Everything involving heavy js and canvas that I've tried on my iphone has been sluggish to an unusable extent. On the other hand, I haven't tried it in a while. So I suppose it's possible some improvements have been rolled out.
I don't know about anyone else but every person I know who uses drugs on a regular basis is a complete moron and doesn't have anything better to do than getting doped up and hanging out and talking with their friends for hours about nothing.
Aside from the doped up part, this describes almost every non geek I know. Oh boy, hours of talking about the weather, american idol and gossiping about the neighbors!
Younger kids identify more and are responsible (indirectly) for many more toy sales.
I'm not sure who said it first, but I think there's a lot of truth in the statement that no kid wants to be robin, they all want to be batman. As a kid, I recall always hating the "kid character". I never identified with him. Or, if I did, that was a bad thing. I didn't watch transformers, for example, to understanding of the young male viewpoint in a world with giant robots. I just wanted to be a giant robot who could shoot lazers. Or be a part of gi joe, not the dumbass kids they saved.
When people railed ceaselessly against Apple for even suggesting that this was a good way to do iPhone apps?
They did a lot more than suggest, they demanded. And I was one of those who complained. And while I still maintain native applications are needed, I'll admit I was quite wrong about web apps. They actually can work rather well at times, even over edge. Even if the iphone never really fixed a lot of rough edges there in terms of integrating it all.
Why do people get all uptight when someone cites the Founding Fathers but rarely comment when they cite other historical figures?
Is that true though? I roll my eyes when people cite the founding fathers. But I do so just as much when people bring up what any other person outside modern culture would make of it. It just doesn't happen that much, because most people realize how flawed such comparisons are. The founding fathers are just an odd single blindspot there for most.
A device with an unprotected screen that I don't expect to last a year?
I think you're really reaching to justify an emotional response. I've had mine for over a year. And I was homeless for three of those months, My kindle still doesn't have a scratch. You don't get much more wear and tear in life than that.
I think you're making the same mistake a lot of other people in this thread are. It's not about you, personally. It quite possibly might not even apply to your entire generation. You need a watch, and that's fine. But the vast majority of late teen early twenty people have decided they don't.
I was really excited about this, until I tried to actually use it. It gave me an important lesson about open source and cloud computing. The frontend can be open source, but all the apps below it can be easily locked out. From what I can see, normal users can't actually get at a lot of the goodies. Like the application section.
Finding the aliens - little green men or bacteria on mars - is important as an act of faith not just science.
And that's where I think the flaw in your argument is. If it was faith, there wouldn't be a need to search for proof. The people on the other side are quite content to say "because, that's why".
I think the problem comes in when it's always antagonistic, angry, people all day. Eight hours of people being pissed at you because of something someone else, usually they, did, can really take a toll after years of it.
The sterotype of the IT guy who's a dick has some validity to it. But it's mostly people who don't start out that way. You deal with people who hate you enough, and eventually you have to either quit, stop caring, or start hating them.
Personally, I don't see what's wrong with coding for the fun of doing something unique and fun. Seems like looking at art and saying "But what's it DO?"
Wireless was a bit of a disapointment for me. I found out my chip was supported, tossed haiku onto my netbook, and was delighted by the speed and responsiveness. Then I discovered wifi doesn't work with anything but unsecured networks at the moment. It's going to be like ripping my heart out to uninstall it, but it's really not viable for me till that's in place. So close though.
The dreamcast was amazing to write for. It was a while back, so my memory is a bit fuzzy. But my experience with the normal sdk, the windows cd sdk, and kalios for homebrew were all wonderful. They had flaws, to be sure. But the documentation was great, they gave very easy access to all the hardware, everything was abstracted if you wanted it and nothing keeping you from getting closer to the metal if you needed to.
Half a year ago I'd have agreed. I'm just tired of it now though. The novelty of jailbreaking has worn off, and now I'm just getting weary of all the hastles which go with it. The api changes, waiting for cracks for every new upgrade, having to check to make sure the jailbreaking method is stable for each release, every update meaning some apps will stop working for a while and may or may never get the functionality back. It's getting monotonous.
That was my first thought as well. The only preperation I had for university from the public school system was an AP biology class. Upt until that point, there was no actual challenge from school. And the classes in public school were almost totally different in structure to what I'd find later on. And as bad as it was from public school to university, I can't even imagine how hard it would be to go from "unschooling" to there.
At least they're associated with brilliance in some way. I somehow doubt the backend web coding I do is going to get me even the footnote in history they'll have.
Kompozer is new, supported, and lacks 90% of the features of dreamweaver. It's a good idea which might get there at some point. But for the moment it's primitive to the point where very few people would consider it a dreamweaver replacement. While it might be ok for someone who just wants to whip up a quick and easy html site, going beyond that was painful last I looked into it.
Same here. I don't know anyone who watches live tv anymore. And I'm not even talking about especially geeky people. Everyone from the graphic designers to bank tellers uses some way of going around the live viewing process.
Seriously, if she's pulled I really do want a gold medal for simply being alive. If what's important is effort, not results, than I'm easily at olympic level just from the fact that I still walk on these pathetic pieces of rot I used to call legs.
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Everything involving heavy js and canvas that I've tried on my iphone has been sluggish to an unusable extent. On the other hand, I haven't tried it in a while. So I suppose it's possible some improvements have been rolled out.
I don't know about anyone else but every person I know who uses drugs on a regular basis is a complete moron and doesn't have anything better to do than getting doped up and hanging out and talking with their friends for hours about nothing.
Aside from the doped up part, this describes almost every non geek I know. Oh boy, hours of talking about the weather, american idol and gossiping about the neighbors!
Younger kids identify more and are responsible (indirectly) for many more toy sales.
I'm not sure who said it first, but I think there's a lot of truth in the statement that no kid wants to be robin, they all want to be batman. As a kid, I recall always hating the "kid character". I never identified with him. Or, if I did, that was a bad thing. I didn't watch transformers, for example, to understanding of the young male viewpoint in a world with giant robots. I just wanted to be a giant robot who could shoot lazers. Or be a part of gi joe, not the dumbass kids they saved.
When people railed ceaselessly against Apple for even suggesting that this was a good way to do iPhone apps?
They did a lot more than suggest, they demanded. And I was one of those who complained. And while I still maintain native applications are needed, I'll admit I was quite wrong about web apps. They actually can work rather well at times, even over edge. Even if the iphone never really fixed a lot of rough edges there in terms of integrating it all.
Why do people get all uptight when someone cites the Founding Fathers but rarely comment when they cite other historical figures?
Is that true though? I roll my eyes when people cite the founding fathers. But I do so just as much when people bring up what any other person outside modern culture would make of it. It just doesn't happen that much, because most people realize how flawed such comparisons are. The founding fathers are just an odd single blindspot there for most.
A device with an unprotected screen that I don't expect to last a year?
I think you're really reaching to justify an emotional response. I've had mine for over a year. And I was homeless for three of those months, My kindle still doesn't have a scratch. You don't get much more wear and tear in life than that.
I think you're making the same mistake a lot of other people in this thread are. It's not about you, personally. It quite possibly might not even apply to your entire generation. You need a watch, and that's fine. But the vast majority of late teen early twenty people have decided they don't.
I was really excited about this, until I tried to actually use it. It gave me an important lesson about open source and cloud computing. The frontend can be open source, but all the apps below it can be easily locked out. From what I can see, normal users can't actually get at a lot of the goodies. Like the application section.
tl;dr: I'm old and scared that the world has changed! Oh no, it's changing even more now!
Finding the aliens - little green men or bacteria on mars - is important as an act of faith not just science.
And that's where I think the flaw in your argument is. If it was faith, there wouldn't be a need to search for proof. The people on the other side are quite content to say "because, that's why".
I think the problem comes in when it's always antagonistic, angry, people all day. Eight hours of people being pissed at you because of something someone else, usually they, did, can really take a toll after years of it. The sterotype of the IT guy who's a dick has some validity to it. But it's mostly people who don't start out that way. You deal with people who hate you enough, and eventually you have to either quit, stop caring, or start hating them.
Wow, I haven't thought of that series in ages. I'm a little scared to revisit it, given fears that it won't hold up.
Personally, I don't see what's wrong with coding for the fun of doing something unique and fun. Seems like looking at art and saying "But what's it DO?"
Wireless was a bit of a disapointment for me. I found out my chip was supported, tossed haiku onto my netbook, and was delighted by the speed and responsiveness. Then I discovered wifi doesn't work with anything but unsecured networks at the moment. It's going to be like ripping my heart out to uninstall it, but it's really not viable for me till that's in place. So close though.
I might agree, except that I was delighted how close that tag came to "what could possibly grow wrong".
The dreamcast was amazing to write for. It was a while back, so my memory is a bit fuzzy. But my experience with the normal sdk, the windows cd sdk, and kalios for homebrew were all wonderful. They had flaws, to be sure. But the documentation was great, they gave very easy access to all the hardware, everything was abstracted if you wanted it and nothing keeping you from getting closer to the metal if you needed to.
Half a year ago I'd have agreed. I'm just tired of it now though. The novelty of jailbreaking has worn off, and now I'm just getting weary of all the hastles which go with it. The api changes, waiting for cracks for every new upgrade, having to check to make sure the jailbreaking method is stable for each release, every update meaning some apps will stop working for a while and may or may never get the functionality back. It's getting monotonous.
And it's actually pretty good. Seems to be lagging in performance a bit behind the linux builds for me, but it's still shaping up really well.
That was my first thought as well. The only preperation I had for university from the public school system was an AP biology class. Upt until that point, there was no actual challenge from school. And the classes in public school were almost totally different in structure to what I'd find later on. And as bad as it was from public school to university, I can't even imagine how hard it would be to go from "unschooling" to there.
At least they're associated with brilliance in some way. I somehow doubt the backend web coding I do is going to get me even the footnote in history they'll have.
Kompozer is new, supported, and lacks 90% of the features of dreamweaver. It's a good idea which might get there at some point. But for the moment it's primitive to the point where very few people would consider it a dreamweaver replacement. While it might be ok for someone who just wants to whip up a quick and easy html site, going beyond that was painful last I looked into it.
Same here. I don't know anyone who watches live tv anymore. And I'm not even talking about especially geeky people. Everyone from the graphic designers to bank tellers uses some way of going around the live viewing process.
The capacity for love, which is dependent on the ability to feel guilt for our own actions.
That seems like a pretty big assumption. Are you basing this on neurology or just guessing?
Seriously, if she's pulled I really do want a gold medal for simply being alive. If what's important is effort, not results, than I'm easily at olympic level just from the fact that I still walk on these pathetic pieces of rot I used to call legs.
Was he wearing shoes, and have you decided you're anti-shoe as well because of this?