I've been using Dvorak for 10 years now, and would never go back. It's SO much easier on the fingers and faster as well. This comparison is a joke without Dvorak.
I agree with the first part, I don't see bing or other ms stuff becoming the standard default on any Apple products, ever. When you take a step back and look at the big picture, the major innovation is that bing is a search interface with a pretty photo behind it. Yahoo would be an easy call, they need the money and they're a whole lot better in terms of basic trustworthiness as a promise-delivering company.
But on this:
Not to mention that the whole Apple fanism is based on the belief that MS stole their software.
I'm not sure where this comes from, but it's ridiculous. Sure, any new Windows release inevitably contains at least a couple of horribly disfigured interpretations of features in the MacOS release from two or three years prior. But MS either doesn't remotely have the competence to steal / copy those features in a useful way, or they are doing a great impression of such a company on a long term basis.
Also, why would anyone become an Apple fan as a result of believing MS stole Apple ideas? All that's relevant to being an Apple fan is your opinion on the software that Apple puts out. If they thought MS's opinion was well-thought out enough to make any kind of decision based upon it, wouldn't that make them MS fans? And if MS has the talent available to create / steal Apple-quality products, why don't they?
It would be even cheaper to buy a machine to do it. It is horrible and sad when someone tries (and/or succeeds) in disrupting our travel system, so it would be nice if the system would stop attacking itself every time someone tries to do anything. It makes unsuccessful attacks into successful ones. I haven't seen such a disproportionate response since the mooninites terrorized Boston's Stupidest.
The TSA's actions tend to be similar to an autoimmune disease, overreacting to the slightest provocation with a response much more damaging than the original stimulus could have ever been.
Self-destructive overreactive "security" has replaced most concern for the actual traveler's experience. Remember the old days when they had a guard checking bag tags at the destination airport, to make sure that the customer's bag is not stolen by some random other passenger? That's no longer important enough to assign even one person at any airport I've been to lately. I miss that.
That new rule about not getting up during the last hour of a flight - that would have made it a crime to have stopped an attack, the way the guy on the christmas flight did. If he tried that today, regardless of intention, he'd be incurring a severe risk of jail for it.
Given the amount of deaths we as a society accept every day from car accidents alone, and somehow don't find to be a national emergency and stop using cars, ultimately we would all rather live with the inherent risks of flying than have the government causing scenes such as the above. If I'm taking a vehicle with wheels to and/or from the airport, that's more dangerous than the flying part anyway. It's time to acknowledge that.
I should clarify and mention that the _data_ service is fine, no problem there. So the whole thing back and forth with the 3G coverage maps vs. Verizon is stupid and beside the point.
at&t's problem is that they can't seem to provide the most basic phone service - voice. Considering that they were in the business of providing that for over 100 years now, I don't hold out a lot of hope that they're suddenly going to get it right.
I get a LOT of dropped calls in with > 3 bars in LA. On bad days, we're talking 5 drops throughout a 1 hour conversation. at&t should stop selling the iPhone *everywhere*, unless they can do so with service from another wireless company. I call nearly every month and demand a discount for terrible service, with a call log listing recent call drops in hand. Everyone who has this problem should do this, and keep the evidence. Always escalate to a supervisor if the lower person won't give a discount.
I can't wait until their contract with Apple is used up. This partnership with at&t is the worst mistake Apple has made since they forced Steve Jobs out in 1985. I'll be more than happy to buy new hardware to switch networks away from at&t, I only wish there were some way to make at&t pay more for their incompetence. Maybe when half their mobile base leaves themonce there is some other option, they'll wise up and provide decent service.
But from what I've already endured because of the lack of decent service, I'd prefer if they would just go out of business.
The ideal programming language IMO to start him on is to make it clear that unix itself is a programming language, and show how it underlies so many modern electronic devices. Programs are functions, files are variables. I'd start by having him write some stuff for the command line. My first instinct to suggest is ruby, and I can't be objective on it but perl has always been a lot of fun for me, and then python, objectiveC, C, etc.. are all good options. Bash scripting is important to cover and mention from time to time but I'd not use it for a primary language.
The important thing is what you do with it. I don't know your son but in general the best way to grab a child's attention is by teaching them how to control something visual or audible and potentially cool. With this in mind, Javascript is another excellent choice due to the ease of changing visual elements and the natural lead-in to complexity. But there's a lot of noise between the differences of various html/css/javascript implementations so pick one and stick to it while he's learning - though a second well-chosen language would be helpful to teach generation of documents / programs / whatever in that second language.
Just for the record, the issues I've seen with dropped calls were while in the southwest, so the problems are at least not totally localized in the northeast.
Someone should go do a test of the dropped call quantity and voice quality when in these same areas. That is where AT&T is so difficult to have to use as a primary phone line. The data service is actually much more reliable, and ironically makes Skype average much higher in quality / reliability from the same phone in the same place.
SOs tend to be put through ever-innovative public humiliation / disclosure, so this did sorta make sense, but it was so not quite funny most of the time, it seemed borderline real (It seems realistic to picture cops forcing people to do this), which ironically made it more interesting / funny.
The two students had no way of checking all of their predictions, but based on their own knowledge outside the Facebook world, their computer program appeared quite accurate for men, they said.
This is not newsworthy without some inkling of whether the predictions turned out to be correct or not - and if not, who cares?
Yeah, those 3rd-party vendors do get your address because they *need* it to write out the shipping forms to get it physically to your house. And similarly, with the Kindle, Amazon gets that info because they need it to know who to send the bits to over the network.
I'm sure that if Amazon were selling paper subscriptions to the WSJ that were delivered by WSJ itself, they'd give them the addresses.
Murdoch is a dinosaur, and not just because he's the mouthpiece for a political party that also has managed to sink itself almost to it's mouth level (just wait for this pay-for-propaganda-in-news-clothing thing to take effect), this is one of the early death wails.
The bottom line is that my personal information as a consumer is meant to be given out on a need-to-know basis. There's nothing good that might happen to the subscribers if Amazon shares the info, most likely just spam and behavioral tracking / profiling.
I'm going to buy something from Amazon to thank them.
Why would the founders of Skype be threatening to revoke the licensing agreement? What is their side?
And why would eBay pay billions of dollars for something without some guarantee that they'd be able to run it for a while?
This is like a super-sized version the story about the music industry claiming that it's ridiculous that people would think they could forever listen to their DRM music.
On an individual level, people allow themselves to be screwed for a few dollars at a time, just to be able to listen to the music but - paying more than 2 billion for most of something without a contract ensuring that it's not a total waste of money? Wow.
Very true. For the record, I've had two submits to the App Store - the first took about 4 days to approve, the second took about a week. I would say both went pretty smoothly.
Before you sharpen your pitch forks too much, there is one thing to look into. Did the man in this case have proof he actually lost the money? Was the money traceable? Did the court have proof he at one time had the money?
Look, the woman and the court presumably had indisputable proof he had the money shortly before the divorce. I think we all understand the likely thing that happened next was he put his money in a untraceable location and *failed* to provide any documentation. He could as easily claimed aliens took his money, can you prove they didn't?
Under the US System, it's the wife that needs the proof, to legally lock up this guy. If they had documentation that the money existed, they would have gotten it in the last 14 years. There's no longer any way a reasonable person could call the judge unbiased. That disregarder of justice could have been doing the wife at the time, and he still wouldn't have looked more unfair than he does now.
The courts can't imprison you for something they have no evidence of, but remember they had evidence and he absolutely lost. Once he loses the case, he HAS to comply. If courts are literally unable to punish you for failing to follow a court order, all court orders would be ignored. Really, every court order would be ignored and why not? They court has no power to do anything about it. After a trial do you have to have another trial for ignoring the results of the first trial?
No, but you shouldn't go to jail unless you've been legally sentenced to it for a crime after being found and convicted by a jury.
Followed by another trial for ignoring the results of that trial and so on?
If the previous trial was not for a criminal offense that carries the sentence of jail time (which a divorce trial is not), then yes, until you have been legitimately and legally sentenced to jail.
And imagine what the case would look like "Members of the jury, here is the court order for the defendant to do X, we will now call the pervious judge as a witness to verify that X was not done."
OK, you may think that the court would have been better served by taking other assets it could reach. Maybe that might have worked in this case. But if Courts are unable to enforce rulings they literally have no power at all.
If the ruling was clearly something that was possible for the guy to do, then sure, yes. But it's not clear.
What if everyone starts saying they don't have the money from now on? Then the other side has to prove it. That's a very similar question to - what if the guilty always say they are innocent - guess what, they do. And the system has to prove them guilty before locking them up.
What is going to happen to the Judge? He deserves his own trial now. This guy was in his custody and either intentionally left to rot in captivity, or unintentionally forgotten about? Either way, if a parent with custody of a child did that, or a caretaker with custody of an ill person, they would be charged with a crime.
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I've been using Dvorak for 10 years now, and would never go back. It's SO much easier on the fingers and faster as well. This comparison is a joke without Dvorak.
I agree with the first part, I don't see bing or other ms stuff becoming the standard default on any Apple products, ever. When you take a step back and look at the big picture, the major innovation is that bing is a search interface with a pretty photo behind it. Yahoo would be an easy call, they need the money and they're a whole lot better in terms of basic trustworthiness as a promise-delivering company.
But on this:
Not to mention that the whole Apple fanism is based on the belief that MS stole their software.
I'm not sure where this comes from, but it's ridiculous. Sure, any new Windows release inevitably contains at least a couple of horribly disfigured interpretations of features in the MacOS release from two or three years prior. But MS either doesn't remotely have the competence to steal / copy those features in a useful way, or they are doing a great impression of such a company on a long term basis.
Also, why would anyone become an Apple fan as a result of believing MS stole Apple ideas? All that's relevant to being an Apple fan is your opinion on the software that Apple puts out. If they thought MS's opinion was well-thought out enough to make any kind of decision based upon it, wouldn't that make them MS fans? And if MS has the talent available to create / steal Apple-quality products, why don't they?
I know you meant that as a joke, but you are absolutely right.
Is it really a good idea to have the stupidest people running the schools?
Because airlocks require pauses.
The risk of them not coming out of checked luggage when I open it after the flight is *exactly* why I don't want to check them.
Yes, this is a smart idea.
It would be even cheaper to buy a machine to do it. It is horrible and sad when someone tries (and/or succeeds) in disrupting our travel system, so it would be nice if the system would stop attacking itself every time someone tries to do anything. It makes unsuccessful attacks into successful ones. I haven't seen such a disproportionate response since the mooninites terrorized Boston's Stupidest.
The TSA's actions tend to be similar to an autoimmune disease, overreacting to the slightest provocation with a response much more damaging than the original stimulus could have ever been.
Self-destructive overreactive "security" has replaced most concern for the actual traveler's experience. Remember the old days when they had a guard checking bag tags at the destination airport, to make sure that the customer's bag is not stolen by some random other passenger? That's no longer important enough to assign even one person at any airport I've been to lately. I miss that.
That new rule about not getting up during the last hour of a flight - that would have made it a crime to have stopped an attack, the way the guy on the christmas flight did. If he tried that today, regardless of intention, he'd be incurring a severe risk of jail for it.
Given the amount of deaths we as a society accept every day from car accidents alone, and somehow don't find to be a national emergency and stop using cars, ultimately we would all rather live with the inherent risks of flying than have the government causing scenes such as the above. If I'm taking a vehicle with wheels to and/or from the airport, that's more dangerous than the flying part anyway. It's time to acknowledge that.
I should clarify and mention that the _data_ service is fine, no problem there. So the whole thing back and forth with the 3G coverage maps vs. Verizon is stupid and beside the point.
at&t's problem is that they can't seem to provide the most basic phone service - voice. Considering that they were in the business of providing that for over 100 years now, I don't hold out a lot of hope that they're suddenly going to get it right.
I get a LOT of dropped calls in with > 3 bars in LA. On bad days, we're talking 5 drops throughout a 1 hour conversation. at&t should stop selling the iPhone *everywhere*, unless they can do so with service from another wireless company. I call nearly every month and demand a discount for terrible service, with a call log listing recent call drops in hand.
Everyone who has this problem should do this, and keep the evidence. Always escalate to a supervisor if the lower person won't give a discount.
I can't wait until their contract with Apple is used up. This partnership with at&t is the worst mistake Apple has made since they forced Steve Jobs out in 1985. I'll be more than happy to buy new hardware to switch networks away from at&t, I only wish there were some way to make at&t pay more for their incompetence. Maybe when half their mobile base leaves themonce there is some other option, they'll wise up and provide decent service.
But from what I've already endured because of the lack of decent service, I'd prefer if they would just go out of business.
The ideal programming language IMO to start him on is to make it clear that unix itself is a programming language, and show how it underlies so many modern electronic devices. Programs are functions, files are variables. I'd start by having him write some stuff for the command line. My first instinct to suggest is ruby, and I can't be objective on it but perl has always been a lot of fun for me, and then python, objectiveC, C, etc.. are all good options. Bash scripting is important to cover and mention from time to time but I'd not use it for a primary language.
The important thing is what you do with it. I don't know your son but in general the best way to grab a child's attention is by teaching them how to control something visual or audible and potentially cool. With this in mind, Javascript is another excellent choice due to the ease of changing visual elements and the natural lead-in to complexity. But there's a lot of noise between the differences of various html/css/javascript implementations so pick one and stick to it while he's learning - though a second well-chosen language would be helpful to teach generation of documents / programs / whatever in that second language.
Just for the record, the issues I've seen with dropped calls were while in the southwest, so the problems are at least not totally localized in the northeast.
Someone should go do a test of the dropped call quantity and voice quality when in these same areas. That is where AT&T is so difficult to have to use as a primary phone line. The data service is actually much more reliable, and ironically makes Skype average much higher in quality / reliability from the same phone in the same place.
At least, in my experience.
Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down.
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I disagree with that. Someone mod parent down.
Yeah, Vandalism was the best part.
SOs tend to be put through ever-innovative public humiliation / disclosure, so this did sorta make sense, but it was so not quite funny most of the time, it seemed borderline real (It seems realistic to picture cops forcing people to do this), which ironically made it more interesting / funny.
Very very weird.
Who would have thought, Microsoft and platform lock-in?
The two students had no way of checking all of their predictions, but based on their own knowledge outside the Facebook world, their computer program appeared quite accurate for men, they said.
This is not newsworthy without some inkling of whether the predictions turned out to be correct or not - and if not, who cares?
Laughing at both parent posts, but they're both right.
Yeah but at least then you know where they went.
Yeah, those 3rd-party vendors do get your address because they *need* it to write out the shipping forms to get it physically to your house. And similarly, with the Kindle, Amazon gets that info because they need it to know who to send the bits to over the network.
I'm sure that if Amazon were selling paper subscriptions to the WSJ that were delivered by WSJ itself, they'd give them the addresses.
Murdoch is a dinosaur, and not just because he's the mouthpiece for a political party that also has managed to sink itself almost to it's mouth level (just wait for this pay-for-propaganda-in-news-clothing thing to take effect), this is one of the early death wails.
The bottom line is that my personal information as a consumer is meant to be given out on a need-to-know basis. There's nothing good that might happen to the subscribers if Amazon shares the info, most likely just spam and behavioral tracking / profiling.
I'm going to buy something from Amazon to thank them.
Why would the founders of Skype be threatening to revoke the licensing agreement? What is their side?
And why would eBay pay billions of dollars for something without some guarantee that they'd be able to run it for a while?
This is like a super-sized version the story about the music industry claiming that it's ridiculous that people would think they could forever listen to their DRM music.
On an individual level, people allow themselves to be screwed for a few dollars at a time, just to be able to listen to the music but - paying more than 2 billion for most of something without a contract ensuring that it's not a total waste of money? Wow.
Agreed. Alan, thank you for all the hard work for so many years. You deserve a vacation.
Yes, it's better. And that isn't possible on the iPhone.
What does this have to do with App Review anyway?
Very true. For the record, I've had two submits to the App Store - the first took about 4 days to approve, the second took about a week. I would say both went pretty smoothly.
Before you sharpen your pitch forks too much, there is one thing to look into. Did the man in this case have proof he actually lost the money? Was the money traceable? Did the court have proof he at one time had the money?
Look, the woman and the court presumably had indisputable proof he had the money shortly before the divorce. I think we all understand the likely thing that happened next was he put his money in a untraceable location and *failed* to provide any documentation. He could as easily claimed aliens took his money, can you prove they didn't?
Under the US System, it's the wife that needs the proof, to legally lock up this guy. If they had documentation that the money existed, they would have gotten it in the last 14 years. There's no longer any way a reasonable person could call the judge unbiased. That disregarder of justice could have been doing the wife at the time, and he still wouldn't have looked more unfair than he does now.
The courts can't imprison you for something they have no evidence of, but remember they had evidence and he absolutely lost. Once he loses the case, he HAS to comply. If courts are literally unable to punish you for failing to follow a court order, all court orders would be ignored. Really, every court order would be ignored and why not? They court has no power to do anything about it. After a trial do you have to have another trial for ignoring the results of the first trial?
No, but you shouldn't go to jail unless you've been legally sentenced to it for a crime after being found and convicted by a jury.
Followed by another trial for ignoring the results of that trial and so on?
If the previous trial was not for a criminal offense that carries the sentence of jail time (which a divorce trial is not), then yes, until you have been legitimately and legally sentenced to jail.
And imagine what the case would look like "Members of the jury, here is the court order for the defendant to do X, we will now call the pervious judge as a witness to verify that X was not done."
OK, you may think that the court would have been better served by taking other assets it could reach. Maybe that might have worked in this case. But if Courts are unable to enforce rulings they literally have no power at all.
If the ruling was clearly something that was possible for the guy to do, then sure, yes. But it's not clear.
What if everyone starts saying they don't have the money from now on? Then the other side has to prove it.
That's a very similar question to - what if the guilty always say they are innocent - guess what, they do. And the system has to prove them guilty before locking them up.
What is going to happen to the Judge? He deserves his own trial now. This guy was in his custody and either intentionally left to rot in captivity, or unintentionally forgotten about? Either way, if a parent with custody of a child did that, or a caretaker with custody of an ill person, they would be charged with a crime.
Also - what that guy even married for 14 years?