It seems to me the prudent thing for the government to do is to do nothing until some other country figures out a viable solution to the problem. I don't see why we in Australia should be the guinea pigs for the latest hair brain scheme proposed by the content owners. Let some other country find a solution that works for everyone, and we should wait on the sidelines until that happens.
Not just iDevices. If you sync your camera with an iDevice (mac or ipad etc), then it can go to the cloud. Need a ipad camera kit to sync with an ipad.
More than half a billion dollars for a project to take 911 calls? WTF? I mean even in my wildest dreams, with mapping and links to other systems and who knows what, how in the heck does it cost that much?
The trend is towards invisible background saving rather than pressing some menu item to save. Apple's iWork apps on ipad you never explicitly save, and you are never aware of when it is going to the cloud.
Selling a lot of copies is not enough to be considered success. Blurays are not a success even though quite a few are sold. To be a success in Microsoft's world, it has to maintain Microsoft's dominance. That's a big ask.
You forget that computing is often an adjunct to the real work, rather than the real work itself. e.g. you're a doctor going around the hospital and you need something to carry around with your work. Portability is more important to the real work than having a full sized keyboard and monitor.
If you read all the links it says that probably WP7 phones won't get the WP8 upgrade. Say what you will about Apple, but they've been pretty good about supporting phone and tablet users with upgrades to the OS. I don't know that you can trust any of the other vendors to not abandon your hardware a lot quicker than Apple does.
I can't see the point in pursuing automated drivers. I mean, even if you could get them to work well 99% of the time, that 1% failure (or even.001% failure) would be just unacceptable.
I know we get computers to control aircraft, but it is a rather different situation. The problem of controlling an aeroplane with nothing up there to run into is a problem 10000 times easier than on the ground where there are so many hazards to avoid. The software would be so complex, there would be no way of knowing when it is going to plunge the vehicle into a tree. Odd happenings like this even occasionally happen to aircraft, but at least then the pilot usually has time to recover the situation before it is fatal. And that software is going to be MUCH simpler and auditable.
The big mistake a lot of companies keep making is assuming you can focus on the business market and not get killed. RIM did it and it worked for a while, now they are toast. Sun was obsessed about ignoring the consumer, and they collapsed into nothing when consumer level hardware (PCs) ate their lunch. Microsoft's initial success was going against this trend (and overtaking IBM in the process) and their demise is in caring too much about enterprise sales of Office and Windows and ignoring consumer trends. Apple is set to kill everyone because they care only about the consumer, and all tech tends to trickle down until the consumer, and thereby who controls economy of scale of large sales, kills the narrowly focused business focused companies. BYOD is new, but the basic principle has been at work for a long time.
As I recall there was a ton of skepticism around the Google IPO. The stock plummeted for a while. Then if you bought it you would have made money hand over fist. Or even if you'd held it from IPO you would have made a ton of money. These internet firms are incredibly hard to value. Facebook may be on its way to zero, or it maybe going to the moon. Nobody knows yet.
You can't switch social media sites every time one leap frogs the other in features. I'd imagine facebook will fix its shortcomings soon enough to keep Google+ a ghosttown. They'd have to be very negligent for years for that to change.
Range check at what point? Nobody as far as I've heard has made any argument about where and when this routine might be called. Do you know something we don't?
Having seen more than my fair share of software projects, its kind of insane to invest money into new start software. On the odd occasion you might make a lot of money, but most times, kiss your money goodbye. And in Kickstart you don't even have the possibility of making a lot of money, do you? All you get is a free copy of the game isn't it? That is real insanity.
What do you want to hack or work on? If you want to write Mac or iPhone apps, you should learn objective-c. If you want to do the web, then javascript. If you want something nice and general purpose and useful in various scenarios, Java's a good choice. If you want to dazzle yourself with interesting algorithms and programming techniques, try one of the computer science type favourites like Lisp, Scheme, ML or such.
I have to agree 100%. I bought a Drobo several years back, and its been extremely reliable. When a disk dies, it alerts you, and you slot in another one. It just works as advertised, and my life has just been a ton easier since then. Before that I was using various disks and raids and all sorts of things, but they're a pain in the butt when you run out of space or a disk dies. Get a Drobo and be done with it.
As for backing up the Drobo, unfortunately you pretty much have to get another Drobo. I mean, in theory maybe you can get away without it, because the Drobo has redundancy against disk failures, but I don't fully trust that. So for full peace of mind, you need 2 Drobos. But I don't think you'll be sorry.
Yep, exactly. I ran Linux for a long time, but got tired of little things here and there always breaking with every release. Eventually changed to Mac, because even though I'm a bit of a geek, life it too short to worry about this stuff all the time.
I think the other major problem with Linux is the lack of standardisation. Gnome vs KDE etc. I know everyone keeps claiming competition is good, but I disagree. It fragments the already small user base.
It seems to me all the states are in a race to the bottom to make big companies come to their state. The end game is nobody pays taxes, because states are too afraid of losing companies in their jurisdiction. The only way out is for all the states to gather together and put an end to these races to the bottom.
I hardly think they're becoming more consumer focused over time. They did after all add a whole bunch of enterprise features to iOS like support for Outlook server, and remote wipe.
Maybe the reality is that Apple see all these so-called enterprise features as legacy, and they don't see that tablet users should be or need to be using them. Maybe Apple is ahead of the curve on this. Maybe, as so often happens, reality will change to conform to Apple, and not the other way around.
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It seems to me the prudent thing for the government to do is to do nothing until some other country figures out a viable solution to the problem. I don't see why we in Australia should be the guinea pigs for the latest hair brain scheme proposed by the content owners. Let some other country find a solution that works for everyone, and we should wait on the sidelines until that happens.
Not just iDevices. If you sync your camera with an iDevice (mac or ipad etc), then it can go to the cloud. Need a ipad camera kit to sync with an ipad.
No matter how good your product is, one should never scoff at competing with the world's biggest company.
Err.. wouldn't Apple's iCloud be the best, since that's what it was designed to do? Sync photos, set and forget style?
Also, iPads, iPhones, iPods, TVs.
More than half a billion dollars for a project to take 911 calls? WTF? I mean even in my wildest dreams, with mapping and links to other systems and who knows what, how in the heck does it cost that much?
Well they can't do it in perpetuity. Patents expire after 20 years.
The trend is towards invisible background saving rather than pressing some menu item to save. Apple's iWork apps on ipad you never explicitly save, and you are never aware of when it is going to the cloud.
Selling a lot of copies is not enough to be considered success. Blurays are not a success even though quite a few are sold. To be a success in Microsoft's world, it has to maintain Microsoft's dominance. That's a big ask.
You forget that computing is often an adjunct to the real work, rather than the real work itself. e.g. you're a doctor going around the hospital and you need something to carry around with your work. Portability is more important to the real work than having a full sized keyboard and monitor.
Do you think coding is the gold standard for what is considered "real work"? LOL.
If you read all the links it says that probably WP7 phones won't get the WP8 upgrade. Say what you will about Apple, but they've been pretty good about supporting phone and tablet users with upgrades to the OS. I don't know that you can trust any of the other vendors to not abandon your hardware a lot quicker than Apple does.
I think he was saying that Silverlight was supposed to be write once run anywhere. Which is kinda true, given the platforms it supports.
I can't see the point in pursuing automated drivers. I mean, even if you could get them to work well 99% of the time, that 1% failure (or even .001% failure) would be just unacceptable.
I know we get computers to control aircraft, but it is a rather different situation. The problem of controlling an aeroplane with nothing up there to run into is a problem 10000 times easier than on the ground where there are so many hazards to avoid. The software would be so complex, there would be no way of knowing when it is going to plunge the vehicle into a tree. Odd happenings like this even occasionally happen to aircraft, but at least then the pilot usually has time to recover the situation before it is fatal. And that software is going to be MUCH simpler and auditable.
The big mistake a lot of companies keep making is assuming you can focus on the business market and not get killed. RIM did it and it worked for a while, now they are toast. Sun was obsessed about ignoring the consumer, and they collapsed into nothing when consumer level hardware (PCs) ate their lunch. Microsoft's initial success was going against this trend (and overtaking IBM in the process) and their demise is in caring too much about enterprise sales of Office and Windows and ignoring consumer trends. Apple is set to kill everyone because they care only about the consumer, and all tech tends to trickle down until the consumer, and thereby who controls economy of scale of large sales, kills the narrowly focused business focused companies. BYOD is new, but the basic principle has been at work for a long time.
As I recall there was a ton of skepticism around the Google IPO. The stock plummeted for a while. Then if you bought it you would have made money hand over fist. Or even if you'd held it from IPO you would have made a ton of money. These internet firms are incredibly hard to value. Facebook may be on its way to zero, or it maybe going to the moon. Nobody knows yet.
You can't switch social media sites every time one leap frogs the other in features. I'd imagine facebook will fix its shortcomings soon enough to keep Google+ a ghosttown. They'd have to be very negligent for years for that to change.
Range check at what point? Nobody as far as I've heard has made any argument about where and when this routine might be called. Do you know something we don't?
Having seen more than my fair share of software projects, its kind of insane to invest money into new start software. On the odd occasion you might make a lot of money, but most times, kiss your money goodbye. And in Kickstart you don't even have the possibility of making a lot of money, do you? All you get is a free copy of the game isn't it? That is real insanity.
What do you want to hack or work on? If you want to write Mac or iPhone apps, you should learn objective-c. If you want to do the web, then javascript. If you want something nice and general purpose and useful in various scenarios, Java's a good choice. If you want to dazzle yourself with interesting algorithms and programming techniques, try one of the computer science type favourites like Lisp, Scheme, ML or such.
I have to agree 100%. I bought a Drobo several years back, and its been extremely reliable. When a disk dies, it alerts you, and you slot in another one. It just works as advertised, and my life has just been a ton easier since then. Before that I was using various disks and raids and all sorts of things, but they're a pain in the butt when you run out of space or a disk dies. Get a Drobo and be done with it.
As for backing up the Drobo, unfortunately you pretty much have to get another Drobo. I mean, in theory maybe you can get away without it, because the Drobo has redundancy against disk failures, but I don't fully trust that. So for full peace of mind, you need 2 Drobos. But I don't think you'll be sorry.
Yep, exactly. I ran Linux for a long time, but got tired of little things here and there always breaking with every release. Eventually changed to Mac, because even though I'm a bit of a geek, life it too short to worry about this stuff all the time.
I think the other major problem with Linux is the lack of standardisation. Gnome vs KDE etc. I know everyone keeps claiming competition is good, but I disagree. It fragments the already small user base.
It seems to me all the states are in a race to the bottom to make big companies come to their state. The end game is nobody pays taxes, because states are too afraid of losing companies in their jurisdiction. The only way out is for all the states to gather together and put an end to these races to the bottom.
Why didn't the girl get the kidney back? I can understand her willing to give it up for her brother, but not for some random person.
I hardly think they're becoming more consumer focused over time. They did after all add a whole bunch of enterprise features to iOS like support for Outlook server, and remote wipe.
Maybe the reality is that Apple see all these so-called enterprise features as legacy, and they don't see that tablet users should be or need to be using them. Maybe Apple is ahead of the curve on this. Maybe, as so often happens, reality will change to conform to Apple, and not the other way around.