If a breathalyzer was a person, it would be bent over a bar stool, pants down, with the impression of a bullet-proof chest-buckle somewhere in the vicinity of a very reddened butt-crack.
If it sounds familiar, it's because MS is still fishing for ways to market 'Surface', that big-ass table that many people mistakenly believe uses touch-tech, when it actually uses motion-detecting cameras under the glass/inside the BA table.
Apple sent an email to developers yesterday that stated "All apps must be compatible with iPhone OS 3.0
Millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers will move to iPhone OS 3.0 this summer. Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0. If your app submission is not compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, it will not be approved."
Some developers had reported balky uploads over the last 24~48 hours that went fine when retried am 5.7.2009. My guess is there was a hold on the background process for a short time until the updated process per any 3.0 goodness could be implemented. It is easy to imagine this carrying back for more than just a day or so. I had one app put on 'extended' review on 5.1 that went in for approval on 4.26 - I've since reworked the related binary under SDK 3.05 and placed it back in the queue. Big deal...life goes on.
> Once vendors start including it on the box by default at build time, people will adopt it.
BS.
Once shooters start blasting victims by default at dinner time, people will adopt it.
...as if they had a choice.
Oh, and so people know, vendors don't 'include' anything they don't have forced on them either by contract or coercion, which when MS is involved, is the same thing.
Back in the mid 90's, Japanese telecoms decided that they would charge for a piece of each 'type' of phone action...one rate for voice, another for data, etc., while billing was based on quantity (metered.
This was while it was trivial to find service in North America that was flat rate, but still unique per type.
It didn't take much to find ways around the J billing hassles, such as dial-back for international LD. And it only took a few years for the J telcos to wake up to what they were not getting and alter their methods to at least keep them in the game.
Metered use is just an example of the free reign that domestic telcos have - they can dig into the client's pockets....so they will. Rather than build it so they will come, they cling to business models that are increasingly going out-of-date. And with no one to stop them, the domestic phone market will once again become a killing field of grand proportion, with the victim, as usual, being the consumer.
> "...I don't want to walk around looking like a hobby shop exploded in my face."
Would you settle for appearing as if you fell through the front window of a Radio Shack @ the mall? I'm sure I have some gift cards around here somewhere...
Since HTML is simply a markup language, using tags....a child of SGML, my vote is for 'tagger'.
There was a comment on a developer list (Obj.C) the other day... "I know a fair amount of HTML, so what's the best way for me to learn how to code?"
HTML brings none of the discipline and barely any of the logic associated with coding - call them 'lackeys' or 'site maintenance wonks' - if that's their strength please don't raise them above the status of a fluff girl...
>Imposing yet another question on them is just rude.
Agreed - bit like asking the customer to feedback to help improve the service. Amounts to asking for free advice they can profit from. And on how to get further into your pocket, no less.
Perhaps he meant that touching 'No Thanks' results in one star when others view that app in the app store... If that's the way it works, oh well. Could be worse - some apps never get downloaded/installed.
>"Try doing it by using the power required to run a hairdryer."
Hair dryers pull 1000~2000 watts, right? That is a ton. Try having only a few watts to work with...on Mars.
"The transmitter on the lander has a broadcast power of about 14 watts, says Callas. For comparison, the beacon on the Mars Global Surveyor, which is currently in orbit 380 kilometers (228 miles) above the surface of the Red Planet, is weaker -- only 1 watt. Boding poorly for the mission is the fact that this week the sensitive Dish detected the weaker signal from the surveyor, but not the stronger signal from the lander.
But the main problem is the weakness of the signal. And signals weaken as they traverse the roughly 300 million kilometers (about 180 million miles) from Mars to Earth. "We expect a signal hitting the Dish to be something of the order of one billionth of a billionth of a milliwatt [one-thousandth of a watt] of power," says Callas. "It's extremely tiny. This is equivalent to listening to a cell phone from Mars.""
"...the software that drives Adam's thought process sits on three computers, allowing Adam to investigate a thousand experiments a day and still keep track of all the results better than humans can."
There is no 'thought process'. 1's & 0's...that's it. Anthropomorphising the over priced little key-puncher isn't fooling anyone.
Give me $1 mil and I'll put a scare into Adam that he won't soon forget. I can read 3k WPM as well as raw postscript, palms, tarot cards and bar codes with the naked eye. I can intuit nearly 30 spoken languages on body english alone and smell phony money at the bottom of a sweaty pocket. I don't need no stink'n badges and I know when to cross to the other side of the street. Adam might get better press, but until it can order at a drive thru and sort used car parts based on cross-over and eBay thru-put, I'm comfortable sleeping in.
You're right - certainly... and I completely agree.
I believe the speaker just became tripped up when they went for an explanation, however.
What they meant to say was "Uggbga gholps belam gonitoa slhudipp-ti." - Which of course clearly shows that the toddler's train of thought was not only reasonable but well framed and acted upon.
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If a breathalyzer was a person, it would be bent over a bar stool, pants down, with the impression of a bullet-proof chest-buckle somewhere in the vicinity of a very reddened butt-crack.
> "Why is it harder to raise the clock frequenceies on GPUs than CPUs?
Speed costs money...how fast 'ya want to go?
Well drag me to hell...what does an island nation, sitting well below the equator, need with a space program anyhow.
It's just a matter of time before they learn to appreciate being surrounded by large bodies of water.
If it sounds familiar, it's because MS is still fishing for ways to market 'Surface', that big-ass table that many people mistakenly believe uses touch-tech, when it actually uses motion-detecting cameras under the glass/inside the BA table.
>These folks are just trying to make a living & put their kids through school so they can have a better life.
When you've had your SSN used by one of them and your wages have been garnered by the IRS, ask them if you can live with them...
...Apple is busy eating their lunch worldwide. No NTSC/PAL involved....just good old fashioned "give em what they want".
What do 'they' want?
Cheap distractions.
We used to call it "Paradise By The Dashboard Light".
Apple sent an email to developers yesterday that stated "All apps must be compatible with iPhone OS 3.0
Millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers will move to iPhone OS 3.0 this summer. Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0. If your app submission is not compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, it will not be approved."
Some developers had reported balky uploads over the last 24~48 hours that went fine when retried am 5.7.2009. My guess is there was a hold on the background process for a short time until the updated process per any 3.0 goodness could be implemented. It is easy to imagine this carrying back for more than just a day or so. I had one app put on 'extended' review on 5.1 that went in for approval on 4.26 - I've since reworked the related binary under SDK 3.05 and placed it back in the queue. Big deal...life goes on.
Technically?
Did you just say 'Technically'...?
Are you out of your ever lovin', bag-on-the-side, just stepped into a hot steaming pile of pig-flu-poop of a mind???!!
Do you have any idea what that sort of retort encourages around here?
Oh...wait.... Ummm - nevermind.
> Once vendors start including it on the box by default at build time, people will adopt it.
BS.
Once shooters start blasting victims by default at dinner time, people will adopt it.
Oh, and so people know, vendors don't 'include' anything they don't have forced on them either by contract or coercion, which when MS is involved, is the same thing.
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Back in the mid 90's, Japanese telecoms decided that they would charge for a piece of each 'type' of phone action...one rate for voice, another for data, etc., while billing was based on quantity (metered.
This was while it was trivial to find service in North America that was flat rate, but still unique per type.
It didn't take much to find ways around the J billing hassles, such as dial-back for international LD. And it only took a few years for the J telcos to wake up to what they were not getting and alter their methods to at least keep them in the game.
Metered use is just an example of the free reign that domestic telcos have - they can dig into the client's pockets....so they will. Rather than build it so they will come, they cling to business models that are increasingly going out-of-date. And with no one to stop them, the domestic phone market will once again become a killing field of grand proportion, with the victim, as usual, being the consumer.
>"We got laws against noisy car exhausts..."
Noisy exhausts save lives - do your part.
Let me use your phone for a minute...
Why?
You know...battery is dead again.
Oh, sure.
> "...I don't want to walk around looking like a hobby shop exploded in my face."
Would you settle for appearing as if you fell through the front window of a Radio Shack @ the mall? I'm sure I have some gift cards around here somewhere...
Sounds like a bunch of FaceBook losers...er....users... to me.
Since HTML is simply a markup language, using tags....a child of SGML, my vote is for 'tagger'.
There was a comment on a developer list (Obj.C) the other day... "I know a fair amount of HTML, so what's the best way for me to learn how to code?"
HTML brings none of the discipline and barely any of the logic associated with coding - call them 'lackeys' or 'site maintenance wonks' - if that's their strength please don't raise them above the status of a fluff girl...
> "During the nine years I spent as MS, I regularly imbibed company purchased beer...culture of the product development groups."
Well, thanks for revealing that - we now know at least one person to thank for all the crap coming out of Redmond for so long.
'culture'... kidding me?
And here I am thinking it was a virtual shill in the auction audience.
>Imposing yet another question on them is just rude.
Agreed - bit like asking the customer to feedback to help improve the service. Amounts to asking for free advice they can profit from. And on how to get further into your pocket, no less.
Perhaps he meant that touching 'No Thanks' results in one star when others view that app in the app store... If that's the way it works, oh well. Could be worse - some apps never get downloaded/installed.
Nice to see the MS shills are still hanging around - keeps them out of the cat food.
Let's see - project includes a 'projector'....and cameras, lenses & mirrors. But no panels w/touch grids.
Oh, I get it. Since we're imitating MS, it is only fitting to slur the description of how the damn thing works as well.
>"Try doing it by using the power required to run a hairdryer."
Hair dryers pull 1000~2000 watts, right? That is a ton. Try having only a few watts to work with...on Mars.
"The transmitter on the lander has a broadcast power of about 14 watts, says Callas. For comparison, the beacon on the Mars Global Surveyor, which is currently in orbit 380 kilometers (228 miles) above the surface of the Red Planet, is weaker -- only 1 watt. Boding poorly for the mission is the fact that this week the sensitive Dish detected the weaker signal from the surveyor, but not the stronger signal from the lander.
But the main problem is the weakness of the signal. And signals weaken as they traverse the roughly 300 million kilometers (about 180 million miles) from Mars to Earth. "We expect a signal hitting the Dish to be something of the order of one billionth of a billionth of a milliwatt [one-thousandth of a watt] of power," says Callas. "It's extremely tiny. This is equivalent to listening to a cell phone from Mars.""
"...the software that drives Adam's thought process sits on three computers, allowing Adam to investigate a thousand experiments a day and still keep track of all the results better than humans can."
There is no 'thought process'. 1's & 0's...that's it. Anthropomorphising the over priced little key-puncher isn't fooling anyone.
Give me $1 mil and I'll put a scare into Adam that he won't soon forget. I can read 3k WPM as well as raw postscript, palms, tarot cards and bar codes with the naked eye. I can intuit nearly 30 spoken languages on body english alone and smell phony money at the bottom of a sweaty pocket. I don't need no stink'n badges and I know when to cross to the other side of the street. Adam might get better press, but until it can order at a drive thru and sort used car parts based on cross-over and eBay thru-put, I'm comfortable sleeping in.
You're right - certainly... and I completely agree.
I believe the speaker just became tripped up when they went for an explanation, however.
What they meant to say was "Uggbga gholps belam gonitoa slhudipp-ti." - Which of course clearly shows that the toddler's train of thought was not only reasonable but well framed and acted upon.