They are actually only charging developers for being on the Windows store. There's a metro version of Chrome for instance. You can actually flip-flop back and forth between the two interfaces depending on what you are doing. Which can be kind of nice. It's kind of interesting that it took tablets for us to realize that full screen, and I mean every pixel, not full screen, minus task bar, minus title bar, minus menu bar, minus a tool bar can actually be quite nice to use in many situations.
Well, Zune didn't have an "Zune Classic" to fall back on. A product failure isn't really what we're talking about. And I'm not sure if Bob was ever a serious contender to their flagship model. It was just something you were supposed to install on top of Windows, and it was never included with Windows. Windows ME didn't try to change anything about windows at all. It's pretty much exactly the same as Windows 98, except it crashed a whole lot more. I'm really not completely sure if that's more to do with Windows Me, or the combination of bad drivers and cheap low quality RAM which was popular at the time. Vista again seems to have been a driver problem, combined with underspecced computers trying to run an operating system they didn't have the power to run. I had a Vista laptop which had decent drivers and saw no problems with Vista on that specific machine. Windows 8 is a whole different story. They could very easily rectify the problem by just going back to the old interface. There's rumour they will in the next version.
I use MySQL for a lot of personal projects on a shared host. However, I don't have any idea how anyone uses PHPMyAdmin. It gets the job done in a pinch, but it really doesn't work as well as MySQL workbench. You should be able to set up an SSH tunnel so you can use MySQL workbench. I imagine the same could be done for whatever tool is popular for PostgreSQL. Using a web based tool doesn't make any sense in either case.
But still I see very few people wearing blue-tooth headsets. And usually when I do, it's people who have just left their car. I still think it looks completely ridiculous when people are talking using a bluetooth headset. And with cars having built in bluetooth, I think I even see fewer people with the earpieces.
But it's a real problem for employers. Unless you're hiring for a factory where employees are easily trained and replaced, there's really no way you can replace an employee while they're off on parental leave. Let's say a lead developer took 6 months off. You probably need to hire the new person a good 2 months before the other person leaves just so they can catch up. And then it probably takes another month or so after the original employee gets back to get them caught back up. The other option is to just take the work of the person who leaves, and split it between the remaining employees, and don't hire anybody to fill the seat. This means everyone else has to either work more so the same amount of work can be done, or they just have to get less work done. Either way, if the person taking the time off is a high level employee, you're still going to be stuck having them work a little bit during their parental leave, if not just answering the phone a couple times a week to fill in missing information.
That's why I feel the important part of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is left out. It's Reduce, Reuse, Recycle IN THAT ORDER. One of the best things we can do for our environment is to stop using so much stuff in the first place. Or if you do use stuff. Make sure it's reusable. It's not so good for the environment to recycle plastic water bottles all the time, when you could just have a reusable one. They even have ones that roll up so you don't have to worry so much about carrying around a big empty bottle. It's nice to recycle packaging for products, but wouldn't it be much better if the packaging wasn't there at all? Sure some things need packaging to stay intact during transit, but most things these days have an extreme excess of packaging.
You're going on like the only alternative to MVC is stuffing everything in a single file. While those of us who have been doing web development long before the idea of MVC have been separating out the business logic from the web page for a long time. There was stuff like N-Tier architectures which did a pretty good job of separating out the data storage from the business logic from the presentation layer. Personally I find this to be a lot better than MVC, because I find that MVC links the presentation too much to the underlying structure of the data.
Even IE8 (If you use the proper DOCTYPE to bring it out of legacy mode) is not so bad (it understands CSS 2.1 selectors like:first-child and [attribute] etc.).
Fixed that for you. This has to be the most annoying part of it all. They really should have implemented the opposite where you required a special doctype to put the browser into legacy mode. Would have made everybody start to make their pages standards compliant much sooner.
Yeah, better to just have a PHP script which generates a CSS file and run the script whenever changes are made and you need to refresh the style sheet.
Exactly. All you need to process credit cards is an iPhone/Android phone and and adapter from Square. Flat percentage on all purchases, so you don't have to worry about small purchases getting consumed by transaction charges.
Handling cash has a non-zero cost of doing business as well. There's all sorts of ways cash can go missing be it theft by employees or outsiders, or simply having it misplaced. There's bank deposit fees to actually get the money into the bank. There's the problems with ensuring you always have enough change on hand for a purchase. There's the risk of accepting counterfeit bills. There's employee time lost from counting the money to ensure the money in the till matches the amount on the receipts.
I really don't see how a currency can be digital, decentralized, and anonymous. If that's the case, then whatever amount the card says it has, it has. Sure you can put in all kinds of encryption and digital signatures, but at the end of the day, you're trusting the card. It's like those photocopier or transit pass cards. If they aren't centrally managed, eventually they all get cracked. And the incentive to crack these things will be very high. Even if you have to make 10,000, $10 transactions to make it worth your while, people will still do it.
It happened. We all do less work. And we do have more money. The problem is that we spend our extra free time at our place of employment. And we spend all the extra money on the stuff that didn't exist in the 1970s. It really doesn't take so much time to wash the dishes now that we have a dish washer. You can mow the lawn much faster with a self propelled lawnmower (they even have robot ones). Almost nobody on my block shovels their driveway in the winter. They either have a snow-blower or they have the plow come around and do it. Most people don't fix their own car, they don't even change their own oil. They get the guy at the shop to do it. All that extra money we have goes to cell phones, internet, cable TV, dish washers,cars with every accessory ever thought up (none of which existed in the 70s).
There's a third option.The half of the population that was in factory jobs gets trained to do a job that can't be replaced by a robot. However, this may become problematic, because it's my opinion that most people lack the intelligence to do anything that can't be done by a robot, or the jobs they can do, are not in high enough demand that we can give everyone a job. This is also the problem with everybody working part time. The people working in the factories lack the ability to fill the remaining jobs. If this option is for those people to go un-employed, those who are working will want some major kickbacks for being the ones holding everybody else afloat.
Yeah, this is bound to happen sooner or later. Your best insurance is to be skilled in an area that isn't easily replaced by a robot. So obviously programming robots is safe for a little while, but there's lot of other things. Even low level jobs like hair stylist, plumber, or car mechanic probably won't be replaced by robots in the near future. Basically stay away from any jobs that have gone to foreign workers over the last decade. All those foreign workers were really just a stop-gap while they got the robotics figured out.
Exactly. They had a crackdown on people who made money off eBay a few years back. They obviously didn't go after people who just sold a bicycle on eBay but were more concerned with those running completely undeclared businesses off of eBay, some people making over $100,000 per year. Just like they won't go after people setting up a garage sale but they will expect taxes to be paid when you're running a business, even if you run it out of your home.
The thing is, a RaspPi would be much more useful with a SATA interface. It's widely reported to be problematic to run a bittorrent on the RaspPi because the I/O load will bring it to it's knees, or in many cases, just crash the thing outright. While using a USB stick eliminates most of the problems, having proper SATA port would make IO much faster, assuming it's proper SATA with DMA, the processor could be freed up for more important things.
I'd like to know how this is supposed to work. You are going to have a lot of trouble getting 100W out of a laptop USB port. Are these only going to only be available in desktops? Even there there's probably quite a few desktops that don't have 100 "extra" watts in their power supply to provide to some peripheral. Although you can get a very high wattage power supply, you don't really need that much with modern processors, and SSDs. Especially if you don't have a particularly fancy video card.
Well, for starters, there should be a way for apps to only access certain folders of the SD card. Kind of like how all the internal storage is private to each app, same should go for the SD card. There's very few use cases that I can think of where an app needs access to every file on my SD card. Even something like a media player should be granted permission only to specific folders where you keep your music and videos. Having access to the SD Card and network basically gives the app to collect any data it can find on your SD card and send it off to some random server. Including unencrypted backups if you didn't get the paid version of Titanium Backup.
But most people only buy a new OS when buying a new computer. What's happened lately is that people stopped needing new computers. My desktop is 7 years old and I still feel no need to upgrade. My laptop is 3 years old and again, I feel no need to upgrade. Computing for most people has got to a point where things are fast enough. So they can easily go 10 years without needing a new machine, assuming it doesn't break so much that they can't just fix it.
While there may be "replacements" there are no "drop in replacements" It's not like with MySQL, where if you don't like MySQL you can just change the server to MariaDB or Percona server and most things will just work the same. If you write your application against MS SQL, or Sharepoint, there is no way to switch short of rewriting the entire (or very large parts of) the application. Same goes for things like Exchange. There are tools that do many of the same things as Exchange, but nothing that's really a drop in replacement.
Except that when 2 people are equal in skill set, you defer to other qualifications such as which person you think will work better with the existing employees, or which person will just be more fun to have around the office. Perhaps it's which person you think will be more likely to stay late a few nights a week, or which person you won't likely have to find a replacement for when they go on maternity leave. So if 2 people are equally qualified, you're probably going to choose the one that's got a better personality, or who made a better joke during the interview process, or who likes the same sports you do. That last reason about maternity leave is a big reason cited why women of a certain age aren't hired. But it's a serious business concern. When there's 2 equally qualified people, and one has a bigger chance of being gone in a year, you're going to hire the person that is more likely to stick around.
This is most likely to create an inferior product. Not that I think semi-digested pooped out coffee beans is particularly desirable product, but when you try to take some biological process and move it up to an industrial scale, something in the product is lost. It's like the fact that industrial scale cheese never has the same flavour of a cheese made in small batches on a small farm. The kind of grass that the sheep/cows eat, the water they drink, and a lot of other factors play into how the cheese tastes.
With the specs of some of the desktops coming out, they almost are a personal cloud. For about $2000, you can get a machine with 64 GB of RAM, 6 cores (12 if you count hyperthreading), dual SSDs for some speed with redundancy, + 2x1 TB hard drive for large capacity storage, and a pretty decent video card. I remember when $2000 would buy a modest computer, and I'm not even that old.
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They are actually only charging developers for being on the Windows store. There's a metro version of Chrome for instance. You can actually flip-flop back and forth between the two interfaces depending on what you are doing. Which can be kind of nice. It's kind of interesting that it took tablets for us to realize that full screen, and I mean every pixel, not full screen, minus task bar, minus title bar, minus menu bar, minus a tool bar can actually be quite nice to use in many situations.
Well, Zune didn't have an "Zune Classic" to fall back on. A product failure isn't really what we're talking about. And I'm not sure if Bob was ever a serious contender to their flagship model. It was just something you were supposed to install on top of Windows, and it was never included with Windows. Windows ME didn't try to change anything about windows at all. It's pretty much exactly the same as Windows 98, except it crashed a whole lot more. I'm really not completely sure if that's more to do with Windows Me, or the combination of bad drivers and cheap low quality RAM which was popular at the time. Vista again seems to have been a driver problem, combined with underspecced computers trying to run an operating system they didn't have the power to run. I had a Vista laptop which had decent drivers and saw no problems with Vista on that specific machine. Windows 8 is a whole different story. They could very easily rectify the problem by just going back to the old interface. There's rumour they will in the next version.
I use MySQL for a lot of personal projects on a shared host. However, I don't have any idea how anyone uses PHPMyAdmin. It gets the job done in a pinch, but it really doesn't work as well as MySQL workbench. You should be able to set up an SSH tunnel so you can use MySQL workbench. I imagine the same could be done for whatever tool is popular for PostgreSQL. Using a web based tool doesn't make any sense in either case.
But still I see very few people wearing blue-tooth headsets. And usually when I do, it's people who have just left their car. I still think it looks completely ridiculous when people are talking using a bluetooth headset. And with cars having built in bluetooth, I think I even see fewer people with the earpieces.
But it's a real problem for employers. Unless you're hiring for a factory where employees are easily trained and replaced, there's really no way you can replace an employee while they're off on parental leave. Let's say a lead developer took 6 months off. You probably need to hire the new person a good 2 months before the other person leaves just so they can catch up. And then it probably takes another month or so after the original employee gets back to get them caught back up. The other option is to just take the work of the person who leaves, and split it between the remaining employees, and don't hire anybody to fill the seat. This means everyone else has to either work more so the same amount of work can be done, or they just have to get less work done. Either way, if the person taking the time off is a high level employee, you're still going to be stuck having them work a little bit during their parental leave, if not just answering the phone a couple times a week to fill in missing information.
That's why I feel the important part of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is left out. It's Reduce, Reuse, Recycle IN THAT ORDER. One of the best things we can do for our environment is to stop using so much stuff in the first place. Or if you do use stuff. Make sure it's reusable. It's not so good for the environment to recycle plastic water bottles all the time, when you could just have a reusable one. They even have ones that roll up so you don't have to worry so much about carrying around a big empty bottle. It's nice to recycle packaging for products, but wouldn't it be much better if the packaging wasn't there at all? Sure some things need packaging to stay intact during transit, but most things these days have an extreme excess of packaging.
You're going on like the only alternative to MVC is stuffing everything in a single file. While those of us who have been doing web development long before the idea of MVC have been separating out the business logic from the web page for a long time. There was stuff like N-Tier architectures which did a pretty good job of separating out the data storage from the business logic from the presentation layer. Personally I find this to be a lot better than MVC, because I find that MVC links the presentation too much to the underlying structure of the data.
Fixed that for you. This has to be the most annoying part of it all. They really should have implemented the opposite where you required a special doctype to put the browser into legacy mode. Would have made everybody start to make their pages standards compliant much sooner.
Yeah, better to just have a PHP script which generates a CSS file and run the script whenever changes are made and you need to refresh the style sheet.
Exactly. All you need to process credit cards is an iPhone/Android phone and and adapter from Square. Flat percentage on all purchases, so you don't have to worry about small purchases getting consumed by transaction charges.
Handling cash has a non-zero cost of doing business as well. There's all sorts of ways cash can go missing be it theft by employees or outsiders, or simply having it misplaced. There's bank deposit fees to actually get the money into the bank. There's the problems with ensuring you always have enough change on hand for a purchase. There's the risk of accepting counterfeit bills. There's employee time lost from counting the money to ensure the money in the till matches the amount on the receipts.
I really don't see how a currency can be digital, decentralized, and anonymous. If that's the case, then whatever amount the card says it has, it has. Sure you can put in all kinds of encryption and digital signatures, but at the end of the day, you're trusting the card. It's like those photocopier or transit pass cards. If they aren't centrally managed, eventually they all get cracked. And the incentive to crack these things will be very high. Even if you have to make 10,000, $10 transactions to make it worth your while, people will still do it.
It happened. We all do less work. And we do have more money. The problem is that we spend our extra free time at our place of employment. And we spend all the extra money on the stuff that didn't exist in the 1970s. It really doesn't take so much time to wash the dishes now that we have a dish washer. You can mow the lawn much faster with a self propelled lawnmower (they even have robot ones). Almost nobody on my block shovels their driveway in the winter. They either have a snow-blower or they have the plow come around and do it. Most people don't fix their own car, they don't even change their own oil. They get the guy at the shop to do it. All that extra money we have goes to cell phones, internet, cable TV, dish washers ,cars with every accessory ever thought up (none of which existed in the 70s).
There's a third option.The half of the population that was in factory jobs gets trained to do a job that can't be replaced by a robot. However, this may become problematic, because it's my opinion that most people lack the intelligence to do anything that can't be done by a robot, or the jobs they can do, are not in high enough demand that we can give everyone a job. This is also the problem with everybody working part time. The people working in the factories lack the ability to fill the remaining jobs. If this option is for those people to go un-employed, those who are working will want some major kickbacks for being the ones holding everybody else afloat.
Yeah, this is bound to happen sooner or later. Your best insurance is to be skilled in an area that isn't easily replaced by a robot. So obviously programming robots is safe for a little while, but there's lot of other things. Even low level jobs like hair stylist, plumber, or car mechanic probably won't be replaced by robots in the near future. Basically stay away from any jobs that have gone to foreign workers over the last decade. All those foreign workers were really just a stop-gap while they got the robotics figured out.
Exactly. They had a crackdown on people who made money off eBay a few years back. They obviously didn't go after people who just sold a bicycle on eBay but were more concerned with those running completely undeclared businesses off of eBay, some people making over $100,000 per year. Just like they won't go after people setting up a garage sale but they will expect taxes to be paid when you're running a business, even if you run it out of your home.
Actually, 90% of everything is crap.
The thing is, a RaspPi would be much more useful with a SATA interface. It's widely reported to be problematic to run a bittorrent on the RaspPi because the I/O load will bring it to it's knees, or in many cases, just crash the thing outright. While using a USB stick eliminates most of the problems, having proper SATA port would make IO much faster, assuming it's proper SATA with DMA, the processor could be freed up for more important things.
I'd like to know how this is supposed to work. You are going to have a lot of trouble getting 100W out of a laptop USB port. Are these only going to only be available in desktops? Even there there's probably quite a few desktops that don't have 100 "extra" watts in their power supply to provide to some peripheral. Although you can get a very high wattage power supply, you don't really need that much with modern processors, and SSDs. Especially if you don't have a particularly fancy video card.
Well, for starters, there should be a way for apps to only access certain folders of the SD card. Kind of like how all the internal storage is private to each app, same should go for the SD card. There's very few use cases that I can think of where an app needs access to every file on my SD card. Even something like a media player should be granted permission only to specific folders where you keep your music and videos. Having access to the SD Card and network basically gives the app to collect any data it can find on your SD card and send it off to some random server. Including unencrypted backups if you didn't get the paid version of Titanium Backup.
But most people only buy a new OS when buying a new computer. What's happened lately is that people stopped needing new computers. My desktop is 7 years old and I still feel no need to upgrade. My laptop is 3 years old and again, I feel no need to upgrade. Computing for most people has got to a point where things are fast enough. So they can easily go 10 years without needing a new machine, assuming it doesn't break so much that they can't just fix it.
While there may be "replacements" there are no "drop in replacements" It's not like with MySQL, where if you don't like MySQL you can just change the server to MariaDB or Percona server and most things will just work the same. If you write your application against MS SQL, or Sharepoint, there is no way to switch short of rewriting the entire (or very large parts of) the application. Same goes for things like Exchange. There are tools that do many of the same things as Exchange, but nothing that's really a drop in replacement.
Except that when 2 people are equal in skill set, you defer to other qualifications such as which person you think will work better with the existing employees, or which person will just be more fun to have around the office. Perhaps it's which person you think will be more likely to stay late a few nights a week, or which person you won't likely have to find a replacement for when they go on maternity leave. So if 2 people are equally qualified, you're probably going to choose the one that's got a better personality, or who made a better joke during the interview process, or who likes the same sports you do. That last reason about maternity leave is a big reason cited why women of a certain age aren't hired. But it's a serious business concern. When there's 2 equally qualified people, and one has a bigger chance of being gone in a year, you're going to hire the person that is more likely to stick around.
This is most likely to create an inferior product. Not that I think semi-digested pooped out coffee beans is particularly desirable product, but when you try to take some biological process and move it up to an industrial scale, something in the product is lost. It's like the fact that industrial scale cheese never has the same flavour of a cheese made in small batches on a small farm. The kind of grass that the sheep/cows eat, the water they drink, and a lot of other factors play into how the cheese tastes.
With the specs of some of the desktops coming out, they almost are a personal cloud. For about $2000, you can get a machine with 64 GB of RAM, 6 cores (12 if you count hyperthreading), dual SSDs for some speed with redundancy, + 2x1 TB hard drive for large capacity storage, and a pretty decent video card. I remember when $2000 would buy a modest computer, and I'm not even that old.