should say, there is some stuff that your clients would think about suing you if they knew your employees were just forwarding it off to their Gmail accounts.
I guess it would end up like hermit crabs. Illegal to buy one, but you get one for free if you buy a cage. If there is a market people and the product is cheap, people will make it work.
Personally, I quit reading after this:
Snake food was almost exempt from the proposal. After all, pythons have to eat, and they like their lunch alive. But at a heated meeting, Commissioner Pam Hemphill questioned how it could be humane to sell live animals to be fed to other live animals.
At that point I can't help but think you've crossed a line somewhere and gone into some kind of pseudo-religion where it isn't nature on the throne but human ego. Animals gotta eat and they don't know a damned thing about this humane thing you keep talking about.
Honestly, that is kind of one of the legitimate uses of this.
If you call up a number and they require your card number, you don't want a recording of that part of the transaction sitting on their servers somewhere waiting to get hacked or sold off or abused in some other way, but you will want a recording of the call for liability reasons. You also don't want the servers that are handling your connection doing this job, because that kill resources, to you hand that job off to another machine (many machines actually, it is a complex process when you have a bunch of concurrent calls at the same time).
MS is just covering their bases and cornering as much as they can (granted we have been doing this kind of stuff for years, so I'm not sure how valid the patent is).
I'd have to agree with this one. How many people quit halfway through installing the IDE or get a compiler error, get frustrated and rage quit.
Give them a page with a button or just an onload event. Tell them this happens when the button is clicked or the page loads. Show them how to change the background color or add a simple alert. By the time they get to something like document.getElementById they've gone a long way toward getting over the fear of writing code.
If they still aren't interested, you delete a single file.
lulzsec? Pretty sure there are already companies with very public faces who have been happily doing this for years now. What worries me is that there is so much information that has nothing to do with my online activities floating around, well, online.
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Wait, Nyan Cat is the cure for AIDS? The meme circle is complete.
Agreed. If Cook is going to continue Apple's success he has only two things to do. No matter how great their work is, he will have to spit on their engineers and designers to constantly remind them that their work is complete and utter shit (Job's word not mine) and keep enough lawyers on the payroll to make sure the competition's work is as horrible, encumbered and hopeless as possible.
The former brings in great people, because they also want to pass the Steve Jobs test, "The best in the industry ..with good taste"; while the latter gets everyone else the hell out of your way.
Jack Welch, Steve Jobs, man just imagine what those guys could have accomplished with an MBA?
At least once a year someone asks for a page search, as in: "Can we add something that allows us to easily search this one particular page for some text. If you can't do that is there a browser plug-in or something we can use?"
I hope you posted that through Tor.
If I recall that was the WolfGL port (not 100% sure of the top of my head). Though I remember following that project intently when it came down the pike, for the life of me I can only remember that it was some "Scandinavian Dude" and it was posted to BR Lowe's wolf page. It amazes me the things people added to that little game.
Anyway, this ended up being a prime example of how opening up your source ends up being beneficial to all involved parties as it cut down dev time for the iPhone port.
Or don't check it out with iTunes. http://academicearth.org/
I've got to give it to Standford and MIT (and all of the other schools who have contributed to open courseware). They have done a service to everyone.
Whoever has that patented will make a boat load.
Guess I won't be helping out with that after school reading program in that bad neighborhood.
Several of my friends went there and they still have fond memories of it to this day. I won't lie, I always envied them.
Nah, someone at Cal Tech decided to setup a Slashdot account for the Biochem Brain.
Hope you have enough to pay for 3 years of health insurance out of pocket then, let alone 6 to 12 months or it.
Don't forget not being able to (legally) run it on virtual machines (unless you have OS X Server).
I'd imagine that depends on the state. Here you go to jail for removing something from a trash receptacle or a land fill if it belonged to the state. (Actually you go to jail either way, because it is the state's property as soon as it gets thrown in the trash.)
Don't spoil it! The males were going to use all of their stored up righteous indignation over misogyny, you know, to get laid.
If I recall Diebold was using an unprotected Access database for storing its votes and the whole thing was available from the outside via a dialup modem. Having legislation that makes tampering illegal seems to be the preferred method of CYA.
When I was a kid, my aunt bought a bunch of ballot boxes when our country made the switch (she was the antique type and figured she could sell them for something). We were completely shocked when they showed up on her doorstep, locked, sealed and filled with uncounted ballots from an election 5 years earlier.
Between dead people voting and that, I'm still not sure why I even bother voting.
^^^ This. I've seen people get fired for even attempting to use critical thinking skills, because when the numbers and the procedures are the only thing that matter, critical thinking is a liability, both in the legal sense and the simple fact that it begins to break all of the nifty quality control metrics.
Backups and Liability. I don't think I'm the only person who has lost random messages in Gmail. Also, call me old, but there is some stuff you just don't want sitting on a Gmail account or I should say, there is some stuff that your clients would think about suing you if they knew your employees were just forwarding it off to their Gmail accounts.
I guess it would end up like hermit crabs. Illegal to buy one, but you get one for free if you buy a cage. If there is a market people and the product is cheap, people will make it work.
Personally, I quit reading after this:
Snake food was almost exempt from the proposal. After all, pythons have to eat, and they like their lunch alive. But at a heated meeting, Commissioner Pam Hemphill questioned how it could be humane to sell live animals to be fed to other live animals.
At that point I can't help but think you've crossed a line somewhere and gone into some kind of pseudo-religion where it isn't nature on the throne but human ego. Animals gotta eat and they don't know a damned thing about this humane thing you keep talking about.
Honestly, that is kind of one of the legitimate uses of this.
If you call up a number and they require your card number, you don't want a recording of that part of the transaction sitting on their servers somewhere waiting to get hacked or sold off or abused in some other way, but you will want a recording of the call for liability reasons. You also don't want the servers that are handling your connection doing this job, because that kill resources, to you hand that job off to another machine (many machines actually, it is a complex process when you have a bunch of concurrent calls at the same time).
MS is just covering their bases and cornering as much as they can (granted we have been doing this kind of stuff for years, so I'm not sure how valid the patent is).
I'd have to agree with this one. How many people quit halfway through installing the IDE or get a compiler error, get frustrated and rage quit.
Give them a page with a button or just an onload event. Tell them this happens when the button is clicked or the page loads. Show them how to change the background color or add a simple alert. By the time they get to something like document.getElementById they've gone a long way toward getting over the fear of writing code.
If they still aren't interested, you delete a single file.
lulzsec? Pretty sure there are already companies with very public faces who have been happily doing this for years now. What worries me is that there is so much information that has nothing to do with my online activities floating around, well, online.
So it is like Apple stock?
If true it reminds me of something a friend of mine in the mortuary business use to say: We're stackin' 'em deep and burnin' 'em cheap.