This seems great, but it pisses me off that the lawyers have to get involved. It seems shockingly bad to me that we accept that there has to be lawyers too. That's how deeply they've embedded themselves into software licensing.
There are a couple of reasons that it's getting harder to teach languages.
1. Languages are moving away from knowing fundemental coding constructs (loops, if statements, etc) and towards knowing an API. You can't really do anything with a modern language without knowing what the libraries are. I suspect these things are frustrating for the learner programmer. I'd pick something with as simple an API as possible.
2. Back in the day, a junior programmer could write something in a couple of hours that was almost as good as the games, etc you purchased. This is no longer the case. I think it's difficult teaching the basics of programming when no child is going to produce anything that comes close to the games they play or the programs they use.
If I were to try and teach programming, I'd look at something like scratch or Hackety Hack
It would appear that Virgin Media are doing this to force the hand of the BBC. A bunch of ISP's are asking the BBC for money because of the huge bandwidth requirements of the iPlayer, and this appears to be the latest salvo.
Virgin are saying that if the BBC doesn't pay them, they'll throttle access to the BBC.
I'm not commenting on the morality of Net Neutrality here. I'm just saying that this may just be a bit of chest beating to force the beebs hand.
The first thing I went looking for in GQL was some kind of builtin free text search. I'd assumed that Google (being the kings of search) would have this covered, and I've yet to write an internet app that doesn't use some form of text search. I may have missed it, but I can't see it in there.
Also, no primary keys?
I'm guessing there may be issues adding this kind of search to a distributed database. Whatever the reason, it's a shame.
This (and other online options) are too restrictive. Note to Adobe : The one thing I do the most with images is caption them. Until this can do that I'm not going to use it.
All these arguments got pulled around with the iPod, and we all know what a disaster that was. The thing here is that there is consumer choice. You can get a different phone if you want. And the phone I want is an iPhone.
As long as you can run Python 2 & 3 in the same environment, this shouldn't be a big deal. It'll just be a case of slowly moving code from one version to the next.
This is a brave move, but you've only got to see the mess you can get into trying to force backward compatibility for too long (Vista, anyone) to know it's the right move.
Of course, this being python, I fully expect some brainbox to come up with an automated conversion routine (v2 to v3) that "WAS WRITTEN IN ONLY 15 LINES OF CODE". etc, etc.
The phone's definitely expensive in the UK. £1000.00 over the lifetime of the contract. That's a lot of money. However, I bought one, and I love it. It's definitely better than the N95 which I also owned and used for a couple of months. The N95 is a buggy P.O.S. in my opinion. I don't know why people like it. Texting is fast on the iPhone, but it's not really geared for one handed texting like more conventional phones. Browsing and email is awesome. I run my life by email and this phone smacks the N95 in this category. Pretty much everyone I know (including those in the 18-35 "cool" category) love the phone. They wouldn't buy it because it's just too expensive.
That's another data point for you. Doesn't say anything really.
So, The number of lost laptops is going to drop to zero, and the number of stolen laptops (stolen, no doubt by Middle Eastern gentlemen of unspecified heights) is going to go up.
If they're going to enforce anything, they should enforce encryption on the laptops. Punishing minor officials for honest mistakes is a pretty stupid thing to do.
No it's not. You'll probably find that you'll have to have bought the mac *after* the Leopord release date was finalised in order to qualify for a discounted or free update.
I'm going to hang back on ordering this. It's a year late, and Apple still haven't managed to release the Gold Master to developers. My feeling is that in order to get it out on time it hasn't been as well tested as previous versions.
1) Create a compression algorithm called the aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa algorithm 2) Add a long and self referencing article on wikipedia about said algorithm. 3) Use algorithm to compress first x% of wikipedia (including your own article) 4) WIN HUTTER PRIZE.
NeoOffice can be quite tricky to use. Or - It used to be quite tricky to use. I believe they've updated the version since I used it. It used to bug out on me all the time. In the end, I shelled out on Apple Pages.
Saying that though, there's no reason students couldn't use it. I never lost any data or too much time using it, and it's fine for basic word-processing or spreadsheeting.
Given the amount of support given from the National Assn. of Broadcasters to Internet radio stations over royalty payments (ermm, none), I'm pretty happy for Radio stations to start paying royalties.
To paraphrase: Hey, First they came for the music file sharers and you did nothing. And then they went for Internet Radio Stations and still you did nothing. And then they got the Satellite broadcasters and you didn't do anything then. And now they're coming for you.
The radio stations can complain as much as they like, but in this situation, I can't be fucking bothered.
Additionally, in all probability (if Apple's past behaviour is anything to go by) you will be eligible for a cheap upgrade
Since when. My Mac Mini was three months old when Tiger came out. I tried every trick in the book, and I still had to pay full price for the upgrade. As far as I can tell, Apple do not give upgrade prices to operating systems.
"The pace of our discussions with Apple as well as their recent unsatisfactory response have certainly frustrated a lot of people at Microsoft. The threat to cancel Mac Office 97 is certainly the strongest bargaining point we have as doing so will do a great deal of harm..."
i.e. Microsoft's Mac division were trying to get Apple to do something (probably to do with Mac Office; presumably something technical or marketing based) and Apple were dragging their heels. (Probably to cause damage to the Mac Office release or Mac Office sales). Microsoft *threatened* to take their bat home to force Apple to start behaving properly.
From what I can tell from reading the original PDF, the Microsoft threat to cancel the Mac Office project had more to do with Apple messing Microsoft about. I assumed they were holding back details which Microsoft needed to make the project work. Secondly, the statement that Microsoft were using Apple users for testing features seems completely unfounded. The emails author was stating that new work on memory management would probably be useful in future releases of Office on Windows. I can only assume that this memory management was added out of necessity. Macs don't or didn't have the best reputation for playing well with memory.
In all, there seems to be a lot of pride in the Mac version, a degree of frustration at Apple playing politics and no trace of anything anti-competetive. I realise that Microsoft don't have the best rep in the world for playing fair, but this email doesn't show microsoft in anything but a good light.
I'm guessing that the "hacking" that is being described is actually a standard analysis of the hard drive after the computer has been taken by the police as evidence. There's nothing unusual in this at all. They'll be looking for deleted files and examining the disk on a sector by sector basis. The Government (or a stupid journalist) is defining this as "Hacking" when in fact it's what the police do with all seized computers.
unless the major webmail accounts consolidate
Last time I looked you could send email from an MSN account to a Gmail account and then forward that onto a Yahoo account. So yes - The major webmail accounts do consolidate.
Consolidating Social Networks is not about ensuring one login works amongst all sites, it's about making sure that the company I choose as a social networking provider allows me to interact with people who use a different social netwrking provider.
There's certainly a need for distributed Social Networking. I'd love to be able to add these features to sites administered by myself and allow Friend Requests, bulletins, etc to propagate seamlessly between like-minded domains. I'd also like to control the hosting for my own social-networking home page.
Friend requests would come from "name@domain.com" instead of "name", but I can't see that being a problem for people.
I had assumed that the first thing that would be needed for this would be some open API. I believe that this fundementally is what is required. The reason email works so well (as opposed to AOL mail) is because any company can create their own email server/client and know that it's interoperable with the rest of the internet. From your comment it would appear that appleseed does not do this.
I'll be checking appleseed out though. And if there's anyone at facebook reading this, I'd urge that they get in touch with the appleseed people and see if they can hammer out a set of standards. (Because what's really needed to make this work is a big player to get involved.)
The one thing that drives me to distraction is trying to select multiple files in finder or multiple tunes in iTunes with shift and the keyboard. If you accidently select too many items, the temptation is to change from shift-Down to shift-Up. On a mac, this will start highlighting items above where you started your selection. Other than using the mouse there appears to be know way of unhighlighting items incorrectly selected.
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This seems great, but it pisses me off that the lawyers have to get involved. It seems shockingly bad to me that we accept that there has to be lawyers too. That's how deeply they've embedded themselves into software licensing.
There are a couple of reasons that it's getting harder to teach languages.
1. Languages are moving away from knowing fundemental coding constructs (loops, if statements, etc) and towards knowing an API. You can't really do anything with a modern language without knowing what the libraries are. I suspect these things are frustrating for the learner programmer. I'd pick something with as simple an API as possible.
2. Back in the day, a junior programmer could write something in a couple of hours that was almost as good as the games, etc you purchased. This is no longer the case. I think it's difficult teaching the basics of programming when no child is going to produce anything that comes close to the games they play or the programs they use.
If I were to try and teach programming, I'd look at something like scratch or Hackety Hack
Good luck.
It would appear that Virgin Media are doing this to force the hand of the BBC. A bunch of ISP's are asking the BBC for money because of the huge bandwidth requirements of the iPlayer, and this appears to be the latest salvo.
Virgin are saying that if the BBC doesn't pay them, they'll throttle access to the BBC.
I'm not commenting on the morality of Net Neutrality here. I'm just saying that this may just be a bit of chest beating to force the beebs hand.
The first thing I went looking for in GQL was some kind of builtin free text search. I'd assumed that Google (being the kings of search) would have this covered, and I've yet to write an internet app that doesn't use some form of text search. I may have missed it, but I can't see it in there.
Also, no primary keys?
I'm guessing there may be issues adding this kind of search to a distributed database. Whatever the reason, it's a shame.
What about iDoom, iPodLinux, RockBox.
Plus there's no such thing "as just a phone" in the mobile world.
You should read this : http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257
This (and other online options) are too restrictive.
Note to Adobe : The one thing I do the most with images is caption them. Until this can do that I'm not going to use it.
All these arguments got pulled around with the iPod, and we all know what a disaster that was.
The thing here is that there is consumer choice. You can get a different phone if you want.
And the phone I want is an iPhone.
As long as you can run Python 2 & 3 in the same environment, this shouldn't be a big deal.
It'll just be a case of slowly moving code from one version to the next.
This is a brave move, but you've only got to see the mess you can get into trying to force backward compatibility for too long (Vista, anyone) to know it's the right move.
Of course, this being python, I fully expect some brainbox to come up with an automated conversion routine (v2 to v3) that "WAS WRITTEN IN ONLY 15 LINES OF CODE". etc, etc.
I am interested in your Chatbots screw you. Do you want to see a photograph.
The phone's definitely expensive in the UK. £1000.00 over the lifetime of the contract. That's a lot of money.
However, I bought one, and I love it. It's definitely better than the N95 which I also owned and used for a couple of months. The N95 is a buggy P.O.S. in my opinion. I don't know why people like it.
Texting is fast on the iPhone, but it's not really geared for one handed texting like more conventional phones.
Browsing and email is awesome. I run my life by email and this phone smacks the N95 in this category.
Pretty much everyone I know (including those in the 18-35 "cool" category) love the phone. They wouldn't buy it because it's just too expensive.
That's another data point for you. Doesn't say anything really.
So, The number of lost laptops is going to drop to zero, and the number of stolen laptops (stolen, no doubt by Middle Eastern gentlemen of unspecified heights) is going to go up.
If they're going to enforce anything, they should enforce encryption on the laptops. Punishing minor officials for honest mistakes is a pretty stupid thing to do.
No it's not. You'll probably find that you'll have to have bought the mac *after* the Leopord release date was finalised in order to qualify for a discounted or free update.
I'm going to hang back on ordering this. It's a year late, and Apple still haven't managed to release the Gold Master to developers. My feeling is that in order to get it out on time it hasn't been as well tested as previous versions.
I've renamed my user agent to be googlebot.
Hopefully (don't know if it works), sites like this will give me the correctly indexed information.
1) Create a compression algorithm called the aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa algorithm
2) Add a long and self referencing article on wikipedia about said algorithm.
3) Use algorithm to compress first x% of wikipedia (including your own article)
4) WIN HUTTER PRIZE.
NeoOffice can be quite tricky to use. Or - It used to be quite tricky to use. I believe they've updated the version since I used it. It used to bug out on me all the time. In the end, I shelled out on Apple Pages.
Saying that though, there's no reason students couldn't use it. I never lost any data or too much time using it, and it's fine for basic word-processing or spreadsheeting.
Given the amount of support given from the National Assn. of Broadcasters to Internet radio stations over royalty payments (ermm, none), I'm pretty happy for Radio stations to start paying royalties.
To paraphrase:
Hey, First they came for the music file sharers and you did nothing.
And then they went for Internet Radio Stations and still you did nothing.
And then they got the Satellite broadcasters and you didn't do anything then.
And now they're coming for you.
The radio stations can complain as much as they like, but in this situation, I can't be fucking bothered.
Additionally, in all probability (if Apple's past behaviour is anything to go by) you will be eligible for a cheap upgrade
Since when. My Mac Mini was three months old when Tiger came out. I tried every trick in the book, and I still had to pay full price for the upgrade. As far as I can tell, Apple do not give upgrade prices to operating systems.
Considering the balls-up made when Yahoo bought Overture, I'm really suprised Microsoft are trying this. This is a bad, stupid idea.
Quoting from T.F.A.
"The pace of our discussions with Apple as well as their recent unsatisfactory response have certainly frustrated a lot of people at Microsoft. The threat to cancel Mac Office 97 is certainly the strongest bargaining point we have as doing so will do a great deal of harm..."
i.e. Microsoft's Mac division were trying to get Apple to do something (probably to do with Mac Office; presumably something technical or marketing based) and Apple were dragging their heels. (Probably to cause damage to the Mac Office release or Mac Office sales). Microsoft *threatened* to take their bat home to force Apple to start behaving properly.
From what I can tell from reading the original PDF, the Microsoft threat to cancel the Mac Office project had more to do with Apple messing Microsoft about. I assumed they were holding back details which Microsoft needed to make the project work. Secondly, the statement that Microsoft were using Apple users for testing features seems completely unfounded. The emails author was stating that new work on memory management would probably be useful in future releases of Office on Windows. I can only assume that this memory management was added out of necessity. Macs don't or didn't have the best reputation for playing well with memory.
In all, there seems to be a lot of pride in the Mac version, a degree of frustration at Apple playing politics and no trace of anything anti-competetive. I realise that Microsoft don't have the best rep in the world for playing fair, but this email doesn't show microsoft in anything but a good light.
I'm guessing that the "hacking" that is being described is actually a standard analysis of the hard drive after the computer has been taken by the police as evidence. There's nothing unusual in this at all. They'll be looking for deleted files and examining the disk on a sector by sector basis. The Government (or a stupid journalist) is defining this as "Hacking" when in fact it's what the police do with all seized computers.
Last time I looked you could send email from an MSN account to a Gmail account and then forward that onto a Yahoo account. So yes - The major webmail accounts do consolidate.
Consolidating Social Networks is not about ensuring one login works amongst all sites, it's about making sure that the company I choose as a social networking provider allows me to interact with people who use a different social netwrking provider.
Wow! I was thinking about this just yesterday.
There's certainly a need for distributed Social Networking. I'd love to be able to add these features to sites administered by myself and allow Friend Requests, bulletins, etc to propagate seamlessly between like-minded domains. I'd also like to control the hosting for my own social-networking home page.
Friend requests would come from "name@domain.com" instead of "name", but I can't see that being a problem for people.
I had assumed that the first thing that would be needed for this would be some open API. I believe that this fundementally is what is required. The reason email works so well (as opposed to AOL mail) is because any company can create their own email server/client and know that it's interoperable with the rest of the internet. From your comment it would appear that appleseed does not do this.
I'll be checking appleseed out though. And if there's anyone at facebook reading this, I'd urge that they get in touch with the appleseed people and see if they can hammer out a set of standards. (Because what's really needed to make this work is a big player to get involved.)
The one thing that drives me to distraction is trying to select multiple files in finder or multiple tunes in iTunes with shift and the keyboard. If you accidently select too many items, the temptation is to change from shift-Down to shift-Up. On a mac, this will start highlighting items above where you started your selection. Other than using the mouse there appears to be know way of unhighlighting items incorrectly selected.