This article has no business being covered by Slashdot. There are two kinds of tablet owners - those that have one, or those that will.
People that don't have one frankly don't get it. And none of the Mac users get it at all. Microsoft has been making tablets happen for years. They're slick and they work well They're not oversized iPhones, they're full machines that can run a full Eclipse environment one minute and excel at Art Rage the next. Once you get used to being able to swing that screen around anytime you need something more portable, say when pulling your engine codes while under someone's car dash, and then being able to swing it back to a full laptop to write up a report, you'll never look back. Sometimes I type, sometimes I hand write. I use mine with the mouse, the stylus, my finger - whatever I feel like, not what some pompous twit who thinks putting 'designer' on his business card means he gets to decide what I need. Some days it's an e-reader, some days it compiles firmware, some days it plays movies. It does it all, and it fits like a champ in an airplane seat!
Tablets came years ago, and stayed. There is no one "ideal form factor", and they get packaged many ways. But the convertible class is nothing but a superset of the laptop. If the price is there, there's no reason not to get one and hasn't been for a long time.
None of the bands listed were Heavy Metal. Slayer is Metal. Nothing's more annoying than hearing some clueless civilian call a band like Queen "Metal"?
One possible factor here is that Nintendo has historically been fairly hostile towards developers, with licensing terms and an attitude that encourages potential developers to walk away. On the flip side, Apple will just give you the tools (assuming you have a Mac) and not require the rectal exam before they'll deign to allow you to send them money.
Of course Apple's just as bad on the back end, in some ways worse, since Apple will let you develop anything you want but then, -after- the development is done, refuse to allow you to sell it or arbitrarily allow one version of it only to reject the point release with bug fixes. But at least Apple put the tools in dev's hands without insulting them one day one.
when it comes to complex, interesting questions of language design, very few people are even vaguely qualified to comment
Fortunately, it's easy to identify those that shouldn't be commenting, since they're the only ones claiming to be qualified.
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If you trust Google, great, but don't say "we". Google's changed - a lot. Given the breaches, and their relentless march of ever more invasive monitoring on every device and platform they can get their fingers into, I trust this random stranger more than Google. Google is a proven risk, this guy's just a potential one.
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...Ages 7 and 9 may be a bit young... but we know that 11-year olds do well with getting introduced to electronics and programming
11?!? What the Hell are you talking about?
My 8 yr old has worked for years in BASIC and the Mindstorm's awful visual environment, has passed SnapCircuits (which rock) and starting raw wiring comps. Even my 5 year old is starting to work in Logo. Sure, they're quick, but statistically speaking I bet most of the kids of Slashdot readers are!
Don't ever assume something's too hard. Throw them in the deep end and see what happens, you'll be surprised, and you can always give 'em a hand if they're drowing. Expect a lot and you'll get a lot.
When I see stuff like this, I wonder where our EU champions are? You know, the folks who decided that having software development components of Internet Explorer like internet access that people use to add connectivity to non-Microsoft code constitutes illegal tying of Explorer to Windows.
Well, if even a universal networking component in Windows is illegal tying, what is Apple's deciding what we can think, say and use? Apparently the EU is all good with that.
And besides, far easier to bust an American company on foreign soil in kangaroo courts, than to bust Nokia/Symbian for the -40 PAGES- of hoops you have to jump through to get signed for their platform, for which they charge you big bux. And then can pull your auth at any time for any trivial reason, and charge you again.
No, when I see stuff like this, I remember the golden rule. He with the gold, makes the rules...
It depends on who you work for. In many shops, it's become increasing clear that you don't want to hire anyone under 35 or so, though without the experience you'd be right there with the kids.
The sad truth of it is many of the grads for the last 15 years are junk. Not as people - fortunately, the career still attracts a great crowd - but the curriculums now create people who think that the compiler, the runtime, and the OS are a black box. They rather literally think in terms of South Park's gnomes.. Step 1) write code, Step 3) Profit! And that mindless dependence creates people who have no idea how or why their code works or more often doesn't.
That's fine for school, but you can't ship a product writing code like that, which means we've turned out a legion of coders who are fit for writing reports for accounting instead of firmware for an engine controller or a new comm protocol. And even then, that only works because the penalty for failure in accounting reports is so low. On any meaningful project, assigning work to this generation is like building in bugs, bugs that take a loooong time to fix because the team simply doesn't understand what the machine really does.
Not to worry, there are still plenty of businesses that basically have no idea of how the software sausage is made and will merrily hire anyone with a degree, but in businesses with more experience [and more on the line] it's more the exact opposite is true. They only want the previous generation of coders, and use CS grads for tech support, or if they're lucky, to apprentice.
"Hey, I only joined the military for the free college tuition. I never said anything about shooting people!"
These MCP's were all happy to sign up, resell MS's products and take their cut for doing almost nothing. Now they're not selling and they don't want to pay their bill? Puh-lese. The cheese section is apparently in Iceland, along with the whine.
" The FSF changed the definition of a free distribution..."
And as soon as anyone cares what the fascist software foundation says, we'll let you know.
Seriously, why do those cranks get airtime? You want free? Try digging back to our time, comp.unix.sources. No religion, no restrictions, no 'freedom' with a stack of rules. We just chipped in code and sent it around to share. It's miserable how they have hijacked the word "free."
[We've sold software for years, all over the world including the most unlikely of places, seemingly everywhere EXCEPT CHINA. Take the hint. ALL thieves, no exceptions. And no that's not just our experience, that's software-industry wide.]
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Damm, that rocks. Can we have some?
Proving that once again, they just don't get it.
This article has no business being covered by Slashdot. There are two kinds of tablet owners - those that have one, or those that will.
People that don't have one frankly don't get it. And none of the Mac users get it at all. Microsoft has been making tablets happen for years. They're slick and they work well They're not oversized iPhones, they're full machines that can run a full Eclipse environment one minute and excel at Art Rage the next. Once you get used to being able to swing that screen around anytime you need something more portable, say when pulling your engine codes while under someone's car dash, and then being able to swing it back to a full laptop to write up a report, you'll never look back. Sometimes I type, sometimes I hand write. I use mine with the mouse, the stylus, my finger - whatever I feel like, not what some pompous twit who thinks putting 'designer' on his business card means he gets to decide what I need. Some days it's an e-reader, some days it compiles firmware, some days it plays movies. It does it all, and it fits like a champ in an airplane seat!
Tablets came years ago, and stayed. There is no one "ideal form factor", and they get packaged many ways. But the convertible class is nothing but a superset of the laptop. If the price is there, there's no reason not to get one and hasn't been for a long time.
None of the bands listed were Heavy Metal. Slayer is Metal. Nothing's more annoying than hearing some clueless civilian call a band like Queen "Metal"?
One possible factor here is that Nintendo has historically been fairly hostile towards developers, with licensing terms and an attitude that encourages potential developers to walk away. On the flip side, Apple will just give you the tools (assuming you have a Mac) and not require the rectal exam before they'll deign to allow you to send them money.
Of course Apple's just as bad on the back end, in some ways worse, since Apple will let you develop anything you want but then, -after- the development is done, refuse to allow you to sell it or arbitrarily allow one version of it only to reject the point release with bug fixes. But at least Apple put the tools in dev's hands without insulting them one day one.
Are netbook users really second class citizens with no right to privacy for their work?
I'd rather use notepad than let Google access my private data!
We won't be watching. On any TV.
when it comes to complex, interesting questions of language design, very few people are even vaguely qualified to comment
Fortunately, it's easy to identify those that shouldn't be commenting, since they're the only ones claiming to be qualified.
If you trust Google, great, but don't say "we". Google's changed - a lot. Given the breaches, and their relentless march of ever more invasive monitoring on every device and platform they can get their fingers into, I trust this random stranger more than Google. Google is a proven risk, this guy's just a potential one.
...Ages 7 and 9 may be a bit young... but we know that 11-year olds do well with getting introduced to electronics and programming
11?!? What the Hell are you talking about?
My 8 yr old has worked for years in BASIC and the Mindstorm's awful visual environment, has passed SnapCircuits (which rock) and starting raw wiring comps. Even my 5 year old is starting to work in Logo. Sure, they're quick, but statistically speaking I bet most of the kids of Slashdot readers are!
Don't ever assume something's too hard. Throw them in the deep end and see what happens, you'll be surprised, and you can always give 'em a hand if they're drowing. Expect a lot and you'll get a lot.
Just another example of why the industry is moving to BSD-style licenses. Face it, the GPL is dead and Stallman's socialist dream along with it.
There's no such thing as "Free - with conditions"
There's a wonderful world of people out there, safely screened by the most effective condom of all -- ASCII.
When I see stuff like this, I wonder where our EU champions are? You know, the folks who decided that having software development components of Internet Explorer like internet access that people use to add connectivity to non-Microsoft code constitutes illegal tying of Explorer to Windows.
Well, if even a universal networking component in Windows is illegal tying, what is Apple's deciding what we can think, say and use? Apparently the EU is all good with that.
And besides, far easier to bust an American company on foreign soil in kangaroo courts, than to bust Nokia/Symbian for the -40 PAGES- of hoops you have to jump through to get signed for their platform, for which they charge you big bux. And then can pull your auth at any time for any trivial reason, and charge you again.
No, when I see stuff like this, I remember the golden rule. He with the gold, makes the rules...
It depends on who you work for. In many shops, it's become increasing clear that you don't want to hire anyone under 35 or so, though without the experience you'd be right there with the kids.
The sad truth of it is many of the grads for the last 15 years are junk. Not as people - fortunately, the career still attracts a great crowd - but the curriculums now create people who think that the compiler, the runtime, and the OS are a black box. They rather literally think in terms of South Park's gnomes .. Step 1) write code, Step 3) Profit! And that mindless dependence creates people who have no idea how or why their code works or more often doesn't.
That's fine for school, but you can't ship a product writing code like that, which means we've turned out a legion of coders who are fit for writing reports for accounting instead of firmware for an engine controller or a new comm protocol. And even then, that only works because the penalty for failure in accounting reports is so low. On any meaningful project, assigning work to this generation is like building in bugs, bugs that take a loooong time to fix because the team simply doesn't understand what the machine really does.
Not to worry, there are still plenty of businesses that basically have no idea of how the software sausage is made and will merrily hire anyone with a degree, but in businesses with more experience [and more on the line] it's more the exact opposite is true. They only want the previous generation of coders, and use CS grads for tech support, or if they're lucky, to apprentice.
The US did occupy Japan after they surrendered.
Yup. And then we gave it back.
Somehow that part always gets left out. ;-/
"Hey, I only joined the military for the free college tuition. I never said anything about shooting people!"
These MCP's were all happy to sign up, resell MS's products and take their cut for doing almost nothing. Now they're not selling and they don't want to pay their bill? Puh-lese. The cheese section is apparently in Iceland, along with the whine.
Remember what is written on the Liberty statue?
Yeah, sorry about that, we haven't gotten around to updating it with the new plaque yet
Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
I for one welcome our smoking hot, blonde, petite, fun, smart, green-eyed overlords with huge tracts of land.
[And if you think I'm kidding, swing one of those overlords my way and just watch how welcoming I can be!]
Ha. Nice. If I use a new word, is it a trademark or a patentable new "concept"?
I don't know how this is considered "new". It's been going on for at least 6 or 7 years.
6 or 7? Try 30+ years. Original Adventure and Trek 73 were modded with player feedback too.
It's really sad seeing what punks think is new, and then label with whatever today's buzzword is.
And as soon as anyone cares what the fascist software foundation says, we'll let you know. Seriously, why do those cranks get airtime? You want free? Try digging back to our time, comp.unix.sources. No religion, no restrictions, no 'freedom' with a stack of rules. We just chipped in code and sent it around to share. It's miserable how they have hijacked the word "free."
E'glish speak good me now! Neanderthal clone bad!
Allright the price, well, that's to be expected. But the performance rocks! Just ... itty, bitty rocks.
32Gig? 32Gig?!? Come on, there is probably have more than 32Gig on this drive just in Vista system restore points.
[We've sold software for years, all over the world including the most unlikely of places, seemingly everywhere EXCEPT CHINA. Take the hint. ALL thieves, no exceptions. And no that's not just our experience, that's software-industry wide.]
The GM Firebird III was doing this 50 years ago.